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101 years and counting …

Published Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 | 10:24 a.m.

Updated Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 | 10:25 a.m.

NOW

While watching the Yankees celebrate their 27th World Championship Wednesday night we Cub fans recalled the warm, fuzzy feeling we got watching President Teddy Roosevelt congratulate Tinker, Evers and Chance on winning the 1908 gonfalon.

And how Mordecai "Three-Finger" Brown grabbed the public address megaphone and said he was going to California for the so-called "second gold rush" because Disneyland wouldn't be invented for another 47 years.

THEN

The only reason the Cubs got into the Series in 1908 was because of "Merkle's Boner," which, I suppose, seems only appropriate for whatever reason you may want to come up with.

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By STARBEAMS

Nov. 5, 2009

3:48 p.m.

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Yeah, TR was a warm fuzzy feeling kinda guy, especially with his monocle, his Rough Rider hat and his stuffed animals. His baseball lore only exceeds his discreet use of national funding for the National Park System which was another warm fuzzy act because he snowballed Congress with the legislation to establish the National Park System. The system itself has been overrun by the many many pages of red tape created in the USDA by those who protend to be leaders in their field of supplemental payments due the Forestry and Smoky the Bear supporters. TR probably had a few bucks invested in the Cubs or which ever team was his team to win him the means of furthering the sport of baseball.