This Bar Changed Its Name Today For Cubs Manager Joe Maddon’s Wish

Since the end of the war (meaning the Big One that ended in ’45), the Chicago Cubs have done best under former Tampa Bay Rays managers.

It got kicked up another notch in the offseason when the Cubs brought in Maddon and Jon Lester, signaling they felt they were ready to contend. And it reached another level this season.

This is a team that just goes on and does not let the numbers or situations get to them. Unbidden, Elia picked up steam. That’s why they’re out at the (bleeping) game. Eighty-five percent of the (bleeping) world is working.

Elia somehow didn’t wind up in an unemployment line until late August, when the Cubs were 15 games under.500.

Back to the Future II had Michael J. Fox’s character Marty McFly shocked to learn that the Cubs won the 2015 World Series in news that popped up on a holomax – which Gale says was supposed to be a combination of a hologram and IMAX – in the city’s streets.

San Diego scored twice in the sixth, and with one out and two on in the seventh, pinch-hitter Tim Flannery came to the plate. He was the first to hit the board when he crushed a ball 477 feet against the Nationals on May 26. A single, a double, and another single later, the Cubs trailed 6-3 and lockdown closer Goose Gossage slammed the door with a two-inning save. And even Anthony Rizzo is still a youngster at just 26 years old.

The setup: “What did Leon Durham and pop singer Michael Jackson have in common?” Cole was drafted first overall in the Major League Baseball draft earlier this decade. The bleachers were rebuilt and opened in sections during the early part of this season. The baseball hit the heel of Steve Bartman’s hand and caromed farther back into the stands.

First pitch is just after 7 p.m.

Do you remember how Addison Russell could win a game by levitating?

Not this good. The Cubs finished in last place in their division last year, and conventional wisdom had them being competitive this year as they brought up a few rookies and continued a massive team rebuilding project.

The Marlins clinched the NLCS that night. “He said to me, ‘Hey, I want you to just play and don’t be afraid to make a mistake, ‘ and to me that spoke a lot about the confidence he has in us and that helped me, and all of us, feel right at home”. They snuck up on Wrigley Field in the dead of night on the eve of the game a year apart and both times left a skinned goat hanging from a rope off the arm of the statue of famed broadcaster Harry Caray. After seven years, the Cubs are back in the postseason, which is right where Maddon expected them to be when he signed on with the team.

Maddon said he thinks that approach is important in big games – especially with a team as young as his – because the magnitude of the moment can cause players to play too tight.