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Related: About this forumAnd the Cubs are the best team in baseball this year
Hillary is a life-long Cubs fan, and how amazing would it be if the Cubs finally broke their curse and she was the first woman president was elected?
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And the Cubs are the best team in baseball this year (Original Post)
Fast Walker 52
Oct 2016
OP
that's entirely defensible-- she didn't stop being just a Cubs fan, she just chose a different team
Fast Walker 52
Oct 2016
#4
former9thward
(32,077 posts)1. Maybe.
The Cubs have been finding ways to blow it for 110 years. We'll see....
oberliner
(58,724 posts)2. "I became a Yankees fan"
"Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan, but my personality was such that I couldn't stay hitched only to a losing team," said Clinton, who was born in this city and grew up in suburban Park Ridge.
"I had to search for a team that would counterbalance the experience of losing every single year, so I hate to say this, and I know you'll boo me I became a Yankees fan," she said. "I alternated my affections because it was just too hard being a Cubs fan, only being a Cubs fan."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/ct-rosenthal-hillary-clinton-1012-biz-20141010-column.html
"I had to search for a team that would counterbalance the experience of losing every single year, so I hate to say this, and I know you'll boo me I became a Yankees fan," she said. "I alternated my affections because it was just too hard being a Cubs fan, only being a Cubs fan."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/ct-rosenthal-hillary-clinton-1012-biz-20141010-column.html
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oberliner
(58,724 posts)5. It's a direct quote from Hillary in a Chicago newspaper
She has a sense of humor about it - so should you.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)7. I just don't like the cut of your jib lately
so lighten up, francis
oberliner
(58,724 posts)8. OK fair enough
You are certainly entitled to your opinion.
No offense was meant though.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)4. that's entirely defensible-- she didn't stop being just a Cubs fan, she just chose a different team
to get excited about.
I've done that too...
oberliner
(58,724 posts)6. Agreed
I did the same thing.