'Go Cubs. I waited as long as I could.'
95-year-old Cubs fan passes away, with those among his last words in his obituary.
about 2 years ago
Al Yellon
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i have
a gut feeling we will all be saying that. i often wonder if i will live long enough to see this team win. on my tombstone i want 5 OUTS AWAY.
Well said, our old Cubs fan friend.
This is only the beginning....Lou Pinella end of '07 season and Chicago Transit Authority (the band when they were really good).
He whispered,
“Don’t Cry, we’ll meet by and by near the Heavenly Hall of Fame
He said, "I’ve got season’s tickets to watch the Angels now,
So its just what I’m going to do
He said, “but you the living, you’re stuck here with the Cubs,
So its me that feels sorry for you!”
Keepin’ the faith… gotta love it.
this makes me think......
what keeps us coming back year after year and expecting the best and often just getting our hearts ripped out. Then went late February and March rolls around we are back talking about who will make the team. How the lineup will work out this year. Big off season moves or not. This is what makes us different then other fans once they have you they have you forever. I am relatively young Cubs fan, the first season I can remember is 1987 Cubs finish last and Andre Dawson has the season of his life. Thanks to WGN and living in Wisconsin I never missed a broadcast cause they played ball during the day and Harry Carry showed me why I should love this team. Years have pasted and I am still watchin and waiting and I have already passed this on to my children.
Careful Son, They will break your heart. And then stomp on it. But I will be a Cubs fans until I die. Its your fault Harry!!!
by deployedcubfan on Dec 12, 2009 10:31 AM CST reply actions
not one single Cubs fan
wants to jump ship the year they win. That is a fear of some. For others, they figure "well, i waited “X” years, whats a few more"
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
A favorite quote from Donald Honig
One of my favorite quotes about the Cubs, from Donald Honig’s 1991 book, "The Chicago Cubs – An Illustrated History":
"If they won a world championship, sure, we’d be proud.
But we couldn’t love them any more than we already do."
-anonymous Cub fan.
Anon. says it all for me!
"Someday,,,"
by GeneticCubsFan on Dec 15, 2009 4:35 AM CST up reply actions
Well, if he was a true fan, he'd have stuck around a bit longer...
KIDDING!
Damn you to hell, Alou, Baker, Gonzalez, Prior and the rest of you soft-ass punks. May this man’s ghost haunt you!
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
I need more sleep
I read that and thought " what in the world did Jeff Baker do to cause Worf to think he cost the Cubs a WS" ?
"I am not ashamed to say I love Greg Maddux" - Jim Hendry
Me either Jim
by Doggie Stalker on Dec 13, 2009 4:23 PM CST up reply actions
LMAO
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
i say the cubs
win the world series 2010 in his honor
or just for the hell of it, doesnt matter
This Chicago Cubs team is currently Aaron free. Keep it that way, please.
by jesus christos on Dec 12, 2009 12:07 PM CST reply actions
The poor guy finally got tired of waiting for that ever elusive "next year"
Wow! Over ninety years of heartbreak and anguish. I’m a bit more than halfway there and I can’t even begin to imagine what he had to endure. At least he was around to see them in a few World Series, even though they didn’t win one in his lifetime.
by Mike Vails Evil Twin on Dec 12, 2009 12:31 PM CST reply actions
which hurts more?
seeing them lose in ther WS or never seeing them make the WS?
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
I'd like to know how it feels just to get there.
That’d be a nice step, at least.
"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra
Amen, brother
"WGN, Channel 9 Cubs Baseball, Excitingly, Importantly, Dramatically Yours." - Jack Brickhouse
Positive attitude...
He and my grandfather can watch them win in 2010 together from those bleachers in the sky…
I suppose in Heaven the Cubs win every year though :-)
my mother and oneof my grandfathers i am sure are there with them
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
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There's GOT to be a Nostradamus Quatrain that portends a Cubs WS Championship! LOL
"WGN, Channel 9 Cubs Baseball, Excitingly, Importantly, Dramatically Yours." - Jack Brickhouse
Make it so
With Nostradamus, it is all in the creative interpretation of ambiguous statements. You can be the first one to find the Cubs in there. Look for something about 2003, too.
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." -- Yogi Berra
..and 1984
A woman's guess is more accurate than a man's certainty.--Rudyard Kipling
by cooliogirl47 on Dec 13, 2009 11:11 AM CST up reply actions
it came and went
there was somethign he said about the falling of the two big powers (twin towers?) would be the yer of the baby bear (cubs). I heard about it but cannot find it to link now. i will continue to hun and link if i can. if someone else sees it pleae link it
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
here is one
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
But he did see the 1945 Series, I assume
That’s way more than any of us has seen.
by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Dec 12, 2009 3:14 PM CST reply actions
'29, '32, '35, and '38, too
He was probably too young to remember 1918, though. Chicago boy his entire life, so it’s possible he attended a WS game or two in that stretch.
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
:(
He’s lucky he got to see a lot of Cubs in his life. I would have liked to have a little bar-room chat with him over a few beers about some of the games he went to.
A woman's guess is more accurate than a man's certainty.--Rudyard Kipling
God bless em.....we will win it soon and raise one for him!
….reminds of my Grandfather, who got me started on the Cubs.
that had to be one of the saddest epitaphs to a certainly well lived life I've ever seen
it got me misty eyed, and yet, he clearly had a life outside “his all time favorite sport” .. he sounded like the kind of guy I’d like in my mom’s retirement community in the South Suburbs ..
That is how, I think, it should be. Real life is the anchor for reality beyond this fleeting pastime we call major league baseball.
Blue mountains high .. Blue valleys low
I don't know which way we will go ..
One summer dream .. one summer dream ..
coda
ELO, 1975
it's sad...
…there are way too many of these stories.
"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs but let in three" Casey Stengel
HELL NO.
IT STOPS ON MY WATCH.
"The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money." --Ernie Banks
This is a sad part of being a Cubs fan.
And when you see an obituary like this, or hear about a lifelong 80 or 90-something Cubs fan dying, it hits home for all fans, because every Cubs fan has a deceased relative who lived a long, full, happy, and successful life, but never saw the Cubs win the World Series. That’s one of the reasons Cub fans don’t give up….we’re all carrying the torch for these family members who made it to the Promised Land after life, but never lived to see it on Earth as a Cubs fan.
"Don't complain to me about the stormy weather, boys. Just bring the ship into port." --Steve Stone, September 2004
by ctcoff99 on Dec 13, 2009 9:33 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
I waited as long as I could, too
But Mike Cameron just pushed me over the edge.
Dear Santa,
Please buy me a Red Sox cap for Christmas.
"I'd rather hit home runs you don't have to run as hard." -- Dave Kingman
by BucknerKongCardenal on Dec 15, 2009 12:18 AM CST reply actions
Man
That would be pretty much what my obit would look like if I make it to 95 and the Cubs still haven’t won it. That one hits home.
One day, the dream will come true.
ya think BCB will still be around?
A woman's guess is more accurate than a man's certainty.--Rudyard Kipling
by cooliogirl47 on Dec 15, 2009 2:34 PM CST up reply actions
In 2079, when i'm 95...
… we’ll be able to write fan posts about impossible trades… ENTIRELY WITH OUR MINDS.
Also, our feet will be replaced with wheels. Awesome!
I anxiously await the reasonable trading of Milton Bradley.
Dum spiro spero... | Follow me on twitter or else: @andrewjstone.
by AndrewJStone on Dec 17, 2009 2:11 PM CST up reply actions
I bet we still won't have
our flying cars and moon base, tho.
Forget all that other stuff. I gotta believe.
by drewishdrewid on Dec 17, 2009 3:22 PM CST up reply actions
"I waited as long as I could...
…for flying cars."
Before each game, please remember to feed the bats.
reminds me of the song by the cleaning ladys
when the cubs win the world series
some hilarious lines in it IMO
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
just found
the lyrics
In the future far away, we will live in Outer Space,
There will be a cure for cancer, there will be one race……
When the Cubs, win the World Series.
Ryne Sandberg will be dead….
When the Cubs, win the World Series.
Human’s will have two heads…..
When the Cubs, win the World Series.
Harry Carey’s son’s, son’s, son’s, son’s, son’s, son’s, son,
Will do the Play by Play.
Every single country in the galaxie,
Will throw their guns away…..
When the Cubs, win the World Series.
Mark Grace will be long gone….
When the Cubs, win the World Series.
Greg Maddux will still be going strong….
When the Cubs, win the World Series.
We’ll have a celebration, at the place the team calls home.
At Addison and Sheffield, inside the Wrigley Dome….
When the Cubs, win the World Series.
On Pay 3-D TV….
When the Cubs, win the World Series.
Wait ’til next century…..
When the Cubs, win the World Series.
the version i have as MP3 says LEE SMITH not GREG MADDUX
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
goes to show you
nobody ever abandons the cubs. its a life time thing.
Man o man I hope I don't have to say this about my Grandpa!
He’s 88 and still watches every game and loves talking baseball. My Great-Grandparents were around for the last title but they both died with Cub-frustrations.
Common Tommy — SPEND SOME MORE MONEY FOR 2010!!!
"I always tell the truth -- Even when I lie"
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