Seabiscuit’s Jockey on…oh, screw it.
Boston fans are supposedly nicer now. Yeah, they’re just all on crack. We got even, we made them take Michael Holley back.
Grant Johnson finally a threw a pitch for the Cubs…well the Chiefs. Whatever.
The Fridge is so broke he’s selling his Super Bowl ring. Maybe he’ll buy some teeth?
See you at midnight madness, Dee.
Jon Miller was kidding. Really.
Barry Bonds says Ron Kittle’s an idiot. Hey Barry’s an asshole, but when he’s right, he’s right.
Corey Patterson blew off this jerkoff’s kid. Welcome to the real world, kid.
The last guy to win a playoff game for the Cubs is back in town. Wheeze!
The Wizard of Roz doesn’t buy the curse thing, either.
Sammy wants to finish his career as an Oriole. The way he’s been playing that’s entirely possible. His career might end this year.
Gene Wojciechowski dug in against Jennie Finch.
Ken Rosenthal says that Barry Zito and Mike Sweeney might not get traded after all.
Is KD writing for America’s finest news source? A man went under hynosis and found a repressed epsisode of Rockford Files.
“‘Honey, we’re all scared to death. I guess that’s the price we pay for living in a world where we sell cemetery plots on billboards by the freeway and all the prices end in 99 cents. What you gotta do is just keep laughing.'”
Is it sad that I actually remember the episode this dialogue is from?
74/09/27
THE COUNTESS
T: Stephen J. Cannell [3]
S: John Thomas James [4]
D: Russ Mayberry [1]
After doing his best to discourage a socialite’s blackmailer, Rockford
finds himself the leading suspect when the extortionist is murdered.
(Becker, Beth, Diehl–first appearance)
My life is a sad one.
“This is a league where there’s very good pitching, different from the national league.” I will make up any exscuse for sucking, won’t I ? Cuz Prior, Z, Maddux, Hudson, Clemens, Oswalt, Pedro, Myers, Beckett, Burnett, Peavy, Eaton, Hernandez, Schmidt, etc… I could obviously handle better. Instead of thanking my lucky stars that if I work a count for once, I’ll see 2 hanging breaking balls, I’ll just continue to be a complete assbag.
Anybody got a cigarette ?
“I would root for Al-Qaeda if they played the Cardinals”…wait’ll that done drrn Patriot Act comes and gets you, feller. Have a nice time in Cuba with the rest of y’all Muslim assholes.
“I’m ghetto. I just go against the rules sometimes. Bottom line is, I’ma always be ghetto. As long as there’s a ghetto, I’ma be ghetto.â€Â
This series should be interesting between two teams that have a combined one World Series between them in the last (what seems like 200 years.)
It really sucks to see the likes of Clement, Bellhorn, and Mueller come back to Wrigley Field. Clement was suck pussy at the end of last season you just wished his mug was at a carnival in the form of a bunching bag. Then you have the two wastes of Bellhorn and Mueller who seem to be chopping wood at the plate when they were Cubs. These three guys personify what a former Cub is.
It would be nice to take 2 out of 3 from these Red Sox. With this lackluster Cub offense, the pitching staff will have to hold firm. I like our chances though, especially with the Z-Man and G-Unit. Maddux could be a factor too. He likes to pitch in high profile games that these. A sweep would be nice to get this team on a roll again.
GO CUBS!
Baker Basher
Fact is, Cardinal Fans, is that I’m a Cubs fan too. And after our military is done mopping up Iraq, we’re going to send them to beautify southwest Illinois and Missouri.
Fuck you, Basher! I was hitting .330 or something when I shattered my knee at the Urinal Cake in 2001. It took me awhile to get back to normal. The 2002 season was a waste of time anyway.
Even worse for me, the tortured fan: Ashcroft’s gotta be an StL (not a Royals) guy.
Besides, how many Cubs have won a batting title recently ? Basher, you’re a retard. My entire career, I was on teams where my job was basically to be a situational hitter, you know, get guys over, make productive outs, sac bunts, when I went to Boston, they let me rake away. I am a nice guy and a professional, but like Assface Schilling and Pansy Clement, you get tired of mr thanking Jebus for everything.
I meant “my” up there, sorry, I am from Mizzurah ya’ know…we’re…we’re not that bright down there.
Uh, Bill, it’s great that you won a batting title, but which one of these is not like the other?
.268
.295
.266
.326
.283
.271
And since when does .326 win the batting title in the American League? Did somebody kidnap Ichiro that year?
I’m tired of being Baker Basher’s bunching bag.
And for what? Was there any doubt that winning the series or sweeping would be nice? Or that Maddux may be a factor in the game that he pitches? Or that players who used to be on the Cubs personify what a former Cub is?
Where’s all the insight, such as the meaning of FDF?
I also forgot to link to this:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/sports/cst-spt-kiley10.html
Man, how obvious does something have to be that even Kiley figures it out.
I always assumed that FDF means F#$% Diabetes Forever.
Am I wrong?
I’ve never–even as a kid–been an autograph seeker, so maybe I’ve got an unusual take, here but that asswipe Blittstein whose angry little “View From a Fan” rant was somehow deemed worthy of being published by chicagosports.com is, simply put, a tool.
He can bitch and moan about how players have changed through the times, but so have autograph-seekers. Most kids don’t value the autograph as much as it’s monetary worth. It’s basically the same mindset as scalpers–the player provides all of the talent, and maybe the fan can piggyback on it for a few bucks. Even if that’s not his kid’s intention, the father should be ashamed of himself for placing so much emphasis on harassing a pro athlete to sign his friggin’ name on a David Berg hot dog wrapper..
I think Patterson’s grown into a punk-ass jerkoff for many reasons, but I hardly find fault with him not giving an autograph to some spoiled wuss of a kid and his asshat father.
Plus, isn’t it possible he simply forogt anyway?
Great dose BTW Andy. you’re spot on with Telander. He WAS awesome at SI and conversely horrible at the Sun-Times.
Go Cubs.
The issue with the “View from a whinner” isn’t the writer, it’s that the Trib is now starting to bash Korey.
You bunch of no-brained dorks! Don’t you think I’ve learned ANYTHING since I’ve been in pro ball. Believe me, man, I’ve learned from the best! I didn’t sign for that kid ‘cuz he’s white! Now fuck off, white boy!
Telander’s books are mighty fine. The bit in “Heaven Is a Playground,” about the kids riding around in a car after playing, knees and cartilige cracking every time they extended their legs … great stuff.
Telander hits the mark every so often at the Sun-Times, unfortunately it’s not often enough to make reading his columns a habit. I mean, the last column I can remember offhand liking from Rick (though I’m sure there have been some since then) was from 1997.
Didn’t Rick say he was worried about turning into me or something?
Seabiscuit’s Jockey was on The Score this morning and he said that scalpers were only getting face value or a little above for tickets at Wrigley today. Maybe the bastards will elarn and not block up the computers and pay homeless people to stand in lint next year. I hope the jagoffs take a bath on these tickets.
I don’t know about you Mitch, but Rick’s ham-handed, “woe-is-our-present-civilization” moralist crap had a lot of Chicagoans remembering my syrupy, phony shtick that I was able to make a fat living off of for 3 decades before I actually, you know, proved to be the type of creep that I had been wrining my hands about daily.
Death to the infidels. And by infidels we mean the Satanic Fowl and the BoSox.
Most days I ride my bike into work taking Clark Street all the way downtown. So naturally, I pass the ballpark whenever I ride (I also pass Chuck’s favorite hot dog stand at Wrightwood further down, but I digress)
Around 7:30 in the morning, the time I’m normally passing the park, there’s never anything unusual to notice, save for a few people (presumably out-of-towners) standing around, waiting for the box office to open to snag a ticket for that day’s game.
Today? At around 8:00, there was a line of people stretching from the ticket window, ALL THE WAY DOWN toward Sheffield. I couldn’t see exactly where the line ended but it was just madness. I’ve never seen anything close to it. I can’t imagine there would be many tickets available.
How many of us did you see, Mike D. ? We have a huge and annoying bandwagon now.
I was so stunned by the sheer quantity of people that I didn’t bother to notice if they were from Bahstun, although that was probably it.
Nice research by the glorified white trash of New England, if that’s who it was. Like you can just walk up and get a ticket. They’re about 71 blocks north of where they should be if that’s their mindset.
the line for tickets was about 25 when I left a nearby drinking establishment at around 2am. most of them were passed out in chairs.
sick of all the AL teams whining about not being able to use their designated non-fielder in NL parks?
And now we wanna hand it off to the Silkman, Dan Roan. Silkman…yes.
Mike D., et. al.  The folks in line were all covered by WGN morning news at 6 a.m. this morning. Andy likely didn’t see it because he didn’t bother to get “up” since Robin Baumgartner was on vacation. But, the majority of fans in line were [b]Cubs[/b] fans. Many slept out there since 10 p.m. Thursday night, hoping for SRO or turn-ins, I guess.
While I hate Boston fans as much as Cards and Yankees fans, it was the white trash of Cubville that populated the line, as evidenced by their Cub hats. Only one Boston fan was in evidence and he did get interviewed. Way to paint it with a broad brush of enemy fan hate.
I think that those of us who use the curse to explain 97 years of futility ought to explain to the rest of us how 1918, 1929, 1932, 1935 and 1938 came about? Since the Billy Goat didn’t try to “horn in” to Wrigley Field until the Series in 1945, were the Cubs suffering from the “Curse of Anticipation of the Billy Goat” in those futile years?
Silkman, have you seen my dettached retina?
If you find it, put it on the board…..YES!
Stew–
The Cubs hold the record with 7 consecutive WS LOSSES. They share it with the Dodgers-ahem, the BROOKLYN Dodgers–and the difference is the Cubs’ streak is CURRENT. The Dodgers snapped theirs in ’55.
Betcha your Jayson Starks and Peter Gammons and your merry little band of Chicago-area lazy hacks have no idea that once the Cubs–God forbid– ever do make it back the the WS, that they’ll have THAT particular piece of infamy–much darker than a 6-decade appearance drought– to deal with
Hey Waiting In Line–so I was painting with a broad brush. Guilty as charged. Oh well. It’s still the height of assclwonery to think you can be the 134th person and line and actually get an over-the-counter ticket to the game. When you get 3 million peopel to a park that seats 38,000, you’ll have plenty of embarssing fools. And they were standing at the back of that line this morning.
Agreed, Mike D. It’s ridiculous, especially since the line was populated with Cubs fans. Have they been drunk since February when the tickets were sold out in one day? I guess I don’t need an answer to that… If you weren’t in the first 10 in line, what’s the point? Like the first 10 aren’t going to buy the max amount, either in turned-in tickets or SRO’s. Fools.
Exist for just about every Cubs game on the schedule. If you call 773-404-CUBS or check the Internet, you can get decent seats that are either unused sponsor seats or VIP seats, or season-ticket holder tradeins.
I suck.
from KD today, we’re blessed (although none of them were nba related).
Must be procrastinating though, mate?
what the hell?
I thought this was the line to see Kung Fu Hustle!
I’m tired of being your bunching bag…