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Bill Murray chugs champagne, gives best interview after Cubs’ World Series win

'My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sisters thank you, my brothers thank you.'

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Posted on Nov 3, 2016   Updated on May 25, 2021, 4:10 pm CDT

After more than a century, the wait is over: The Chicago Cubs are World Series champions. And nobody may be happier than Bill Murray. 

The Cubs battled their way to victory in an intense Game 7 that ended with an 8-7 win over the Cleveland Indians in the 10th inning. Murray, a longtime Cubs fan, embodied the feeling of an entire city.

But Murray was only just getting started. Fox Sports handed Murray the microphone inside the Cubs locker room to interview Theo Epstein, the Cubs’ president and the mastermind who put together the team that would end the Cubs curse after 108 years without a world title. 

It was a messy affair, as you might expect. That did not, however, stop Murray from saying what was surely on the minds of virtually everyone in Chicago Wednesday night.

“My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sisters thank you, my brothers thank you,” Murray told Epstein. “Cheers.”

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*First Published: Nov 3, 2016, 8:53 am CDT

Andrew Couts

Andrew Couts is the former editor of Layer 8, a section dedicated to the intersection of the Internet and the state—and the gaps in between. Prior to the Daily Dot, Couts served as features editor and features writer for Digital Trends, associate editor of TheWeek.com, and associate editor at Maxim magazine. When he’s not working, Couts can be found hiking with his German shepherds or blasting around on motorcycles.

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