# MLB. And here comes the Post Season! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 29, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171 "2016-09-29T00:43:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 53
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1041 "2016-11-03T05:04:18Z")
Chapman gets the win, right? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1042 "2016-11-03T05:06:13Z")
Sincere congratulations to the Cubs. An incredible series by both teams, especially Game 7. It was a privilege to watch it. They’ll be eating **goat stew** on the flight home. (Tribe in 4, in '17.) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1043 "2016-11-03T05:06:28Z")
What a game. _What a game!_ Congratulations, Chicago Cubs! And Cleveland Indians–you guys played one helluva game! Once again, congratulations Cubs! ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1044 "2016-11-03T05:07:09Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Do you realize how many people were born and died without ever seeing a Cubs world series win? It’s like being alive for the first non-Italian pope. We were here to see it. My grandmother was one of them. 1922-2004. Lived her whole life in Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1045 "2016-11-03T05:07:16Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Sincere congratulations to the Cubs. An incredible series by both teams, especially Game 7. It was a privilege to watch it. > > They’ll be eating **goat stew** on the flight home. > > (Tribe in 4, in '17.) I suppose that is better than eating Steve Bartman stew. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1046 "2016-11-03T05:11:54Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > They’ll be eating **goat stew** on the flight home. I’m pretty sure that Bill Murray is singing “I ain’t afraid of no goat” right now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1047 "2016-11-03T05:13:39Z")
Congratulations Cubs and our Doper Cubs fans! 108 years is long enough. What a great series by both teams. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1048 "2016-11-03T05:14:34Z")
Cubs win. #FlyTheW For that matter, #FlyTheWSPennant! 50+ years of rooting finally paid off. That’s Leicester City FC AND the Cubs champions the same year. I may quit watching sports for good. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1049 "2016-11-03T05:15:17Z")
I’m stunned. There were tears in my eyes and rolling down my cheek. I’m a grown-ass 41-year-old man. I can’t believe this game affected me so. GO CUBS!!! ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1050 "2016-11-03T05:17:18Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I’m pretty sure that Bill Murray is singing “I ain’t afraid of no goat” right now. 🙂 He’s too busy trying to honk the horn of Zobrist’s new car. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1051 "2016-11-03T05:21:51Z")
Incredibly exciting series. At the start, i had no real rooting interest, but once the Cubs went down 3-1, i was rooting for them to come back and win it all, mainly just to see the comeback. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1052 "2016-11-03T05:24:51Z")
[Harry Caray] "Did you know that\*\* niws buc \*\* spelled backwards is **CUBS WIN!!"** [/Harry Caray] ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1053 "2016-11-03T05:27:48Z")
[Only a year off.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADXs2C4Vmho) I still have to give it credit for it. It was close enough to still be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1054 "2016-11-03T05:30:09Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever said “Holy cow, I don’t believe…” so many times in a ball game. But yay Cubs! Lovable losers no more! ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1055 "2016-11-03T05:32:55Z")
I am losing it. I grew up near Philly most of my life, but my first three years as a spectator of baseball – and at least thirty games-- were watched at Wrigley with my sisters. They were fifteen and thirteen, me at five. Here’s a part of my Facebook post from Tuesday: > [@](#): > > This goes back a ways for me. > > First 30 games of baseball seen live: Wrigley Field. Rick Monday, Mike Krukow, Ivan DeJesus, Bobby Murcer, Dennis Lamp… My parents dropped off 15-year-old Patti, 13-year-old Robin and five-year-old me… > > This was 1976. (And it was actually safe back then. Go figure.) > > At first I loved going up and down the bleacher benches crushing peanut shells with my shoes during the day games. (No night games at Wrigley until '87 or '88) > > I quickly learned what was happening on the field was (gasps!) also what I saw on TV, or what I heard on the radio (WLS) with our Cubs team. > > “THAT’S Ivan Deesus??”, I would ask, not quite pronouncing DeJesus right at the age of five. When this happened, crushing peanut shells was somehow shelved. > > My dad would carry me out while I sat on his shoulders who met us there after work. (I would complain about the stubbly neck I rode upon when we got to the car. :D) Most of the time, all five Leones would sit and watch crazy wins and losses. > > Since then, I moved to South Jersey (whoo-hoo!) in 1978. I grew up there from age 7 1/2, I moved and studied in Philadelphia, Boston, now I reside in CA… > > and the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians-- two forgotten teams-- are going against each other for ONE game. > > No matter how this turns out, it will be the best game. This is baseball, REAL baseball. And I’m mostly sad it ends tomorrow. I wish they’d change it to a best of 19 series so we can prolong it. > > Thanks to you, Dad. Love you, and GO CUBS! �� ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1056 "2016-11-03T05:35:22Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > Ok, I gotta ask this. Why the hell do baseball players spit so damn much? Its not the physical exertion, basketball is played indoors and I’ve never seen them spit. But every time the camera cuts to Chapman, he spits. So do a lot of other guys. Its disgusting My friend’s toddler keeps asking why they’re all sick, “spitting up.” I also witness it a LOT all around Chicago. I want to grab them all by their necks and rub their noses in it. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1057 "2016-11-03T06:05:08Z")
What an amazing game, one for the ages. We were in a bar and I wore the only Cubs t-shirt I own, and I brought my Cubs balls and cups and bobbleheads (I have two)\*\*\*\*\*. They’re decorating our table as we watched the game, it was wild. I, a long-time Giants fan, am with two friends who are lifelong Cubs fans. One was at Game 4 on Saturday, and the other went to Games 3 & 4. Some other Cubs fans brought their **W** flags, and when the Cubs won we were all singing. It was great! _**GO CUBS GO, GO CUBS GO!! Hey Chicago whaddaya say, The Cubs are gonna win today!**_ History was made tonight. History-wise, this will be the most fantastic Game 7 ever in my life. Congratulations to Cubs fans everywhere! **Results** ► G1: **CHC 0 @ CLE 6** ; starters CHC LHP #34 Jon Lester @ CLE RHP #24 Corey Kluber; WP Kluber, LP Lester ► G2: **CHC 5 @ CLE 1** ; starters CHC RHP #49 Jake Arrieta @ CLE RHP #47 Trevor Bauer; WP Arrieta, LP Bauer ► G3: **CLE 1 @ CHC 0** ; starters CLE RHP #43 Josh Tomlin @ CHC RHP #28 Kyle Hendricks; WP LHP #24 Andrew Miller, LP RHP #6 Carl Edwards Jr, S RHP #37 Cody Allen ► G4: **CLE 7 @ CHC 2** ; starters CLE RHP #24 Corey Kluber @ CHC RHP #41 John Lackey; WP Kluber, LP Lackey ► G5: **CLE 2 @ CHC 3** ; starters CLE RHP #47 Trevor Bauer @ CHC LHP #34 Jon Lester; WP Lester, LP Bauer, S LHP #54 Aroldis Chapman ► G6: **CHC 9 @ CLE 3** ; starters CHC RHP #49 Jake Arrieta @ CLE RHP #43 Josh Tomlin; WP Arrieta, LP Tomlin ► G7: **CHC 8 @ CLE 7 (10)**; starters CHC RHP #28 Kyle Hendricks @ CLE RHP #24 Corey Kluber; WP LHP #54 Aroldis Chapman, LP RHP #27 Bryan Shaw, S LHP #38 Mike Montgomery _ **CUBS WIN!!!** _ \*\*\*\*\* - I am a Giants fan, I bleed orange. The reason I have Cubs gear is because I am also a baseball fan and am trying to get to all 30 ballparks (I’ve been to 29). I buy a few things from every park. And, the one time I went to Wrigley was in 2014, the 100th anniversary of the park, so I got the t-shirt celebrating that centennial. Wrigley, along with Fenway, are the shrines of the ballpark. Tonight, because I was with my Cubs fan friends, I was an honorary Cubs fan. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1058 "2016-11-03T06:19:19Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > And this is where the Cubs lose. No, no they didn’t. > [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I don’t see many scapegoats in this game other than Joe Maddon, who else would be blamed? Joe Buck, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1059 "2016-11-03T06:20:48Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171/1060 "2016-11-03T06:27:06Z")
Dang, what a great game. Serious respect to the Indians. That was tense as hell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-and-here-comes-the-post-season/767171.md?page=54)