Yeah, geez. I hope that guy got a hotel room or something, since I’m sure people can figure out where he lives.
it’s 1103pm cst. The cubs have lost. They could have played better ball, certianly. They didn’t, they lost. It brings a tear to my eye to watch them go 84 on this chance too. There will be no next year, it probably will be another 95 years, but I’ll take the cubbies over any team in the majors.
IMO, the whole thing broke wide open when that fellow stuck his hand out, it clearly sent the cubs into a spiral so severe they could not recover. Their chances rested on a razors edge, this dolt gave them a shove down and off. Enjoy your 15 minutes Steve, you may be a decent guy, but you are the next curse, and deserve all you get out of it.
And to those that chatter the “it’s just a game” speech, if you don’t know, then you never will. It’s more than just a game, it’s more than can be adequately described by simple words, it’s the Cubs. If you have to ask, there’s not a chance in hell you’d understand.
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damn fingers…
…CUBS IN 2007!
Well, you guys did have a good run with Jordan.
The Wrong Girl, last I heard, he was staying at an undisclosed location and his brother-in-law was at his place. Can’t remember where I read it–I think in an online newspaper.
Gov. Jeb Bush is offering him a free three-month stay in Florida.
Poor guy.
:rolleyes:
Yeah, it’s sooooo much more than a game. Christ you sound like a blubbering idiot. It’s. A. Game. Lighten up, geeze.
Come on, man. They were leading 5-3 as late as (I think) the fifth inning tonight, the team was looking good and had momentum, and Wrigley was going berserk. They could and probably should’ve won tonight, period. They lost because they got outplayed. Just like they lost last night. This guy didn’t throw ball four to Castillo, he didn’t drop a double-play grounder to short, and he didn’t give up a whole bunch of hits after that. Regardless of that one ball, which Alou may or may not have caught, the Cubs had their fair share of chances.
Did you read his statement today? He says he’s a Cubs fan and he apologized profusely. If he hadn’t been there, somebody else in one of those seats would’ve done the same. He wasn’t out for his ‘15 minutes,’ he was trying to catch a ball at a game like a few dozen people do every night, and like almost everyone who goes to a game hopes to do at some point in their lives. At this point, the guy is more the victim than anything else.
Personally, I felt that watching the last eleven innings of the NLCS was like having an ecstatic religious vision.
Fondly did we hope, fervently did we pray that the scourge of Cubby post-season play would quickly pass away. And so it did.
The only annoying thing is that they got as far as they did. If Houston wouldn’t have rolled over like dogs the last weekend of the season, and at least forced Wood to pitch on the final Sunday, or if that douchebag Fick could have turned an easy double play in the first game of the first round, it never would have gone on this long.
Now for the best part: the lamentation and hand-wringing on The Day After.
Fucking Cubs suck goat cock.
On one level, I’m very sad for the Cubs and their fans. After all, even though a World Series doesn’t count unless Walter O’Malley’s Dodgers win it (which is to say, none of them since the Prince of Darkness was allowed to buy the team), the interminable wait that the team has endured since their last “WS” outing makes this a very poignant disappointment.
On another level, I can only admit to a sense of relief. It had been my fear that the Cubs would be meeting the BoSox this year. This would have had to portend the physical collapse of the known universe, as soon as one of those teams had taken the crown.
I suppose there’s always next year.
BTW, I must take issue with one statement made early on in this thread:
Used to be, I suppose. Then they had to put those fucking lights in.
Actually, we do, thanks to his ill-fated foray into IMHO with a thinly-veiled salt-pounding that was against the admonition of Coldfire.
Guess what? The Marlins were the better team. I know they’ll never get any respect cause they’re not from a giant media market and they’ve only been around a few year. But they were better. They have been playing like the best team in the majors for a while now.
Marlins over Yankess in 6. And no one outside the state of Florida will appreciate it.
Well whaddaya know, a self-inflating ass.
Red Sox over Miami, in hopefully as few games as possible.
I can’t stand the Yankees, or New York teams in general.
I can’t stand the Johnny-come-lately Marlins, or Miami teams in general. Also, a state that cannot even count votes properly does not deserve to win anything.
Next season, the Tigers meet the Phillies (or maybe Cubs) in the World Series!
And, Ralph Nader (or whoever gets the Green nomination) will be elected president!
QED, for some of us it is more than just a game. It’s a game, and a team, that we watched and played with our parents and neighbors, and now watch and play with our children.
For me and my son, these last few weeks have been spent sitting outside with our neighbors, watching the game on a TV in the front yard, laughing and talking, just like we did in the neighborhood of my childhood. I’ve met more people in my neighborhood in the last month than I did in the last year, because it’s brought people out to cheer them on. It’s been a great time, even through the losses. I have the Cubs to thank for that.
And for us, we love summer, and baseball IS summer. My son plays in two baseball leagues and my fiance plays in a softball league. Me, I just like to watch. We go to Cubs and Sox games as often as we can, and when we can’t, Pat and Ron or Steve and Chip are the best background music for an afternoon at the beach or in the yard. One of the best things I’ve ever seen written about baseball was written by Michael Chabon in Summerland: “Baseball is nothing but a great, slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the pace of a summer’s day.” I love that.
I was nine when I became a Cubs fan in 1984, the first season I remember caring about what happened in baseball. My son is nine, and this is the first season he’s had the full-on Cubs experience. I hope that he comes away from this season with memories as good as mine are of '84, when I could tell what was going on in the game while sitting on a branch in my backyard’s maple and listening to my dad clap and shout from the kitchen while watching the game.
Of course I’m sad they lost. But the best thing about baseball, and the Cubs, is that there really, truly is always next season. I know where I’ll be in February 2004 – standing in line to buy seats to as many games as I can. I can’t wait until opening day.
Ok, that’s just too fucking funny NOT to be someone’s sig line!
Well, that’s great for you. But I’m betting you’re not one of the fucking MORONS who’s gone so far as to physically threaten the poor fan who reached for that fly ball, are you? Those are the people who need a heaping dose of perspective rammed up their ass with a baseball bat.
Of course I am. I rounded up the neighbors and we busted out the ol’ torches and pitchforks. He ruint our season and he deserves to die a vile death.
My point, darling, is that those baseball fans who consider it more than just a game are not all drooling pack animals who mobbed some poor dope who made a crappy decision. I think those people are assholes too, pal, as does any thinking person. But leave it to you to state the obvious in such an overreaching, self-satisfied and sanctimonious manner. Well done! Hope you feel really smart now!
Well, the cubs lost again. You can’t blame that fan for them losing this game. They did this all by themselves.
*ducks for cover
Wow! Computer Guru should sit by QED in the “Guys Who Point Out What Everyone Knows” section.