Sunday Photos
by Al Yellon on Aug 4, 2008 8:18 AM CDT
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PrintWhile we wait for tonight's Cubs/Astros contest (if the storms that are going to be in the area most of the day move out in time), here are some photos from yesterday's win:
Alfonso Soriano chases down Nate McLouth's first-inning hit that he had misplayed for an error
Carlos Zambrano heads for second base after hitting his fourth-inning double
Geovany Soto, who scored on Reed Johson's game-winning HR in the eighth inning, congratulates Johnson at the plate; Alfonso Soriano, who also homered that inning, waits on deck
Luis Rivas hits a Carlos Marmol pitch...
... right to Reed Johnson. Cubs win!
Click on photos to open a larger version in a new browser window. All photos by David Sameshima
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Now that I got that out of the way
Bummed i missed seeing the game sounds like a good one and it’s a shame Z didn’t get the win. Unfortunately i had to sit at a fat house in the mountains looking at a million dollar view eating good BBQ and sipping on great homebrew.
If the world didn't suck we would all fall off.
Yep hatin life
Sometimes you just have to sacrifice for the good of the team.
If the world didn't suck we would all fall off.
Where you from in Carolina?
I grew up in WNC myself.
REALLY miss good BBQ
by AlabamaCubFan on Aug 4, 2008 9:06 AM CDT up reply actions
I live in Asheville
Been here about 20 years and over the course of time have turned into a BBQ junkie, I do the sidebox smoker at the house but the boss has a commercial grade smoker-cooker that I use for big bashes.
If the world didn't suck we would all fall off.
I'm sure it has been covered but
why did the game get moved up tonight?
Got 2 of 3, what the Cubs needed. Let’s keep truckin and get the bullpen back to a strength with the return of Wood.
Lets do it Cubbies
ESPN wanted the game.
Their Monday night games are always at 6 pm CT, thus the change.
This is the Cubs’ last Monday night home game of the year, so there won’t be any further time changes.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Big Markets Involved
If you take way New York and Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston are two of the biggest TV markets out there. I’m sure Chicago is the number 3 market. Houston might be in the top 5 and certainly in the top 10 market wise.
"The big possum walks late." - Harry Caray
The reason ESPN wanted this game...
... has less to do with market size and everything to do with how well the Cubs are doing. In 2006, ESPN wouldn’t have touched a Cubs/Astros game.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Cubs Performance Matters...
but I somehow think if the Cubs were playing the small market Reds that ESPN would have chosen the Yankees-Rangers game tonight.
Yeah, I know New York is a bigger market than Chicago. Dallas-Ft. Worth might be a little bit bigger market than Houston, so market size isn’t the sole determinant in game choice.
Coupling the Cubs performance with Houston’s market size has put this game on ESPN’s program schedule.
"The big possum walks late." - Harry Caray
Disagree.
As noted, the Cubs don’t have any more Monday night home games this year (and only two Monday night games, period). ESPN wants the Cubs as a compelling story, as noted below. I think they’d have taken tonight’s game if they were playing a team from a town of 5,000 in Idaho.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Was that an option?
I’d like the Cubs chances. :D
by AlabamaCubFan on Aug 4, 2008 9:19 AM CDT up reply actions
against a pitcher the cubs would never have seen before
and possibly have a bad scouting report against?
You wanna re-think that? :P
’’If somebody had told me we were going to lose Soriano for eight weeks, lose [Carlos] Zambrano and Kerry Wood for a couple of weeks apiece, and then at the same time lose [Reed] Johnson, and then when we played the American League not have a DH [then-injured Daryle Ward], and be in first place by two games, I’d tell you we were pretty fortunate.’’ Lou Piniella (7/23/08)
by drewishdrewid on Aug 4, 2008 10:20 AM CDT up reply actions
This mysterious Idahoan pitcher
studied with the Dali Lama for fifteen years learning how to levitate in order to be able to save treed puppies in the Sahara Desert. He came one vote short of being elected Pope and had a Love Child with Charlieze Theron. He throws 124 miles an hour with a sinker ball that comes with its own drilling apparatus so it can dissapear 50 feet from the plate and then dig its way up through the base itself for a strike.
’’If somebody had told me we were going to lose Soriano for eight weeks, lose [Carlos] Zambrano and Kerry Wood for a couple of weeks apiece, and then at the same time lose [Reed] Johnson, and then when we played the American League not have a DH [then-injured Daryle Ward], and be in first place by two games, I’d tell you we were pretty fortunate.’’ Lou Piniella (7/23/08)
by drewishdrewid on Aug 4, 2008 11:08 AM CDT up reply actions
So that's what happened to Syd Finch..
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
Oh Lord, this again?
Paging Horace and his “scouting report” disclaimers…
Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
So the Tarbox is still around?
Jimmyeatworld
by Jimmyeatworld on Aug 4, 2008 11:26 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm keeping an eye on him.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
He's not that bad...
Just your typical trollish behaviour. Certainly not in the same league with the Jesus dude.
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
Speaking of time changes
what’s with the 3:05 start on September 1st?
"If you're a Cub fan it was baseball like it oughta be. I think the Brewers fans were a little disappointed but, uh, we don't really concern ourselves too much with them." -Bob Brenly, 7.31.08, following four-game sweep of Milwaukee at Wrigley North
by neverAcquiesce on Aug 4, 2008 12:09 PM CDT up reply actions
labor day
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg
Cheers.
"If you're a Cub fan it was baseball like it oughta be. I think the Brewers fans were a little disappointed but, uh, we don't really concern ourselves too much with them." -Bob Brenly, 7.31.08, following four-game sweep of Milwaukee at Wrigley North
by neverAcquiesce on Aug 4, 2008 12:18 PM CDT up reply actions
That's my birthday.
A win would make a great present.
Carlos Zambrano and Rich Harden. Now that's a pair of Aces.
So this year your turning the being 24...congrads!
Theriot, Fonty, and Johnson = The Scrappy Pyramid of Victory
by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Aug 4, 2008 1:20 PM CDT up reply actions
being=big
Theriot, Fonty, and Johnson = The Scrappy Pyramid of Victory
by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Aug 4, 2008 1:21 PM CDT up reply actions
21 then?
Theriot, Fonty, and Johnson = The Scrappy Pyramid of Victory
by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Aug 4, 2008 1:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Maybe Soto can hit a HR for you on your birthday!
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
That would be
a present to remember for sure.
Carlos Zambrano and Rich Harden. Now that's a pair of Aces.
The cubs are a compelling story line now. 1st place, late in the season, so anything cubs now is going to get broadcast. You wait, the closer it gets to september and definitely the end of the season, everything cubs will be fair game. Big Z can scratch his butt or Aram pick a bougar and you’ll have the BBTN crew anaylzing the good and bad aspects of it and how it’ll keep the cubs out of the playoffs and how it’ll help them get in!
Seeing anyone covered other than the Red Sox and the Yankees is a refreshing change.
The fact that it is the Cubs getting coverage (and respect) makes it sweeter.
And by the way, as someone who minored in English in college, isn’t it spelled “booger?” ;-)
IF IT TAKES FOREVER!!
by Cubfansince1957 on Aug 4, 2008 9:56 AM CDT up reply actions
or Favre
I’ve seen tent pegs been into the grounder softer than this story. Gah.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 10:29 AM CDT up reply actions
Cubs Not at Top, But High On Priority List
I’m sure if the New York and Los Angeles teams are playing quality opponents that they will get on national TV before the Cubs. That still means the Cubs would be number 5 out of 30 MLB teams in pecking order. The Yankees are playing a non-contending Rangers team tonight. That’s one of the reasons the Cubs and Astros will be televised tonight. I’m glad the game is on, whether or not Houston’s market size has anything to do with it.
Teams, like the Yankees, generally receive more attention from ESPN than the Cubs. Don’t take that to mean that the Cubs aren’t high on the priority list. The Cubs just aren’t at the top of the priority list.
"The big possum walks late." - Harry Caray
Yes. I once heard something about a goat.
But only once . . . .
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 10:30 AM CDT up reply actions
I've never heard this story before!
Do tell!
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 10:32 AM CDT up reply actions
Apparently, someone let a goat loose at Shea Stadium
And it crossed Ron Santo’s path. A Cub almost caught the goat, but a fan in the left field stands interfered (although some feel the goat was out of play at the time).
Since then, the Cubs have been doomed to not make it to the World Series, despite the fact that they had Harry Caray write “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” and invent Wrigley Field.
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 10:34 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
And then the Wright Brothers invented popcorn...
...and that’s why we all eat Cracker Jacks at baseball games!
Nanika Ga Okoru!
So.....what happened to the goat?
I keed. I keed.
"Every team will win 60 games, every team will lose 60 games, it's what the team does in the other 42 games that decides the season."
well done
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 10:46 AM CDT up reply actions
that sums it up nicely
fantastic.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg
Did anyone else throw up in their mouth a little
When the Phillies let the Cards load the bases in the 9th last night?
I'm not going to even bother trying to update this sig everyday anymore... that's what the standings column on ESPN is for.
Updated on May 25, 2008
My reaction wasn't quite that strong...
...but Lidge definitely took it to the limit. The game wasn’t a huge deal – even if they won, the Cards would have stayed five back. I was mostly amused that TLR’s bench is so thin he has to use Cesar “Mr. Grabby Hands” Izturis as a pinch hitter.
Nanika Ga Okoru!
I actually felt sorry for the Cards fans as I watched "Lights-Out" Lidge eat up their two
minor-league rookies to get the win. Must be really awful to have to bat two rookies against Lidge. Those guys have probably never seen a slider in their lives. On the other hand, whatever happened to Wellemeyer? He’s pitching really well. Can it really be the Cards’ coaching staff?
Nope.
I’d rather see the Cards win the wild card than the Brewers. Granted, if the Cubs make the NLCS, whoever they play will be there because they earned it, but I still think the Brewers are a better team and a tougher match-up in a short series.
If the Cubs take care of business the rest of the way, it doesn’t matter what the other teams do—they’ll finish first.
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 10:31 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, I'd definitely prefer the Cards...
...win the Wild Card, too. I just don’t think it’s gonna happen – so, if they’re gonna lose, I’d like to see them lose big and bury themselves now so the Cubs can focus solely on the Brewers.
Nanika Ga Okoru!
Don't count out...
... the 2nd-place finisher in the East from the WC. The Marlins, currently 2nd, are only three games behind the Brewers.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Not counting them out, for certain
But I see the Brewers as the 2nd best NL team right now. But again, whoever the Cubs play - if they get there - will have earned the right to be there; I’m not overlooking that.
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 10:39 AM CDT up reply actions
Agreed.
And I don’t care who the Cubs do play, if they make it.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
We could play a pop warner team
and i’d still be nervous. until we win 11 in oct i’m counting nobody out.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 10:41 AM CDT up reply actions
I like the Cubs' chances to win 2 of 3 this weekend
But they should focus only on the team that they are playing.
I think you’re right about the Cards—their schedule looks pretty tough the rest of the way.
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 10:37 AM CDT up reply actions
Ned Yost is a factor
whom would you rather face, there, LaRussa or Yost? Though I think Lou out thinks the both of them whenever the teams are matched up…
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg
Not too many guys...
...out thinks LaRussa, but he can out think himself.
"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs but let in three" Casey Stengel
Managers can make a difference
But the talent level usually matters more.
All things being equal, I take Yost as my opponent over LaRussa—but I’ll take Wellemeyer, Lohse, Looper and Piniero over Sabathia, Sheets and Parra first.
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 2:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Sort of OT:
Uni Watch noticed L&B’s discussion of the irritating Pirate vests yesterday. Its actually kind of an amusing wrap of the conversation.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 10:43 AM CDT reply actions
It's not as bad as their alternates
Did Ronald McDonald throw up all over their uniforms or what?
"I think Hendry still has a few years to serve on his 'grand larceny' sentence before he can shop in Pittsburgh again" - ballhawk
those are flat out awful.
blind school home ec made better stuff than that. seriously.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 1:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Now, the defenders of that will say...
... that the red color is to honor a former Pittsburgh mayor named “Redd”. Which is true. But they could have figured out a better tribute. I think Mayor Redd would be horrified. Instead of a tribute, it makes the Pirates look like this:
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
you can do red and black
w/ doing vests that look like something … i can’t even come up w/ a metaphor of what they look like. But they’re bad.
I also really don’t like the numbers on the stomach thing. Thats just weird.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 1:54 PM CDT up reply actions
I have no problem with the Bucs' regular unis
But those red ones are awful.
Still, better than the polyester double-knits and the pillbox, Gay ‘90s-style hats they wore in the ‘70s.
by Not Bruce Froemming on Aug 4, 2008 2:57 PM CDT up reply actions
OT: Royals & Sox fight
Being here in KC, this fight is the talk of the KC sports radio this morning. Basically the White Sox were mad about getting blown out (and losing first place), and the pitcher went up-n-in a few too many times. Nice to see AJ get hit too, IMO. The beach-blonde hair just doesn’t do it for me.
Dan
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Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
My favorite part of this fight...
...was the little love tap that Carrasco gives Olivo on the back of the head when he first runs out. Carrasco’s like, “Hey, buddy, chill out.” Slap. And, yeah, A.J. definitely deserves a knock to the cranium for that awful, awful dye job.
Nanika Ga Okoru!
Made me wonder if he had the rest of the
augmentation usually seen with that hair color.
Sorry folks, parks closed. Moose out front should have told you.
well, I didn't WANT to think about it
but now I am! Yargh.
’’If somebody had told me we were going to lose Soriano for eight weeks, lose [Carlos] Zambrano and Kerry Wood for a couple of weeks apiece, and then at the same time lose [Reed] Johnson, and then when we played the American League not have a DH [then-injured Daryle Ward], and be in first place by two games, I’d tell you we were pretty fortunate.’’ Lou Piniella (7/23/08)
by drewishdrewid on Aug 4, 2008 11:10 AM CDT up reply actions
why are you thinking about
another man’s eyebrows?
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 1:42 PM CDT up reply actions
As always
AJ is in the middle of it. Not that he had anything to do with it but I DO love seeing Ozzie suffer. Moving rapidly up the list of jagoffs in sports IMO. Wish he got kissed in that fight. Talk about contact with the ump. He all but shoved the ump.
Calm down.
he was a little
hot under the collar, wasn’t he…
’’If somebody had told me we were going to lose Soriano for eight weeks, lose [Carlos] Zambrano and Kerry Wood for a couple of weeks apiece, and then at the same time lose [Reed] Johnson, and then when we played the American League not have a DH [then-injured Daryle Ward], and be in first place by two games, I’d tell you we were pretty fortunate.’’ Lou Piniella (7/23/08)
by drewishdrewid on Aug 4, 2008 1:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Everytime Ozzie does something like this
I realize how thankful I am for Pinella. Over the last yr and a half he’s had opportunities to play bean & brawl, but he’s tried to see the bigger picture… and fighting w/ a last place team is not worth it.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 1:38 PM CDT up reply actions
The best part was
A.J.’s interview in the club house after the game. He said ,”this team, Ozzie, our pitchers never throw the ball intentionally”. Then they have Ozzie on and he admits that he has in fact had batters hit intentionally but not yesterday. Ahhh, great day to be a Cub fan.
Carlos Zambrano and Rich Harden. Now that's a pair of Aces.
regarding a.j....
i’d kneecap every hitter on his team on any third strike. “hey, how should i know if the ump called it a dropped third strike?”
That was interesting...
...but I would agree that Guillen doesn’t go out of his way to throw at other teams players.
If you look at Bobby Cox, Yost (he is a Cox disciple) and LaRussa, those are the guys who will quickly order a batter be thrown at (when they showboat, your guy gets hit or one player is having a great series).
For the most part, Piniella doesn’t seem to be someone who promotes this either – unless it is really necessary to protect your players.
"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs but let in three" Casey Stengel
I never understood the
“bean a batter who is having a great series” rule.
"Your eyes can decieve you. Don't trust them." Obi-Wan Kenobi, the first sabermetrician...
by Curtain Jerker on Aug 4, 2008 3:25 PM CDT up reply actions
As someone...
...who was a position player, I never did either.
Do hitters accidently let go of their bat and let it sail at the pitcher when he is throwing a no-hitter?
Pitchers are a littlle like QB’s, there is a code that protects them and to some degree allows them to get away with this stuff. This is why I don’t mind hitters wearing the protective gear on the arms/elbow, which trust me, is not a fun place to take a 95+ MPH fastball.
"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs but let in three" Casey Stengel
I'll take your word for it
regarding the protective gear on the elbow. However, I always felt that having a guy with a massive elbow pad (a la Barry Bonds) allows him to camp on that inside corner with no fear of getting hit for any damage.
Did you see the Rays/Tigers game yesterday? A Ray was trying to get out of the way of a pitch, and basically got hit right on the chest. Ouch.
"Your eyes can decieve you. Don't trust them." Obi-Wan Kenobi, the first sabermetrician...
by Curtain Jerker on Aug 4, 2008 3:45 PM CDT up reply actions
There are plenty of spots...
...to hit somone other than the elbow.
"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs but let in three" Casey Stengel
What's the site for the Cubs BCB shirt?
I can’t find it on any sidebars…
Dan
Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
It's also permanently listed...
... under the “2008 BCB Project 3000 Fundraiser” link on the right sidebar.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
Just bought two!
One for my dad’s birthday, and one for me! Maybe I’ll post a fanshot of us when we get ‘em. Love the look of the shirt.
Dan
Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
Wow, sorry to hear this.
Oddly enough, I just saw him in “The Dark Knight” this weekend.
Nanika Ga Okoru!
Yeah, I've been known to...
...break new ground with my cinematic patronage. I’m now looking into some small, arty theaters in the Evanston area where I can see “Hancock.”
Nanika Ga Okoru!
that's the biopic
about the large-signatured colonial revolutionary, is it not? pip pip…
’’If somebody had told me we were going to lose Soriano for eight weeks, lose [Carlos] Zambrano and Kerry Wood for a couple of weeks apiece, and then at the same time lose [Reed] Johnson, and then when we played the American League not have a DH [then-injured Daryle Ward], and be in first place by two games, I’d tell you we were pretty fortunate.’’ Lou Piniella (7/23/08)
by drewishdrewid on Aug 4, 2008 2:37 PM CDT up reply actions
I love Morgan as
an actor. Hope he has a speedy recovery.
Carlos Zambrano and Rich Harden. Now that's a pair of Aces.
I think he's ok
It looks like he was conscious and joking around with the rescuers while they were cutting him out with the jaws of life.
by cubsonWGN4ever on Aug 4, 2008 1:30 PM CDT up reply actions
I read that too.
But at 71 recovery might take a little longer than if he was 41.
Carlos Zambrano and Rich Harden. Now that's a pair of Aces.
He's been in A LOT of good movies
Million Dollay Baby, Seven, Shawshank Redemption, Lucky Number Slevin, Gone Baby Gone(This movie was freakin awesome), and Driving Miss Daisy.
Hopefully the guy makes it out alright
"I think Hendry still has a few years to serve on his 'grand larceny' sentence before he can shop in Pittsburgh again" - ballhawk
I'm kind of offended...
...that you are putting “Lucky Number Slevin” in the same list as Shawshank, Se7en, and The Dark Knight. Slevin? Really?! Com’on Nittany!
Dan
Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
I liked the Slevin movie.
’’If somebody had told me we were going to lose Soriano for eight weeks, lose [Carlos] Zambrano and Kerry Wood for a couple of weeks apiece, and then at the same time lose [Reed] Johnson, and then when we played the American League not have a DH [then-injured Daryle Ward], and be in first place by two games, I’d tell you we were pretty fortunate.’’ Lou Piniella (7/23/08)
by drewishdrewid on Aug 4, 2008 2:38 PM CDT up reply actions
But to put it in the same category...
...as classics like Se7en, Shawshank, or award-winners like MDB or GBG?!
Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
actually,
I’ve never seen Se7en or Shawshank. So I can’t tell you.
’’If somebody had told me we were going to lose Soriano for eight weeks, lose [Carlos] Zambrano and Kerry Wood for a couple of weeks apiece, and then at the same time lose [Reed] Johnson, and then when we played the American League not have a DH [then-injured Daryle Ward], and be in first place by two games, I’d tell you we were pretty fortunate.’’ Lou Piniella (7/23/08)
by drewishdrewid on Aug 4, 2008 3:43 PM CDT up reply actions
For real?
Both are great films. Esp Shawshank.
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
Concur
Shawshank is very good.
"Every team will win 60 games, every team will lose 60 games, it's what the team does in the other 42 games that decides the season."
Looks like your weekend's planned.
The wig, the glasses, the catchphrase...brilliant.
by neverAcquiesce on Aug 4, 2008 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions
*WHAT!?*
You haven’t seen Shawshank?!
I think TNT has a sister channel…it just plays Shawshank in a loop…
by Shawon O Meter on Aug 4, 2008 4:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Slevin was awesome.
Instant classic.
Brian McRae's 5 O'Clock Shadow
by PurpleLineToWrigley on Aug 4, 2008 3:24 PM CDT up reply actions
My favorite Morgan Freeman...
Copped from imdb.com:
Red: [narrating] I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.
by Shawon O Meter on Aug 4, 2008 3:07 PM CDT up reply actions
"So go ahead and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time.
Cos I really don’t give a damn.”
The wig, the glasses, the catchphrase...brilliant.
by neverAcquiesce on Aug 4, 2008 3:23 PM CDT up reply actions
wish me luck
it’s off to chicago for tonight’s game. hope the weather holds out.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg
Shoulder surgery is hard to come back from.
It’s amazing anyone does.
Theriot, Fonty, and Johnson = The Scrappy Pyramid of Victory
by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Aug 4, 2008 1:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Over under on "Bret Farve Updates" during the game:
5 1/2
What do you chose?
Theriot, Fonty, and Johnson = The Scrappy Pyramid of Victory
by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Aug 4, 2008 1:22 PM CDT reply actions
I don't even want
to think about that. I’ll say over.
Carlos Zambrano and Rich Harden. Now that's a pair of Aces.
I choose to watch it on WCIU
thank god for no espn for this girl!
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 1:32 PM CDT up reply actions
If my softball game gets rained out, I'll keep you posted on Favre updates
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 2:24 PM CDT up reply actions
And let us know if Joba is having regular bowl movements, ok?
America needs to know..:)
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
I hear hes out of college eligability
no bowls.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 2:29 PM CDT up reply actions
LOL
I stepped right into that one didn’t I? checks shoes
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
Hmmm....
Tell ya what – I’ll let you know if I opt for beer or scotch…
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 2:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Ha..
I’d rather know that than what Joba is doing. Beer for me tonight. Picked up a sixer of Three Floyds, Robert the Bruce. Brewed right here in Munster, IN. btw.
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
Isn't Joba at least pitching though?
Favre won’t even have practice until tomorrow afternoon.
All this… and we’re still just talking about practice.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 2:57 PM CDT up reply actions
PLAYOFFS? PLAYOFFS??
We’re talkin’ practice!
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 3:01 PM CDT up reply actions
you got your beer commercials mixed up
i think.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 3:02 PM CDT up reply actions
They are who we thought they were!
Theriot, Fonty, and Johnson = The Scrappy Pyramid of Victory
by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Aug 4, 2008 3:24 PM CDT up reply actions
No, combined Jim Mora with an NBA player
I forget who . . . got that from a friend of mine.
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 3:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Allen Iverson
"Your eyes can decieve you. Don't trust them." Obi-Wan Kenobi, the first sabermetrician...
by Curtain Jerker on Aug 4, 2008 3:45 PM CDT up reply actions
A bit
but honestly… I actually got the “college eligibility” line off of radio the other day. Van Pelt was hilarious.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 2:45 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm resentful...
...that this football story keeps bleeding into my baseball coverage. Summer is short enough as it is.
Nanika Ga Okoru!
do you take exception to it?
As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.
by santoswoodenlegs on Aug 4, 2008 2:32 PM CDT up reply actions
You all are still using that line from that tarbox troll from the other day, huh?
Excellent.
Jimmyeatworld
by Jimmyeatworld on Aug 4, 2008 2:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Well with all the coverage...
at least you know that it won’t be a last minute tarbox scouting report.
Jimmyeatworld
by Jimmyeatworld on Aug 4, 2008 2:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Five and a half?
At one point someone goes, “You know, Favre, just today…ah, forget it.”
The wig, the glasses, the catchphrase...brilliant.
by neverAcquiesce on Aug 4, 2008 3:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Blackout?
Does anyone know if the ESPN coverage will be blacked out locally? If so, I need to get to the one place in Rockford that gets WCIU’s feed via satellite.
I don't think
there are any satellites that get WCIU. I live in Iowa and have DirecTV and have never gotten WCIU. You should be able to watch it on ESPN.
Carlos Zambrano and Rich Harden. Now that's a pair of Aces.
Actually,
my regular bar gets WCIU as part of it’s HD-Local package on Dish Network. I’m pretty sure it’s the only place in Rockford that gets it.
by worldcupfever on Aug 4, 2008 2:22 PM CDT up reply actions
If you have a DVR or TiVo ..
Just try recording the game and it will tell you if it’s blacked out or not.
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
Just scroll to it on the guide on your dish
and click info… if theres the “no” symbol (ya know, the circle w/ the diagonal line) then you are blacked out… thats how I tell.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 2:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah you might be blacked out in Rockford.
Too close to Chicago. I’m in NW Indiana, about 30-40 miles from Wrigley, and ESPN is blacking me out, so I have to watch it on WCIU.
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
We're in the Chicagoland market though
... is Rockford considered in Chicagoland?
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 2:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Not sure...
Rockford is at least 75-80 miles away, so maybe not.
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
Hobart
Are you in “the region” too?
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
Howdy neighbor..
HBCG is from Valpo I believe and jimmyeatsworld is from around here too IIRC.
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
Looks like Wrigley's new drainage system will get another test today
but I think it’ll clear up by game time.
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
by californiachicagoan on Aug 4, 2008 1:30 PM CDT reply actions
Saw Ryno this morning.......
Noticed him walking past my office building towards the big Sports Authority on LaSalle. I discreetly said good morning Ryne and he smiled and replied. I watched him continue to the Sports Authority and realized about 6 people, decked head to toe in Cubs gear, were walking straight towards him.
They didn’t recognize him and walked around him! He had to walk THROUGH the group! LOL
"To know that I know what I know, and that I do not know what I do not know. That is true knowledge" - Confucious as quoted in Walden
You mean the drink of course, right?
Nice pair of…mmmmm….straws..:)
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
It's really hard to find
a natural pair of straws these days.
Carlos Zambrano and Rich Harden. Now that's a pair of Aces.
lol
you are such a man.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Cheap thrills...
We find em wherever we can..
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." - Jacque Barzun
Well I'd sure like to have my lips around....
the beverage in that picture.
As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.
by santoswoodenlegs on Aug 4, 2008 2:53 PM CDT up reply actions
How many times did you have to look at
the picture before you saw the glass in the foreground?
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Possibly
you might need to look again.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 3:04 PM CDT up reply actions
way out out yourself the rest of the way
dood
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 2:55 PM CDT up reply actions
whoa. i can't type
way to out yourself.
god. i need more caffeine.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 3:00 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't think that's giving away a whole lot
It’s not like I said my SSN is 123-45-6789
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 3:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Besides, who says
I’m telling the truth?
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 3:02 PM CDT up reply actions
true
you ARE a sneaky badger.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 3:03 PM CDT up reply actions
And everyone knows your name
is really Shanghai.
Your mom & dad really wanted you to learn your vowels growing up.
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 3:11 PM CDT up reply actions
That's right -- better we hear about my vowels
than Joba’s . . . never mind.
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 3:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Besides, I'm not a way out
These guys are
by Shanghai Badger on Aug 4, 2008 3:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Is that a lime in that drink?
I can’t seem to get my eyes to focus there, something’s distracting me.
Wow, that is a cool story.
Those boneheads in the Cubs gear literally had a brush with greatness.
Nanika Ga Okoru!
Admittedly
I wouldn’t recognize him either… but I do have a sort of excuse. :-P
I think it’s just his face. - dat cubfan daver
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Aug 4, 2008 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions
well...
I recognized him from a long way away, but did spend waaay too much time at Wrigley in the 90’s!
"To know that I know what I know, and that I do not know what I do not know. That is true knowledge" - Confucious as quoted in Walden
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