What Does Theo Eat After Winning the World Series? GOAT
The Chicago Cubs were the best team in baseball, and finished the season off with their first World Series Championship in 108 years. The way the won, in extra innings in a Game 7 after going down three games to one, would be talked about for generations even if it wasn’t the Cubs – but just added to the magic that was the 2016 Chicago Cubs.
To be a Cubs fan you become very aware, almost immediately, about the team’s ineptitude to deliver in October. Whether poor play, bad teams, and most of all – curses, the Cubs earned the moniker of “lovable losers.” The Cubs have erased any of the so-called curses, and the way the 2016 Cubs navigated the season and postseason – it’s apparent they never existed in the first place. 
Just watching Kris Bryant’s face as he’s making the final out, smiling, almost giddy. Staring at 108 years, goats, black cats, Bartman’s, and everything else, in the face – smiling. Then in almost a perfect Cubs way, Bryant’s feet slip out from under him perfected all fans had the thought – he’s going to throw it away. but no, not this guy, not this team. He fielded cleanly, threw it to Anthony Rizzo, and the party commenced.
In Kris Bryant fashion, Theo Epstein stared curses in the face, as it stared back at him – and ate it.
When Theo came home from Cleveland, he had one request – roasted goat – and that is when Ian Goldberg and Rob Katz (owners of the Boka Restaurant Group) called chef, Stephanie Izard, who has specialized in goat. Then soon after the Cubs parade and rally throughout the city, Theo and his executive team sat in the left field bleachers, and ate a 9 1/2 pound roasted goat.
While 2016 proved there’s no such thing as a curse, it does feel fitting, that after 71 years, the first goat invited back in Wrigley was a roasted one.
Featured picture courtesy of Chicago Sun-Times
