<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/32311061-60c1-4278-92d0-a9ced18b532d/9A9913B3-B619-40FB-B2A1-871EBCF104C9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nwj-web.jp/ne/archives/20080514.html" href="http://nwj-web.jp/ne/archives/20080514.html" style="font-size: 11px;">nwj-web.jp</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nwj-web.jp/ne/archives/20080514.html"><P class="neP1">The Cubs are unique to American baseball, a story built around <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. 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The team is about <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">ultimate optimism</A>, <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">heartbreak</A>, <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">nostalgia</A>, and...losing. The Cubs haven't won <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">the World Series</A> since 1908. Yet Cubs fans <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">wear</A> that not as <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">humiliation</A>, but instead as <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">a badge of courage</A>. Kosuke Fukudome, already <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">a fan-favorite</A>, <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">is expected to</A> <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. 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