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2016 MLB Season - Curses, foiled again?

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JF_Gophers said:
Let us soak in the greatest Game 7's (not in order). There were some other close ones, but I don't know if they were considered classics. I'm not 100 yrs old! :)

World Series Game 7 Played on Thursday, October 13, 1960 (D) at Forbes Field
NY A 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 2 2 - 9 13 1
PIT N 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 - 10 11 0

WP: Haddix (2-0)
LP: Terry (0-2)
HR: Berra (1), Skowron (2), Nelson (1), Smith (1), Mazeroski (2)


World Series Game 7 Played on Sunday, October 27, 1991 (N) at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
ATL N 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 7 0
MIN A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 10 0

WP: Morris (2-0)
LP: Pena (0-1)


World Series Game 7 Played on Sunday, October 26, 1997 (N) at Pro Player Stadium
CLE A 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 6 2
FLA N 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 - 3 8 0

WP: Powell (1-0)
LP: Nagy (0-1)
HR: Bonilla (1)


World Series Game 7 Played on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 (N) at Kauffman Stadium
SF N 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 8 1
KC A 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 6 0

WP: Affeldt (1-0)
LP: Guthrie (1-1)
SV: Bumgarner (1)


World Series Game 7 Played on Sunday, November 4, 2001 (N) at Bank One Ballpark
NY A 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 - 2 6 3
ARI N 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 - 3 11 0

WP: Johnson (3-0)
LP: Rivera (1-1)
HR: Soriano (1)
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There was another one from the early 1960's involving the Giants and Yankees. I think it ended on a line drive by Willie McCovey. I remember seeing an interview once where he said that was the hardest baseball he ever hit. I think maybe the bases were loaded or something with the Giants down by a run.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
Don't forget the Lions. Still haven't been to a Super Bowl.
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But the Lions have won NFL championships. They were in the days prior to the Super Bowl, but they do have league titles to their franchise history. The Vikings and Bills, however, are of a different breed. The Vikings won the NFL league title the last year prior to merging with the AFL, but they still lost their Super Bowl game that year (and three more to boot). The Bills, well, they're even more pathetic.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
DIdn't you literally brag that you were offered a position of management and turned it down?
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It was not a brag. And it wasn't corpie mgmt by any means. Jesus, roll with the joke, man.
 
SJHovey said:
There was another one from the early 1960's involving the Giants and Yankees. I think it ended on a line drive by Willie McCovey. I remember seeing an interview once where he said that was the hardest baseball he ever hit. I think maybe the bases were loaded or something with the Giants down by a run.
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1962. Your memory is correct. It was a 1-0 game, bottom 9, runners on 2nd & 3rd, 2 outs. McCovey hit a line drive that Bobby Richardson caught for the final out of the Series. If it gets by him, the Giants win right then and there.
 
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St. Clown said:
But the Lions have won NFL championships. They were in the days prior to the Super Bowl, but they do have league titles to their franchise history. The Vikings and Bills, however, are of a different breed. The Vikings won the NFL league title the last year prior to merging with the AFL, but they still lost their Super Bowl game that year (and three more to boot). The Bills, well, they're even more pathetic.
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The Lions last title was before the Vikings even existed.

Although if we want to get to a team most like the Cubs, it's another Chicago (sort of) team. The Arizona Cardinals are the oldest football team in the world, founded in 1898. They don't seem to get the lore of Detroit or Cleveland, probably because they moved twice, from Chicago to STL to Arizona, but their failings are just as great.

In 118 years they've won two titles, 1925 and 1947, and the 1925 one doesn't really count. The Cardinals were sanctioned for getting another team to hire high school players to help pad their record and the second place team was disqualified for playing an exhibition against Notre Dame. The NFL didn't award a title, then retroactively did, but owners at the time wouldn't accept it. It wasn't until the Bidwells bought the team that 1925 became a banner for the Cardinals. So really, the Cardinals have one title in 118 years. Even the Cubs did better than that.
 
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This is a pretty impressive drought, from rugby.

ASM Clermont Auvergne had a championship history arguably as tortured as the most "cursed" teams in North America or Australia. From their formation in 1911 through 2009, they had never won a national title despite making the championship final 10 times, and had come within a converted try in six of those games.

The drought culminated in three consecutive title-game losses in 2007 through 2009, and Les Jaunards finally broke through in 2010 to win their first title.
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The Win of a Lifetime

After 108 years of heartbreak, a Chicago Cubs fan in New Hampshire is celebrating the team's big World Series win.

Hazel Nilson — who grew up within walking distance of Wrigley Field — now lives in Sunapee and stayed up to watch the Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in extra innings early Thursday morning to win its first championship since 1908. It was the first she's ever witnessed.

"Wow!" Nilson said, when asked how she was feeling. "I always had hope that someday they'd win, and by golly, they did."

She was still feeling a bit tired on Thursday morning when necn spoke to her, but was basking in the glow of her team's World Series victory.
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Brenthoven said:
The "Final Call" commercial? I cried. I bawled my eyes out. That was a dam good job by them to do that.

Harry will always be loved and missed.
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The work that went in to that as well, I mean they were undoubtedly digging through many audio files to find that stuff. Somebody at Anheuser-Busch called in a few favors at WGN just to get them. Just beautiful.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
The work that went in to that as well, I mean they were undoubtedly digging through many audio files to find that stuff. Somebody at Anheuser-Busch called in a few favors at WGN just to get them. Just beautiful.
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It really was. The ad that was shown on tv, him in the stands/etc....whole bar went silent, and all gave respect, Cubs fan or not. Fist pumps, toasts, etc. When I saw the Final Call....oh man.......man.....
 
Brenthoven said:
It really was. The ad that was shown on tv, him in the stands/etc....whole bar went silent, and all gave respect, Cubs fan or not. Fist pumps, toasts, etc. When I saw the Final Call....oh man.......man.....
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Yeah I definitely lost it when I saw Final Call. The ad on TV I yelled out "Harry!" :D

On another note, the EAMUS CATULI! sign got changed to AC0000000.
 
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Not gonna lie, I was slightly rooting for the tribe. I can't put my finger on why. I in no way dislike the Cubs. I in no way am a Cleveland Indians fan. Maybe I just like being a stick in the mud. I really can't figure it out.

That said, the Cubs finally getting it was great to see. I'm happy for their fans.

I get why so many here have feelings for the Cubs due to watching them a lot when they were young. It's the same reason my second favorite NHL team is the Rangers. (Sorry Brent) The Blueshirts are my father's favorite team. He grew up playing hockey on Lake of the Isles starting when he was five. The North Stars didn't exist until he was 17. Many fond memories watching the Rangers with my dad in the basement when I was growing up. 1994 was awesome.
 
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state of hockey said:
Not gonna lie, I was slightly rooting for the tribe. I can't put my finger on why. I in no way dislike the Cubs. I in no way am a Cleveland Indians fan. Maybe I just like being a stick in the mud. I really can't figure it out.

That said, the Cubs finally getting it was great to see. I'm happy for their fans.

I get why so many here have feelings for the Cubs due to watching them a lot when they were young. It's the same reason my second favorite NHL team is the Rangers. (Sorry Brent) The Blueshirts are my father's favorite team. He grew up playing hockey on Lake of the Isles starting when he was five. The North Stars didn't exist until he was 17. Many fond memories watching the Rangers with my dad in the basement when I was growing up. 1994 was awesome.
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I didn't catch it until now, but you take 1994 back you SOB. You are dead to me, you mother *er. Goddam twatwaffle. :mad:


You know I'm kidding, right? Well, maybe. ;)
 
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