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Yeah, hardly anybody saw it coming, and now that it's here it's still taking some getting used to, and the auto-piloted airplanes maybe are pulling toward St. Louis or somewhere else familiar, and yet by Monday afternoon the two teams taking batting practice here were the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians. The story, generally, will be whether the Cubs have it in them to make this their year, having pretty well blown the last 107. The Indians look gluttonously decorated by comparison, what with their fancy World Series banner from just 68 years ago.