http://calltothepen.com/2016/10/15/chicago-cubs-get-theyre-due/<header style="padding: 0px 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Oswald, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: -15px; margin-left: -15px; word-spacing: 0px; display: block; white-space: normal; position: relative; z-index: 3; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="article-header ">Chicago Cubs: We Get It, They’re Due
by Matt Weyrich <time style="color: rgb(129, 129, 129); margin-right: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" datetime="2016-10-15 4:00 pm">38 minutes ago</time> Follow @CuzItMATTers
</header><section style='padding: 20px 110px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Titillium Web", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: -15px; margin-left: -15px; word-spacing: 0px; display: block; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;' class="article-content ">The Chicago Cubs have dominated national headlines all season, and it’s getting old.
This is going to be difficult for some people to hear. When an entire sport’s fanbase is rooting for a particular team, no one wants to listen to their detractors. The Chicago Cubs are the lovable losers of Major League Baseball. They haven’t won a World Series in 108 years, are built around a core of exciting, young players, and have a manger that keeps the team loose and fun.
The Cubs are everyone’s favorite team this year, and I’m sick and tired of it. They had the most games featured on national broadcasts by a wide margin. If Kris Bryant so much as sneezed, it made headlines. ESPN even created a weekly poll called the “Cubs Confidence Meter” that asks readers about their level of certainty that Chicago closes out October with a World Series victory.
Fans call them lovable losers, yet they’ve won 97 games or more two years in row. Yes, it’s been a very long time since they won a championship, but what about the other three teams still left standing? The Blue Jays haven’t won a World Series since 1993. Los Angeles hasn’t taken a shot at the Commissioner’s Trophy since they won it in 1988. And the Indians? Try 1948.
The blame for all this extra attention should by no means be directed at the Cubs themselves. They won 104 games this year and have a ball club that might be discussed among the best all-time once everything is all said and done. It is the national media that has been hyping them up, seemingly forgetting that 29 other teams also played baseball this season.
Since the start of the century, sixteen teams (including Chicago) have won 100 or more games. Only one of them, the 2009 Yankees, went on to win the World Series. The Cubs may be favorites, but don’t go naming them champions just yet. A stifling Dodgers team that also happens to sport a few young, exciting players is standing in their way.
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by Matt Weyrich <time style="color: rgb(129, 129, 129); margin-right: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" datetime="2016-10-15 4:00 pm">38 minutes ago</time> Follow @CuzItMATTers
</header><section style='padding: 20px 110px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Titillium Web", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-right: -15px; margin-left: -15px; word-spacing: 0px; display: block; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;' class="article-content ">The Chicago Cubs have dominated national headlines all season, and it’s getting old.
This is going to be difficult for some people to hear. When an entire sport’s fanbase is rooting for a particular team, no one wants to listen to their detractors. The Chicago Cubs are the lovable losers of Major League Baseball. They haven’t won a World Series in 108 years, are built around a core of exciting, young players, and have a manger that keeps the team loose and fun.
The Cubs are everyone’s favorite team this year, and I’m sick and tired of it. They had the most games featured on national broadcasts by a wide margin. If Kris Bryant so much as sneezed, it made headlines. ESPN even created a weekly poll called the “Cubs Confidence Meter” that asks readers about their level of certainty that Chicago closes out October with a World Series victory.
Fans call them lovable losers, yet they’ve won 97 games or more two years in row. Yes, it’s been a very long time since they won a championship, but what about the other three teams still left standing? The Blue Jays haven’t won a World Series since 1993. Los Angeles hasn’t taken a shot at the Commissioner’s Trophy since they won it in 1988. And the Indians? Try 1948.
The blame for all this extra attention should by no means be directed at the Cubs themselves. They won 104 games this year and have a ball club that might be discussed among the best all-time once everything is all said and done. It is the national media that has been hyping them up, seemingly forgetting that 29 other teams also played baseball this season.
Since the start of the century, sixteen teams (including Chicago) have won 100 or more games. Only one of them, the 2009 Yankees, went on to win the World Series. The Cubs may be favorites, but don’t go naming them champions just yet. A stifling Dodgers team that also happens to sport a few young, exciting players is standing in their way.
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IU COVERIN' right now 7:00ish left
Fuck this guy who wrote that article 5team posted, The Billy Goat and Overcoming the Seemingly UnCounquerable Obstacles is America.
To Rise to the GOLDEN DAY of Paradisaical Splendour and dwell within The Mansion of Triumph is the same as the core of USA.
To climb the desperately rugged and cold mountain of challenge and ascend to the peak of Glory, its what we are about.
Up Yours matt whineksi or whatevr ur name is "The Chicago Cubs have dominated national headlines all season, and it’s getting old."
up yours fool
lol if you thought I was bragging then you misunderstood my post
the entire idea that anyone would attempt to insult an Indiana fan by talking about football is what's so hilarious. I guess you have to be an IU person to get that
its like trying to insult an Alabama fan about their basketball team. they would laugh in your face
No Indiana fan had ever bragged about Indiana football.
they just laugh and get ready for basketball
IU Basketball lmfao You guys have a serious impenetrable ceiling, been above ya since you stupidly let Bobby Knight get away. What have you done this Millennium?
What little strength your University has, where regards Sports Teams, lies here:
Your Women's Lacrosse team. In particular, Becky.
Becky is Hot.
IU Basketball lmfao You guys have a serious impenetrable ceiling, been above ya since you stupidly let Bobby Knight get away. What have you done this Millennium?
What little strength your University has, where regards Sports Teams, lies here:
Your Women's Lacrosse team. In particular, Becky.
Becky is Hot.
thats ball state, not Indiana
go smoke another one
You don't even know shit about your own University's Sports Teams. The Girls adopted, as their Motivational Saying, like, "Mission Statement" of Inspiring Words the phrase "Ball State." to mean they are totally focused on Balling (playing well at Lacrosse) like Billy Joel meant when he sang that he was in a "New York State of Mind."
The Girls are in a "Ball State" like, a mental place of Extreme Balling.
You should attend a game, talk to them about it. They explain it better. Than I do.
The adoption of the new Inspirational Phrase "Ball State" was partly a coaching/administration decision cuz The Girls, left to their own devices, dressed kinda "Gothic"-like....
Wierd colors that clashed, Marilyn Manson type Alice Cooper makeup on....
kids will be kids.
