UMFan83

Good on the Cubs! Bad on stupid White Sox fans that will surely add this to their "World's biggest gay bar" shtick.

Meh maybe. Other than Beckett, they had some pretty good pitchers but not great (Penny, Willis, Pavano, Redman). Don't get me wrong, there are no gimmies there at that point and time, but the Cubs obviously didn't see to have trouble with any of their pitchers, save Beckett after the 1st inning of game 1 (1.42 ERA after the first inning of game 1) Their hitters were pretty damn good but again, our starting pitching was supposed to be our strength with Wood, Prior and Z starting 6 of the 7 games. (and we won the other one). Breaking it down, we won games 2 and 4 handily, so I don't know if you can say they should have won the series 4-0 or 4-1. Then you have games 1 and 3 that could have gone either way, not to mention game 6 that would have went the Cubs way if not for a late game epic collapse So I dunno, I think we would and did hold our own again them. It was more or less running into a team that was red hot and clicking on all cylinders, and them running into our top 3 starting pitchers who had been ridden hard the last 3-4 months of the season and were gassed. Z and Wood especially.

Yes, and the media went apeshit on Bartman, finding out his name and address and staking out his house for days. Now 8 years later I still get teased by friends about Bartman, who is someone I don't really think I ever blamed for anything for more than an hour after the incident occured and I started my long emotional cooldown from the collapse. Yes, Cubs fans were rough on him at the game, throwing things at him and swearing in his direction, but its at least somewhat understandable given the stakes of the game and the emotionally destroying events that happened immediately after. Not saying it was justified to throw things at him and threaten physical harm, but thats something I'd expect many other fans to do in the same situation. That said, the majority of Cubs fans I knew at the time, including this board, was over Bartman within an hour or two of the game and placed the blame on everything else (Gonzalez, Dusty, goats, etc). But the media just took the story and ran with it and now because of that it's part of Cubs infamy, and I have to hear about it from people as if its supposed to enrage me to bring up his name, a la Buckner (which if you hear from Red Sox fans, supposedly that was another media generated scapegoat). Truth is, I don't really hate AGonz either. Maybe its because it was only one of several miscues and gaffes that led to the collapse (albeit the biggest), or maybe its because the media didn't remind me about it constantly for years, or maybe its because he had been in my good graces with some clutch late game HRs in the regular season and had hit 3-4 home runs in the playoffs thus far. I don't really hate any one specific thing or person from that game, other than my overall general hate of Dusty Baker. But I guess I probably have various degrees of dislike. And on that list, Bartman is far far away from the top.

Meh, I mentioned that Dusty finally decided prior had enough and that he wasnt sharp in the 7th despite a 1-2-3 inning. There is so much you can discuss about that game and series, it would fill a book.

Honestly I don't think he catches it. Even if he puts it in his glove, it would have been a snow-cone catch and I think the ball pops loose after his glove hits the railing on the way back down. Man all these years and I feel strongly that he was going to catch that. My thought back then was, it looked on line to his glove, and at that point in the season things like that just seemed to go our way.

I buy the "series of events" thing. The Bartman play happened, causing Prior to point and scream at the guy from the mound. Maybe he was finished (although he went 1-2-3 in the 7th, I believe 2 of the 3 outs were to the warning track or thereabouts), maybe that caused him to lose his composure or maybe both, but immediately after that you get the walk, the run scoring hit, the Gonzalez play, the double to tie the game and in the blink of an eye the game is tied, and Dusty finally decides Prior has had enough.

Well it might make sense to have an 80 year old not wanting to go out to the mound 400 times a year.

There are 10 teams that have a better 5th starter than a guy with a 3.77 career ERA in 3 seasons?

I keep waiting for Soto to get it going..

That's clearly a flop. Damn you, I was all ready with my "What is Chris Bosh doing in Vancouver" reply.

New Canucks logo for next year: http://www.joereiter.com/storage/post-images/cashmucks.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1308235286884

I miss hockey already. Quickly becoming one of my favorite sports when 3 years ago it was a clear 4th. And the best thing about hockey, I actually have a pretty good idea of when the next games are unlike the NBA and NFL.

They've been class since the final minute. I was coming here to say this, 10 minutes into Boston carrying around the cup they are still cheering. If only the players they cheer for had as much class, I could possibly not hate them as much. I agree, extremely classy. For fans that have to be absolutely devistated, lots of props for cheering.

The Patriots are the longest suffering Boston team. 2005: Patriots 2007: Red Sox 2008: Celtics 2011: Bruins *vomit*

You can't believe it? They [expletive] the bed every year. Heck they nearly [expletive] the bed already earlier in the playoffs. It's awesome. On paper they should have cleaned the floor with Boston. Absolutely. On paper this could have been their 3rd straight title.

Dammit that's our Cup your touching

You can't believe it? They [expletive] the bed every year. Heck they nearly [expletive] the bed already earlier in the playoffs. It's awesome.

This will be 3 different Original 6 teams winning the Cup in 4 years. Pretty neat.

A shutout here and the Conn Smythe has gotta be Thomas right? Maybe even if he allows a couple of goals.

This is game 6 NLCS level choking for the Canucks here in terms of how much misery this will bring them if they lose. Obviously the Cubs blew a 3-1 lead, and this is the championship round, but I feel good in saying I know what the Canucks are going through right now. But I'm still taking pleasure in it!

Dammit, I want Vancouver to lose of course but just thinking of those jerkass Boston fans having a riot to celebrate their Stanley Cup title makes me sick. Just not as sick. Bruins winning = flu, canucks winning = cancer

lol good stuff. As long as you stay healthy this year, do whatever the hell you want.

I dont know you tell me. You brought that up.

Actually, it's very feasible given the FA available after this season and 2012. There's nothing wrong with a big money team like the Cubs "throwing cash" at FA. The key is usually throwing it at the right FA instead of usually overpaying for middling talent. Like Julio Lugo, John Lackey, JD Drew and Marco Scutaro?

Yeah well, umm Chicago has had all their teams at least reach the conference finals during that time frame....all 5 teams if you want to tack on 2 more years. Cubs - 2003 (NLCS), Sox - 2005 (WS Champs), Blackhawks - 2010 (SC Champs)Bears - 2011 (NFC CG), Bulls - 2011 (ECF). If the Bulls would have beaten the Heat we could have said we've had a team in all 4 sports advance to the championship round in the last 6 years.