The Chicago Tribune’s six-word headline?
“CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN!”
I’m not a baseball fan, the only ball games I watched all year were the final game in the NLCS and the World Series. But I was glued to the tube last night, rain delay and all. A 7 games series, amazing come back from a 3-1 hole, the final game goes 10 and is decided by a single run? That was worth staying up for.
I’ve never been happier to be wrong on my first point! 
As for the second, I was railing against Maddon’s terrible managing the entire thread. It blew my mind how much he tinkered with his team and the fact the game was as close as it was is a direct result of it.
Although I do have to say, you should call me John Smoltz. He was the more vocal one about Maddon’s overmanaging. I remember this because I was happy he agreed with me 
Poor Rajai Davis. He was the Toast of Cleveland, for about an hour.
I do think Joe Maddon mismanaged that game and the one before, but the Cubs are a really, really good offensive team. Glad they won it. And hats off to Cleveland and Terry Francona for getting that far with what I think was an inferior roster, talent-wise, in every postseason series they played. A credit to their management.
Count me among those who also think Maddon overmanaged the last 2 games. Hopefully in retrospect he’ll realize that, and learn from it. Fortunately for the Cubs and their fans, it didn’t bite him in the butt.
Composite line score, courtesy of Wikipedia:
In other words, perfect parity in run production. +6 hits for Cubs. Near parity in errors.
Cubs tended to score early, whereas the 6th through 8th innings seemed to love the Indians.
A woman got thrown out of the game for pouring beer on Theo Epstein and his 8-year-old kid:
How big of a moron do you have to be to get tickets for Game 7 of the World Series and then get yourself ejected from the park?
Yes, well, the Cubs have better starters and the Indians have a deeper bullpen. So that’s not terribly surprising. Interesting they scored the same amount of runs over 7 games, though. Everyone thought the Cubs were the best team in baseball. So again I say that for Cleveland to play them even up all the way through the 10th inning of game 7 is a real testament to that team.
It’s amazing to realize that in the last 12 years that 3 of the longest baseball streaks in history fell - the 2004 Boston Red Sox winning for the first time since 1918, the 2005 Chicago White Sox winning for the first time since 1917 (the one people tend to forget - but BTW look at that symmetry! The White Sox and Red Sox won back to back WS in 1917 and 1918 and then didn’t win again until back to back WS in 2004 and 2005) and now the 2016 Chicago Cubs.
that was a series and a half. for a moment I thought I was watching a red sox game. I was wondering what incredibly weird flukey way can the cubs lose? this was a game for the ages.
this red sox fan is very happy for the cubs and cub fans. enjoy your championship!
Game 7, watched with Cubs fans, as a Giants fan the game reminded me of a 2010 Giants season saying: TORTURE. Nothing was easy, and the Indians made it painful. The Indians will be back in the postseason, and likely with deep postseason runs. They have a strong and young team.
So, too, do the Cubs.
I was watching the news last night, and as they cut to a scene of the streets around Wrigley Field swarming with people the female announcer said, “Hundreds of people took to the streets of Chicago tonight after the game…” Her male compatriot just stared at her as if to say, “I don’t think so.” 
Well, 10,000 are “hundreds”. One hundred hundred.
Did Maddon manage differently in this series than he had managed this season? He was really rolling the dice in Games 6 and 7.
I watched probably over 120 Cubs games this year, thanks to the MLB internet package. This is the first time all year I’ve questioned Maddon’s managing/use of players. That’s why it was so weird watching him use players in such disadvantageous ways. I mean, if it’s good enough to win 103 games, why change it all up right at the end?
Glad it worked out, though. So very, very glad.
… and here come the apologies to Steve Bartman. How magnanimous - I’ll forgive you only after I’ve won my World Series.
Thanks. And, me too!
I’ve been a Cubs fan for over 60 years. I woke up this morning and realized that I’m no longer a Cubs fan, but rather a true fan of baseball. Little league, college, minor league or spring training. I don’t have to go to a major league ballpark any more.
- I am happy for those who are celebrating.
Fuck the anti-Bartman Cubs fans.