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  1. Cubbie Swagger
    Literally more than one person has agreed with me in just this thread alone.
  2. Cubbie Swagger
    Sosa tossed a ball to my little sister between innings once. I'm pretty sure she doesn't have it anymore. Honestly, it probably got used in a backyard game when we ran out of balls.
  3. Cubbie Swagger
    I think the primary difference there is that catching a home run ball is a much more rare and unlikely occurrence than something that happens at every single game. I get your point, though. To you, it just isn't a big deal.
  4. Cubbie Swagger
    The alternative is "I caught the opposing team's dong and threw it on the field! The end!"We just fundamentally disagree on how cool that story is. I would love to be able to tell people that I threw back a McCutchen dong.
  5. Cubbie Swagger
    Um. I'm not sure why the length of the story has anything to do with anything. There are a lot of pretty sweet things that a person can do that don't require a lot of time to explain. acquiescing to peer pressure and throwing a cool momento on the field is not one of them...unless you're henry rowengartner or something. For me, it's not so much peer pressure as it is just wanting to take part in a long-standing tradition. A tradition that we, as Cubs fans, started. That, and genuinely not wanting the baseball.
  6. Cubbie Swagger
    If you went to a game and caught a home run ball hit by, say, Kris Bryant, and then you came on here and posted, "I caught that Bryant dong!" nobody is going to go, "Psh, what a shitty story. Way too short."
  7. Cubbie Swagger
    Um. I'm not sure why the length of the story has anything to do with anything. There are a lot of pretty sweet things that a person can do that don't require a lot of time to explain.
  8. Cubbie Swagger
    When I watched that happen live, my first thought was that it was going to be almost impossible to get out of the stadium alive with that ball. We're talking about thousands of horsefeathers faced baseball fans fighting over a massive chunk of cash condensed into a few square inches.
  9. Cubbie Swagger
    In this instance, he did, which is why it became a topic of discussion. They were watching the replay to determine if it was the actual ball or not. Gotcha. Hopefully, the kid doesn't give into peer pressure all his life. That said, I'd have kept it only because it was from Cutch. He's a good enough player and former MVP that it would have been cool enough to put on the shelf and point out how that was career homer number whatever for him. Some kid in a Pirates jersey was tapping the Cubs fan kid on the shoulder asking for him to give him the ball, then some Cubs fans intervened and the kid's dad chucked it back onto the field. It was pretty funny to watch, actually.
  10. Cubbie Swagger
    Unless it's some Hall of Famer's milestone HR, it really doesn't matter, though I don't begrudge someone wanting to keep it. You can probably find someone around with a spare ball to throw back if it comes to that. I'm against throwing a different ball back. I feel very strongly that you should either throw it back, or keep it. Nobody likes a bullshitter.
  11. Cubbie Swagger
    That and I'm quite sure he probably didn't have to throw back the real one. In this instance, he did, which is why it became a topic of discussion. They were watching the replay to determine if it was the actual ball or not.
  12. Cubbie Swagger
    Not sure if anyone else is watching the Pirates feed, but the commentators are talking about how stupid it is that we throw home run balls from the opposing team back onto the field. The one guy is ranting about how it's so sad that some kid just had to "give up" a McCutchen home run ball just because of "crowd pressure". I dunno about you guys, but I would much rather throw the ball back and have a cool story to tell. Lugging around an old dirty baseball for the rest of my life doesn't sound like all that much fun. Unless we're talking about a ball that was worth money, of course.
  13. Cubbie Swagger
    We could try doing a car wash instead.
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  15. Cubbie Swagger
    Today is one of those days where I remember what it used to be like to be a Cubs fan.
  16. Cubbie Swagger
    BLOOP AND A FRICKIN BLAST
  17. Cubbie Swagger
    Next time I get mad at Lackey and feel bad for his wife, I will be forced to remember this game.
  18. Cubbie Swagger
    NO horsefeathering WAY!
  19. Cubbie Swagger
    Wait a second... where is pink hat guy? He took game 2 off.
  20. Cubbie Swagger
    Walk and a blast?
  21. Cubbie Swagger
    As you should be I swear, public opinion on this forum is more complicated than horsefeathering quantum physics.
  22. Cubbie Swagger
    Damn, he was so close to horsefeathering his horsefeathers up on that phone box.
  23. Cubbie Swagger
    Um, guys... question: I had always thought that Kerry Wood and Roger Clemens were the only 2 pitchers to achieve 20 k's in a game. Wikipedia seems to agree with me. But, there have been 2 different times on TV tonight where they have said that Randy Johnson also struck out 20. Help?
  24. Cubbie Swagger
    Not only that, but he's on my fantasy team. :)
  25. Cubbie Swagger
    I sure hope it didn't, because I'm pretty sure that's only happened once.
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