For 35 straight years, Craig Sager bet on the Cubs to win the World Series.
That's loyalty.
And it paid off.
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Sager, a native of Batavia, Ill., was so confident in the Cubs winning it all in 2016 that he put down $1,000 in December of last year.
"You gotta think positive," he said.
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