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  1. UMFan83
    Patriots are like 100-0 when they lose a game. Should I be rooting for NE
  2. UMFan83
    This is some terrible voice acting:
  3. UMFan83
    the irony is so far they're really mainly leveling one of the newest parts of the park I know. I feel like I could be looking at pictures from 2006. How is the infrastructure from the main stands being "modernized" from this rennovation? I doing remember seeing anything about them tearing up the grandstands and fixing structural issues, but I could be mistaken.
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    I vaguely remember Sosa hitting a towering fly ball to about straight away CF either to end the game or in the 9th inning of one of the games they lost. It either would have tied it or won the game (can't remember if men were on base). I think it was off Schmoltz as well. Can anyone confirm that this happened or am I dreaming this up? For some reason Baez hitting that towering fly off Chapman this year reminded me of this Sosa moment this year that I had long since forgotten. Yeah, game 4, he represented the tying run. It's a real damn shame there is no way to re-watch old playoff series other than the last few years. How does the MLB benefit from hording that stuff?
  5. UMFan83
    Yay Giants! *heads to best fans in baseball twitter page*
  6. UMFan83
    Completely destroy Calgary and lose. At least we got a point. These types of games will happen over the course of a season.
  7. UMFan83
    Damn that was pretty close. Glad they counted it
  8. UMFan83
    7 penalties for Calgary vs 1 for Chicago lol
  9. UMFan83
    There we go. Get enough power plays and eventually we will score
  10. UMFan83
    Carcillo really blew a point blank shot attempt early in the first. At the time I figured whatever but now we could really use that goal.
  11. UMFan83
    SOG 30-6 Chi Score 1-0 Cal
  12. UMFan83
    Totally. They've dominated and gotten 4 power plays but haven't been able to light the lamp. Ugh
  13. UMFan83
    On paper, they're barely better than the Cubs. That's not even hyperbole
  14. UMFan83
    Apparently good news comes in threes. Not sure if Shea McClellin coming back is exactly good news. He's at best on the level of any of the guys that were playing Sunday at LB. He wasn't horrible to start the season....at least I don't think so. At worst, it gives us more depth at a position we really need it, as I don't think Briggs and Williams are going to play. Who knows about Bostic.
  15. UMFan83
    Game 1 frustrates me almost as much as games 6 and 7. Cubs had a 4-0 lead and then Zambrano, who gave up 9 HR in 214 innings that year, gives up 3 HRs in a span of 4 batters. Sucks that he he didn't have it going that game, but was excellent in Game 5 when Josh Beckett made it moot with a CG SO domination.
  16. UMFan83
    little things I remember about that series: Game 1: Pretty much just Wood looking dominant and then getting that huge hit to take the lead Game 2: Cubs scoring 2 in the first off a Sosa double, then giving up the lead. Remember Tom Goodwin scoring on a sac fly to tie the game in the 8th inning only to have the Cubs give the lead back up in the bottom of the inning Game 3: Delayed start by rain, Cubs scoring 2 in the first, Prior being absolutely dominant before giving up a run in the later innings, Randall Simon doubling to give the cubs an insurance run in the 8th Game 4: All I remember is Karros and Chipper Jones both hitting 2 HRs and the Braves winning Game 5: Wood again, Alou i think had an early RBI single to take some pressure off, Aramis and (i think) AGonz both hit home runs to add to the lead. I remember a weird "trapping play" on a ball hit by the Braves that allowed a run to score to make it 4-1 or 5-1, and then I remember Borowski's K to send it.
  17. UMFan83
    Mine is still the Aramis Grand Slam. It was the moment I really believed we were going to the World Series. I have been trying for years to find a clip of it, but I'm dumbfounded that I can't find one in this day and age when entire games (3, 6 and 7) of that series are on youtube. The only thing I can find is a still picture: http://reds.enquirer.com/2003/10/12/nlcs_zoom.jpg
  18. UMFan83
    Ok sorry Gary Gaetti's HR exponentially adds to Cubs postseason lore
  19. UMFan83
    Sorry, I thought it was clear that when I said memorable I meant memorable in favor of the Cubs. That Royals Wild Card game was bonkers and full of memories. The Cubs have what? -Woods double in G1 vs. Braves 2003 -Aramis Grand Slam G4 vs. Marlins 2003 -Cubs homerfest G2 vs. Marlins 2003 -Randall Simon HR G3 vs. Marlins 2003 -Huge 1st inning in G2 vs. Giants in 1989 -Sutcliffe HR in G1 vs. Padres in 1984 Nothing from 1998, 2007, 2008 You might include Wood's HR in G7 2003 or Sosa's HR in G1 2003 but those were both in losses so [expletive] them. Nothing from 1998? Does the play-in game not register for you? Not a playoff game
  20. UMFan83
    Not sure if this has been posted but Sammy Sosa's 2 out 9th inning homer to tie G1 of the 2003 NLCS, with Pat Hughes' call.
  21. UMFan83
    Be glad. I thought that the Bengals had a rather apathetic fan base, but my ears were ringing from hearing their yokel fans telling "WHO DEY, WHO DEY, WHO DEY SAY GONNA BEAT DEM BENGALS" in my ears for 4 hours. I think because Bears fans travel so well, home fans feel threatened and really let our fans hear if if/when they win/dominate. I went to that game, they weren't that bad, compared to how some Bears fans treat opposing fans at Soldier Field. Although their rather strong redneck accent was quite annoying. Who Dey had to be stolen from the Saints Who Dat? I left at halftime and got back to Chicago two hours quicker than I thought. You left at halftime....the fans continued to drink and get more aggressive as the game went on. After the game, I saw Bengals fans picking fights with Bears fans. One fight I saw a Bears fan get shoved to the ground by 3 Bengals fans, that Bears fan got up and ran to a police officer for help, the police officer shoved him to the ground and cuffed him. Great times.
  22. UMFan83
    Sorry, I thought it was clear that when I said memorable I meant memorable in favor of the Cubs. That Royals Wild Card game was bonkers and full of memories. The Cubs have what? -Woods double in G1 vs. Braves 2003 -Aramis Grand Slam G4 vs. Marlins 2003 -Cubs homerfest G2 vs. Marlins 2003 -Randall Simon HR G3 vs. Marlins 2003 -Huge 1st inning in G2 vs. Giants in 1989 -Sutcliffe HR in G1 vs. Padres in 1984 Nothing from 1998, 2007, 2008 You might include Wood's HR in G7 2003 or Sosa's HR in G1 2003 but those were both in losses so [expletive] them.
  23. UMFan83
    Be glad. I thought that the Bengals had a rather apathetic fan base, but my ears were ringing from hearing their yokel fans telling "WHO DEY, WHO DEY, WHO DEY SAY GONNA BEAT DEM BENGALS" in my ears for 4 hours. I think because Bears fans travel so well, home fans feel threatened and really let our fans hear if if/when they win/dominate.
  24. UMFan83
    I hate Bears road games. The last (only) 2 I went to were 2009 in Cincinnati (Bears lost 45-10) and last year in Detroit (Bears lost 40-32, but it was 40-16 midway through the 4th). Both times, the fans really enjoyed letting us Bears fans hear it on the way out.
  25. UMFan83
    It almost annoys me how easy its been. Since the last time they've made the playoffs, we've made it 5 times, were swept out of them 3 times, won 1 game another time and suffered a devastating collapse the other time. They waltz in after not making it for almost 30 years, right off the bat have a game with more memorable moments than the Cubs entire postseason history since 1908 (maybe hyperbole), sweep through the division series and are about to sweep through the LCS to make the World Series. Teams like the Royals are among the few teams that have been less relevant than the Cubs in my lifetime, and to see them likely breeze into the world series is slightly frustrating. At the same time I'm still rooting for them.
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