July 29, 2016: Go Back to Your Miserable Season

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Working Wednesday night, meant I wasn’t working Thursday… or at least it should have meant that.  Yeah, back to that work thing again… and yes, I had to be on a few calls in the afternoon.  I had one eye on the clock though… I was heading to Wrigley for the final game of the Cubs Sox 2016… that is unless we meet in the World Series…hahaha.

Remember when we were thinking that?  Yeah, well we’re still thinking that for one of the teams… as far as that other Chicago team… the one nobody cares about outside of these games every year… we sent them back to their miserable season in their empty stadium after Thursday night’s win.  Yep, spoiler alert…

The coast wasn’t quite clear yet.  We just bought our son a new bed, and that means, we’re selling the old one.  It sold quick, and we had to deliver it before I went to the game.  No biggie… just strap down this big fire truck to the top of my wife’s truck wife some rope and bungee cords in the rain.  I rode with my hand outside the window just in case, and made the sale in the Target parking lot.  Off to Wrigley… not before a slice at D’Agostino’s… but now we’re in there.

You know how I love Wrigley.  It truly is the best place to watch a game.  Seeing all these Sox fans in Wrigley, which wasn’t that many, made me chuckle.  I know too many Sox fans that would never set foot in Wrigley… those poor saps.  They consider themselves the hardest of the die hard Sox fans… scared to set foot in the cathedral for fear of liking it…  Yeah, so there was some Sox fans there Thursday night…. and they left with their tails between their legs.

I had a good feeling about this game.  Yeah, easy to say now, but I did.  I felt we’d finally get to Sale, and we did.. a little bit.  I thought that Bryant first inning hit was gone.  Once Melky turned his back, we all stood up… missed by a couple feet, but tied the game.  This was right after an 8 pitch… maybe 9 pitch walk by Fowler to start the game.  It was more impressive than that swinging bunt that gave the Sox their first base runner who came around and scored.  We got another run off Sale and Lackey was lock down.  It was 2-1 as we rolled into the 7th inning.  It was time for the formula.

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I didn’t like it at the time, but can’t knock Joe.  In came the big man, and we were going nuts.  The best part about Chapman is that we cheer like crazy when he gets the swing and miss… and then again once the MPH pops up.  Pretty damn cool.  Melky whiffed and the Cubs tried to get some insurance.

We did… and the guy I was with, the guy who gave me my ticket to this game, a die hard Cubs fan, called it.  After Zobrist tripled to lead off the inning, he noticed that Anderson was playing too far back… saying, if they hit a normal ground ball to him, he won’t be able to throw Z out at him.  Contreras grounded to third, but then Russell hit that ground ball to SS, and the Cubs had their insurance.  He threw out another interesting fact earlier in the game… when Sale was on base, and we were hoping for him to stay on the base paths the whole inning, which he did.  And when it was 3-2 to Abreu, he turned and said there is a 75% chance a foul ball is hit… sure enough, it was.  That was before we got him, and ended that inning.

I had a great time sitting next to another die hard.  Yes, we work together a bit, but didn’t say one word about work the entire night.  All Cubs, all baseball… Chapman closed it out in the 9th for his first Cubs save.  Russell made a nice play on Abreu’s sharp ground ball, and we both said how automatic him and Baez are up the middle.  They make it look easy.

The Cubs made it look easy.  They beat the Sox 3-1, and settled for a tie in the season series.  On to some bigger and better things for the Cubs… and back to their miserable season for the Sox… hanging in limbo between buyers and sellers… hanging around 500… fading into oblivion.  Bye Sox… see you next year suckers…

3 Responses

  1. robin

    boy, talk about a sore winner….lose 2 games to the sox, and no big deal, but win the next 2 from the sox, and the fangs come out. you sound just like the sox fans you complain about all the time!!

    • JEFFK

      Hey, I keep it down all year long… unlike those Sox fans. This is my one chance every year to let it out a bit.

  2. MK

    What a series ending game! The sox had their ace on the mound, and he did not disappoint. Sale did not have his best stuff, but he had enough to keep them in the game. The sox starting pitching had a great series against the Cubs. The Cubs made sale work, though, as he threw 100+ pitches in 6 innings. Then they relied on the new 7,8,9 gang to close it out, which is exactly what they did. Strop to Rondon to Chap…money in the bank and a series ending split with the sox. Pretty much what I expected even though I was hoping for better. The Cubs move forward to bigger and better things, hopefully, while the sox have to decide what they are going to do…sell or stay put, cant see them buying. GO CUBS GO!!!

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