Cenk Uygur
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Tweet Predicts World Series...And Apocalypse
Posted
November 4, 2016
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November 4, 2016
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2:14Now PlayingA tweet from 2014 creepily predicts the 2016 World Series…and the end of the days. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“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.
In 2016, as the final game crept closer, Fraraccio’s tweet began to reappear in sports circles. He says that after two Los Angeles sports reporter retweeted the prediction to their massive audiences, it really picked up buzz.”
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