The 2016 World Series: Cubs vs. Indians

The form on the trust faller on Wednesday was much cleaner. Straight back, no bent knees, just all-around more practiced (or in reality, more drunk) than the guy on Friday. That’s as much trust fall analysis as I’m willing to give about these two people.

This probably isn’t the best idea. It’s all fun and games until someone, like, you know, dies. Please stop doing this.

Chicago Cubs fans have been celebrating their team’s World Series win pretty much nonstop since the World Series ended on Wednesday night, but the official championship parade for Chicago begins on Friday at Wrigley Field.

Follow all the best moments from the parade right here!

The Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time since 1908, and on Friday they’ll parade through the streets of Chicago with generations of fans celebrating an achievement 108 years in the making.

Follow all the best moments from the parade right here!

The Chicago Cubs returned home as conquering heroes on Thursday after winning their first World Series in 108 years, and the club will be celebrated with a parade through the streets of Chicago on Friday.

Follow all the best moments from the parade right here!

Google search trends may seem boring, and there’s a reason for that. They’re really boring like 99 percent of the time. But hold on a second — you can find some real amazing gems.

Here’s the Google search trends for the Cleveland Indians’ parade.

The World Series’ Game 7 was incredible, and the televisions ratings reflected it. The Fox broadcast of the game eclipsed the 40-million viewer mark and is the most-watched baseball game in the last 25 years, according to Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand.

The huge ratings make sense. The Cubs are in an enormous market and had a 108-year championship drought, while the Indians also hadn’t won a championship in decades. The games early on were great, but Cleveland’s blown 3-1 lead to set up Game 7 was even more thrilling. Then the game itself blew even the wildest expectations out of the water and even needed an extra inning, giving fans plenty of time to make sure they were watching the game somewhere before it was all over. It felt like a couple million fans were watching on Chicago streets alone.

The city of Chicago will have a championship parade over a century in the making, celebrating the Chicago Cubs’ World Series victory on Friday through the streets of downtown.

The Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 on Wednesday night at Progressive Field in Cleveland, completing their comeback from down three games to one in the World Series, and winning their first championship since 1908.

There was not one, but two major victories in last night’s Game 7 World Series finale.

After 108 years, the Cubs finally (!) broke the curse and became World Series champions. And, just seconds after their Game 7 victory, Chicago’s elderly fans won our hearts.

Printing actual hard copies of papers is a process that takes some time. But because people want their newspapers delivered before they wake up, you’ve also got to rush. Which meeeeeeeans that when Game 7 of the World Series goes into extra innings after a rain delay, a recap of the whole game’s events might miss the print deadline. And so you get this in Lafayette, Ind.:

The beauty of this -- and honestly, it’s beautiful, because a print deadline is a calculated hard stop that must be respected -- is that it’s all true. Rajai Davis’ homer for Cleveland *did* send the game to extra innings and *did* technically make the Cubs wait a little longer to end their World Series drought. And of course, the online edition has everything covered:

President Barack Obama is an avowed White Sox fan, but he set that aside to root for the Chicago Cubs in their quest to end a 108-year championship drought.

Now that the Cubs have actually, really, seriously won the World Series, Obama wants to personally congratulate them before he leaves office.

One of the very best things ESPN does, along with 30 for 30 and its magazine writing, is the SportsCenter commercials. With the Cubs winning the World Series, they did it again. This one is just perfect in every way, finally erasing that 108 years number to put a zero on the board.

We hope the UConn Husky is OK, though!

With the Cubs winning the World Series, the city of Chicago figures to be one giant party for the foreseeable future. Theo Epstein will probably be right in the middle of it.

It didn’t take him long to figure out what his next plan was after guiding the Cubs to a championship.

In 1984, the Chicago Cubs lost to the San Diego Padres in the National League Championship Series. It was at some point after that, this Cubs fan decided to stow away a beer for when the Cubs finally won it all.

He kept that beer for 32 long years. Wednesday night, he finally got to crack it open.

Bill Murray waited a long time to watch the Chicago Cubs win the World Series and now he’s soaking up every second of the celebration.

He started out cheering in the stands like a normal fan.

The treasured oaks at Toomer’s Corner are a storied landmark in college football housed at Auburn University. A simple tradition fans have is covering them in toilet paper to celebrate stuff. Yeah, it’s kinda weird, but it works. After the Cubs clinched the World Series, you bet Cubs fans in the deep south got to rolling.

We should note that Cubs catcher David Ross played baseball at Auburn. This was technically his third World Series. He played for the Boston Red Sox, but also went to a College World Series while he played for the Tigers.

Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago, so of course she was rooting for the Cubs in a thrilling Game 7 on Wednesday. They won, and look how happy she is!!!

Clinton personally tweeted about it, too.

All of Chicago is blissful mayhem after the Cubs’ World Series win, and surely some big and costly things are getting damaged, but I would like to call attention to this very specific act of vandalism:

THE CUBS ARE WORLD SERIES CHAMPS, FUCK THE NEW AUTUMN CARVED TURKEY! WHO CARES ABOUT CRANBERRY MUSTARD SAUCE AT A TIME LIKE THIS!? CEASE CARVING TURKEY WITHOUT ARTIFICIAL PRESERVATIVES THIS INSTANT!

Did you ever think you’d see the day? The Chicago Cubs have won the World Series. Nike makes some great commercials, but this one touches anyone who’s ever played ball by themselves and dared to dream.

I’ve been that kid and I bet you have, too.

There is nobody who represents the Cubs more than Harry Caray. The legendary broadcaster called Cubs games for 16 years. This commercial ran right after Chicago finished up their first World Series championship in 108 years.

Caray was one of us, never exhibiting the pretense or polish of other slick TV men. He’s famous for, among other things, sharing a Bud with legendary fan Bill Murray one time in the booth. He may have broadcasted other teams in his career, but he connected with Cubs fans: he was their voice more than any other team’s.

The Chicago Cubs won their first World Series championship in 108 years with a thrilling seven-game triumph over the Cleveland Indians. And for his efforts on Wednesday night and throughout the series, Ben Zobrist was named World Series MVP.

Zobrist is the first Cub ever to win a World Series MVP, since there was no such award in 1908, the last time the Cubs won it all.

Watching the Cubs fans live outside Wrigley Field — following on their phones and on that giant scoreboard — was an excellent way to experience the prolonged, nerve-racking experience of Game 7. Watching them celebrate the final out was sublime:

The cascade from people seeing that the final out had happened, to finally seeing that CUBS WIN! is awesome, and so is this:

The Cleveland Indians lost a 3-1 lead, and if anyone can relate, it’s definitely the Golden State Warriors. Hi, Draymond!

It doesn’t matter if you coach for another team now, either. Here’s former assistant/temporary head coach Luke Walton.

Anthony Rizzo might have had the most heads-up play of the World Series on the last out of the game. No, we’re not talking about him actually recording the out — it’s the sly-as-hell way he immediately stashed that legendary baseball in his back pocket.

Who knows what Rizzo’s plans for the ball are. Perhaps he’ll give it to the club. Maybe it will adorn his mantle for the rest of his life. Heck, maybe he’ll eBay it in a few years and buy a boat.

It looks like Cubs fans are about to celebrate winning their first World Series in 39,467 days. They’re willing to watch the winning moments anywhere.

No, seriously, all these Chicagoans want is a television.

There hasn’t been a rain delay in the World Series since 2008, which caused a rule to be put in place that all World Series games must be fully completed (there was a postponement in 2011, but it was before the game started). It’s Game 7 of the World Series tied at 6 headed into the 10th inning — this game must be completed.

Right now, play is expected to resume at 12:15 a.m. ET.