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Tag: World Series

  • How To Not Be Romantic About Baseball

    How To Not Be Romantic About Baseball

    The Braves and the Astros are in my ear, and I should be feeling the pull of nostalgia hearing Joe Buck’s voice between the sounds of the game. It is October and the World Series has started and here is my childhood favorite team back for the first time since 1999 and yet I feel […]

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  • MLB Preview

    MLB Preview

    Baseball season is here. The honeymoon is over for the Cubs as they go from loveable losers to defending champs. This is a new feeling for me. As a Cubs fan the beginning of the season was always one of hope. “This is our year,” I would say to myself. Knowing full well I was […]

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  • RECAP: The Game of a Lifetime

    RECAP: The Game of a Lifetime

    The 7-2 result on the scoreboard wasn’t quite what 101-year-old Avon Burt had hoped for heading into Saturday’s game with the Cleveland Indians, but the experience she had at her first Cubs’ World Series game will remain with her and her family for generations. As we brought you last week, Avon and her daughter Andy […]

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  • The Game of a Lifetime

    The Game of a Lifetime

    The 2016 Chicago Cubs have set the baseball world by storm this season, shattering the 100-win mark in the regular season and waltzing into the World Series following playoff wins over San Francisco and Los Angeles. For many Cubs fans, this has been a drastic change of pace following difficult seasons and heartbreaking finishes to playoff […]

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  • Rewriting history

    Rewriting history

    The Chicago Cubs have won the National League Central and will be heading to the playoffs as the NL’s top seed. The Cubs were dominant throughout the year, clinching their playoff spot with over two weeks to go in the season and finishing the year with 103 victories. With this much success it’s easy to […]

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  • I believe

    I believe

    I remember a smoke filled apartment, with the Cubs play-by- play in the background visiting my great grandma. Let me tell you about my great grandma. She ran away and joined the circus as a teenager, she smoked up until a year before she passed away in 2002, and she was the biggest Cubs fan […]

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