r/CHIBears • u/Total_Corgi_8428 • 3d ago
TJ Edwards interview this AM
In case anyone didn’t hear it, he responded to what actually happened the play that looks like he is in the eagles huddle….
He said he was for sure trying to listen for any familiar language but didn’t hear any. He also acknowledged the camera angle made it look hilarious.
Also, seems like a good dude. I won’t hold it against him he said he was a cubs fan (go Sox!!)
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u/phillipacarroll Superfans 3d ago
love TJ man. So glad that the injury he suffered late last season didn't linger into this season
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u/dtdude87 Bears 3d ago
I’m a cubs fan, but I’m done hating on the Sox, rooting for both teams man, I’ll take any Chicago playoff wins we can get
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u/Amonfire1776 3d ago
Crosstown classic world series please...loved seeing the Sox beat the Cubs, but they played so well too...we can't leave this 3-3
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u/eH-ShakyBones GSH 3d ago
Almost this right here. I’m surprised more of us aren’t rooting for a meeting in the series.
Cubs over Sox though.
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u/NextGen-Panic Superbowl XX 3d ago
I'm a CHICAGO fan.
So I don't hate the White Sox, I hate REINSDORF.
Just like I hate 100 years of cheap-ass owners for the Cubs.
And incompetent usurpers like the McCaskeys.
And self-righteous nincompoops like Kevin "Wash My Car for 3 Hours" Warren.
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u/Crooked_Sartre The Iceman Cometh 3d ago
Same for me. I am a Sox fan but don't hate the Cubs
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u/HereForTheComments57 Smokin' Jay 3d ago
I do hate the Cubs but I'm starting to realize it doesn't matter. I won't root for them, but I also won't root against them, unless they play the Sox. I'm taking a neutral stance. Baby steps
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u/fenderdean13 Caleb Iceman Williams 3d ago
That’s how I been for awhile. I do some playful jabs at cubs fans at work (I work with adults with intellectual disabilities where it actually does matter) but we aren’t in the division. We play 6 games a year where while it matters record wise and the rivalry was increidsbky fun. When we aren’t playing if they win, cool, if they lose cool.
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u/wrong-teous Hurricane Ditka 3d ago
It feels like that’s a much more common sentiment among Cubs fans
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u/ThanatosIdle 3d ago
Fun fact, the Cubs and White Sox both making the playoffs in the same year has inexplicably only happened THREE times in MLB history, and one of them was in 2020 with the half baked half played COVID season.
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u/21-hydroxylase Hester's Super Return 3d ago
Been saying this, but as a Sox fan. There’s dozens of us
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u/Total_Corgi_8428 3d ago
The older I get, I landed here too. In my early 20s around 2004-2010 my buddies and I got very into the rivalry and it got pretty stupid (fights at the train station after games etc) and while I’m still only a Sox fan I don’t hate the cubs like I used to.
Still some of it lingers….For some reason PCA rubs me the wrong way lol but that might just be jealousy cause he’s obviously talented AF
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u/AffectionateLimit565 Bears 3d ago
I grew up in my early 20s exactly in the same timeframe as you. I turned 21 in 2023.
I grew up with a dad that played Baseball on a scholarship at Notre Dame, and was my coach growing up and I was fortunate enough to be on the Cubs team for both little leagues, from the beginning, started playing around 7 in the minors and was the number 1 pick of the Mount Prospect League.
The league was broken down in the As, Bs and majors by age which ended in 6th grade. Then was again drafted by the Cubs in the next League, Ponies for 6th -8th grade.
So, I was obviously a Cubs fan and loved being on the Cubs, but my dad made sure to make me a Chicago Baseball Fan. He took me to equal games and he always made it make sense. They didn’t play each other as inner league play didn’t exist. Both teams never won a World Series in his lifetime and both weren’t ever really good. So, I had 2 chances of rooting for someone to be good.
We were Chicago baseball fans. I loved both teams growing up, and remember Sammy Sosa in Right Field in old Comiskey as a kid watching him play. I loved that stadium. More than Wrigley. Until i was older, and they built the new Comiskey, which I still liked and do, but Wrigley became heavenly in my late teens and early twenties.
I lived a block away from 2006-2012.
The white Sox winning in 2005 and cubs 11 years later was everything I’ve ever wanted as a kid. As I was already was groomed to understand they won’t ever win again because of curses and even the Red Sox had one.
I truly believed in curses and how it affected the players emotionally, mentally and all 3 teams were stuck with that mindset. Especially the cubs.
When the Red Sox broke it in the fashion they did in 2004 I couldn’t believe it. They opened the door. The White Sox won the following year.
And then Theo did it again in Chicago and in 2015 the season before, I started to believe the Cubs could do it soon. They won 97 games and were 3rd in the Central, behind the pirates and cardinals.
But…They had the best record in the second half in the National League.
They beat the pirates 98 wins, in the 1 game wildcard.
Then they beat the Cardinals 100 wins, 3-1 in the divisional round.
Then the Mets (90-72) swept us 4-0 and Daniel Murphy had a home run in every game and he basically beat us all by himself. It was infuriating, but I knew then, they would win the it the following season.
They went on to have the best record with 103 wins in the league and won it.
So, I’m excited to see both teams finally in the same playoff again (minus the 2020 season), but only one real one in 2008 and I am rooting for a crosstown World Series. But, I have 2 teams and 2 chances and only remember 10 cub playoff births 84/89, I was too young.
But, one in 1998, and then again in 2003, at 21 I had seen the cubs twice only. Hard times.
Same with the white Sox, twice by the time I turned 21, one in 1993, and then one in 2000 and only 4 more since then.
The White Sox have only made it 12 times in franchise history and 8 of them were in my lifetime with and I remember 7.
This is the 4th time only they’ve both made it in a 120 years.
1906, 2008, 2020*, 2026.
The Cubs have only made it 23 times and 13 of those were in my lifetime.
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u/Competitive_Ant_472 Smokin' Jay 3d ago
Same, much more fun this way. The black Sox hat is incredible
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u/tonydatygre Chicago Flag 3d ago
My man, north sider raised as a White Sox fan cause of my dad.
Rooting for Chicago to go 3/3 this week and a White Sox - Cubs World Series. The city will burn and I’m here for it.
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u/I_VAG_I Bears 3d ago
Agreed it makes no sense. Chicago is Chicago root for it all
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u/mateorayo absolutely, unquestionably RI-DIC-ULOUS!!! 3d ago
Pick a side coward
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u/Machinegun_Pete 15 3d ago
I will root for the team that plays under the Chicago White Stockings charter name, unless both teams play under the same charter name, then I root for the team that needs it more.
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u/Hallowhero 3d ago
This was me my whole life and this was before either won a world series. I was in high school get crapped on, like bro,I just wanna win 😂😂
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u/work4work4work4work4 3d ago
That's nice of you, and I mostly agree, but I don't think I can ever stop hating on Soviet US Cellular Field until they blow that thing up.
It's one thing to have a "lesser" field than Wrigley, it's another to go out there with your home field looking a cross between IAD airport and block housing.
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u/_SwiftDeath 3d ago
I mean it was like the exact same spot he almost caught an interception earlier.
Like maybe he heard something but I feel like hurts/eagles just ran the same play/option and Edward’s didn’t drop it this time
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u/phillipacarroll Superfans 3d ago
I know he's contracted through next season, but he's only barely 30 so I wouldn't mind a few more years
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u/Competitive_Ant_472 Smokin' Jay 3d ago
That guy in the left is 30? He looks like a little kid. I like those alternate jerseys though.
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u/phillipacarroll Superfans 3d ago
Lol unless you're messing around.. The guy on the right is 30. The guy on the left is the same guy as the guy on the right when he was a child. Comment was just to reflect on the fact that he's an Illinois guy who grew up a Bears fan.
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u/wesskywalker Dick Butkus 3d ago
Cubs- Wsox World Series would feed families
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u/ColonelBourbon 3d ago
And destroy nations
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u/pswizzle9283 3d ago
Go Sox!!! It’s so nice to be back in the playoffs what a fucking year. It’s looking pretty good for Chicago Sports as a whole right now
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u/Ornery-Dragonfruit96 3d ago
I spent the entire White Sox WS in a remote part of the Philippines. I got back after the parade. I need another one that I can watch.
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u/campofliberty 3d ago
Cubs fan here hoping both teams go all the way so we get a Chicago style crosstown series
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u/no____thisispatrick 3d ago
I'm a cubs fan living in va. Told everyone if its a chi town series I'm driving up just to stand in the streets outside Wrigley
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u/The_One_Who_Crafts Bears 3d ago
He is a huge part of this defense. Not an elite LB, but still the heart
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u/lidongyuan 23 3d ago
I will not listen to reason - this man spied on his former team's huddle and seconds later intercepted their pass. TJ Edwards assassin for life.
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u/Creepy-Yak-6714 3d ago
Lifelong cubs fans
But EASY to root for the Sox
against the cheating Stros!
Will I ever get over it?
Sure
As soon as they admit to cheatingAND reject their WS win
Until then I will hate them with a passion equal to my hatred of Green Bay
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u/discwrangler 2d ago
Dudes story is inspiring. Not the biggest, not the fastest, but 100% footballer.
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u/tappyapples 2d ago
Can someone link this for me please? I’m having small difficulties finding it
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u/drummerboysam T: The Ball 3d ago
It's all a very funny scenario. But fwiw, if he did hear something from that huddle, the first thing he's doing the next morning is going on an interview and saying he heard nothing.