UMFan83

Hmm...how did I become a Cubs fan? I was born in Chicago, but moved to Baltimore when I was 4 when my parents split. I considered myself a fan of the Orioles, Cubs, White Sox and according to my little league baseball card that asked my favorite team, the Pirates (this was 1991-1992 time frame when they were good). I moved back to Chicago at around 10 (1993ish), and quickly dropped the Orioles and Pirates (though I've always had an affinity for the Orioles, though wouldn't consider myself even the slightest bit of a fan). It was then Cubs and White Sox. And I have to admit that while I liked both teams, I was more of a White Sox fan with those enjoyable early-to-mid 90s teams that were good but never really did anything. Frank Thomas was easily my favorite player of my childhood. Now its 1998 and I'm still fans of both but have moved more towards the Cubs side even before the season started. 1998 was freaking magical and I was captivated by Kerry, Sammy, even Terry Mulholland and Mickey Morandini. Now I was like 75% Cubs, 25% White Sox. I watched the Sox 2000 playoff run but was much more detached. It wasn't until 2003 when I firmly committed to a side and fully turned my back on the White Sox. Since then its been all Cubs as evidenced by my 86,000 posts on this site (once the board finishes indexing)

Looks like Dansby's getting going right on time:

So true, Derwood is probably getting close to providing his thoughts on Quantumania and you don't want to miss that. Edit: Nevermind, Quantumania has only been out 6 weeks so you have some time.

That basically what the Athletic article said. They felt he was better off getting regular ABs rather than sitting on the bench. Inevitably someone will get hurt and he'll be up here.

McKinstry seemed like a nice enough guy and I really wanted him to work out but he just couldn't hit well enough to use a roster spot on him. Any time the Cubs acquire a minor league pitcher I'm excited that they have identified something they can tweak and turn them into another quality guy.

Am I looking at the wrong Luis Torrens? His best wOBA in a season is .311 which would put him in the below average category, just a tick above poor. I get that Gomes and especially Barnhart are also bad hitters but not sure how Torrens helps our offense at catcher, unless I'm missing something...

They have played well. I completely checked out on the season 3 weeks ago. Was so far removed from caring and openly rooting to tank. But now I feel dare I say it, a little excited? obviously the season is still going nowhere and the team is still built to embrace nba hell for some reason but if they keep playing like they they may be able to get into a playoff series which would be a huge accomplishment given where they were a few weeks ago. And heck given their ability to beat good teams this year, perhaps they can have a better series than they had last time, though I don’t like the matchup against either Milwaukee or Philly despite success against both this year.

I can see social/rants but my profile says I’m a Verified Member and I see others profiles that say they are an old timey member. Am I an old timey member? If not can I be added? I desperately crave the status of being an old timey member

The 2005 season-saver himself. Good guess!

What are the best notification setting to ensure that I only get notifications to people who respond to me or react to one of my posts? I checked this morning and saw 8 notifications and thought "wtf I'm definitely not that popular" but it looks like the notifications are for new posts in posts I've commented in.

Feel like you could replace “Swanson” with “Heyward” and 95% of your post would still be true. Not fair to Swanson to compare him to Heyward but while I’m excited to have Dansby and I’m sure he’ll be fine, I still have scars from a similar “good but not great at anything” signing that failed miserably.

Penn State lost to Michigan an hour ago, in OT. It was great.

If it gets you back to the board regularly again, I’m going to assume you have no knowledge of anything and am pleased to report that the entire Cubs organization has done nothing slimy at all since you left. In fact they’ve gone on record to pledge “no more sliminess”. Please don’t go verify this information, just trust your old pals.

I personally have not made up my mind on BPA being a good strategy for the Bears and need about another 4-5 pages of discourse to make my decision

Holy crap all the stars are returning. Just need Vance, Laura, sulley (though he claims that he’s still banned), etc. welcome back Duke!

Wait til you find out Tim is trying to bring 16 year old CT back to life by restoring the very old archives.

Personally enjoy watching them all (2016 at least):

Yeah Brock no need to rush getting the rest of those posts brought back to the board.

Are we just going to ignore the fact that he was the World Series MVP for the Braves?

Guessing previous hearts on posts don't carry over?

I should have 87.8k, it says 82.2k. I wonder if its not taking the post counts from the section of the board that was lost forever...want to say around 2007.

Yeah I was just about to ask if there was a viewing preferences section so I can remove sigs and avatars. I like my forum reading to be neat and concise.

Testing....Guess this Cubs great: Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards CHC 264 922 870 98 240 51 2 13 84 9 5 26 74 .276 .297 .384 .681 74 334 26 3 16 7 5 31 23 67 62 12 23 5 0 2 6 1 0 3 6 .371 .400 .548 .948 141 34 1 0 2 0 0 6/H4 32 154 609 572 59 157 33 1 9 54 8 4 18 47 .274 .298 .383 .681 75 219 22 3 12 4 3 *64/H5 33 87 246 236 27 60 13 1 2 24 0 1 5 21 .254 .266 .343 .610 53 81 3 0 2 3 2 46H5

Are the Game Threads going to show up again or am I just missing them somewhere? We got a game in 30 minutes, this is not a drill