Believe it! Chicago Cubs end the curse, win 2016 World Series

The team-bonding activity was organized by John Lester, who pitched in relief during Wednesday night’s Game 7 win against the Cleveland Indians. “I don’t think they’ll understand it until they get a little bit older”.

“I get choked up just thinking about it”, said Lashawn Bennett, a 57-year-old resident of suburban South Holland who was diagnosed with throat cancer last year and was at Wrigley on Thursday morning. Kyle Schwarber led off the inning with a single.

Murray’s reaction to the Cubs’ 10-inning win over the Cleveland Indians was priceless. Despite the stinging loss, which echoes a similar loss to the then-Florida now-Miami Marlins in 1997, the Indians should be proud of themselves, team manager Terry Francona said. Zobrist, who has the best batting average of any player in the World Series, smacked an opposite field RBI double to give the Cubs a 7-6 lead. The Kansas City Royals were the most recent team to accomplish that, in 1985.

“It’s fitting it’s got to be done with one of the best games of all time”, Epstein said with the World Series trophy in his arms, talking to Fox Sports. “Just blow for blow, everybody playing their heart out”.

The seven game series averaged roughly 23.4 million viewers making it the most watched World Series since 2004 when another “cursed” team, the Boston Red Sox, ended their long-time title drought. The Indians are a resilient bunch that sincerely wanted to bring Cleveland its first World Series title in almost seven decades. Knock ’em down, they bounced right back, and they did it again in Game 7 on the brink of heartbreak. After a century and change, the curses, the failures, long days in August after the summer was already out of reach, the promises, the scapegoats and actual goats, the Cubs failure was just something we’d all just come to expect.

CLEVELAND – Indians center fielder Rajai Davis cranked a ball Wednesday night that briefly made Cleveland sports history, unleashing a feeling of pure joy unlike anything he had ever felt. When you’re born a Cubs fan, you learn pretty quickly that losing is something your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents possibly all endured. Win or lose, we were never anxious about that. They won 103 games during the regular season.

“This was torture”, said Mike Delmanowski, a lifelong Cubs fan who flew to Chicago from California just to be surrounded by other Cubs fans.

On Twitter, Sheen had made mention of doing it himself and also promised he had his character’s trademark glasses with him and a superstitious “Jobu” doll from the movie.

“They have a player, Kris Bryant, who may end up being the National League MVP, … a young third baseman It’s Game 5, I’m in Chicago, the Indians are up three games to one. So it always hurt when they lost”.

Back then, Theodore Roosevelt was president, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska and Hawaii were not yet states, and the first Ford Model T auto was two weeks old.

“They tried until there was nothing left”.