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Tom Ricketts and his family took ownership of the Chicago Cubs and wasted no time making a promise to the team’s long-suffering fans: They will bring a World Series title to a team that has gone 101 years without one. “I’ll be honest. I think we have a team that can do it next year,” Ricketts said Friday. Cubs fans have heard that before, of course. For the record, Ricketts doesn’t buy talk of the curse that was put on the team at the 1945 World Series — the Cubs’ last appearance — by a man who was ejected from a game with his pet goat. “There is no curse,” Ricketts said. “If anybody on our team thinks he’s cursed, we will move him to a lesser-cursed team.” The Associated Press; AP file photo
