My wife just got us tickets to tonight’s game. Best birthday present ever 
GO CUBS GO
That’s awesome!! Enjoy the game!
Whenever the Red Sox are out of the playoffs, I always root for the Cubs…we know a little about curses in New England and can feel your pain. Maa-maa.
I’ve lived in LA now for 17+ years and of course I have friends who are big Dodgers fans. Over the years they’ve tried to convert me. I stalwartly refuse. Then they tried the tactic of “well, ok, but the Dodgers can be your NL team. C’mon you live here”. I had to explain that no… my NL team was the Cubs for precisely that same reason - I’ve lived that pain.
Be that as it may, Wrigley Field is one of the coolest places on Earth! Watching baseball there is experiencing what the game is all about.
I’m a Cardinals fan and I wholeheartedly agree with this.
Just don’t travel a bit south to Addison St. if you’re not into those kind of things. I did that once, safest part of the whole city! ;D
Totally ! Great atmosphere. Unfortunately it’s also given me a lifetime of frustration as a Cubs fan. “Just wait 'til next year” - Cub fan eternal motto. 
Yesterday, NPR was talking about the game and how there were so many textbook situations that had the Cardinals stumped. Their quote - “The Cardinals thwarted more textbooks then Tennessee during the Scopes Trial.”
eamus catuli! Yeah, I am a lifelong cubs fan. When I used to work outside, and had to drive around all day, nothing beat listening to Pat Hughes and Santo.This conversation has got me singing “Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request”
Told his friends “You know the law of averages says:
Anything will happen that can”
That’s what it says
“But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan”
The Cubs made me a criminal
Sent me down a wayward path
They stole my youth from me
(that’s the truth)
I’d forsake my teachers
To go sit in the bleachers
In flagrant truancy
But you forgot the best part: he’s got season tickets to the Angels!
And so now it’s tied at 1 each.
Awesome throw to third!
Despite who everyone cheers for, everyone is a winner this year after mccarver is done.
Give a man a hamburger, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to hamburger, he’ll live forever.
- a million
Joe Buck is ok with baseball because it is a game of minutiae. He is in love with the sound of his own voice and can talk for hours without taking a breath.
Joe Buck is absolute torture when he calls a football game. He bloviates about everything except what’s happening on the field. He wants everyone to know he has the biggest brain in the universe. When he calls a football game I want to watch I turn the sound off.
“Personal foul, #18 defense, tripping, 30 yard penalty.”
WS G3 - winning point scored by the defense! How often does THAT happen in baseball? Much less the World Series?
Horrible
Give a man a hamburger, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to hamburger, he’ll live forever.
The only reason I like listening to Joe Buck is because he occasionally reminds me of Jack Buck. Case in point: 2011 World Series, Game 6: David Freese hits a game-winning walk off homer, Joe Buck echos his father from nearly the exact same call 20 years earlier, “And we will see you tomorrow night!”
I seriously teared up that night and still get goosebumps just thinking about it.
Otherwise, he’s calling Daniel Descalso by the name of Pete Kozma or calling the pitch count as 1-1 or 2-1 when it’s 2-0 or 3-0. Ugh.
+1. Joe Buck is horrendous. I think he’s so in love with the sound of his own voice that he loses track of what is even going on sometimes.
Yeow!
I had missed the news that he’s retiring. He and Joe Buck have taught me how to watch a game and ignore the announcers. I’m sure they’ll find another blowhard to replace him, though.
McCarver was trying to explain something at the beginning of the game and I thought he was having a stroke. I was waiting for Buck to cut him off.
Also, is it just me because the Sox are playing and I’m paying more attention, but do the umps know what the strike zone is supposed to be. I’ve seen bad strike calls on both teams ( and I’m not talking about the stupid sFox Strike Zone grid ).