Steve, you cubs one, who history of American professional sports is over.

The Chicago Cubs are World Series champions.

Thanks to a crazy instant classic of a game seven

that has already taken multiple years off my life. You sound holder. I do. It's early

on Saturday and my throat is dry and I sound older.

Wish that was my biggest problem.

Yeah, you got a lot bigger problems than that.

Really?

I've been a Cubstand since I was 10 years old and my grandmother, who raised my mom in the

northwest suburb of Bensonville and retired in Mount Prospect, took me into my first game

at Designated Historical Landmark Riggly Field. took me to my first game at designated historical landmark Wrigley Field and now to celebrate this title

I am forcing the rest of you to listen to this brief musical history of the Chicago Cubs.

It's been 108 years since the last time we won it all.

And there are eight songs here. Many of them are terrible. Many. Right now, we're listening to likely MVP winner Chris Bryant's walk-up music for when he bats

Which is not only a delightful idea

It's also one of the best songs we're going to hear in the next half hour. It's warm it up by Chris Cross.

Let that sink in for a minute. This is one of the best songs we're going to hear.

Yep. I want to note that Chris Cross spells Chris the same way as Chris Bryant.

It's definitely one of them.

Yep, that is correct.

Now today I want to bring out two dominant narrative themes

about Cub's culture. One, the feeling of being just on the verge of achieving

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