What is your "Reverse" Record?

I don’t know if I’d be classified as a super busy person, but I think I’m pretty busy. I’ll say I miss every inning of about 7 games a year, see 1 third in about 15, and only see 2 third in about 20.

I was on a plane coming home from Vegas during the home opener. I don’t care if it was “good luck”. It was torture and I won’t do it again!!

were the ones when I was on honeymoon, from April 12-24. From what I remember, the Cubs went on a huge tear, winning something like ten of those games.

On the other hand, yesterday, I was grocery shopping with the wife and kid, and so was in and out of the WGN broadcast, and they got hosed.

On a slightly related topic, I do have a question.

So far I’ve been to 5 games this year. I stayed from start to finish for four of them. They won all four games. The fifth game I had to leave in the third inning because my girlfriend was violently ill. They went on to lose that game. Now my question is, does that fifth game count in my overall record? I don’t think so. At worst I think I can say 4-0-1.

…and they’ve lost every single one of them.

thanks, Worf. I never get tired of hearing my hometown called that. Though a baptism in Indianapolis is pretty boring.

I’m 1-4 this year in “reverse” fashion – vacation last week killed me.

However, I did watch today’s game. So there you go.

On the last day of the honeymoon I turned the TV on while packing and saw the sportscenter highlight of Lou being ejected for his eruption, followed by a montage of the Cubs extended slump and the Z-Barrett fight. I’m sure glad I missed that stretch of baseball. I felt blindsided by the news there. Wasn’t somebody injured around then too? I want to say it was Ramirez

I did have other plans both Friday and Saturday so I couldn’t see either game. Did listen/watch most of todays.

which we don’t get downhere in real America, so I’ll stay away tonight too. With “Chuck” and “24” on, I’ll be busy catching up on some TV.

Two games is clearly enough sample size to make a decision. I learned that on BCB.

Since WGN radio isn’t coming in my apartment lately…stupid hills. Think Tony’s really a bad guy?

Saturday I missed the whole game because of my Dad’s party. It was at an Irish pub so soccer was on all the tvs and I was too busy. On the way home we heard the score.

2-2. But the I-Cubs… are 7-4, FWIW. (5-2 when I do pay attention.)

explain the relevance of this question

…because I only very rarely get to sit and watch an entire game. Depending on the start time, I’m usually following games in a scattershot fashion – on my phone then on the radio then maybe I can catch the last few innings on TV. Sometimes I am able to catch an entire day game via Gameday audio here at work.

That said, I know what you’re getting at – after three or four losses in a row, I start considering “distancing measures.” Not following the game at all except for a score check or two on my phone. Or simply waiting for the recap and hoping for good news. I was on the brink of doing this yesterday, but I caved in – and was rewarded handsomely for doing so.

It was 2-1 until last night. However with the Blackhawks game starting at the exact same time, I was tuned into Ch.200 the entire evening. The ‘Hawks put an end to the Flames season at 23:02 CDT and will now have home ice advantage in round 2 against Vancouver’s Canucks.

I live in the Milwaukee area. I am trying to see games in all the MLB stadiums, so last year I bought tickets to the September series in Houston. At the time of my flight down there, they had not yet cancelled the Cubs games for Hurricane Ike, so it still made sense to fly down.

Shortly after I arrived, they cancelled the Cubs games. In a horrible twist of fate, the games were played in Milwaukee, about 15 minutes from my home.

To summarize: I flied to Houston to see the Cubs and had a ticket to the 9/14 game in Houston. While I was waiting out a hurricane, Carlos Zambrano threw a no-hitter 15 minutes from my home.

Now, I can’t say that Carlos would have thrown a no-hitter in Houston, but there is no doubt that I would have been at the Milwaukee no-hitter if I hadn’t been in Houston to see the Cubs.

(Random note: My grandpa missed the 8/16/65 Jim Maloney no-hitter due to car troubles. He later was at Holtman’s second no-hitter in Cincinnati on 6/3/71.)

Well, I did check on the game before I went to bed and it was 1-1.

The experiment is over. I’ll probably watch as much as I can stay awake for tonight.