The Chicago Cubs were welcoming positive news after a two-game skid against the San Francisco Giants, a skid which included an ugly, ugly 14-5 extra innings loss to the San Francisco Giants, and they seemed to get it on Thursday morning.

And yet, the biggest W the Cubs have flown this year has nothing to do with any of that. It came all the way from Vatican City on Thursday afternoon, when word broke that Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost had been elected by the College of Cardinals to be the first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church.

The Chicago Cubs ended their 108-year World Series drought in 2016, but they're going to have to wait longer to have a Cubs fan as pope. Speculation about Pope Leo XIV's sports allegiances began as soon as the Chicago native was named as the first American pontiff and the Cubs celebrated an early report that he was a fan,