I don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves here, but I have a question.
by MerlinDog on Aug 28, 2008 9:59 AM CDT
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Last week my girlfriend and I were at Wrigley (her first time there), we sat in the upper deck along the right field side. We had a perfect view of the flags flying on top of the Wrigley that list the years the Cubs have won something. She asked me “If the Cubs win the World Series are they just going to put up a tiny flag up there?” I didn’t really have an answer, but I said probably not. I would think they would put up a large flag somewhere in the park, maybe below the American flag on the scoreboard or with the retired numbers on the foul poles.
Does anyone know if there is an official plan of how to commemorate the glorious event if/when it happens? I know some people are going think we are getting way to ahead of ourselves, but this is a question that could be asked during a last place season. I was just wondering.
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You're right
You are getting ahead of things.
I suspect that people in the marketing department think about this, dream about it – but they don’t talk about it.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 28, 2008 10:07 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Anytime you have to preface a question...
…with those 11 words, you probably shouldn’t ask the question – especially when it comes to the Cubs. Let’s just all be pleasantly surprised, shall we?
Yes, sir!
by dat cubfan daver on Aug 28, 2008 10:09 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
What's next?
Asking about the parade route?
Long ways to go.
by rlpete on Aug 28, 2008 10:15 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
there is no flag.
until there is a flag, there is no flag. Now, go outside, turn around counter-clockwise three times, and spit.
Our 2008 Chicago Cubs -- FINDING WAYS TO WIN!
by drewishdrewid on Aug 28, 2008 10:23 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I'll bite...
…I think it would be a little dishonoring to the teams of 1907,08 to put this team above them. A simple blue 2008 on a white background will be fine. Let’s act like we’ve been there before. (yes I know, none of us have actually been there before)
"I'm petrified of nipple chafing. Once it starts, it's a vicious circle." Andy Bernard
by TXCub on Aug 28, 2008 10:26 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Act casual! Say nothing!
Yes, sir!
by dat cubfan daver on Aug 28, 2008 10:32 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Igor, get the bags.
You take the blonde and I’ll take the one with the turban!
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 10:34 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, sweet mystery of life at last I've found you!
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 10:50 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Roll...roll...roll in ze hay...
Yes, sir!
by dat cubfan daver on Aug 28, 2008 10:54 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ouoooooooooo!!.....Warewolf?...Where wolf?......There wolf!
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 11:01 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
He was my...BOYFRIEND!!!
Yes, sir!
by dat cubfan daver on Aug 28, 2008 11:06 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
LIFE! DO YOU HEAR ME? GIVE MY CREATION... . LIFE!
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 11:12 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
What's the matter with you people?!
I was joking! Don’t you know a joke when you hear one!
Yes, sir!
by dat cubfan daver on Aug 28, 2008 11:21 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 11:25 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
"What knockers!"
“Thank you.”
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been . . . baseball.
by Weeghman Park on Aug 28, 2008 11:32 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
If you're blue, and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits... .
‘UTTIN’ ON THE ’IIIIITZ
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 11:35 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Her name was Abby...Abby Normal.
Yes, sir!
by dat cubfan daver on Aug 28, 2008 11:40 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, dear, are you ready?
Yes, Doctor.
Elevate me.
Now? Right here?
Yes, yes, raise the platform.
Oh. Ze platform. Oh, zat, yah, yah… . yes.
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 11:47 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Could be worse...
…could be raining!
(LOUD SOUND OF THUNDER.)
Yes, sir!
by dat cubfan daver on Aug 28, 2008 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's Eyegoar. You don't say Froadrick, do you?
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 12:13 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
HE'S GOT A ROTTEN BRAIN! IT'S ROTTEN, I TELL YA! ROTTEN!
RAAAAAAAA!
Ixnay on the ottenray.
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 12:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Cigars!
(I’m pretty close to hittin’ the wall here.)
Yes, sir!
by dat cubfan daver on Aug 28, 2008 1:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
(Last one.)
Now listen very carefully to me….Put ..the.. candle ..back!
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 1:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
There castle
For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.
by Less is Walrond on Aug 28, 2008 1:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why are you talking that way.
I thought you wanted to.
No, I don’t want to.
Suit yourself. I’m easy.
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 1:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Eep.
Ask this question again in two months.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
by Al on Aug 28, 2008 10:34 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
+1
Talk about the cart before the horse. We haven’t even got in the barn yet!
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 10:36 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Quoth Bob Brenley...
…it would seem that MerlinDog “smells the barn.”
Yes, sir!
by dat cubfan daver on Aug 28, 2008 10:45 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Or is it that he's "sniffing the barn"? Something lke that.
Yes, sir!
by dat cubfan daver on Aug 28, 2008 11:20 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, that's a pretty good analogy of a pitcher seeing a victory and putting the game away.
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on Aug 28, 2008 11:26 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
You are getting a little ahead, however
Notice all the flags above the upper deck roof? Those were supposed to be all the WS flag poles when “Cubs Park” was remodeled in the mid-late 20’s to add the upper deck.
If you look closely, you can see the pennant flags and the 1907 & 1908. Then there’s a Maddog flag, one for Sammy’s 66 a Ryno flag etc.
I would hope they erect new poles behind the bleachers to fly division, pennant and WS flags when appropriate, or they could just revert to the original plan from 80+ years ago.
Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.
by blackhawk24 on Aug 28, 2008 10:53 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I'll comment...
…when they are holding the World Series trophy.
"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs but let in three" Casey Stengel
by MPH73 on Aug 28, 2008 11:47 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
To all the "TOO SOONERS!"
Isn’t the fun in this season looking forward to what’s happening? It’s a rare pleasure to be able to ask these questions.
Each day Al keeps saying “Look around you, remember where you are. These are memorable times to be a Cubs fan.”
It’s never too soon to enjoy the season.
by Arbusto on Aug 28, 2008 12:18 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
This is like planning a wedding after a first date
Yes, it’s too soon. No one is saying cringe in fear or don’t enjoy the seaon, but this isn’t a question to be worried about.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 28, 2008 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
First date?
Hardly. This is date 133.
by Arbusto on Aug 28, 2008 12:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
No, it isn't.
The season begins anew in October. You might have a lot of common interests, but you haven’t met each other’s families yet, you don’t know if you can stand travelling together yet.
Enough of the anology. It would be damn pretentious to say, “we’re going to put the flag here”.
I still love the fact that Michigan State had a Big 10 Men’s BB Champion banner ready to be unfurled that never was after the Badgers beat them in East Lansing in 2004.
Why give your opponents more incentive to beat you? It’s not about goats, cats, foul balls . . . it’s just too damn soon.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 28, 2008 12:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
This specific question
May be a bit off base but I’m more opposed to the people who in general are saying “Don’t talk about the post season at all.”
Seems like nobody wants to think about it or enjoy it.
by Arbusto on Aug 28, 2008 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's a double edged sword.
What I keep saying is, “Enjoy each day as it comes”, remember the moment.
We can’t get too far ahead of ourselves. I know we all have a lot of scar tissue from previous failures and maybe that’s preventing some of the excitement that we DO want to feel.
Let’s see where we are after this weekend.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
by Al on Aug 28, 2008 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Right, we should enjoy...
…the season. As in, the regular season. We can’t enjoy the postseason because it hasn’t happened yet. Now, granted, I may be a little more superstitious than some (perhaps less so than others), but I’d really rather avoid even discussing a celebration before there’s anything to actually celebrate.
Yes, sir!
by dat cubfan daver on Aug 28, 2008 12:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm giddy in excitment about the postseason
Each game is played in hopes of getting there. That’s the entire point of playing the games.
by Arbusto on Aug 28, 2008 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hey, I'm excited, too.
But, like I said, I’m a little superstitious. For some reason, I feel like if I stay focused on, first and foremost, the Cubs winning their division, somehow the players will, too. I know that’s irrational and ridiculous, but so it goes. Any discussion of celebrating anything just makes me a little uncomfortable.
Yes, sir!
by dat cubfan daver on Aug 28, 2008 12:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Then don't join them
Just don’t knock those of us that are talking the “what ifs”
by Arbusto on Aug 28, 2008 12:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
all I want to see is the sign across the street
read:
00 00 00
"I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me." Frank Costello
by kalamazoo_cubs_fan on Aug 28, 2008 1:14 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
so do I
and then I want them to get rid of the damn thing. Commemorating futilty. Argh.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 29, 2008 1:25 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
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