Huge crowds of Chicago Cubs fans were gathered outside of Wrigley Field in Chicago as the Cubs won their first World Series since 1908. The first day following a championship victory always sparks a mad grab for championship gear as exhilarated shoppers wait impatiently for gratification. But all of those parties paled in comparison to the Cubs rally, CBS Chicago reported.
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By 9:15, the trashcan of the auto 5 bathroom was already full of empty beer cans. “So people in St. Louis say, ‘How can you say (good things) about Chicago?”. He was a Mets fan back when the franchise was formed in the early 1960s. Black cats and goats had been blamed along the way, but Bartman, a born-and-raised Cubs fan from the Chicago suburbs, unfortunately became the living embodiment of Cubs fans’ frustrations to the point where he had to go into hiding.
Players, coaches, their families and team executives arrived in a motorcade of open-roof buses just after noon on Friday, following a parade from Wrigley Field through city streets packed with cheering fans.
“I think everyone is excited about where this team is going”, Winter said. “We should have gotten here earlier”.
The Cubs won their first World Series championship in 108 years after defeating the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in Game 7.
New Era expects to sell three times more Cubs caps than the average World Series victor in the coming weeks. “Consequently it was really hard for my mom and me to live through that with him”. In an executive decision the group proclaimed today “senior skip” and bought their tickets to Chicago.
“I remember my dad’s experience not being pleasant in any way, shape or form on national television doing baseball”, he said.
As I take my first sip, an elder couple comes into the bar and takes a seat next to me.
Madden’s classmate, 18-year-old Talle Corrigan agreed.
“This team had its back against the wall”, he said. Each and every one of us had to muscle our way through those stories with our heads held high.
One mom said she had no problem letting her younger kids miss school so they could attend the parade but had been wary about her 16-year-old missing an important physics lesson. The company brought in extra workers to the Chicago area and hundreds of store associates mobilized to get the hats front and center in its local shops to greet the truckloads of inbound Cubs caps. I get in my auto, which I initially thought was wisely parked near the exit of the lot.
Meanwhile, Cole was surfing his Facebook feed to help the time pass.
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Chicago itself only has a population of 2.7 million, according to the Chicago Tribune. They could have used stock footage, Marques said, but everyone wanted something that looked very real.
