Doug Glanville book excerpt - being eliminated from playoffs

[CincyCubsFan]

I have the entire '03 playoffs on VHS somewhere in my mom's house. I need to dig those out one of these days and relive some of these memories...

[Butterscup1679666578]

why

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

Glanville can write. He's also the only player who's 100% Trinidadian that I know of too, so he gets points for that. The big thing is that I heard he was one of the players who was really into the analytical part of baseball. I hope he becomes well known to the mainstream as a good baseball/former player.

[Sammy Sofa]

Glanville for manager?

[biittner77]

I didn't get to see game 3 because I was stuck chapperoning the homecoming dance at school. No TV anywhere in that building. Wound up listening to parts of the game on my car radio.

[Guest]

Glanville can write. He's also the only player who's 100% Trinidadian that I know of too, so he gets points for that. The big thing is that I heard he was one of the players who was really into the analytical part of baseball. I hope he becomes well known to the mainstream as a good baseball/former player.

I don't know about that, I've seen him wax poetic nonsense on baseball tonight on several occasions. There are a lot of really smart people who are also analytical, and who also follow the old school baseball logic.

 

I wonder how he got along with some of the chuckleheads who play baseball. I could just see him on a plane with Lenny Dykstra discussing Keynesian vs. Chicago School economics.

[Guest]

http://www.somworld.com/2003/sample7.htm

[TruffleShuffle]

Glanville for manager?

 

i don't want our manager checking his smartphone from the dugout to keep up with his world of warcraft game.

[Soul]

Crap, I now like Glanville more because of that.

 

He feels exactly how I feel about '03.

 

And '84, for that matter.

[Burtonbell]

I bought tickets to Game 1 of the NLCS online from Cubs.com for $35 a ticket. Last row upper deck, section 507. isle seats. Literally the two seats on the isle on the last row. I bought 2 tickets because that's what was left.

 

Watching Sammy's HR sail on Waveland avenue was probably the highlight of my baseball life. Wrigley was louder than any Metallica, Slayer, and Pantera concert combined ever were. People were falling down the isles in jubilation. Strangers were hugging each other like a long lost relative. Sammy's name being chanted for like 5 minutes was amazing. That game, regardless of the #-o outcome, will always be the best game I ever saw.

 

I miss playoff Cubs.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Glanville for manager?

 

i don't want our manager checking his smartphone from the dugout to keep up with his world of warcraft game.

 

I so want that. I would raid with him.

[Guest]

Picked up the book at Half Price Books for 8 bucks today.

[MikeyLikesCubbies]

No way I could ever forget the red ivy he put in his hat or that triple. I was in college at the time and missed several weeks of my stats class to watch the Cubs and failed the next test badly...still was worth it.

 

I remember him really being awful late in the year, and a hopeless feeling when he was called as the pinch hitter. That triple was probably the highlight of that season for me and the moment I really felt they were going to go all the way.