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  1. J.R.
    I think I have posted about these before, but I never tire of stuff like this. My first game MLB game was Cubs at Reds on 5/20/1989. I vividly remember a washed up Kent Tekulve pitching for Cincinnati, but everything else I recall with great clarity was off the field. Seeing Rick Sutcliffe up close before the game, getting autographs from Mitch Williams and Dwight Smith. Marge Schott confronting me on the field level concourse for wearing Cubs gear. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN198905200.shtml First game at Wrigley was 6/11/1990. The "wow" moment for me was the first look from the Addison train platform - the organ music just audible above the din, the deep green of the third base stands and the light standards aglow against a red dusk was just as I had imagined and more. Everything on the inside was icing on the cake after that first look, which is now obstructed. This was when the Mets rivalry was still significant, so the crowd was amped and gave Strawberry hell all night long. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199006110.shtml
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    what struck me about those reds unis is that the names on the back were ENORMOUS. larger than the lettering on the front of the unis, and the last name "CHAPMAN" almost spilled over onto the sleeves. looked pretty dumb. http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/1742/83thouseholder.jpg
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    The Phillies really don't match up well with a '90s Night promotion. Their current uniforms are a living relic from 1993, so they drag out the ones from 1991 - which were slightly modified versions of the jerseys they wore throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The Reds had their own terrible mid-'90s uniform, but since they set 1991 as the reference, they also wore uniforms that are associated more with their glory years in the 1970s than anything that happened in the 1990s.
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    http://twitter.com/si_vault/status/161915348482916354/photo/1/large
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    81 more baseball games spread out over six months won't do near the damage that events like the Wrigley concerts or Raiders games in Oakland do. Besides, field condition does not seem to be a priority of MLB at this point.
  6. J.R.
    Most passion in that park since the 1980s.
  7. J.R.
    The Wood/Dawson commercial was fantastic.
  8. J.R.
    Nice read. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/sports/baseball/pitcher-mark-prior-still-trying-to-return-to-majors.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
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    Enjoyed this one over morning coffee. http://www.kentucky.com/2012/06/28/2240921/clay-reds-in-first-but-they-have.html
  10. J.R.
    Joe Ricketts is a five alarm hypocrite.
  11. J.R.
    Embarrassing, to say the least. Joe seems right at home with the Kochs.
  12. J.R.
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-tunney-wrigley-field-20120509,0,3574685.story I am puzzled as to why the Sheridan stop is in play.
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    http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2012/05/beckett_shelved.html
  14. J.R.
    The Cubs have a season ticket base somewhere around ~25,000, give or take a thousand. With over half the park already sold, it doesn't take much in the way of single ticket advance/walkup sales to put together a nice total. Wrigley hasn't seen a significant stretch of sub-20,000 games since the early weeks of 1998, on the heels of the disastrous 1997 campaign, just four years after the industry-crippling strike and before Wood/Sosa took off. Incoincedentally, those were also the days when you could show up a week before the opener and buy season tickets in fantastic locations. Big crowds were common on summer weekends, but the Cubs always struggled to sell games in April and early May. The Cubs' attendance will continue to be insulated by strong season ticket sales so long as memories of white-hot demand in 2003-2004 linger. Those years created the waiting list, and new buyers coming into the fold should sustain ticket sales until/unless continually brutal on-field performance leads to the list becoming irrelevant.
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    http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/12033647-418/story.html
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    That actually airs on the Reds' flagship station, WLW. In recent years (say the last decade at least) WGN has aired a substantial call-in show postgame on nights and weekends, usually with Kaplan or one of the guys from the sadly-departed NSBB "call-in" show. I don't ever recall a big show on a weekday afternoon.
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    It likely was a call made at the top regardless of market preference. They have been absolutely atrocious when it comes to game distribution since the very earliest days of FOX baseball back in 1995. MLB needs to reassess this relationship.
  18. J.R.
    Not there are any Cards or Cubs fans in Arkansas or anything. I'm so freaking pissed right now. Switch Over you [expletive] bastards!!! Apparently only the metro CHI/STL stations have switched over so as to protect the [expletive] NASCAR race for everyone else. This is horseshit.
  19. J.R.
    That was a pivotal series. I remember being convinced that the Expos would be the ones to sweep and never look back.
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    http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN198905200.shtml Mitch Williams signed my program. Marge Schott accosted me on the concourse for wearing a Cub shirt.
  21. J.R.
    I guessed 60-102 before the opener.
  22. J.R.
    i thought theriot was booed. I know he was booed when he came back with the Cardinals. Don't know if he got booed when he was with the Dodgers. Regardless, what's interesting is not the truth of the reaction to Fontenot and Theriot, but the fact that the broadcaster not-so-subtly called out a whole lot of people. Seems that Derosa was warmly received upon his first AB as a visitor. It's a shame Brenly's statement didn't come during a national broadcast.
  23. J.R.
    You're right. Of course, Soriano, Byrd, Marmol et al would have to excel to make decent trades possible anyway.
  24. J.R.
    I forgot all about the goofball contract Hendry handed Marmol on his way out the door. http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=6120813
  25. J.R.
    I for one am psyched. The worse we do, the long-overdue blowup that is already underway will be hastened.
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