Rando California Dude Predicts Cubs 2016 Championship In 1993 Yearbook

By Stephen Gossett in Arts & Entertainment on Oct 25, 2016 8:40PM

Cubs fans have been saying "this is the year" for over a hundred years. But it may have been a random then-senior at a California high school way back in 1993 who somehow, bizarrely, totally WTF-ly appears to have predicted a Cubs championship for this very year.

Check out that senior quote from (let's hope) Clinton-Era Nostradamus: "Chicago Cubs. 2016 World Champions. You heard it here first."

Now, chances are years of Cubs spectatorship has instilled in you a healthy skepticism, and you might be reasonably thinking this must be some cornball internet hoax. But Sports Illustrated reports that—after the initial photo was posted, on Monday afternoon, on the Heckler—no fewer than five additional photo posts have popped up on Twitter and Reddit to confirm the photo's authenticity. And Lee's onetime classmate Marcos Meza provided WGN-TV with what appears to be video confirmation.

"When [Lee and I] connected on Facebook in 2009 I sent him the photo and told him we were nearing 2016. He posted the photo of his prediction on August 8th," Meza told WGN-TV. "After my Dodgers lost it was time for me to make this go viral and BeLEEve in the Cubs for 2016."

We want to believe, too.

"This is just an amazing story," Meza told Chicagoist. "When the Cubs win, (Lee) will never have to buy another drink in Chicago—and if I'm the guy next to him, I'm not gonna have to either."

Meza, who lives in California, said that if the Cubs prove victorious he'll fly to Chicago for the parade and join Lee, who reportedly lives in and originally hails from Chicago, for the parade.

This post has been updated.