That bullpen shit won't play in Wrigley where Francona has to give up a hitter.

Also the Cubs will bomb out the Indians in Jacobs.

Cub in Quad.

Agreed. He's like Shark giving all these interviews.

Get the job done motherfucker.

The Indians are going to try to run wild on Lester in game one.

Crisp, Lindor, Davis, Ramirez, Kipnis those are 5 dues that can swipe off of anyone.

Lester shuts the door on game one.....we'll be going to sweep city.

I would love to see the Cubs in 5, so they can have one amazing party in Wrigleyville after the clinching win a week from tomorrow. Cleveland has a great bullpen after adding Andrew Miller. But the Cubs are he superior team and should take this. I kinda like the fact the Indians will have had 6 days off since clinching the ALCS before starting the World Series. The timing of the hitters could be a little off as they shake off some rust. <eanwhile, the Cubs have their hitters going now and with any luck will continue hitting well as they have the last 3 games.

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Go Cubs!!!!

Go fuck yourself.

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But the Cubs should bench Russell right?

Cubs Win!...that's all that matters tonight.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

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I said it was going to work out this way and it's going to be a good long run with this club, so get used to me enjoying it and you and the rest of the Sox fans wallowing in misery with your 2nd rate team.

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Go Cubs!!!!

Uh, maybe it's just me, but I think Cubs fans are telling you to fuck off?

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It is bullshit that the Cubs with 103 regular season victories (the best record in the major leagues) have to relinquish home field advantage because of the results of the All-Star game. But it does make it possible for them to clinch at home if they can take 1 or both of the fist pair in Cleveland. Still, the home field should revert back to going to the team with the superior regular season record.

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Go Cubs!!!!

Here is why you are a stupid fuck. Prior to the stupid all star game stuff, it wasn't best record, it alternated.

Go huff some glue ass face.

This is why you should kill yourself......it was based on best record at one time and that is what I believe it should revert back to dipshit.

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Go Cubs!!!!

Nah, here is why your are a fuck.

It started off as a coin flip for home field advantage. Then it went to 2-3-2 alternating. So yeah, please stop you are a stupid fuck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Lea ... _advantage

Elmhurst Stupid, never sure, but always right. What a fucking tool.

Hopefully your next long run is a short run full speed into a barbwire fence...

isn't that the SF giants' battlecry? or at least a mantra/catchphrase that you hear all over san francisco just like you'd hear "try to not suck" out here? =P

THE PRECEDING POST WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY BREVITY TAUGHT TO ME BY MY FATHER!

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I thought that was (former Cub) Matt Stairs's battle cry. "Feels good to get your ass pounded"

I really hope Fox shows the opening ceremony of the WS. I don't think they do anymore. I want to see that especially at Wrigley. For those of you who don't know what i'm talking about, the first game at each park, they introduce each leauge champion. All players on the first base and third base sides. It's what makes the WS so special. I don't know why they don't show it anymore. I haven't seen in in years. I just hope they show it this year.

They win the pennant for the first time in 71 years, and you can't stop thinking about the Sox.

You will always have Jon Lester's Cy Young Award, and the satisfaction knowing that you predicted that Chris Sale's arm would explode by now.

Loser.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

<º)))><

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

huh? do you mean like before 1924 or something?


Why it's great that the All-Star Game decides World Series home field
Bud Selig got it right.

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/stop-whining-it-s-awesome-the-all-star-game-determines-world-series-home-field-071216

2. The awarding of home-field advantage in the World Series has never held any significance.

For the first 22 years of the World Series, there was no such thing as home-field advantage. Teams would have three games a piece through Game 6 and then if Game 7 was needed, a coin flip would determine where the game was held. (It wasn't needed that much - there weren't a lot of Game 7s in the first quarter-century of the game.)

After the 1924 World Series, in which the New York Giants lost a coin flip to Washington before Game 6, went on the road for two games and ultimately lost in D.C., there was a call for change. Thus, from 1925 to 2002 baseball deemed home-field so important that it annually alternated the honor between AL and NL cities. (Originally the AL had even years and the NL odd years. But an oddity in 1935 led to the AL getting home field two years in a row and then the years flipping after that.)

ALSO from http://research.sabr.org/journals/files ... -Bevis.pdf (start on page 3 and read to/thru page 5 or thereabouts)

basically TLDR = hey steve, you know that prior to 1924 they used a coin flip to determine where the first game was played, then they alternated home/away/home/away/home/away and would do another coin flip to determine game 7. kenesaw mountain landis or whoever decided that they should streamline the process circa 1924-1925, so that's where the alternating "homefield advantage" came in. also 1925 = when the 2-3-2 setup for the world series came in, and then by 1935 or something they ended up doing one change-up to establish the even/odd year NL/AL thing that went all the way until 2002 when "THIS TIME IT COUNTS!" and etc.

basically, i just spent ~5-10mins researching this all the way to SABR research journals and there was nowhere where i found/saw that teams having the best record ever got "homefield advantage"

and btw, i don't think that you're wrong in that the team with the best record ought to have homefield advantage.... that works perfectly for me... it's just that nowhere in the course of recorded MLB history was there ever a world series where homefield advantage was decided by who had the better regular season record. but hey, maybe you're from the berenstein universe and i've always known that i'm in the berenstain universe so maybe this is all some kind of problem via the mandela effect, and call it a hunch that you're not a big "mandela guy" for reasons that hopefully a few other ppl on the board are chuckling over as they read this sentence right now =D

also tbh, a bit ???! when an ex-/cop tells you to kill yourself seeing as y'all seem to be pretty good in the "assisted suicide" dept, eh? +D

</10mins of my life that i'll never get back>

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btw i gotta admit that i love it when "The Brand" (not to be confused with that nickname for the Aryan Nation =) occasionally shows up to "grace us with his presence" and then he carries on like he's some kind of transcendental baseball genius that's enlightening us with his awesome thoughts..... but then if you actually go and look up some of his bullshit you'll find out that it's just that: bullshit! no wonder he's telling people to kill themselves: dead people can't go google something to look it up and find out that steve from elmhurst is wrong =D

all-time best one for me was when steve put on his thinking cap and tried to be real subtle, showing up in a "Martin Luther King Day" thread and acting like "lol i don't even know how to spell his name! i honestly thought it was Martin Luthor King Jr. (and you'd never figure out my subtle little MLK = LEX LUTHOR = EVIL!!! diss)" --- which led me to point out that while he was claiming ignorance of how to spell Martin Luther King there was literally large text like 3" above the message dialog box that said Martin Luther King Day --- but hey, you know, it's not like he ever worked any jobs where he had to be observant/perceptive in order to help ensure the safety of the public or anything..... oh wait. lol.

"yeah well, do you get bumped ahead of the riff-raff when you call into [ESPN 1000 Radio Show]? didn't think so! go take a bath cobain style you psycho!"

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Julie DiCaro and Elmhurst Steve. The two things that unite the board whether you are Cubs or Sox, Liberal or Conservative.

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I remember how hard I laughed when "The Brand" bragged about people buying him drinks once they heard who he was. What a fucking clown.

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This is going to be one awesome week. So in the spirit of baseball can we as a board agree to ignore the BS that is the election for the week and focus on what is important?

Plus, I want nothing but positive waves baby got it you all?

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

What is it about his posts that makes you want to say that? I mean, it's definitely there. I can't read a post of his without thinking "what a fucking simpleton asshole."

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Once again, Go. Fuck. Yourself.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I know really I mean come on where is the fucking joy in that post, jagoff or as my hero Chris Jerico says, assclown

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

American League > National League

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Frank and I mean this with all my heart and soul , Go get hit by a bus

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"