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Quote from: forklift on October 26, 2005, 11:37:03 PM

As we get ready to begin Year 99 of No World Series, let's make one thing clear...

A goat didn't do this.

It was Babe Ruth in 1918 and 1932, Hack Wilson in 1929, Gehrig in 1935, DiMaggio in 1938, Hank Greenberg in 1945.

It was the Wrigley family not signing black players until 1953

It was Durocher in 1969 - 1972.

It was Jim Frey in 1984.

It was Greg Maddux & Les Lancaster in 1989.

It was Dusty F. Baker, the entire team (in game 6) and Kerry Wood in 2003.

It was not a goat.

It was not Steve Bartman.

It's time for Cubs management to get their shit together, and go out there and put together a champion. In the Manager's office, on the field, and in the front office.

What Fork said, except The Headphone Wearing Douchnozzle Whose Name I Will Not Ever Utter shares credit with the team.  His mental error was, after all, the antecedent to all of the subsequent horrific events.  Not that I advocate the guy being abused.  Simply knowing your spastic compulsion contributed to your favorite team's downfall is punishment enough; in fact, it's punishment worthy of a greek classic; my point is, you don't brainfart like that and get a free pass, in my calculation. 

Anyway, time heals all wounds. I don't even care anymore about '03. 

Unfortunately, the current time, such as it appears, is like a huge, festering, ongoing, open sore. There's no escaping the present, sadly.

I hope I'm wrong...of course, but....Yikes. 

This has got to be KILLING you.

Quote from: Oliver Clothesoff on December 22, 2005, 03:50:51 PM
What about Pie ? Where does he fit in next year ?

IF DFB's still gnawing on the toothpick in '07, then this



is where Pie will fit in.

The Twins signed Rondell White today.  Presumably, it would be to replace Jones for the 97 games that White will be healthy enough to play.

Frankly, I would  rather have had fat f@#$ Hendry save his dollars and just sign Rondell to platoon with Corey, and wait for something better to come by.  This Jonesdeal  just reeks something awful as things stand now.

Quote from: berserker on December 21, 2005, 06:57:01 PM

I am so f@#$ing overjoyed that my return to the Greater Chicagoland Area will coincide with the commencement of the Jock Jones Era, that I want to stab myself in the eye with a seafood fork.

A lot.

Since you're originally from here, you can get "right-of-first refusal" and accept the Bears.  Fuck the Giants anyway.

But you have to get here in a week.  Can you do that?  'Cause otherwise, the shit that'll be going down at Clark & Addison's going to remind you of your post-Durocher youth, I'm afraid.

Merry Christmas, indeed.

Quote from: TW on December 21, 2005, 04:09:27 PM
Neifi will play less. 

You're either not reading all of the tea leaves, or you're just choosing to ignore them.

I think I can speak for most here when I say that I am extremely skeptical that Neifi will play less.  You know he should play less.  I know he should play less.  My cousin in Galway, Ireland, who doesn't know anything about baseball probably knows he should play less.

But that doesn't mean he will play less.  And thinking he not only should sit more but actually will sit more is a very optimistic viewpoint.

T-Dub--I admire the sunny optimsim, but you're out over your skies in even attempting to make yourself feel better about this.  Perhaps it would make the readers at "Bleed Cubbie Blue" feel better, but you can't sell that shit here, no matter how you slice and dice it (and STILL go through this tin can)

This has simply gone worse than we imagined.

Why all of these multi-year deals?  Does Hendry know he and Baker are gone and he just wanst to spite his successor by saddling him with Nefi and Jock?  Who the f@#$ knows, right?

The only move, it seems, that has not resulted in a multi-year deal has been the acquisition of Pierre, whose trade is the only beacon of light in a dreary offseason.

It's Ed Lynch all over again.  Hendry's getting beat on the draw and, instead of holding onto his bullets for another chance, blasts away at tin cans, after the fact.  And, the way things have been going, I wouldn't be surprised if Pierre decides to play for a new deal this year.

They would have been better off going into Mesa with Patterson as the right fielder.  You'd either get lucky and CP would hit,  and you'd have leverage  in dealing him (or--heaven forbid--keep him), or he'd suck...but at least you wouldn't be stuck with this insane Jock Jones deal.

I know Jones was a FA and was liable to sign elsewhere.  But by winning the Stupid Sweepstakes ahead of, among others, St. Louis, Hendry now has no leverage in dealing Patterson at all and, now that any shot of redemption for Corey is blown once he's sees he's out of a job, further sending him down his spiral, should be nil come pring.

I'm sick of this.  Anyone want to root for the Schaumburg Flyers?

Donuts was just on Sports Central where Kaplan--as per usual-- threw softballs.

Jim said "we're very happy" with Jones, saying that  Kenny Rogers look-alike Gary Hughes scouted him and thinks they can get him to produce.

Ugh.

When Kaplan asked where he envisioned Jones in the lineup, Hendry deflected the question by just spewing random non-sequiters. 

"Well of course, we've got Juan at leadoff.  And Neifi.  And John Mabry who'd be a bat off the bench.  We needed to get another left-handed bat."

What?

I'm wondering why he said Neifi after Lucky Peter, and then somehow morphed into talking about the bench.  Kind of like the "brain"trust was on the fence still when it comes to Neifi.  At least it sounded like Hendry thought he had said too much when he blurted Neifi.

He did say that Ron Ce is doing "phenomenal" in the fall league and should be the MVP.  Or something.  I was still temporarily deaf from the Neifi remark.  It seems Cedeno would need to save Darren Baker from a burning fire--in addiiton to hitting his ass off-- to get the job.

I've gone from canonizing Hendry to wanting to punch him in the face in the span of 18 months.

And then, after the commercial, Kaplan put his angry--NON-asslicking--fan hat and played a radio montage of Cubs blunders (bad throws, Santo's bellowing etc.), and then expressed how unsatisfied he was.

Would have been nice if he played the blooper reel BEFORE Donuts came onthe air  and actually revealed his frustration then.

I'm going to do the same thing when I hit #1908. 

I'm not sure what I'll change the handle to, but right now I'm thinking "Searching for Tim Blackwell"

I recommend "hellorehab".

Quote from: Andy on December 15, 2005, 10:38:11 AM
If you ever wondered who Jim Tocco looked like, he's Patton Oswalt.  Only homelier.

Eerie.

So I'm assuming Gary Hogeboom didn't make the Finals? 

I'll watch "Survivor" again when Steve Pelleuer (sp.?) plays.  Then I'll always be reminded of Mike Singletary's awesome hit on him at Soldier Field back back before helmet-to-helmet contact was outlawed.  That was a great hit.

As fantastic as Gareth, his UK counterpart, is on the BBC version, I can think of no more hilarious character on television today than Dwight on the American version.

Him dressing as the Sith Lord last night was gold, Jerry.  Toward the end, after Jim had been pulled into Michael's office, and the cute receptionist (damn, forgot her name) looked at Dwight, and Dwight stared back at her menacingly, and slowly put his Sith hood back up, compelling her to involuntarily, and subtly shudder upon the visage...I just about wet my pants.

Such good stuff.  God bless these 21st century sitcoms (AD, The Office, naturally "the Simpsons" from an earlier millenia)  that make do without the infernal laugh track.

David Cross is comedy genius.  Him and Bob Odenkirk's "Mr. Show" from back in the day was like crack.

Carson Daley deserves to be tortured by Vietnamese Police.

I've got to start eating breakfast before I come here.