This guy predicted 23 years ago that the Cubs would win the 2016 World Series

The Cubs are going to win the World Series this year, according to a 23-year-old yearbook. 
This guy predicted 23 years ago that the Cubs would win the 2016 World Series
This guy predicted 23 years ago that the Cubs would win the 2016 World Series /

If Cubs fans can believe in curses, then surely they can believe in time travel. 

According to this yearbook photo from 1993, the Cubs are going to win the World Series this year. “You heard it here first,” the prescient teen boasts. 

This was predicted by a guy at Mission Viejo High School in California in his senior quote...in 1993. It's been verified by several people I went to high school with. from pics

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Obviously your first instinct is to yell “FAKE!” It was mine, too, honestly. The image first surfaced on the Facebook page of The Heckler, in an easy to Photoshop format.

But no so fast.

Some guy on Twitter posted another photo.

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And then a Reddit user posted four more photos of the same yearbook to prove it’s the real deal.

You might as well start planning the parade. 

[via Fox Sports]


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Dan Gartland
DAN GARTLAND

Dan Gartland is the writer and editor of Sports Illustrated’s flagship daily newsletter, SI:AM, covering everything an educated sports fan needs to know. He joined the SI staff in 2014, having previously been published on Deadspin and Slate. Gartland, a graduate of Fordham University, is a former Sports Jeopardy! champion (Season 1, Episode 5).