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Statistician Nate Silver: Cubs probably won't win World Series this year
More :Chicago TribuneA day before the Chicago Cubs make their 2016 MLB playoffs debut, political prognosticator Nate Silver put a damper on Cubs fans' excitement at a Northwestern University event in Evanston.
When asked at an appearance Thursday whether the Cubs would win the World Series and whether Democrats would win a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate next month, Silver said "the answer to one of these is no and the answer to the other is yes."
Explaining that he does not expect the Cubs to win big this year, Silver said "the best baseball team doesn't win most of the time."
Silver, the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight.com, a website that focuses on political, sports and economic polling analyses was invited to speak at the university after his 2012 book, "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don't," was chosen as this year's campus-wide book selection for all first-year students. Silver and his website have been widely praised for their accurate electoral predictions in the 2008 and 2012 elections.
When asked at an appearance Thursday whether the Cubs would win the World Series and whether Democrats would win a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate next month, Silver said "the answer to one of these is no and the answer to the other is yes."
Explaining that he does not expect the Cubs to win big this year, Silver said "the best baseball team doesn't win most of the time."
Silver, the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight.com, a website that focuses on political, sports and economic polling analyses was invited to speak at the university after his 2012 book, "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don't," was chosen as this year's campus-wide book selection for all first-year students. Silver and his website have been widely praised for their accurate electoral predictions in the 2008 and 2012 elections.
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I haven't been keeping up with the Cubs in a while, but the Cubs, I heard, beat the Giants four out of seven times this season. But then the Giants after all are the Giants. 
I would still like to see the Cubs win through. 
And Giants finally got back into championship form after a totally crappy second half of their regular season. It's going to be a really good series, and I got my AM radio dialed in right now. Hell, they just threw the first pitch...bye! 
