kevin burkhardt, down to you. >> kevin: okay, joe buck. thank you very much. this clubhouse is fired up and ready to go. the commissioner rob manfred is here. we have the commissioners trophy. tom ricketts, the owner and executive chairman. lindor manager, joe maddon, the manager. we have some hardware to present. >> it's an honor to present the world series trophy. this one is historic. your fans waited 108 years and you delivered in style with a an amazing comeback. >> kevin: what does it feel like to hold this? >> it's incredible. thinking about so many millions of people giving so much love and support to this team for so many years. finally paying it back. it's all for the fans. i give all the credit to the players. joe and his great coaching staff. everything for the business in the neighborhood. it's a team effort. we are >> kevin: now you can officially say the cubs are world series champs. how does it sound? >> cubs are world series champions! i pretty good. >> kevin: go enjoy it. let's bring in theo. congratulations. i have to know. you are watching

kevin burkhardt, down to you. >> kevin: okay, joe buck. thank you very much. this clubhouse is fired up and ready to go. the commissioner rob manfred is here. we have the commissioners trophy. tom ricketts, the owner and executive manager, joe maddon, the manager. we have some hardware to present. >> it's an honor to present the world series trophy. this one is historic. your fans waited 108 years and you delivered in style with a an amazing comeback. >> kevin: what does it feel like to hold this? >> it's incredible. thinking about so many millions of people giving so much love and support to this team for so many years. finally paying it back. it's all for the fans. i give all the credit to the players. joe and his great coaching staff. everything for the business in the ne we are happy. >> kevin: now you can officially say the cubs are world series champs. how does it sound? >> cubs are world series champions! i pretty good. >> kevin: go enjoy it. let's bring in theo. congratulations. i have to know. you are watching this in the stands. what are you thinking

kevin burkhardt, down to you. >> kevin: okay, joe buck. thank you very much. this clubhouse is fired up and ready to go. the commissioner rob manfred is here. we have the commissioners trophy. tom ricketts, the owner and executive chairman. lindor manager, joe maddon, the manager. we have some hardware to present. >> it's an honor to present the world series trophy. this one is historic. your fans waited 108 years and you delivered in style with a an amazing comeback. >> kevin: what does it feel like to hold this? >> it's incredible. thinking about so many millions of people giving so much love and support to this team for so many years. finally paying it back. it's all for the fans. i give all the credit to the players. joe and his great coaching staff. everything for the business in the neighborhood. it's a team effort. we are >> kevin: now you can officially say the cubs are world series champs. how does it sound? >> cubs are world series champions! i pretty good. >> kevin: go enjoy it. let's bring in theo. congratulations. i have to know. you are watching

kevin burkhardt, down to you. >> kevin: okay, joe buck. thank you very much. this clubhouse is fired up and ready to go. the commissioner rob manfred is here. we have the commissioners trophy. tom ricketts, executive chairman. lindor epstein, the general manager, joe maddon, the manager. we have some hardware to present. >> it's an honor to present the world series trophy. this one is historic. your fans waited 108 years and you delivered in style with a an amazing comeback. >> kevin: what does it feel like to hold this? >> it's incredible. thinking about so many millions of people giving so much love and support to this team for so many years. finally paying it back. it's all for the fans. i give all the credit to the players. joe and his great coaching staff. the neighborhood. it's a team effort. we are happy. >> kevin: now you can officially say the cubs are world series champs. how does it sound? >> cubs are world series champions! i pretty good. >> kevin: go enjoy it. let's bring in theo. congratulations. i have to know. you are watching this in the stand

kevin burkhardt, down to you. >> kevin: okay, joe buck. thank you very much.his clubhouse is fired up and ready to go. the commissioner rob manfred is here. we have the commissioners trophy. tom ricketts, the owner and executive chairman. lindor epstein, the general manager, joe maddon, the manager. we have some hardware to present. >> it's an honor to present the world series trophy. this one is historic. your fans waited 108 years and you delivered in style with a an amazing comeback. tom, theo, congratulations. >> kevin: what does it feel like to hold this? >> it's incredible. thinking about so many millions of people giving so much love and support to this team for so many years. finally paying it back. it's all for the fans. i give all the credit to the players. joe and his great coaching staff. everything for the business in the neighborhood. it's a team effort. we are happy. >> kevin: now you can officially say the cubs are world series champs. how does it sound? >> cubs are world series champions! i pretty good. >> kevin: go enjoy it. let's bring in th

kevin burkhardt, down to you. >> kevin: okay, joe buck. thank you very much. this clubhouse is fired up and ready to go. the commissioner rob manfred is here. we have the commissioners trophy. tom ricketts, the owner and executive chairman. lindor epstein, the manager, joe maddon, the manager. we have some hardware to present. >> it's an honor to present the world series trophy. this one is historic. your fans waited 108 years and you delivered in style with a an amazing comeback. >> kevin: what does it feel like to hold this? >> it's incredible. thinking about so many millions of people giving so much love and support to this team for so many years. finally paying it back. it's all for the fans. i give all the credit to the players. joe and his great coaching staff. everything for the business in the neighborhood. it's a team effort. we are happy. officially say the cubs are world series champs. how does it sound? >> cubs are world series champions! i pretty good. >> kevin: go enjoy it. let's bring in theo. congratulations. pass that over. stands. what are yo

i'm kevin burkhardt. we showed you jason kipnis. how about ken rosenthal? he is standing by with one of the cubs team leaders, anthony rizzo. e time in nine days you have faced corey kluber. how much do you think the familiarity will help? >> i think it will help a lot. at the end of the day, you've got to hit pitches he makes mistakes on. if we do a good job making him throw his pitches over the plate and not expanding. i think the guys seeing him for the third time and however many days, it's beneficial. we still got to go out there and score some runs. playing game seven of the world series. what is it like that the moment is here? >> we've got to win. we have to score runs and get the lead and hold on to it like no other. it's going to be fun atmosphere. i'm grateful to be part of it. >> ken: thanks very much. >> kevin: thinks. here's the cubs lineup for game number 7. like it was in game 6. if it ain't broke, don't fix it. th and did just fine. bryant has a four hit night. contreras, heyward, baez. this cubs team, they are going to be shut out one nigh

i'm kevin burkhardt. we showed you jason kipnis. how about ken rosenthal?by with one of the cubs team leaders, anthony rizzo. the eight this will be the third time in nine days you have faced corey kluber. how much do you think the familiarity will help? >> i think it will help a lot. at the end of the day, you've got to hit pitches he makes mistakes on. if we do a good job making him throw his pitches over the plate and not expanding. i think the guys seeing him for the third time and however many days, it's beneficial. we still got to go out there and score some runs. >> ken: you grew up dreaming playing game seven of the world series. what is it like that the moment is here? >> we've got to win. we have to score runs and get the lead and hold on to it like no other. it's going to be fun atmosphere. i'm grateful to be part of it. >> ken: thanks very much. >> kevin: thinks. here's the cubs lineup for game number 7. like it was in game 6. if it ain't broke, don't fix it. they scored nine runs last night and did just fine. bryant has a four hit night. contre

here is kevin burkhardt. >> joe: craziness. frank thomas, pete rose, alex rodriguez. we are about to walk into the cubs clubhouse. we talked about it last met, the usage of aroldis chapman. do you think it was a factor? >> alex: no question. he looked like a boxer on the ropes. as a manager and a leader, you are supposed to put your pitchers and players in a position to succeed. i didn't see it. coming from last night, . >> pete: no way could i criticize chapman. he's overworked. trying to get him out, made a ballpark. line drive. first home and he's given up as a cub. that's how significant that was. what do they want from this guy? i don't understand it. i don't get it. >> alex: if there's any question, if there was any question about his toughness in his ability to compete, those questions have been answered. >> kevin: 97 pitches. overworked, over tax. we side with kluber tonight. 6-6. we had two fatigued pitchers. >> alex: two pivotal moves, you could see it coming a mile away. chapman and the game. that's why i thought the indians won the last three innings. the

here is kevin burkhardt. >> joe: craziness. frank thomas, pete rose, alex rodriguez. we are about to walk into the cubs clubhouse. we talked about it last met, the usage of aroldis chapman. do you think it was a factor? >> alex: no question. he looked like a boxer on the ropes. as a manager and a leader, you are supposed to put your pitchers and players in a position to succeed. i didn't see it. coming from last night, . >> pete: no way could i criticize chapman. he's overworked. trying to get him out, made a bad pitch ballpark. line drive. first home and he's given up as a cub. that's how significant that was. what do they want from this guy? i don't understand it. i don't get it. >> alex: if there's any question, if there was any question about his toughness in his ability to compete, those questions have been answered. >> kevin: 97 pitches. overworked, over tax. we side with kluber tonight. 6-6. we had two fatigued pitchers. >> alex: two pivotal moves, you could see it coming a mile away. chapman and the game. that's why i thought the indians won the last three inn