That's everyone's motivation: to get to the playoffs and win the World Series.
At the end of the day, the most important goal is to get to the World Series and to win the World Series.
You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.
Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.
You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
Getting to say you're going to the World Series is a pretty special thing.
I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think.
October baseball is what it's all about.
I think the most important thing is that World Series.
I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.
If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.
Baseball is better with tradition, with history. Baseball is better with fans who care.
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
Every year you go in and you obviously want to win a World Series, at least make the playoffs.
It's so hard to win a World Series.
That's what it's all about - postseason baseball.
The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.
I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
That's our goal every year, to win the World Series, like it is at most places. In L.A., it really is.
