2016 MLB Playoffs

[MoValley John]

The Cubs going 10-9 for the regular season against the Cards is hardly a dismantling. I blame the Cards for not getting into the playoffs this year as they did nothing to improve themselves by adding Jedd Gyorko and Mike Leake (although they were smart enough not to sign Heyward for big money). I'm surprised we did as well as we did, particularly with all the injuries.

As for the playoffs last year, a fully healthy Wainwright might have changed that or the Cards not beating themselves (Peralta and Holliday going 3-23 over the last 3 games vs Solar (who?)for the Cubs going 4-4, a double, 2 HRs, 4 RBIs, and 4 walks in games 2 and 3).

I'm a life long Cardinals fan, through thick and thin, but, frankly, I never considered the Cubs as a rival or a team to loathe. Why?!? It's not like they were a threat for some 60+ years until recently (think of it as how the MSU Bears/Shockers look at each other with one thinking it's a rivalry, the other not). As a baseball fan, how could you not like Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Fergie Jenkins, and Ryne Sandberg. I didn't even cared about the Cubs having Harry Caray as a broadcaster. After all, the Cards did fire him after 25 years and he'd been at Oakland for 1 year and the White Sox for 11 before going to the Cubs for 16 years. We also still had Jack Buck.

While I may not root for the Cubs in the WS, it has more to do with the Indians. I've always had a soft spot for the Indians after the movie Major League. Oh, and guess what. Cleveland is in the same division as the Royals (my second favorite team).

If you didn't ever live in Chicago or StL, you don't get it. And Harry Caray was fired in St Louis cause he was poking Auggie Bush's daughter in law.

It might be, it could be, it is!

[ShockTalk]

If you didn't ever live in Chicago or StL, you don't get it. And Harry Caray was fired in St Louis cause he was poking Auggie Bush's daughter in law.

It might be, it could be, it is!

Having to had lived in St. Louis is a new qualifier. You said "If you are a true Cards fan, you loathe the Cubs". Sounds like more of a city of Chicago/city of St. Louis thing than just baseball and/or Cardinal fans maybe disliking the attitude of Cubbie fans toward the Cards more than they disliked the Cubs. But you're right. Didn't live in St. Louis, so I don't get it. Maybe that's Lusking's problem.

Not sure what the reason for Caray's firing has to do with anything. Harry was known as a big beer drinker and womanizer so no surprise it got him in trouble. I do get a kick how Cub fans seem to lay claim to Harry and everything that is Harry even though he was there only 16 of his 53 years as a baseball broadcaster and most of what he did (sans the 7th inning sing-along), he had done elsewhere first such as "It might be, it could, be, it is". Even Steve Stone said that Harry never really got over still being a Cardinal fan.

[WuDrWu]

No dog in the hunt, but an entertaining game tonight to decide the champions.

[Cdizzle]

Crazy.

[WuDrWu]

Crazy.

Getting crazier by the minute.

As a side note, I wonder what Cubs fans parted with, money wise, to get into this game....there are 1000s there, and I bet that's what they paid per ticket, and then some.

[WuDrWu]

I sure hope somewhere Steve Bartman is enjoying this moment as much as anyone. It would be cool if one of the players or coaches mentioned him at some point.

Maybe not tonight, but sometime.

[WuDrWu]

Getting crazier by the minute.

As a side note, I wonder what Cubs fans parted with, money wise, to get into this game....there are 1000s there, and I bet that's what they paid per ticket, and then some.

According to this article, $1823 mean price per ticket, and 60% of the buyers were Cubs fans.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-fans-buying-tons-of-tickets-to-game-7-in-cleveland-399730231.html

[kcshocker11]

I was for the Indians but you have to give it up to Chicago being down 3-1 and coming back. Heck of a game! Congrats Cubs!

[MoValley John]

Is it too early to give Casey the middle finger?

Best game 7 ever!

[MoValley John]

Hey Casey!

[LuskingforGuttin]

Is it too early to give Casey the middle finger?

Best game 7 ever!

Congrats on the win. You are no longer lovable losers you are now lovable mediocrities so you have that going for you. Which is nice.

Calling it the best game 7 ever shows your lack of knowledge of baseball history. It's not even close. 4 errors, horrible execution by Baez on the squeeze and several stellar defensive plays mixed in. Fun game. Exciting game. But not a great game in a historic sense by any means. Off the top of my head, the 1926, 1946, 1960, 1971, 1975, 1991, 2001, and 2014 World Series game 7s were all better.

[Cdizzle]

It was an ugly game.

But it was a very exciting game.

[MoValley John]

Congrats on the win. You are no longer lovable losers you are now lovable mediocrities so you have that going for you. Which is nice.

Calling it the best game 7 ever shows your lack of knowledge of baseball history. It's not even close. 4 errors, horrible execution by Baez on the squeeze and several stellar defensive plays mixed in. Fun game. Exciting game. But not a great game in a historic sense by any means. Off the top of my head, the 1926, 1946, 1960, 1971, 1975, 1991, 2001, and 2014 World Series game 7s were all better.

Hey Casey!

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[MoValley John]

Oh, wait a minute. Casey, I forgot to mention this:
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[MoValley John]

Casey, remember when you said you couldn't wait for the Cubs to blow it in the NLCS?

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