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Nov 2, 2016 19:47:40 GMT -6
Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 2, 2016 19:47:40 GMT -6
I know there are some Cubs fans on this board. I will admit it is kind of fun to see their misery continue and I am not a Cubs fan personally but wow the North Sider fans must be going nuts right now.
5-1 Chicago in the 5th inning of game 7.
Are they actually going to pull this thing off.
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Nov 2, 2016 20:45:36 GMT -6
Post by Yotes on Nov 2, 2016 20:45:36 GMT -6
I won't call myself a fan, but I've watched every playoff game they've had since 03 hoping to see the streak come to an end - and I had plans to go to Chicago for Game 5 if the Cubs had a shot to win it at Wrigley (just to witness the pandemonium). 108 years of futility. How does that even happen? There likely is not one person alive that can remember the Cubs winning a World Series. Hoping they hold on and make history.
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Nov 2, 2016 21:24:38 GMT -6
Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 2, 2016 21:24:38 GMT -6
Wow the Indians tie it up in the 8th. Which ever team wins it will be total elation. The team that loses it will be absolute devastation at this point. I think Madden pulling Hellickson as early as he did was kind of mistake. Things were starting to unravel then but it looks like the Cubs had recovered being up 3 with two outs in the 8th. Madden is obviously a good manager but Chapman has a dead arm the way it looks and who do the Cubs have now in their bull pen.
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Nov 2, 2016 22:58:18 GMT -6
Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 2, 2016 22:58:18 GMT -6
Wow the Cubs have won the world series. How many people on the planet are still alive the last time they won it. It would take a 108 year old to accomplish that feat. The curse is over but it didn't come without trying to grab onto the team until the very end. Even on the last out Bryant actually slipped on the last throw but the it was still on target. Could you have imagined if that throw would have gone down the right field line and the Indians ended up tying it and eventually winning it. That would have been the most heart breaking way to lose but finally the gods gave the Cubs a break. As a Viking fan I know all about curses that just won't go away. At least the Cubs have been downright awful for years and haven't had all that many close calls but the Vikings have been close often only to have very bad fortune always seem to strike.
Congrats to Cubs fans!!!
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Nov 4, 2016 8:53:23 GMT -6
Post by Yote 53 on Nov 4, 2016 8:53:23 GMT -6
I am finally back here after a couple days of, well, celebrating!
That Game 7 was incredible. Personally, would have preferred it to be a ho-hum Cubs walk to victory as it was trending early on but have to say, the way that game unfolded with the drama, extra innings, a rain delay that was absolutely painful for any Cubs fan to sit through, just incredible. However that game turned out it was going to be legendary. Goes down as probably the greatest World Series ever given how it unfolded, 7 games, Cubs battling back from a 3-1 deficit, a Game 7 with that kind of drama that goes extra innings, with the backdrop of it all being two teams that were trying to break decades old, neigh, a century long drought.
As the Indians whittled away that lead, as a Cub fan you could feel the sense of impending doom. Would we have enough to hold on to this game? When that ball sailed over the left field wall in the 8th for a 2 run homer to tie the game it was utter devastation. At that point I was resigned to the fact that the Cubs were going to blow this game and that the pain of coming this close to winning the World Series was going to be minor to anything that happened in 2003. Then the rains came. Neutral fans may have felt that delay took away from flow and increasing drama of the game. If you were a Cub fan you know that rain delay only enhanced the experience, and it was an agonizing experience. It really felt like you were slowly walking to the gallows. Couldn't have imagined that Jason Heyward, of all people, would pull the team together during the delay and they would immediately come out in the 10th to scratch together a few runs to pull out the game and finally break the Curse. 108 years is finally over. Feels good.
So I just went back in time to Page 5 of this board and relived the post I made in 2010 following Ron Santo's death. Then there was a Cubs Season tracking thread in 2011. I quit doing those threads here because they never seemed to gain any traction or interest and I moved on to another board to talk Cubs baseball. I kind of wish now that I would have continued because it was kind of surreal to read some of the stuff I posted 4-5 years ago, Starling Castro & Geovany Soto are untradeable, LOL, that is hilarious to look back on now. I do wish that we would utilize the OT board here more to talk about other sports and topics, make this place a bigger community to come to.
Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series Champions. Wow. Got to go. I've got a parade to watch.
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Nov 4, 2016 9:09:20 GMT -6
Post by Yote 53 on Nov 4, 2016 9:09:20 GMT -6
Brings tears of joy.
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Oct 12, 2017 22:54:44 GMT -6
Post by Coyote Fan on Oct 12, 2017 22:54:44 GMT -6
So how excited are the Cubs fans tonight. It looks like the curse in the National League has moved from Chicago to Washington via first class seating.
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Oct 13, 2017 8:18:47 GMT -6
Post by Yote 53 on Oct 13, 2017 8:18:47 GMT -6
Very pleased.
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