Celebrity fans celebrate the Cubs' long-awaited World Series win

CLEVELAND - Bill Murray was all up in it.

The Chicago Cubs' 2016 World Series run, which culminated with a phenomenal 10-inning Game 7 win at Progressive Field on Wednesday night, brought celebrity fans in droves throughout the playoffs. But none braved the chaos of the postgame Champagne celebration quite like Murray did, spraying booze around the cramped visitors' clubhouse in Cleveland and chatting up team president Theo Epstein in a windbreaker adorned with highball glasses and his own name in script across the back.

"What does it mean?" Murray repeated when asked what the Cubs' championship meant to him. "What do you mean, 'What does it mean?' Look around! Look all those people out there, that tells you what it means. It means a huge weight has been lifted. All this effort into wishing and hoping that it would work, that they'd win, and now it has come true. It's wonderful. It's fantastic. You believe in something that actually came true, and it's beautiful. The whole city, all its fans - they're validated. It's OK. Dreams come true. People believed in it."

Asked if he ever imagined himself celebrating the Cubs' first World Series championship since 1908, Murray confirmed, "Oh God, yes. Hell yes. Are you kidding? I've been imagining this for a long time."

Meanwhile, staying dry in the visitors' dugout while a cadre of Cubs fans braved a rainshower to catch whatever glimpses of the celebration spilled out onto the field, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder wore a Zen-like grin under his Cubs cap.

"I went to my first game when I was five," Vedder said in his unmistakable baritone. "So it's been 45 years. I'm speechless. I'm a very fortunate human being, incredibly fortunate. As is all of Chicago, to see these guys."

As the last fans meandered out of the stadium, Rage Against the Machine's one-man guitar army Tom Morello stood alone in the concourse wearing a Cubs jersey with his own name on the back.

"I've been a fan for 48 years," Morello said in a conversation not explicitly on the record that this reporter feels obligated to include here because he's so incredibly psyched that he met one of his favorite musicians of all-time. "I don't even know what to say."

Who would, really? Cubs fans famous and otherwise have spent their whole lives hoping for this, presumably under the real suspicion that it might never happen for them. And it just did.