* The left and right field corners at Wrigley Field -- are 108 meters from home plate.
* The Ricketts family, which owns the Cubs, has located their main business -- TD Ameritrade -- on 108th street in Omaha, Nebraska.
* The number 108 is a sacred number in yoga. and Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta does yoga 6 days a week.
* Cubs win the World Series in the 1990 J.J. Abrams film "Taking Care of Business," which is 108 minutes long.
* Cubs win the World Series in the 1989 film "Back To The Future Part II," which is 108 minutes long.
The Cubs won the World Series on Nov. 2, All Soul's Day. From November 2 to Christmas (December 25) "there are 54 days and 54 nights, that is to say 54 positive units and 54 negative units: 54 + 54 = 108," symbolically depicting "the progress of darkness to the light."
Is it coincidence? Destiny? Either way, the Cubs have certainly emerged into the light at the end of their tunnel, and the holidays are looking like an especially celebratory season for them, and for Chicago.
108 in Science:
The distance from the Sun to the Earth is 108 times the diameter of the Sun.
The diameter of the Sun is 108 times the diameter of the Earth.
The average distance of the Moon from the Earth is 108 times the diameter of the Moon.
The radius of the Moon is 1,080 miles.
Mythologically, silver is associated with the moon. The atomic weight of silver is 108.
The first manned space flight lasted 108 minutes. on April 12, 1961 completed by Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut.
OEN contributor Ethan Indigo Smith has written a number of articles about the metaphysical significance of the number 108 which can be found on his author's page.
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