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I had to turn down tickets that are NEXT to the Phillies' dugout today because of a final.

I promised my wife I'd take her back to Hawaii if the Cubs made it to the World Series. If they won, she can decide to go anywhere else. There's no way I can afford that.

If the Cubs are on the verge of clinching the division in early September, I'm sure we might lose the emcee of a charity golf outing that I'm involved with.

BC, these are the things you should negative.

Quote from: Corn-fed on July 16, 2007, 03:58:32 PM

Quote from: Andy on July 16, 2007, 02:44:31 PM
Have any Cubs' fans noticed yet that "It's Gonna Happen" is written in the font the Red Sox use on their uniform fronts (both home and road?)

If "it" is I'm going to get pissed and try to beat that guy to death with his Busch Stadium-esque professionally painted sign, then "it" is indeed going to happen.

1) "It" wouldn't be written in the actual typeface the Red Sox use as that's a custom, proprietary face created exclusively for them. It's clearly meant to be a lookalike, though, and that's all that really matters.

2) Check out this sweet piece of remaindered Olympic bid merch he's selling:



I assume the five stars aren't a mistake, but rather his clever way of suggesting that Chicago 2016 will be on par with Chicago's two World Fairs.

Still lame.

I thought the Chicago 2016 bid stated as much: Give us the Olympics, and we'll give you a star on our flag.

Quote from: RV on July 16, 2007, 03:48:45 PM
He's back.

QuoteI've had enough of the e-mails defending Grossman. Those don't mean anything, Bearaholics.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/peter_king/07/16/mmqb/index.html

Translation: I know Brett Favre and you don't, so why should I have to pause in between calzones to read your simple minded Midwestern logic?

What a megadouche.

QuoteThe way a QB plays matters, and Grossman has to be 25 percent better for this team to win a Super Bowl.

Grossman needs to be 5 percent better. It says here that had he not thrown that costly INT, the Bears win the Super Bowl.

QuoteMoreover, Brian Urlacher won't be Urlacher without Briggs, who makes the Chicago defense so versatile because he's an athlete and hitter on par with Urlacher.

Peter King stole this sentence from a MMQB four years ago:

QuoteMoreover, Brian Urlacher won't be Urlacher without Briggs Roosevelt Colvin and Warrick Holdman, who makes the Chicago defense so versatile because he's an athlete and hitter  they're on par with Urlacher.

Briggs is to Urlacher what Doug Buffone was to Butkus.

Quote from: ChuckDickens on July 16, 2007, 01:07:30 PM

Quote from: flannj on July 16, 2007, 12:27:15 PM

Quote from: Fourk on July 16, 2007, 09:14:46 AM

Quote from: Slaky! on July 16, 2007, 09:06:04 AM

Quote"The fans have been unbelievable," DeRosa said. "And as good as they've been, that's how hard they rode us early on, and rightfully so. We deserved it at that time. I really get a kick out of the signs like 'It's Gonna Happen.'

"Hopefully we buy into that. I know a lot of guys think something special is going on right now, and we're just trying to ride it out."

I saw a guy with that sign on TV. Looked like a professional sign, nice graphics on an acrylic board...probably someone in Marketing came up with that - look for T-shirts to show up any minute now.

The guys who are involved with that slogan started it for Chicago's Olympic bid. The city was close to buying into it but eventully decided against. Olympic logo legal issues. They are now selling it with a Cub tie in.

http://www.itsgonnahappen.com/index.htm

If I told you who is behind this you wouldn't believe it.

Is it you, flannj? Are you cflanns@comcast.net?

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Email: cflanns@comcast.net

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Sorry. I need to quit pretending to be Veronica Mars.

Or is it the John Murray who wanted to fight Randy Myers after he gave up an 8th inning home run?

Let's continue to positive by pointing out that the Padres are 2-10 in games Michael Barrett has started.

Quote from: flannj on July 16, 2007, 12:27:15 PM

Quote from: Fourk on July 16, 2007, 09:14:46 AM

Quote from: Slaky! on July 16, 2007, 09:06:04 AM

Quote"The fans have been unbelievable," DeRosa said. "And as good as they've been, that's how hard they rode us early on, and rightfully so. We deserved it at that time. I really get a kick out of the signs like 'It's Gonna Happen.'

"Hopefully we buy into that. I know a lot of guys think something special is going on right now, and we're just trying to ride it out."

I saw a guy with that sign on TV. Looked like a professional sign, nice graphics on an acrylic board...probably someone in Marketing came up with that - look for T-shirts to show up any minute now.

The guys who are involved with that slogan started it for Chicago's Olympic bid. The city was close to buying into it but eventully decided against. Olympic logo legal issues. They are now selling it with a Cub tie in.

http://www.itsgonnahappen.com/index.htm

If I told you who is behind this you wouldn't believe it.

Who? Chuck? That I wouldn't believe.

No, I was stupid and bet on the Cubs, Cleveland, Arizona,the over in the Giants-Deadbirds and the Marlins. Don't een know how the last two games worked out as I was busy winning big $$ at the blackjack table last night before gettingmy bone-in ribeye. I have yet to see my brother in law to be, whose bachelor party I am here for, but I am sure he and his brothers and friends are on a meth bender given Minnesota's scoring spree.

Oh, but that's not all. The second game was only 12-0. I'm in Las Vegas and the Sox are the toast of the town. Or the laughingstock. This is teh bals.

Five games out...

I positive. I'm speechless. Nothing more to say.

If George Halas had known that Peter King and Dr. Z would steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from Time-Life purporting to be pro football experts, he would have passed on going to that Tire Store in Canton, OH and would have spent 1920 as Babe Ruth's caddy.

Quote from: RV on June 04, 2007, 11:52:20 AM

Quote from: Slaky! on June 04, 2007, 11:34:41 AM

Quote from: RV on June 04, 2007, 11:25:19 AM
Does anyone have any idea what this means?

QuoteMaybe Chicago will be OK with the Lance Briggs and Alex Brown distractions on defense and the organization having silly blinders on when it comes to its uber-backing of Rex Grossman. I just don't get that one, because a team with a great defense and a quarterback who plays two good games and three bad ones should go 8-8.

I guess it depends on how he does in that sixteenth game.

So it took me about 2 minutes to actually look up the game logs and the way I see it Rex had (including playoffs) 10 good games, 5 bad games, and 4 mediocre games. Why can't this fat slob who is supposed to be an NFL expert actually punch up a few numbers on his laptop while he's chugging dairy creamer at Starbucks? What a douche.

Because it's much easier to say that Rex sucks. Sure, he might not be the second coming of Joe Montana, but he played some great games last year. He laid a few eggs, too, but his good games to bad games to mediocre games ratio is a little better than what Matt Clement produced in 2004, and oh, were we going to rue the day the Cubs let him go.

Peyton Manning shat all over himself more times in the playoffs and in more spectacular fashion than Rex Grossman did in awful conditions in the Super Bowl. I'm inclined to cut him a little slack. Oh, and when he wins Super Bowl XLII, I'm going to send Peter King a love letter:

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Dear Mr. King:

I thought you'd enjoy this comparison of NFC North QBs who have started in a Super Bowl:

Brett Favre: 1-1. Number of seasons with Green Bay before going to a Super Bowl: Four. Number of Super Bowl-free seasons since Mike Holmgren let the Broncos score the go-ahead TD: 10.
Rex Grossman: 1-1. Number of seasons with Chicago before going to a Super Bowl: Three (one as a 3rd stringer, two injury-shortened seasons). Number of Super Bowl free seasons since Peter King deemed him too incompetent to walk and chew gum at the same time: 0.

Oh, but keep those travel stories coming. Those of us in the Middle West get awestruck at your stories of jet airplanes and limousines as we don't get to see too much of that as we take our John Deere from feed store to general store to slaughterhouse. And Starbucks? Never heard of it here.

Yes, but Babe Ruth didn't play the game the right way.

It's safe to say that Miller Huggins' 22 games each vs. the Philadelphia A's, Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians were nothing next to Sparky Anderson's 18 games each versus the San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros and San Francisco Giants, not to mention the 12 games each against stalwarts like the Mets, Cubs, and Expos.

Or maybe a better solution would be to suggest that a Denial of Service attack on ESPN for a few days could maybe send a message.