Chicago

The people around Sandberg can see how pleased he is to be part of an actual baseball organization with a solid foundation and a winning tradition, instead of the Cubs, who focus on giant macaroni noodles and finding C-list celebrities to sing the seventh inning stretch.

Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has been banned from calling into Chicago sports talk stations due to his high volume of daily anti-Cubs rants, prompted by a recently unleashed hatred for the Cubs and boredom only a month after retiring from the city's top post, which he held for two decades.

The NFL lockout has forced lifelong Bears fan Frank Colwyn to focus on his marriage instead of football or football-related activities.

"Following this monumental defeat of the Cubs, that now gives the White Sox a five-game all-time advantage, I'm relieved we can all name our club the better of the two in this seemingly never-ending struggle," said White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf.

In the fifth year of his eight-year $136 million deal Cubs left fielder Alfonso Soriano has been leading the team in home runs, is near the top of the Cubs RBI list, and has been playing better defensively, but apparently he’s missed the one thing he learned to embrace his last first years in Chicago: booing.

The Mets won Game Six 25 years ago this October when Buckner--playing first for the Red Sox--failed to corral a ground ball that trickled through his legs in the bottom of the 10th inning at Shea Stadium.

"He joked that they would have left if Keith Moreland wasn't too cheap to split cab fare to a nearby fallout shelter. And then someone hit the cough button for about 30 seconds, but I’m pretty sure I still heard screaming.”