Cubs win 1st Series title since 1908, beat Indians in Game 7

The Cards have never won the Super Bowl but did win two world championships, in 1925 (amid controversy) and in 1947 when they were the Chicago Cardinals.

Ending America’s longest sports title drought in dramatic fashion, the Chicago Cubs captured their first World Series since 1908 by defeating the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in a 10-inning thriller that concluded Thursday morning. Mom and I used to joke that the two were drinking beer together just beyond center field, enjoying every day of Cubs baseball in the afterlife.

The song “Go Cubs Go” was written ahead of the 1984 season by Steve Goodman, the Chicago-born songwriter who also wrote the Grammy Award-winning “City of New Orleans”, popularized by folk legend Arlo Guthrie. They went on to lose 4-3.

Tell that to long-suffering Cubs fans, thousands of whom made their way to cheer loudly in Cleveland, and millions more who jumped on the bandwagon late.

“That just dawned on me yesterday that Chicago’s not going to have that reputation anymore of lovable losers”, said Peggy Herrington, 49, of Chicago.

Taking on the Cubs for the third time in nine days was too much to ask of the right-hander, who won his first two starts in the Series. Just being in Wrigley Field and seeing all that excitement this week and the last few weeks is dreamy. He borrowed a piece of chalk to write his name on the wall.

In real life, the Cubs had a chance to make that prognostication a reality but were swept by the New York Mets in last year’s National League Championship Series. But those milestones will fade now, along with the fabled curse of the billy goat, leveled in 1945 – the last time the Cubs reached the Fall Classic. “Want to come to the White House before I leave?”

The NBC local government parodying series “Parks and Recreation” featured an episode that foreshadowed the Chicago Cubs’ recent World Series win in its final season a year ago.

Despite a Comeback for the Ages, the Cleveland Indians were unable to stop the Chicago Cubs from capturing their first World Series in 108 years.

The setup for Game 7 of the World Series couldn’t have been better.

With the Tribe trailing 6-3 in the bottom of the eighth inning and a runner on base, Cubs manager Joe Maddon turned to tired closer Aroldis Chapman, who had thrown 20 pitches the night before to finish out Game 6.

Here is how people reacted in Twitter to Cubs’ incredible victory. I’m still in shock.

Dueling chants between Indians and Cubs fans were prevalent in the early innings before the visitors built a 5-1 lead, then returned to a fever pitch when Rajai Davis hit a game-tying, two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth. “That doesn’t happen. I felt like Rudy going out there”.

“This was torture”, he said, then added: “I would not have missed it for anything”. Who knew what Maddon wanted and how to translate it.

“To finally see this in my lifetime with my son here with us, it means everything”, he said.