Fun facts

In the film “Back to the Future: Part 2” Marty McFly (played by Michael J. Fox) traveled from the year 1985 to the future in Emmett “Doc” Brown’s (Christopher Lloyd) time machine.  Interestingly, he went to the year 2015 – October 21st, 2015, to be exact.  I did some Internet research and have discovered that this impending date is a big deal for a lot of people who deeply love the “Back to the Future” trilogy.  There’s even a website that is literally counting down until this day arrives.

It’s funny to see just how much the film got wrong in its depiction of what 2015 would look like.  For instance, there was the flying hover board (essentially a skateboard minus the skates that simply floats in mid-air, defying the laws of gravity).  Marty sees a promotion for the upcoming movie “Jaws 19”.  Doc Brown demonstrates that in 2015 the meteorologist’s weather reports were so accurate that he was able to relay to Marty the precise second that the rain would stop falling.  Further, there was what I’m going to call a smart house; whenever someone walked through the front door, an automated voice welcomed the person that was entering the house by name.  And of course, like the futuristic TV show “The Jetsons” popularized, there were flying cars.  There’s much more, I’m just hitting some of my favorites.

However, as of right now, there’s one thing in real life that might happen just as it did in the film.  Marty is surprised at the announcement that the Chicago Cubs had just won the World Series!  They had defeated Miami.  When “Back to the Future” was made, there actually was no baseball team in Miami, but today there is: the Marlins (although the Marlins are a National League team, so the Cubs can’t beat them in the World Series because the Cubs are a National League team as well).  Wouldn't it be ironic if the Cubs did win the Series this year? Personally, I think it would be great if the Cubs won it all.  It would certainly make a great storyline for baseball.  So I say, go Cubs!

Kevin