“We’re too young. We don’t care about it”, star slugger Kris Bryant said. That’s where I learned and really kind of bought into the routine thing.
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Chicago Cubs fans are waking up to a new reality: Their team is headed to the World Series for the first time in 71 years. The Cubs are in his DNA.
Well, all the love toward the NL champions has left the Indians as underdogs – a role they’ve embraced this October. Chicago next plays Game 1 in Cleveland on Tuesday night. “Let’s be clear about that”. “I think fans enjoy talking or commiserating, however you want to put it”.
Obama posted a message of “Holy Cow” and congratulations Sunday on Twitter, adding: “Even this White Sox fan was happy to see Wrigley rocking last night”.
“I was a little surprised at how people have responded in Chicago, nearly like they feel like we’ve already done something incredible”, said Cubs INF/OF Ben Zobrist, the former Rays star. “The way I feel right now is the way I feel when I’m 100 percent”. Baseball was bulked up and booming and Kipnis was under its spell.
“I’ve been a Cubs fan for as long as I can remember”, he said, but added that he didn’t mind when the White Sox win. He was discharged in the summer of 1945 as World War II wound to a close and returned to the United States just in time for the final days of a pennant drive. Lofton, the Indians’ center fielder through much of the 1990s, will have the honor ahead of tonight’s game. The Cubs also won the Series in 1907, but who remembers that?
Seventy-one years later, and 108 years in total, the Cubs and their fans are still waiting. He has remained in hiding. Kipnis said the key will be making sure he has range of motion. There are concerns, though, as he’s not throwing his curveball, so asking him to start with a diminished repertoire is probably asking for trouble. “And I think they’ve known that for quite a while”. It just it makes him due. “Rental for a week is about $9,000”, said Coffman, who grew up near Chicago.
“I was at home sleeping”, he said. He says “people were going nuts” and many shed tears.
Despite his Second City roots, Kipnis knows he’ll be treated like a complete stranger – and sworn enemy – when the Series shifts to Wrigley for Game 3.
He wouldn’t have it any other way. How can anyone expect to beat them when their third-string catcher Miguel Montero is hitting game-winning grand slams? “But I’ll have enough there that you’ll hopefully hear a couple cheers”.
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The Indians had their own history of sporting futility in the city on the southern shore of Lake Erie once nicknamed the “Mistake on the Lake”, going without a World Series title since 1948. He says officers made only six misdemeanor arrests in a crowd they estimated at 300,000. They had not earned a World Series trip since winning a doubleheader opener 4-3 at Pittsburgh on September 29, 1945, to clinch the pennant on the next-to-last day of the season.
