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Sammy Sofa

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  1. What's up with the "Burly" thing?
  2. Though anyone who legitimately did would be justified, and there'd be nothing whiny about it.
  3. He doesn't.
  4. Really? I remember an AB late last year when he swung at 3 straight pitches in the dirt 2 feet outside and casually walked back to the dugout. Like he didn't give a s@!t. Injuries, frustration, whatever. I was pretty damn pissed off at that. It will all be forgotten if he gets back to hitting. When it comes to athletes, I don't hold any grudges. That's a weird thing to remember sans grudge.
  5. And I don't remember the rooftops being significantly cheaper than the cheap seats in the park "back in the day." If you went to the roofs is for the novelty of watching from the rooftops. If you just wanted to watch the game cheap you just bought cheap tickets for the game.
  6. Yeah, it's mine. Feel free to do away with it.
  7. Thanks, Jersey. Is there anything BF doesn't have?
  8. Yeah, I just figured that out. I have no idea how it happened. I deleted a new cookie created for the site today and when I came back I was back in as N&G. Very weird.
  9. And somehow I'm logged in but it says I only half half a dozen posts. This is very odd.
  10. Out of curiosity, where can I look up the attendance numbers? I'm nerdy enough that I still have most of my ticket stubs, and I wonder what the attendance was on those days.
  11. Up until this morning I was always seeing the board with the old layout before the new frontpage was added. I don't know if something changed or if just wiped out the cookie needed, but now I'm only getting the newer format with NSBB interactive banner and all that jazz at the top. How do I get the board to display with the old layout?
  12. Hey, I guess I just drew more people to the games I went to in 1997. I am pretty awesome and handsome like that.
  13. I don't know what to tell you: I just noticed significantly more people around and in the ballpark the summer of 1997. I have no idea why. I'm not denying when it really took off, but more people were starting to show up the year before. And yeah, it's not around 40,000, but when you're getting 14-17,000 instead of 10-12,000 it shows thing s are starting to change, for whatever reason.
  14. Never said it was. Everything has a beginning, grasshopper.
  15. Soriano has HCCF's refund check.
  16. Eh, I noticed it starting actually in 1997 for whatever reason, so I rounded up a year and a half.
  17. IDK My brother and I often went to Wrigley in the late 70s and got bleacher seats with no problem. Place was mostly empty and the neighborhood around the park was not nearly as thriving as it is today. Are we talking about the Cubs/Wrigley combination being popular, or just about the Cubs centering their marketing around the park and not the team? Both. I don't think anyone is saying Wrigley wasn't "popular" per se prior to the 90's, but it definitely was nowhere near the "scene" we've known it to be for almost 15 years now. Like NUN pointed out, it was exceedingly easy to get tickets for pretty much any game up until the late 90's. They may have been marketing the park before that, but comparatively speaking they were fiaiing miserably at it.
  18. i checked cubs.com (i know, i know) and theyre allllll over colvin... wanting him to be the starter, etc. i know cubs.com is terrible, but they probably represent the most common cubs/baseball fan. even if you read one of the articles on cubs.com about colvin, the comments are saying the same thing. it's just funny because these are the same people who will want him gone after he has a bad 10 at-bats in the regular season. i think most baseball fans in general are pretty dumb when it comes to this type of stuff. That's what I get for avoiding cubs.com like the plague. Yeah, it is annoying how people glom onto long shots like Colvin.
  19. I guess, though I still wouldn't agree. Unless I've been missing the discussion the local sports radio or on a bunch of blogs/sites and so on, there doesn't seemt to be much hype over him outside of a few posters here and scattered other outlets online.
  20. Whoa, slow down there, tons of fun.
  21. Though really, if you followed any team as closely as the Cubs you'd see they all have these ridiculous little injuries every season.
  22. I heard he was kicking a metal fan while folding up his chair and then jumping over the dugout railing.
  23. Just wanted to see that.
  24. Because it's not clear if that is his ceiling. He's only recently showed he can be the hitter we're seeing now, so the smart thing is to let him get regular playing time to see if he can keep it up.
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