Nice and juicy. Doesn’t get any better than that.
But I have to say, Curse of the Billy Goat
Let’s Go Mets!
My H is from a Chicago suburb so he’s been waiting for his Cubbies to beat the curse for a long, long time.
As much as I would like to see Cubs fans finally get their day, we have to root for the Mets and Seattle-suburb kid Michael Conforto. Since Seattle has never been to a WS, all we have had to root for are our HS grads (Lincecum comes to mind).
Football is my sport of choice, but I’m rooting for the Mets to win as Daniel Murphy is the son of a childhood friend⚾️
H told his parents to ‘hang on’ they may actually see the Cubs in the World Series - as with Mom2 have been disappointed before in this century. H’s parents I am sure got a laugh out of that - they have deteriorating health but keep their sense of humor.
The Cubs have to win. Didn’t you see Back to the Future?
LOL @kandcsmom! I’m going to have to warn my H…
I grew up a Dodgers fan, my H is a Mets fan so this last week was interesting.
But now, I’m going to have to support my H … Let’s Go Mets!
Let’s Go Mets! I’ve been a fan since 1966 and grew up in Queens.
I know that S2, a Yankees fan, will root for the Mets.
Not sure about DH - with the Yankees out of it, he doesn’t really care. He’s just grumpy that his team’s not playing.
S1 is a huge Back to the Future fan, so I’m not sure who he’ll root for. I’m sure he would think it’s neat for the movie’s prediction to come true.
Same here! And now D lives in walking distance of Wrigley Field, so go Cubbies!
Another Yankee fan who will root for the Mets. I am an offspring of a mixed marriage - Mom was/is Bklyn Dodger/Mets fan and dad was a Yankee fan. Growing up we went to both - especially the early Met years because they were so awful.
The only time I won’t root for Mets is if they are playing WS against the Yankees.
@emilybee:
Ah, another child from a split home, my dad was a Yankees fan (grew up in the Bronx during the depression, used to ‘sneak’ into games as a kid), my mom was a Giants then a Mets fan (my parents played hooky on the way to work commuting from the Bronx to Manhattan, they dared each other, and were at the famous 1951 playoff game between the Dodgers and Giants with the Thomson home run…got off at the Polo grounds, got tickets and went). I am primarily a Mets fan, but don’t hate the Yankees either:).
With this series, I’ll be rooting for the Mets, but to be honest, whatever sadness I have if the Mets lose will be tempered by wanting the Cubs to go all the way, I am a big fan of Joe Madden (anyone who does 2 squeeze plays in the same inning and has both of them work, has my respect, plus he is goofy). I think this series is going to come down to ‘the hair’ (ie the Met’s pitchers) versus Funky Glasses magic (Maddon), if his glasses magic outweighs the curse of the Goat, Cubs get to world Series.
Seriously, it is going to come down to the Met’s pitching, while the Cubs starting staff outside Arrieta is okay but not spectacular, the Mets have not been hitting, so I suspect it will be if the Mets pitchers can keep the high octane hitters on the Cubs contained. The winds there have been brutal, balls are being blown out of the park, and in a slugfest I suspect the Mets will lose. Whichever way it goes, should be an intense, fun series to watch.
St. Louis had the #1 pitching staff in NL and AL. Roll Cubs! (I’ve been on CC too much lately!)
Saw this and thought I’d share:
“It’s been 22 years for TOR, 29 years for NYM, 30 years for KC & 107 years for CHC. Every team wants it… bad.”
Go Cubs!! 
Go Cubs, go!!
(107 years?!? Yikes!)
Well, I think everyone knows I’m a huge Mets fan! If they weren’t in it, I’d be rooting for the Cubs. But as it stands, I’d just as soon they didn’t beat the curse this year.
My Mom was a Yankees fan and my Dad was a Giants, then Mets, fan. Mom wasn’t much into it by the time we were growing up, and Dad watched now and then, but I never really got into baseball until I met my Mets-fan H. So our kids have grown up in a one-team family (and we’ve since converted Grandma! ).
I just wish Bartman hadn’t caught that ball, so they could have been done with this already.
And hey, is that a black cat by the Cubs bench?
The Cubs fans shouldn’t have blamed Bartman, they should have broken Moise Alou’s hand’s so he couldn’t play, anyone who knows baseball knows Alou was not known for great fielding in the first place. As far as the black cat goes, Maddon should take his bulldogs to the park,no problem lol.
Now if Bill Veeck owned the cubs, he would do the awesome thing, before game 1 at Wrigley he would have a herd of goats on the field to break the curse…baseball lost a lot when it lost Bill Veeck.
^I don’t care who blamed who ( though I do feel sorry for the guy.) I just would like that curse to have been broken prior to this year.
And, break Alou’s hands??? You have a very violent outlook on baseball.
@garland:
Hey, listen, people in Chicago literally were screaming for someone to kill Bartman, the poor guy had to hide and had police protection, and he had nothing to do with it. As someone who remembers Alou when he played with the Mets, he was someone best set up to be a DH, he makes Murphy look like a gold glove.
As far as having a violent outlook on baseball, only where appropriate, I think that modern baseball rules have been written in such a way that it allows slime like Utley to get away with crap, and the rules in turn offer literally no consequences for those who violate it. In the end, the Mets got the ultimate revenge, but for example, Tejada might have caught a couple of those bloop singles that Flores couldn’t get to, him being hurt could well have changed a victory into a defeat. People like Utley know that, and take a look, baseball decided that he was guilty of an illegal slide, he was suspended for 2 games, and look at that, he got to play the whole series. If Utley had been a starting player, rather than a bench player he is now, he could do something like take out tejada, and face basically no consequences, assuming he was a starting player and he did that, he likely wouldn’t face consequences until next year. It is much the same way, where a pitcher deliberately hits someone, or when you had Clemens with his roid rage doing what he did to Piazza, he got away with it, and then the umps warn both benches not to retaliate…so it is a get out of jail free card for garbage plays, and basically no consequences for those who do it. Play was a lot dirtier in the good ole days, people like Cobb and Enos Slaughter were known for dirty play, but they also took as good as they got.
I would much prefer baseball put in real rules, with teeth, like if a pitcher hits someone, they are gone if the ump even suspects it was deliberate. Do something like Utley did, you are out of the game. If they really want to get away from the ‘bad old days’ and protect the players, then ‘hard nose plays’ like sliding away from the base to interfere with the pivot guy on a double play should be called that, as the rules say, rather then letting it play out depending on the whims of umpires, rules only work if there are real consequences, much the way they are trying in pro football. If you are of the school of letting it ‘play out’, then look the other way with the other side, too, and have some sense of consequences.
Come on Cubs!
Anthony Rizzo was to be honored by Lurie Children’s Hospital tonight for his frequent visits to the kids there, and millions of $ he has raised for children w/cancer. Anthony is one of 2 cancer survivors on this Cubs team. Lester is the other.
I went to my 1st Cubs game in 1958. It’s been a long, character building time.
I don’t care who we play, we just want to win.
Grandpa loved the Cubs, and since he was born before 1900, he ‘experienced’ their World Series play, maybe listening on the radio. He died at 96 - couldn’t live long enough to see a return…maybe we can cheer for him…
I remember in the late 50’s our retired next door neighbor having a big radio cabinet and listening to the ball games.