It rang AND vibrated

[pravata]

The home and visiting dugouts will be equipped with Motorola's new I580 wireless phones to allow managers to communicate with their bullpens at the press of a button....

"For Wrigley Field to debut something like this wireless technology is really terrific," said Cubs marketing director John McDonough, ...

The two wireless phones will be sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., after Tuesday night's Cubs-Astros game....

Bullpen coach Juan Lopez will have his phone attached to his belt. The phone will ring and vibrate to get his attention.

"This is sort of our mantra--game-changing innovations," said Crawford, ..We are really excited to do this."

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It's a cell phone John, calm down.

[Phil_in_CS]

wireless phones and cell phones are just radios, and can be listened to by anyone with the correct receiver.

Wonder what frequency these are? Might be fun to listen in.

[Nate in IA]

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wireless phones and cell phones are just radios, and can be listened to by anyone with the correct receiver.

Wonder what frequency these are? Might be fun to listen in.

Except of course when the link to the cell tower is encrypted...

[Matt]

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"This is sort of our mantra--game-changing innovations," said Crawford, ..We are really excited to do this."

 

How's that video replay board coming out there at Wrigley?

[strosrays]

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wireless phones and cell phones are just radios, and can be listened to by anyone with the correct receiver.

Wonder what frequency these are? Might be fun to listen in.

I would check with the CIA and/or State Dept.

[Limey]

What on Earth is Julian Tavarez going to smash up now?  Perhaps he and Naomi Campbell can be in a celebrity cell phone throwing contest.

[homer]

Does anyone have a suggestion for the ringtone song for the Cubs phone? Or perhaps a custom ringtone for a visiting team?

[Limey]

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Does anyone have a suggestion for the ringtone song for the Cubs phone?

Beck's "Loser" comes to mind.

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Or perhaps a custom ringtone for a visiting team?

The Commodores' "Easy (Like Sunday Morning)"

[Holly]

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Does anyone have a suggestion for the ringtone song for the Cubs phone?

Beck's "Loser" comes to mind.

Excellent. The chorus is even partially in Mexicanish, so the message will be brought home for the Latin players, too!

[Limey]

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The chorus is even partially in Mexicanish, so the message will be brought home for the Latin players, too!

I think that "termite choking on splinters" is a great way to describe the Cubs.

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and Im out to cut the junkie
With the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
Kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Stock car flamin with a loser and the cruise control
Babys in reno with the vitamin d
Got a couple of couches, sleep on the love-seat
Someone came in sayin Im insane to complain
About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
Dont believe everything that you breathe
You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Savin all your food stamps and burnin down the trailer park

Yo. cut it.

Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?

Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?

Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
cuz ones got a weasel and the others got a flag
Ones on the pole, shove the other in a bag
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
The daytime crap of the folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
A slab of turkey-neck and its hangin from a pigeon wing
You cant write if you cant relate
Trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate
And my time is a piece of wax fallin on a termite
Thats chokin on the splinters

Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(get crazy with the cheese whiz)
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(drive-by body-pierce)
(yo bring it on down)
Soooooooyy....

(Im a driver, Im a winner; things are gonna change I can feel it)

Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(I cant believe you)
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(schprechen sie deutches, baby)
Soy un perdedor
Im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me?
(know what Im sayin? )

[HudsonHawk]

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The home and visiting dugouts will be equipped with Motorola's new I580 wireless phones to allow managers to communicate with their bullpens at the press of a button....

Pardon my ignorance, but how is this any different than what they've had for the last 40 years?

[Holly]

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The home and visiting dugouts will be equipped with Motorola's new I580 wireless phones to allow managers to communicate with their bullpens at the press of a button....

Pardon my ignorance, but how is this any different than what they've had for the last 40 years?

Bowden can talk with his bullpen from the tunnels now.

[Frobie]

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Pardon my ignorance, but how is this any different than what they've had for the last 40 years?

I think it's called product placement.  Didn'tcha notice the big Motorola logo in the dugout?

cha-CHING.

[Nate in IA]

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The home and visiting dugouts will be equipped with Motorola's new I580 wireless phones to allow managers to communicate with their bullpens at the press of a button....

Pardon my ignorance, but how is this any different than what they've had for the last 40 years?

The way it was explained on the broadcast, now the bullpen coach/catcher can be anywhere and answer the phone, rather than sitting by the phone box.  Dubious excuse?  You betcha...

[HudsonHawk]

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The home and visiting dugouts will be equipped with Motorola's new I580 wireless phones to allow managers to communicate with their bullpens at the press of a button....

Pardon my ignorance, but how is this any different than what they've had for the last 40 years?

The way it was explained on the broadcast, now the bullpen coach/catcher can be anywhere and answer the phone, rather than sitting by the phone box.  Dubious excuse?  You betcha...

Ah...I see now.  In other words, Beetle Baily can now just grab the phone off his belt instead of reaching over and grabbing the phone off the wall.  Brilliant!

[Nate in IA]

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The home and visiting dugouts will be equipped with Motorola's new I580 wireless phones to allow managers to communicate with their bullpens at the press of a button....

Pardon my ignorance, but how is this any different than what they've had for the last 40 years?

The way it was explained on the broadcast, now the bullpen coach/catcher can be anywhere and answer the phone, rather than sitting by the phone box.  Dubious excuse?  You betcha...

Ah...I see now.  In other words, Beetle Baily can now just grab the phone off his belt instead of reaching over and grabbing the phone off the wall.  Brilliant!

What was hilarious was the shots of the Cubs bullpen catcher pulling the phone off his belt and staring at it for a few seconds before talking as if he didn't know who was calling.

Frobie had it right... product placement baby...  All the way to Cooperstown.

[Limey]

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Ah...I see now.  In other words, Beetle Baily can now just grab the phone off his belt instead of reaching over and grabbing the phone off the wall.  Brilliant!

he just better not let his wife into the dugout.  Then the phone will go walkabout and he'll never find the little fucker, or if he does it'll have no charge left.

[Nate in IA]

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Ah...I see now.  In other words, Beetle Baily can now just grab the phone off his belt instead of reaching over and grabbing the phone off the wall.  Brilliant!

he just better not let his wife into the dugout.  Then the phone will go walkabout and he'll never find the little fucker, or if he does it'll have no charge left.

I can't wait until the number gets published on the Internet and all of us can call..

[HudsonHawk]

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Ah...I see now.  In other words, Beetle Baily can now just grab the phone off his belt instead of reaching over and grabbing the phone off the wall.  Brilliant!

he just better not let his wife into the dugout.  Then the phone will go walkabout and he'll never find the little fucker, or if he does it'll have no charge left.

Every night, the base of our cordless phone rings, and I look all over the damn place for the receiver...on the table, in the cushions, under the couch.  ARGGGHHH!  Never can find it.  "Honey, where's the phone?"  "I left it outside".  Every.  Single.  Fucking.  Night.

[Limey]

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I can't wait until the number gets published on the Internet and all of us can call..

Classic!

Or it gets cloned, and the Cubs get a 'uge bill for long distances charges to 900 numbers in the Dominican Republic.

[homer]

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The home and visiting dugouts will be equipped with Motorola's new I580 wireless phones to allow managers to communicate with their bullpens at the press of a button....

Pardon my ignorance, but how is this any different than what they've had for the last 40 years?

The way it was explained on the broadcast, now the bullpen coach/catcher can be anywhere and answer the phone, rather than sitting by the phone box.  Dubious excuse?  You betcha...

Ah...I see now.  In other words, Beetle Baily can now just grab the phone off his belt instead of reaching over and grabbing the phone off the wall.  Brilliant!

What was hilarious was the shots of the Cubs bullpen catcher pulling the phone off his belt and staring at it for a few seconds before talking as if he didn't know who was calling.

Frobie had it right... product placement baby...  All the way to Cooperstown.

What was hilarious was Hickey talking into both phones at the same time (one to each ear)...

[HudsonHawk]

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I can't wait until the number gets published on the Internet and all of us can call..

Reminds me of the recently late Moe Drabowsky...picked up the bullpen phone and called a Chinese restaurant in Hong Kong and placed an order "to go".  He also once used his bullpen's phone to call the pen of the other team.  Got the other bullpen scrambling.

[NeilT]

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Ah...I see now.  In other words, Beetle Baily can now just grab the phone off his belt instead of reaching over and grabbing the phone off the wall.  Brilliant!

he just better not let his wife into the dugout.  Then the phone will go walkabout and he'll never find the little fucker, or if he does it'll have no charge left.

Every night, the base of our cordless phone rings, and I look all over the damn place for the receiver...on the table, in the cushions, under the couch.  ARGGGHHH!  Never can find it.  "Honey, where's the phone?"  "I left it outside".  Every.  Single.  Fucking.  Night.

This is another instance where having tenagers is a real advantage.  You know that every phone in the house is under their bed.

[Limey]

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This is another instance where having tenagers is a real advantage.  You know that every phone in the house is under their bed.

I've long wanted to go entirely wireless and ditch the NSAT&T hard line.  One reason is that way I'd have my own phone and always know where it is.  Just bought Mrs Limey a really swanky new cell phone, which I hope to use as leverage against her objection to my wireless plans.

[HudsonHawk]

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This is another instance where having tenagers is a real advantage.  You know that every phone in the house is under their bed.

I've long wanted to go entirely wireless and ditch the NSAT&T hard line.  One reason is that way I'd have my own phone and always know where it is.  Just bought Mrs Limey a really swanky new cell phone, which I hope to use as leverage against her objection to my wireless plans.

Isn't that depenent then on Mrs. Limey actually re-charging her own phone?  At my house, it goes like this:

Mrs Hawk:  Where's you cell phone, I need to call my mother?

Me:  Where's your cell phone?

Mrs Hawk:  In my car.

Me:  Well go get your own.

Mrs Hawk:  The battery is dead.

Me:  Why didn't you re-charge it last night?

Mrs Hawk:  Because I left it in the car.

Me:  It's on the bar.

*Four hours later*....

Mrs Hawk:  The battery in cell phone is dead.  You need to re-charge it.

[NeilT]

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This is another instance where having tenagers is a real advantage.  You know that every phone in the house is under their bed.

I've long wanted to go entirely wireless and ditch the NSAT&T hard line.  One reason is that way I'd have my own phone and always know where it is.  Just bought Mrs Limey a really swanky new cell phone, which I hope to use as leverage against her objection to my wireless plans.

It wouldn't matter.  First time she misplaced her phone, she'd promptly borrow yours.  Two days later you'd finally find it down between the cushions on the couch.

I think the only answer is to have a single, black, rotary dial phone that plugs into the wall.

[Limey]

New phone came with two batteries and a desktop charger.  Also bought car charger.  My phone stays in my pocket!!!

[HudsonHawk]

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I think the only answer is to have a single, black, rotary dial phone that plugs into the wall.

Or to have one of them candlestick jobs with a rotaty ringer.  "Hello?  Mabelle?  Get me the sheriff's office..."

[EasTexAstro]

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Mrs Hawk:  The battery in cell phone is dead.  You need to re-charge it.

I don't get the re-charge reminder. How did you teach her to that?

I keep a spare charger in my office at work so that I can charge it up when it dies first thing in the morning...

....so my wife can use it again that night.

I don't know why I have a cell phone. Sure, I carry it everywhere. Everyone knows this. That is the only way my wife can be reached. They call my phone so I can hand it to her or take her messages.

[HudsonHawk]

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New phone came with two batteries and a desktop charger.  Also bought car charger.  

Tsk, tsk.  I'm sure Mrs. Limey is fully aware that technology exists that will re-charge her phone.  She may be even aware that she actually posseses such technology.  That in no way guarantees you that she'll actually plug the thing in.

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My phone stays in my pocket!!!

Well then, no wonder you've got it on ring AND vibrate.

[Limey]

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Tsk, tsk.  I'm sure Mrs. Limey is fully aware that technology exists that will re-charge her phone.  She may be even aware that she actually posseses such technology.  That in no way guarantees you that she'll actually plug the thing in.

That's what the car charger's for.  If she's going out and (inevitably) her phone's dead, she can charge it in the car.  Even if she's out and drains it, she can still use it in the car.

If she can't use it at home, then I'm not bothered.

[Arky Vaughan]

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Tsk, tsk.  I'm sure Mrs. Limey is fully aware that technology exists that will re-charge her phone.  She may be even aware that she actually posseses such technology.  That in no way guarantees you that she'll actually plug the thing in.

Indeed, it sounds as if she has identified the ultimate technology for recharging the phone -- Limey himself, who must charge it for her when she talks it dead.

[strosrays]

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Mrs Hawk:  The battery in cell phone is dead.  You need to re-charge it.

I don't get the re-charge reminder. How did you teach her to that?

I keep a spare charger in my office at work so that I can charge it up when it dies first thing in the morning...

....so my wife can use it again that night.

I don't know why I have a cell phone. Sure, I carry it everywhere. Everyone knows this. That is the only way my wife can be reached. They call my phone so I can hand it to her or take her messages.

After 15 years or so of carrying a cell phone or pager around, or both, I finally reached a point several months back where I could ditch them, and did.

There are some drawbacks to being "off the grid", so to speak, but they are pretty minor.  Meantime, the feeling of freedom and the knowledge that at any given time no one really knows exactly where I am or what I am doing -- that's hard to describe.

I'll never go back.

[Limey]

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Meantime, the feeling of freedom and the knowledge that at any given time no one really knows exactly where I am or what I am doing...

You'd like to think that, wouldn't you.

[Gizzmonic]

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 Meantime, the feeling of freedom and the knowledge that at any given time no one really knows exactly where I am or what I am doing -- that's hard to describe.

I'll never go back.

Peep show, here I come!