THE CUBS ARE 2016 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS!

[Soul]

In Chicago, the final wait for a Cubs win mixes joy and sorrow

 

A little dusty in here all the sudden...

 

What an article.

[badger]

2nd Jed hoyer tweet since 2009. Gotta be theo horsefeathering around lol.

 

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[Guest]

I think this excerpt is appropriate, though I am a sucker for this poem.....

 

Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,

Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,

Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,

Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people,

 

Laughing!

-- from Chicago by Carl Sandberg (The autocorrect on this board corrects it to Sandberg with an "e" every time. lol)

[minnesotacubsfan]

In Chicago, the final wait for a Cubs win mixes joy and sorrow

 

A little dusty in here all the sudden...

 

What an article.

 

 

I mean, yes. growing up in rural Illinois, listening to the Cubs on the radio every afternoon while doing farm chores. Maybe my older sister would get $8 tickets and we could venture into Chicago and maybe they would win, maybe they would lose. All the players through the years, watching Wood pitch at the MetroDome while in college. Seeing one of my sisters give up and start following the Angels, life is tough when you marry a Cardinal fan. but last night, and through out the entire Series, I wore my fingers out texting with my sisters, my brother, my niece. Its funny how much this damn team ties so much together.

 

and yes, my sister is back in the fold.

[Thusly Boned]

In Chicago, the final wait for a Cubs win mixes joy and sorrow

 

A little dusty in here all the sudden...

 

What an article.

 

Indeed. There are going to be (and probably already are) a ton of bandwagoners, but for the long suffering, being a Cubs fan wasn't so much a choice, but something that came through family indoctrination. As such, odds are all of us were close to at least one lifelong die hard Cubs fan who didn't make it here. Last night was mostly euphoria, but today is more comprehensively emotional as the full scope of the thing sets in.

[badger]

Not a terribly long audio complication of important moments throughout the year. Pretty fun listen.

 

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[UMFan83]

Really cool of the Royals. Not sure why they would send the Cubs pizza though. Is this some sort of WS Handoff tradition?

 

[UMFan83]

Really cool of the Royals. Not sure why they would send the Cubs pizza though. Is this some sort of WS Handoff tradition?

 

 

Nevermind it apparently is

 

[minnesotacubsfan]

Really cool of the Royals. Not sure why they would send the Cubs pizza though. Is this some sort of WS Handoff tradition?

 

 

Nevermind it apparently is

 

 

so many traditions we had no idea existed, until now

[nobull]

Watching the Cards fans be bitter is beautiful

[nobull]

Sammy Sosa

[Gmoney08]

Silvy (from espn1000 waddle & silvy) epic rant from last year (when Cards were running away with the Division July 9th) that the Cubs are coming and coming hard. He says nothing the jean short wearing Cardinals fans can do to stop it.

 

This gave me goosebumps then but hearing it now gives me even more chills & tears me up.

 

[imb]

Really cool of the Royals. Not sure why they would send the Cubs pizza though. Is this some sort of WS Handoff tradition?

 

 

Nevermind it apparently is

 

 

so many traditions we had no idea existed, until now

 

Wonder what kind of pizza we'll buy ourselves next year

[David]

so i decided to stop over at dick's (in the south burbs...still had a 10 min line to get in...heard other locations were 30-40) during my lunch and this happened

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMXftxYleX1/

[Brian]

Wonder what kind of pizza we'll buy ourselves next year

 

Can't wait for that tweet.

[jersey cubs fan]

so i decided to stop over at dick's (in the south burbs...still had a 10 min line to get in...heard other locations were 30-40) during my lunch and this happened

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMXftxYleX1/

What is the orange peanut one?

[Thrilho]

For anyone fiending for MS Paint, found this on reddit:

 

http://i.imgur.com/jnbCoZU.png

[Brian]

What is the orange peanut one?

 

It's ski goggles

[minnesotacubsfan]

so i decided to stop over at dick's (in the south burbs...still had a 10 min line to get in...heard other locations were 30-40) during my lunch and this happened

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMXftxYleX1/

What is the orange peanut one?

 

Champaign goggles

[Guest]

as a side-note.....was Joe wearing a skirt after the game last night?

[Gilby]

One of my favorite parts about all of this is that the 2017 season is basically right around the corner. Like this is gonna be a short offseason.

[Brian]

if you need a new desktop

http://www.trbimg.com/img-581ba810/turbine/ct-cubs-indians-world-series-game7-photos-101

 

or this one

http://www.trbimg.com/img-581b79fd/turbine/ct-cubs-indians-world-series-game7-photos-108

[MUCubsfan]

I would pay a stupid amount of money for a shirt similar to this (but Cubs, obviously):

 

http://i.imgur.com/BUbdy2T.jpg

[David]

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[MSG T]

I'm just going to randomly list names of former Cubs.

 

Carlos Zambrano

Ryne Sandberg

Mark Clark

Lenny Harris

Neifi Perez

Brant Brown

Derrek Lee

Juan Pierre

Jose Macias

Mark Prior

Mark Grace

Ernie Banks

Fergie Jenkins

Billy Williams

Todd Walker

Andre Dawson

Shawon Dunston

Jeff Samardzija

Mark Appel

Randall Delgado

Andrew Cashner

Dan Vogelbach

Brian Roberts

Gleyber Torres

Luis Valbuena

Fergie Jenkins

Michael Conforto

Jon Gray

 

The starting lineup of the first Cubs game I ever went to. From June 15, 1974...

Don Kessinger

Jerry Morales

Billy Williams

Jose Cardenal

Rick Monday

Bill Madlock

Dave Rosello

Steve Swisher

Steve Stone