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DENVER -- The Colorado Rockies took the field, and left-hander Tyler Anderson was throwing warm-up pitches in heavy rain Tuesday night before the umpires called for the tarp.Two hours, 32 minutes after the scheduled first pitch, the game between the Rockies and the Los Angeles Dodgers was officially rained out.The teams will play a day-night doubleheader Wednesday. The regularly scheduled game is set for 1:10 p.m. MDT, followed by the makeup game at 6:10 p.m. MDT.Anderson will start the first game Wednesday and be opposed by right-hander Ross Stripling, who was scheduled to start Wednesday for the Dodgers.In the second game, right-hander Jeff Hoffman, who was scheduled to start Wednesday for the Rockies, will oppose Dodgers left-hander Rich Hill, who was in line to pitch Tuesday.Both teams can add a 26th player to the roster for the second game.It just kept building and building, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said of the storm. The weathers unpredictable around here. We thought it was going to be a little fly-by at first -- 20- to 30-minute delay. And it just never went away.Anderson (4-5, 3.69 ERA) rode a bike and played catch intermittently during the delay. Once the break reached two hours, Weiss said Anderson was not going to take the mound if play had started.The manager said Anderson will have no restrictions in his start Wednesday and likened his warming up in the bullpen and then on the mound before the delay as similar to a side session.One of Andersons 14 major league starts came against the Dodgers. He picked up a win Aug. 3 by throwing seven innings of two-run ball during a 12-2 decision at Coors Field.Hoffman will make his third major league start and his third against a division leader after facing the Chicago Cubs and Washington Nationals.I couldnt ask for it any better, said Hoffman, who is 0-2 with a 8.10 ERA. I think it lined up perfect for me. Its a great challenge.In a 9-2 loss against the Cubs at Coors Field on Aug. 20, Hoffman gave up just two hard-hit balls in a pitching line that was deceptively bad -- four innings, seven hits, seven runs, one walk and two strikeouts.At Washington on Sunday, Hoffman allowed six hits, including two solo homers, and four runs, three earned, in six innings. He walked four and struck out three in Colorados 8-5 loss.The pitches that Ive gotten hurt on have been big misses, and thats not something that Ive done a lot in my career, Hoffman said. I think I pride myself on missing my spots small. I learned when I was young -- aim small, miss small.But Ive been running balls back over the plate. Big league hitters know what to do with balls when you make mistakes. So I think the key is to miss a little bit smaller. When I miss smaller with those pitches, then you keep the ball in the yard. And thats the key, especially pitching here.His Wednesday night opponent is coming off an impressive debut for his new team. Hill (10-3, 2.09 ERA overall) fired six shutout innings Aug. 24 in a 1-0 win over the San Francisco Giants. The veteran left-hander, who was acquired by the Dodgers from the Oakland Athletics along with Josh Reddick on Aug. 1, was out for a month due to blisters on his left middle finger.Stripling (3-5, 4.13 ERA) will oppose the Rockies for the first time in his rookie season.The Rockies will enter the doubleheader with a three-game winning streak and a 11-15 record this month. 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It will be the curse is broken, the bad old days are gone.Others say victory will be a reward for sticking with a team that was so bad for so long.Theres a sense that we paid our dues, weve watched utterly meaningless games in the dead of August ... we tilted our hats in the right way, worn our lucky shirts, stared at the TV at just the right angle, sat in our lucky chair and done all of that for decades and its finally paying off, said Steve Rhodes, whose Chicago-oriented website, the Beachwood Reporter , once posted a song, Dont Start Believin, to remind fans about the danger of hope.At the same time, there is at least a little worry that winning a World Series means losing something developed for more than a century, bolstered by heartbreak, failure and, yes, resilience.We could totally change our identity in the next week or so, said Kiljoong Kim, 45, of Chicago. We all really want it, but there is no doubt that we are all going to miss what we used to be.Dr. Stephen Schueller, a clinical psychologist at Northwestern University who specializes in happiness and well-being, agrees.I do think there is some concern (that) if they win it, it is going to break this story we tell ourselves as Cubs fans, he said.What that will look like is anyones guess, though it could turn Cubs fans -- the cuddly puppies of fandom -- into something else.Fans could become unbearable, Rhodes lamented.Al Yellon said one need only look eastward to see what could become of Cubs fans, how the friendly confines could become a decidedly different park.I look at the Red Sox fans, and when they suddenly won (in 2004 after 86 years), from the ouutside it looked like they became kind of insufferable, said Yellon, whose Cubs fan site is called bleedcubbieblue.ddddddddddddcom .Rhodes and Yellon may be onto something. Scientifically speaking, there may be something different about the brain of a fan who has been subjected to repeated doses of optimism every spring training and the despair of the regular season and the certainty that next year will be THE year, according to one expert who has written extensively about brains in general and the brains of Cubs fans in particular.Such fans turn out to be better decision-makers and deal better with divergent thought, as opposed to unreflective fans of winning teams, wrote Dr. Jordan Grafman, a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern and a lifelong Cubs fan.Grafman said Cubs fans shouldnt worry about losing those skills just yet, even if they outlast the Indians in a World Series that Cleveland led 2-1 heading into Saturday nights Game 4.One exposure (to winning) is not going to do the trick, he told The Associated Press.On a recent bike ride over to Wrigley with his 2-year-old son, Matt Monsueto, 39, said he is happy at the prospect of his boy not having to endure the annual heartbreak that has for so long been part of the lives of Cubs fans.And yet he wonders if success might change things for future generations of Cubs fans, make them less patient and more demanding.My two daughters are Blackhawks fans, Monsueto said of the hockey team that went nearly a half century without winning the Stanley Cup before winning three over the past seven years. They expect parades.If the brain of the Cubs is in no danger of changing anytime soon, much of what made the Cubs fandom so lovable to the rest of the country already has. The guys who dragged lawn chairs to the rooftops to watch the games have been replaced by corporate gatherings. The bleacher seats that were a few bucks are now far, far more.All that magical stuff is gone, Rhodes said. Theres a new generation of fans who have invaded my piece of heaven. ' ' '