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The part that get's me about this season is that, everytime we do something stupid, the camera pans to Lou, and all we get is this dumb ass look.
Get fired up man, You are LOU FUCKING PINELLA, kick some dirt, yell at a player, DO SOMETHING.
It's almost like he's playing guys that shouldn't be in there to make them look bad so Jim gets rid of them.
Do you ever wonder if they are at odds?
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As terrible as this season has been, I'd almost rather tank in August than to have hope in October and get killed. I found it hard to invest my heart this year, and I got what I put in: nothing. Maybe 7-8 months of baseball free time will help recharge our batteries. Of course, we all know that starting November 15th we'll be the sadistic fucks that are glued to whether we sign Grabow or Beimel.
Here's to us being able to go 8 months without baseball on the brain, and may the Bears or whoever your fall passion is, help ease the mind.
Let's wait till next year, and pretend like someday we'll win, even though deep in our hearts we know we won't.
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I'm extremely excited to see the direction Ricketts takes with the team. As long as he's moving forward in a positive manner, it's all I can ask for
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Hearing your stories of the '84 fiasco brought back that unpleasant memory for me. Game 5 was the final nail, but to me, Game 4 was worse. It sucked equally as much as the Bartman game.
Like Alou, I distinctly remember the time and place as if it were yesterday (and it was a quarter-century ago). It was a Saturday night game in San Diego, on my <i>birthday</i>. Because I had just moved to California a few months earlier, my folks and my siblings came out to say hi and celebrate the occasion. My poor dad is a lifelong Cub fan, so the conversation was mostly about the "Cubs are going to the World Series!"
We went out to a restaurant in Malibu (l thought I was living large), and there was a TV set right behind our table showing the game. Nail-biter game, the lead changed hands constantly, weird plays, intensity on every pitch. And, it was just too much going on at once, kind of "stimulus overload" for me; there were celebrities in the restaurant, the waiters were singing Happy Birthday, a lot of the other customers were crowding around our table trying to watch the game.
(And games that intense, I like to watch alone, at home, so I can process it.)
Steve Garvey, though now a Padre, was still hugely popular in L.A., and was getting loudly cheered all game long (there was also a TV over the bar). And the fucker had a monster game (4-for-5, double and homer, 5 RBI). When he came up in the bottom of the 9th, winning run on base and Lee Smith on the mound, I felt unsettled, to say the least.
In '03, the Bartman/Prior/Gonzales thing happened so quickly that I didn't almost realize what happened. In '04, it was exactly the opposite...time moved like a glacier, and that Garvey at- bat was excruciatingly long. When he finally cracked a homer, and the rest of the restaurant exploded with shouting and celebratory clapping.....it just sickened me in a way that no game, before or since, ever has.
Cheers to the Cubs.
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This thread really makes me feel young. Goddamn. I'm not jaded yet, but 15-20 more years will surely do me in. *sigh*
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