Former Cubs third baseman Aramis Ramirez makes his final appearance at Wrigley Field this weekend, unless the Pirates return for the wild-card game Oct. 7.

Or if Ramirez changes his mind and returns in 2017.

“No, no, no, no, no,” Ramirez said. “No mas.”

Ramirez, 37, decided before the season, when he was finishing out his contract with the Brewers, that this would be his last. Friends tried to persuade him he wasn’t done, but Ramirez said, “It’s not going to work.”

This seems like the perfect way for Ramirez to go out, with a chance to go to his first World Series on the team he came up with in 1998. These Pirates - who acquired Ramirez in a July trade - might be the best team he has played on, with apologies to the 2008 Cubs.

“I couldn’t have asked for anything better,” he said. “Second-best record in the major leagues? It seems like we win every day.”

Ramirez arrived along with Kenny Lofton before the trade deadline in 2003 in what’s considered one of the best deals in Cubs history. The Cubs sent Jose Hernandez, Bobby Hill and minor-league pitcher Matt Bruback to Pittsburgh.

Ramirez hit 15 homers and drove in 39 runs in 63 games in ‘03 to help the Cubs to the National League Central title, and in Game 4 of the NL Championship Series, he had two home runs and an LCS-record-tying six RBIs in an 8-3 win in Miami that gave the Cubs a 3-1 series lead.

They were one win from their first World Series since 1945. To make a long story short, they’re still looking for their first World Series since 1945.

And now Ramirez likely is in their way.

Do you give a video tribute to a player who’s trying to spoil your dream season?

Will Cubs fans give Ramirez a standing ovation, as even David DeJesus received when he returned to Wrigley with the Nationals?

Or does the importance of the Cubs-Pirates series override any tributes?

Between the time Ron Santo was traded to the White Sox in 1974 and Ramirez’s arrival, 98 players tried to fill the hole at third base. Only a few, including Bill Madlock and Ron Cey, were more than stopgaps.

Still, Ramirez never was the most popular Cub.

He always was playing in the shadow of other sluggers, whether it was Sammy Sosa and Moises Alou in the early days or Derrek Lee and Alfonso Soriano near the end.