Mission Viejo student predicted Cubs’ 2016 World Series win in 1993 high school yearbook
In 1993, Mission Viejo senior Michael Lee had no idea what to write to go with his photo in the school yearbook. He ended up going with what seemed to be a pretty random prediction at the time:
“Chicago Cubs 2016 World Champions. You heard it here first.”
And, of course, that’s exactly what ended up happening Wednesday night, when the Cubs beat Cleveland, 8-7, in Game 7 of the World Series.
That’s right. Lee correctly called the Cubs’ first championship since 1908 more than 23 years before it happened. The prediction was based on a vision he had many years before that.
“It just came from when I was a kid. I had a dream about it,” the Hinsdale, Ill., native recently told CNN. “It was pretty vivid. That’s why I remembered it all the way through high school.”
High school friend Marcos Meza remembered the off-the-wall prediction and sent a video of it to WGN in Chicago last month.
Soon, a prediction made long before social media even existed had gone viral.
“Way to call it Mike,” Meza said in the video. “You heard it here second. Mike called it first.”
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