This made my kids laugh, and gave rise to if the Cubbies lose they will retain first place in this category.And if Cubbies win, Hillary’s team ends its drought and at least my team would take over first place in the longest dry season. Guess I, along with the Holy Father, could just chalk it up to climate change.Seriously though, if you watch, enjoy!
I recall sitting in box seats for $7.
Now I feel old. We paid $5. Great place to read the Sunday paper and the kids loved climbing on the benches. Good times.
I know my mother (who is, I hope, in heaven) is pushing for the Cubbies. If they win, could that count as her first miracle? :clapping:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fmxW9UeFWGA/Txhfr8mUikI/AAAAAAAABS0/rI66PHS2UWw/s400/30peanut.gif
But will all the joy in Mudville cease is they lose the World Series in a ghastly, Cublike way?
Will (has?) Steve Bartman be(en) forgiven?
Will the unlucky Cubs get lucky against the similarly unlucky (over the years) Indians?
Stay tuned.
It’s the World Series Next.
But if the Yankees or Red Sox decided to play the Dodgers, Giants or Cardinals at the same time … which games would ESPN decide to air?
Or is it the collective miracle of all the Cub fans?
Wish you all the best … when you play the White Sox and others.Well yeah but more recently Progressive Field has been having even more fans than a Trump rally! So that’s something.
If they lose, it won’t be because Schwarber wasn’t available. (I’m guessing for designated pinch hitter.)http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fmxW9UeFWGA/Txhfr8mUikI/AAAAAAAABS0/rI66PHS2UWw/s400/30peanut.gif
But will all the joy in Mudville cease is they lose the World Series in a ghastly, Cublike way?
Lots of rosaries will be said and candles lit.Or is it the collective miracle of all the Cub fans?
My Grandfather, rest his soul, watched (and listened to) almost every Cub game there WAS when I was a kid, enshrouded in the blue haze of a White Owl cigar (or two).
). < Chicago HAS a West Side … but the sports civil wars per Catholic and Public High Schools (and per pro baseball somewhat) are North vs. South … for all you non-Chicagoans. < I was born in Chicago, early '50s. Cubs didn’t win at ALL then. A good day was “Ernie hit another homer!”This reminds me the games at Wrigley will be rigged. AL pitchers have to bat in a NL park even though they haven’t had to all year.
The north side is Catholic?My Grandfather, rest his soul, watched (and listened to) almost every Cub game there WAS when I was a kid, enshrouded in the blue haze of a White Owl cigar (or two).
Before I was born they won many pennants … but I think 1908 was the only World Series even Grampa saw them win.
Even THAT wasn’t in Wrigley. Someplace called West Side Park (my grandparents were from the West Side back when there was one
And the White Sox would break Chicago hearts with their near misses (always to the Damn Yankees).
Somewhere Jack Brickhouse is calling … “Hey HEY! The Cubs have won the pennant!”
… and now a word from our sponsors … (HFC and Hamm’s Beer).
Made me laugh. My aunt went to school with a Wrigley, had one set of twins, he oldest (not a twin), had two sets of twins. Don’t chew gum!!!
You got it.The north side is Catholic?
Do all sides at least agree on deep dish pizza? I remember a deep dish place back in OH called East of Chicago.
As George Carlin used to say, a near miss is a hit.
My grandfather saw the Cubs win in 1907 and 1908. He was so old he was an honest lawyer. He was so old he was a Republican who worked for the City of Chicago, which is how he could play hookey to watch day games. In 1941 he lost a leg and his eyesight to diabetes, and his great joy was to listen to Cubs games on the radio. The rule in his house was that no one talks at dinner on days when the Cubs lost. There were a lot of those days before he died in 1964.My Grandfather, rest his soul, watched (and listened to) almost every Cub game there WAS when I was a kid, enshrouded in the blue haze of a White Owl cigar (or two).
Before I was born they won many pennants … but I think 1908 was the only World Series even Grampa saw them win.
Even THAT wasn’t in Wrigley. Someplace called West Side Park (my grandparents were from the West Side back when there was one
And the White Sox would break Chicago hearts with their near misses (always to the Damn Yankees).
Somewhere Jack Brickhouse is calling … “Hey HEY! The Cubs have won the pennant!”
… and now a word from our sponsors … (HFC and Hamm’s Beer).
East of Chicago is better than most pizza places I found in Ohio, but not as good as Chicago pizza itself.The north side is Catholic?
Do all sides at least agree on deep dish pizza? I remember a deep dish place back in OH called East of Chicago.