Andy

Welcome DTown - As a denizen of the bleachers for three games last year, I can tell you that there is no place in America better to watch a game than from the Wrigley Field bleachers. There's camaraderie everywhere and odds are you make a new friend or two before the game is over. The fans in the bleachers also tend to be pretty knowledgeable about baseball (contrary to popular belief) in terms of knowing when to applaud for a pitcher who has a 2-strike count or knowing that it's a big deal when we get a K/popout with a man on third and less than 2 out. Cubs fans also tend to be very welcoming to opponent fans, so expect some good-natured ribbing and good-luck handshakes. Vendors come around usually about once an inning rotating between hotdogs, beers, waters, etc. I'd advise getting there at least two hours before the game to ensure a good seat, because bleacher tickets are general admission, find your own seat. Hope all this helped, and good luck to your Tigers in the June series - but not too much :wink:

Then its only fair you get irritated at Lee, too. He does a Hop after he hits a HR to, granted, not as dramatic, but a distinct hop none-the-less. I have no problem with players hopping or doing something of the sort when they homer. Some of the most memorable Homers wouldnt be as memorable if it wasnt for the players reaction. Edmonds crap in the outfield does make me mad though. I dont care if he watches his homers, I care that he dives at a ball that he could just as easily walk to. Anyways, this thread is WAY off topic. A Z-delivered fastball is the preferred method of capitol punishment in 38 states. Being a soccer fan, I do not mind at all a bit of celebration and personality after a HR. Some I don't mind (such as Lee's), although I don't particularly like it either. If I had my druthers everyone would react to HRs Michael Barrett style, that is head down and quickly trot around the bases. However, if somebody happens to hit a game changing/winning HR I like to see some emotion. My favorite recent reactions to Cub homers were DLee's reaction to his game tying homer vs Cincy in April and ARam's throwing the bat aside after he hit the game tying homer vs Washington in July. Sometimes, less is more. :)

Not me. I usually know who they are playing, what time and what network for a week after the current day anyway. Yes, I'm obsessed.

Welcome JimBouton! It's interesting to note that Kenny Williams has led his team to as many playoff berths as Jim Hendry has as GM, but in two more seasons, and while Williams is being lauded, many of the people here want Hendry's head. Obviously, the teams' respective results in those playoffs as well as results in non-playoff years are factors in our opinions, but it's an interesting footnote to all of this. I'm really hoping the Sox players all come back to earth, and in a big way, this year. This "a World Series trophy gives us a license to run our mouth" thing is becoming really annoying.

I took part in 3 fantasy drafts with 10 teams each and got Barrett in the 15th round or later in all of them despite Michael being the best hitting catcher in the NL. He's very underrated.

Carlos Zambrano's "tennis elbow" was not in fact caused by excessive e-mailing. It was in fact merely his only injury sustained in his battle to the death with Chuck Norris. The media covers this up because they are too scared to call Norris dead for fear of reincarnation.

They need to get something in the 7th inning. Whether it is audio of harry doing it, or ex-players... but the celebrities don't work. Granted, it is part of the experience of going to a game there, and it should always continue. I like Santo doing more of it. Jeff Gordon and Ozzie have no place in that ballpark. I would like them to stay with ex-cubs, prominent chicago figures, or celebrity cubs fans (for the love of god, jim beluschi is not a cubs fan... however billy corgan is a good example of a celebrity who should be allowed to sing once a year). Irishoshea21, I don't know where you get your info, but everywhere I read/heard, Jim Belushi is VERY much a BIG Cubs fans. So again, I don't know where you get your info, but you are clearly wrong. So because he sits in the bleachers when they are on ESPN, and ESPN interviews him (has nothign to do with the fact that he has a show on ABC) means that he is a cubs fan? Where the hell was he pre 2003? He was never around. Magically the team wins, and he jumps on the bandwagon. When he is interviewed, he makes the same old general phrases, "boy i like derrek lee, man aramis is good" that any basic fan has. Boy, what a true fan. Because you see him on TV talking about the cubs, doesn't make him a real fan. If he was a real fan, we would have known about him pre-2003. I completely agree. I refuse to endorse any celebrity as a "true Cub fan" until they take a notebook into the booth with them and talk about Michael Wuertz's really good BAA, as well as John Mabry's oddly large BABIP. Until then, they're just another moron who likes to watch Derrek and Aramis.

Toledo 81, Ball State 54. Someone please put us out of our misery and fire Tim Buckley.

I LOVE the stretch, and as long as they get all the words right and don't say root for the other team, I say any celebrity/figure should be able to do it. I'm still annoyed that I never got to see Willingham or Brey do it, though. I missed both those games. Not sure if Weis has done it or if he will.

If Bode Miller and Daron Rahlves had shown up for the Olympics, we would have won the damn thing. Pretty impressive showing on our part considering two of our best bets crapped out.

It says a lot about a team's season when they lose by 8 and you're just happy they didn't keep you in suspense about it this time. (Marquette 80, ND 72, Irish need to win out if they want a shot at the Big East Tourney.)

LOL at the fat dude wearing a replica Hinrich Stags jersey.

My friend says his uncle spent all of Friday at the computer and he got a whole bunch of tickets, some of which he could sell to us at face value. How sweet would it be if he sold us some Cards or Sox tickets? :D

Fun Fact: WGN moved from channel 5 to channel 95 in my cable for no apparent reason. That made sense. Malik Allen may be, if not THE solution at the big man slot, a very serviceable alternative.

I agree with 1908. This game was night-and-day different from the other two Bulls-Pistons meetings this year, and I think it showed how far the team has come since the beginning of the year. Now the key becomes beating Philly tonight. We'll need all the help we can get with the upcoming tough schedule. In the 10 day period between March 2-11, the Bulls will play 7 games, 3 back-to-backs (all of which will have the 2nd game on the road) and the teams they're facing won't be cupcakes either, with two games with Cleveland, a trip to Detroit and a visit from the Clippers and Nets are in that period. It will be all-important for the Bulls to win the three games that they should in that period, plus steal one that they shouldn't.

You're right...I forgot about that. Yeah, John seems to get in a little trouble once in awhile. How is the school academically? When SI did their "academic" college basketball preview a few years back, Memphis's grad rate was a whopping 0 percent, and I'm guessing it hasn't improved.

Anyone with 3+ extra bleacher seats to any weekend series in the summer I would be glad to grab the three. Haha...I was deliberating over whether I wanted bleacher tickets to the San Diego series May 12-14 and while I was waiting, the 12th (the only one that had had bleachers available) got bought up...oh well.

Note to self: Jump in lobby BEFORE going to your four hours of classes next year. :P It's all good, Ebay worked for my friends and I last year so I'm sure it will come through again.

I almost had bleacher seats lined up for both the Padres series and the Braves series in May but one fell through and I screwed up the other by trying to open more windows :(

I'm in and looking at May 26. Has Seth hooked you up yet? No, nothing yet. I'm almost certain bleachers are gone but if you can get lower-deck seats I'd be ecstatic :D

I know there's almost no way this will work, but if anyone can get in and somehow pick up 3 tickets apiece (preferably bleacher, although I'm sure they're all sold out by now) to the Braves series Fri/Sat/Sun May 26-28 and can receive PayPal money, I'll pay you back and be eternally grateful.

It's fairly close, but I think this question boils down to one thing: Would you stop being a Cubs fan if Wrigley were abandoned? And although it wouldn't feel the same if Wrigley weren't the home park, I will absolutely be a Cubs fan for life no matter what. So I have to pick the Cubs.

That's possible, but I think most on this board have him coming back to Earth this year. 2005 was far and away his best year ever and he had the help of an absurdly good offense which will only be above average in 2006.

For me, that ranks behind the Penn High School baseball stadium.

WWII? On what possible level is that even remotely similar to Gulf War II? Anyway...it's not like Vietnam because we have a clear exit strategy. Bush won't call it an exit strategy, but the fact is that once we have Iraqi police trained up and everything is set to go (which could happen in the next 18 months or so), we'll be pulling out. Whereas in Vietnam, there was never a clear picture of when it would be over. That's why all the Iraq-Nam comparisons are foolish.