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General Discussion => Talk Zone => Topic started by: Limey on October 20, 2016, 09:10:09 pm
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I am in Pittsburgh, watching the NLCS, wanting both teams to implode viciously and hilariously. How do I square this circle?
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FIELDS! plays for the Dojers. You hope for him to have a good series and win in an error-filled, Keystone Cops seventh game.
ETA: Kike Hernandez, too.
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I am having no problem at all rooting hard for the Dodgers.
If the Cubs win (type THAT with a straight face) I will become a Tribe fan to put Mrs Happy to shame.
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By the way, Limey, if you want to drink for free in Pittsburgh just stand up and announce loudly that you are a lifelong Oklahoma Sooner.
Of course that would require abandoning any and all self respect.
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While watching, I am less unhappy with good things for the Dojers than the Cubs.
I think I can survive this Schrödinger's Cub test.
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I will officially accept the results of the NLCS as long as the Cubs lose.
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I will officially accept the results of the NLCS as long as the Cubs lose.
Such a nasty man!
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I'm going the other direction.
Remember how whiny and annoying the Red Sox fans were before they won in 2004? Then they became just another rich team.
That's why I'm pulling for the Cubs.
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I'm going the other direction.
Remember how whiny and annoying the Red Sox fans were before they won in 2004? Then they became just another rich team.
That's why I'm pulling for the Cubs.
Sawks fans were whiney and annoying. Cub fans are just pathetic. I'm afraid winning would turn them into pre-04 Sox fans.
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wrigley field would implode and the cubs would go to war with the white sox
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I'm going the other direction.
Remember how whiny and annoying the Red Sox fans were before they won in 2004? Then they became just another rich team.
That's why I'm pulling for the Cubs.
I hadn't thought of it this way. What an excellent point.
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FTC. Forever and all ways.
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Very nice piece (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/opinion/the-cubs-reach-the-promised-land-now-what.html?ribbon-ad-idx=5&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article) from a Cub fan (although it ends on a shockingly fate-tempting note).
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anyone have a place to hold a goat bbq
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FTC
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I've had people come up to me and think I'm excited about the Cubs being in the WS. I look at them and say, "I hate the Cubs. Go Indians." They seem so surprised that I could possibly not like the Cubs. Really just shocked. Freaking idiots.
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My hatred for the Cubs is pretty much gone. Still hate the Cards, but this Cubs team is so different from the annoying pissants of the early 2000s.
I actually generally enjoy watching both teams. Lindor and Baez are 2 of the most exciting players in the game. Andrew Miller is Randy Johnson from '98 but he's pitching in every game out of the bullpen. I don't care who wins - I just want an exciting series that goes all 7. Go baseball.
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Baez is exciting, but I'm an Indians fan from here on out. Totally agree with the go baseball sentiment; I'll miss it when it is over.
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FTC, Go Tribe.
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How can it not be FTC? Go Tribe!!!
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FTC
They still must pay for that "no hitter" in '08 and those shithole fans booing the Astros at a "home" game. That was despicable.
FTC
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This is genuinely concerning to me. How can anyone lose their hate for that slop jar full of nuts of a franchise?
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FTC
They still must pay for that "no hitter" in '08 and those shithole fans booing the Astros at a "home" game. That was despicable.
FTC
That is where I am, that Cubs hate is going to the grave with me.
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Go Tribe! But the Cubs will win.
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Happy World Series Week(s) everyone! Should be a good one.
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That's a wide home plate so far tonight.
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That's a wide home plate so far tonight.
I think the CF angle is particularly deceptive here. There were some pitches during the ALCS that I was sure were outside, but when you got the occasional overhead shot you could see that they weren't outside at all.
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I feel that I have to support a team that honors a civilization that features Mahatma Ghandi and Hinduism.
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Kluber is feeling it.
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It's so great of T-Mobile to sponsor a commercial free break. Huh? What?
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David Ross can make a damn good throw to second.
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That's a wide home plate so far tonight.
The winner of the All Star Game gets to pick the home plate umpire.
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David Ross can make a damn good throw to second.
Baez has some fast hands, too.
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Baez has some fast hands, too.
Joan or Javier? (http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-comparing-javier-baez-and-joan-baez-htmlstory.html)
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I'm sort of surprised that no one's touched on the Brad Mills angle. I always thought he was a very professional skipper in Houston managing an impossible situation as well as anyone could and of course the thanks he got was a chickenshit Luhnowian firing.
Anyway, when the Tribe wins I'll be happy for him.
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I'm sort of surprised that no one's touched on the Brad Mills angle. I always thought he was a very professional skipper in Houston managing an impossible situation as well as anyone could and of course the thanks he got was a chickenshit Luhnowian firing.
Anyway, when the Tribe wins I'll be happy for him.
I'm happy for Mills too, but why was his firing chickenshit?
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I'm happy for Mills too, but why was his firing chickenshit?
They fired him during the season like it was somehow his fault that GC was trying to tank and the team payroll was twelve million. Fire him aftr the season? That seems fine to me. Firing hm during the season was gutless blame deflection, and I would expect nothing less from that guy.
But we've been over this.
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They fired him during the season like it was somehow his fault that GC was trying to tank and the team payroll was twelve million. Fire him aftr the season? That seems fine to me. Firing hm during the season was gutless blame deflection, and I would expect nothing less from that guy.
But we've been over this.
Not a chance. It was cool to rag on ownership and the front office in 2012 so your theory probably had a lot of steam at the time, but I don't believe that for a second.
The year Mills was fired, 2012, was the first year of Luhnow and new ownership. Significant change to team and front office personnel was inevitable, and that's clearly what it was.
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Not a chance. It was cool to rag on ownership and the front office in 2012 so your theory probably had a lot of steam at the time, but I don't believe that for a second.
The year Mills was fired, 2012, was the first year of Luhnow and new ownership. Significant change to team and front office personnel was inevitable, and that's clearly what it was.
This is the way that I remember it.
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Not a chance. It was cool to rag on ownership and the front office in 2012 so your theory probably had a lot of steam at the time, but I don't believe that for a second.
The year Mills was fired, 2012, was the first year of Luhnow and new ownership. Significant change to team and front office personnel was inevitable, and that's clearly what it was.
there was maybe a month left in the season and Tony D. came up and skippered the remainder 25-30 games. I seem to remember a winning streak during that last month.
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My hatred for the Cubs is pretty much gone. Still hate the Cards, but this Cubs team is so different from the annoying pissants of the early 2000s.
I actually generally enjoy watching both teams. Lindor and Baez are 2 of the most exciting players in the game. Andrew Miller is Randy Johnson from '98 but he's pitching in every game out of the bullpen. I don't care who wins - I just want an exciting series that goes all 7. Go baseball.
you are in Time Out for this: I don't care who wins
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I was sitting at my favorite watering hole last night enjoying an IPA with a few regulars one of whom is an avid Cubs/Bears/Black Hawks fan. He was really pumped up and talking shit. A couple of others commented that it was nice to see the Cubs in the series and wished them well. I listened quietly until I was asked who I was pulling for and I said that I hoped the Cubs got their stools pushed in by the Tribe. Needless to say histrionics followed, but I don't care. FTC.
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I was sitting at my favorite watering hole last night enjoying an IPA with a few regulars one of whom is an avid Cubs/Bears/Black Hawks fan. He was really pumped up and talking shit. A couple of others commented that it was nice to see the Cubs in the series and wished them well. I listened quietly until I was asked who I was pulling for and I said that I hoped the Cubs got their stools pushed in by the Tribe. Needless to say histrionics followed, but I don't care. FTC.
You're the hero America needs.
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and I'm voting today too.
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you are in Time Out for this: I don't care who wins
Well I ended up putting money on the Indians, so now I care. Am I still grounded?
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Well I ended up putting money on the Indians, so now I care. Am I still grounded?
Yes. But your probation is again under review.
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there was maybe a month left in the season and Tony D. came up and skippered the remainder 25-30 games. I seem to remember a winning streak during that last month.
Well, they were 16-25 under DeFrancesco (.390), thanks to a 5-2 finish the last week of the season (including a modest 3-game win streak), which was slightly better than the 39-82 (.322) they were under Mills. They didn't exactly exhibit any fire under either manager.
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Well, they were 16-25 under DeFrancesco (.390), thanks to a 5-2 finish the last week of the season (including a modest 3-game win streak), which was slightly better than the 39-82 (.322) they were under Mills. They didn't exactly exhibit any fire under either manager.
that 3-game win streak must have made a helluva impression on me that year,
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that 3-game win streak must have made a helluva impression on me that year,
Considering I think there were numerous double digit losing streaks that season, three straight wins was quite an achievement.
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Question for the experts:
Do the BBG's pay attention to this?:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/wrigleyville-bar-world-series-costs-chicago-cubs-cleeland-indians-game-3-102616.amp.html?client=safari
Just curious. I'll hang up and listen.
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Question for the experts:
Do the BBG's pay attention to this?:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/wrigleyville-bar-world-series-costs-chicago-cubs-cleeland-indians-game-3-102616.amp.html?client=safari
Just curious. I'll hang up and listen.
The short answer is yes, they do pay attention. The relevant question is whether or not they'll intervene. Historically, punking the Cubs is an autumn tradition for them, but with the mighty Baio out pimping Trump for President, they may or may not be able to reach consensus. Secondly, they may well have decided that this is the end of the century-old tradition. Time will tell.
On a side note, I can think of 12 billion things on which I'd rather spend $1,500 than sitting in a Chicago shithole covered in bandwagon Cubfan puke.
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I would gladly pay $1500 to stay out of a dueling piano bar.
And once upon a time I was accosted by an insanely hot Puerto Rican girl in Johnny O'Hagan's on North Clark. I have any number of similar Chicago stories, now that I reflect on it. But the Johnny O'Hagan's girl was by far the hottest of them. She's now married to a hedge fund manager.
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I would gladly pay $1500 to stay out of a dueling piano bar.
And once upon a time I was accosted by an insanely hot Puerto Rican girl in Johnny O'Hagan's on North Clark. I have any number of similar Chicago stories, now that I reflect on it. But the Johnny O'Hagan's girl was by far the hottest of them. She's now married to a hedge fund manager.
I think there is a literary opportunity here to give Dark Star some competition.
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I think there is a literary opportunity here to give Dark Star some competition.
Well, I don't know, in my world there is no real heartbreak, very little melancholy and no untimely death.
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Well, I don't know, in my world there is no real heartbreak, very little melancholy and no untimely death.
Still ":once upon a time I was accosted by an insanely hot Puerto Rican girl in Johnny O'Hagan's on North Clark" sounds like a pretty good start to an inursting story.
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Still ":once upon a time I was accosted by an insanely hot Puerto Rican girl in Johnny O'Hagan's on North Clark" sounds like a pretty good start to an inursting story.
Maybe, but I've already given away the ending.
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Maybe, but I've already given away the ending.
That's true, but don't forget: marrying a hedge fund manager is one of the three great endings of the Victorian novel (alongside death from errant drone strike and accidentally getting rich off bitcoin). Everybody always knew Jane and Rochester were going to get hitched. It's the journey, man!
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I think there is a literary opportunity here to give Dark Star some competition.
And here I thought most of chuck's stories stopped at "insane chick".
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Well, look, one of the reasons I was reticent to go into detail about IHPRG (NMTHFM) is that when she approached me I was sitting at the end of the bar drinking a decent but not excellent Guinness and reading the Economist. In order to uphold my street cred around here I needed to be reading Monocle. I was not, sadly, and I must own up to that.
I won't get into what happened between then and the hedge fund dude, but I will say that we met damn near ten years ago and she and I still keep in fairly close touch. She recently had a baby girl, her first child. I distinctly remember her telling me that she didn't want children. Even then, back in one's naive thirties, even as stupid as I am, I knew that was bullshit.
Speaking of bullshit, y'all remember nutsie? Well, just now I received something from her. It was sent at three in the morning where she is. I guess she must be up waiting for Trump to unleash some caustic comments about Iggy Azalea. Anyway, here's the first bit:
If you are receiving this email from me, it is because at some point in my life, our oaths crossed in this journey on the blue planet. Many of you know that I lived on a few occasions in Brazil and have travelled extensively in South America, in fact, more than North America. Nick Pollizzi made this documentary of medicine men in the Peruvian part of the Amazon jungle and their 30 day attempts to cure modern day diseases with the natural keys to all healing. Some of you may already know that most pharmaceutical drugs embody synthetic versions of plants attempting to mimic them merely for patent and profit. The synthetic version many of you have already learned, are inevitably inferior to those of God made in nature. Almost all of you know of my struggle with illness for the last two decades, and virtually the only relief and advancement that I have seen is through natural healing. I do believe in emergency medicine and allopathic medicine has its place, but phytohealing, phytotherapy, herbology, naturopathy, and spiritual healing are amazingly potent gifts from God. As of now, there powers and mysteries have to be shared through human to human channels as all other types of medicine, except allopathic are suppressed in much of the first world. Many of you were caught up for years in medical or veterinary practices until you has your illuminating moment about there must be a better way.
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Always reassuring to know there's a better way.
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this site and its contributors never fail to amaze
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That made me question my own reality. I can't wait to hear the rest.
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Also, FTC.
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well said
world peace
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I love the look on Cub Fan faces after Kipnis homered to put the Indians up 7-1.
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I love the look on Cub Fan faces after Kipnis homered to put the Indians up 7-1.
Agreed. Go Tribe!
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I love the look on Cub Fan faces after Kipnis homered to put the Indians up 7-1.
I feel terrible for those hurricane booing asshats.