I apologize for all the comments I’ve made on this site and its sister sites in the past 24 hours. I had no idea Stan Van Gundy was going to just fucking nail it far better than anyone else has.

My wife is a Red Sox fan. When the Cubs signed Rossy and I was all “really?”, she told me that I was going to end up loving him. She was 100% right. Three of my favorite moments from Game 7 involved him - Rizzo’s dugout freakout, Rossy’s dinger, and the team carrying him off into the sunset.

Italian beef, Maxwell St. polish,bone-in pork chop... take your pick.

Is someone too insecure in their masculinity to have gotten over the name “Italian beef” and tried this excellent Chicagoan sandwich?

Chicago-style hot dogs and Frontera Grill.

What is this, amateur hour? People are throwing Chobani at the window.

(slams window shut) (opens window back up) AND BUILD SOME AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS (quickly shuts window before hail of eggs pelts him)

Honestly, if there’s one good thing about how shitty the Tribune Company was at running the Cubs, it’s that they set Theo and Co. up so well. The team did indeed print money, which meant the Ricketts would have money to spend, and the fact that the Trib was terrible at running the team also meant that the Cubs would…

“...wrigley as half empty fielding a team of bums”?!?!?!?

I always hated the “lovable loser” bullshit. The Cubs hadn’t won since 1908 because they were unlucky before 1945 and cheap, bad, stupid and unlucky after 1945.

Life as a Brewers fan: we didn’t even make the cut for Burneko’s examples of lower-tier teams that the Cubs will take advantage of.

The lucrative of the cubs games really only took off in 1984, with the good team then coinciding with the launch of the WGN superstation blowing up the fandom. I get what you are trying to say but there are plenty of people around who remember wrigley as half empty fielding a team of bums

He (and he alone) wears a Cubs cap in some of the baseball scenes. Maybe he’s not an actual fan, but it’s inarguably a gesture on the part of the filmmakers, meant to indicate him as a lovable well-meaning loser.

Maddon sending Chapman out there early was questionable, but I can understand the “why” behind it. It’s do or die, and he really is the only arm in the bullpen that Maddon trusts.

They trust Montgomery too. And Lackey and Arrieta will both be available. It’s game 7. There is no tomorrow. This “pitching advantage” thing is being way overblown, the Cubs have plenty of arms to get them through nine more innings.

It’s all hands on deck tonight. Arrieta has already promised that he’s ready, too, should the Cubs need him - and come on, Joe knew that would be the case, the guy’s a ridiculous physical specimen. If the Cubs burn through all four starters plus Montgomery before we get to a late-game situation, they’re not going to…

“To tell the truth, I’m not excited to go to Cleveland, but we have to,” Ichiro said through an interpreter. “If I ever saw myself saying I’m excited going to Cleveland, I’d punch myself in the face, because I’m lying.” -Ichiro

He’s not a Cub next year, use him, this is the World Series.

It’s like Billy Bob Thornton mixed with Frank Gallagher from Shameless.