Chicagoan Likely Faked Ridiculous Cubs World Series Bet

CHICAGO, IL - What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas...or doesn't happen at all.

Don Majewski, a longtime Chicago Cubs fan from Jefferson Park, was so confident in the team's ability to break a string of 108 years without a world championship that he withdrew nearly everything he has saved during his lifetime and put it all on the line.

Majewski told Net One News this week he placed a $200,000 bet on the Cubs winning the World Series at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. With 3-to-1 odds, he would bring home less than $600,000 even if the Cubs (who are the best team in baseball right now) pulled off the unthinkable.

But an ESPN reporter on Twitter says MGM has come out and called the ticket a fake.

MGM has not responded via the Twitterverse, instead sharing a photo of Mike Tyson this week.

“I’ve been watching the Cubs my whole life, and when you’ve been doing that, you know that this team is truly special,” Majewski, a former sanitation worker, told Net One News. He calls the bet, which may or may not have been real, his chance to “do something big.”

Majewski said his only regret is waiting until now, when the Cubs have a Major League Baseball best 24-6 record and only 3-to-1 odds to win it all, to place the bet.

“What kills me is that I didn’t do this sooner, back in April, or before the season started. I could have gotten six to one or better back then,” he said.

In other words, a line from a popular 1980’s movie. “I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season and put some money on the Cubbies!”

Of course, Back to the Future Part II is a brilliant work. Of fiction.