Yawn: Cubs 5, Dodgers 3

Cubs win, Sox lose, ah baseball is back.

It was spring training for me, getting used to following the game on gameday and toggling back and forth to BCB.

with your statements about Hoffpauir. Nothing to get too excited about cause it’s day one of Spring Training, but still happy to see him get a slam this early. Hopefully he can do that when we need him to during the season. Teh best part of today: Hearing the wonderful voices of Pat and Ron. Although Pat was alittle shaky early on. I guess it’s Spring Training in the radio booth too. Haha!

Boo it being meaningless. How distracted were Pat and Ron? Like just talking about random 25-man roster decisions or like talking about their clothes choice distracted or like Ron wondering if cacti could kill a man distracted?

I paid my $15.00 about the 3rd inning and got to listen to Cubs baseball and they won the game. I wouldn’t care if they had invited Neffi to Spring Training and he hit the Grand Slam, BASEBALL IS BACK. I am just dreaming on he fact that in less than 30 Days I will be sitting out on the lawn watching a Cubs game and a few weeks after that I will be watching one that does count. THIS IS FUN.

with Pat and Ron streaming live over my computer while I toil away at work. All is right with the world again.

goodness that was fun! So happy to be giving my “z” finger a steady workout. Go Cubs!

What are your thoughts on his eventual rise to “the show”? I’m out here in Oregon and he was a star for the Beavers in their championship glory years recently. Does he simply need to go back down to the salt n pepper leagues for seasoning or is he destined to be a career minor leaguer? I haven’t been able to get much info on him since he was drafted.

What a bizarre first couple of paragraphs to summarize the first ST game of the year.

I’m 40 years old and I still get teary the first time I hear “Cubs baseball is on the air” every year.

Spring is coming.

It is a gorgeous day today. Would settle for this for opening day. I called the hubby and told him he didn’t need to pick me up and walked the mileish home from the bus.

Regarding the number of HR James Loney hit last year.
Ron: What about Looney
Pat: Did you just call me Looney
Ron: No him
Pat: His name is Loney

Man I love those guys

Now they beat the Dodgers.

this is what I’ve been waiting for!!

but the Hoffpauir bashing by Al has never gone away. I was at work during most of the day, but when I heard Hoff had hit a homerun I knew Al would play it down.

Can’t you just say nice game Hoff and leave it at that? Never really understood where all the BCB Hoff-hate comes from. You all do remember, he IS a Cub ya know?!

First day of spring? Hoff hits a granny? Cubs score 5 runs? C’mon Al I love ya but this is something to feel great about – one of our projected bench players comes in and puts on his Superman cape. Should we have felt better if it was Darryle Ward?

I halfway understand (and wholly expected) the less-than-glowing Hoffpauir sentiment – after all, one home run does not a roster spot make. But geez louise, can we stop with the Prior bashing already?

It’s going to be bad enough having to wade through all the DeRo & Woody hubris that is sure to surface throughout the year. And no doubt, we’ll have frequent status reports on the travails of Hie & Pill. I’m sure that’s enough fodder to keep an “All My Ex-Cubs” soap opera going – can we just let Prior rust in peace?

( I ask because I haven’t been around in a while…)

With him likely missing all but the last week or two of spring training, is anyone else concerned with him losing ground on last year? And given his performance in the second half, is that a bad thing? I have this fear that he’s going to have a great WBC and pre-season and then completely fall apart in April when he’s facing MLB pitching every day.

but eh, its baseball, I’lll take it..

Negative attitudes about Spring Training. You realize that the Cubs played baseball today right? That hasn’t happened since October (or maybe even September).

they do between the ears of the players and coaches. Winning is infectious, especially when players actually perform what they are setting out to do. Hoffpauir could be the 13th or 14th position player on this team and to forge a role he has to do it with a big stick. He did it against bona fide MLB level pitching.
Das is good!

Tomorrow is another game situation for players to perform OR not.

Lighten up, Al.

Either you’re excited about Spring Training and baseball being back or you’re not. You as much as anyone else know and realize that all these “no-names” are what Spring, and especially early Spring, is what this time of year is all about. And more to the point, I always thought that part of being a Cub fan (who just wrote a book that talks about anyone who dons a Cub uniform is “family”?) is getting excited and happy for any Cub player who does well. If we have to get to the point where a list needs to be supplied that covers who we’re allowed to cheer fro, then you’ve officially crossed into the “elitist” category.

Good for Hoffpauir, and if he has a good enough Spring that helps him make the team, then good for him AND the team.

He’s not great, but I think he’ll be decent at the big league level. I’m sick and tired, quite frankly, of hearing about his age. He’s 29, not 39, already. He’s got a lot of years left to either be on the bench of a major league team or go back and play in AAA. He’s not at an age, where whatever skills he has should erode quickly. He can be a decent bat off the bench. That’s all we want from Hoff.

“Yawn”?

This site used to be fun because it was a place for people to share their common joy, angst, hope, dread (and any of a million other emotions) inspired by this team we all cheer for.

Then it seemed to become a place where grumpy veterans groused that there were too many people expressing those opinions in too many fanposts.

Then last fall it tragically (in my view) became a place for posting offseason missives about the perceived worst cubs ever.

Now that baseball has returned, the emotion expressed on the lead post is boredom, and buried in a hyperlink more misdirected anger at a talented player whose failures are long since past.

Forget it, I’m done. Enjoy your website.

and now people are bitching that the game was boring. What did you expect? It’s ST, it’s always boring. People should’ve know that starters weren’t going to play much. It’s no different than any other ST year. Jeeez