2016 NLCS LA Dodgers @ Chicago Cubs

should've started the closer

Star tattoos are new...pretty much said Chapman just throw 100+.

Congrats NA and all Cubs fans on the board.

I think we all agree the most deserving teams got to the World Series?

@BostonGlobe
The #Cubs, laden with former #RedSox, have won their first pennant in 71 years

jon lester and two guys no one thinks of as former red sox

amazing....my dad was a few months shy of being born when the cubs even made it to a WS, he's freaking out now.

I think we all agree the most deserving teams got to the World Series?
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:54 PM

Cubs, obviously, but without trying to take anything away from Cleveland (clearly, at the very least, the A.L.'s second-best), I think the Red Sox were the A.L.'s best team. It's a moot point, but over the regular season, I'd take the Red Sox.

Main memory of visiting NW Indiana relatives during summer '84: smack talk about the Cubs' inevitable WS sweep of the Tigers.

man even in '84 i knew the tigers were scary, i think cubs fans then were kinda just happy to make the 'offs.

this is the best world series matchup obv, just for storylines. i didn't think it would happen, i had thought the cubs would probably swing it but they'd be facing off against Boston.

It sounds pretty nuts outside. A little worried about what would happen if the Cubs win the World Series.

I only watched parts of the game--who was the older gray-haired lady they kept cutting to in the stands? Someone who was there in '45 maybe?

I don't know about most deserving (whatever that means) but neither one is a mediocrity that got hot at the right time.

>>I only watched parts of the game--who was the older gray-haired lady they kept cutting to in the stands? Someone who was there in '45 maybe?

Dorothy Farrell?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFHzi6ri8U8

It is the first time that the Cubs were the best team going into the playoffs. They were close in 2008, but then got swept.

Cleveland is deserving, they were cruising and somehow overcame the injuries that they got hobbled with in the last six weeks of the seasons.

It is one of the most intriguing World Series match-ups in a long time going in, no matter who wins.

Dodgers swept them in 2008. Back atcha cubs.

Gg wp tho. No shame in losing to the team with the best record.

i was at the game! it was great.

i am so ready to be a fully obnoxious patriots-style cubs fan

― na (NA), Friday, October 14, 2016 10:39 AM

Musta been a real stretch for a prince of a guy like you.

i'm such a prince i've never been FP'd from ilx

i love how one of the first things you do back on ILX is revive a thread from two weeks ago to dish out a weak zing at me, and then you're like I DON'T GET WHY EVERYONE FLAGS MY POSTS, THE SYSTEM MUST BE RIGGED AGAINST ME, MODS ARE DUMB. you are seriously pathetic.

it took you almost an entire month to come up with "Musta been a real stretch for a prince of a guy like you."

i was glad to hear what yer like IRL

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