Chicago to honor champion Cubs with Friday parade, rally

CHICAGO | Next year is finally here. It was the Cubs’ first World Series win since 1908.

For Ross, this final Game 7 would be his last; and for the Cubs, this game would arguably be their most memorable.

The Cubs go out of their way to embrace their history, no matter how painful.

Obama said the championship “is actually, for Cubs fans, the greatest thing since sliced bread”.

Fans hugged each other – many of them crying – and took pictures of each other and themselves. Many fans took turns writing their names and words of congratulations in chalk on Wrigley Field’s brick walls.

When the game ended, the board changed to “CUBS WIN!” and thousands of people celebrated.

“We don’t intend to crash the parade, ” Frank Murtha, a lawyer who has served as Bartman’s spokesman for years, told USA Today.

When the White Sox won the World Series in 2005 – under then-mayor Richard M. Daley, a huge White Sox fan – the city staged an enormous parade, complete with raining ticker tape on LaSalle Street as White Sox players rode atop double-decker buses.

My grandfather passed away in August after being quite sick the last few years. “He would have loved this”. So instead, he watched the game in New York City with, among others, Mel Gibson. “And when that happened, I had a bunch of people at my house last night and I did not sit the whole time”, Baldino said.

“He’s been waiting for this all these years”, Zalewski said. “It will be a parade and celebration that all of Chicago for 108 years in their mind’s eye have been envisioning”.

“The billy goat is dead!”

“He said he’s not going out until the Cubs win”, her daughter added. “Personally I’m very happy the Cubs broke their 108 year streak, and as a Cubs fan I’m very happy they won, but I don’t think we need to make a special holiday out of it or anything like that”, Gorniak said.

The Cubs had started the game in intense fashion, taking a 5-1 lead, before being pulled back to 5-3 by a resurgent Indians. It briefly looked like they may not be able to break that curse, down three games to one to Cleveland.

(AP Photo/David Dermer). Chicago Cubs fans celebrate during a watch party, after Game 7 of the baseball World Series between the Cleveland Indians and the Cubs, outside Progressive Field early Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, in Cleveland.