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^^^^ Was peeing during game 7 HR

I have to echo the sentiments of another poster who noted a sense of loss. I wouldn't say mine is a sense of loss as much as a sense of completion, or closure. I've been a fan sense age 6 in 1982. Became a big fan in '84. As a latchkey kid in the late '80, I was the kid playing ball alone in the Nike commercial and Harry and Steve kept me company. I collected baseball cards and knew every Cubs stat. This board and the Cubs.com board before it introduced me to advanced statistics and I learned to predict and project. There was more understanding to my hope. I followed sammy in 1998 while in college. I had my heart broken as an expecting father in 2003. I caught my big break professionally in 2008 and the Cubs were there. Always hoping and dreaming that "someday" or "next year". When Theo came, the countdown to the end of all things began. and I followed these kids (I'm grandpa Rossy's age) through the minors, and knew this day was no longer a dream, but an inevitability. I have digested this message board daily for 13 years. And now it seems so "done". Like the last chapter of a good book. Turn the page and sad that its over, already missing the characters, wanting to return to the setting. But its not really sad, its more Satisfying. a sense of completion and accomplishment.You can read it again, but its not the same. I've read LOTR a dozen times, and every time there's something new, but its never quite as magical, as spiritual, as the first reading. And I'll read it again, and whatever sequels come out as a quaint homage to the original. But the main story will be kept with me forever as I close the book. Its the story of a lifetime. and I'll miss it. I'm 40, but this ends my childhood. In the best way ever. I'm not sad. I'm satisfied. I'll never stop being a Cubs fan, but from now on it will be something I did, not who I am. Longest binge watch ever. I hope that makes sense.

I am posting in the Cubs World Series Championship game 7 thread, for anyone who was wondering! So happy, but sad this amazing season is over.

Do better next time. And Shortstops. Why can't they make the whole team out of catchers and shortstops? Didn't hendry do that once?

Pretty sure that's photoshopped. That's what ramblingrimace does. Don't even care. I needed to see it to believe. I was violently sick last night. Picture me vomiting so profusely that I burst a blood vessel in my nose. Now I'm puking bleeding into the toilet exhausted from this stomach bug but cheering for the Cubs while my wife screams updates through the house. Worth it.

This is noteworthy. Its felt like they've struggled, but they've actually been just as good as the regular season. Thanks for this.

Welcome back! This is a lot different team than you and I saw in 2008 in Washington. I think this team has it. The one time I actually met people from this board in real life. I met up with you one game and Brionch the other. You are both certainly missed around here.

When you mix up 2008 and 2015 in your mind. Mets, whatever. Just as painful. I knew it was one of those stupid New York teams.

who?

I can't understand this viewpoint, and it is becoming more and more common. Someone help me. Using cocaine does not make you a bad person who deserves to have bad things happen to them. A lot of people will hear "coke in his system" and automatically write somebody off as garbage who deserved whatever happened. Somebody can be shot and killed and if it comes back that they had a drug in their system people will blame the person who got shot for getting shot because a lot of people are dumb. I'm not saying I think "he deserved it". I'm saying he was handed much better cards than 99% of people on this earth and he took it for granted. And like a large percentage of 24 year olds, he believed himself to indestructible. Its a shame that a young life was cut short, but I'll admit that I don't feel the same way about as a I do about someone doing nothing wrong.

I think it shifts things from being an accident or misfortune into being something that he did to himself. Does it make it less tragic? No. But it does drains almost all of the sympathetic feelings for him from it. Instead of "how cruel for that to happen to him and his family", it's "his selfishness really cost his family". Now it's just another cautionary tale of reckless stupidity. Maybe that makes it more tragic, I don't know. A lot of times drug use is associated with something going on inside the head of a time and since I don't know if he has issues mentally I can't judge a man for that and the dude still seemed pretty cool so it still sucks. And he's still a great talent who we won't see anymore and that sucks too. There are a lot of scenarios where I don't care about coke in the system and few where I do. I can't understand this viewpoint, and it is becoming more and more common.

That's was grace's fault.

I'm not superstitious either, but I think I'm just stitious enough to try this.

Definitely. He wasn't impressing anyone last night.

Did the double switch wrong, no?

Bait. Get a solid tomlin out and Miller is not available for Schwarber in the 9th.

See also: Soler over Heyward not even close. Soler is an OF. Santana is a bad first baseman. And Heyward is a gold glover. The point stands, the benefit of the bad outweighs the difference in the glove.

"Let me straighten up here a little bit..." Reason Javy is better than Kyle: Javy knows he can't dance.

There's a good chance it'll be hilarious, but Francona is smart to put him out there. The benefit of his bat outweighs the likelihood that this is a close game decided by the quality of the Indians LF. See also: Soler over Heyward

If so, would it be too much to hope for that they take it down and NOT replace it? To me, it just doesn't look right at Wrigley. Too yuppie or something. It's going to pay for Bryant's contract in six years. I say we keep it.

Has happened, is happening, will happen.

Take us home Fred.

There's a bigger gap this year than for his career, .236/.305/.385 vs LHB, .253/.333/.399 vs RHB this year in about the same amount of innings/batters faced. For his career it's pretty neutral... .235/.327/.391 vs LHB and /.249/.329/.405. vs RHB Even if was even, Joe is justified in not going all lefties like last night.