Re: Rizzo Nickname

[Sammy Sofa]

1984 was my first year as a Cubs fan. Almost put me off for life.

 

Oooh, yeah, I'm not sure if I would have made it.

 

I was only 5, but I remember it clearly because that's when my dad basically decided to make me a Cubs fan. With how the team was doing he started getting me baseball cards and going over the box scores in the paper and we'd watch tapes of the games sent to us (we lived in Panama at the time). I just went all in because of how passionate my dad was over it and remember being so heartbroken when I saw how much it destroyed him with how it ended.

[XZero771679666304]

1984 was my first season of paying real attention to the Cubs as well. But when you're that young, you're optimistic and resilient and the [expletive] doesn't eat you alive yet. Sure, you feel crushing disappointment, but only until you wake up the next morning.

[cl smooth]

that trade was a master stroke. thanks a million padres.

 

Now we're even for 1984.

 

You couldn't have possibly been around in 1984. Nothing could make up for that.

 

See you in hell, Steve Garvey.

 

this.

 

my brother has steve garvey to hate for the rest of his life; i have will clark. that [expletive] ruined my 7th birthday. there's been better cubs team that made the playoffs later on, but [expletive] that '89 team is my favorite.

[weis21]

1984 was my first year as a Cubs fan. Almost put me off for life.

 

Oooh, yeah, I'm not sure if I would have made it.

 

I was only 5, but I remember it clearly because that's when my dad basically decided to make me a Cubs fan. With how the team was doing he started getting me baseball cards and going over the box scores in the paper and we'd watch tapes of the games sent to us (we lived in Panama at the time). I just went all in because of how passionate my dad was over it and remember being so heartbroken when I saw how much it destroyed him with how it ended.

Were you really heart-broken when a sports team lost as a 5-year-old? I think I was only heartbroken when I finished eating all the play-do #fat youth

 

I guess I can understand if it upset your Dad that much, though. Still not sure I would totally comprehend everything. Maybe I was just on the spectrum.

[Sammy Sofa]

Well, I said right there that I was more heartbroken over how it effected my dad. But that was the year where I started following baseball and getting baseball cards and playing teeball and such and stuck with it ever since.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Sorry @thekapman but the "Rizz Kid" and the "Rizzard of Oz" aren't going to cut it. Rizzo doesn't need a nickname. He's just Rizzo. #Stop

[Clem Fandango]

Sorry @thekapman but the "Rizz Kid" and the "Rizzard of Oz" aren't going to cut it. Rizzo doesn't need a nickname. He's just Rizzo. #Stop

 

Kaplan needs to stop being so Rizziculous

[Guest]

Sorry @thekapman but the "Rizz Kid" and the "Rizzard of Oz" aren't going to cut it. Rizzo doesn't need a nickname. He's just Rizzo. #Stop

Paul Sullivan the voice of sanity? What is the media world coming to?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I know, I nearly [expletive] myself when I saw that. I expected something along the lines of "Cheese Rizz" from him.

[bukie]

So it's too soon to refer to the 2013 season as the Rizzorection?

[Old Style]

that trade was a master stroke. thanks a million padres.

 

Now we're even for 1984.

 

You couldn't have possibly been around in 1984. Nothing could make up for that.

 

See you in hell, Steve Garvey.

 

Well, I WAS alive in 1984, but I was still very young. I was three during those playoffs. I have only very brief memories of that season, like "Jody Davis hitting a double" on a WGN game and that was it.

 

I can remember watching their games before heading to the high school for my games. Toward the end of the season, I'd rush home after football practice to (hopefully) catch the end of the games. I remember the clincher in Pittsburgh very well, my dad actually had a tear in his eye. I also remember being depressed for a week after the lost in San Diego.

 

There is nothing that can make up Steve [expletive] Garvey.

We had 2 World Series tickets in our hands. I believe it was for Game 5. I begged my dad to keep them instead of returning them for a refund. I wonder what they'd be worth now if he had listened to me.

[Banedon]

So it's too soon to refer to the 2013 season as the Rizzorection?

 

Winning the World Series is our New Year's Rizzolution.

[Guest]

The Riz is growing on me.

[Gingerballs Lives]

The white Sammy Sosa.

[erik316wttn]

Yeah, I'm still going with "God."

[17 Seconds]

i shall call him anthony

[DiamondMind]

I was only 5, but I remember it clearly because that's when my dad basically decided to make me a Cubs fan. With how the team was doing he started getting me baseball cards and going over the box scores in the paper and we'd watch tapes of the games sent to us (we lived in Panama at the time). I just went all in because of how passionate my dad was over it and remember being so heartbroken when I saw how much it destroyed him with how it ended.

 

as much as your posts aggravate me sometimes, hard to dislike you after a post like that. we'll win it one day buddy.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I was only 5, but I remember it clearly because that's when my dad basically decided to make me a Cubs fan. With how the team was doing he started getting me baseball cards and going over the box scores in the paper and we'd watch tapes of the games sent to us (we lived in Panama at the time). I just went all in because of how passionate my dad was over it and remember being so heartbroken when I saw how much it destroyed him with how it ended.

 

as much as your posts aggravate me sometimes, hard to dislike you after a post like that. we'll win it one day buddy.

 

Similar story, but replace Dad with Grandmother. I always tell them that the end of game 5 of the NLCS was the first time I'd ever seen an adult cry.

[bcl412]

I feel bad for all you who had to go through '84 and '03. '03 was bad enough.

[Splendid Splinter]

I feel bad for all you who had to go through '84 and '03. '03 was bad enough.

 

 

Just curious since I was born in '84 so I don't know how bad that was. Was it as bad as '03? I was in college and I remember after the whole Bartman/A Gonz fiasco, my dorm basically turned into a riot. Kids were throwing stuff out the window or into the hallway and I'm pretty sure I've never heard so much cussing as I did that night.

[Clem Fandango]

I feel bad for all you who had to go through '84 and '03. '03 was bad enough.

 

 

Just curious since I was born in '84 so I don't know how bad that was. Was it as bad as '03? I was in college and I remember after the whole Bartman/A Gonz fiasco, my dorm basically turned into a riot. Kids were throwing stuff out the window or into the hallway and I'm pretty sure I've never heard so much cussing as I did that night.

 

After the '03 series was over I got black out drunk and apparently tried to chop down a tree in the back yard while yelling obscenities at it.

[weis21]

The Truth

 

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[erik316wttn]

I feel bad for all you who had to go through '84 and '03. '03 was bad enough.

 

 

Just curious since I was born in '84 so I don't know how bad that was. Was it as bad as '03? I was in college and I remember after the whole Bartman/A Gonz fiasco, my dorm basically turned into a riot. Kids were throwing stuff out the window or into the hallway and I'm pretty sure I've never heard so much cussing as I did that night.

 

For those who lived through both, which was worse? '84 or 2003?

[17 Seconds]

2-4, just turned around around a 99 mph fastball for a rocket off the bottom of the wall

[Backtobanks]

I feel bad for all you who had to go through '84 and '03. '03 was bad enough.

 

 

Just curious since I was born in '84 so I don't know how bad that was. Was it as bad as '03? I was in college and I remember after the whole Bartman/A Gonz fiasco, my dorm basically turned into a riot. Kids were throwing stuff out the window or into the hallway and I'm pretty sure I've never heard so much cussing as I did that night.

 

For those who lived through both, which was worse? '84 or 2003?

 

Don't forget 1969.