'Back To The Future II' Screenwriter Is A Cards Fan, But Wants The Cubs To Win

By Kate Shepherd in News on Oct 21, 2015 8:57PM

It's Oct. 21, 2015. The day that Marty McFly travels to in "Back to the Future II". What did he find out in his journey? That the Cubs won the 2015 World Series.

If it happens this year (hey, there's still a chance), it will turn out a Cardinals fan predicted it correctly in the 1989 movie.

Despite his Cubs prediction, the movie's screenwriter Bob Gale is actually a lifelong Cardinals fan, according to ESPN. The main character McFly decides to time travel to make money on sports betting and discovers that the Cubs won the 2015 World Series. He described the feeling of watching them play the Cardinals for the chance to advance toward the World Series this year:

"Was I rooting for the Cardinals? Yes. Was I also rooting for the Cubs? Yeah, maybe a little bit. This is one of those things where whatever happens, I'm a winner. If the Cardinals win, I'm happy about that. ... But if the Cubs win, then I look really smart."

He also got another prediction right, the existence of the Miami Marlins in 2015.

"What better way to give him the idea than with a really outrageous scenario, which is the Cubs win the World Series?" Gale told ESPN in an interview. "It's a double joke because they win the World Series against Miami, which [didn't have] major league baseball in 1989. ... The second prediction, people don't automatically realize when they watch the movie today, but we were predicting there would be a major league team in Miami."

Gale won't be at tonight's game. Instead, he's attending a cast and crew reunion in New York with Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Huey Lewis.

The Cubs are down 3-0 to the Mets in the NLDS so they'll have to win the next four games to advance to the World Series. But it's still possible that Gale was right all those years ago.

[H/T Tribune]