Chicagoans, rejoice!
After a 108-year wait for a World Series championship, the Chicago Cubs made it happen in the 10th inning tonight, when Ben Zobrist delivered a tie-breaking RBI double and Miguel Montero tacked on a critical RBI single, as the North Siders held on for an 8-7 rain-delayed victory over the Cleveland Indians in a classic Game 7 night at Progressive Field.
The Cubbies became just the sixth team in a best-of-seven World Series to overcome a 3-1 deficit and win the title, the first for the team since 1908. The Cubs led the Majors with 103 wins during the regular season.
{Matzav.com}
Very important news for what you claim to be a Frum Jewish website. Shame on you for succumbing to the goyishe entertainment industry. Stick to news that matters.
As if we need matzav to tell us this. Get with the program, either you’re “frum content” or not, but don’t mix and match
Oh come on…Chill out people. In today’s world sports is some nice, clean fun. Why is it that every time any sports item is mentioned, all the holy people protest? Where’s all the complaining when something might be lashon harah???
Ditto
matzav is run by gevorineh American yeshiva leit who never gave up their sports addiction from back in the day when the mets won in 86 and mike francesca is the gadol.
So basically we had a battle between the 2 Telshe’s. Telshe Cleveland & Telshe Chicago. Chicago won, but lemaaseh it was a nail biter down to the end. No sofek that there were a lot of chevra from both places, listening in their dorm rooms. Brings back memories from when I was in an out of town Yeshiva back in the 80’s. Got into trouble listening to the Dolphins, with Don Shula, lose to the Redskins in the Super Bowl. Nu nu.
I heared on Daas Torah say Moshiach will come when the Cubs win the world series. I guess its time for the geula.
108 years ago
The Ridbaz had already fled from Chicago.He was shot at.
There was a Sultan, a Tzar, and 2 Kaisers
The majority of countries today didn’t exist
The name Tel Aviv didn’t exist
Neither of the Poles had yet been reached by humans.
The Ben Ish Chai was alive
Rudyard Kipling had already written Chicago:
I HAVE struck a city–a real city–and they call it Chicago.
The other places do not count. San Francisco was a
pleasure-resort as well as a city, and Salt Lake was a
phenomenon.
This place is the first American city I have encountered. It
holds rather more than a million of people with bodies, and
stands on the same sort of soil as Calcutta. Having seen it, I
urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by
savages. Its water is the water of the Hooghly, and its air is
dirt. Also it says that it is the “boss” town of America.
I do not believe that it has anything to do with this country.
They told me to go to the Palmer House, which is overmuch gilded
and mirrored, and there I found a huge hall of tessellated marble
crammed with people talking about money, and spitting about
everywhere. Other barbarians charged in and out of this inferno
with letters and telegrams in their hands, and yet others shouted
at each other. A man who had drunk quite as much as was good for
him told me that this was “the finest hotel in the finest city on
God Almighty’s earth.” By the way, when an American wishes to
indicate the next country or state, he says, “God A’mighty’s
earth.” This prevents discussion and flatters his vanity.
Then I went out into the streets, which are long and flat and
without end. And verily it is not a good thing to live in the
East for any length of time. Your ideas grow to clash with those
held by every right-thinking man. I looked down interminable
vistas flanked with nine, ten, and fifteen-storied houses, and
crowded with men and women, and the show impressed me with a
great horror.
Except in London–and I have forgotten what London was like–I
had never seen so many white people together, and never such a
collection of miserables. There was no color in the street and
no beauty–only a maze of wire ropes overhead and dirty stone
flagging under foot.
A cab-driver volunteered to show me the glory of the town for so
much an hour, and with him I wandered far. He conceived that all
this turmoil and squash was a thing to be reverently admired,
that it was good to huddle men together in fifteen layers, one
atop of the other, and to dig holes in the ground for offices.
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The Chicago cubs become the Sixth team in Major League Baseball history to win the World Series from a 3-1 deficit, beating the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in 10 innings.
The win also breaks the curse of the billy goat placed on the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball franchise in 1945 by Billy Goat Tavern owner William Sianis.
The Cleveland Indians loss, continues their 68 year dry spell. The last time they won a World Series title was in 1948
I can only speak for one of the cities, but I can assure you that the Bais Medrash was absolutely full during night Seder last night.
They say that R Mottel Katz of Telz Cleveland put a curse of the Cleveland Indians that they should never win the world series when he caught two boys arguing about the Indians in middle of Davening on Rosh Hashanah.
I guess the curse stuck in a big way.