My impending obituary

[AramisRamirez]

AramisRamirez,

 

25-year old chicago native and loyal Northsidebaseball.com poster died last night apparently of heartbreak. In recent weeks he had been unable to sleep due to persistent nightmares of Neifi Perez starting at SS for the Cubs in the upcoming season. The Dodgers signing of Furcal apparently was the straw that broke the camels back.

 

Three weeks ago he was hositalized with a rare heart condition that Doctors said was triggered by debilitating anxiety as a result of Dusty Baker's managerial style.

 

After his initial treatment, Doctors were forced to sub-due him after he kept repeating"Dude put in Macias" and other detached statements. Its a sad ending to a tortured existence as a Cubs fan. One can only what would have happened if the Cubs ran the organization like a city with 3 million people should run a team.

[VicCub]

Thanks for the laugh!

 

A friend of my dad's once threw his TV out his window while watching a Cubs meltdown back in the late '70's. You seriously gotta be careful when you're a Cub fan!

 

Maybe we need a disclaimer for folks who are becoming Cub fans.

 

* Warning: Becoming a Cub fan may be hazardous to your health. Proceed with extreme caution.

[fearthecubs]

Thanks for the laugh!

 

A friend of my dad's once threw his TV out his window while watching a Cubs meltdown back in the late '70's. You seriously gotta be careful when you're a Cub fan!

 

Maybe we need a disclaimer for folks who are becoming Cub fans.

 

* Warning: Becoming a Cub fan may be hazardous to your health. Proceed with extreme caution.

 

My friend put his fist through a support pillar in his basement, breaking two of his fingers. This is when the Cardinals came back from like 5 runs or something in the ESPN Sunday Night game, Renteria hit a walk-off jack to win it. Instead of hitting things, I just drank.

[AlwaysaCub]

Thanks for the laugh!

 

A friend of my dad's once threw his TV out his window while watching a Cubs meltdown back in the late '70's. You seriously gotta be careful when you're a Cub fan!

 

Maybe we need a disclaimer for folks who are becoming Cub fans.

 

* Warning: Becoming a Cub fan may be hazardous to your health. Proceed with extreme caution.

 

My friend put his fist through a support pillar in his basement, breaking two of his fingers. This is when the Cardinals came back from like 5 runs or something in the ESPN Sunday Night game, Renteria hit a walk-off jack to win it. Instead of hitting things, I just drank.

 

I remember that game, it was in 2002. That may have been an Alfonseca special.

[Andy]

Thanks for the laugh!

 

A friend of my dad's once threw his TV out his window while watching a Cubs meltdown back in the late '70's. You seriously gotta be careful when you're a Cub fan!

 

Maybe we need a disclaimer for folks who are becoming Cub fans.

 

* Warning: Becoming a Cub fan may be hazardous to your health. Proceed with extreme caution.

 

My friend put his fist through a support pillar in his basement, breaking two of his fingers. This is when the Cardinals came back from like 5 runs or something in the ESPN Sunday Night game, Renteria hit a walk-off jack to win it. Instead of hitting things, I just drank.

 

I remember that game, it was in 2002. That may have been an Alfonseca special.

Every game in 2002 was an Alfonseca special.

 

See: Cubs 6, White Sox 0, July 2002 turns into a loss.

[FloridaCubbie]

Thanks for the laugh!

 

A friend of my dad's once threw his TV out his window while watching a Cubs meltdown back in the late '70's. You seriously gotta be careful when you're a Cub fan!

 

Maybe we need a disclaimer for folks who are becoming Cub fans.

 

* Warning: Becoming a Cub fan may be hazardous to your health. Proceed with extreme caution.

 

My friend put his fist through a support pillar in his basement, breaking two of his fingers. This is when the Cardinals came back from like 5 runs or something in the ESPN Sunday Night game, Renteria hit a walk-off jack to win it. Instead of hitting things, I just drank.

 

I remember that game, it was in 2002. That may have been an Alfonseca special.

It was alf. It was awful.

[imb]

25? surely you jest

[Careless]

Thanks for the laugh!

 

A friend of my dad's once threw his TV out his window while watching a Cubs meltdown back in the late '70's. You seriously gotta be careful when you're a Cub fan!

 

Maybe we need a disclaimer for folks who are becoming Cub fans.

 

* Warning: Becoming a Cub fan may be hazardous to your health. Proceed with extreme caution.

 

My friend put his fist through a support pillar in his basement, breaking two of his fingers. This is when the Cardinals came back from like 5 runs or something in the ESPN Sunday Night game, Renteria hit a walk-off jack to win it. Instead of hitting things, I just drank.

 

I remember that game, it was in 2002. That may have been an Alfonseca special.

Every game in 2002 was an Alfonseca special.

 

See: Cubs 6, White Sox 0, July 2002 turns into a loss.

I'd like to know how many people broke how many objects during and because of that

[sweetpeteman]

Game 6, 8th inning, hand thru wall, luckily missing any studs, and only taking out drywall...

[AlwaysaCub]

http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B07280SLN2002.htm

 

To be fair to Alf, Flash had a hand in this particular implosion.

[FloridaCubbie]

http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B07280SLN2002.htm

 

To be fair to Alf, Flash had a hand in this particular implosion.

Wow, I forgot how bad that 02 line-up was.

[AlwaysaCub]

http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B07280SLN2002.htm

 

To be fair to Alf, Flash had a hand in this particular implosion.

Wow, I forgot how bad that 02 line-up was.

 

My question is, how on earth did Bellhorn play shortstop? He played 2nd for most of 2002.

[snoodmonger]

Thanks for the laugh!

 

A friend of my dad's once threw his TV out his window while watching a Cubs meltdown back in the late '70's. You seriously gotta be careful when you're a Cub fan!

 

Maybe we need a disclaimer for folks who are becoming Cub fans.

 

* Warning: Becoming a Cub fan may be hazardous to your health. Proceed with extreme caution.

 

My friend put his fist through a support pillar in his basement, breaking two of his fingers. This is when the Cardinals came back from like 5 runs or something in the ESPN Sunday Night game, Renteria hit a walk-off jack to win it. Instead of hitting things, I just drank.

 

I remember that game, it was in 2002. That may have been an Alfonseca special.

 

Not to quibble semantics, but "special" insinuates it was extraordinary or different from his typical performance.

[Warpticon]

Thanks for the laugh!

 

A friend of my dad's once threw his TV out his window while watching a Cubs meltdown back in the late '70's. You seriously gotta be careful when you're a Cub fan!

 

Maybe we need a disclaimer for folks who are becoming Cub fans.

 

* Warning: Becoming a Cub fan may be hazardous to your health. Proceed with extreme caution.

 

My friend put his fist through a support pillar in his basement, breaking two of his fingers. This is when the Cardinals came back from like 5 runs or something in the ESPN Sunday Night game, Renteria hit a walk-off jack to win it. Instead of hitting things, I just drank.

 

Maaaan, did I read that wrong the first time.

[KatJ]

AramisRamirez,

 

25-year old chicago native and loyal Northsidebaseball.com poster died last night apparently of heartbreak. In recent weeks he had been unable to sleep due to persistent nightmares of Neifi Perez starting at SS for the Cubs in the upcoming season. The Dodgers signing of Furcal apparently was the straw that broke the camels back.

 

I hear ya. *Points to the new sig*

[fearthecubs]

Game 6, 8th inning, hand thru wall, luckily missing any studs, and only taking out drywall...

 

lol, my friend wasn't so lucky at avoiding studs - hence the two broken fingers. and YES it really was my friend, not me. I'm more of an inward-focused person when it comes to baseball hatred. I stew over it for a while, and swear to God I will never support those awful ballplayers again. And yet, next Sunday at 1:20, there I was.

 

I came back to China before the 05 season started, and I remember talking to my friend about what I'd do if the Cubs made the World Series. Yea, isn't that hilarious now? 79-83. *puke*

[erik316wttn]

Thanks for the laugh!

 

A friend of my dad's once threw his TV out his window while watching a Cubs meltdown back in the late '70's. You seriously gotta be careful when you're a Cub fan!

 

Maybe we need a disclaimer for folks who are becoming Cub fans.

 

* Warning: Becoming a Cub fan may be hazardous to your health. Proceed with extreme caution.

 

It would not be a shocker to me at all if I died of a heart attack while yelling at the Cubs on TV or radio.

[AramisRamirez]

this is the ghost of AramisRamirez from the heavens above here to tell you are few other contributing factors to my spiral downward:

 

-Jeremy Burnitz in the 5th hole for the majority of the 2005 season.

 

-Watching Burnitz bat cleanup when Aramis went down.

 

-Anything mentioning Neifi, Dusty or the almighty Macias.

 

-Watching CPatt hit .220 with a .287 OBP before getting sent down.

 

-Watching Stoney get fired/quit.

 

-Suffering through little league base running of Moises Alou and Corey Patterson.

 

-Waiting 6 decades for Angel Guzman to get called up.

 

-A-Gon and Bartman anyone??

 

-The annual combined 200 IP from woody and prior.

 

-Watching smaller markets like Boston trump our payroll by $20-30M.

 

-Watching Boston and the South Side win the World Series.

 

-Do I need to mention Sammy Sosa?

 

-How about Wavin' Wendall?

 

-Does the Todd Hundley era ring a bell?

 

-Am I getting anywhere with Latroy Hawkins?

 

do I really I need to keep going. I think the question here is how am I the only Cubs fan to threaten suicide? You guys must be on 100mg of Prozac and about 200 other med's a day just to keep from going crazy.

 

I shoulda gotten professional therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after watching the Cubs play.

 

Now im in a better place, where the lineup looks like this:

 

OF johnny damon

SS derick jeter

1B derrek lee

3B aramis ramirez

OF manny ramirez

OF milton bradley

2B marcus giles

C pudge rodriquez

 

Bench: cedeno, murton, barrett, todd walker, mabry

 

SP1 carlos zambrano

SP2 mark prior

SP3 barry zito

SP4 AJ burnett

SP5 kerry wood/greg maddux

 

RP: dempster, howe, erye, mariano rivera, trevor hoffman

 

Managers: La Russa, Torre, Piniella, and of course Sarge!! :P

 

GM: John Paxson (j/k).

[mul21]

I lost a tv remote that put a hole in the wall when A-gon booted that ball in game 6. I had been dating my girlfriend for like a month and a half at that point and she was watching the game with me. I guess she figured it couldn't get much worse than that because we're engaged now.

[rocket]

Watching CPatt hit .220 with a .287 OBP before getting sent down.

 

at least he has a solid isoD there.

[wXw]

Rest in Peace Homie....