Who is ready for some more gambling mathematics you don't understand?
According to the Covers Consensus 75% of the players like the Cubs, but that is fantasy money, no more significant than playing Monopoly and claiming your are a billionaire.
According to the books only 57.7% of the players like the Cubs, but that makes sense, since those folks are playing with real money.
Obviously, thanks to the mathematics of real money, 43.3% of the real money played on that game is either serious about their choice and thinks it will win, or more likely some of that is "hope and pray" money, like we see exhibited here.
The current line at 5 Dimes as I type this is -285 OK, that requires a win probability of 74% to reach the break even point. 74 wins, 24 losses, you are dead even.
So, with a computed win probability of 83.9% I have, right now, a +9.9% value edge.
The Cubs winning this exact matchup 84 time out of 100 is entirely reasonable, in fact; most folks would be surprised if the Pirates won 16 times. They would be gloating about their grand upsets and never admitting that the 84 losses cost them (at $100 per) $8,400 and the 16 wins at +258 only netted them $4,128.00, a net loss of $4,272.00.
But what the heck, nobody ever accused the Covers Forum of being full of people that understood gambling mathematics. Basically the same crowd that said "I would never lay -245 on Kershaw or anyone else, that's stupid".
OK, so I lay it and laugh as I cash for $81.63 profit in an entirely no sweat game, and they don't come back and reiterate how "stupid" I was.