CubmanPi

I'm going to be at all three of these games and was wondering if anyone else lives here or will be in the area who plans on attending. I haven't checked ticket availability yet, but even though the Cubs are in town, I have a feeling it's safe to assume there are still pretty decent seats to be had.

Yeah ?? .... and what happened the last time you took your g/f to a game at Wrigley ?? Hmmmmm ?? This game is going to be against the DBags. Cubs could lose 16 to -5 and it would still not be as miserable as the last NSBB Cubs-DBags gathering. No better time to try and reverse a trend than when the bar can't possibly be any lower.

I don't even think it's accurate to say they ripped him. It was a standard, obligatory piece they do any time anyone talks about scrap or grit or intangibles as a reason to justify short, white crappy baseball players who get any real amount of playing time. There was nothing remarkable or scathing about it.

she's been itching to see a game at wrigley, and that could be her only chance for a couple seasons with the schooling she's about to start. Besides, she knows she drops to second on the priority list during games, and she's cool with that so far (we're not married), so might as well take advantage while I can.

I should be able to get leave and make it into town for that weekend. I may even be able to get the gf out there too.

Not nearly as easy as the ignore button under the post, but good enough. Thanks!

I've primarily been a lurker since the switchover. Do we really not have an ignore feature anymore?!

DeRosa.

The way this is worded, it makes it sound like it's in the spirit of "... but other than THAT, how did you enjoy the show, Mrs Lincoln?" meh. I found it amusing.

+1 This sucks. Yea. I was a Clement fan too. To go along with this year's Mark Prior CYA, this will definitely feel like a kick in the nuts. Oh well.

Based on the projections for their numbers this year, this will happen approximately every three weeks. I guess I'll sign up too, please.

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I was in class and got to listen to the 4th-6th innings on gameday audio, and I was swearing at anyone who came in the room. Then lunch was over and I had to revert back to refreshing the game thread to keep up. Lee hit the sac fly to bring it to within 1. I was refreshing furiously, and this is how it went down in my world. No Ron, no pubescent screaming Len, but I still had to excuse myself from the room and run laps around the hallways for a while.

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ALW Seattle Mariners (Comiskey) Oakland A's X (Oakland) ALC Chicago White Sox X (Comiskey) Cleveland Indians (Oakland) Milwaukee Brewers X (Comiskey) NLW San Francisco Giants (AT&T) NLC Chicago Cubs WX (Wrigley, Turner, AT&T, and will hopefully add 3 more this season) NLE Atlanta Braves X (Turner) New York Mets W (Wrigley, Turner) Philadelphia Phillies W Washington Nationals W Montreal Expos W I'm getting a little baseball envy - your lists are so much bigger than mine.

I'm not sure why one of the previous four threads with links to these calls hasn't been stickied yet. This will never get old.

Holy crap he smoked that first HR. Seeing Wrigley going crazy like that for Dawson, with Harry making the call gave me some serious goosebumps. My first guess on the guy with the aviators was Steve Buechele, but br tells me he wasn't on the team that year. Looking at the roster, I can't even guess.

That's not a tough question at all. That's not even a realistic question. That's a waste of time fluff question. Any 'good' question will promptly be transformed, by way of JH's response, into a waste of time fluff question. I have zero hopes for anything good/useful/informative coming from this session.

True, but if he turns out to not be a Cub, that all but guarantees that he'll be the first guy on this list with a CGSO.

Probably just because it's a tangible sign that the season is one step closer.I've caught myself getting a little excited too, but then I stumbled into the game threads forum and caught the last few pages from game 3. I think I'm set until April now.

Dempster. No question. Other than will he be healthy. And will he start. And will Lou kill him before the end of April. But other than that, no question. Dempster.

No, it is pretty much a BS cop out. I love South Park as much as the next cynical slacker, but that reference is apropos of nothing. It is well within someone's right not to vote but reducing the contest to a douche vs. crap makes the decision not to vote one of self-induced ignorance. I find it almost impossible to believe that someone who made him or her self aware of the political stance of the candidates running for any office would reduce a choice for that office to such terrible and disgusting metaphor. It's just an excuse to be willfully uninformed. Even Dave Chappelle was at the debate in SC, and I can't think of a better example of a cynical slacker. Instead of reading it as reducing the contest to douche vs crap, read it as the metaphor it was originally written to be. If the starving population of flies was the single biggest issue facing our nation right now, the turd sandwich would be a no-brainer. If hygiene and cleanliness were the supreme issue, then likewise for the other. This all, of course, is assuming that the candidates fulfill their promises of actually serving in the presidency with the full turdiness/douchiness on which they campaigned. The fact is, if you have more than about one or two issues which are important to you, and those issues are traditionally represented by opposite sides (ie, being strongly opposed to or in favor of both abortion and death penalty), and each side comes with a ball of wax you largely can't stomach, and you can't even trust them to do anything about the issue that's important to you in the first place, then "I don't know" is a perfectly legitimate answer. One can also argue that being this brand of bs'ing, copping out cynical slacker is a step up from being a naive idealist who thought they were voting for personal values and small government and instead got the last 7 years.

You can always put it out there to your NSBB buddies to see if they would be interested in joining you for a weekend series somewhere. I was just gonna say - away games on weekends in April or May are all within about four hours of here (Annapolis), so if you end up making it out to any of those series, odds are I'll be there. There should be a few other PA/NY/NE types that are out here who have already thrown out similar preliminary plans.

Like in many elections, I'm abstaining from voting due to lack of a decent option. Actual issues aside, the change I'd most like to see in government is increased political diversity. When the options are giant douche and turd sandwich, I'll take my chances with Puffy.

I'll argue that it's smart as well, though not necessarily because it was a convenient way for him to cover anything up. Despite the thick accent, Sammy does have a rather steady grasp of the English language on the day-to-day level. However, when dealing with something such as a beaurocratic investigation, I'm sure his actual true abilities were just not that great. With the amount of implied meaning and the fact that every individual word is so important, the intent could also have been to simply have a safety net to make sure he wasn't giving answers to a question that wasn't actually asked. This is not a blind Sammy defense, I'm simply supposing that the need for an interpreter wasn't some brilliant form of manipulating his way out of the situation.