Hey, Theo: It’s about time for another World Series title, don’t you think?

Did the Cubs peak in 2016?

Was that it for this century and onward into the brave new world?

The World Series championship that Cubs fans had waited so long for — the trek that shed generations of relatives and pals along the way — occurred on Nov. 2, 2016, in a 10-inning thriller some historians have called the greatest Game 7 in Series history.

Then what?

I remember asking Cubs president Theo Epstein at the beginning of his tenure in Chicago whether fans would be sated if the team ever won it all. (Like that could happen!)

He replied that once his former Red Sox team won a crown in 2004, after an 86-year drought, fans simply wanted more. They got another in 2007 and another in 2013, two years after Epstein came to the Cubs. They even got another last year.

Maybe they could stop now?

But the Cubs haven’t made it back to the World Series since that 108-year curse-breaker three seasons ago. And their window of opportunity is narrowing as the nucleus of that title team ages and needed parts fail or aren’t replaced.

Consider that vital leadoff man Dexter Fowler is gone and that there’s nobody like him on the Cubs. Reliever Carl Edwards Jr. is back down in the minors. Good-luck-charm catcher David Ross is retired. And so on.

The trade deadline comes in a week, and the Cubs need to make a magical acquisition to turn this into the season they do it again.

Needs? Well, who ever has enough starting pitching? (But with Yu Darvish doing better, the Cubs aren’t desperate there.)

The bizarre Ben Zobrist situation — an absence of more than 2½ months and counting for a divorce — has made the Cubs hungry for a hitter who is a quality pro with clutch energy.

Second baseman Addison Russell hasn’t been the same since he returned from a domestic-violence suspension, and the depth of the infield is an issue.

But it’s the relief corps that cries out for help. Pedro Strop is struggling, and, even with closer Craig Kimbrel added to the mix, the middle-inning guys need a stud. A late-inning left-handed specialist would be a wonderful gift.

The Cubs added flame-throwing closer Aroldis Chapman in 2016, and that set the team ablaze. It wasn’t just his 103 mph fastball that got the team’s attention; it was the knowledge that management was all-in.

Chapman was coming off a domestic-violence suspension? No problem. Ethics be damned. Money be damned. Here we go, boys!

The Cubs still are drifting in the vacuum of that colossal season.

Nobody really is playing better than he did then, not even Anthony Rizzo or Kris Bryant, the 2016 National League MVP. It’s not that either is playing badly, but they’re not having transcendent seasons, for sure.

We have to remember the Cubs won that World Series by the slimmest of margins, in the last moment possible, after coming back from being down three games to one to an Indians team that probably shouldn’t have made it as far as it did.

That Cubs squad wasn’t an epic team for the ages. The effort was. The mojo was. The ride was. But the Cubs were a very good — but not great — team.

Their 92 victories in 2017 were nice. Their 95 victories last season were sweet. But they got smoked by the Dodgers in the NL Championship Series in 2017 and lost the NL wild-card game to the Rockies last year.

That’s wheel-spinning, not traction.

Some people think that manager Joe Maddon has shot his bolt and that the Cubs would feel that mystical spark again if he were replaced. It’s sure curious the only skipper to lead the Cubs to a World Series in anybody’s lifetime hasn’t even been offered a contract for next year.

You think the players don’t, deep inside, wonder what is going on with the club, what their motivation is if they’re playing for a lame-duck manager who might not be around soon?

Yet despite it all, the Cubs are still at the top of the NL Central. They’re close. Again.

Whom do they add? Whom do they subtract?

Set the table, Theo. If the Cubs can figure out how to put the sauce back on the steak and the fizz back in the bottle, they could feast again.

Go for it.