5/21/2018 - chicago (nobody) @ NOBODY (because there isn't a game)

[PackLandVA]

Sammy Sofa - There is NO GAME on Monday!

 

I know this was an issue a few weeks back. I will try not to post Tuesday's game thread until late Monday night so as to avoid more confusion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For all other posters, disregard this thread/post....and sorry for the inconvenience.

[Sammy Sofa]

[CaliforniaRaisin]

For your off-day viewing:

 

 

Feel free to skip the 8th inning.

[weis21]

It's my birthday tho

[Brian]

Dexy rounding first on that leadoff dong hits me right in the feels.

[CyHawk_Cub]

Dexy rounding first on that leadoff dong hits me right in the feels.

 

FFS...spoiler alert.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Dexy rounding first on that leadoff dong hits me right in the feels.

 

FFS...spoiler alert.

 

 

Wait to you find out he signs with the Cardinals but still names his next kid Ivy

 

[Bryants Disco Ball]

I just went back and read the Game 7 World Series thread from when Carl was taken out to when we won it all. And as weird as it is, I started getting goosebumps and shaking a little.

 

We actually won the World Series.

[ScrubMD]

I actually just watched the World Series movie tonight for the first time in about a year. Makes me feel stupid for getting upset with these guys for little things. They won a World Series while also being awesome dudes. I will always love them all. Except for Lackey.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

BUT THAT horsefeathering DRUM

[Bryants Disco Ball]

I actually just watched the World Series movie tonight for the first time in about a year. Makes me feel stupid for getting upset with these guys for little things. They won a World Series while also being awesome dudes. I will always love them all. Except for Lackey.

 

Can't say for sure they are all awesome dudes, as just like life, 50 percent likely are douches. However, I don't want them as my friends so it's all good. I just want them to win games because I picked their laundry to cheer for when I was a young kid and it stuck with me.

 

I also feel stupid for getting irritated at the Cubs so soon after they won it all. Very odd that I got spoiled so quickly when I'd have signed an agreement that the Cubs never won another one in 50 years provided they give us 2016.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Did you know? I was such an emotional wreck that I didn't watch Game 7 and only followed the game on that now epic Game 7 thread.

 

ETA: I actually stopped watching after the second inning.

[The_Achiever]

Did you know? I was such an emotional wreck that I didn't watch Game 7 and only followed the game on that now epic Game 7 thread.

 

ETA: I actually stopped watching after the second inning.

 

I had to medicate with myself with booze, etc. for pretty much the entire playoffs. That last week was especially bad; I hardly ever drink on weeknights (and many weekends) but it was the only way I could deal haha.

 

But to be honest I did wander away from the tv when we were pitching a decent amount. At least when you're hitting you can't lose ground.

[Cubswin11]

I still am a little upset at myself that most of my emotions felt after winning was just a sense of relief and a burden being lifted off my shoulders vs actually feeling all that happy. But it was such a mental grind getting through I was emotionally drained.

[Derwood]

Yes, it was much more of a relief than a euphoria

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Interesting posts. I for sure felt more euphoria than even relief. Although there was relief. Because when Chapman gave up that homer and I'm sitting here reading the posts, I pretty much fell to the floor and was wondering how I'd ever recover sports-wise if we didn't win, and how the journey and gauntlet back to this very moment would be way too grueling and too much to invest in, along with all the anti-Cubs and just baseball people in general having the biggest evidence yet of curses and how we'd never win.

 

That was going to be a long winter. And the rain came, and everything turned out great.

[Brian707]

My top 4 life moments:

 

1a.Birth of my first son

1b. Birth of my second son

3. Wedding

4. Game 7(excluding the bottom of the 8th and 9th innings)

[Ding Dong Johnson]

1a.Birth of my first son

1b. Birth of my second son

3. Wedding

4. Game 7(excluding the bottom of the 8th and 9th innings)

does your wife visit the board?

[Brian707]

1a.Birth of my first son

1b. Birth of my second son

3. Wedding

4. Game 7(excluding the bottom of the 8th and 9th innings)

does your wife visit the board?

 

:D I hope not

[Sammy Sofa]

I genuinely don't like re-watching Game 7 outside of the final inning; I just go back through how I felt that night, and as the Indians chipped away and tied it up I felt AWFUL. Even knowing how it ends, I hate seeing it happen again, especially since the ways the Indians scored were mostly so dumb.

[Sammys Boombox]

My top 4 life moments:

 

1a.Birth of my first son

1b. Birth of my second son

3. Wedding

4. Game 7(excluding the bottom of the 8th and 9th innings)

 

Mine is exactly the same. And if my wife saw this it’s because I was more impressed with her after the births than the wedding and I mean that in every possible good way.

[Sammys Boombox]

I love the whole thing. The Davis HR does not even bother me.

 

Actually, I lied. The replay of two runs scoring on the wild pitch and David Ross tripping over himself still makes me angry. But the Davis HR doesn’t bother me. I think it’s because that HR was the first time in 2016 I let myself believe “we’re never going to win the World Series.” That HR was the last time the Cubs ever made me feel the “oh, yep, here is where we screw it up because we’re the Cubs and we will never win”. And then, we didn’t screw it up, so I’ve never had that dreaded feeling since and don’t think I ever will again.

[badger]

I think every off day should be 2016 World Series thread day, until we win the 2018 World Series.

[ConstableRabbit]

I love the whole thing. The Davis HR does not even bother me.

 

Actually, I lied. The replay of two runs scoring on the wild pitch and David Ross tripping over himself still makes me angry. But the Davis HR doesn’t bother me. I think it’s because that HR was the first time in 2016 I let myself believe “we’re never going to win the World Series.” That HR was the last time the Cubs ever made me feel the “oh, yep, here is where we screw it up because we’re the Cubs and we will never win”. And then, we didn’t screw it up, so I’ve never had that dreaded feeling since and don’t think I ever will again.

I was much more upset at the Ross screw ups when Lester first came in than the Davis HR. Irrational, but I still felt like we were going to win.

 

Now, when I watch the replay of the bottom of the 9th the Kipnis AB makes me want to throw up.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

I genuinely don't like re-watching Game 7 outside of the final inning; I just go back through how I felt that night, and as the Indians chipped away and tied it up I felt AWFUL. Even knowing how it ends, I hate seeing it happen again, especially since the ways the Indians scored were mostly so dumb.

 

Nah. All the Cubs runs were awesome, not just the two in the 10th.

 

Fowler's homer, Bryant's baserunning x 2, Contreras' double to RF, Báez knocking Kluber out by going opposite field and David Ross homering with 2 strikes off Andrew Miller.