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BasketofPuppies · Oct 5, 2003, 10:53 PM

Take that Atlanta!

Phanguye · Oct 5, 2003, 10:56 PM

Cubs Win, Cubs Win

Agasthya · Oct 5, 2003, 10:58 PM

Goddamn Cubs

BasketofPuppies · Oct 5, 2003, 11:05 PM

Someone's a bitter Cards fan.

tikki · Oct 5, 2003, 11:12 PM

If they make the series, money is no object. I will be there.

waxcrash · Oct 5, 2003, 11:32 PM

Originally posted by BasketofPuppies:
Take that Atlanta!

I'm glad I don't have to watch the stupid Atlanta fans do the tomahawk chop anymore. Do they realize they look like morons?

GO CUBS!

todrain · Oct 5, 2003, 11:35 PM

Anyday that the Braves lose it is a good day.

Agasthya · Oct 5, 2003, 11:59 PM

Originally posted by Phanguye:
Cubs Win, Cubs Win

97 years in the making and the cubs STILL haven't won anything important yet.

BasketofPuppies · Oct 6, 2003, 12:00 AM

95 years. The Cubs aren't that bad.

austeros · Oct 6, 2003, 12:02 AM

Originally posted by Agasthya:
97 years in the making and the cubs STILL haven't won anything important yet.

wait... what are the cards doing right now?

Phanguye · Oct 6, 2003, 12:07 AM

Originally posted by tikki:
If they make the series, money is no object. I will be there.

you better start saving... you will probably be able to get a dual 2.0 for the price of 4 tickets...

that being said, i just want them to go at least 6 games in the NLCS... just make sure to look for me on tv

Vader�s Pinch of Death · Oct 6, 2003, 12:09 AM

Originally posted by BasketofPuppies:
Take that Atlanta!

What did you do to them?

Captain Obvious · 12:20 AM

Bah, my theory that there are only really a couple thousand genuine cubs fans in Chicago is still valid. The rest are a bunch of Transplants from Ohio and Iowa who don't know any better.

The fun part of next week will be that I get to be home for an wedding and get to watch the spirits of those poor bastards get crushed as they are eliminated.
We'll see how well that pitching staff can keep it up before they drop dead from exhaustion like an overworked farm horse.

BasketofPuppies · Oct 6, 2003, 12:12 AM

Originally posted by Vader's Pinch of Death:
What did you do to them?

We sodomized the entire city using our baseball bats.

gwehr · 12:23 AM

Originally posted by Captain Obvious:
Bah, my theory that there are only really a couple thousand genuine cubs fans in Chicago is still valid. The rest are a bunch of Transplants from Ohio and Iowa how don't know any better.

The fun part of next week will be that I get to be home for an wedding and get to watch the spirits of those poor bastards get crushed as they are eliminated.
We'll see how well that pitching staff can keep it up before they drop dead from exhaustion like an overworked farm horse.

You were wrong about the Atlanta series, Captain Oblivious, and you will be wrong about this one too. I thought the Cubs staff would drop dead from exhaustion against the Braves? Huh, looks like you were wrong again. Your theory of Atlanta's playoff experience giving them the edge really worked out, didn't it? You fool. GO CUBS!

gwehr · Oct 6, 2003, 12:21 AM

Originally posted by Agasthya:
Goddamn Cubs

Quit your whining.

SeSawaya · Oct 6, 2003, 12:27 AM

glad I'm NOT playing in Chicago tonight! Clark/Addison is SHUT DOWN!

GO CUBS GO

<still remembers '84 as a broken hearted 14 year old>

Agasthya · Oct 6, 2003, 12:28 AM

Originally posted by austeros:
wait... what are the cards doing right now?

trying to figure out why our pitching sucked so much ass.

gwehr · Oct 6, 2003, 12:29 AM

Originally posted by Agasthya:
trying to figure out why our pitching sucked so much ass.

That's for sure. You guys had more than enough offense to get things done, but your pitching really blew chunks.

BasketofPuppies · Oct 6, 2003, 12:33 AM

Originally posted by SeSawaya:
<still remembers '84 as a broken hearted 14 year old>

That's nothing. I was a broken hearted five year old. And not only that, I was that cute little kid in Channel 2's late season Go Cubs! promotion.

If the Cubs had managed to make it into the World Series that year, that promotion would have been on the air longer and I would have gotten more exposure.

Agasthya · Oct 6, 2003, 12:34 AM

Originally posted by gwehr:
That's for sure. You guys had more than enough offense to get things done, but your pitching really blew chunks.

it just upset me that tony larussa wouldn't let walt jocketty trade JD Drew for pitching. and practically the next day Drew gets hurt and put on the DL for the rest of the season.

I was really hoping that LaRussa would say that he wasn't coming back, but alas, he confirmed that he will be in a redbird uniform next year so we're assured that he will over use Woody and Matty Mo in the first half and they will have nothing left for the stretch run.

oh well, go fish

austeros · Oct 6, 2003, 12:36 AM

LaRussa is your problem. but you need way more then just starting pitching, you need a pen worth something.

cant wait to see all the red and blue on the quad tomorrow. mark my words, it will be there

gwehr · Oct 6, 2003, 12:36 AM

Originally posted by Agasthya:
it just upset me that tony larussa wouldn't let walt jocketty trade JD Drew for pitching. and practically the next day Drew gets hurt and put on the DL for the rest of the season.

I was really hoping that LaRussa would say that he wasn't coming back, but alas, he confirmed that he will be in a redbird uniform next year so we're assured that he will over use Woody and Matty Mo in the first half and they will have nothing left for the stretch run.

oh well, go fish

It's too bad you don't have a truly great manager like Dusty Baker.

Cubs in 6, by the way.

Agasthya · Oct 6, 2003, 12:44 AM

Originally posted by gwehr:
It's too bad you don't have a truly great manager like Dusty Baker.

Cubs in 6, by the way.

I like the marlins. They got a good lineup and their pitching is pretty solid...but the one thing I'm worried about is that the cubs can put prior+wood out there 3 or 4 times in a 7 game series and that gives you a good chances for winning 4 games.

fish in 7

signal68 · Oct 6, 2003, 12:56 AM

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/HH/0114868/mary.jpg

Vader�s Pinch of Death · Oct 6, 2003, 01:21 AM

Originally posted by BasketofPuppies:
We sodomized the entire city using our baseball bats.

Man you had a busy night, and you still have the energy to come here and brag about it?

Phanguye · Oct 6, 2003, 01:25 AM

Originally posted by signal68:
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/HH/0114868/mary.jpg

whoa ho ho... original there

BasketofPuppies · Oct 6, 2003, 01:32 AM

Originally posted by Vader�s Pinch of Death:
Man you had a busy night, and you still have the energy to come here and brag about it?

Hey, I remember you doing the very same thing to my city back in 1993.

Agasthya · Oct 6, 2003, 01:34 AM

Originally posted by BasketofPuppies:
Hey, I remember you doing the very same thing to my city back in 1993.

Yeaaaah Joe Carter.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Oct 6, 2003, 01:35 AM

Originally posted by BasketofPuppies:
Hey, I remember you doing the very same thing to my city back in 1993.

Funny thing. I don't. I haven't been to Chicago for years!

malvolio · Oct 6, 2003, 02:32 AM

Originally posted by todrain:
Anyday that the Braves lose it is a good day.

Lots of good days in the month of October, eh?

It must suck to be a Braves fan. What is it, 12 straight division titles now, and only one World Series win?
As soon as the division series match-ups were set, I figured the Cubs had an excellent chance to advance.

desi · Oct 6, 2003, 05:59 AM

Originally posted by Agasthya:
trying to figure out why our pitching sucked so much ass.

injuries injuries injuries. I don't think it was La Russa's fault, Morris and Williams had some bad history with injuries and then who else do you have?

desi · Oct 6, 2003, 06:02 AM

Originally posted by Captain Obvious:
Bah, my theory that there are only really a couple thousand genuine cubs fans in Chicago is still valid. The rest are a bunch of Transplants from Ohio and Iowa who don't know any better.

The fun part of next week will be that I get to be home for an wedding and get to watch the spirits of those poor bastards get crushed as they are eliminated.
We'll see how well that pitching staff can keep it up before they drop dead from exhaustion like an overworked farm horse.

perhaps they will peter out, but I recall two guys by the name of schilling and johnson taking the d-backs all the way on their two man rotation. I thinl if they get to the WS, they have a good shot to win.