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Yeah, but now they use juiced balls and longer rounds. Plus I'd be willing to bet the wind is not going to be blowing in like it did in 1990. I desperately want to see balls hitting buildings down Seminary and stuff. Though I wonder how they'd handle property damage lol.
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Manfred spoke about the 2025 All-Star game location today, and while he mentoned the Cubs are interested, it seems like they are an afterthought and the focus is on Toronto, Baltimore and Atlanta. The next ASG available to host is 2027. Jesse Rogers seems to imply that politics is preventing the Cubs from getting the game, specifically not being equipped to deal with the extra security and other measures that are needed when hosting an All-Star game. Anyone who follows me on twitter has seen this like 5 times in the past few days but man we're due for a freaking game. The only team with a longer wait is Oakland and they aren't ever getting one. The Cubs have hosted just 1 All-Star game in the last 60 years, and that game was 33 years ago. In comparison, Cleveland has hosted the game 4 times over that same timespan. Heck the entire city of Chicago has only hosted it 3 times since 1963, despite having 2 teams. Give me the damn game. The first ASG I am old enough to remember watching was the 1991 game, so I have no memory of the Cubs hosting.
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I hope its announced this week so I can bitch and moan when its not Wrigley and we'll have to target 2027. Wrigley has had 1 All-Star game in the past 61 years, and the 1 was 33 years ago. For comparison, Cleveland has hosted 4 times since 1962. The entire city of Chicago with 2 teams has only hosted 3 times since 1962 (1983, 1990, 2005).
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There are legitimate challenges at Northwestern that other Big Ten schools don't have to deal with but like you said its a Big Ten job and not very difficult to clean up the mess. The school also has brand new facilities for football that compete with the best of the conference and are in the process of doing a massive upgrade of their home field which should make them more attractive to recruits. I don't think they'll be able to get an elite name but should have no problem getting an up and coming coach that can succeed. The tough thing of course is the timing, roughly a month before training camp starts. Might have to do an interim this year, take their lumps for a season (lumps that were probably already coming) and hire next offseason.
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2023 MLB Draft Day 2 Thread
UMFan83 replied to Jeremy Nygaard's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I don't want to hear from Eric Karros until he releases the video he took of the 2003 Cubs. That would be so much fun to watch. -
Whole lotto suckin’ (Blackhawks 2023 offseason)
UMFan83 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Thanks, I hate it. What next, Toews to the Blues? (oh no please tell me I didn't speak it into existence) -
Why? He pitched for 19 years, figured he racked up enough K's. I was thinking of longevity guys and almost went with Bartolo Colon for Cleveland since he pitched 21 seasons but thankfully went with CC as Colon only had ~2500 strikeouts. Mine today: Todd Walker - Jason Kipnis - Bruce Sutter (going for rarity there) Doug Eyechart - Dave Winfield - Johan Santana Roger Clemens - CC Sabathia - Bob Gibson
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Can’t believe that Miles Robinson had not one but two hand balls inside the box. Crazy…wild game. Should have wiped the floor with these guys but also so fortunate to survive. Gonna be tough playing Panama in 72 hours after playing 120 tonight
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Miles Robinson with an inadvertent handball barely in the penalty box and Canada uses a PK to tie in the final minutes. Brutal
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Would really appreciate a US goal in the last 10 minutes, really don't feel like ET and possible PKs
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That would put them at .500. I think it depends on how teams like Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Philadephia, San Francisco and San Diego play. All ahead of the Cubs for playoff spots and all except San Diego are at least 6 games ahead of the Cubs. If you get that number down to 3, maybe you do at least a light buy, maybe a reliever and a power bat that can play 3B but not necessarily an everyday guy. If its still at around 6, you do nothing or a light sell of 1-2 pen arms. Edit: I wrote that confusingly. Currently only San Francisco and Cincinnati are in playoff spots, but all the teams I listed except San Diego are at least 6 games ahead of the Cubs in the standings.
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When you get shut down by Taillon and the Cubs pen, people get the axe
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Great reverse jinx UMFan
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Cubs are officially “In the hunt”
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Wait we just won a series at a place we’ve never won before with the wins coming on a Taillon start and on a Sunday? Wow
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Not scoring again from 2nd and 3rd and 0 outs with the top of the order up is pretty shitty. Hopefully we don’t need extra runs
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Wouldn’t mind the Cubs playing FTC here and giving Adbert another day of rest even going into the ASB
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Torres has killed us this series. Don’t do it, we’ll give you a 2016 ring
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Oh the game is back on and Fulmer is in *gulp*
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The rules changed where if the game gets called, they don’t revert back to the end of the 7th and call it a tie game right?
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Nope not at all though it looks like only a tiny bit of showers are crossing over the Bronx. Most of the storm is north of the city and traveling NE.
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Nice job getting a run home Seiya. No DPs Cody Edit: or just airmail a pitch
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Bases loaded 0 outs with 4, 5 and 6 due up. Better horsefeathering score here
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Is it just me or does it seem like umpires have been particularly awful this year? I can remember going like an entire week without getting mad at umpires or even really noticing they are there (minus a missed call here and there) but for whatever reason it seems like they are out there to piss people off daily.
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So nice of the Cubs to responds to Jed's "hey maybe we'll be buyers if we don't completely horsefeathers the bed for the next couple of weeks" by going 4-10 in their next 14 games
