Rooting For The Cubs In The World Series Analysis

I believe that you Chicago Cubs are doing very well. I hope after your loss in the National League Playoffs, you guys rebound, and make it to the World Series next year.

Last year a whole nation came together to cheer on the Toronto Blue Jays as they made their bid to win the World Series. It was a feat that they had not accomplished in over 20 years. The excitement across Canada was unbelievable! People from all over the country were travelling to Toronto and the opponent’s city to show their support for the Jays. Unfortunately, their efforts were cut short in a series loss to the Kansas City Royals who ended up World Series Champions. Now with the 2016 season around the corner, can the Blue Jays make it back to back playoff berths with the changes that have been made in the front office, pitching rotation and player trades?

After that second Philly loss, the Cubs were 84-60 and the Mets had pulled ahead at 85-57. The Mets would not look back. The Cubs' eight-game losing streak finally ended the next day in St. Louis, but the Mets were in the midst of a ten-game winning streak, and the Cubs, wilting from team fatigue, generally deteriorated in all phases of the game. The Mets would go on to win the World Series. The Cubs, despite a respectable 92-70 record, would be remembered for having lost a remarkable 17½ games in the standings to the Mets in the last quarter of the season.

In 2004 the Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years. The Chicago Cubs won the World Series in 2016 to end a 108 year championship drought. What do they have in common? The teams both had a success in the early 20th century, but both blundered for extensive amounts of time before winning another world championship. Both had to overcome a huge deficit to complete their championship winning seasons. Both teams were coming off a successful season the year before, and had big offseason acquisitions to strengthen their team as well mid- season acquisitions. The two also had playoff heroes that dazzled the audience on their paths to victory. The two teams are very much in common, but they are also different teams in

Many Cub players denounced the hatred towards Bartman as unfair. Several players went so far as to suggest inviting Bartman to a game, though he himself refused. People openly questioned the “spirit” of baseball that would happily torture an innocent Cubs’ fan for the sake of defeat or victory (Beck, 2003). Besides opinion columns and media, books chronicling sports history include Bartman as an example of the culture of fan imagination, which is significant enough to find its place in history (Cohen, 2014). And with their imagination, Cubs have entered a superstitious existence, of almost comedic futility that both fans and outsiders have constantly (and sometimes) mournfully

The Chicago White Sox of 1919 were a clear favorite to win the World Series. They had all of the odds on their

In Major League Baseball’s 1919 World Series two teams that were the Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds went up against each other. They played only a eight game series because the Cincinnati Reds already had won five games after the eighth game was over which didn’t require them to go to the ninth game. Many people found it hard to believe that the Reds actually one the World Series because the White Sox were favored to win. The bookies made the odds seven to five favored on the Chicago White Sox to win. Believe it or not the Chicago White Sox actually let the Cincinnati Reds win the series because they were payed a significant amount of money to throw the game. This famous Scandal was known as The Black Sox Scandal. The media reacted very suddenly to this scandal, the people were very shocked when they got word of it, and the aftermath of this Scandal cause many problems in baseball and society.

Ernie’s optimistic view helped him survive his hardships. Each year, Ernie arrived to spring training optimistic that it was the Cubs’ year to win the World Series, despite him holding the record for the most games played without appearing in a single playoff game, 2528 games (“Most Games with no Playoff Appearance”). His undying optimism is one of his most laudable characteristics. His ability to believe that there is a chance of success even when others deny it has inspired me to search for the best in all situations even if they are less than ideal. Banks had numerous opportunities to leave

8, 1945 the Chicago Cubs won their last game in a World Series”. The Cubs would go on to lose the series versus the Detroit Tigers, and the curse of the “Billy Goat” was born. William Sianis a Chicago bar owner and his goat attended game four of the 1945 World Series at Wrigley Field. According to the Billy goat tavern website, the Cubs owner asked Sianis and his goat to leave because the goat’s smell was disturbing other fans. As Sianis was being escorted out of the stadium he was heard saying, “The Cubs ain’t gonna win no more. The Cubs will never win a World Series so long as the goat is not allowed in Wrigley Field”. The Cubs were officially cursed, and haven’t reached the World Series

“Baseball’s Darkest Hour” or “The Black Sox Scandal of 1919” all names given to the 1919 World Series when eight players of the Chicago White Sox took money from gamblers to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Gamblers have been involved in baseball since the start of it. There were even multiple stories of the gambles fixing games so the outcome is in their favor but no one ever tried to fix a World Series until 1919. Even though the gamblers were fixing games no one ever did anything about it. In 1920 the newly elected commissioner decided that the eight players that were on trial for throwing the World Series for knowing about the fix, participating in the fix and organizing the fix. People agree with the commissioner about banning

For starters, the two teams had very different pitching. The 1908 Cubs pitching had a combined earned run average (ERA) of 2.14. An earned run average is an average of approximately how many earned runs you allow during a game; however, runs that scored of a committed error or a walked batter do not count towards the ERA. Therefore this stats shows that the 1908 team let the other teams score roughly two runs every game. The 2016 team had a combined ERA of 3.15; meaning that they let up an average of three runs a game, just one more than the 1908 team did. The 1908 Cubs team won twenty-five games by one run and tied twice. If their ERA was 3.15 then they would have tied twenty-five more games and lost two more maybe knocking them out of the playoffs. Another contrast of the two teams would be that the 1908 Cubs ace pitcher, or best pitcher, won twenty-nine games almost reaching the thirty-win mark, something that has not happened since the year 1968. The

Although it produced the World Series champion last year, there are only two teams from the NL Central which have a realistic chance of making the playoffs this year. If the Cubs don’t win this division again this season, it would be a leviathan shock. They bring back practically the same club last year which crushed almost everyone they played, with the only real differences being Jon Jay, backup outfielder, replacing Dexter Fowler, starting outfielder, the losses of starter Jason Hammel and fourth outfielder Jorge Soler, and the replacement of trade deadline pickup and free agent loss Aroldis Chapman with Wade Davis. They should get a full season out of Kyle Schwarber, who was injured up until the World Series last year and

For Chicago, baseball and the two teams are super important and each have their own die hard fans and will ride for their team even through all of their losses and wins because it's easy come easy go. The Cubs last won a world series in 1908 and the White Sox last won in 2005, so both teams know what the world series is and how to get there. The difference is that the Cubs

The 1919 World Series was very interesting to say the least. Some of the White Sox players wanted some extra money. I believe that this series is one of, if not the darkest chapter in Major League Baseball’s history.

To me the battle between the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox is a good battle of good and evil. It's a battle of culture, it's a battle of lifestyle, it's a battle of politics and a battle of social class and also a battle of our environment. This is not just two teams in close proximity. We're not in the same league and these six games are pretty meaningless in terms of the season. The Sox/Cubs series shut down the city, literally in the case mayor Daley closing city hall to go to the game, and the most passionate sports fans in the country at the throat of their neighbors. To me the White Sox and Cubs rivalry is more than just baseball within city limits. It's more than a 12 stop difference on the red line. It's about Hyde park versus Rogers park. It's about the south side Irish, Morgan park, Mt.Greenwood and Beverly it's about honestly two different forms of games altogether AL vs NL. It's about tattoo covered fans who loves their team even though they live in spotlight and it's about fans ,who have waited 100 years and have never seen a parade for their team down Michigan ave. it's about the disgusted feeling each team has for each other, the true feeling of animosity and spite comes out. What we all know how things get started drunken fights at barbecue amongst friends who defend their teams. It's mainly about having hope for your teams no matter of losing or winning and to celebrate as hard as you can after winning and sticking to your values as a Sox or a Cubs fan and defending that other team against