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Pushfrog98

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ESPNChicago.com tells me that today is 10 years since the 2003 NLCS Game 6

 

a.k.a. - The day Dusty left Mark Prior in too long.

 

a.k.a. - The day Alex Gonzalez forgot how to field routine grounders.

 

I was a freshman in college, sitting in my UIC dorm room trying to figure out when the best time to hop on the train and head to Wrigley was...

 

Who wants to have a heroin party tonight?

I was a Jr. in college. I was at a concert in Decatur (Milikin) and watched the game on a big screen TV through a window while enjoying the concert. When the Bartman incident happened, nobody could really tell what happened. It wasn't until I got home that I found out exactly what went down.

 

Game 7 was much worse for me. First time I'd ever cried in front of my (now) wife.

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Junior in college still living in NH. I wanted to take off work that night at the local Kinko's (yes it was still Kinko's at the time) but since it was my 2nd week I didn't want to give a bad impression. So I worked until the 5th or 6th inning, it was still 1-0 Cubs. While driving home, I managed to catch a grainy feed of WGN's call of the game (amazingly I could pick it up quite often at night despite being 1000 miles away) and heard something that sounded like 2-0 Cubs. At that point it just felt like a year of destiny so I stupidly settled into 'Cubs are in the World Series' mode. Got home in time to see the passed ball that led to a 3-0 lead. The first full inning I saw was the 8th of course. So it's probably my fault.

 

After the 8th I glumly took a drive (after 4-5 beers, whoops I was dumb those days). Then managed to talk myself into game 7 somehow...my friend who is a Red Sox fan said something about the Fisk home run in 1975 and how the Sox still lost game 7 and that got me thinking optimistically again.

 

I'm older now, slightly less passionate about sports (in terms of it being much less life or death), but that [expletive] [expletive] still stings.

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I'd only been a Cubs fan for about 4 years, so I was dumb enough to not be THAT broken up about it, because I was young and we had Wood and Prior and Zambrano and Sammy and surely we'd be right back in contention again soon, right?

 

[expletive] stupid teenage Andy.

 

2008 still hurts more, though, both because that team was better and because I knew that was probably our best shot for some time.

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I had tickets to see Texas A&M play at Nebraska but after the Cubs beat Atlanta to move on to the ALCS I sold the football tickets and planned a trip home. Even if I wouldn't have tickets for any of the games I had to be in Chicago while the Cubs were playing in the World Series. I was sitting at home watching Game 6 getting mentally ready for the road trip in a few days when everything fell apart. I felt awful but still expected to win game 7, especially after Woody homered early on. My sister & mom had to rush my dad to the hospital during Game 7 and he wouldn't let me come with. He was a bigger Cub fan that I was so he didn't want me to miss the game. He said he wanted me to text updates to my sister so he could keep up with the game. I was so depressed after that series. I still made my trip to Chicago to visit family and even spent some time in a mostly deserted Wrigleyville the day the WS started. I never saw a single pitch of the World Series that year. Only time in my life that happened. I just couldn't bear to watch it.
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omg we're actually doing this again?

 

Apparently. Yeesh.

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omg we're actually doing this again?

 

Apparently. Yeesh.

 

I wouldn't have even noticed if it wasn't for stupid Google search and the fact that every moron article Sullivan writes seems to bubble to the top.

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I refuse to participate in this.

I was browsing NSBB when David said he refused to participate in this... :wink:

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"I remember Jim came to me two days before we got Aramis, and he said, 'What do you think about Aramis Ramirez?'" Wood said. "I said, 'I don't know him personally, but I know he's a tough out.' [Hendry] said, 'Do you think we should get him?' and I said, 'Yesterday.'"

Awww

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"I went inside to get a drink and saw they were putting the plastic up [in the clubhouse for the post-game celebration]," Wood said. "Karros had his camera set up, Juan Cruz had his camera set up. I walked back out to the dugout and [the play] happened, and I was sitting there going over the lineup for the Yankees, and thinking, 'I'm going to pitch Game 1 of the World Series.' I was going over the Yankee lineup."
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