The Best Game Ever's Post-Game Thread
by gwood on May 30, 2008 4:29 PM CDT
Email
PrintWow what a game, can't even put it into words, but since I need words . . . best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever best game ever
This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of SB Nation or Al Yellon, managing editor (unless it's a FanPost posted by Al). FanPost opinions are valued expressions of opinion by passionate and knowledgeable baseball fans.
105 comments
|
0 recs |
Do you like this story?
Comments
you must
TRUST in the team!
"We expect to win. We go out to win. So we're just living up to our own expectations." Derek Lee, 5/29/08
by drewishdrewid on May 30, 2008 4:33 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm looking at my clock
wondering where the freakin’ afternoon went!
"We expect to win. We go out to win. So we're just living up to our own expectations." Derek Lee, 5/29/08
Why I cannot watch Dome's homer on Gameday?
What kind of long ball was it?
Maybe I can watch it within 30 min locally here in Japan….
I'm bleeding Dragons Blue.
it was an opposite field home run
that’s all i know, i didn’t see it either
"Very adroit in the outfield." - Lou, on Dome
ESPN leads off with ....
news of the Red Sox. What a surprise.
Go Cubs Go! Go Cubs Go! Hey Chicago, whadya say? The Cubs are going to win today!
by Cubfansince1957 on May 30, 2008 4:33 PM CDT reply actions
You just lost
major cool points.
"This is an environment of welcoming, and you should just get the hell outta here." --Michael Scott
Anyone else think
that something really special might be happening before our eyes
"I played with one of the best pitchers in history, Greg Maddux," Zambrano said"
Think it just did!
"What a great call! Your doing a fantastic job, but people expect me to come out here and be upset. So I'm gonna kick some dirt, you understand?" - Lou Pinella
I agree
I regularly have to calm myself down when I think about it though. You don’t win a championship in May, but your sure can lose it.
true
but this type of winning is contagious.. Everyone is doing their part
"I played with one of the best pitchers in history, Greg Maddux," Zambrano said"
Agreed
Just trying to stay cautiously optimistic while absolutely loving this season (contradiction, I know. Welcome to my life).
i actually said to myself when they got run number nine
well we are going to have to score ten.. And not actually thinking that was impossible..
"I played with one of the best pitchers in history, Greg Maddux," Zambrano said"
I was thinking that
when we got to SIX.
"We expect to win. We go out to win. So we're just living up to our own expectations." Derek Lee, 5/29/08
by drewishdrewid on May 30, 2008 7:16 PM CDT up reply actions
so pissed
I stopped paying attention at 9-0 because I need to pack to move to richmond tomorrow morning.
I just checked to see how bad the damage was, and got the best surprise in recent memory!
only wish I had seen it.
IM SO PISSED I WENT AND IM HOME NOW
GO CUBS BABY
"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Swung on belted!!!"---Chip
no more watching Cubby baseball for you
:)
"I played with one of the best pitchers in history, Greg Maddux," Zambrano said"
Richmond, VA???
If so, welcome to the neighborhood! Need more Cub fans here.
Definitely
I’ve been in Fredericksburg for a month and haven’t even met another Cubs fan.
"I'm not giving him a high-five ever again." - Sammy Sosa, joking about Moises Alou's personal habits
by MorePiePlease on May 30, 2008 5:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Hammer
You should know better. Leaving early should be left to fans in LA and Houston.
I can’t wait to get home to my DVR.
Leaving early?
No, I live down the street IM HOME. I never leave. Great fricken game
"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Swung on belted!!!"---Chip
thanks for the overflow thread
my computer was hating the other one.
by Madison Cub Fan on May 30, 2008 4:37 PM CDT reply actions
When it was 9-6 and Edmonds was up
I wasn’t hoping they would score. I knew they would.
yeah, this is something special.
by Shanghai Badger on May 30, 2008 4:37 PM CDT reply actions
this is something special
even if don’t think shenghai actually thought that.
by Madison Cub Fan on May 30, 2008 4:38 PM CDT up reply actions
blaspheme!
no more Brett pics for you!
I really did . . . .
by Shanghai Badger on May 30, 2008 4:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I tend to not believe....
but Im learning.
by Madison Cub Fan on May 30, 2008 4:53 PM CDT up reply actions
LOL!
replaying Edmonds’ HR—Pat and Ron are VERY surprised!
"We expect to win. We go out to win. So we're just living up to our own expectations." Derek Lee, 5/29/08
AAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just wanna scream.
What. A. Game.
"I've always felt that starting pitching is the most important part of the rotation." - Joe Morgan, Sunday Night Baseball 8-12-07
Oh and...
5 game win streak!
"What a great call! Your doing a fantastic job, but people expect me to come out here and be upset. So I'm gonna kick some dirt, you understand?" - Lou Pinella
Unbelievable.
My thoughts are in my main-page recap.
Maybe I should go to more reunions.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
AL!
did you get to watch any of it?
"We expect to win. We go out to win. So we're just living up to our own expectations." Derek Lee, 5/29/08
by drewishdrewid on May 30, 2008 4:38 PM CDT up reply actions
By the time I got back from campus...
... they had already finished the comeback.
I’m just stunned at how incredibly well this team is playing. It’s just… well, almost beyond words.
Happy tonight. VERY happy.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
DId you take a pee between the seventh frame???
Its good luck i hear??
"I played with one of the best pitchers in history, Greg Maddux," Zambrano said"
I was there for you Al
I was wondering where you were. I might have broke your hand on a high five though, so its for the best!!!!!!
"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Swung on belted!!!"---Chip
I think all Cub fans will be goofy grinning tonight,.
I have to give a speech at a wedding tomorrow. Let’s hope I get my voice back. Right now I am as hoarse as can be,
We are all waiting for that glorious October night when we finally win it all. Until then we will continue to cheer, never do the wave and hope.
by puckishcubsfan on May 30, 2008 4:45 PM CDT up reply actions
I think we should arrange for every school every c;lass you’ve ever been to for a reunion,
Kindergarten, first, second, third,. fourth.
It’s like me and doing laundry. Everytime I do laundry they score!
We are all waiting for that glorious October night when we finally win it all. Until then we will continue to cheer, never do the wave and hope.
by puckishcubsfan on May 30, 2008 4:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Marmol=Godly
He might lead the team in K’s LOL
"I played with one of the best pitchers in history, Greg Maddux," Zambrano said"
A friend who is decidedly not a sports fan went today because another friend had his bachelor party at the game, He was almost hyperventilating on the phone and our other friend told me he was going as crazy as the others today.
He has a zillion questions about the team so the Cubs made a new fan today,
Even my mom called me to say she head heard the recap on the WGN radio news,
We are all waiting for that glorious October night when we finally win it all. Until then we will continue to cheer, never do the wave and hope.
mother!@#$%
Why oh why didnt I order the baseball package-damn you wgn and your sporadic schedule
Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.
This game will be
rebroadcast at 1:30 a.m. Sat. morning on CSN.
I’m just dazed. I absolutely love this team. I loved that even when we were behind by 8 no one was on the ledge today. It goes to show you can’t count this team out.
GO CUBS!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!
Sue heres a virtual hug
To one of my favorite posters ON SUCH A GREAT DAY
GO CUBS
"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Swung on belted!!!"---Chip
I see your tiger hawk...
ala Hayden Fry, 1979. Where in the Hawkeye State are you from? NE, NW, SE, SW? NE Iowa here.
Jimmyeatworld
by Jimmyeatworld on May 30, 2008 6:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Anyplace an out-of-town fan (in Denver) can get a rebroadcast?
Maybe on the internet?
Or I could check out the Denver Rockies’ network. ;-)
Go Cubs Go! Go Cubs Go! Hey Chicago, whadya say? The Cubs are going to win today!
by Cubfansince1957 on May 30, 2008 5:00 PM CDT up reply actions
thanks for reminding me Sue!
I just set my Tivo!
"We expect to win. We go out to win. So we're just living up to our own expectations." Derek Lee, 5/29/08
by drewishdrewid on May 30, 2008 7:19 PM CDT up reply actions
11-2
against the NL West.. And when we are done with the Rox we get the sucky Padres :) Lets run away with this thing
"I played with one of the best pitchers in history, Greg Maddux," Zambrano said"
agreed
although Im more interested in 11 wins in Oct. :0)
"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Swung on belted!!!"---Chip
We lost two ?
Seriously. We swept Dodgers & D’Backs taken two straight from Rockies and beat
Padres 3 out of 4. I count that at 11-1 . Where is the other loss ?
"I am not ashamed to say I love Greg Maddux" - Jim Hendry
by Doggie Stalker on May 30, 2008 5:15 PM CDT up reply actions
We split with the Rockies in Denver.
We won the first game, 7-6 in 10 innings, and lost the next day, 4-2, with Aaron Cook shutting us down.
Go Cubs Go! Go Cubs Go! Hey Chicago, whadya say? The Cubs are going to win today!
by Cubfansince1957 on May 30, 2008 5:25 PM CDT up reply actions
But then it would be 12- 2?
3 each from Padres, Dodgers, D ‘Backs and now Rockies
Ok now what I am missing
"I am not ashamed to say I love Greg Maddux" - Jim Hendry
by Doggie Stalker on May 30, 2008 6:13 PM CDT up reply actions
we've only played
the rockies 2 games so far this series.
"We expect to win. We go out to win. So we're just living up to our own expectations." Derek Lee, 5/29/08
by drewishdrewid on May 30, 2008 7:20 PM CDT up reply actions
OK almost 24 late
but you know I have limited access
We beat the Rockies THREE TIMES, twice now at Wrigley and once
in Colorado so 12-2 by my count
"I am not ashamed to say I love Greg Maddux" - Jim Hendry
by Doggie Stalker on May 31, 2008 1:57 PM CDT up reply actions
I am
SO GLAD I had the day off from work…
"Hey! If the moon were made of ribs, wouldja eat it? I know I would!"
ha, i took it off to go to the game
I love today
"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Swung on belted!!!"---Chip
I rarely get to watch games on TV during the summer
Since I generally work 70 hour weeks to pay for school, but today I was able to sleep in, wake up and watch THE GREATEST GAME EVER.
Also. Does this remind anyone else of last year when the Cubs blew a huge lead to the Rockies, only to get it back in the 9th? Seems like every super-dramatic game comes against Denver.
"Hey! If the moon were made of ribs, wouldja eat it? I know I would!"
Why is MLB's title for this games's story...
“Cubs pull off a remarkable eight-run comeback late” wasn’t it a 9 run comback?
I haz show: http://hotbeans.wordpress.com
by digitalbenjamin on May 30, 2008 5:00 PM CDT reply actions
It was 8-0 and 9-1...
... so they were trailing by 8. Yes, they needed 9 runs to come back, but that’s not the way it’s usually referred to.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
no D-RO hit the sac fly when it was 8-0 i beieve
"I played with one of the best pitchers in history, Greg Maddux," Zambrano said"
SOTO
not DeRo, but DeRo had the go ahead HR in the 7th.
"We expect to win. We go out to win. So we're just living up to our own expectations." Derek Lee, 5/29/08
by drewishdrewid on May 30, 2008 7:21 PM CDT up reply actions
AL
Al do you need a tape?
We are all waiting for that glorious October night when we finally win it all. Until then we will continue to cheer, never do the wave and hope.
AL
Al do you need a tape?
We are all waiting for that glorious October night when we finally win it all. Until then we will continue to cheer, never do the wave and hope.
I'm Tivoing it
anyone know how to get the file off the TIVO and onto a DVD?
"We expect to win. We go out to win. So we're just living up to our own expectations." Derek Lee, 5/29/08
by drewishdrewid on May 30, 2008 10:02 PM CDT up reply actions
FAIL!
my Dish network receiver turned itself off in the sixth inning.
ARGH!!!!
"We expect to win. We go out to win. So we're just living up to our own expectations." Derek Lee, 5/29/08
by drewishdrewid on May 31, 2008 11:43 AM CDT up reply actions
My Dvd recorder is broken so I only have a VHS. I’m going to make a fanpost about making copies all I’ll be asking is for people to send me a blank vhs tape in a postage paid envelope so it doesn’t cost me money to make copies but I won’t profit either.
We are all waiting for that glorious October night when we finally win it all. Until then we will continue to cheer, never do the wave and hope.
by puckishcubsfan on May 31, 2008 6:58 AM CDT up reply actions
Grandkids game
This is a grandkids game., AS in we’ll be telling our grandkids about it,
I
We are all waiting for that glorious October night when we finally win it all. Until then we will continue to cheer, never do the wave and hope.
For all you Digg fans...
I posted the story here. Let’s make some noise!
I haz show: http://hotbeans.wordpress.com
by digitalbenjamin on May 30, 2008 5:06 PM CDT reply actions
You and Stevie Eyre (who got the win facing one batter)
.....and Bobby Hull’s wife down in Florida.
"Is there anything he can't do?" ~Len Kasper, 4/5/08, on Kosuke Fukudome
Wish I DVR'd game
But then again my luck if it were DVR’d this wouldn’t have happened.
I AM SO HAPPY TO BE A CUBS FAN!!
WHAT A GAME!! I THINK I SCREAMED MORE IN THOSE 2 INNINGS THAN I HAVE ALL YEAR!!
so much for giving a speech @ my graduation tomorrow. LOL!
GO CUBS GO!!
"Why do you always point to the sky when Zambrano starts?" My girlfriend.
"You just wouldn't get it...it's a Cubs thing..." Me.
by cubs2k8isnxtyear on May 30, 2008 5:52 PM CDT reply actions
Anyone have it on DVD?
That’s a game I’d shell a few $ to own.
+1
...and I’m completely serious when I concur with the above statement. I would PAY for even a VHS copy of this, why couldn’t it be on WGN
you might be able to buy it on itunes soon
cubs = love
I don't remember the last time I enjoyed a Cubs game as much as I did today listening to todays game.
by Madison Cub Fan on May 30, 2008 8:06 PM CDT reply actions
The game last season against Milwaukee that Aramis won with a walkoff.
"I've always felt that starting pitching is the most important part of the rotation." - Joe Morgan, Sunday Night Baseball 8-12-07
Best Game Ever Was Actually This One...
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN197707280.shtml
16-15 in 13 innings over the vaunted Big Red Machine. Dave Rosello drove in Rick Reuschel with the winning run. This game had everything – a great comeback, great defense, late inning heroics, incredible drama….
But it was also 31 seasons ago so let’s revel in the present!
It may have been 31 years ago, but you are RIGHT, baby!
Give the old school it’s time in the sun again. I’d have to agree with you on that one.
THAT was perhaps the wildest, wooliest and amazing game I’ve ever seen the Cubs play – only the May 1979 blowout could compare! Hands down, as great as the Cubs have played this spring and since June 2007 onward, that Reds game was truly One For The Ages.
For the almost 5 hours they were locked in battle, I was glued to the TV. The Lovable Losers were staring the Big Red Machine down and refused to back down. God, it gives me chills remembering that one! There was no way I was going to miss the fireworks. And when Rick Reuschel came up to do relief in the thirteenth, it went to a whole new level .. and finally, TRIUMPH! It was like we won the World Series and I remember how Reuschel came storming in pumping that fist and he got mobbed.
For you younger Cub fans, you guys need to PAY some good money and find that game somewhere in the vast media jungle and watch that one. It’d be well worth the find. Remember that it came at a bleak time when the Cubs hadn’t been any real presence in the NL since 1972 .. and this was the year of the Tease, when the 1977 Cubs briefly .. oh so briefly .. looked like they might be able to challenge the Machine. It was a giddy June in which there was no swoon, but the fade to black finally began around August .. and the Cub Nation once more would be left to sigh “wait til next year. ..”
But this one was a BLAST, a joy in the midst of the bleak 1970’s .. and here’s what the home plate celebration was like
Well, Next Year is here .. and Jack's century's gotta end some time .. GO CUBBIES!
by cubnational on May 30, 2008 11:17 PM CDT up reply actions
I love that picture!
Story: my dad was in the hospital at the time. He said he could hear cheering up and down the corridor when the Cubs won.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Cool pic..
Reuschel looks like a giant…:)
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
by Bump Bailey on May 31, 2008 10:06 AM CDT up reply actions
Un amazin believable! I GOT to get a copy of that one!
Anyone got a copy on DVD or VHS? I beg you! contact me and I’ll swap you anything else I can scrape up out of my Cubs game collection for the past four years that I might have ..
I was just briefly, ever so briefly, scanning gameday at work and saw that 9-1 score and said - JUST LIKE AL DID - “oh, bummer .. well, maybe tommorrow ..” and then I came home from work and caught ESPN actually showing Bobby Hull’s Ditkaesque version of the 7th inning stretch .. and then the UnAmazinBelievable Miracle going down.
Ohhh that I wasn’t so broke I can’t afford MLB.com ..
ANYONE who can help a fellow Cub fan, lemme know at rafael@spiritwatch.org, thanks!
Well, Next Year is here .. and Jack's century's gotta end some time .. GO CUBBIES!
cubs
i hope santo,s o.k. after this one.17 more days and i get to see my beloved cubs play for the 1st time in tampa. the rays actually play in st petersburg fla for those who dont know.right now the 1st place rays are drawing very small crowds.i think they.ll like having the cubs around.
We will rock their house.
It’ll be like when the Red Sox come down there—30,000+, mostly Cub fanst.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Comments For This Post Are Closed
Secondary Sidebar
User Tools
FanPosts
Community blog posts and discussion.
Recommended FanPosts
Recent FanPosts
FanShots
Quick hits of video, photos, quotes, chats, links and lists that you find around the web.
Recommended FanShots
Recent FanShots
Cubs By The Numbers
Cubs By The Numbers is a history of the ballclub by uniform number, but the biographies help trace the history of our beloved team in a new way. For everyone who's a Cubs fan, anyone who ever wore the uniform is like family. Cubs By The Numbers reintroduces readers to some of their long-lost ancestors, even ones they think they already know.
Click here to order your copy, available now!
Recent Stories in Ticket Exchanges
Baseball Nation Recent Stories
In Association With
Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
- Marlins agree to unretire No. 5 for Logan Morrison, who will honor his father’s favorite player
- Weatherman Derek Holland does Dallas TV
- Ask Alex: Will Julio Teheran or Matt Moore win rookie of the year?
- Ku Klux Klan, umpires and bowling: Why the minor leagues tossed out Jim Evans academy
- The Cardinals Hall of Fame can now be found at Bill Clinton’s library in Arkansas (Huh?)
Certain photos copyright © 2012 by Associated Press or Getty Images. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of Associated Press and Getty Images is strictly prohibited.
