Wait 'til next year (as long as Boston is not involved)

Fear not, CUBS FANS, you are not entirely alone: Another set of fans share your pain this year.
The baseball team that sounds like it was named by a committee -- THE LOS ANGELES ANGELS OF ANAHEIM -- won 100 regular-season games and seemed destined for a second World Series title.
That destiny shattered in the bottom of the ninth inning against the BOSTON RED SOX last night, thanks in part to a big hit by a kid from the state of OREGON.
Salem native Jed Lowrie's two-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted the BoSox over the Angels, 3-2.
You could hear the disbelief and pain in the voices of Rory Markas and Terry Smith, the radio announcers for the Halos. (We listened to the game on AM 830 KLAA, thanks to my MLB.com GameAudio subscription.)
Instead of a goat like the Cubs, the Angels seem cursed by another team.
The Angels won the World Series in 2002 against my lifelong favorites, the GIANTS. Anaheim (or Los Angeles or California or whatever) has won four division titles in the six seasons since then. In the playoffs, however, the Angels are 5-15 and a mere 1-9 against Boston.
The Angels might not have to wait a century to win another World Series -- they might just require a playoff year without Boston.