Hillary Clinton's excited face is every Chicago Cubs fan right now
On Saturday, the Chicago Cubs made the World Series for the first time since 1945. Hillary Clinton caught the game. And she made *that* face again -- you know the one.
Chicago defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0, breaking a drought of 71 years.
Nick Merrill, traveling press secretary for Clinton, tweeted a picture of the Democratic presidential nominee looking positively enthralled by the Cubs' win.
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Always one to look a gift horse in the mouth, the internet was soon lost in debate about whether Clinton was a Cubs or a Yankees fan. Of course, Clinton was born in Chicago, but became a New York senator. Where do her true affections reside?
The historical documents provide a mixed picture by way of merchandise choices.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, which traced her flip floppery on the issue, Clinton laid out how she could be both during a 2014 speech for the Economic Club of Chicago.
"When I was a little girl, I quickly caught on that being a Cubs fan was more of a tenet of religious faith than any kind of passing fancy," she said. "Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan, but my personality was such that I couldn’t stay hitched only to a losing team and I couldn’t, with all due respect to my dear friends from my childhood who are rapid Sox fans, I could not become a Sox fan.
"So I had to search for a team that would counterbalance the experience of losing every single year, so — I hate to say this, and I know you’ll probably boo me -- I became a Yankees fan."
Baseball politics. So confusing.
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Ariel Bogle was an associate editor with Mashable in Australia covering technology. Previously, Ariel was associate editor at Future Tense in Washington DC, an editorial initiative between Slate and New America.
