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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Looks pretty average.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Where did I get bent out of shape?
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Personally, I think a statue of Edmonds is acceptable only if it's done Colossus of Rhodes-style and he's standing astride Wrigley, towering over it. Nude.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    No way. It should be Sandberg. Oh Lord, a statue of Sandberg going up while he's managing the team is such an obscenely barftastic scenario. Though it might be worth it if we could somehow get Cubette's reaction.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Why not? Because he's a bad, bad man.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    He's saying that we should not rest until there's a giant statue of Jim Edmonds in front of Wrigley.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Either way it's something I'm not a fan of. You listen to many of those games he calls in the early 80's it's a hell of a schtick he's got going on because he starts the games off sounding pretty professional and very much like the good broadcaster he was for most of his career, and then as the games go on he's definitely sounding like he's getting more and more "refreshed." Maybe it was indicative of the health issues to come, I don't know, or it was just a gimmick like you're saying, but it's very bizarre to listen to.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    I never said that he didn't care about the game. I was saying he personifies it to me with what I look at as the poor quality of his broadcasting for most of his time with the Cubs and how so many people embraced it.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    It wasn't an argument. It was my opinion. Fair enough, just think it's a bit over the top. How so? The statement about them moving the statue was a joke. I don't actually expect that to happen or even care that it does or doesn't. I just was never a fan of Harry's, even when I was younger, and I think that the first statue they put up at Wrigley is one of him is silly. That's it. It's not like any of the reasons I listed for not being a fan of his are somehow wrong or unjustified. They're all subjective.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    It wasn't an argument. It was my opinion.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, this is generally the type of memory I have of going throughout the 80's and into the early 90's. Obviously, there were some relative surges due to '84 and '89, but I really can't remember ever having to plan ahead and drop as much money as you typically have to do today. It was just, "hey, I've got an idea: let's go see the Cubs."
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Totally agree. This is what I wish the Cubs had been doing for years under Hendry. If only Grabow hadn't been given so much wasted money.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    :-k Pet peeve of mine. Harry, to me, is the human embodiment of the "lovable loser" image most people have of the Cubs and their fans. His terrible, sloppy, drunken broadcasts with the Cubs just represent the idea of people who don't give a [expletive] about the games or the team and just want to go the ballpark and drink. It's even more laughable that he has a statue like he was some cornerstone of Cubs lore like he basically spent his career broadcasting for them when he was in the Cubs' booth for only 17 years and spent most of his career broadcasting for the Cubs' two biggest rivals. It strikes me as ridiculous that he's treated like this "lifetime Cub" when he was just a hired gun who spent his worst broadcasting years by far with the Cubs. Giving him a statue over someone like Brickhouse and especially before any other players is ridiculous.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Since inter-league play began I'd definitely include Cubs-White Sox and Yankees-Mets to that list. I'd also include Mets-Phillies.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Very cool. Now if they could just move Harry's off to a lonely corner somewhere we'd be good.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Wuss.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    They have a very long way to go if they're going to overtake the Cubs/Cardinals. I think you're drastically underestimating this.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    That's just how the schedule falls this season. It has nothing to do with whether they're still rivals or not. They still play each other the same number of games.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Good point. It's just how you choose to view a rivalry against a team. More recently, the Cardinals have face the Mets in bigger games then the Cubs. Right, but that's seemingly different than the Cubs/Cardinals rivalry. The Cubs and Cards have such a long history and they play each other so often and they essentially share the same "home area" once you're outside the Chicago area. I'm not saying that the Mets and Cards playing each other is meaningless, because you'll still find plenty of Cubs fans that view games between the Cubs and Mets as a big deal, but it's simply not the same as what exists between the Cubs and the Cardinals and their fans. In fact, they way you're coming at this makes me think of how one-sided the non-rivalry between the Cubs and Brewers is because it seems like many Brewers fans are trying to prop it up into some kind of big deal while most Cubs fans don't look at it as much of anything unless both teams are in the playoff hunt. If some Cards fans are looking at the Mets as their "new rivals," well, it's definitely one-sided.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    I suppose, though you're going to struggle to find many Mets fans that are going to say that Cardinals are more of a rival to the Mets than the Phillies, and I really haven't heard or known any Cardinals fans until now that would say the Mets are the Cardinals rival over the Cubs. You simply don't see many teams having their main rivals outside of their division.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Fukudome should be batting 1st, Byrd should be batting 2nd, Soriano should be batting 5th and Soto should be batting 6th.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    That was just one year. I'm not sure how that really fostered a rivalry from Cardinals' fans perspectives since the Cardinals actually won and true rivalries seem to be borne out of repeated bitter competition. I know that most Mets fans don't look at the Cardinals that way.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I look at the Brewers the same as I do every other team in the division that's not the Cardinals: they're just there and the Cubs need to play them (and beat them) more than other teams.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Is that not a DePaul Blue Demon? If it was he wouldn't be up to his nose in just ice.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    You'd think Garvey would be forgiven and invited to celebrate like Bartman then.
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