Meet the man who ‘predicted’ the World Series — but whiffed on the apocalypse
November 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
Lenn “Gio” Fraraccio normally spends his days selling printers to schools, but today, the Florida-based sports fan is already on his 10th interview — a first for the 47-year-old father of two and husband for 20 years. You see, in 2014 Fraraccio correctly predicted the Cubs and Indians would be tied in extra innings in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series. (He incorrectly predicted this would begin the apocalypse, but we’ll get to that later.)
Until last night, the Chicago Cubs hadn’t won a World Series since 1908. Which is to say the prediction, made via tweet, goes against the reality we’ve known for more than a century. The Cubs losing the World Series has become such a joke that even sci-fi has adopted it as a kind of recurring theme.
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