‘This is our year’: Tribe fans confident vs. Cubs

CLEVELAND — The Chicago Cubs had baseball’s best regular-season record and now they’ll join the Indians on their own curse-breaking quest in the World Series.

Any other year, one might hear some apprehension, some shred of doubt, in the voice of a Cleveland Indians fan dissecting the World Series matchup that begins Tuesday night.

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Game Date Time (air time/game time) Matchup TV Gm 1 Oct. 25 7:30 p.m./8 p.m. CHC @ CLE FOX Gm 2 Oct. 26 7:30 p.m./8 p.m. CHC @ CLE FOX Gm 3 Oct. 28 7:30 p.m./8 p.m. CLE @ CHC FOX Gm 4 Oct. 29 7:30 p.m./8 p.m. CLE @ CHC FOX *Gm 5 Oct. 30 8 p.m. CLE @ CHC FOX *Gm 6 Nov. 1 7:30 p.m./8 p.m. CHC @ CLE FOX *Gm 7 Nov. 2 7:30 p.m./8 p.m. CHC @ CLE FOX * If necessary | All times listed ET • World Series coverageShop for postseason gear: Cubs | Indians

But these aren’t your father’s Indians fans.

“You look at the two franchises,” Clevelander Bryan Stewart said. “Who wouldn’t want this?”

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This is Cleveland, the newly minted city of champions, and to this previously suffering bunch, not even a team backed by Bill Murray is about to end this run.

As the Cubs celebrated their NLCS-clinching win at Wrigley Field Saturday night with a 5-0 win …

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