10 years ago today: Aramis Ramirez traded to the Cubs

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Just reminds me that soon its going to be the 10 year anniversary of the Cubs last playoff win (Oct 11)

 

One week after that will be the five-year anniversary of the last playoff win for any Epstein-led team.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

My fondest memory of Bobby Hill was in Des Moines, early '03, when he was a complete dick to the dozen or so children seeking autographs after a game. Some nice lady yelled at him like he was a child, and he reluctantly came back. Do it for the kids, man.

[Sammy Sofa]

Is thread eating posts or something?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Is thread eating posts or something?

It's weird.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Is thread eating posts or something?

It's weird.

 

Apparently.

[Clem Fandango]

What did you always like?

 

The board last night was not submitting posts. IT would let you browse, but when you tried to post something it would stay idle until it crashed, then you could reload and it'd be fine. I noticed my post was up, so i deleted the others... guess that didn't take. A few minutes later it got the Server Error on the board and it crashed, sooooo I made some double (read: triple) posts

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Just reminds me that soon its going to be the 10 year anniversary of the Cubs last playoff win (Oct 11)

 

A week after that, we hit the five-year anniversary of the last playoff win by an Epstein-run team.

[Schwarber Fan]

I was in Chicago at the time, getting ready for a trip to Wrigley. I ended up seeing the debut of Aramis and Lofton against the Phillies. I believe they went a combined 0-8. Phillies beat Matt Clement with Randy Wolf. Thome and Ricky Ledee went deep

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...and yes, it was all my fault.

[Schwarber Fan]

Just reminds me that soon its going to be the 10 year anniversary of the Cubs last playoff win (Oct 11)

 

A week after that, we hit the five-year anniversary of the last playoff win by an Epstein-run team.

 

If you're not counting him as part of the 2007 World Series win, then you can't count him as part of the current Cubs.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Just reminds me that soon its going to be the 10 year anniversary of the Cubs last playoff win (Oct 11)

 

A week after that, we hit the five-year anniversary of the last playoff win by an Epstein-run team.

 

If you're not counting him as part of the 2007 World Series win, then you can't count him as part of the current Cubs.

 

Huh?

[Sammy Sofa]

Rondon Fan is, like, angry at numbers and stuff.

[Guest]

I was in Chicago at the time, getting ready for a trip to Wrigley. I ended up seeing the debut of Aramis and Lofton against the Phillies. I believe they went a combined 0-8. Phillies beat Matt Clement with Randy Wolf. Thome and Ricky Ledee went deep

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...and yes, it was all my fault.

 

I think we played the Phillies and lost the day we got Nomar. The day was amazingly awesome anyway.

[Guest]

Still remember how oddly Stone said Nomar when announcing him in the lineup the next day. Nom-"air."

 

Stone does that [expletive] a lot, too. For some god damn reason he says Scott Boras as Bor-"oh"s

[jersey cubs fan]

I was in Chicago at the time, getting ready for a trip to Wrigley. I ended up seeing the debut of Aramis and Lofton against the Phillies. I believe they went a combined 0-8. Phillies beat Matt Clement with Randy Wolf. Thome and Ricky Ledee went deep

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...and yes, it was all my fault.

 

I think we played the Phillies and lost the day we got Nomar. The day was amazingly awesome anyway.

 

I was at the Nomar traded game and met up with random Phillies fans I knew from college that day. Happiest loss I remember attending.

[rawaction]

Speaking of Todd Wellemeyer, remember his awesome [expletive] debut against the Brewers in that insane extra-innings game?

 

Yeah, the game I was talking about, I believe was his 1st loss, in extra innings vs. the Brewers. I may have been at his debut too, don't quite remember though.

[Schwarber Fan]

Just reminds me that soon its going to be the 10 year anniversary of the Cubs last playoff win (Oct 11)

 

A week after that, we hit the five-year anniversary of the last playoff win by an Epstein-run team.

 

If you're not counting him as part of the 2007 World Series win, then you can't count him as part of the current Cubs.

 

Huh?

 

I just assumed you said 10... my bad.

 

Edit: and that would still be inaccurate. I need a nap.

[dcvalpo]

Good riddance to Aramis...lazy, non-bunting waste of talent.

[Sammys Boombox]

I remember going to the game that Prior pitched in St. Louis during the series that made up LaRussa's Three Nights in August. Aramis Ramirez and Randall Simon both homered in that game. Listening to the post game on the way home was hilarious because some guy called in ranting about losing to the Chicago Pirates and for the rest of the show the radio host referred to the Cubs as the Chicago Pirates.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN200308260.shtml

[Thed Hoyerstein]

I remember going to the game that Prior pitched in St. Louis during the series that made up LaRussa's Three Nights in August. Aramis Ramirez and Randall Simon both homered in that game. Listening to the post game on the way home was hilarious because some guy called in ranting about losing to the Chicago Pirates and for the rest of the show the radio host referred to the Cubs as the Chicago Pirates.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN200308260.shtml

 

You forced me to go through what the hell happened in 2004. Dear god, that team was loaded. Their pythag was 94-68 {cries}

[Derwood]

The Aramis walk off vs the Brewers is one of his greatest moments as a Cub. I remember watching that game in a Cleveland hotel while waiting to go to an Indians game. My kid was napping and I woke her up when I cheered

[KingCubsFan]

Speaking of Todd Wellemeyer, remember his awesome [expletive] debut against the Brewers in that insane extra-innings game?

 

Yeah, the game I was talking about, I believe was his 1st loss, in extra innings vs. the Brewers. I may have been at his debut too, don't quite remember though.

The best part of that game was the Baseball Tonight following the game, when Kruk and Harold Reynolds said Wellemeyer could end up being better than Prior, Wood and Zambrano.

[Sammys Boombox]

The Aramis walk off vs the Brewers is one of his greatest moments as a Cub. I remember watching that game in a Cleveland hotel while waiting to go to an Indians game. My kid was napping and I woke her up when I cheered

 

Also, his grand slam in the NLCS and his 8th inning grand slam in 2008 off the Phillies when the Cubs were down 2.

[Andy]

The Aramis walk off vs the Brewers is one of his greatest moments as a Cub. I remember watching that game in a Cleveland hotel while waiting to go to an Indians game. My kid was napping and I woke her up when I cheered

 

Also, his grand slam in the NLCS and his 8th inning grand slam in 2008 off the Phillies when the Cubs were down 2.

That slam in 2008 was probably my favorite moment of the season, because we'd reached the point by then where the team had come through in such spots so many times that I kind of just assumed he was going to come up with a huge hit, and sure enough, he did.

 

GD it, that was probably the best 6-month span of my life as a sports fan, and then October ruined everything.

[Sammy Sofa]

I promised whatever god there is that I would start going to church if Aramis came through in the Brewers game. That I did not actually live up to that promise is probably why they've been doomed to suck or something.

[illiniguy]

The Aramis walk off vs the Brewers is one of his greatest moments as a Cub. I remember watching that game in a Cleveland hotel while waiting to go to an Indians game. My kid was napping and I woke her up when I cheered

 

Also, his grand slam in the NLCS and his 8th inning grand slam in 2008 off the Phillies when the Cubs were down 2.

The NLCS grand slam was the moment I actually thought we were going to see the Cubs in a World Series.