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  1. UMFan83
    Excuse me if I mispell, I am kinda drunk. I went to the Cubby Bear just to be out tonight. It was 95% Sox fans. After the game was over, I got at least 7-8 free glasses of champagne (everyone got free glasses, but I got extra to 'drown my sorrows' because I was a Cubs fan). About 5 minutes after the game, hundreds of Sox fans walked out to the streets of Wrigleyville and celebrated on the sidewalks. Hundreds of cars drove by honking horns. On guy drove by with a Cubs flag waving, and Sox fans literally tried to stop him right in the middle of the street to give him a hard time. Anyways, so I walk across the street to Wrigley, and what do I see? About 60-70 Sox fans standing at the corner of Clark and Addison waving Sox flags, taking pictures, etc. Everyone one I asked basically said "I couldn't think of a better place to celebrate then outside Wrigley." So basically the first thing that came to Sox fans minds when celebrating was "lets go gloat to the Cubs"....how juvenile....
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    Corey and Hill for a better version of Corey and an above average reliever? It depends on how much money they eat I guess.
  3. UMFan83
    Amen
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    After awhile, the misery actually starts to feel good. I'm not kidding, its like people who cut themselves for the adrenaline rush the pain brings.
  5. UMFan83
    At least the White Sox trash won't get to celebrate their WS at home. We Cubs fans deserve more than to grasp at straws like that. Do we though? We are Cubs fans, we deserve the worst apparently. At least this is about as low as Cub-dom can go. And before you criticise me by saying that the lowest low for Cubs can't be on something the Cubs had no control over, I disagree. I think the fact that 2 years ago we had 2 teams in our area of futility, now we are alone as we watched our long suffering city rivals win the World Series, pretty much dominating baseball, without even breaking a sweat. Anyways, my point is, unless the White Sox become the Yankees of the 2000's while we continue our futility, it can only go up from here for Cubs fans.
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    I agree, I think the Brewers will break the bad luck for the NLC next year
  7. UMFan83
    Barrett had every right to hate on Oswalt...hes a little punk
  8. UMFan83
    Man and I thought the Cubs collapse horribly...the Astros collapse horribly almost every game it seems
  9. UMFan83
    That ballpark is an abonimation. I've said it before and I'll say it again, MMP is probably the worst of the newer parks and if not for the domed stadiums (Skydome, Rollerdome, Tropicana), would be amongst the worst in all of baseball. It has all of the worst features of the modern mallpark (contrived, tacky, sterile) with none of its charms. I'm sure it holds its own when it comes to creature comforts, but aesthetically it is an affront to good taste. And don't get me started on the stupid hill. Whoever came up with that needs to be put away lest he infect the world with any more wonderful ideas. Making a ballpark have asymmetrical dimensions is ok. Even putting weird boxes of seats nailed to a wall is fine. But when you go as far as putting a hill in CF with an exposed flag pole in play, that is when you are trying waaay to hard to put quirky features in your park.
  10. UMFan83
    I saw a statistic yesterday for the Astros home record with the Roof open and closed and both. I honestly don't remember the actual number, but I do remember there was about 50 games with it opened 25 games where it was closed and the remaining under 10 games when it was both opened and closed during a game. And Jimy, instead of accusing goony of flat out lying, perhaps he is mistaken or being misinterpreted.
  11. UMFan83
    How does everything work out perfectly all year for a franchise who nothing has worked out for over the past 90 years? And why wasn't that team the Cubs?
  12. UMFan83
    Lets wait to see if Neifi is resigned to start at SS before we decide to go to Cubs Convention
  13. UMFan83
    Sounds like Bears playoff weather, not Sox :)
  14. UMFan83
    Were you in St. Louis for the game last night, Gus? I have to say I was very impressed logging on here this morning, no senseless gloating to be found, only analysis over why the Cards lost. I don't know how NSBB has managed to accumulate such a quality group of posters in an anonymous internet forum. I hope to meet you and many others in Chicago next year. I hope I'm not late *ahem* OMGZ LOL Cards SUCK. Choked again!!1 Hehe, LaRussa can't win a big game!
  15. UMFan83
    This move will DOOM the Cubs. The Cardinals are smart and they will go hard after, and sign Brian Giles. Ugh, the Cubs never had a shot at him...
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    I hate the idea personally. Baseball needs less teams not more. Cities like Tampa can barely support their teams as it is. Plus I am all about tradition. I wish baseball could go back to the original 16 :). But in all seriousness, I just don't see a need for another team. But if there was.... North Side, South Side.....West Side? ;) They can build on the near the Cubs old West Side Grounds
  17. UMFan83
    No that was just a pilot
  18. UMFan83
    I heard somewhere that Rothschild works a lot better with power pitchers then finesse pitchers or vice versa. I forgot which one, maybe someone can enlighten me.
  19. UMFan83
    Well there was probably less international media, less national media, less representatives of MLB, less celebrities to give tickets to, meaning there was more available to offer at lower prices.
  20. UMFan83
    Good players get jerked around all the time in baseball. Unfortunately with Cedeno, Nomar, Walker, potential FA to occupy 2B and SS, one of those guys is the odd man out, and its not Cedeno. It's probably Walker, or less likely Nomar, or more likely both
  21. UMFan83
    Then you can take a tour of Chicago's fine prision systems. They'll even let you pay bail just like the real criminals ;)
  22. UMFan83
    Some reasons why the Cubs can't play at home: -Too many day games, too few dark players (this explains the summer months) -The firehouse across the street is too loud and distracting -The green of the ivy doesn't match the Cubs blue uniforms and creates a distracting contrast in colors that distorts the Cubs players vision -Wrigley is surrounded by bars. Bars that are open until 4 am. You have to be at the ballpark at 10am for a 2PM game. Think about it. -Too much traffic around the ballpark. Get too winded riding your bike down Halsted -That large imposing scoreboard scares our outfielders. Corey Patterson swore it was going to fall on him at some point last year. -Ryan Dempster made the players laugh so much that it distracted them (but only at home)
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    Anyone remember when Manny hit a big HR against the A's in the 2003 ALDS and the Fox announcers ripped on him for like 3 innings for staring. Well Pujols HR last night was worse then that and those Cardinal loving guys didn't even mention it.
  24. UMFan83
    If I had more time and money, I'd have gotten a pair of tickets and offered to sell them at face value to the first Sox fan that is willing to wear a Cubs hat and jersey to the game and keep it on throughout the entire game
  25. UMFan83
    So your saying grab a seat in the first row and lean over
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