World Series thread
Oh boy.
All tied up, seventh game, ninth inning.
It looked like the Cubs had it, but then the Indians came back. The fat lady has not yet sung.
Is this a metaphor for something or other?
11:55 PM: Yikes! Beginning the 10th, now there’s a rain delay.
This is almost like an old-fashioned Red Sox type of World Series.
12:21 PM: Cubs take a one-run lead in the tenth.
12:39 PM: Cubs one out away. It can be a looong out.
12:44 PM: One-run game now. Change of pitchers.
12:48 PM CUBS WIN!
And Theo Epstein is a friggin genius. He did it for the Red Sox, and then he did it for the Cubs. With some help, of course.
Hey, I’ve got an idea: Theo Epstein for president!
OMG what great baseball.
I bleed Cubbie Blue, and I’m dyin’ out here…
Let’s Go Cubs! I appeal to the baseball gods for their favor.
mezzrow:
As a former Red Sox sufferer, I feel your pain.
A little bit, anyway.
C’mon Miggy.
Atta boy.
The rain delay really may have saved the Cubs. Broke the Indians momentum and gave the Cubs time to calm down. But they need to go into the last of the 10th with more than their current lead (8-6).
Agreed. On to Carl’s Jr. – so slim he disappears when turned sideways.
Come on men, you can do this.
mezzrow:
I’m genuinely happy for you and all Cubs fans.
Although perhaps it means the apocalypse is here.
I’m taking this as a sign from the gods.
Shamelessly lifting this from James Earl Jones’ speech in “Field of Dreams” —
“And they’ll walk off to the bleachers and sit in their short sleeves on a perfect afternoon. And find they have reserved seats somewhere along the baselines where they sat when they were children. And cheer their heroes. And they’ll watch the game, and it’ll be as they’d dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come, Ray. The one constant through all the years Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again.”
….. and that could be again!
Whadda game!
First of all, it was reasonable baseball weather–in November.
And then, lead gains and catch-ups, stolen bases, critical tag-up from 1st base, successful pick-off, home runs, dramatic managerial moves, attempted safety squeeze, extra inning, AND a rain delay. This game had so much.
Congratulations Cubs and Cubs fans!
Ira
Thanks to all for the congrats.
Neo understands that this feels a bit unreal right now. The world hasn’t really changed, but it has.
A game for the ages.
mezzrow:
Watch out, though. You may find that you lose your intense interest in baseball.
I was a rabid and devoted baseball fan till the day the Sox won the World Series. Then, apparently, I considered my work done.
I just noticed how late it is.
Chicago native and life-long Cubs fan here. Wow. Now anything could happen!
It’s been noted that the last time the Cubs won, which was 1908, was the year of the Tunguska explosion. I certainly hope that was a random thing. But you never know.
“You know the law of averages says: Anything will happen that can.” – Steve Goodman
time to update the ghost busters logo with a picture of Theo and the Curse Buster. Glad for the Cubbiy Fans!!!
I noticed years ago that the Cubs can often win – if they can just keep the game going into extra innings.
I grew up in Cleveland and lived in Chicago for a decade, which made who to root for a very confusing choice. Congrats to the Cubs!
The media would just call him Triple Hitler, and the #NeverTrump crowd would instantly join the #NeverEpstein tag.
I fell asleep… wokup and got to see the last few points…
as far as trump, he is in like flynn.
stock market implies its him (oh the pain)
lots of other things imply, but the polls would NEVER tell you he is winning by a large amount.. its either a dem is winning by a large amoung, and so dont bother going, or if the dem is losing then its a tight race to which the pollsters will be surprised… what you never see in the past 40 years in a high level election like this is the republican is winning by a large amount…
duh.
what good is siding with collective despotism if it doesnt do the things that collective despotism does the same way that a scorpion does what scorpions do?
ie. we no longer are able to make those assumptions thaks to the leftsd programming that we are not allowed to infer or judge.
so we dont then we rationalize after the fact
thats how the brain works…
i can show you the papers, the math and other things as i work in medical research/ research comuting…
which is why i was at a special cyber security conference and have attanded a bunch of them and can tell you from an applications engineering point what the fck is ging on with hillary and her stuff.
but more andm ore is coming out and its NOT russia.
I will remind everyone here that the Ricketts family of Omaha bought the Cubs and engineered the turnaround. Tom Ricketts hired Theo Epstein.
The last people in my family to witness the Cubs win were my grandparents, they were 8 and 11 years old. WOW. I’m from Chicago. Hereditary Cubs fan.
Theo Epstein’s reputation is now solid gold. As for him being a “friggin genius”, it’s hard to argue otherwise but there could be no doubt of it if he quit now, going out a winner with legendary status. He’s set the bar as high as it can go. So from this point, every failure to reach and win another World Series only reduces his legend.
Though I’ve nothing against them, I’m not a cubs fan.
My 94 yr old father is a life long cubbie fan having until last night never seen his team win it all. The drought is over.
Next year, I’d like to see the Indians win it and the time for team manager Terry Francona to start his team down that road was last night. A close loss is an opportunity. They only have to get a little bit better.
I still can’t believe it. Woke up this morning asking myself if the Cubs really won. I’m Chicago born and bred and couldn’t stop thinking of growing up a Cubs fan, wishing for the Ernie Banks baseball card in the new pack of bubble gum – every time. Listening to long-time broadcaster Jack Brickhouse on WGN who famously said, ‘Anyone can have a bad century!’ and believing that every stadium stood up at the 7th inning stretch to sing ‘Take Me Out To The Ballgame’. So many of us are thinking of beloved friends and family who didn’t live long enough to savor this moment. I thought it strangely appropriate that the winning game was played on November 2, the feast of All Souls or the Day of the Dead. I’d like to think that all the Cubs fans, including my Dad, were sending good vibes down to their Cubbies, lovable losers no more.
Janet:
When the Red Sox finally won the World Series after all those years, some people went to the graves of dead relatives who had died before it happened, and brought them the news. I remember reading an article about this at the time.
To those that are Chicago natives, what neighborhood are you from? And what’s the other Chicago professional baseball team?