LaRussa vs. Fat Newspaper Guy

[RonnieWooWooSanto]

Hawk Harrelson just described the situation as "someone with that paper down there in St Louis wrote an article saying that someone with the Cardinals organization said that the Cubs had no chance." He then said he talked with someone very familiar with the situation who said the newspaper guy "is a real butthole." Seriously.

 

Shouldn't that be Pujol.

[snoodmonger]

Hawk Harrelson just described the situation as "someone with that paper down there in St Louis wrote an article saying that someone with the Cardinals organization said that the Cubs had no chance." He then said he talked with someone very familiar with the situation who said the newspaper guy "is a real butthole." Seriously.

 

Just when you though a situation couldn't get any dumber, Hawk harrelson weighs in.

[cubfan87]

I never saw an answer to the video question so here is my assumption. At Busch they have the ball under the hat game that they play on the video board. A baseball goes under one hat, the hats all move around as does the ball, and then the stadium tries to guess which hat the ball is under. I've been at a non-Cubs game at Busch where they have played this video and specifically put on the board that this was the Cubs version. At the end of the video there would be an arrow pointing at the hat that the ball was under. As I said, this is just an assumption about the video that TLR was unhappy with. I never saw it at a Cubs/Cards game but have seen the video several times at other games.

[Chris]

he's playing for nashville this year...

 

Was not aware of that. Time to take in some Sounds games.

[Chris]

I never saw an answer to the video question so here is my assumption. At Busch they have the ball under the hat game that they play on the video board. A baseball goes under one hat, the hats all move around as does the ball, and then the stadium tries to guess which hat the ball is under. I've been at a non-Cubs game at Busch where they have played this video and specifically put on the board that this was the Cubs version. At the end of the video there would be an arrow pointing at the hat that the ball was under. As I said, this is just an assumption about the video that TLR was unhappy with. I never saw it at a Cubs/Cards game but have seen the video several times at other games.

 

I've seen that video clip for years at Cubs/Cards games at Busch but maybe I was going to the right game in the series. I haven't been to a Cubs/Cards game at Busch since the new park opened, but they're pretty harsh at the Cubs and their fans. Another favorite would be to have a contestant in a game who is a Cards fan that's married to a Cubs fan. They would introduce the contestant and follow with, "whose ignorant husband/wife is a Cubs fan".

[Laura]

Cubs.com[/url]"] "I didn't like the article and thought it was silly," Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee said Saturday. "But after awhile, you forget about it. It wasn't classy."

[wekse]

Curses are make-believe, just like elves, gremlins, and scrappy and gritty short white guys whom 80% of the sportswriters in this country live out their childhood dreams through.

 

There was nothing make-believe about Macias. I've seen him and he's scary!

 

he's playing for nashville this year...i haven't decided whether or not i wanna heckle him or be his biggest fan...i think being his biggest fan would be funnier....you know, showing up to every game with a sign that has his face on a gremlins body...continuously singing my praises for him and asking him for and receiving his autograph an obscene amount of times this year.

 

Be His Fan!!!!!!!!!

 

i believe that's what i'm gonna do....time to get the sign made (i'm actually going to a sign shop in town to have one made, haha)...might have to get a t-shirt as well and what i'll do is just have him sign it repeatedly...this is going to be a great summer at the ballpark

[mul21]

As a Cubs fan living in St. Louis, I have to agree with wolf here. Miklasz is definitely one of the least homerish P-D writers and one of the few guys on sports radio down here that will call out the Cardinals when they deserve it and pat them on the back when they deserve it. May have to do with the fact that he's originally from somewhere other than here. In general (there are a few exception) sports guys down here are either total homers or they just bring up ridiculous crap all the time to critcize the home teams whether it's deserved or not. There are really only about 2 sports shows I can stand to listen to and Miklasz's is one of them. I was really hoping he and Tony would get into it and he would just fall on Tony and crush him or something so I wouldn't have to listen to his whiny a** for a while.

[A New Era]

I wish Larussa would not do things to make me respect him.

 

"yuck, gotta bad taste to it, saying that".

[cubweiser03]

I liked it when the big fatty stood up and tried looking TLR down and Tony was like...WTF...are you getting in my face. It looked like that started to piss him off more. I really though TLR was going to go off on him but they cut the video.

 

The way the big huge reporter was sitting all lean backed it looked like it was a big mac wrapper and not his note pad.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

I want to see the video.

[wolf stansson]

I want to see the video.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Thanks!

[FergieJ31]

There has to more to this story than meets the eye, right?

 

The column was a big fat nothing. Just a not-very-clever throwaway "poem" about a few Cub historical foibles and tired cliches ... so what? Mariotti-ish trashtalk. Nothing to get anyone's panties in a bunch. It's not like the columnist asserted TLR and the Cardinals are saying the Cubs have no chance unless I'm missing something - then I could understand him being upset.

[soccer10k]

"When there's a cheap shot against the Cubs, I don't want to be a part of it."

 

So when some idiotic newspaper writer puts out a stupid column, LaRussa is outraged because he is quoted in the article. But when a Cub pitcher accidentally (with a curveball) hits a Cardinal and you come back the very next inning and have a Cardinal pitcher drill a Cub hitter (with a fastball) that's okay. Get your priorities straight Tony. Don't BS us like this. This is bush league by TLR. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't agree with what the columnist wrote but there is no need to boycott a whole newspapers questions because of what one moron wrote.

[wolf stansson]

when a Cub pitcher accidentally (with a curveball) hits a Cardinal and you come back the very next inning and have a Cardinal pitcher drill a Cub hitter (with a fastball) that's okay.

Not a fan of bean ball?

 

 

I think this may have something to do with Lou and Tony being buds and Tony not wanting him to get the wrong idea.

[TruffleShuffle]

whoa, whoa... WHOA. An overweight newspaper reporter? I don't believe it.

[macuser2]

Meh.

 

If the Cubs sweep the Cards will any of this really matter?

 

I am more concerned with having to listen to Joe Morgan tonight, I am sure he will talk about it...... Oh wait, I can listen to the audio on XM. :D

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I thought the reporter was about to start shouting to Tony, "Get in my belly!"

[CubmanPi]

Lou Piniella's Seattle Mariners tie the record set by player-manager Chance's 1906 Cubs team with 116 wins and, like Chance's Cubs, do not win the World Series (M's lose in the ALCS). He'll fit in.

I wonder if spending the entire article calling the Cubs losers, then specifically calling out his friend Piniella and saying he'd fit right in, is part of what pissed him off.

[soccer10k]

when a Cub pitcher accidentally (with a curveball) hits a Cardinal and you come back the very next inning and have a Cardinal pitcher drill a Cub hitter (with a fastball) that's okay.

Not a fan of bean ball?

 

 

I think this may have something to do with Lou and Tony being buds and Tony not wanting him to get the wrong idea.

 

I don't like it when a manager orders a bean ball for no reason. If a pitchers is throwing bean ball, he's not going to throw a curve. There was no reason for LaRussa to order his pitcher to throw at a Cub hitter but he did anyway. That I have no respect for.