How do you see it happening?
After watching the Cubs Forever special on WGN, I had to go out and get the book. I got a Barnes and Noble gift card in a card during my college graduation party and thought I'd use it to buy the book. This book is amazing. The pictures are fantastic. I haven't read through the entire book yet but I did skip to the last chapter "The Hope."
If you watched the television broadcast of Cubs Forever you would know that this bchapter talks about what will happen WHEN the Cubs win the World Series. It has testimonies of former players, broadcasters, and fans that say how they see the Cubs winning the world series.
The last paragraph was the thoughts of the author, Bob Vorwald. Reading this brought tears to my eyes. I just had to share it with you guys and girls on here.
"For me, thanks to some inclement weather and inexplicable networking scheduling, it's an unheard-of World Series day game at Wrigley Field. The shadows cross the pitcher's mound in the top of the nineth as the Cubs nurse a one-run lead. With one out, the runners at first and third take a lead, and there is a one-out ground ball to short. The flip goes to second, then quickly over to first for a coming-full-circle Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance double play, and the wait is finally over. As the players mob each other on the field, I take a photo of my father out of my pocket for a quick glance of thanks, hug my sons who are sitting with me, then reach under my seat for the bottle of champagne I've managed to sneak in (you have to put that press pass to good use). I'll pop the cork and join in the greatest roar in Chicago history. After the bedlam on the field subsides a bit, I shift my gaze to that beautiful green scoreboard and watch Fred Washington raise a white flag emblazoned with the ultimate W. The next day I will go downtown with the WGN crew , and we will televise the most joyous parade you could ever imagine. I can't wait."
Now if you say you haven't imagined what it will be like when it happens, your lying. I want to know how people on here see the Cubs winning the World Series.
I see it as game 5 or 6. The streets are as packed as the stadium is because the Cubs are home of course. It is the top of the nineth, 2 outs, men on second and third. Cubs are up by only one run. Base hit puts the Cubs down. Kerry Wood on the mound. The hit is a fly ball to left field, deep enough to scare us but not really that close after all. Soriano does his hop and catches the winning out. I am in the streets because I didn't have enough money to buy the tickets on StubHub. I traveled from Pittsburgh just to stand in the streets with my dad and uncles. People all around are in tears. Nobody leaves the stadium or streets until the morning. Nobody goes to work the next day.
How do you see it?
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How bout..
A walk off grandslam from Jason Dubois?
Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.
by bren on May 24, 2008 2:54 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I was thinking about
a suicide squeeze scoring Ron Coomer.
Its funny, you spend most of your life gripping a baseball. And in the end, its almost always the other way around.
by TCobb1911 on May 24, 2008 3:01 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
hah, nice, ron coomer, wow.
Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.
by bren on May 24, 2008 3:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'll be standing
in front of my television, arms raised, and tearfully thinking of how long it has taken to find this release.
Then I’ll probably log on here and enjoy the posts for days afterwards.
by leothelip on May 24, 2008 3:05 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Here's how I see it.
Bases are loaded, two outs, bottom of the 13th, game 7. Cubs have used all their pinch-hitters. Carlos Zambrano is called on to pinch-hit. He swings at the first pitch, a curve that lands in the dirt. He steps back, composes himself, steps back in. He fouls back a heater that was just a bit outside. Everyone’s standing. He takes another heater off the plate. The crowd gasps – Carlos took a pitch. Then, the pitch, another heater, left over the middle – Carlos swings, there’s the crack of the bat, and everyone goes wild – but the ball hooks foul. Carlos breaks the bat over his knee. As he’s getting another bat, Ron thinks he notices a little limp. Is Carlos ok? He digs in. The pitch comes in – another nasty biting curve and Carlos pulls the trigger, swinging with all his might – and, he swings through the pitch corkscrewing and stumbling to the ground – but in all the sound and fury and mighty motion of Big Z, the C misses the ball, it goes scooting to the back and Geovany Soto at third comes charging in for the plate. Carlos takes a few precious seconds to figure out what’s going on as the C runs for the ball. Carlos runs, limping, to first and just beats the throw – which ends up going wide of the bag and down into RF. And Big Z keeps running, rounding first, pumping his fists as he limps around the bases for an inside-the-park-strikeout-HR.
by DGU on May 24, 2008 3:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Papelbon
balks with the bases loaded in the 9th. Cubs win.
I haz show: http://hotbeans.wordpress.com
by digitalbenjamin on May 24, 2008 3:17 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
"Tinkers"?
Oh, well.
To me, it doesn’t matter when or where as long as Kerry Wood is on the mound saving the game. He is the modern-day face of the franchise, and has gone through so much on his way back to, I believe, being on the cusp of becoming a dominant closer.
I don’t know whose smile will be bigger, his or mine.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
by Al on May 24, 2008 3:21 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Maddux 8 innings of no-hit ball
Wood for the no-hit save?
by DGU on May 24, 2008 7:47 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Cubs Over AL Representative In 6
The whole city and the country go crazy for a solid week.
For myself, I see myself watching the Cubs in total relaxation from that point on, finally having the attitude of “oh well, good effort guys, get ‘em next time” when they lose. Or I may pack it in and not have any interest in the Cubs and MLB any longer. The Cubs would be the last of my favorite MLB clubs to win a World Series in my lifetime, so once that “Mt. Everest” has been scaled I might turn to fishing or gardening.
by SecondSon on May 24, 2008 3:24 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I want it to be Soriano
Down 3-0 in the bottom of the ninth. Bases loaded Soriano comes up and is in the middle of one of his bad streaks. Ideally we are facing either the White Sox or Yankees. Soriano comes up and sends the first pitch into the bleachers for the walk-off grand slam. That would be the last time anyone ever complained about him.
Realistically I think it would happen on the road and end up being Wood on the mound and some sort of lazy pop up that lands in the glove of D-Lee.
Now this thread has jinxed us from winning until every player mentioned in it has left the team.
Missouri Tigers 2008 Cotton Bowl Champs
by nji232 on May 24, 2008 3:29 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
in that case...
Game 7, top of the 14th, Cubs up by 1. Marquis gives up a long fly ball to center that Edmonds runs back and catches with a face first dive on the warning track.
Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."
by ballhawk on May 24, 2008 4:13 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's teh opposing team, right?
Whatever team has Marquis and Edmonds on it is the team the Cubs are playing, right?
2008: The year we put it all together.
by drewishdrewid on May 24, 2008 4:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
naw - I was just trying to envision the silver lining in nji232's jinx theory
“Now this thread has jinxed us from winning until every player mentioned in it has left the team.”
So by mentioning Marquis and Edmonds, I’m just trying to accelerate their departure from the Cubs.
Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."
by ballhawk on May 24, 2008 5:13 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Perfect scenario
Bottom of the 14th of game 6 at Wrigley. My heart couldn’t take a game 7 okay?
Kerry comes in and shuts down the opposing side on 3 Ks. Bottom of the 14th the bench is depleted so Lou has him hit for himself.
He swings and knocks it off the scoreboard Cubs win the world series.
I scream, I cry I hug everyone around me my dad, my brothers, my husband, everyone in our season tickets. Then I hug the people around us that have been around us for years.
And come home for the party to end all parties here!
Any predictions on how long after the game we’ll be partying here after they win it?
I think everyone will want to stay up at least til Al gets home. And Al I’m guessing you’ll be staying pretty long. We’ve all waited for this our entire lives. When it happens we won’t want to sleep.
ANd also I will want to watch my tape of it including one I will have with WGN dubbed over the Fox broadcast.
We are all waiting for that glorious October night when we finally win it all. Until then we will continue to cheer, never do the wave and hope.
by cubstoseriesby100 on May 24, 2008 5:01 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
WHEN it happens...
... don’t count on a recap from me till morning.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
by Al on May 24, 2008 5:34 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also
Also I will be thinking of my stepdad, my grandparents, my uncles who have all passed on and about how they would love to see it and hope there’s baseball on TV in heaven.
And while I’ve been a loyal fan for 35 years I will be so happy for the old timers like my Dad and my aunt and my mom and my in laws who have been fans for over 60 years.
And if I hadn’t lost it completely yet I know I will lose it when
1. I see Ron Santo
2. They change the AC sign
3. Everyone starts singing Go Cubs Go.
4. When they present the trophy.
Okay how would you do the music if you’re the Wrigley music guy?
I’d start out with Go Cubs Go immediately followed by We Are the Champions and then Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
We are all waiting for that glorious October night when we finally win it all. Until then we will continue to cheer, never do the wave and hope.
by cubstoseriesby100 on May 24, 2008 5:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Don't mean to rain on your [hopeful] parade, but there's no baseball on TV in heaven
Fox and MLB have it blacked out. ;-)
Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."
by ballhawk on May 24, 2008 5:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Classic
I actually spoke to God the other day and he was complaining about having to watch the Yankees and Red Sox again.
by Villeslgr on May 24, 2008 7:35 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
LMAO u guys are nuts
Bleeding Cubbie Blue since 1985.
by Bricks and Ivy on May 25, 2008 9:18 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
We Are the Champions
I don’t think the song would ever fit a champion like it would the Cubs especially this version.
The fans part
I’ve paid my dues
Time after time
I’ve done my sentence but commited no crime
The management
And bad mistakes I’ve made a few
I’ve had my share of sand kicked in my face but I’ve come through
We are the champions my friend
and we keep on fighting to the end
We are the champions we are the champions
No longer losers cause we are the champions of the world
Other songs that could go that night would be
“These are the Days” by Van Morrison just for the opening line “These are the days of the endless summer” and later on “The fires of spring are kindling bright”
And the NL title song would be “Here’s to the Winners” by Frank Sinatra because it talks of “Here’s to the glory still to be”
We are all waiting for that glorious October night when we finally win it all. Until then we will continue to cheer, never do the wave and hope.
by cubstoseriesby100 on May 24, 2008 5:10 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Im also guessing this board would crash from too many user trying to log on.
by Madison Cub Fan on May 24, 2008 5:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
My story:
Bottom of the 9th, Game 7 at Wrigley Field.
Derrek Lee on second, 2 outs Kouske Fukudome at the plate. on a 3 -2 count fukudome lines a screaming liner down the right field line, Derrek Lee off the the sound of the bat heads to the plate, the right fielder fields the ball…. the throw to the plate.
SAFE!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND THE CHICAGO CUBS HAVE WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!!
"I guess you had some lean years, and didnt have to beat it hard" - Craig Sager
by Galvan316 on May 24, 2008 6:00 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Bottom of the ninth..
Game 7, Cubs are down to their last out. Pitcher due up. The only position player left is Felix Pie, who comes on to pinch hit. On a 3-2 count he reaches for an outside fastball and sends it soaring to the left field bleachers where Al reaches up and the homerun ball glances off his hands and goes onto Waveland where ballhawk leaps and grabs it. Ballhawk sells the ball on E-Bay, and with the proceeds, buys the Cubs, installs Al as GM and the Cubs begin their dynasty.
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
by Bump Bailey on May 24, 2008 11:51 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I'd like to request
one Aramis Ramirez walkoff 2-run homer, please.
"Is there anything he can't do?" ~Len Kasper, 4/5/08, on Kosuke Fukudome
by JohnM on May 25, 2008 7:31 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
and although he would not be broadcasting...
..1 Len Casper screetch when he hits it
Bleeding Cubbie Blue since 1985.
by Bricks and Ivy on May 25, 2008 9:20 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm guessing you'll hear Len without a microphone if that happens.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
by Al on May 25, 2008 11:04 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I've thought about this for awhile...
But we don’t say the W.S. words in my house! When we do though, i’ve promised to run out in the front yard naked and i’m now 44yrs old(already not a pretty sight).
Grant Earnhart
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