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Look at the bright side guys. If the Cubs did win it all, you'd never be able to share in the fun on NSBB, because the thousands of people on the BB would completely blow up the server. It would take a day or two to get all the \:D/ posts in once they got NSBB back online. :D
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I've been a Cubs fan my entire life, and don't bear any ill towards the Sox. I'm not from Chicago though, so I don't get this "hate the team from the same city" dynamic. Maybe I'm delusional, but I think with the Sox winning the WS that the pressure is going to be on everyone for the Cubs to win now. Otherwise, they're going to risk losing those fans they've just expected for the last 20 years. The 2008 season is only two and a half years away. If the Cubs reach a century of futility, I believe that many people will just say, "F it," and find something else to do. I only wish I had tickets to the Cubs Convention. I can only imagine how bad the Q and A session is going to be.
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I thought I read this correctly ... if not, please elaborate on your point. That sounds like something out of the Jay Marriotti School of Structural Engineering. The ballpark is not going to up and fall over. Wouldn't that be the Cubs' luck though? They finally win the World Series, but it's tainted by the collapse of the second deck during the post Game-7 celebration, killing a thousand people and turning what should have been the greatest moment in Chicago sports history into the worst. The Cubs would do that to me; just so I couldn't enjoy a WS title.
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It reminds me of the Simpsons' episode where Bart tapes Lisa's appearance on the Krusty Cmeback Special and the part where she tells Martin she can't stand him. "Ooh. I think I can pause it right at the point where his heart breaks." I wish I had Tivo so I could replay the collective gasp of the crowd. Had they still been in the Astrodome, the massive fan-generated vacuum would have collapsed the roof. Not to be a nerd about it, but it was Ralph Wiggam whose heart broke. D'oh! Of course it was! How could I forget? "...so my doctor tells me that I wouldn't get so many nosebleeds if I kept my finger out of there."
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It reminds me of the Simpsons' episode where Bart tapes Lisa's appearance on the Krusty Cmeback Special and the part where she tells Martin she can't stand him. "Ooh. I think I can pause it right at the point where his heart breaks." I wish I had Tivo so I could replay the collective gasp of the crowd. Had they still been in the Astrodome, the massive fan-generated vacuum would have collapsed the roof.
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I know I'm supposed to hate the Cardinals, but I have a lot of respect for their franchise and their history. The Cubs-Cards rivalry has usually been a friendly one. The Astros fans are so unbearable I will relish them blowing it if the Cards come back. Loudmouth Texans who know very little about the game of baseball, and only watch to see if Clemens will go into a roid rage and bean someone. Their stadium isn't a bandbox, it's a toy box, and if they still played at the Astrodome they wouldn't be in the playoffs right now. I would even root for the White Sox over the Astros, if only to see a Chicago team win the title, build the pressure on Baker and Cubs management to the boiling point, and watch the rest of the bandwagon jumpers in Texas immediately forget about the Astros and go back into football mode for the next 11 months.
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The Tribune's priority isn't winning baseball games. It's maximizing shareholder value via increasing share prices and healthy dividends payouts. Winning a World Series isn't anywhere in the corporation's mission statement or strategic goals. They're a media conglomerate, and anything that helps them gain market share and increase profits in their core competency is what'll be important to them, not winning a World Series. Right now all that matters is that the Cubs have set attendance records the past three seasons. If not for a rainout the last weekend of 2003, they'd have had three straight seasons of three million people walking through the turnstiles. All of that has occurred on Baker's watch. To the Trib, the wins and losses don't count; they've never counted. As long as people show up for the games or watch them on WGN, the Cubs are making money and represent a neat black line on the Tribune's income statement. Sure, the Cubs got a bigger payroll the past couple of seasons, but cripes, the gate receipts alone amount to $90-$100 million annually. That doesn't count concessions, licensing revenues, or TV revenue. So we spent $90 million instead of $75 million on payroll. Big whoop. It's my fear we're never going to see a World Series title on the North Side until this baseball team starts being run by baseball people, instead of Wall Street people.
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Rothschild Stays, ENTIRE coaching staff to return
IowaCubsFan replied to Jon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Bartolo Colon isn't fat. Sincererly, Chuck. http://catalog.snoop2nuts.com/images/s2n/thumb_1071.jpg
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My dad was taking a nap during Game 5, and upon waking up the Cubs blew their 3-0 lead in the seventh. I've still never forgiven him for waking up.
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That rooftop shot still blows me away. He may have been a one-dimensional guy, but I always liked GAH. I remember his homerun off of John Franco on a Saturday in July of 1998.
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Funny thing is with my version of Lee on MVP that he's hitting .330 in late August, but only has 18 HR and 68 RBIs. Ramirez on the other hand is competing for the Triple Crown. .352-49-129 with September games still to go.
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"We hope he's on time, but you really, really, really don't know." Is Dusty now working on his Commandant Lassard impersonation? He's already got the blind incompetence part down, I suppose mimicing his speech patterns is next. http://tommcmahon.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/palassard.jpg
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Considering the Astros have an even more pathetic playoff history than the Cubs, I can't say I'm all that surprised.
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Hopefully, the last at-bat of his Cub career. If he's in a Cub uniform next year, I won't even bother paying attention to this team.
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I wonder if it bothers this organization at all that the Cubs have witnessed two playoff-clinching celebrations. Probably not. They're still counting the money from those 3 million people that walked through the gates this year.
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The restuarant could be cool, if they did away with a giant glass window and made it an extension of the scoreboard. Imagine getting to sit in a restaurant while the game is going on and looking out a tiny window not unlike what the scoreboard guys see during the game. Honestly though I don't know how they can make that work without significantly altering the architecture of the bleachers out there.
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What's the reason Trib continues to honor Rusty's contract?
IowaCubsFan replied to IowaCubsFan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
A winner? Really? How many World Series has he won? The only real winners right now are guys like LaRussa, Torre, Francona, and Scioscia. I don't see a lot of parallels between them and Rusty. We've got to expect more than "back to back" winning seasons. That's the same old trait I hate in many Cub fans: diminishing expectations. In 2003, Baker's team was 5 outs away from the WS In 2004, Baker's team collapsed in the last week of the season, losing crucial games to the fifth-place Reds. In 2005, Baker's team will finish with a losing record. Am I the only person that sees a regression here? -
Theo Epstein fired Grady Little, at the end of his first season, after they came within five outs of the WS. The next year they ended an 86-year world championship drought. The Red Sox clearly had talent, but Epstein recognized that Little couldn't win even with that talent. Baker should have been fired at the end of last season. Yet here we sit on the precipice of another losing season, with a payroll that was the highest in the NL, and we're pretty much all of the mind that Baker will be allowed to return yet again. I know this has been asked over and over again, but HOW CAN HENDRY JUSTIFY KEEPING THIS IDIOT??
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Yeah, but we have to "honor his contract." Right now I'd put Dusty up there with former FEMA head Mike Brown and NO Mayor Ray Nagin as the Most Incompetent Men in America.
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This season can't end soon enough. This team is chock full of losers, which explains the fact that they can get swept at home by the freaking Pirates. There are about six players I'd keep on this team going into next season; the rest should all be released.
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That should be the slogan for the 2005 season. How Macias can actually play for a major league team is beyond me.
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Spoken like a sellout. Amen. This entire organization is one giant sellout. This team will never amount to anything until it stops being a line on a corporation's income statement.
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Hey dude, we'd win more games if everyone was more positive.
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But hey, it was sure nice of Baker to give Wood another inning of work before he goes under the knife. :roll: Baker and Rothschild are clueless beyond belief.