Video: Watch Jimmy Kimmel Make 'Cubs Crier' Well Up With Joy Again

By Stephen Gossett in Arts & Entertainment on Oct 27, 2016 7:05PM

Even if you’re among the roughly four residents of the Chicago area without an insatiable capacity for Cubs content, chances are you’re nonetheless familiar with Ryan Slagle—even if the name doesn’t ring a bell.

Video of the Fort Wayne, IN-based fan succumbing to tears, broadcast on WGN-TV, the night the Cubs triumphed in the NLCS, cemented Slagle in the gallery of the playoff run’s “faces,” right up there with Bill Murray. (<Murray, incidentally, let the waterworks out himself when the Cubs dramatically won Game One of the Championship Series, thanks to Miguel Montero's pinch-hit grand slam.)

Slagle was back on TV on Wednesday night, Jimmy Kimmel Live! correspondent Guillermo Rodriguez caught up with the living proof of yes-there-is-crying-in-baseball, at Sluggers.

Slagle, who was serving in Iraq when the Cubs were in the playoffs in 2003, told Kimmel he’s been getting plenty of grief about his tears of joy.

“My life has been flipped upside down. My man card has been pulled away. I don’t know what to do with myself”

(Kimmel replied wisely, “If you ever propose, you better cry.”)

As it happens, Slagle didn’t last the length of the segment before flashing his now famous Cry Face again, as Kimmel surprised him with a trip to a World Series game, which prompted, well, you know.

Death to gender stereotypes, and go Cubs!

[H/T Red Eye]