That I wouldn’t be a Cubs fan without next year. I’ve always halfway worried about what I would do with myself if the Cubs actually won the World Series. Would I start a new life? Would I actually get one?

I personally think that this season vindicates so many years of suffering and humiliation. Would it hurt me if some new passers-by fair weather types joined the bandwagon?? Not at all. The more the merrier.

Go Cubs.

I agree that Manny does not belong in that group. ESPN though is, never will change IMHO. So no matter what may happen to a certain team during a certain month….ESPN will always have their noses so far up the Yanks/BoSox asses.

Oh well, I could care less because I choose Len/Bob, or Pat/Ron over those ESPN douche bags any day.

And the answer to the second one, at least for me, is a resounding “No.”

and all the other groups that make up the crowd at Wrigley. I can’t control why other people are there, but I can control why I am there. I know that I am there to watch a ballgame. If I am at Wrigley, I’ll be wearing one of my Cubs hats and a Cubs shirt. I’ll be sitting there with a beer, a hot dog, and a scorecard. The makeup of the crowd around me doesn’t change that one bit.

They’ve built a nice young team/system loaded with talented players that will be competitive for the forseeable future.

ESPN is what it is and has no desire to change – so no sense in worrying about that.

Pinkhats and the like are annoying – but there’re plenty of Trixies out there doing the same thing at Wrigley, and on the road for the Cubs.

I won’t care in the future regardless of what the Cubs do. ESPN is located in Connecticut. Many of their employees live there. They are in the heart of Yankee/Red Sox country. They will always favor them.

If that makes us the Red Sox, then let’s be the Red Sox. I hate being lovable losers.

It’s probably the play of the year. Yeah, in terms of pure athletic ability it wasn’t as spectacular, but for God’s sake man – he high fived a fan, then turned and threw out the runner.

What isn’t awesome about that? More importantly, what other athlete would ever do such a thing? In what other sport could such a thing even occur?

That play is a distillation of not only what makes Manny Ramirez so bizarre and awesome, but also what makes baseball great.

Lester’s no hitter is a great story. Any athlete posting an accomplishment like that after battling cancer would find themselves in the same position. Look at Lance Armstrong’s endless hype if you don’t believe it. It’s one of baseball’s best individual accomplishments, and that he did it a year after recovering is amazing.

Manny’s catch was impressive not because of the catch, or the high five, but the fact that he doubled up the runner on first as well. Combine those and you have something never done before in baseball. Now, I’m just as sick of the Sox and Manny as anyone, but it was impressive to say the least.

Based on wow factor, though? Gimme Reed’s any day of the week.

I’m not gonna leave a huge comment, cause I think your rant was good enough.

Imagine if the Bulls, Hawks, Bear, and Cubs all start winning at the same time!!!

(E)astern (S)eaboard (P)rogramming (N)etwork, correct? I think that always figures into the equation.

2nd…a no hitter by a cancer survivor? It’s not only a great accomplishment on the field, it’s a feel-good story all-around.

3rd…Manny is polarizing, he just happened to make play you don’t see every day.

To answer the questions: (1) I sure hope so, two of the last four WS championships went to BeanTown? I’d take that at Clark and Addison starting 2008. (2) I won’t care one bit. I’d love to have the Cubs be the ENVY of MLB.

as long as you call us the World Series Champs! I dont care if every sox fan puts on a cubs hat or every cardinals fan says they are a lifelong cubs fan. If I can have a conversation with my dad and grandpa that includes the cubs are world series champs thats all that matters!

I have a buddy that’s a mega Sox fan, and I used to really like them…kind of a Cubs of the AL sorta feel. Amazing how things change. Now, I dislike them almost on-par with my Yankee hatred.

Their fans are smug. They throw pisspots of money around with no regard – the $50 million posting fee for Dice K was appalling – and now the media falls all over itself to cover everything they do. The worst is Peter Gammons. He makes me want to puke. I was happy for Jon Lester, but I actually found myself hoping the Royals would break it up, so we didn’t have to be inundated with more Red Sox garbage.

I dunno, maybe winning 2 series in the last few years makes me jealous of them. Believe me, I’d rather be where they are right now, having won two, than where we are!!!

some of us have disdain for the Red Sox and their fans because we want to have what they do.

The only thing that I am very tired of is the “if we can do it, you can too” comments that I used to hear a lot of. WE WERE SO CLOSE!!!!!

Oh, and those “It’s Gonna Happen” signs that you see every now and again at Wrigley. Look at the font! Those were obviously made for someone else. Stop buying them!

They won on the southside and I don’t see much difference other than some satisfaction. In the end, we won’t be anywhere near as godawful as the fans of the Bahstin Rehd Sawks. Plus, we pronounce our r’s and our biggest rival is a much smaller city so St. Louis fans visiting Chicago isn’t as big of a pain in the rear as New Yorkers in Boston.

We also have the White Sox to keep us humble whereas the Red Sox have an entire region with almost no rival consisting of parts of upstate NY, upper CT, MA, RI, VT, NH & ME. They can keep puffing each other up until they explode with noone bring them back

just my opinion.