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When I teach meditation workshops, we often repeat chants, such as Sa Ta Na Ma (Birth, Life, Death, Rebirth) 108 times. The number is sacred in yoga philosophy and Hinduism. I wrote a blog post about the number here<\/a> a few years back.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0 also figures prominently in some astronomical calculations. For example, the\u00a0 diameter of the sun is 108 times the diameter of the Earth. The average distance between the Earth and the Sun is 108 times\u00a0 the sun’s diameter.\u00a0 The average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 238,800 miles, about 108 times\u00a0 the moon’s diameter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now comes the World Champion Cubs, who won the World Series for the first time in 108 years.\u00a0\u00a0 Baseball is a game of numbers so it’s not surprising that someone found this incredible cluster of 108s related to the Cubs. Thanks to Don Evon, who gathered this curious cluster.<\/p>\n

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There are 108 stitches in a baseball, designed by the Cubs first manager and ace pitcher A.G. Spalding, whose Chicago office was originally located at 108 W. Madison Street.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The left and right field corners at Wrigley Field \u2014\u00a0are 108 meters from home plate.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Ricketts family, which owns the Cubs, has located their main business \u2014\u00a0TD Ameritrade \u2014\u00a0on 108th street in Omaha, Nebraska.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The number 108 is a sacred number in yoga. and Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta does yoga 6 days a week.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cubs win the World Series in the 1990 J.J. Abrams\u00a0film\u00a0\u201cTaking Care of Business,\u201d which is 108 minutes long.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cubs win the World Series in the 1989 film \u201cBack To The Future Part II,\u201d which is 108 minutes long.<\/p>\n

\u2022 On 10\/8 in 1945 Billy Goat Tavern owner William Sianis, who placed a curse on the Cubs for not letting his goat enter Wrigley Field, sent Cubs owner P.K. Wrigley a telegram stating, \u201cWho smells now?\u201d after a Cubs loss.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wrigley Field was built on land that\u00a0once housed a church and a seminary, and 108 is considered a holy number in many religions.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Emil Verban Society is named after a three-season player with the Cubs, whose batting average in his last season in 1950 with the team\u00a0was only .108.<\/p>\n

The last time the Cubs won a World Series game was 10\/8 in 1945.<\/p>\n

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Beyond the Cubs, beyond baseball, it could be that 108 is key to our being and our relationship to the cosmos. A quote from Manoj Chalam: \u201cThe ratio of 108 may be the key to finding planets hospitable to life outside of our solar system, just look toward this same size and distance relationship,\u201d .<\/p>\n

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