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Freaking Hank White.

Great.... that figures out to 2.67 P/PA. We're awesome !! We don't need no stinking patience...swing away. Dusty ball Hey dude, why do you hate being aggressive at the plate?

Just wait until Wade Miller and Derrek Lee get back. They'll lead the team back into contention! Don't forget Angel Pagan! He's the glue that can bring the team together!

Hey Dude, Womack's the cog in our team.

Why do I get the strange feeling that I've read that before?

Hell, Rogers wasn't even going to swing the bat, and it still took Prior two extra pitches to get him out.

Boy, I sure am glad we didn't trade him and Hill for Tejada. That would have been disastrous.

Nice start Mark. Maybe you should have thrown a few more towel innings.

3.) I remember a ABC Monday Night game in Philadelphia in '84 when Ron Cey hit a 3-run homer in the 7th to put the Cubs in the lead for good. 4.) Ugh. I was watching the game from my apartment, after just getting home from class. My future wife was watching it with me. As soon as the ball fell out of Brown's glove I fell to the floor and began pounding it with my fist. 5.) I was working during summer break at the time, thinking, "They wouldn't cancel an entire season, would they??" 6.) And I always remembered them sucking, at least until the 90's. 7.) I remember when Dunston spent something like two games at Des Moines before getting sent up, and there were no tickets available to see him. Guy had a decent career, but never lived up to the hype. 11.) I remember watching the rainout on TV, thinking what fun it must be to be a big league ballplayer. 13.) My grandfather would listen to the games on radio sometimes, and when I would stay at their house I'd wonder to myself who the hell those old fogies on WGN Radio calling the Cubs game were. I also could never understand why Harry split time between the radio and TV. 14.) I remember when Ryno led the league with 40 HRs in 1990. 15.) Didn't she appear in Playboy once? 16.) I always wondered why they didn't have night games at Wrigley all along. After having been to a few of them myself, I now know why. :D I started watching the Cubs towards the end of the '83 season, as I started playing Little League myself earlier in the year. By '84 I had really developed an interest in the sport. But on June 23rd, 1984 my affection for the Cubs was cemented forever. National TV. Cubs. Cardinals. McGee. Sutter. Sandberg. To this day I haven't seen a feat in baseball that comes close to the dramatics from Ryno that day. Two homeruns to tie the game, in consecutive innings, off one of the best closers of that era. I haven't seen anything like it since. I'm still in awe.

I really find it hard to blame the Cubs if that's true. Agreed. I'm glad that Hendry wanted to insert that clause, both because Furcal would be horribly overpaid, and since character is important. Perhaps Furcal would have agreed to it if they had offered him another two or three million a year. If the Cubs had Furcal today, Derek Lee wouldn't be missing two months of baseball, and Pie might be trolling center field already. Considering we gave up two major league pitchers for a guy with an OBP below .300, I'd say the extra two or three million a year would have been worth it to grab Furcal.

Come on Cubs! Retire the Cardinals in the bottom of the inning so I can see that chick with nice cans in the Suzuki commercial a few more times.

The 2006 Chicago Cubs: Finding new ways to lose every day.

This tie game is a most disturbing development.

The only thing that keeps me going is thinking about Neifi having to go to his car in the parking lot while the fans throw heavy metal objects at him.

And how many walks did we take today? This is priceless. Really it is.

Freakin' hilarious.

Time to hide the breakables in the dugout.

Thank goodness for Jones' suckiness.

Bynum hit a homerun? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

It is somewhere. its' Beer:30 by my clock Derwood, your sig is awesome.

I threw a remote control a the screen; the screen didn't break but the remote did. Does that count? :lol: I broke my remote into about 30 pieces during the eighth inning of Game 6.

Who is accepting low standards? Hendry isn't accepting low standards, either. He just has no idea what he's doing and actually believes he's buidling a winner. Standards are too low if anything other than a Championship is acceptable. Hendry may have convinced himself he's building a winner, but he's put himself in the sweepstakes for better players than what we have. He just settles for less and the Trib, being the board room faceless owners that they are, don't allow him to spend whatever it takes. We could build from the minors and save alot of money; that's an alternate route to spending a ton of cash. Other teams have done it. But Hendry has built a farm system of crap with no emphasis on fundamentals, no emphasis on OBP. It's terrible. Those are low standards. Takes alot of work to build a winning franchise. Ours has never shown---and I mean NEVER shown----the gumption to do the damn difficult work and the long hours and the digging in the dirt that it would take to turn this thing around, either from the FA perspective, or the development perspective. Those are low standards. Where is the teaching? Where is the commitment to acquiring the best, no matter the cost? Where is the accountability? Don't hand me the payroll figures, either. I'm so sick of that argument. Trib bloats it's payroll on junk players so it can claim it wants to win. Bull-pucky. They care like a millionaire cares when he buys his 15th Mercedes. Some may think they're going to live forever so they can handle a few more years of terrible baseball in the hopes that it works out. I did this in the '80s. I'm too old now. Seriously, I've bled Cubbie blue for 40+ years. I want to see a Champion before I die. I watched my Dad die without ever having seen one just last year. I'm sick of this nonsense. Everyone has a clever argument why this stuff is all going to work out, or it isn't as bad as it seems. Meanwhile, we continue to tank over & over. Enough! I want some accountability. Who among us would have a job with this kind of performance? =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> My grandfather lived 82 years, having never seen his beloved Cubbies win it all. He died a year and a half ago. I can't bear the thought of the same thing happening to me. . And I completely agree about the payroll; I get tired of hearing that the Cubs have the fifth highest payroll in baseball. They could spend $100 million MORE than the Yankees if they wanted to; they're a GD Fortune 500 company for Chrissakes! But by paying skids like Jacque Jones and Neifi Perez, they just make it look like they're spending money. Then when a player like Furcal comes along, they flinch when another team comes in with a better offer. Tell me, would the $3 million more per year that Furcal wanted each year be worth a 70-point improvement in OBP in the leadoff spot, keeping three major-league caliber pitchers in your system, and Derrek Lee not snapping his wrist like a twig?

A walk?? BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Who says these guys can't draw base-on-balls?

Dusty, when you walk in front of that bus, make sure that Neifi's right next to you.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! 3 run bomb by Cabrera. Dusty, you [expletive] suck. Go walk in front of a bus.