Cubs win!

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This win makes me think of my mom and dad. Happy/sad thing here. Go Cubbies.
 
zaffiroborant said:
This win makes me think of my mom and dad. Happy/sad thing here. Go Cubbies.
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You might need a link to the story so mod doesn’t delete. 🙂 I was in the same boat Wed. Congrats! But Go Tribe! 2 longest without a WS title. One of our streaks will end! And you’re not going to believe this but I called it in March!
 
didymus said:
Will the games be rigged?
Will the losers accept the result?
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Well Cleveland does have the first 2 games in Cleveland and then the final 2 in Cleveland if it goes the distance. The AL team won the All Star game which determines homefield in the WS and Cleveland’s Corey Kluber happened to be the winning pitcher so homefield was not rigged. And Cleveland did sweep the Red Sox in the division series and nearly swept the ALCS despite injuries to 3 of its 5 starting pitchers. But should they lose, it can’t be any worse to accept than 1997 when they lost a lead in the bottom of the 9th inning of the final game 7 with 1 out and 2 strikes on the batter. Can it?
 
ProVobis said:
First pennant since 1945.
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Oh pleeeeeease. But the city has had the Blackhawks win in recent years and had the Bulls Michael Jordan dynasty and even the Bears won the Super Bowl in 1985. Not to mention the southside Sox as recently as 2005.

Cleveland OTOH hadn’t won any major league sports title in 52 yrs until 4 mos ago when LeBron James and Co brought the city it’s first major league sports title in over a half century. While inbetween suffering thru all sorts of things known as “The Drive”, “The Fumble”. “The Shot”, that 97 WS previously mentioned. 😃
 
Sy_Noe said:
Well Cleveland does have the first 2 games in Cleveland and then the final 2 in Cleveland if it goes the distance. The AL team won the All Star game which determines homefield in the WS and Cleveland’s Corey Kluber happened to be the winning pitcher so homefield was not rigged. And Cleveland did sweep the Red Sox in the division series and nearly swept the ALCS despite injuries to 3 of its 5 starting pitchers. But should they lose, it can’t be any worse to accept than 1997 when they lost a lead in the bottom of the 9th inning of the final game 7 with 1 out and 2 strikes on the batter. Can it?
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I don’t really follow baseball much, being familial Cubs fan it’s been just the “boys of summer” or even just spring. Since it was usually over from the start or middle following the rest of it has never been necessary. So it made me laugh out loud when I looked into your post and discovered that the match up will be between the 2 teams with the longest dry season. Nice that no matter how it ends the winner will be a team (and fans) that has waited a long time.🙂 Win or lose I am still smiling about this!
 
Sy_Noe said:
Cleveland OTOH hadn’t won any major league sports title in 52 yrs until 4 mos ago when LeBron James and Co brought the city it’s first major league sports title in over a half century. While inbetween suffering thru all sorts of things known as “The Drive”, “The Fumble”. “The Shot”, that 97 WS previously mentioned. 😃
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Seems like they’ve suffered in attendance too. 29th out of 30 teams.

espn.com/mlb/attendance/_/sort/allAvg

Maybe Cub fans can help them here. 🙂
 
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There’s always next season for the Dodgers…
 
Oops, that last post was too conciliatory.

The media was against us!
The game* was *rigged!
Kershaw never gave up five runs. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar!
I’m going to sue the umpire!

Denial and fabricated excuses are now the acceptable way to handle defeat 👍.
 
So there is a Hell, and it apparently froze over. 😃

(From the third-generation Cardinals fan.) 😃
 
zaffiroborant said:
I don’t really follow baseball much, being familial Cubs fan it’s been just the “boys of summer” or even just spring. Since it was usually over from the start or middle following the rest of it has never been necessary. So it made me laugh out loud when I looked into your post and discovered that the match up will be between the 2 teams with the longest dry season. Nice that no matter how it ends the winner will be a team (and fans) that has waited a long time.🙂 Win or lose I am still smiling about this!
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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! 👍
 
sallybutler said:
Swore the first sentence my now 34 year old daughter was going to say was, that’s okay, next year the Giants will take the pennant.
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That would be alright too. I really don’t get the whole sports team rivalry thing, especially when it turns violent 😦
 
christofirst said:
That would be alright too. I really don’t get the whole sports team rivalry thing, especially when it turns violent 😦
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Dodgers/Giants games at Candlestick were the only games I wouldn’t sit in the bleachers (back when bleachers were affordable).
 
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