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You know, they *will* have to build the Theo Epstein wing at the Hall in Cooperstown. Once could have been lucky. Twice, and the guy is the front office genius of the early 21st century.
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I am a Cubs fan. Nothing that happens in the next few minutes can be worse than what I have already lived though for the last sixty years. Take another deep breath, and repeat the above statement. I will survive.
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I am a Cubs fan. Nothing that happens in the next few minutes can be worse than what I have already lived though for the last sixty years. Take another deep breath, and repeat the above statement. I will survive.
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I believe, Jeebus! No, not in you. In Ben Zobrist.
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He's bigger than you, stronger than you, and apparently owns guns. What's your plan, exactly? I pack an extra large power wheelchair. As long as there are curb cuts, I've got him, man :D
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I'm a lifelong Cub fan. I can handle this. Aroldis Chapman, if I ever meet him in a dark alley, will not be able to handle me.
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Well, what did you expect? He made an error, and, as per Javy's example, he owed us a home run.
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He should have started the game with a Grand Slam. I'm pretty sure if he had done that, the Indians would have unconditionally surrendered and we'd be world champions already. :D One.More.Win. :flythew:
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Okay, the party food goes back to the kitchen
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Is this the point where I can stop gripping my tablet with a death grip, slide back from the very edge of my seat, and go to the kitchen to get out the (non-nacho) party food? I can always go back to stressing out, if circumstances warrant.
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Is this the point where I can stop gripping my tablet with a death grip, slide back from the very edge of my seat, and go to the kitchen to get out the (non-nacho) party food? I can always go back to stressing out, if circumstances warrant.
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I just need to prove to my own eyes that this thread is real. Amazing. Four.More.Wins. :flythew: :flythew: :flythew: :flythew:
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I doubt anyone remembers me. I was an original here from the old Cubs board. I check in and lurk from time to time but I have not posted in forever. I remember, in 1967, hopping on my stingray bike and riding through my southside neighborhood (where I had been relentlessly teased for not only rooting for the "wrong" team, but an awful wrong team), shouting "The Cubs finished third! The Cubs finished third!". All these years later, I find it hard to imagine this is... real. I lived to see this day. National League Champion Chicago Cubs. Every time I say this I want to cry. :flythew: :flythew: :flythew: :flythew: Four. More. Wins.
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I'm hoping Mets, but no Marlins/D-backs is fine with me. As a Cubs fan who survived 1969 without throwing myself off a roof or anything, I favor the Mets, and a series sweep by the Cubs, for sweet revenge.
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I am now feeling exceedingly reassured :-))
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I remember something about him being pretty sick last winter, and that being why he hadn't been throwing. ANYONE rememberwhat that was about?
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Right now we have nothing to play for. We might as well designate the team that is playing in Wrigley as the development league team. Next year, both of them will be older and more experienced, and we may well want them both in the lineup. We won't know that yet, though, until we see what they can do next season. Of course if anyone wants one or both of them for some player or players which would improve us (Lord knows, an offer of almost anything would be an improvement for, or at least not worsen, this team) they are most certainly tradeable.
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Great players (i.e., those with great physical talent) generally don't do as much of the mental work it takes to be great at hitting/pitching/fielding/baserunning (with notable exceptions of course), because they don't need to. It's the marginally talented players who stick in professional baseball through their intelligence, and not their physical talent, who most often end up becoming great coaches.
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From Notes: Wood to test shoulder Sunday: "The doctor told me it would be eight weeks," Pagan said. "Unfortunately, it took two months."
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Good Miles article: Decline of African Americans in baseball
muskie replied to wade's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
1) Poor people in America have less disposable income now than in 1975, and schools had more money to spend on nonessential activities in 1975 than they do now. 2) In Latin America there's both poverty and as a result of that poverty a more permissive climate (for example: if there is no glass in the windows, no one will be chased from the streets because they might break a window, and if life expectancy for street kids is very short, no one will raise a fuss about not having helmets). -
I've been designing websites since 1995 and can't help but kibbitz here: you may want to eliminate avatars altogether, and trim down everything else you can on other sections of the site. It's fun to play with graphics, but they aren't really necessary on a discussion board. And, generally speaking, the fewer the bells and whistles the more usable the web page. It's worth noting that the sites everyone uses (one example: Yahoo) are almost always very simple sites without superfluous graphics and with Java/Javascript/Flash/etc. used sparingly. Good web design is content-driven, and paring your website down will only improve it.
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I'll let you all guess who I am on the Cubs board. Hard, isn't it? :wink: Actually, I'm "muskie" almost everywhere on the net, and, like borgie, even "muskie" to many of my friends. it's a reference to the fish, which comes from a bit of very-long-ago humor between a friend and myself that I couldn't even begin to explain (and not from any fishing prowess of mine). The joking around happened to occur on the day I first borrowed a modem from someone and logged myself onto a BBS-- "muskie" has been my moniker ever since.