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Posted: **Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:13 am**

Funny. I thought you would be one of the ones to enjoy this one the most.

Posted: **Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:35 pm**

6-4-3 wrote:Salut Pat Hughes describing the grounds crew members to fill time during a rain delay:

PAT HUGHES: "And the Wrigley Field grounds crew members are rolling out the tarp, Ronnie. They're dressed in their familiar red polo shirts with the Cubs logo on the lapel, wearing black slacks, red caps with a blue bill and black shoes!"

Carlos Zambrano and Pat Hughes are the only reasons to pay attention to this team. If the Cubs weren't just a PR entity, then they'd've given sole possession of the 7th Inning Stretch to Ron Santo already, like Harry Caray.

Posted: **Sat Jul 22, 2006 8:29 pm**

chopjob wrote:Carlos Zambrano and Pat Hughes are the only reasons to pay attention to this team. If the Cubs weren't just a PR entity, then they'd've given sole possession of the 7th Inning Stretch to Ron Santo already, like Harry Caray.

Sorry, but I've got to call Crap. All ballclubs these days are PR firms. If they weren't, they wouldn't be able to pay benchwarmers $5 million a year.

Dot races, sausage races, fluffy mascots, local nitwits throwing out the first pitch, the chicken dance, all the bustin' out bootie music before someone comes up to hit, pitchers with theme songs...

Posted: **Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:22 am**

Lemuel Gulliver wrote:
chopjob wrote:Carlos Zambrano and Pat Hughes are the only reasons to pay attention to this team. If the Cubs weren't just a PR entity, then they'd've given sole possession of the 7th Inning Stretch to Ron Santo already, like Harry Caray.

Sorry, but I've got to call Crap. All ballclubs these days are PR firms. If they weren't, they wouldn't be able to pay benchwarmers $5 million a year.

Dot races, sausage races, fluffy mascots, local nitwits throwing out the first pitch, the chicken dance, all the bustin' out bootie music before someone comes up to hit, pitchers with theme songs...

Hmm. I'll cop to Crap for that comment only insofar as I used broad strokes to evidently not make my point, as it were.

Sure enough, putting asses in seats is what it's all about, but I'm not trying to get into a discussion of revenue sharing, franchise-owned networks, etc. All's I'm sayin' is that a history-rich, tradition-bound franchise such as the Cubs can surely arrive at a better solution to what is a ritual moment at Wrigley than whoring it out to so-and-so and slapping a Cubs cap on 'em so they can shill their latest project between both broadcast teams.

I'm sure Tom Hanks will get that treatment as undoubtedly he'll make his way to Wrigley during his nationwide ballpark tour. I can't wait.

Harry Caray's been dead long enough; it's time for them to start a new tradition. Santo makes sense in any number of ways to me.

Posted: **Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:15 pm**

Looks like A.J. Pierzynski might want to consult Carlos Zambrano about the most effective strategy for sending Michael Barrett to the hospital.

Posted: **Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:32 pm**

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Tonight: Roger Clemens vs. Greg Maddux at Wrigley Field.

Come on now!

I'd be all over that shit!

I am a devoted Sox fan...but I can remember listening to this game on the radio while I worked at a pet store last summer. Also, I was probably blazed.

This summer, I work at a law office...(not blazed).

God Bless America!

Also, Bradley...did you see the Tribune when the Sox got beat by the Rays a few days ago? Carl Crawford dominated. I thought of you and smiled...shook my head like a loving father at his knucklehead son.

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:24 am**

Not Crap. For the few of you here with me on that call the first round of Old Styles are on me.

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:28 am**

vockins wrote:Looks like A.J. Pierzynski might want to consult Carlos Zambrano about the most effective strategy for sending Michael Barrett to the hospital.

All joking aside, this quote would make one ounce of sense if Michael Barrett had done anything less than taken a cheap shot at Pierzynski after a clean play. Say whay you will about A.J. Pierzynski, but he wears no blame for this one. He smoked Barrett and then slapped home plate.

This is what's known in technical baseball terms as a "big fuckin' deal".

Pierzynski was fined $250 for getting sucker punched. And that "fine" was for past uncited transgressions.

That MLB. Always on top of things.

Imagine -- A.J. Pierzynski is the second biggest dick of a catcher in Chicago. Michael Barrett, that's earnin' it!

Minotaur029 wrote:Also, Bradley...did you see the Tribune when the Sox got beat by the Rays a few days ago? Carl Crawford dominated. I thought of you and smiled...shook my head like a loving father at his knucklehead son.

If you believe that I'm the "knucklehead son" for waving the Carl Crawford flag, then I'm sorry. There is nothing that I can do for you.

Or perhaps you just chose a totally misappropriate analogy.

You never know.

Anyway, Carl Crawford is at once one of the most valuable and cost effective outfielders in the game of baseball. If that fact doesn't jump out of your pants and bite you in the pants, then you apparently do not wear pants.

By the way, I saw Doug Mientkiewicz like catch a ball or something the other night. It was some pretty hot shit.

Hey, I saw a guy named Bill Johnson pitch for the University of Minnesota tonight. He had a pretty sweet 'stache -- like a superhyperextreme Fu Manchu. The 'stache was so cool and intimidating that he gave up a two-run homer on his first pitch after coming into the game in relief. Anyway, I'm sure that the 'stache would qualify him for rock solid hero status among the baseball cognoscenti of this form.

Seriously. It was a sweet 'stache.

John George Peppers wrote:Not Crap. For the few of you here with me on that call the first round of Old Styles are on me.

This quote is very close to being a perfect encapsulation of the Cubs "experience".

But not quite.

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:38 pm**

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:some stuff about Barrett and the Cubs because his semi-rational contempt for the Cubs gets the better of him.

Barrett's one of the few Cubs that's had his head glued on straight for the past few seasons.

Seriously dude, so he sucker punched AJP. Big deal. It probably had a lot more to do with AJP's continued, abrasive countenance, and waspish tongue than that single play at the plate.

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:32 pm**

Lou Piniella wrote:I only have so many players that I can play. You know? And it's about time some of them start playing like major leaguers! Or, get somebody else in here that can catch the damn ball or run the bases properly! All right? That's all I can say!

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