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Im right there with you on any other Chicago team winning. I kinda want some stuff to put over my Grandparents grave marker and send pictures to my out of state relatives. To be clear, even if you plan on wearing that championship shirt once a week until it unravels, that's cool with me. I was just curious how common my approach was given the shutupandtakemymoney.gif reaction I'd seen thus far. how long does a shirt take to unravel? trying to figure out how many i need to last me for the rest of my life

you've got to be kidding

Theo Epstein hasn't experienced the kind of personal and professional failures it takes to drive people into a life of politics.

Using cocaine does not make you a bad person who deserves to have bad things happen to them. A lot of people will hear "coke in his system" and automatically write somebody off as garbage who deserved whatever happened. Somebody can be shot and killed and if it comes back that they had a drug in their system people will blame the person who got shot for getting shot because a lot of people are dumb. This is true. But it is also true that doing coke, being drunk and speedboating near the shore at night is incredibly stupid and dangerous to their own group and anyone else who happens to be nearby. It might not be quite the same as driving your car while being coked up and drunk because of lower risk to others, but it is pretty close. I don't look at him as a bad person for being drunk. I don't look at him as being a bad person for doing coke - though he may have had a problem that needed treatment there if he's doing it mid-season. But the combination of activities causes me to look at him very much the same as Taveras. wouldn't it actually be more troubling if he was only coking it up during the offseason? Self-medicating during the season to try to manage the grueling ups and downs of the season is understandable. A player replacing the high of competition with coke, et al during the offseason is Ken Caminiti territory. Eventually it's all offseason for these guys. But also, let's not condemn JF as an addict. He had coke in his system that night. As far as we know, he never tested positive in any MLB random tests. Edit: not that you were suggesting any of that, Tim

Really? Every group of top level performers is littered with drugs. alright, slow down with your broad strokes there wolf of wall street. i doubt the top high school math teacher in new hampshire is mixing uppers and downers to keep level during a grueling section on polynomial functions anyway, it's not the presence of the drugs that surprise me; anyone who has ever known a pro or semi pro baseball player knows that they're collectively responsible for like 20% of the country's total consumption of weed. but that doesn't make it any less nuts that someone can be successful doing complex baseball things while being fat as hell or nursing a blow habit or whatever

it's totally nuts that baseball requires such a fragile skill set yet there's fat dudes, coke heads, stoners, etc. amongst the top tier of players

gonna have to disagree about the reverence for the fan favorite who threw probably greatest 9-inning pitching performance ever

guys i think we're going to win tonight

heh haha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

i actually laughed out loud at this sequence of entries: i was down there and it didn't feel unsafe or out of control at all. the dummies were highly visible and easy to avoid Did you wind up making it to a bar for the game? my buddy and I ducked in to wrigleyville north on the corner of sheridan and sheffield, no cover. hoofed it over to the madness after the double play

this may be the best "just visiting" post ever made. edinburgh rules, scotland rules, people from scotland rule, and this dude definitely rules go cubs!

yeah, but how do you know for sure he won't play? TLS will surely be available in the series after game 4 when Lackey fakes an injury to be taken off the roster. it will be a real injury where he somehow manages to bite off his own jaw

mojo is that you?

check out mr. measured analysis over here

The whole, "there were almost no arrests, so nothing really happened!" narrative is pretty hilarious; basically the cops just couldn't even get to most of the horsefeathers going down: http://www.cwbchicago.com/2016/10/cubs-win-hampered-by-crowd-cops-only.html I can't even begin to imagine how boner inducing this world series would be if I were a pickpocket in Chicago. gypsies can't stand the cold

The whole, "there were almost no arrests, so nothing really happened!" narrative is pretty hilarious; basically the cops just couldn't even get to most of the horsefeathers going down: http://www.cwbchicago.com/2016/10/cubs-win-hampered-by-crowd-cops-only.html i actually laughed out loud at this sequence of entries: i was down there and it didn't feel unsafe or out of control at all. the dummies were highly visible and easy to avoid

1 horsefeathers, seriously?

when the indians come back after a week off from live pitching, it will be winter. a chicago-cleveland world series is going to be cold af

that was pretty good. they've developed a bit of a pattern where everything is super awkward until pete rose says at least five things, then it opens up a little pete rose burned rosenthal pretty good at one point when a picture of rosenthal next to shaq inspired rose to insinuate that rosenthal is small enough to be a jockey because pete rose

i like that he believes that the cubs have weaponized the color blue

What are the others?

You could at least include a carrot. With peanut butter to make it look like he's talking. i approve of this reference

a hand-written card is a cold blow to deliver to a person who can't read

may our opponent accept tonight's defeat with great honor, and may we be merciful in our victory

HOW IS THIS GAME NOT ON MY TELEVISION RIGHT NOW