SORE LOSERS: The premiere episode of “Revolution” (right) edited out a portion of the Cubs marquee seen in an earlier edit (left). (
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Looks like the sad-sack Chicago Cubs aren’t going to win the World Series this year after all.
A scene from an early version of NBC’s new sci-fi series, “Revolution” — set 15 years into the future — showed a sign outside of a decrepit, overgrown Wrigley Field which read, “2012 World Series Champions.”
When Cubs management found out about it, they complained to show creator Eric Kripke, a longtime Cubs fan, and those words were digitally removed in the version of the show that premiered last Monday night.
“Revolution” takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which all technology on Earth has been disabled by some mysterious phenomenon — forcing people to adapt to the ensuing lawlessness and chaos.
“I can’t comment too much on it, only to say that the administration of the Cubs felt strongly that that shouldn’t be there,” Kripke told TVLine about the edit.
“I’m from the Midwest, and it was not meant as a dig. It was meant as a ‘Wouldn’t that be tragic irony, that I’m rooting for the Cubs and they finally won the year the world ended?’ It was about rooting for a team I have great affection for, but they didn’t see it that way. It’s their team, and I get it.”
The Cubs’ last World Series Championship came in 1908, when they beat the Detroit Tigers in five games.
The last appeared in the World Series in 1945.
The Cubbies, who play their home games at Wrigley Field, pulled an epic choke job in 1969, when — after being in first place most of the season — they were overtaken by the “Miracle Mets.”
They came close again in 2003, but lost to the Marlins in the National League Champion Series — they were up 3 games to 2 — when Cubs fan Steve Bartman interfered with a potentially catchable foul ball.
“We’re happy Wrigley Field was showcased in a new post-apocalyptic thriller which will debut this fall on NBC,” a Cubs spokesman told The Post, “but we simply did not approve the artificial addition to the Wrigley Field Marquee.”