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  1. Garwilly
    I'm sure he applauded at all the appropriate times too. He also wore jorts.
  2. Garwilly
    I guess I should wake up earlier.
  3. Garwilly
    More friendly? Have you spent any appreciable time in Central Illinois? It's not open warfare in the streets, but you can draw a line from about Des Moines to Terra Haute, and a hundred miles on either side of that line is a region of fairly fierce partisanship for one team or the other. My daughter is seven years old and doesn't really watch much baseball, but she knows for every kid in her class whether they come from a Cubs family or a Cards family. George Will has written quite a bit about growing up a Cubs fan in Champaign, Illinois and having to deal with Cardinal fans. Let me clarify, from my experience the Cardinals-Cubs rivalry is not vicious as Yankees-Red Sox. Agreed. I have, for the most part, found it to be very friendly. A Cardinal fan stood up in my wedding.
  4. Garwilly
    Holyjesus
  5. Garwilly
    All there is your playoff field.
  6. Garwilly
    You put the Whammy on them.
  7. Garwilly
    Interesting that they seem to be covering the windows.
  8. Garwilly
    I think it was a great play, and a ton of fun to watch (like 5 aspects were great). That said, I am preferable to the extremely athletic plays. Some of the dives and plays up the middle, the ones that I would never see on a softball field.
  9. Garwilly
    The other side is going up now. http://www.cubworld.com/category/a_cubworld_cam/
  10. Garwilly
    This isn't that part of the stadium.
  11. Garwilly
    I thought Hjalmarsson was going to be a RFA. That is the case.
  12. Garwilly
    But you can't do something as subjective as try and rank rivalries and not take into account recognition and opinion. A rivalry does not exist in a vacuum. I disagree. And I recognize the paradox/hypocrisy that comes from me saying outside opinions are irrelevant, while attempting to rank them myself. I do maintain though that the "rivalry" and the "perception of the rivalry" are two entirely separate things. That is my point.
  13. Garwilly
    For the record, I put Cubs/Cards and Giants/Dodgers on the same plane, a coin flip for 2nd/3rd. Overall recognition (national or otherwise) is not what makes a rivalry "great", "intense", or "the best", it is those involved, interacting with one another. Can I tell you the top CFL rivalries? No, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. What about the top Ivy league rivalries? I may think of Brown, Cornell, Harvard, Yale?...Well my outside perceptions are uninformed and Princeton in may have a top rival. The point is, a rivalry is not best "ranked" by acknowledgment. Cowboys and any one of Giants/Redskins/Eagles gets more pub than Packers/Vikings, Chiefs/Raiders, etc. Does that mean they are better? Of course not. They may or may not be better, but public perception has nothing to do with it.
  14. Garwilly
    Shouldn't the feelings of those involved in the rivalry be the measuring stick of a rivalry? Who cares if someone from Seattle doesn't know/care about the Cubs/Cards? Their opinions are irrelevant.
  15. Garwilly
    Neil Diamond, ftw.
  16. Garwilly
    SJ was down 4-2 in the 3rd, and has now tied it with under 2 minutes to play. Even if they get 1 point, the Hawks control their fate for the #1, but them getting the 0 would've been huge.
  17. Garwilly
    http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=5048309 So then I guess this means Hendry staying on wasn't just a one year thing, then? Long term Hendry was not what I was hoping for when Ricketts bought the team. He's not going to say anything else before his 1st season starts. If the cubs don't at least contend this season he is gone. Agreed. I'm not sure what people are expecting. Declarations of jobs on the line?
  18. Garwilly
    Bigtime.
  19. Garwilly
    Really. The opposite of the Detroit OT.
  20. Garwilly
    HOLY [expletive]!
  21. Garwilly
    And by that logic, it makes his point disingenuous. The Yankees didn't win a playoffs series until 1976. It's not disingenuous at all. I'm not trying to pull something over on anybody. What an asinine thing to say. It is extremely disingenuous. You trump up "no playoffs series wins" when by your reasoning, they didn't exist for the fist 90 plus years of the franchise.
  22. Garwilly
    And by that logic, it makes his point disingenuous. The Yankees didn't win a playoffs series until 1976.
  23. Garwilly
    Maddux win does not matter. Game 5 win over Atlanta, first playoff series win in franchise history, should be in its place I know 1908 was a long time ago. But it did happen. They didn't have playoffs then, just the World Series. It was a playoff series.
  24. Garwilly
    Maddux win does not matter. Game 5 win over Atlanta, first playoff series win in franchise history, should be in its place I know 1908 was a long time ago. But it did happen.
  25. Garwilly
    Hey stranger
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