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  1. J.R.
    Sosa did more for this organization than anyone since Frank Chance. Together, he and McGwire helped the game far more than they hurt it. I will cheer them both at every opportunity. Cub fans could learn a lot from the Cardinal backers.
  2. J.R.
    That was when people were announcing themselves to Hendry, et al as "Joe Blow from cubbieblog.com" or somesuch and were furiously taking notes and generally treating the convention as a job. It's a lot more fun when you aren't playing reporter.
  3. J.R.
    http://www.marconews.com/news/2010/jan/13/commissioner-fiala-reconsidering-her-stand-cubs-ba/ The Floridians are mighty confident at this point.
  4. J.R.
    It's just another petty show of disrespect for Sosa.
  5. J.R.
    Costas has been broadcasting a live interview from McGwire's house for the last half hour. Very interesting, and a coup for MLB Network.
  6. J.R.
    Dear Collier County, The upset is within reach. Keep dishing the money and land. Thanks
  7. J.R.
    Maybe not, but he is a HOF and played in three World Series for the Cubs over a 10 1/2 year tour with the club.
  8. J.R.
    As someone who took great insult at seeing #8 issued to a couple of middling catchers, I suppose I'm in the Dawson camp. I also thought MB wearing #21 was ridiculous. Having said that, no more modern Cubs should see their numbers retired before the club takes care of players like Gabby Hartnett and Billy Herman. Cubs history doesn't start with Ernie Banks.
  9. J.R.
    http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/01/source-cubs-would-retire-dawsons-number.html The killjoys at the Hall are gonna love this.
  10. J.R.
    Dawson's wishes should be considered, as there's no Boggery afoot between him and the Cubs; Dawson works for the Marlins. Also significant is the fact that there is no more Montreal National League entry. Who exactly stands to be hurt by an Expos snub?
  11. J.R.
    http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/01/20/hall.of.fame/t1_dawson.jpg If I'm ever going to Cooperstown, this is the year.
  12. J.R.
    Probably got tired of having segments bumped for NFL injury news in April.
  13. J.R.
    Looking forward to this.
  14. J.R.
    Do you think anyone would take Miles just for Miles?
  15. J.R.
    It's not poor at all. Baseball is the easiest game around to flip back and forth and still follow. And they aren't even the biggest games, the championship series are much bigger. Plus there would barely be a need to have 2 games on at a time. In recent years the CS games were the only ones aired simultaneously. What can I say, I like to see every pitch.
  16. J.R.
    What is idiotic about that? Oh, there's this quaint notion I adhere to, it's called watching the games. You can play them simultaneously and still have them on television and the viewer flip back and forth and enjoy both. It's not simultaneous that's the problem, it's breaking them up by region and making one game unavailable that is the problem. That's a pretty poor arrangement for the sport's biggest games. Forcing people to flip back and forth is bush league. I say this as someone who takes time off work to watch the postseason. The first round, with big games going all day long, is fantastic.
  17. J.R.
    What is idiotic about that? Oh, there's this quaint notion I adhere to, it's called watching the games.
  18. J.R.
    That would be fantastic. Just don't resume the idiocy of playing postseason games simultaneously.
  19. J.R.
    LaRussa should have temporarily stepped down for a game or two at the end of the season so Schoendienst could have been the first to manage in five decades.
  20. J.R.
    The Cubs had the smallest front office in MLB. Ricketts is bringing the staff up to par.
  21. J.R.
    Any screen they could fit on a roof or whatever would be so small, it would be instantly obsolete; "ugly" obsolete like the CRT TVs hanging from the rafters, not "quaint" obsolete like the manual scoreboard. Back on topic, the new spite fence looks like hell.
  22. J.R.
    The canned music is relatively restricted, though. Nothing like what you have at other parks. At this hour, I can remember "YMCA" at first visitors' pitching change, "Livin' on a Prayer" at second visitors' pitching change, and then ... what else? Oh, and I'll add that my gripe with the 'tron isn't so much the visual - it's the aural diarrhea that usually accompanies the segments.
  23. J.R.
    The Doublemint Twins used to be parked on top of the scoreboard in what had to be the most elaborate ballpark advertising synergy of the day. Wrigley was ahead of his time. Corporate presence at Wrigley isn't new or all that disturbing. A "jumbotron," however, is an obnoxious distraction that adds nothing to the game. Per MLB policy, no controversial replays can be shown, so what's the point?
  24. J.R.
    "Ronald Santo." China sucks.
  25. J.R.
    Hence my contention that If Mesa wants to build another Camelback Ranch and Naples offers another Al Lang Field, there's no point in talking. That's clearly not the case.
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