Random Cubs Musings

[ConstableRabbit]

YO PEOPLE: What, in youse guyses opinions, is the best book on Cubs history?

It's not totally Cubs history, but Crazy '08 was awesome.

[Derwood]

YO PEOPLE: What, in youse guyses opinions, is the best book on Cubs history?

 

 

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71f-NHFLNhL._SL1300_.jpg

 

[profisme]

Fall Out Boy has a song about Uma Thurman?

 

Can't we just have Uma Thurman re-enact her role from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen on stage instead?

[Guest]

YO PEOPLE: What, in youse guyses opinions, is the best book on Cubs history?

 

we don't get to have good cubs books like jonah keri's expos or rays book or billy beane's a's book. all our books suck and are fully of sappy romanticism of losing or meatballery about curses and crap or both.

 

if anyone can prove me wrong i'd love to read an actual good cubs book.

There's a decent short story about the Cubs written by Rany Jazayerli up on Grantland right now.

 

honestly, if and when this "rebuild" results in on field success, i would love to read a book about this whole period and what went on front office wise

 

but if we got it it would probably end up being written by some hack like rozner or something

[Guest]

YO PEOPLE: What, in youse guyses opinions, is the best book on Cubs history?

It's not totally Cubs history, but Crazy '08 was awesome.

 

Damnit, I totally was expecting something about 2008

[Guest]

YO PEOPLE: What, in youse guyses opinions, is the best book on Cubs history?

It's not totally Cubs history, but Crazy '08 was awesome.

 

Seconded.

[Clem Fandango]

Fall Out Boy has a song about Uma Thurman?

 

Haven't heard it, but I'm going to assume that it has as much to do about Uma Thurman as "Clint Eastwood" has to do about Clint Eastwood

[Guest]

Fall Out Boy has a song about Uma Thurman?

 

Haven't heard it, but I'm going to assume that it has as much to do about Uma Thurman as "Clint Eastwood" has to do about Clint Eastwood

 

 

it has a riff that is a play on the pulp fiction theme song and references dancing like uma

[Clem Fandango]

Fall Out Boy has a song about Uma Thurman?

 

Haven't heard it, but I'm going to assume that it has as much to do about Uma Thurman as "Clint Eastwood" has to do about Clint Eastwood

 

 

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[Derwood]

That's the Munsters theme song, not Pulp Fiction

[ConstableRabbit]

YO PEOPLE: What, in youse guyses opinions, is the best book on Cubs history?

It's not totally Cubs history, but Crazy '08 was awesome.

 

Damnit, I totally was expecting something about 2008

It's far more interesting than a 2008 story could have been, IMO.

[Guest]

That's the Munsters theme song, not Pulp Fiction

 

ha, good call old man. i knew i recognized it though. that counts for something.

[Sammy Sofa]

The album is called American Beauty/American Psycho?

 

[expletive], CUBS.

[Guest]

YO PEOPLE: What, in youse guyses opinions, is the best book on Cubs history?

It's not totally Cubs history, but Crazy '08 was awesome.

 

Damnit, I totally was expecting something about 2008

It's far more interesting than a 2008 story could have been, IMO.

 

go talk to OMC. old timey baseball with their weird baggy uniforms and lack of racial diversity bores me.

[ConstableRabbit]

YO PEOPLE: What, in youse guyses opinions, is the best book on Cubs history?

It's not totally Cubs history, but Crazy '08 was awesome.

 

Damnit, I totally was expecting something about 2008

It's far more interesting than a 2008 story could have been, IMO.

 

go talk to OMC. old timey baseball with their weird baggy uniforms and lack of racial diversity bores me.

It's not interesting because of the uniforms and skin colors; it's interesting because it's reflective of what the world was like 100+ years ago, which is very, very different.

[seanimal]

"Remarkable"

 

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TnZu4kOGL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

 

lmao i own that. it's depressing

[Guest]

is that just one of those stupid books that takes a bunch of tribune pictures and articles and makes them a "book?"

[seanimal]

is that just one of those stupid books that takes a bunch of tribune pictures and articles and makes them a "book?"

 

basically

[Guest]

i may actually have that thing stuffed in a box at my mom's house with a bunch of 2003 newspapers.

[UMFan83]

YO PEOPLE: What, in youse guyses opinions, is the best book on Cubs history?

It's not totally Cubs history, but Crazy '08 was awesome.

 

Damnit, I totally was expecting something about 2008

 

I read a mostly terrible book about the 2008 Cubs. Living the Dream: An Inside Account of the 2008 Cubs Season. I might need to read it again, I read it too soon after the 2008 NLDS. I would probably enjoy it more now.

 

I can't recommend a good Cubs book, but I can recommend a couple other Cubs books not to read:

 

Wrigleyworld: Not a terrible book but also not a good book. It's about a guy that moves to Wrigleyville and chronicles the 2005 season. A not so memorable book for a not so memorable season.

 

Entangled in Ivy: Again, I didn't hate this book, but didn't love it. I know people don't like George Castle at all, but it was a somewhat interesting read at all the problems the Cubs have had building a consistent winner from ~early 1980s to ~2003. As a child I followed the Cubs but didn't know a lot of the behind the scenes stories of those years.

[Cubswin11]

i may actually have that thing stuffed in a box at my mom's house with a bunch of 2003 newspapers.

I think this is a metaphor to where all of our thoughts on 2003 and the surrounding players went

Edited March 27, 2015 by Cubswin11

[Guest]

YO PEOPLE: What, in youse guyses opinions, is the best book on Cubs history?

It's not totally Cubs history, but Crazy '08 was awesome.

 

Damnit, I totally was expecting something about 2008

 

I read a mostly terrible book about the 2008 Cubs. Living the Dream: An Inside Account of the 2008 Cubs Season. I might need to read it again, I read it too soon after the 2008 NLDS. I would probably enjoy it more now.

 

I can't recommend a good Cubs book, but I can recommend a couple other Cubs books not to read:

 

Wrigleyworld: Not a terrible book but also not a good book. It's about a guy that moves to Wrigleyville and chronicles the 2005 season. A not so memorable book for a not so memorable season.

 

Entangled in Ivy: Again, I didn't hate this book, but didn't love it. I know people don't like George Castle at all, but it was a somewhat interesting read at all the problems the Cubs have had building a consistent winner from ~early 1980s to ~2003. As a child I followed the Cubs but didn't know a lot of the behind the scenes stories of those years.

 

Remember that story that some documentary dudes were following the 08 Cubs all year? Did anything ever come of that?

[ConstableRabbit]

YO PEOPLE: What, in youse guyses opinions, is the best book on Cubs history?

It's not totally Cubs history, but Crazy '08 was awesome.

 

Damnit, I totally was expecting something about 2008

 

I read a mostly terrible book about the 2008 Cubs. Living the Dream: An Inside Account of the 2008 Cubs Season. I might need to read it again, I read it too soon after the 2008 NLDS. I would probably enjoy it more now.

 

I can't recommend a good Cubs book, but I can recommend a couple other Cubs books not to read:

 

Wrigleyworld: Not a terrible book but also not a good book. It's about a guy that moves to Wrigleyville and chronicles the 2005 season. A not so memorable book for a not so memorable season.

 

Entangled in Ivy: Again, I didn't hate this book, but didn't love it. I know people don't like George Castle at all, but it was a somewhat interesting read at all the problems the Cubs have had building a consistent winner from ~early 1980s to ~2003. As a child I followed the Cubs but didn't know a lot of the behind the scenes stories of those years.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1266118/

Remember that story that some documentary dudes were following the 08 Cubs all year? Did anything ever come of that?

[Andy]

There's a book where some guy goes and sits in the bleachers for the whole 1987 season just called Bleachers. I don't remember loving it, but I was also an infant during that season, so a lot of the references were lost on me. There were some pretty good Andre Dawson stories though IIRC.

[Guest]

There's a book where some guy goes and sits in the bleachers for the whole 1987 season just called Bleachers. I don't remember loving it, but I was also an infant during that season, so a lot of the references were lost on me. There were some pretty good Andre Dawson stories though IIRC.

I graduated highschool in 87.