Cubs win again!
Oct. 6th, 2003 01:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carbonelThe Cubs just won their National League Division Series. This is their first series win since 1908, but it doesn't actually give them bragging rights to anything. I'm thrilled, nevertheless. Witness the fact that I'm posting about this at 1:28 am, having started watching the game at 11 pm because I was at a party in the early evening, and then went to Kol Nidre services after that.
In 1945, the Cubs won the pennant by having the best winning percentage in their division. The only playoff was the one for the World Series -- which they lost. To quote Steve Goodman: "You know the law of averages says / Anything will happen that can. / But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant / Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan." (He wrote that in 1983. He died in 1984 when the Cubs' magic number was 3; if he'd lived a few weeks longer, he would have seen the Cubs win the first two games at home, and then lose three in a row on the road.)
Kerry Wood pitched a sensational game, and the Cubs led all the way.
I just hope the Cubs can keep it up for the next series, against the Florida Marlins. This is the first Big One -- if they win this one, they win the pennant, and the long drought will be over.
Or, as W.P. Kinsella would have it, it could be time for Armageddon.
It might even be worth it.
In 1945, the Cubs won the pennant by having the best winning percentage in their division. The only playoff was the one for the World Series -- which they lost. To quote Steve Goodman: "You know the law of averages says / Anything will happen that can. / But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant / Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan." (He wrote that in 1983. He died in 1984 when the Cubs' magic number was 3; if he'd lived a few weeks longer, he would have seen the Cubs win the first two games at home, and then lose three in a row on the road.)
Kerry Wood pitched a sensational game, and the Cubs led all the way.
I just hope the Cubs can keep it up for the next series, against the Florida Marlins. This is the first Big One -- if they win this one, they win the pennant, and the long drought will be over.
Or, as W.P. Kinsella would have it, it could be time for Armageddon.
It might even be worth it.
