- Sweet Lou

maybe I’m just much busier, but I haven’t been able to drum up the enthusiasm this year like in years past.

2003 hurt, but it was so unbelievable that it didn’t take my hope away. Last year, such a dismal performance in the post-season left me thinking, for the first time, maybe the Cubs never will win it all.

So, we start again. No one ever said following the Cubs was easy. Let’s hope that quote above by Lou is correct—here’s to another post-season, and this time we’ll make something of it.

Now I have something to watch on TV everyday just about! (Except when I am actually at the game) Go Cubs!

All of us want that World Series, but lets not overlook all the fun the regular season can bring, we couldn’t make the playoffs without it!

The road starts tonight. Lets go Cubbies!

I get tired of the refrain, “Wait ’til next year”. The wait is over. “Next year” starts today.

are why I love BCB. You wrote exactly what I was thinking — or, more to the point, what I was feeling but couldn’t put into words.

Go Cubs!

for all of us to get back “in tune” with daily baseball, but I promise it will not take any of us long to get back in the swing of cubs baseball being on the air. I look forward to tonight and anticipate a great summer ahead. But, as any cubs fan, with guarded optimism.
Great kick-off story to start the season Al. Let hope we get off to as good of a start as you can write! GoCubsGO!

Today begins the day when I teach my 2-year-old some colorful language…as I scream at the television :)

in the human pest.

That would be all of us. Go Cubs.

No other sport has anything that compares to Opening Day. And no other sport compares to the fandom I have with the Chicago Cubs.

As a side note, my polo and hat came in my APO box from Cubworld today. Great timing!

I’ll be tired in the morning (the game doesn’t start until midnight) but it will be worth it. GO CUBS!

Wow that would suck to have to wait ONE more day.

I paid no attention to anything baseball related this past winter (only stopped by bleedcubbieblue two times). I’m back and ready. I’m thinking positive, at least till I see the first Soriano swing and miss (that is joke….calm down). Ok here we go

I still like the old saying “For Cub fans opening day combines the eternal hope of spring with the irrational belief in the impossible”

First, the magic of baseball is that at this time each fan of each team looks at the season and says, “yes now if….”

Al, as we discussed before we have some close benchmarks, my first game was actually at Milw’s old County Stadium, Friday May 3rd 1963, my father took me to see Warren Spahn who pitched for the Braves. I only have pieces of memory but my father said I enjoyed it too much, there were HR’s by Santo, Williams, Banks and Aaron. Cubs won late in the game and at 6 years old I was done. The next summer I played little league a year early and watched Brickhead on TV regularly.

He has now apologized for he was both a Cubs and Braves fan since we lived 45 miles from each stadium until the Braves moved in 1966, making me a Cub fan.

I have to post this song

Opening Day
By Terry Cashman

I’ve been counting the days in the winter haze since the leaves began to fall
Now it won’t be long til the sun comes shining through
When the camps start breaking my spirits awaken
to that irresistable call
Of that old american song that is always new

The robin is here the sky is so blue
there’s a band there’s music and the flags are flying too
The grass is so green
It’s like never before
Its opening day I can be a kid once more

Watched the opening game last night. The Jon Miller-Joe Morgan-Steve Phillips trio just sucks big time. Three guys who love talking, love hearing their own voice. Its just horrible and they need to get one of them out of the booth. I had to mute the TV.

They kicked off a new initiative here at the call center and are making it a competition and tied it into baseball and opening day .. The top dog here at the center is a Cubs fan and we smiled as we came in today.

So I’m sitting here in my Cubs home jersey, bright blue cap from my all time favorite sport and a longsleeve Soriano T, trying hard to get enthused on break.

It’s hard to do. God knows I love the Cubs but I’ve just got a bit more perspective on things in my own life and while I will hold the Cubs close and hope they’ll go all the way, I’m not going to try to follow them as often as I have the past seven years.

And watch, this will be The Year .. and I’ll have missed a lot of it ..

Hmmm .. guess that MLB.TV sub don’t look too bad now ..

GO CUBBIES!

I say PLAY BALL!

I too, was 12 years old in 69 and have an emotional affinity for that team that will never go away. Since, we have all suffered through the long valleys with the other brief, emotional peaks of 84,03,07,08.

However, I completely agree that it is time to enjoy the moment. We have one of the best teams in baseball, lets enjoy every day of it. I do NOT want to fast forward to October. I want savor the ups and downs of each game. If/when we get to where we all want to get to, fantastic. If we win 90+ but win no playoff games — I will be bitterly disappointed. But, I would rather have that, than what I have experienced most of my life – a team with no chance at all.

Also, I don’t know how many of you check this site (and no, I’m not affiliated) but Shirt.Woot has a goofy baseball shirt available. And if you don’t like the shirt, at least read the description, their writers are amazing and I got a few good laughs out of it.

Go Cubs!

….after being the most excited for a start of a season in 08. Hoping the radical change in the roster does the trick. Hoping Bradley lives up to the hype. Hoping LBR has a breakout season. Hoping Fukudome figures things out. Hoping the bullpen exceeds expectations. Hoping Harden stays healthy. Hoping Hoff provides the bat we need off the bench. Hoping for a roster void of DL stints.

And looking forward to many, many “W” flags flying in the game threads.

Let’s do this boys! Let the grind begin again!

have to hear the one hundred year thing everyday all season and hopefully less mentions of curses.

On the Mike & Mike Show this morning, Buster Olney was questioning the health of Rich Harden’s shoulder after his last outing where he was throwing in the high 80’s, low 90’s. And the beat goes on.

I’m sporting the new D. Lee jersey !!!!!!!!!

I am excited for the season and really wished people stop talking about how the Cubs play in October. Cubs have 162 games before they get the rights to play postseason games.

in Yankee Stadium, any enthusiasm I had for them is gone. Fukudome is worse and Harden & Lilly were throwing BP and our closer (and heart of the team) is in Cleveland. So far, this team looks like shabbier version of last years. The middle infield defense will be shoddy at best and we have huge question marks in RF(health) and CF(Dome is terrible). Lee is getting old and the only consistent slugger we have is Aramis.

All that said, it’s a new season and let’s see how all these new pieces mesh together! Go Cubs!

Just in time for opening day. Sucks not having a job but i get to catch a lot more day games.

it was the first colossal Cub failure in my lifetime……so the rest just temporarily re-open the eternal wounds of ’69 which heal nicely by Opening Day.

Go Cubs

OK, folks- if this didn’t put things into perspective for all of us, then shame on us…

Good luck BradB311. Hang in there and may better days be ahead for you.

Good luck Cubs fans. I’m predicting a CUBS – METS NLCS.

There could be a lot of factors influencing this:

Recent Cubs history.

Seeing the Cubs lose three ST games in early March while playing some of the most listless ball I’ve ever witnessed them play in person.

6" of snow overnight and this morning in Michigan with more on the way.

The home opener at Wrigley still being a week away (at least I have tickets. No postponements, please…)

And lastly, being wrapped up in tonight’s national championship basketball game between my Spartans and UNC. GO GREEN!

Thank God the Cubs game starts at 7pm our time and for “picture in picture” on my TV. At least most of the baseball game should be done by the 9:21edt basketball tipoff.

Go Cubs! I’ll be here with my BCB shirt on. Now if only my “W” flag would arrive…

I am going to preface this by saying that i have to wear a suit every day to work with a tie and everything and i am definitely wearing my zambrano jersey under my suit. I am hot and uncomfortable becuase i am going to expn zone in dc as soon as i get off work.

I love this team and i feel its going to be a special season.. Go cubs!!!

let’s go!

now lets start off this new season w/ a win over the team i have to hear about so much down here in Texas! For some weird reason I’m not as nervous to start this season as i’ve been in the past. Go Cubbies Go!!

..not to pull a ‘Chicken Little’ in case the Cubs stumble out of the gate. Remember last year?

Al’s final post of the season was comparable posts after just a couple games into the season.

I have a good feeling about the start of the season……

Knock on WOOD.

Here’s to hoing Oswalt has another rough first half.

Weren’t we EIGHT outs away? (2 in the 7th, 3 in the 8th and 3 in the 9th?)

Or am I insane? Or both. Help me out here.

…I lived and died with every game last year and it was severly unhealthy. I am going to trying to look at this season from 30,000 ft as opposed to 10 ft. I am not overly amped about opening day but I am ready.

My only fear is health…they have been fairly healthy the last two years and at some point you have to pay the piper. If they manage to stay healthy…they will compete for the playoffs again.

I’ll be here in spirit! I live for this day…

…I am optimistic as always but this year I would call it a melancholy optimism…..I am not quite as giddy as most years, mostly because we have a long long way to go. I will be as excited as the next Cubs fan about wins in April, May, June, July et al….but not to get too far ahead of things, but it’s really all about October. I am not really thrilled with some of the changes but Jimbo and Lou know alot more than I do so I will trust and watch with as much optimism as possible

Can’t wait for the first pitch tonight, a fun moment of each and every year.