2023年5月13日

幼崽不是他们曾经的可爱的失败者,但是美好的回忆2016年世界大赛赢得可能超过任何牵绊。2023年5月12日——8:57pm礼物邮件芝加哥白袜队赢得了2005年世界大赛的四连战中休斯顿太空人。它是第一个世界大赛冠军芝加哥的美国联盟系列自1917年以来,第一个从那时起也芝加哥。那是87年,虽然情感流露不等于一年前发生了什么时,波士顿红袜队赢得世界大赛首次在86年(2004年)。红袜队和他们的球迷已经消除的“小孩”的诅咒。白袜队,有一个简单的一行程序:他们被一个自去年赢得世界大赛(1919年的黑袜丑闻)。那么宝宝出现在2016年,可能超过了新英格兰狂热的红袜队赢。幼崽,已经108年之久(1908)和徒劳的在棒球的二战后时代。他们从3 - 1上涨对印地安人,赢得第七场在10局——以8:7在克利夫兰。有精彩的故事小熊队的球迷勾搭电视现场坟墓住房祖父母观看他们钟爱的柜子建立。 Several of those tales actually might have been true. "It was probably my greatest night as a sports fan," said Cory Provus, the Twins' radio play-by-play announcer and a Chicago-area native. "One reason is I had a chance to celebrate with him." Provus pointed at a photo of his father, Wayne, who died of a stroke last November. Dad was the source of Cory's lifelong passion for the Cubs. "We went to Game 4 at Wrigley," Provus said. "We lost to fall behind 3-1 in the Series. Leaving the ballpark that night, you were thinking, 'There's no chance.' " The Cubs won the final three games. The Provus contingent was elated. And then came expectations. The parade hadn't been held yet and there were the headlines: "Will the Cubs repeat?" Provus smiled and said: "Young club … we were thinking, 'This might be a dynasty.' And then ownership kind of went all 'San Diego,' like the previous time the Padres put together a promising club and then broke it all up right away. "The Cubs … those young stars. Where'd they all go?" This conversation occurred Friday at Target Field after I came to Provus with a theory: Finally winning the World Series ruined the Cubs' mystique. They are just another club with frustrated fans and very high prices. Before 2016, it wasn't frustration — it was a feeling of being star-crossed, mixed with a streak of eternal hope. You know? Exactly like fans of the Vikings. The world's out to get us … but some day the Purple will win a Super Bowl. And then you win, and you're not special anymore. Not only do you want more as a fan, you feel as though you deserve more. Look at the Red Sox. They have won three more World Series since 2004. The Yankees have won only one in that time. The Red Sox are no more lovable than the Yankees … and in a relic of a ballpark with cramped chairs and aisles. The Cubs were at Target Field on Friday to a start a three-game series, their fourth visit to this ballpark. There was a need to test my theory on lost mystique, although maybe talking with Cubs fans who had made the trip from the Chicago area to see their team might not have been an objective audience. More like an audience for the town hall meeting featuring Donald J. Trump. Robert Benjamin comes from Niles, Mich. He attended his first Cubs game in 1985, one year after the Cubs blew a 2-0 in a best-of-five NLCS vs. San Diego. "I don't know … winning the Series was great fun, and they're the same Cubs to me," Benjamin said. "I have a schedule to attend 112 games this season. I'm flying from here to Houston to see that next series." OK, let's try these two fans over here, talking happily in their Cubs gear — Nikki Jensen and Beth Hartzler from the Chicago area. They looked puzzled at my lost mystique theory and then Jensen said: "That 2016 Series was pretty good. I lost my husband to a sudden heart attack in 2018, and one of the great memories I'll always have will be celebrating the Cubs winning together." I'll give up on that note. Go ahead and win a Super Bowl, Vikings, and take away all that wondrous, bonded angst among your fans … see if I care. Patrick Reusse is a sports columnist who writes three columns per week. Write to Patrick by e-mailing sports@startribune.com and including his name in the subject line.