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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2016 4:51:17 GMT
The CUBS WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YES!!!!! In 1908 major league baseball was played in ten cities (eleven if you count Brooklyn, which had only been part of New York for a decade) across seven states (and DC). The St. Louis Browns and Cardinals were as far west as the leagues went, and you got there by train. Addison and Waveland was home to a seminary. Roger Connor held the career home run record with 138; Ned Williamson's 27 remained the single-season mark. The Federal League had not yet been dreamed of; the Negro Leagues were not yet organized. The first expansion was fifty-two years away. There was no designated hitter, no save statistic, and no free agency. Every player was either white or close enough to pretend to be. The Titanic had not yet been sunk; indeed, it had not yet been built. There was no concept of a global, or "world" war, let alone a protracted conflict which would use flying machines and poison gas as a matter of course. Russia was collapsing under Nicholas II. Turkey was controlled by the Ottomans, and a week before the Series the empire of Austria-Hungary officially took control of Sarajevo. The forty-six United States were about to replace Theodore Roosevelt with William Taft. The Brits were ruled by Edward VII. Einstein was still working on general relativity and both Pluto and penicillin were unknown to science. The airplane, the automobile, and the motion picture were all wondrous new frontiers, and the telephone was as old as the internet is today. The Gerontology Research Group lists twenty-two known human beings living today who are confirmed to have been at least five years old in October 1908. All but one are female, five are American-born, and none lived in Illinois or Michigan. It is an effective certainty that of the approximately 6,300 people at Detroit's Bennett Park on October 14, 1908, none are still alive. The memory of the Cubs' victory, be it witnessed, read, or overheard, exists in the mind of no person. Great-great-grandparents born after that date are being buried. The Cubs were the first team to win the World Series twice. Since then, the world has marched on and the game has rebuilt itself time and again. Of the original sixteen teams, the Cubs (and the Indians) are now tied for last among franchise championships. But they have not been left behind. They have not folded or moved; they have thrived as one of the most popular teams in the country. It is the romance of eternal struggle which brings the world to Wrigley, a struggle against the odds, against time, against the dying of the light. All people, all Americans know this struggle deep within them; it is where baseball becomes a metaphor for life. It is why we come back to this game every spring: the standings reset, the grass is fresh, and the promise of the dream stretches before us. And every once in a while you get your chance to break through.
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Post by Trilobite Derby on Nov 3, 2016 4:53:26 GMT
Man, that was the most ridiculously tense World Series I've ever listened to.
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Post by LightningPoodle on Nov 3, 2016 5:09:12 GMT
Did they finally let a goat attend?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 3, 2016 5:26:37 GMT
...wait, even this gif doesn't capture how long it has been since they have last won.
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Post by mybudgee on Nov 3, 2016 6:32:08 GMT
Goddamn... baseball hella sucks
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Post by OneWomanArmy on Nov 3, 2016 8:23:15 GMT
Damn man..... I have no idea what you're talking about since I'm no American but DAMN MAN, that sucks!!! 😤
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Post by Serza on Nov 3, 2016 9:33:32 GMT
Shit. Enough with the bad news! I was hoping I'd at least be warm when I finally go to Hell for... reasons sketchy even to me. Now I'll go to Hell, which is a bad thing on it's own... And I won't even be warm. Can't look forward to death. Great. Damn man..... I have no idea what you're talking about since I'm no American but DAMN MAN, that sucks!!! 😤 Wait, so where're you from, then?
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Post by OneWomanArmy on Nov 3, 2016 9:49:18 GMT
Shit. Enough with the bad news! I was hoping I'd at least be warm when I finally go to Hell for... reasons sketchy even to me. Now I'll go to Hell, which is a bad thing on it's own... And I won't even be warm. Can't look forward to death. Great. Damn man..... I have no idea what you're talking about since I'm no American but DAMN MAN, that sucks!!! 😤 Wait, so where're you from, then? I live in Denmark but both my parents are Turkish
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2016 12:56:22 GMT
What's up people?! Oops! Wrong door
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Post by corpusdei on Nov 3, 2016 13:13:33 GMT
You guys sure take rounders way too seriously...
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Post by Beerfish on Nov 3, 2016 13:42:16 GMT
Beerfish puts the curse of the 3 toe weasel on the Cubs, no WS for another 100 plus years.
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Post by Sifr on Nov 3, 2016 13:48:15 GMT
Damn, off by a year...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2016 14:30:55 GMT
Thomas Boswell has a nice article in WaPo today (was on the front page of the print edition).
I'm sure the Chicago papers will have the story well covered, but it's still a nice write up.
The focus is a mix of game details and anecdotes from Cubs fans.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2016 17:21:44 GMT
Let that be a lesson to you all. No one keeps the Cubs from winning the world series 109 years in a row.
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Post by Beerfish on Nov 3, 2016 17:28:19 GMT
Let that be a lesson to you all. No one keeps the Cubs from winning the world series 109 years in a row. 1/5th or so on the way to Andromeda! Cubs fans may need some cryogenics.
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on Nov 3, 2016 17:39:56 GMT
I think this might be relevant
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Post by masterwarderz on Nov 3, 2016 17:56:41 GMT
Let that be a lesson to you all. No one keeps the Cubs from winning the world series 109 years in a row. Just 108.
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Post by Obliviousmiss on Nov 3, 2016 18:44:52 GMT
"HELL HATH FROZEN OVER" Fixed it for you.
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Post by FraQ on Nov 3, 2016 18:58:05 GMT
Thank Goodness!
I'm not sure if Cleveland could handle two championship franchises.
They are already facing an identity crisis.
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Post by Beerfish on Nov 3, 2016 19:06:32 GMT
Cleve will always have the Browns to bring them back to earth.
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Post by Kenny Bania on Nov 3, 2016 19:06:35 GMT
Meh!
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Post by Lady Artifice on Nov 3, 2016 19:07:07 GMT
Hooray!
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Post by Voluptuous Volus on Nov 3, 2016 19:08:50 GMT
Insurance
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Post by RakiaTime on Nov 3, 2016 19:23:41 GMT
im not sure what i should be happier about, Cubs winning or another Cleveland failure, because fuck Cleveland teams
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Post by bmwcrazy on Nov 3, 2016 19:24:24 GMT
2016 will be an interesting year in our future American history books.
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