{"id":56216,"date":"2016-11-03T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T10:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/espn_the_cubs_finally_win_the_world_series_in_one_of_the_greatest_games_eve\/"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T10:05:22","slug":"espn_the_cubs_finally_win_the_world_series_in_one_of_the_greatest_games_eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56216","title":{"rendered":"(ESPN) The Cubs finally Win the World Series in one of the greatest games ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joy to the World: Cubs finally end 108-year Series drought &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2V38iD3PKq\">https:\/\/t.co\/2V38iD3PKq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CubsTalk?src=hash\">#CubsTalk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cubs Talk (@CSNCubs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSNCubs\/status\/794045593794580480\">November 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At least it didn&#8217;t take anything special to wipe out the longest title drought in the history of professional sports. Only the greatest World Series Game 7 ever played. That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>Move over, Jack Morris and Luis Gonzalez. Tell Ralph Terry and Madison Bumgarner they had a great run. And you, Bill Mazeroski fans, submit your case via your favorite form of social media.<\/p>\n<p>But we would argue that none of those games can top the passion, the drama and the history of Game 7 in Cleveland, on a balmy Wednesday night turned stormy Thursday morning. It took 10 exhausting innings and 4 hours and 45 exhilarating minutes. But when it finally ended, at 12:47 a.m., on Nov. 3, 2016, the giant left-field scoreboard read: Cubs 8, Indians 7. And it was suddenly possible to type a sentence that no living human has ever typed:<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Cubs are the champions of baseball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/page\/playoffs16_greatestgame7\/how-did-cubs-curse-end-greatest-game-ever\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The moment.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldSeries?src=hash\">#WorldSeries<\/a> pres. by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMobile\">@TMobile<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CsrG5yvfII\">pic.twitter.com\/CsrG5yvfII<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/794041541148823553\">November 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy to the World: Cubs finally end 108-year Series drought &#8211; https:\/\/t.co\/2V38iD3PKq #CubsTalk &mdash; Cubs Talk (@CSNCubs) November 3, 2016 At least it didn&#8217;t take anything special to wipe out the longest title drought in the history of professional sports.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56216\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,133,125,128,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-men","category-sports","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}