Well, Chicago Cubs fans. Well. I would would say that if you need a sign that there’s a World Series title waiting for you at the end of the rainbow that is October, this is pretty good one.

See, Carlos Zambrano just tossed the first Chicago Cubs no-hitter since Milt Pappas slung one in 1972. Which means that for roughly 50 percent (I made that up) of Cubbie fans, this is the no-hitter they’ve ever seen.

Zambrano was standardly emotional and standardly brilliant, although a lot of Cubs fans didn’t get to see it. See, because of the super-awesome blackout rules that often apply to baseball games, only the White Sox were on television for Sunday Night Baseball. (Though, it obviously wasn’t blacked out in Chicago.)

The thing is, too, that it makes almost zero sense why ESPN wasn’t showing this game. Yes, you could in fact argue that it was a rescheduled game (more on that in a sec) and therefor just not a plausible option for Sunday night. But it was the Cubs and baseball’s hottest team, the Astros, and they were playing in Milwaukee. Just reroute Joe Morgan, John Miller and a few HD cameras.

Need a storyline? Well, how about not looking any further than why they were in Milwaukee in the first place? The Astros, displaced because of Hurricane Ike, were “lucky” enough to have MLB send them to Milwaukee, a much closer location than almost, well, none of the other places they could have played.

So, in return they get a whole nine innings of nothing, courtesy of Big Z — who, I might add, is a perfect pitcher because of stamina and strikeouts to throw a no-no, and who also deserves much praise for such a feat. But yeah, Houston thanks you Bud Selig. Been a fun 48 for that team.