Article posted: 10/4/2012 12:01 AM

See good in 101-loss effort? Delusional Cubs fans can

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Regarded as the player the Chicago Cubs will build around to get to the World Series, Starlin Castro reacts to striking out during the team's 100th loss of the season.

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It was all smiles last October when Chicago Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts, right, introduced Theo Epstein as the team's new president of baseball operations. But that was 101 losses ago.

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The worst Cubs season in his 45 years of die-hard fan status mercifully came to an end Wednesday with a thrilling walk-off victory, columnist Burt Constable says, adding, "We Cubs fans exhibit a blind loyalty that would make a faithful dog blush." Team President Theo Epstein promises to deliver a eulogy today for a team that was buried by the All-Star break.

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