Posted by katwood9 on 5/30/2019 1:54:00 PM (view original):
Ryne Sandberg

10 year-old me just slammed his door in anger at having him on the ball club.

One of my favorite players when I was young. WGN was one of the few places to watch games and he was in his prime in those days. So smooth with the glove.

Aroldis Chapman

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Round 21 - Cubs (Chi 1969-2018)

sjh0825 - Greg Maddux sjh0825 - Billy Williams hoopsrus - Kris Bryant Jtpsops - Jake Arrieta nocomm999 - Geovany Soto katwood9 - Ryne Sandberg calhoop - Aroldis Chapman thebubbaq - Ron Santo Mr_Cubbie - Sammy Sosa ybjsports Bradsher redcped bheid408 finn2030 rjk2781 bench5 Vindex24 vilefileman Chisock frank_drebin (DET) frank_drebin (PIT) royhobbs09 ff09 NebHusker jvt87

Posted by calhoop on 5/30/2019 2:35:00 PM (view original):
Aroldis Chapman

Late for meeting. Please help with sitemail

Done.

Ron Santo 3B

Posted by redcped on 5/30/2019 2:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by katwood9 on 5/30/2019 1:54:00 PM (view original):
Ryne Sandberg

10 year-old me just slammed his door in anger at having him on the ball club.

One of my favorite players when I was young. WGN was one of the few places to watch games and he was in his prime in those days. So smooth with the glove.

ditto… I grew up in Chicago burbs & BEFORE I fell in love with Baseball, I used to get ****** off as a kid when I came home from school & a damn CUBS game was on WGN instead of Scooby Doo or whatever cartoons usually were on... then somehow a flip was switched in my brain & I started playing it & buying baseball cards & watching every damn game I could lay my eyes on. 1982 was the first summer I watched the crap out of baseball... horrible team, but Bump Wills & Leon Durham were my favorite players. Then 1984 was magical.

Bobby Dernier-Ryne Sandberg- Gary Matthews- Leon Durham- Keith Moreland- Ron Cey- "Jody, Jody Davis, Cub Catcher of the year" as Harry would sing, Larry Bowa @ short. Rotation of Sutcliffe (16-1?) for the Cubbies in a trade of a young Joe Carter, Scott Sanderson, Steve Trout, and Dennis Eckersley. I cried when they lost to the Padres in game 5... yeah... some of us are getting old.... :))

you young guys out there ~ enjoy your teens & twenties & thirties & Live Life as much as you can, while you can :)) before you blink your eyes twice you'll be 46, married & divorced with a mortgage & a job that you hate & a bad back & just grateful you can still walk & **** straight :))

Posted by royhobbs09 on 5/30/2019 7:32:00 PM (view original):
you young guys out there ~ enjoy your teens & twenties & thirties & Live Life as much as you can, while you can :)) before you blink your eyes twice you'll be 46, married & divorced with a mortgage & a job that you hate & a bad back & just grateful you can still walk & **** straight :))

Shhh...you're not supposed to tell them yet. Enjoy every stage guys!!! (from a 63 year old who has been through it all!!)
And my awakening was the 1968 Indians with Sudden Sam McDowell and Luis Tiant. (Same year Denny McClain won 35 games for the Tigers)

With a name like “Mr_Cubbie” this is an important pick!! What will he do?? ;)

Posted by royhobbs09 on 5/30/2019 7:26:00 PM (view original):

Posted by redcped on 5/30/2019 2:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by katwood9 on 5/30/2019 1:54:00 PM (view original):
Ryne Sandberg

10 year-old me just slammed his door in anger at having him on the ball club.

One of my favorite players when I was young. WGN was one of the few places to watch games and he was in his prime in those days. So smooth with the glove.

ditto… I grew up in Chicago burbs & BEFORE I fell in love with Baseball, I used to get ****** off as a kid when I came home from school & a damn CUBS game was on WGN instead of Scooby Doo or whatever cartoons usually were on... then somehow a flip was switched in my brain & I started playing it & buying baseball cards & watching every damn game I could lay my eyes on. 1982 was the first summer I watched the crap out of baseball... horrible team, but Bump Wills & Leon Durham were my favorite players. Then 1984 was magical.

Bobby Dernier-Ryne Sandberg- Gary Matthews- Leon Durham- Keith Moreland- Ron Cey- "Jody, Jody Davis, Cub Catcher of the year" as Harry would sing, Larry Bowa @ short. Rotation of Sutcliffe (16-1?) for the Cubbies in a trade of a young Joe Carter, Scott Sanderson, Steve Trout, and Dennis Eckersley. I cried when they lost to the Padres in game 5... yeah... some of us are getting old.... :))

I can tell you exactly where i was watching that game 5. Like those who remember where they were when Kennedy was shot.

Posted by NebHusker on 5/30/2019 7:54:00 PM (view original):
With a name like “Mr_Cubbie” this is an important pick!! What will he do?? ;)

Actually, the plan was to take a scrub. Have my team pretty well set at this point. Unfortunate for a Cubs fan to have my favorite team come up this late! But I just couldn't leave OF Slammin' Sammy Sosa on the board.

It was the great home run chase between Sosa and McGwire that brought me back to baseball after the strike in 1994. Similar to others, I grew up watching the Cubs on WGN - for me during the Sandberg and Dawson era.

Posted by Mr_Cubbie on 5/30/2019 8:29:00 PM (view original):

Posted by NebHusker on 5/30/2019 7:54:00 PM (view original):
With a name like “Mr_Cubbie” this is an important pick!! What will he do?? ;)

Actually, the plan was to take a scrub. Have my team pretty well set at this point. Unfortunate for a Cubs fan to have my favorite team come up this late! But I just couldn't leave OF Slammin' Sammy Sosa on the board.

It was the great home run chase between Sosa and McGwire that brought me back to baseball after the strike in 1994. Similar to others, I grew up watching the Cubs on WGN - for me during the Sandberg and Dawson era.

Seems like WGN was a common denominator for most of us. I grew-up an Astros fan; so I was subjected to the Cubs day games consistently (along with Bozo the Clown). I was a HUGE Bill Doran fan; which was why I harbored so much resentment for Sandberg. And I loved the Hawk!

ha ! Boozo & Cookie & the GRAAAANNND - PPPRRRIIIZEE - GGGAAAAMMEE !! (essentially kids tossing ping pong balls further & further away into 6? small tin buckets to win some cool prize? ...what was the prize? like a bike or $500 or something? I don't remember...)...and Cuddly Dudeley? some puppet dog in a dog house they would go "visit" on set? "We're off to Cuddeley Dudeley's house as cute as he can beeee….with his hair of gold & his nose so cold, he's cuddly as can beeee ! " it's crazy how things pop into our heads that we haven't thought of in many, many years. I reckon I'll be 80 something (if I am blessed or cursed to live that long, lol) in my wooded cabin alone half drunk with an old blind dog in a rocking chair in the back yard by a campfire under the stars singing that song & muttering to myself "you asked for it, you got it, Toyota" (movie "Forget Paris" w/ Billy Crystal & from a 70's Toyota commercial)

sjh- I hear you, man :)) just trying to give the "kids" out there a heads up. Youth is a fading summer flower on an Indian Summer September day. :)) Like Ferris Bueler says "Life goes by pretty fast these days. If you don't stop to look around, you just might miss it" born in '56i-ish, you were just a little too young to catch the crazy 60's turmoil & greatness but I'm sure were aware of it & all the great music that flowed out of it, but the 70's had to have been a pretty cool time musically & culturally to come of age in. Better than the late 80's & early 90's... I dig Pearl Jam but I wish I could have seen Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones or the Grateful Dead in the 70's (Hell, I would have loved to have seen a great Jimi Hendrix gig)

thanks for the walk down memory lane, fellas... didn't mean to clog up the thread with memories & dreams, but as we get older, memories & dreams are sometimes much fonder than the monotonous day to day grind of like... everyone is different- some people aren't good with retirement - my dad is 70 & still works for 5 towns/counties in South Carolina as an engineering consultant... me, I just work in an office cube much like "Office Space" and I can't wait to retire in...20 years, lol... to me, retirement is like a permanent vacation. A party that never has to end where you can sleep in late, get drunk & stoned at noon if you want to, go to the beach whenever you feel like it... especially with cable options & the internet information superhighway at your fingertips. Anything you want to know about, look at, ponder about trying to build or do... 10,000 years of human thought & existence is at your fingertips. (well, disclaimer, those societies that "won" and survived, lol) "History is written by the Victors?" those people & societies that prevailed or something like that.

My apologies for wandering so off course, lol. Dad just turned 70 & just survived a 96% blockage quadruple bypass. So I guess life & death & what it's all worth has been on my mind lately. That & a few pints of tasty brews... Just trying to pass the torch on :))

Go Cubbies, lol !
if they never win another championship in our lifetimes, we will always have 2016.
108 years of Cubs fans lived, breathed, cheered, laughed, cried, & died;
never to see their hapless loveable losers Cubbies win it all... but they did in 2016, & we were alive to see it.

Cheers to you & yours & may Your team win it all some day...

ff09- I hear you, man. The Cubs had a better record than the Padres in 1984 & got Robbed of home field advantage because Wrigley didn't have lights yet. MLB (somehow?) decided to throw out 100 years of best record = Home Field Advantage in the Playoffs over ONE ?? friggin' game of Night time TV viewership & ratings. Seriously ?? Cubs stormed out to a 2 game lead at home & lost the last 3 in San Diego.

Similarly, while it's hard to gripe about winning the World Series after an 108 year wandering through the desert no man's land of cheers & tears; 2016 the Cubs had a better record than the Indians & SHOULD have had home field advantage & games 6 & 7 played in Chicago at Wrigley. 2016 unfortunately fell under Bud Selig's STUPID decision to disregard all major sports guiding principle of Best Record = Home field advantage when he gave away World Series home field to the "All-Star Game League Winner". Seriously ?? Screwed the Cubs again.

There's no way of rewinding the clock or wondering how the dominos would have fallen, but after a thirsty 108 year draught, how much sweeter, more satisfying & more complete would a World Series Championship have been & meant & experienced won IN Chicago IN Wrigley Field in the brown withered October Wrigley vines? The ghosts of 3-Finger Brown himself might have walked out of the Wrigley brick walls & vines with Ron Santo & Harry Caray & Tinkers & Evers & Chance like Shoeless Joe Jackson in the "Field of Dreams". How much more exciting, justifying, satisfying would that 2016 World Series Championship have been !

Humbled & Grateful to have Won it all (like WE had anything to do with it, lol) just has been a back burner gripe :)) Thanks, Bud Selig, lol/ You Stole the Pilots from Seattle & Stole Chicago & Wrigley a chance to end an 108 year draught on their homeland soil. :))

But all's fair in love & war & that's Baseball :))

"it's worth a Google" (or Wikpedia)
- quote from Zach Galifianakis aka Marty Huggins in "The Campaign" with Will Ferrell as Cam Brady

Bozo Show:
Games on the show included the "Grand Prize Game" created by Sandburg, wherein a boy and girl were selected from the studio audience by the Magic Arrows,^[4] and later the Bozoputer (a random number generator),^[11] to toss a ping-pong ball into a series of successively numbered buckets until they missed. If they made the winning toss into the sixth bucket, they (and an "at-home player") received a cash prize, a bike and, in later years, a trip. For many years, the cash prize for Bucket #6 was a progressive jackpot growing by one "silver dollar" each day "until someone wins them all"

By 1980, Chicago's public schools stopped allowing students to go home for lunch and Ray Rayner announced his imminent retirement from his morning show and Chicago television. The show stopped issuing tickets; the wait to be part of the audience was eight years long. Beginning a summer hiatus and airing taped shows the next year pushed the wait back to ten years.^[11] On August 11, 1980, Bozo’s Circus was renamed The Bozo Show and moved to weekdays at 8:00 a.m., on tape, immediately following Ray Rayner and His Friends. On January 26, 1981, The Bozo Show replaced Ray Rayner and His Friends at 7:00 a.m. The program expanded to 90 minutes, the circus acts and Garfield Goose and Friends puppets were dropped, and Cuddly Dudley (a puppet on Ray Rayner and His Friends voiced and operated by Roy Brown) and more cartoons were added.^[

Anyhoo ~ I'm done driving down memory lane, lol... 8 am cometh soon & gotta punch the clock for the boss man... My sincere apologies to any offended Cleveland Indians fans in my pontificated Cubs glorification. YOU Cleveland Nation have now endured the longest World Series draught in Baseball. (1948?) Get Kluber healthy, take the AL Central (the Twins can't be for real... gotta be smoke & mirrors, right?!) ****, my apologies to Twins fans as well, lol)

Good night & Good Luck ~
Edward R. Murrow / Keith Olbermann