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And with that, the Cardinals are stuck waiting at least another year to taste first place again.

Kolton Wong Jed Gyorko Stephen Piscotty Randall Grichuk Some of the worst names ever. I'm ready to forget they exist.

they should go out and sign a few guys who know how to catch the ball

Yeah that works. Nice Hector.

Heyward is using every tool he has in the shed today.

Thanks Bukie. This was awesome. I appreciated the time spent putting together so many highlights from the regular season as well. After the post-season experience of a lifetime, it's good to remember all the moments of one of the most dominant regular seasons of the last few generations. My top 5: Horsefeathers it, I can't do it. Wrote and re-wrote the list several times. The two that I really want to fit in with all the other obvious WS moments are Monteroslam and Schwarber playing at all.

The Javy tags will be glorious. He's gonna hit 6 dongs this series.

Ready for the first day of the rest of my life as a Cubs fan. That shnizz is deloycious.

I'm in.

Same. My completely irrational World Series victory probably assessment that night: Before the game: 10% (still major doom boner, tempered only by the fact that the Indians wouldn't be celebrating at Wrigley) Before that play: 35% After that play: 99.9%

A hallmark of effective leadership is owning the organization's failures at the top but passing credit for its successes downward. In his dismissal, he's underscoring its accuracy. Just sayin.

I'm ready to look at a whole bunch of those for the next 7.5 months.

Schwarber will have the top 5, and 16 of the top 20.

Love it. The opportunity I'm always on the lookout for is whenever I see someone for the first time since before Nov 2nd, so I can observe that it's been so long since I've seen them, the Cubs have won a World Series since then. (I'll get to break that one out again this week.)

My brain says Steve Bannon, but my paralyzing fear of demonic overlords rising up from hell to consuming the souls of the living heart says KellyAnne Conway.

Nothing Dex could do in St Louis will ever be greater or mean more than what he did in Chicago. Dex Fan Forever.

It was his O-face.

Good call. Probably your only option to get a single piece of memorabilia which commemorates both a Cubs WS berth and Penn State beating Ohio State.

Damn. Just a little too late. The locker room hoodie is out of stock now too.

I still get goosebumps replaying everything in my head. The regular season was such an amazing ride. With the exception of the brief mid-season swoon that coincided with a Rangers surge, no one I know even tried suggesting anyone but the Cubs was hands down the best team. NLDS: I got 2 hours of sleep after the marathon game 3, hoping to watch them finish the sweep. Less than 24 hours later, it looked like they were heading back to Chicago for Game 5, and I was panicking over the idea that I would spend the off-season wanting to throw up because #BeliEVEN. :barf: NLCS: The whole time, it made sense that the Cubs matched up better, and most of us knew there was to panic after going down 2-1 in back-to-back shutouts. Still, it was hard being down in a series for the first time in the playoffs, and it was hard not to think about the way they crapped the bed in the 2015 NLCS. WS: I turned off Game 4 two innings early. I woke up the next day angry with myself for turning off a Cubs World Series game. I made a deal with myself that I would watch every last pitch to the bitter end (until the misplayed flyball in the first inning of Game 6, winning the series didn't feel very realistic), and I couldn't turn off the tv until 60 seconds after the game was over. My 8-yr-old son tried to stay awake for all of Game 7, but fell asleep on the couch despite the noise of the 8-10 people we had over. We woke him up in the bottom of the 10th and he and my wife and I were huddled closely waiting what seemed like forever for the Cubs to finally nail down the last out.

So happy for Dex and his family that he's getting the payday he deserves. The Cardinals Stink will never be able to tarnish what he has done in Chicago. I guess I have to get used to having a favorite Cardinal. Here's hoping for MVP numbers on an 80-win team.

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.

This October was a draining and exhausting experience. The only innings I missed were the last two of WS game 4. I even stayed up until 3am for game 3 against the Giants, and had to be back out of bed for work shortly after 5. Trying to keep up with my job and schoolwork and watch the Cubs really took a lot out of me. I'll probably start getting spun up on the NFL in the days leading up to week 17. Until then, my sports energy will be spent basking in the glow of the WORLD SERIES CHAMPION CHICAGO CUBS.