CHICAGO CUBS and FORD MODEL T

Perhaps you have heard. The Chicago Cubs are threatening to dispense with a 'drought' that has prevented them from being World Series Champions for more than 100 years. The last time that the Cubs were World Champions was 1908. As a reference, 1908 was the year that the Ford Motor Company Model T made its debut off the assembly line.

In fact, the Cubs have not even appeared in a World Series Game since 1945. They are currently playing the Los Angeles Dodgers for the National League Pennant, and their 'ticket' to the World Series. Game 3 of the series against the Dodgers was Tuesday night and things did not go well for the Northsiders, who got shut out, six to nothing.  Nevertheless, Cubs fever has building all season and started to dominate daily discourse in my adopted hometown of Chicago. Although the Cubs are currently on the road in Los Angeles for the middle three games of the potentially seven game series agains the Dodgers, I decided to walk by Wrigley Field yesterday to help me get into the spirit of supporting the home team.

As a younger man, I had the well-earned reputation of dressing inappropriately when outdoors in cold weather. Although it is October in Chicago, the weather was completely appropriate for wearing a short sleeved shirt yesterday.  I expect that an autumn chill will be enveloping Chicago before too long - that is why it is so important to enjoy these last gasps of warm weather before it goes into its long winter hibernation.

My visit to Wrigley Field included checking out the statues of three Cub legends.

Me and 'Mr. Cub' (Ernie Banks)

Me and 'Sweet' Billy Williams

Me and Ron Santo

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Your Food Diary For:

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker - Grits - Instant - Original, 3 packet (28 g)	300	66	0	6	930	0
Post - Great Grains (Raisins, Dates & Pecans)	600	117	11	11	385	37
	900	183	11	17	1,315	37
L U N C H
Vita Coco - Pure Coconut Water with Pineapple	120	30	0	0	80	30
Breaded Chicken Tenders	300	19	21	21	397	23
Carrotts	100	23	0	2	169	11
Baked Macaroni and Cheese	300	28	21	13	507	6
	820	100	42	36	1,153	70
D I N N E R
Broccoli Chicken Casserole	600	38	16	62	1,392	0
	600	38	16	62	1,392	0
S N A C K S
Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate Bar, 3.81 oz	500	66	32	5	39	55
Volpi - Mozzarella and Prosciutto Roltini	120	1	8	12	790	0
	620	67	40	17	829	55
Totals	2,940	388	109	132	4,689	162
Your Daily Goal	5,031	629	167	252	2,300	188
Remaining	2,091	241	58	120	-2,389	26
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 3,101 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 190.3 lbs in 5 weeks.

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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
17 MILE URBAN HIKE	240	3,101
Daily Total / Goal	240 / 30	3,101 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	507 / 210	5,915 / 4,130

from wikipedia...

The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. The team plays its home games at Wrigley Field, located on the city's North Side. The Cubs are one of two Major League teams in Chicago; the other, the Chicago White Sox, are members of the American League (AL) Central division.

The team, first known as the White Stockings, was a founding member of the NL in 1876, becoming the Chicago Cubs in 1903.

In 1906, the Cubs won a Major League record 116 games, finishing 116–36 and posted a modern-era record winning percentage of .763, before losing the World Series to the Chicago White Sox by four games to two. The Cubs won back-to-back World Series championships in 1907 and 1908, becoming the first Major League team to play in three consecutive World Series, and the first to win it twice. The team has appeared in a total of ten World Series, most recently in 1945. The Cubs have not won the World Series in 108 years, and they have not won the National League pennant in 71 years, both of which are record "droughts" in Major League Baseball. Since the start of divisional play in 1969, the Cubs have appeared in the postseason eight times. This included five trips to the League Championship Series—in 1984,1989, 2003, 2015, and 2016.

The Cubs are known as "the North Siders", a reference to the location of Wrigley Field within the city of Chicago, and in contrast to the White Sox, whose home of U.S. Cellular Field is on the South Side. The Cubs have a divisional rivalry with the St. Louis Cardinals, and an interleague rivalry with the Chicago White Sox.

this information was lifted directly from www.history.com...

1908

Ford Motor Company unveils the Model T

On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company’s Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build some 15 million Model T cars. It was the longest production run of any automobile model in history until the Volkswagen Beetle surpassed it in 1972.

Before the Model T, cars were a luxury item: At the beginning of 1908, there were fewer than 200,000 on the road. Though the Model T was fairly expensive at first (the cheapest one initially cost $825, or about $18,000 in today’s dollars), it was built for ordinary people to drive every day. It had a 22-horsepower, four-cylinder engine and was made of a new kind of heat-treated steel, pioneered by French race car makers, that made it lighter (it weighed just 1,200 pounds) and stronger than its predecessors had been. It could go as fast as 40 miles per hour and could run on gasoline or hemp-based fuel. (When oil prices dropped in the early 20th century, making gasoline more affordable, Ford phased out the hemp option.)  “No car under $2,000 offers more,” ads crowed, “and no car over $2,000 offers more except the trimmings.”Ford kept prices low by sticking to a single product. By building just one model, for example, the company’s engineers could develop a system of interchangeable parts that reduced waste, saved time and made it easy for unskilled workers to assemble the cars. By 1914, the moving assembly line made it possible to produce thousands of cars every week and by 1924, workers at the River Rouge Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan could cast more than 10,000 Model T cylinder blocks in a day. But by the 1920s, many Americans wanted more than just a sturdy, affordable car. They wanted style (for many years, the Model T famously came in just one color: black), speed and luxury too. As tastes changed, the era of the Model T came to an end and the last one rolled off the assembly line on May 26, 1927.