The Cubs vs. Indians 2016 World Series Is Unforgettable | 1 Big Thing | SC With SVP 

As a life long Cubs fan trust and believe I will never forget this World Series either

I am a lifetime Phillies fan. I will tell u I was rooting for the cubs. Go cubs. U will win another one soon

It was the greatest and most memorable US sporting event since the Miracle on Ice, and perhaps ever.

Damn, Scott! You NAILED it! Waited my whole life for it, and my 91 year-old Grandfather waited a lot longer. Gramps said that was the first time he stayed up until midnight in 25 years, and it meant the world to him. Thanks Cubbies!

Can confirm I almost didn't make it as a fan. I actually re-watched the 10th inning again like a month ago and I felt just as sick to my stomach and nervous watching that as I did the first time when I had no clue what would happen.

This guy absolutely nails it and Im a Blue Jays fan. I will never forget game 7, heck I think about it quite abit.

MOST EPIC WS IN HISTORY! I'LL NEVER FORGET GM -7 I'm still recovering from depression as a tribe fan.

Between innings 4 and 9 I screamed and cried tears of joy and anguish so many times I had nothing left almost. As a life long Cubs Fan, I can't even start talking about Game 7 without tearing up.. might be the most incredible, magical moment in sports history with everything that came to fruition that night. 150+ years combined Between the 2 teams, the game itself, the century of families that always believed that next year was our year. And it finally came. Even if die without another one, that moment will suffice me for a lifetime

I cried that night!

I remember every moment of that game still, 5 and half years later. The joy of Fowler's homer to start the game. Screaming at the TV when they pulled the Professor so early. Taking my pulse in the 7th inning and realizing I was tachycardic and that probably explained why I was light headed. The despair of Davis's home run. The rain delay, during which I turned to my wife and said, "They're going to win now...Cleveland doesn't have anyone left." Turning on the radio and realizing there was about a 30 second delay, and hearing Pat Hughes's call stating the Chicago Cubs had won the World Series and looking to the TV- incredulous, my mouth hanging open, hoping against hope I didn't just imagine it- just in time to see Bryant's play. I know it's cheesy but I fell to my knees and cried. My dad took me to my first game in 1984 at Wrigley...we'd lost him 8 months earlier. His longtime significant other, a die hard fan herself, passed not a week before game 7. Everything that had built to that moment to make it deeply personal. Then came the day after...and just like SVP said EVERYONE felt it. Everyone was talking about it. We reveled in it, enjoyed it, savored it...not just as Cubs fans but as baseball fans. Living in Wisconsin, I was surrounded by Brewers fans but even they were sucked in to the drama and magic. No better actual script could have been written...if it had, Hollywood would have thrown it out as being too unrealistic, a fantasy beyond even ILM and their amazing special effects miracles. That wasn't just a game or a World Series...that was a finite moment in history that reminded us just how f***ing awesome baseball can be.

Happy 6 years! I’ve watched this 100 times since. It is perfect!

Wow, he nailed it...Greatest World Series ever!

When Davis hit that 2 run bomb, I felt like I was going to puke. Talk about one of the most stressful/enjoyable games ever! Unbelievable!

I lost 8 lbs watching game 7. Every pitch after inning 7 was like taking a punch to the belly where the pain was inside. Even though my Cubs won..i really dont want to put myself thru that again. But Im glad I did.

Best World Series I've EVER seen!!!

I’m praying that Cleveland will go back to the World Series ‼️

Fly the W!

I waited 61 years for that moment. Could never explain the feeling

As a White Sox fan, it was good to see our fellow team win. Game 7 was arguably the best world series game in modern times. The White Sox has good ones too in 2005, but I did not feel the level of intensity that I did in this game.

i was in 5th grade. i vividly remember falling asleep during the 8th inning and woke up in the middle of the rain delay wondering what happened. when we won i couldn’t believe it. i had tears streaming down my face and will never forget it.

This year I going to be great. All of the "great moments in Cub history" can be from 2015 and 2016 now.

This wasn't just Cubs history. This wasn't just baseball history. This was AMERICAN history. Not just the realization of a 108 year old dream shared by generation upon generation of Cubs fans. It was a World Series played with class, competitiveness, and sportsmanship by both teams. There were no egos on display. No grandstanding. Just two teams playing with everything they had for their teams, for their fans, and for their cities. I believe this World Series will go down in American history as the gold standard of what professional sports should be.

I still get chills!

When they pulled out the tarp for a rain delay as a cub fan I thought here's the curse. Went outside and heaved

and of course what Van Pelt neglected to mention is that no football or basketball thing can ever be this special to this many people of such quality, bc this was real. these fans didn't learn to care about baseball by advertising in pop culture on stations such as ESPN. ESPN hates and hides baseball, as it hates and hides hockey. baseball fans, like hockey fans, learn it from their parents and families and friends and from the sport itself. it isn't sold to them. it's not a product.

let's put it this way: almost five years later, you can't go anywhere in my hometown of Davenport, IA without running into the W flag or someone wearing cubby blue. everyone I had ever known lost their minds on Facebook, including myself.

My first game was when I was in high school in the 90s. In June of 2016, I was at a concert at Wrigley and picked a few blades of grass from the infield and put it in my wallet. My friend asked, "so what's the end game there with that?" I said, "we'll find out in October." Thank you Cubs!

Most Emotional World Series Ever!!

The series made sick but game 7 nearly and literally gave me heart palpitations. After all was said and done and the jumping celebration was over, I thought about my late father. He was bawling after the ChiSox won in ‘05, here, I think he would have been inconsolable. It was bittersweet, he would have loved it.

truer words were never spoken. What an amazing series

im so glad im alive to see this GO CUBS

This wasn’t simply a championship. This was like a demon exorcism and a quickening (Highlander reference) all rolled into one! Words simply cannot do justice to describe how I went from utter sickness one moment, heart pounding out of my chest the next, to abject euphoria when the 30th and final out was recorded! I was at game 5, and it was looking like I made the trip of a lifetime, only to see the Tribe celebrating at Wrigley. What an incredible group of mentally tough young players to not give in after a 3-1 series deficit! Tougher than many of us fans after years and years, decade after decade of coming agonizingly close, only to see our elusive championship snatched away yet again. It can be very psychologically draining. But credit to Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer for forever changing the culture in Chicago!

I went to games 4 and 7, they were awesome! Cleveland's stadium is awesome and as much as I wanted the Cubs to win I feel bad for Indian fans. They were an awesome host, they were incredibly good sports to be surrounded by, I was very impressed.

64 year old life long Cubs fan here. I went to hundreds of games over the years and enjoyed thousands more on radio and TV. My dad was born in 1921 and never got to see this. Apparently I did get to see it, but because of a brain disease I don't remember it. I am told that I had a great time and enjoyed the whole season, the series, and game seven especially. I'm glad glad it happened during my life, I wish it could have happened earlier so I could remember it.

Having one of the three biggest cities in the country break a 108 yr old drought is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity.

I will never forget it

ITS A BEAUTIFUL THING

That was beautiful.

3 years and 5 months later...SVP still said it best.

Love that - I was a Cubs fan whole life - ran home from school to see end of Cubs games - knew batting stances of the Cubs - lived & died with them in 1969, 1983, 2003 my parents lived & died without seeing the Cubs win WS - when the Cubs finally won in 2016 - one of the best moments of my life. Love what he said in this video - Thank You!

As lifelong Tribe fan I’m 🥺. But as a fan of underdogs everywhere…to the Cubs and their fans I 🫡

A lot of the interest was attributable to WGN. Although the network no longer carries the games, five generations of people currently alive watched the Cubs on "the superstation" coast to coast. Even if they weren't Cubs fans, for years, people tuned in because the Cubs game was the only sporting event to watch on summer afternoons. I grew up in Indianapolis, and my parents were huge Cubs fans because of WGN, and they passed that on to me. After I moved to Chicago, one of my greatest joys was taking them to Wrigley for the first time. They were awestruck.

These were the days!

Well said, Mr. SVP

Wonderfully put.

Amen Scott.

I miss that day, everyday. Go Cubs!

Great tribute.

The best October playoff run in baseball history. Nothing anybody will say will ever change my mind.

"What if I told you ... it finally happened?" Catching Hell 2

2017, the year the Tribe wins it all!! Another epic World Series awaits this October!

Well said.

The World Series win we never thought would happen.

WORLD CHAMPIONS. END OF DISCUSSION.

I'm obviously deeply biased as a Cubs fan, but it's hard to argue with how incredible the '16 World Series was. Even if the two teams playing each other were teams that had just recently won a World Series it still would have been an incredible series. But when you factor in the two teams playing each other and how it all went down, I think it has the best argument for greatest World Series ever. When Rajai hit that 3 run homer to tie it up in the 8th, I just could not believe it. I could not believe that a curse was actually, truly real, and yet I also could not believe that I had duped myself into thinking the Cubs would actually pull through, because OF COURSE the curse was real! None of that is rational, but how can one be rational in a moment like that? When they finally won it I was so relieved, and also so stunned. It was so damned surreal. I was so happy and grateful and yet so much sorrow was with me. My dad had died 15 years prior, and my grandfather was alive in a nursing home with advanced dementia. They were the reason I became a die hard Cubs fan, but yet only I could experience the triumphal moment. I know that millions of people have a similar story when it comes to loved ones and their emotions with regards to the Cubs winning it all. It really is something that transcends mere sports, and I believe as time goes on it will increasingly be seen that way.

I believe the Cubs can and will Repeat.

I've only just now watched the game 7 highlights for the first time since 2016. Lol, it's just too much, even though I know there's a happy ending.

Greatest W.S ever 2016

This series and the Super Bowl in the same year

great series ... congrats to the Cubs but it's Tribe time in 2017!

#flythew

In this episode where SVP talks about his day...

I was distracted by the music.

Honestly, who cares how SVP was moved by a baseball game. He thinks he's making a point but he really isn't.

I already forgot who won the World Series