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Posted on 10/16/2015 4:43:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(CBS) 1969 doesn’t mean a damn thing. Seven games played months ago don’t mean a damn thing.
With all due respect to Laurence Holmes’s column from Wednesday, there’s a bit of recent Chicago Cubs history that matters not. They went 7-0 in the regular season against the New York Mets, now their opponent in the National League Championship Series.
Forget that. Do that Men in Black brain erasure thing or self-concuss if need be. Nothing about going undefeated against the Mets for seven games lends itself to the seven-game series that commences Saturday.
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Off topic but when did baseball players stop wearing the stirrup socks, which we see in this picture???
Some players still wear them. Most players have the longer pant legs that would cover them up if they did wear them.
Their popularity trailed off in the ‘80s and ‘90s, but they’re actually making a comeback recently.
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jjotto's response nailed it.
It means a lot to me. I was a 16-year-old kid on the north side of the city of Chicago and a huge Cubs fan. We were so excited about the Cubs that year! Then came the late-season collapse and the Mets' surge. We were crushed. 1969 scarred me for life. Redemption may come, though, when the Cubs knock off the Mets now and win their first pennant in 70 years!
Please. BO is **not** a Chicagoan.
As a Mets fan, that’s what worries me. Karma is on the Cubs side. Never mind the fact the Mets went 0-7 against the Cubs this year, they are soooo overdue, it ain’t funny. I so much wanted to play the Cardinals to get revenge for 2006.
Me no understand.
Karma is never, ever on the Cubs’ side. They’re the hardest hard-luck sports franchise there is.
No, that would be the Rangers.
All 7 games were played before JUL 4... and the Mets changed pretty radically on JUL 31. I wouldn’t bet the farm using those 2 series as a basis for prediction.
But he lived there for many years (at least since 1991). And I believe still maintains a home there.
You can dress as you like now. There is no team look anymore. Long hair and beards complete the picture. The Cubs have two relief pictures who wear their caps sideways. They look like they are looking toward first base.
Makes it hard on an old time baseball fan.
I was nine years old at the time and have and am experiencing the exact same deal
Redemption may come, though, when the Cubs knock off the Mets now and win their first pennant in 70 years!
Uh, that's the Cubs down 0-2 in the NLCS.
And they're opening in the Wrigley Field leg of the series with a couple of also-rans named Kyle Hendricks and Jason Hammell starting. Hendricks starts Game Three. Against a kid named Jacob deGrom---who just beat Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke in the NLDS.
Unless there's an X-factor coming into play, it looks like the Cubs will be going into the 109th year of their rebuilding effort . . .
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