Miles's blog

There is a very funny ad campaign for New Era caps which has a Cubs fan talking smack to a Sox fan in a Windy City bar.  I think perhaps it must have been written by a Cubs fan the Cubs booster seems to get the better of it on tv.  I think perhaps the next series of ads might take a look at history.

The last time the Cubs won the World Series, in 1908:

·        There were only 46 states, and that many for only a year. 

·        Theodore Roosevelt was president.

·        The Wright Brothers were measuring their airplane flights in minutes, and they took on passengers for the first time.

·        Movies cost a nickle, were in black and white and would not have sound for 20 more years.

·        The first Model T Fords were rolling off the assembly line just about the time the World Series began.  It cost $850.

·        The Cubs finished second in the league in attendance with almost 700,000 fans.  Their star second baseman Joe Tinker made $3500, and Wrigley owned a gum company but not a baseball team.

·        The Olympics that year featured tug of war as a medal event.

·        Rex Harrison, Buddy Ebsen, Jimmy Stewart, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Wright were born.  Grover Cleveland, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid died.

·        The Wind in the Willows was published, Shine on Harvest Moon was a popular song (in terms of published sheet music as commercial radio was still 13 years away).

·        A touchdown was worth four points and a field goal totaled five.  The NFL was still more than a decade in the future.   Jim Thorpe was still in college, Babe Ruth still in the orphanage, and Mel Ott was still in the womb.

The White Sox won the World Series seven years ago.