NOSTRADAMUS: CUBS, RED SOX PLAYOFF BERTHS MEAN END IS NEAR
French Seer Predicted Postseason Match-ups, Armageddon
In Chicago and Boston, World Series-starved baseball fans are singing Happy Days Are Here Again, but fans of the legendary seer Nostradamus are singing a different tune: Eve of Destruction.
Thats because the famed French thinker and astrologer, who made scads of eerie predictions in the sixteenth century, predicted that the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox would both clinch playoff berths in 2003 -- and that the world would end shortly thereafter.
For decades, baseball fans and prophecy scholars alike had discounted Nostradamus apocalyptic postseason prediction, since it was regarded as next-to-impossible that the hapless Chicago and Boston teams would ever make it to the playoffs in the same year.
But over the weekend, when the Chicago Cubs clinched the National League Central and joined the Red Sox in the playoffs, experts warned that Armageddon might indeed be at hand.
At McSartys, a popular Cubs watering hall near Wrigley Field in Chicago, Cubs fans were taking Nostradamus gloomy guess in stride.
It would be too bad if the world ended and all, but winning a World Series would be a great way to go out, said Tom Drzhinksy, 57, finishing his eighth beer.
Dr. Raymond Frankel, a leading Nostradamus scholar at the University of Minnesota, acknowledged that winning the last World Series before the onset of Armageddon was every baseball fans dream, but warned Red Sox and Cubs boosters not to get their hopes up.
In 1562, Nostradamus wrote that it was a mistake to bet against the Yankees, Dr. Frankel said. He predicted that they would have way too much money.
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French Seer Predicted Postseason Match-ups, Armageddon
In Chicago and Boston, World Series-starved baseball fans are singing Happy Days Are Here Again, but fans of the legendary seer Nostradamus are singing a different tune: Eve of Destruction.
Thats because the famed French thinker and astrologer, who made scads of eerie predictions in the sixteenth century, predicted that the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox would both clinch playoff berths in 2003 -- and that the world would end shortly thereafter.
For decades, baseball fans and prophecy scholars alike had discounted Nostradamus apocalyptic postseason prediction, since it was regarded as next-to-impossible that the hapless Chicago and Boston teams would ever make it to the playoffs in the same year.
But over the weekend, when the Chicago Cubs clinched the National League Central and joined the Red Sox in the playoffs, experts warned that Armageddon might indeed be at hand.
At McSartys, a popular Cubs watering hall near Wrigley Field in Chicago, Cubs fans were taking Nostradamus gloomy guess in stride.
It would be too bad if the world ended and all, but winning a World Series would be a great way to go out, said Tom Drzhinksy, 57, finishing his eighth beer.
Dr. Raymond Frankel, a leading Nostradamus scholar at the University of Minnesota, acknowledged that winning the last World Series before the onset of Armageddon was every baseball fans dream, but warned Red Sox and Cubs boosters not to get their hopes up.
In 1562, Nostradamus wrote that it was a mistake to bet against the Yankees, Dr. Frankel said. He predicted that they would have way too much money.
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