I know, I know: I mostly ignore sports. But having the Cleveland Indians vs. the Chicago Cubs doesn’t happen every day. Or… err, year. Also, I’m curious on how many other people want Cubs fans to finally shut up get some closure on their World Series drought…
17 thoughts on “So, who’s rooting for who in the World Series?”
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It pains me, but I have to go with the Indians. While it will make Cleveland fans insufferable if they win, I fear that if the Cubbies win the Series it’ll be the portent for something truly dire.
I don’t really think that 2016 can get any more dire.
The best possible result is the Cubs collapsing like the Yankees did in the 2004 ALCS.
As a longtime White Sox fan with lots of Cub fan friends, I’m, frankly, ok with a Cubs win. I got my World Series back in `05 and they have had to endure over a century of failure.
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That said, if they do lose the series… well.
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Cubs fan tears are delicious. 😉
I’m going with the Cubs due to long-standing family tradition. Besides, my local team appears to be a couple of years away from post-season contention, so I’m happy to root for the closer team in this case.
I’ll root for the Indians, due to my American League bias and the fact that they have Mike Napoli on the roster. But I wouldn’t be upset with a Cubs win, since I don’t think anyone should suffer for that long.
Cleveland Indians …for very obvious reasons.
Chicago is a cesspool of scum and villainy populated with murderers and theives. Plus PC types hate Chief Wahoo. Go Indians.
Go Cubbies!
Who doesn’t have a soft spot for the Cubbies?
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I’m pulling for them, but I’m also aware that it’s their record of futility that makes The World Series something more than “just another championship” (one the fricking Marlins have won twice).
So I’ve got mixed feelings.
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That they choked twice tonight doesn’t bode well.
About the blue and white “L” flags some Indians fans made, and proudly waved after the game:
That’s cold.
Hilarious.
But cold.
Having moved recently behind enemy lines to the People’s Republic of Illinois, I might even have had to root for the Yankees over the Cubs. That would have been a close call tho. I was hoping my Rangers would have made it tho.
I grew up in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Reds, a team in Eastern Time, spent 24 years in the NL West because the Cubs (a Central Time team) didn’t want to have so many games on the West Coast. (And we weren’t shafted as badly as the Atlanta Braves, who were shoved into the NL West so that the Cubs could keep their rivalry with the St. Louis Cardinals going.) As far as I’m concerned, a perfect season for the Cubs is 0-162.
On the bright side, about a quarter of my friends growing up in Idaho at that time were die-hard fans of The Big Red Machine.
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But I understand. I feel much the same about the Brewers.
(For those who don’t know, the Milwaukee Brewers started life as the expansion Seattle Pilots. That lasted one year. The owner of the expansion franchise, one Bud Selig, committed a lot of chicanery, like refusing to sell tickets so attendance obligations couldn’t be met, so he could contractually move the team. And yes, that’s the same Bud Selig that acted as commissioner for a number of years. The other owners evidently liked his style.)
Cubs, obviously.
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Once the Cubs fans get their ritualistic goat-hate out of the way, the world will be a safer place, para-normally speaking anyway.
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I’m .. a little surprised Moe hasn’t given us a story-seed based on the goat and the city with a century of frustration…
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That said .. the upside to an Indians win is .. generations of Cubs fans will continue the tradition of “the game as an event” rather than “the game as something you go to when they’re winning” (see also White Sox, Bears, and Bulls fans)…
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There’s something .. special .. about rooting for a team you know is going to lose.
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Mew
Well, after half a century of hating a cow, they had to find a new animal to hate.
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I suspect pigeons will be next.
There’s a Dresden Files short story, based on that idea.