Throngs of Chicago Cubs fans expected for parade

To say thank you to their fans, the Cubs released a short video on Twitter today (Nov. 3) soundtracked by none other than Cubs fan Eddie Vedder.

During the parade, third baseman Kris Bryant wore a wrestling-style championship belt with a Cubs logo.

Chicago Cubs lost the ’45 Series and went more than a 100 heart breaking years without glory before finally claiming the Major League Baseball world series title in a dramatic finale on Wednesday night.

Residents should expect street closures and parking restrictions and allow extra CTA service for the Chicago Cubs’ 2016 World Series victory parade and rally Friday morning.

“It will be a parade that 108 years have waited for”, Mayor Rahm Emanuel promised.

A dream 108 frikkin long years in the making. Bartman’s spokesman, Frank Murtha, tells USA Today that Bartman is overjoyed by the Cubs first World Series title since 1908, but won’t attend the victory parade in Chicago on November 4, 2016. Well, not exactly, but it ended up being a flawless ending for long-suffering Cubs fans, who had to suffer a little longer before their team completed a terrific 3-1 series comeback to chase away all the ghosts of postseasons past. He’d always ask me about baseball, and he always wanted to talk about what was going on on the North Side of Chicago.

Players boarded open-roof buses outside Wrigley Field and began moving just before 11 a.m. with a police escort. After exciting pennant races for both teams, the Cubs won the best of seven competition in five games with little resistance.

Fans who continue celebrations into Friday night may want to considering bringing along a jacket, as lows will dip into the 40s. It will be the greatest parade in the city’s history since Ferris Bueller hijacked a float to sing “Twist and Shout”, but one person that probably won’t be there to see it (unless he goes incognito and just blends in with the crowd, which is totally possible) is Steve Bartman. The Cubs ended up blowing a 3-0 lead and losing the game 8-3.

Along the parade route and at the rally, a sea of blue-clad fans waved “W” flags and homemade signs that pronounced what they hope will become this once cursed franchise’s new moniker: “Loveable Winners”. “2016 World Champions. You heard it here first”. Thankfully with modern technology you can see all of the action unfold live.