MLB Network Showing Kerry Wood's 20 K day

by MrNFL on Jun 23, 2009 1:38 PM CDT

Random thing I came across, 2 PM to 4:30 today they are showing the entire game. It's very interesting to get this look back, seeing a lot of names I haven't heard in a long time, and getting to hear Chip and Stoney call a game again.

It's also really odd to see Wrigley so empty. So many empty seats during what turned out to be such a historic day.

Anyway, it's a fun little look back if you happen to have nothing better to do.

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nice

now spoiled, watching non-HD baseball games like this hurts my eyes.

by BeltwayCubsFan on Jun 23, 2009 1:52 PM CDT reply actions

I don't want to see it...

it just makes me sad.

As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Jun 23, 2009 2:28 PM CDT reply actions

At that time in 1998...

… the Cubs were coming off a 94-loss season. It was early May, the Cubs were 16-15 going into that day, in fourth place. No one suspected what was to come that year.

Plus, it was a Wednesday afternoon and the weather was iffy (it rained lightly from about the 6th to 8th innings).

You could have bought season tickets just about anywhere in the park that year.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on Jun 23, 2009 2:34 PM CDT reply actions

i did. and the following is a true story...

I heard Mark Grace on the Jim Rome show in February. He was talking about how he liked the team they had and that this kid Kerry Wood was the real deal.

The next day I called up Rome’s show and said that with Hampton and Kile leaving the central, that I liked the Cubs to win the central that year. He said, “Ordinarily I would rip you here but I can’t. They look good and they have a chance”

true story

I was told that I ruined this house with my anger

by tempchad on Jun 23, 2009 3:20 PM CDT up reply actions

they didn't win the central that yr

by ARob1 on Jun 23, 2009 4:16 PM CDT up reply actions

yeah? no shit

thanks for the history lesson.

You missed the entire point.

I was told that I ruined this house with my anger

by tempchad on Jun 23, 2009 4:42 PM CDT up reply actions

No shit?

Not sure why you need to resort to that type of language, but what was the point then?

by ARob1 on Jun 23, 2009 6:03 PM CDT up reply actions

that i knew they were going to be good.

his quote above:

" the Cubs were coming off a 94-loss season. It was early May, the Cubs were 16-15 going into that day, in fourth place. No one suspected what was to come that year."

and while i surely couldn’t have predicted Sammy’s year, I new they had a quality team. And I thought they were playoff bound.

I was told that I ruined this house with my anger

by tempchad on Jun 23, 2009 7:53 PM CDT up reply actions

I blame Dusty.

Even if he wasn’t with the team.

Proud recipient of a hot dog shot from the Iowa Cubs hot dog gun.

by IowaCubs- on Jun 23, 2009 3:08 PM CDT reply actions

I blame Mark Prior

by Poloplaya14 on Jun 23, 2009 11:19 PM CDT up reply actions

Maybe...

…He’ll strikeout 21 on the replay.

"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs but let in three" Casey Stengel

by MPH73 on Jun 23, 2009 4:58 PM CDT reply actions

f that! maybe kevin orie will pick up a grounder and make the play

I was told that I ruined this house with my anger

by tempchad on Jun 23, 2009 5:18 PM CDT up reply actions

Did anyone notice Pitch number one

Sandy martinez couldn’t handle the fastball, he barely got a glove on it and it hit the umpire in the mask. I think it was traveling at such velocity that the umpire couldn’t see straight and opened up the strike zone due to his concussion. Now that we know that a concussion can open up a strike zone, lets keep that information in our pocket and the next time the cubs are in a clinching playoff game, lets call Larry and tell him what pitch one should be. One to the dome, the blue dome.

Hector Villanueva ate himself out of the big leagues, He was a Big Big leaguer

by Adam Uhlhorn on Jun 23, 2009 11:07 PM CDT reply actions