THE CUBS ARE 2016 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS!

Banedon · November 5, 2016

is there a place online where i can watch the entire cubs parade from yesterday? not just highlights, i'm talking about the entire thing.

The entire rally is on youtube. Not sure about the parade itself.

UMFan83 · November 5, 2016

It looks like MLB Network is playing every Cubs playoff win right now. On game 2 vs Giants currently

Edit: I guess just until game 1 against Dodgers. I guess the rest tomorrow?

Bull · November 5, 2016

I have to echo the sentiments of another poster who noted a sense of loss. I wouldn't say mine is a sense of loss as much as a sense of completion, or closure. I've been a fan sense age 6 in 1982. Became a big fan in '84. As a latchkey kid in the late '80, I was the kid playing ball alone in the Nike commercial and Harry and Steve kept me company. I collected baseball cards and knew every Cubs stat.

This board and the Cubs.com board before it introduced me to advanced statistics and I learned to predict and project. There was more understanding to my hope. I followed sammy in 1998 while in college. I had my heart broken as an expecting father in 2003. I caught my big break professionally in 2008 and the Cubs were there. Always hoping and dreaming that "someday" or "next year".

When Theo came, the countdown to the end of all things began. and I followed these kids (I'm grandpa Rossy's age) through the minors, and knew this day was no longer a dream, but an inevitability. I have digested this message board daily for 13 years.

And now it seems so "done". Like the last chapter of a good book. Turn the page and sad that its over, already missing the characters, wanting to return to the setting. But its not really sad, its more Satisfying. a sense of completion and accomplishment.You can read it again, but its not the same. I've read LOTR a dozen times, and every time there's something new, but its never quite as magical, as spiritual, as the first reading.

And I'll read it again, and whatever sequels come out as a quaint homage to the original. But the main story will be kept with me forever as I close the book. Its the story of a lifetime. and I'll miss it. I'm 40, but this ends my childhood.

In the best way ever. I'm not sad. I'm satisfied.

I'll never stop being a Cubs fan, but from now on it will be something I did, not who I am. Longest binge watch ever.

I hope that makes sense.

bearjuice · November 5, 2016

I've been following the Cubs since Kingman and Buckner in the early '80s, and I understand that there are many that have passed away and missed it or have been waiting much longer than myself. It's irrational, but the Cubs winning has filled that primordial desire that I have had since early childhood ... I'm just grateful to be posting in a "Cubs World Champions" thread!

Banedon · November 5, 2016

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jehr · November 5, 2016

So now Da Bears have the longest championship drought in the city. How long until they get back in the mix? I'm guessing not until the McCaskeys divest.

Sammy Sofa · November 5, 2016

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Daaawwwwwwwww.

CubInOK · November 5, 2016

http://newsok.com/article/5525429

For Cubs fan Sara Sweet, the win was a poignant occasion. Sweet inherited her love for the team from her father, Stephen Williams, who was a lifelong fan. Williams was killed in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995.

On Thursday morning, Sweet stopped by the Oklahoma City National Memorial to drape a Cubs jersey over the back of the empty chair that memorializes her father's death.

Williams started following the Cubs in the late 1970s, when the family moved to Springfield, Ill., about 200 miles southwest of Chicago. Sweet remembers her family gathering around the television during Cubs games when she was a girl.

But during games that made him nervous, Williams made a point to listen on the radio rather than watching them on television. That way, he could busy himself with something else while he listened. But for a game like the one Wednesday evening, she's sure he would have been on the couch watching it with the rest of the family.

“Last night, when they won, I just immediately thought of him," she said.

The shirt pictured in the article is still there.

Schwarber Fan · November 5, 2016

Sorry if mentioned already, but Game 7 is finally on iTunes for $2.99. If only they knew what most of us would pay for it.

badger · November 5, 2016

During the Wisco/NW game, they announced that in two days after the WS victory, 70 million dollars worth of merch has been bought.

Derwood · November 5, 2016

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Derwood · November 5, 2016

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We Got The Whole 9 · November 5, 2016

Clayton Bigsby with red face

Banedon · November 5, 2016

Banedon · November 5, 2016

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154710201928147&id=46512353146

Abedunk34 · November 5, 2016

So for the last several years, the World Series winner has worn gold-trimmed uniforms and hats to open the next season, and also added a "World Series Champions" sleeve patch for the entire following season. Wonder what the Cubs have in mind. I'm also hoping they schedule the ring ceremony for sometime during the first home series against STL. Just a few small things to look forward to!

Butterscup · November 5, 2016

someone tweeted this pic of Careless. hope you find your hat soon buddy.

Banedon · November 6, 2016

CubmanPi · November 6, 2016

I think this is going to change my entire outlook on sports. Whenever I see another team win a championship in another sport, even when it was the Blackhawks, all I could think when I watched those celebrations was about how badly I wanted it to be the Cubs. That was other sports.

Before this year, the last two World Series that I could stomach enough to pay attention game by game were the 2004 Red Sox and the 2001 DBacks/Yankees. It's been too painful. I really think that, if baseball is rigged/awful next year and the Cubs somehow don't repeat, it'll be different. I'll be able to watch another team and be happy for them. Sure, I'll have teams I will root against for whatever reason, but if those teams win anyway, so what. Now that I've experienced this, I will forever have an incomprehensibly great feeling associated with the end of the World Series, and now no disappointment with any future season will ever be able to completely extinguish this memory. I'll have a shred of my own nostalgia to go with whatever bitterness I may have about my own team's lack of success in a given year.

I will forever enjoy all sports more because of the 2016 Cubs.

David · November 6, 2016

So for the last several years, the World Series winner has worn gold-trimmed uniforms and hats to open the next season, and also added a "World Series Champions" sleeve patch for the entire following season. Wonder what the Cubs have in mind. I'm also hoping they schedule the ring ceremony for sometime during the first home series against STL. Just a few small things to look forward to!

I'd imagine it would be opening night at Wrigley