​CHICAGO — Where were you in the summer of 2008?If you’re old enough to remember, you probably were watching your favorite Chicago baseball team and dreaming of a crosstown World Series.Until this year, 2008 was the last full season the Cubs and Sox played each other in the regular season with realistic dreams of a World Series rematch.It didn’t happen, of course, but it could this time with a little luck. ESPN put the odds of a Cubs-Sox World Series at 63-1, which seems low.“Sign me up,” Cubs manager Craig Counsell said. “I’m in for all the fun, everything. You want to hype it up? All of it. I’m sure (Sox manager Will Venable) and I are both in.”I’ve covered every City Series from 1997, and written about all 156 games, including Monday night’s series opener — won 7-5 by the Cubs in 10 innings as Pete Crow-Armstrong walked it off — at Wrigley Field. I even went to one at Comiskey Park on Aug. 7, 1981, when the city scheduled a pair of exhibition games to welcome back the teams after a players’ strike. They were called “Mayor Byrne’s Charity Games,” and Mayor Jane Byrne was seen hobnobbing with Andy the Clown, while Cubs manager Joey Amalfitano and young Sox manager Tony La Russa faced off.But the golden years of the Cubs-Sox rivalry were from 2006-10, when we witnessed the epic brawl incited by Michael Barrett punching A.J. Pierzynski, the wild fan brawl in Section 538 of Sox Park, the Carlos Zambrano-Derrek Lee dugout scuffle, Cubs manager Lou Piniella telling Milton Bradley to go home and calling him a “piece of (bleep),” and Sox manager Ozzie Guillen insisting the Wrigley Field rats were as big as pigs, adding “I think they’re out there lifting weights” in the batting cage.Neither team went to a World Series in those five years, but you couldn’t ask for a crazier atmosphere or more quotable players and managers.Could this be the start of a new golden age of the City Series?It would be hard to replicate those days, especially ’08, when the teams met on successive weekends in June, with the Cubs sweeping the series at Wrigley and the Sox sweeping at what was then called U.S. Cellular Field.In the final game of the series, Piniella was ejected in the second inning for coming out to argue a checked swing call that went in favor of Joe Crede, then blew off the postgame news conference, sending coach Alan Trammell in his place.Counsell and Venable aren’t colorful enough to provide the kind of copy Guillen, Piniella and Dusty Baker provided the media with back in the 2006-10 era. In fact, few managers in Chicago history gave us as much to write about as those three.But Counsell and Venable both manage playoff-caliber teams, so theoretically it can happen.The Cubs look like they should hang on to the top wild-card spot in the National League. As of Monday, that would have them playing at home against the Philadelphia Phillies in the best-of-three wild-card series. The Sox look like a good bet to win the