Cubs win best thing since sliced bread for fans: Obama

MIAMI, USA – The last time the Cubs won the World Series in 1908, sliced bread literally had not been invented – a fact not lost on President Barack Obama, who calls Chicago home.

The expression is often used to describe amazing things, but also often strays into hyperbole. Not this time.

Obama – in Miami on Thursday, November 3 (Friday, Manila time) to drum up support for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton – took a moment from his usual stump speech to hail the Cubs, the crosstown rivals of his beloved Chicago White Sox.

“Down here, it’s just like every ad is depressing and there’s negative ads and there’s noise and there’s distractions and sometimes the temptation is to tune it out and you want to just focus on the Cubs winning the World Series,” he said.

“Which, by the way, even for a White Sox fan, is a pretty big deal because the Cubs have been waiting like 108 years,” Obama said.

“I was watching on television – they explained the last time the Cubs had won, Thomas Edison was alive and they hadn’t invented sliced bread yet. 

“So you know the expression ‘the greatest thing since sliced bread’? This is actually for Cubs fans the greatest thing since sliced bread. I want to congratulate the Chicago Cubs for an amazing season.”

The Cubs fought back from a 3-1 deficit in the best-of-7 series to wash away the last vestiges of their 108-year championship drought by taking Game 7 8-7 in 10 innings in the early hours of Thursday. 

After the win, Obama tweeted: “It happened: @Cubs win World Series. That’s change even this South Sider can believe in. Want to come to the White House before I leave?”

Obama later called Cubs manager Joe Maddon from Air Force One to congratulate him, inviting Maddon to bring his young team to the White House before Obama leaves office in January. – Rappler.com