Listening to Lin Braehmer's show this morning on WXRT and the first song he played was B.B. King's "The Thrill Is Gone." He couldn't have played a better song to sum up the NLCS for me.
Lin said that after the game (he and his wife have season tickets and he is a huge Cubs fan) decided to go into a Wrigleyville watering hole for a soothing drink when they saw a table full of Mets fans. He was nice enough to order them a round, even though he hates the Mets. A lot of us still remember 1969. But worse of all, one of them was wearing a Mets jersey with the name Vetter on the back of it. Everyone knows that Eddie Vetter of Pearl Jam is an ultimate Cubs fan. That really hurt Lin.
Yesterday morning, he broadcast from Wrigley Field as the Cubs faced elimination and started with the part from "Animal House" after Dean Wormer had come into Delta House and told them they were all expelled. That is when Bluto got up and uttered those remarkable words: "Over?! Over?! Nothing is over until we say it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! And it ain't over now!"
Thanks for Putting It Into Perspective, Mr. Braehmer. --RoadDog
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Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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