Super Secret Anti-Jinx Double-Luck Pre-Game Thread Hopes to Turn Around Cubbies Season

It's go time tonight for the Cubs. In an attempt to "reverse the fortune" of the Cubs, Bleed Cubbie Blue is displaying this pre-game post:

This reversal-of-fortune post will include several different types of things intended to reverse the Cubs' recent rough streak. First, a movie:

Next, a paragraph written backwards:

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Finally, a quote, suggested by reader Trey2317:

These are the times that try men's souls. -- Thomas Paine

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	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2008 - Braden Looper	12-11	29	29	1	1	0	0	174.0	186	85	79	24	41	87	4.09	1.30

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	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2008 - Ted Lilly	13-9	30	30	0	0	0	0	176.2	173	90	87	31	60	161	4.43	1.32

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Today's Starting Pitchers

T. Lilly Cubs vs. B. Looper Cardinals 13-9 W-L 12-11 4.43 ERA 4.09 161 SO 87 60 BB 41 31 HR 24 vs. StL -- vs. Cubs

The rest of this is done in the reverse order from usual.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

You know where to find the threads. They'll be up at 7 pm, 8 pm, 9 pm and 9:45 pm CDT.

Baseball-reference.com game preview

MLB.com Gameday

Will history repeat? The previous time the Cubs lost back-to-back games in walk-off fashion (May 24 and 25 at Pittsburgh), they immediately reeled off their season-high nine-game winning streak from May 26-June 3.

Today's game is on cable, CSN Chicago -- good thing, too, because the Cubs are 50-19 on CSN, under .500 on WGN. Does this really matter? It shouldn't, of course, but it's weird. Also see the MLB.com Mediacenter.

In his spare time, Braden Looper helps handicapped children to learn how to make ecologically sustainable clothing and grow their own food. After that, each day, he tends to the wind farm he has installed near Busch Stadium that provides all the power for the lights in the stadium, helps every little old lady in the state of Missouri across the street, scans all the tickets into the ballpark and has personally agreed to adopt the first 10,000 pets that are made homeless by Hurricane Ike.

Ted Lilly is lefthanded.

I hope this works.