My mental preparation for disappointment has been rock solid since 1989. It keeps me grounded (most days).

I don’t hate them per se, I like Cueto and Posey, I just never want to see them win again. If that makes any sense.

Yeah I have heard stories about him. I used to have a HR ball he hit at the Metrodome when he was with the Rangers. Always wanted to get it signed but I lost it.

That whole sequence was extremely in-Bochy like. I would say he was outmanaged by Maddon but he mostly outmanaged himself.

My hate for the Giants comes directly from being at game 1 of the 1989 NLCS and seeing Will Clark destroy my ten-year-old heart. WC was my favorite non-Cubs player before that. I have always (irrationally) hated him after seeing his GS clear the Wrigled Field wall.

Yeah. Outside of the beginning of game 2 and the end of game 4 the offense was abysmal. Cubs pitchers accounted for more than 33% of the team’s RBIs this series.

This team does weird things with your mind. I am as devout an atheist as they come and I caught myself asking my dead grandma (a lifelong Cubs fan) to just help Chapman get through the bottom of the 9th. I think I could handle this better if I still drank.

True. Willson is pretty damn fast though. I think either score on Javy’s hit.

30+ years as a Cubs fan. This team is so good at grinding me to dust and making me hate everything in the world and then turning it around at a moment’s notice.

I have been a Blackhawks fan for 30+ years and while I understand the meaning behind the team name and logo (which I love), if the team decided to change it, I would be behind it 100%. I know I am in the extreme minority of Hawks fans for saying this but this how I feel about all team names that are pretty much…

The late-90s indie rock scene in the Midwest was amazing Drew! You are officially dead to me now!

This game ended an hour and a half before I had to get up for work. I fell asleep listening to it on the radio and had a dream where Brandon Crawford hit Kris Bryant with a chair and his skull split and his brains oozed out. The entire stadium was throwing up everywhere. I really don’t think I should fall asleep with…

As someone who was raised Catholic and left as soon as I was confirmed I concur with your feelings towards Catholics.

Grace might have been better than everyone for the ready of his life calling him Ryan because they can’t read or listen.

My sister named my nephew after him. She had a major crush on him when we were kids.

I have been a diehard Cubs fan for 37 years. This is the best article written about the Cubs in my lifetime. I wish we had Karl Schwimmer for this postseason.

I have dislocated my shoulder ten times and had two major shoulder surgeries. Fuck slings so goddamn much. I feel like I have spent half my life in them.

Shit. It was even harder to get passes to Comic-Con 15 years ago. Now I know guys who legit work for comic book companies who cannot get passes.

Really? My friend’s band was asked to play at a Bernie Sanders rally and they said the credential process for that was crazy. Must be different for the press than any sort of “celebrity” appearance.

I remember back in the early 2000s before the it went truly bananas my magazine used to max as many press passes we could get for SDCC. We had guys who hadn’t written for us for years who we would get press passes for. The only caveat was they had to write one thing about the show for us to publish and take photos for…