I lied

[Draggar]

Originally posted by Menious
I have been a KC Royals fan since I was old enough to understand the game, bout '85. Granted that is when we won the World Series, but man, WHAT happened?

Menious

At least your team has one a World Series in the past century..

Mine is one of the original baseball teams, playing in the oldest staduim.

No worldseries victory in my life time, or my parents'.

[Xenephex]

And yet, and yet....

I can't remember who said it, but I think most of the posters on this thread will agree:

"There are only two seasons. Baseball season and the void."

[Wandazula]

Um... the last time the Red Sox won the World Series was in 1918 or some such thing.



They have BEEN in the world series in recent memory (1986 was most recent) but that year it was won by the NY METS.... wuwu go NY


I've now lived in Chicago for over a year and still haven't managed to catch a cubs game though



signed.... your neighborhood NY Yankees fan....

[Xenephex]

your neighborhood NY Yankees fan....

Cubs fans scowl at you, ready to attack.

[Lling]

I cannot stand the suspense at this point.
It is Sept. 8th.
They've won 5 in a row
They are back in first place in their division.

I keep waiting....for that final drop

[kiztent]

Draggar, Rex sox last won in 1918. Cubs last won in 1907.

Would be quite different if not for those 2 words all red sox fans know and love...

Bill Buckner

[Xenephex]

Poor Bill Buckner. The story that 9 out of 10 people remember incorrectly.

If Buckner catches that ball, the Red Sox win the World Series - right? unh-uh. Look it up.

[Hobbun]

Click to Cubs homepage...no change in score, click back to drawing before boss comes walking by. Ok, clear, click back to website...still no change.

They won't blow it this year..they won't blow it this year...

I know how you feel, Lling. *hugs*

Oh, and btw, it was 1908 the last time the Cubs won the World Series.

Hobbun

[Heartsong_Steelsoul]

All that heartache... I think I'll stick with occasionally watching Hockey.

[Marteeny]

I am not a Cubs fan (Twins fan here), but I am cheering for them harder than I have ever cheered for a team.

My Grandmother has been a diehard Cubs fan since she was 8 years old. She still has the ticket from her first game in 1921. She just turned 90 and still watches every televised game. Her health has been fading in the last year or so and she may not make it through many more seasons.

I cannot imagine the joy she would get from seeing them finally make it to the top.

GO CUBS!!!!!!

[Lling]

This deserves to be posted here - I read it every time spring training rolls around and the hope starts anew!


"If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me." - Steve Goodman

A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request will forever link Steve Goodman with the Chicago Cubs. In the "windy city", you can hear the song around the start of baseball season every season.

The song debuted on Roy Leonard's WGN radio show the day. Here is Leonard's recollection of that day, "The most memorable of all the visits, however, occurred on March 16, 1983, when Steve (Goodman) and Jethro Burns walked into our WGN studios around 11:00 a.m. They had just finished a weekend at Park West and Steve said he had a introduced a song the night before that he would like to sing on the radio for the first time. With Jethro on banjo and Steve's guitar for accompaniment, A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request was heard on the radio the first time. Little did we know."


A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request

by Steve Goodman (1983)

By the shore's of old Lake Michigan
Where the "hawk wind" blows so cold
An old Cub fan lay dying
In his midnight hour that tolled
Round his bed, his friends had all gathered
They knew his time was short
And on his head they put this bright blue cap
From his all-time favorite sport
He told them, "its late and its getting dark in here"
And I know its time to go
But before I leave the line-up
Boys, there's just one thing I'd like to know

Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy covered burial ground
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League

Told his friends "You know the law of averages says:
Anything will happen that can."
That's what it says.
"But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan"
The Cubs made me a criminal
Sent me down a wayward path
They stole my youth from me
(that's the truth)
I'd forsake my teacher's
To go sit in the bleachers
In flagrant truancy

and then one thing led to another
and soon I'd discovered alcohol, gambling, dope
football, hockey, lacrosse, tennis
But what do you expect,
When you raise up a young boys hopes
And then just crush 'em like so many paper beer cups.

Year after year after year
after year, after year, after year, after year, after year
'Til those hopes are just so much popcorn
for the pigeons beneath the 'EL' tracks to eat
He said "You know I'll never see Wrigley Field, anymore
before my eternal rest
So if you have your pencils and your score cards ready,
and I'll read you my last request
He said, "Give me a double header funeral in Wrigley Field
On some sunny weekend day (no lights)
Have the organ play the National Anthem
and then a little "na, na, na, na, hey hey, hey, Goodbye"
Make six bullpen pitchers, carry my coffin
and six ground keepers clear my path
Have the umpires bark me out at every base
In all their holy wrath
Its a beautiful day for a funeral, Hey Ernie lets play two!
Somebody go get Jack Brickhouse to come back,
and conduct just one more interview
Have the Cubbies run right out into the middle of the field,
Have Keith Moreland drop a routine fly
Give everybody two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt
And I'll be ready to die

Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats,
And toss my coffin in
Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow
From the prevailing 30 mile an hour south west wind
When my last remains go flying over the left field wall
Will bid the bleacher bums adieu
And I will come to my final resting place, out on Waveland Avenue

The dying man's friends told him to cut it out
They said stop it that's an awful shame
He whispered, "Don't Cry, we'll meet by and by near the Heavenly Hall of Fame
He said, "I've got season's tickets to watch the Angels now,
So its just what I'm going to do
He said, "but you the living, you're stuck here with the Cubs,
So its me that feels sorry for you!

And he said, "Ahh Play, play that lonesome losers tune,
That's the one I like the best
And he closed his eyes, and slipped away
What we got is the Dying Cub Fan's Last Request
And here it is

Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy covered burial ground
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League