Spring Training Chit Chats

[LBiittner]

14 minutes ago, Crusader said:

3 more days until the first ST Cubs game.

I'll be watching 

[Rcal10]

4 minutes ago, LBiittner said:

I'll be watching 

I am one of the stupid fans who will be at the game on Sunday. Yep, spent money to watch them play. Have some friends coming and and they want to go to a spring game. Guess they are idiots too! 

[CubinNY]

8 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

I am one of the stupid fans who will be at the game on Sunday. Yep, spent money to watch them play. Have some friends coming and and they want to go to a spring game. Guess they are idiots too! 

It will be glorious 

[Brian707]

13 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

I am one of the stupid fans who will be at the game on Sunday. Yep, spent money to watch them play. Have some friends coming and and they want to go to a spring game. Guess they are idiots too! 

I used to go to games every March from 2007-2015. Got to meet Pete LaCock

[Transmogrified Tiger]

3 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

I used to go to games every March from 2007-2015. Got to meet Pete LaCock

Did you tell him you had to C it

[LBiittner]

31 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

I am one of the stupid fans who will be at the game on Sunday. Yep, spent money to watch them play. Have some friends coming and and they want to go to a spring game. Guess they are idiots too! 

Im Jealous of you

Edited February 21, 2024 by LBiittner

[Andy]

2 hours ago, Bobson Dugnutt said:

surely this will be the revenue stream that allows the cubs to spend with the big boys!
 

https://uni-watch.com/2024/02/20/chicago-cubs-appear-poised-to-add-sleeve-advertisement/

Sigh. Been dreading that development.

[PackLandVA]

1 hour ago, Rcal10 said:

I am one of the stupid fans who will be at the game on Sunday. Yep, spent money to watch them play. Have some friends coming and and they want to go to a spring game. Guess they are idiots too! 

This is my 5th Spring living in southern AZ.  Have yet to work it into my schedule for a Spring game or two. I have vowed to get up to the Mesa/Phoenix area this spring to see a game or two.  Would like to get to Sloan just to see it from the inside.  Prices are pretty outrageous.  Might also see them at a visitor stadium. I have plenty of time now these days.

[Rcal10]

2 hours ago, Brian707 said:

I used to go to games every March from 2007-2015. Got to meet Pete LaCock

He was a guest bartender at  Valley Ho resort, in Scottsdale, years ago. I met him there. 

Edited February 21, 2024 by Rcal10

[Rcal10]

2 hours ago, LBiittner said:

Im Jealous of you

I must admit, it doesn’t suck! 

[Ding Dong Johnson]

oh horsefeathers off, you stupid sad sack

[Tim]

If someone is unhappy here, and they've expressed an embrace of cancel culture...they should practice what they preach.

[Bobson Dugnutt]

if you don’t like the way this board is managed you should go to dunkin donuts 

[Derwood]

*says a bunch of stupid shiit*

*gets called out for it*

"WELL I GUESS I'M NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE OPINIONS AROUND HERE!!!"

*derp*

[Stratos]

6 hours ago, 1908_Cubs said:

horsefeathers gross. I hate these stupid patches.

Agree.  Uniforms and the playing field besides maybe the OF walls should be off-limits for ads.  This extra revenue will not be added to payroll we know.  At least our ballpark isn't named Guaranteed Rate Field.

[Irrelevant Dude]

7 hours ago, 1908_Cubs said:

horsefeathers gross. I hate these stupid patches.

North Shore Adult Diapers, here's your chance to take your marketing campaign to the next level.

[Stratos]

I would kindly ask that moderators do their duty by enforcing a ban on non-baseball talk in the baseball portion of these forums.  And locking topics punishes everyone instead of the just the ones making the discussions worse.  One warning followed by a suspension for breaking rules will stop this all immediately.

Moderators, i'm not visiting this site until the discussion gets back to baseball.

Edited February 21, 2024 by Stratos

[17 Seconds]

actually nsbb is great as is and always has been

[Bobson Dugnutt]

complaining about the awful owners of the cubs on a cubs message board shouldn’t be off limits. 

[thawv]

16 hours ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

Though the sale wasn't approved until October of 09. The larger point being the 2023 valuation that was cited.

 

16 hours ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

Though the sale wasn't approved until October of 09. The larger point being the 2023 valuation that was cited.

You are certainly not wrong.  I was going by when they were awarded the winning bid.  But I'd sat they October is the accurate purchase date.  Thanks.

[thawv]

12 hours ago, Brian707 said:

I used to go to games every March from 2007-2015. Got to meet Pete LaCock

Love it!  Son of former game show host, Peter Marshall.

[Rob]

1 hour ago, The20thK said:

Neither should defending them.

Here's the thing you aren't getting, even though TT said it very nicely.

You are not obligated to respond to every post with some minor tangential comment about Trump or the Ricketts or whatever other right-wing idiocy is being mocked.

For decades, people would see those posts, chuckle (or not) and move on without discussing the issue any further. One-off comments aside, the actual discussions here rarely got political.

It is your dogged insistence on responding to each and every one of those comments that is making all these discussions turn political.

Learn to let the minor stuff slide. Like the rest of us do when we visit our parents at the holidays and they say something racist, but it's meant in a positive way, so we don't ruin the vibe by calling them out on it.

Stop ruining the vibe. Be like your kids when (if) they visit you on the holidays.

[thawv]

10 hours ago, Rcal10 said:

He was a guest bartender at  Valley Ho resort, in Scottsdale, years ago. I met him there. 

Did he still have his curly blonde hair??  Hahaha

[Rcal10]

28 minutes ago, thawv said:

Did he still have his curly blonde hair??  Hahaha

It has been more than a few years. Met him when we used to come down here for spring training. Valley Ho is a resort in old town Scottsdale. In March the pool area would get very busy. Thug had a sign that said celebrity bartender….. Pete Lacock. Honestly he was very excited I knew him. Everyone else at the pool was a bit younger than I was. So they had no use. I do believe he still has hair! 

[Brian707]

10 hours ago, The20thK said:

I can totally agree with this. 
 

Edit:

if I was allowed to have an opinion that is.