Welcome back to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider, brought to you by Irish

Illustrated.com. I am Tim O'Malley at Jack Freeman Studios, joined by Cubs fan Pete Sampson,

Cubs lifers, Jake Brown, and Tim Priester, and as a lifelong Red Sox fan that knows how they feel,

I will seed controls to the deliriously unspeakably happy one to my right.

Well, I've had three sports teams programs that, you know, three loves in my life,

Norden football, Norden basketball, and Chicago Cubs.

So 47 years, 108 years, that's what makes it so amazing is when you actually see 108 years.

It's just, it's tremendous.

I've lived through it.

I haven't been an agonizing Cubs fan my whole life.

I don't believe in that.

I've gotten tremendous entertainment, but I'll tell you what, this is a hell of a lot better. Yeah. I mean, it's such a cool thing to watch 108 years melt away like that because you're, the next one, as a Red Sox fan, you know, the next one isn't as good as the first one. Like, that's as good as it's ever going to get.

And that's not a sad thing. That's just like, you're going to remember watching that and

living it and experiencing it. I mean, I had a friend that went to the game, you know, bought a

ticket and just said it was amazing how many Cubs fans were there. And I mean, in the stadium,

the broadcast made it look like half Riggily, half Jacobsfield,

outside the stadium was where all the Cleveland fans were.

And he just said it was just an amazing thing.

And then you see all the videos of Chicago.

I lived in Chicago in 2003 when they last came close to it.

And it was just, you felt like you were living in a major metropolitan area that was

cheering on an Indiana small school, high school basketball team that was making a run to

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