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    Someone is going to bring back the pullover jerseys on a regular basis - it's simply a matter of time. It will be a team that fielded great teams in the era - Reds, Royals, perhaps the Mets. Why not the Cubs? The 1980s put the Cubs back on the map. It's not a bad look when used with belted pants IMO. Stanford wears this style well: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3378/3548073574_c7c52cbf7a.jpg My biggest complaint with the current Cubs uniforms is the lack of detail. The road grays and blue tops especially are begging for some sleeve/collar trim.
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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20111111/bbn-astros-sale/
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    http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/view/22297882/2
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    I generally agree, but the city has no problem aiding the business interests of Reinsdorf, the McCaskeys and the Wirtzes. Why should TR be treated differently, especially considering that his business brings more bank to the city than the other three combined? The Cubs in Schaumburg? It would be the bluff of the century, as no one can say that with a straight face. It was ridiculous when Dallas Green threatened it, and it would be even more ridiculous now as in the intervening years the Cubs have succeeded in inexorably linking themselves with the neighborhood that causes them so much grief. Of course, Green did bluff his way into getting the lights approved. The difference is that he came in as an outsider with no ties to the park - TR has made no secret of his love for the park.
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    Those parks were not designed with a CF scoreboard in mind. Look at pics of Kauffman Stadium from the period in which a video screen was off to the left from the main board - it looked like crap, an afterthought. They rectified this in the most recent renovation by combining the two. The gradual descent of the bleachers to the left and right of CF and an unobstructed view out is more sacred to me than the old scoreboard itself. This is why I hate the Toyota sign so much - regardless of the sponsor, it is a blight on a wonderful design, a design they strove to preserve in the 2006 renovation.
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    I think you would have to replace the current board, or somehow do an addition to the top as illustrated earlier. A monster screen to the left would ruin the relative symmetry of the outfield design, and anything small enough to fit on a rooftop would be too small to be worth a damn. I have yet to see anything on a video board that added to my ballpark experience, and the aural diarrhea that accompanies the video nearly ruined the experience at several parks. They could get close to the same money with less investment/complications by installing a ribbon board all the way across the upper deck railing.
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    I always thought "This Time it Counts" was as much for the players as it was for the fans. They wanted the players to take it seriously again in the wake of less League identity/pride, and I think it worked to a degree - for many, C.J. Wilson is directly culpable for the Rangers playing Game 7 in St. Louis instead of the Dallas 'burbs. Blame assigned in July Of course, we now have lots of prominent players declining to show up, and I agree that it makes no sense to seed the League tournaments but take the World Series out of the hands of the teams concerned. Selig routinely says the logistics of setting up hospitality and hotel rooms for the World Series are too complicated to deploy on short notice, but I find that notion to be absolutely ridiculous.
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    The Cardinals would have had home field under the old system as well - 2011 would have been an NL year.
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    zap2it.com As expected, ratings improved once the series became competitive. I believe this is the most successful postseason since the format changed in 1994. We saw 38 of 41 possible games played and great games were strewn throughout. This postseason actually lived up to the hype MLB sold with its commercials that featured the distant past as much as anything from the present day. They got loads of new material this year. It's a start. It will take more than one great year to rebuild the general audience for this "tournament," and viewer-friendly changes like cutting the commercial breaks are still sorely needed. Having said that, the potency of the affair will sell itself. The World Series routinely got great ratings in the past because there were lots of great World Series. Game 7s were practically a birthright for people coming of age as television came of age. The drought started in the mid-1990s, just as the strike demolished the game's credibility: Seven Game World Series in the Television Age 1952 1955 1956 1957 1958 1960 1962 1964 1965 1967 1968 1971 1972 1973 1975 1979 1982 1985 1986 1987 1991 1997 2001 2002 2011
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    You're trolling now. Was it common knowledge that this guy had two accounts and I just missed it? Now I'm offended. I think.
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    Clearly someone who doesn't live amongst their fanbase, which makes them all the more unbearable. Can't argue this.
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    Not gonna lie, AJ seems like a decent man.
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    Yep.
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    This. We just got bumped back a few pages in the book of Choke.
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    Yes, Tony LaRussa is a saint and has never done anything to besmirch the great respect the Cardinals deserve. Oh wait..... All they do is win, win, win ... Oh, so it's wins and losses now. I thought we were talking about respectability and morality like you had mentioned earlier. Morality? What? This is respectable: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3470/3710780770_644a03bfcb.jpg
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    Yes, Tony LaRussa is a saint and has never done anything to besmirch the great respect the Cardinals deserve. Oh wait..... All they do is win, win, win ...
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    The White Sox are a [expletive] organization run by assholes. The Cardinals are a storied franchise worthy of respect. They represent the National League very well.
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    2011 would have been the NL's year under the old rotation. Doh.
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    If you were the lover of all that is true and pure about baseball that you claim you are you'd be annoyed at a much [expletive] team winning thanks to really [expletive] managing. We would love it were this our much [expletive] team winning thanks to really [expletive] managing. I save my irrational hatred for the White Sox.
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    I see we're still taking this well.
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    As posted here before, the Wayback Machine nicely retrieves Sandberg's body of work for Yahoo! Sports from 2005: Ryne Sandberg Exclusive Analysis - Yahoo! Sports The following is a nice primer on the collective NSBB opinion of Sandberg as of last year: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=58166
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    Game 5 in Philly was beautiful baseball.
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    banhammer if we're banning people, FNdomination, j.r., controversy and chuckywang have to go before this guy. any statements about that being awesome or being indecisive about who they'd like to win should be met with an immediate holiday from nsbb. Really? If you love baseball, you love that game. is it really possible to be this obtuse, to not understand that a person who hates one of the teams involved in an exciting game does not love said game because said hated team keeps coming back from the brink of elimination? Sometimes you just gotta tip your cap.
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    Ugly baseball, great game.
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