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Took it to the wire, didn't they? Considering their probable fate, I just hope the Red Sox finally win instead.

Also, Prior for Cy Young. Back to the pen, Gagne.

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I just hope the Red Sox finally win instead

???

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the red sox are a baseball team

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

heh. Yes, I've heard. But "finally win"? What, in 2004?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

They're in the playoffs!

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

kenan the red sox haven't won it in nearly a hundred years. there was an hbo 'documentary' on it.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the reason for this is boston is filled with assholes (acc. to the hbo documentary)(or at least I think that's what "narrated by ben affleck" implied)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I thought Kenan was saying they wouldn't have a chance until 2004.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

you may be right (I may be crazy)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, shit, I feel like an ass. I though I read "White Sox."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps a Cubs-BoSox world series?

That would be too painful for one of the sides, though..

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm imagining a Series of Keystone Cops proportions, with both teams doing their damnedest to out-fold the other. I'm not sure my nerves could take it.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The BoSox would be tossing black cats onto the field all game, whilst the Cubs would unearth the remains of Babe Ruth and sprinkle them into Nomar's water supply or something.

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

throwing out the first pitch -

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe if I move back to Chicago I'll give a rat's ass. The time I lived in Chi-town was the only time I even took a passing interest in professional sports, and maybe I should start paying attention again. Considering how long it's been since I got laid, I could use a reminder that I am, in fact, heterosexual.

― ScottRC (ScottRC), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, sorry Scott. =/

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoa, don't let me interrupt the sports chatter. Just a careless aside, was all that was. =D

― ScottRC (ScottRC), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never seen so much excitement over the baseball season being extended for three games in my life.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. D - I'm a mile away from it all! I'm stuck on the north side. Get me out of here!!

There is another game tomorrow - WTF are these people going to stay up all night and party all day tomorrow and into tomorrow night?

― Kerry (dymaxia), Sunday, 28 September 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.band975.fm.br/imagens/kiss.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 September 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

since the phillies didn't win, i officially don't give a fuck now about the playoffs or the world series.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Sunday, 28 September 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The cubs are in the playoffs, and the terminator may become a govoner, what's the world coming too?

― Trent, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN!
http://www.pitt.edu/~mrmst55/caray6.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay Cubs!

Go Giants!

Go Athletics!

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I swear to fucking god, if they win anything else I'm locking myself my house until the madness stops.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

That pic may not look exactly like Harry Caray, but it looks exactly like the Harry Caray statue outside Wrigley.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

kerry looked very very very very good

haha - kenan otm!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

not exactly, but:

kerry wood :: brett favre (?)

― jackson anderville, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Was the 1918 series thrown?

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy shit, dude. Are the Cubs actually going to win something other than a game? I'm no sports fan, but the last time I saw this kind of buzz in the air was before the Houston Rockets won the NBA Championship. People are losing their shit.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 4 October 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Other than the uncharacteristic walks, Prior was positively filthy tonight. I've never seen anything like it in this kind of situation. What an incredible, incredible talent.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 4 October 2003 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Cubs fandom this highly addictive even when they're losing? I have no point of reference.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 4 October 2003 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't know. I seem to be immune. However, it must not have been all that "addictive" because right up through the 1984 season, their attendance was lower than the White Sox, and this was also true in the early nineties. Be prepared for people to report that it was "always this way", however. I think marketing is "highly addictive".

― Kerry (dymaxia), Saturday, 4 October 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you help me to decide which team to root for? Of the teams left in the competition, which are the underdogs? Which team's fans expect to win every time and need to be taken down a peg or two? Which team is loved/hated by the rest of the country? [and did you know that pitcher (in an English accent) is the Czech word for female genitalia?]

― Daniel (dancity), Saturday, 4 October 2003 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

root for the Marlins

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 4 October 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

man, I can't believe this shit. everything is coming together for a Cubs run to the world series...

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 4 October 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The same Marlins whose management auctioned off their last championship team?

― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 4 October 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it the same management? I thought Huizenga sold the team after that fire-sale.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 4 October 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

My bad, you're right. Loria, or the ex-Expos who sold off all their talent, owns them now.

― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 4 October 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Diamond, is that Chris Holmes I saw at the game in a Cubs hat?

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Saturday, 4 October 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Lee: the same Marlins - it's just like Major League! (Juan Pierre=Wesley Snipes, Pudge=Tom Berenger, Jack McKeon=that manager dude who talks like a hound dog)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 4 October 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

BBT - ha! I dunno, I'm watching the game but not giving it my 100% attention (sort of switching back-and-forth between it and the Michigan/Iowa game), so I haven't seen all of the crowd shots. It certainly could be though; he actually flew down to Atlanta for the first two games! He never mentioned having tickets to Wrigley, though... Where was "he" sitting?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 4 October 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

FUCK! [re: game 4]

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 4 October 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait...Chris Holmes the Yum-Yum guy?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 4 October 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Never trust a man named "Chipper"

― nate detritus has seen "Fargo" twice (natedetritus), Sunday, 5 October 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael - yeah, that's the guy. He's a huge Cubs fan.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 5 October 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Blount, no cinematic masterpiece can make me feel better right now.

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― Leee (Leee), Sunday, 5 October 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't fuckin' believe this shit, but it looks like the Cubs are gonna move on.

Unbelievable.

With the Marlins in there the World Series is right fucking there for the taking. Felicity, where are you?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 6 October 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, yes, what a perfect postseason thus far. If only the Yankees had lost.

I can't wait for Bonds to retire so I can start rooting for the Giants again.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 6 October 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

CUBS DON'+T WIN SQUIRRELS DO AND SO DO I, DAMNIT!!!! I LOVE YOU AL, ILCPRS!!!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 6 October 2003 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

if it ended up being a cubs/red sox series would their curses somehow merge to the point where both teams just spontaneously combust on the field? not that it would happen, but...

― scott seward, Monday, 6 October 2003 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure that Series would end in a called tie after Sidd Finch accidentally kills Roy Hobbs with an inside fastball, and then we'd just plain be done with baseball.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 6 October 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't wait for Bonds to retire so I can start rooting for the Giants again.

Are you trying to get a rise out of me/gygax!?

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 6 October 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I am here, Diamond, but wish I were in Chicago!

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 6 October 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

haha! I hope you're having fun... This next week will certainly be interesting!!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 6 October 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know what you heard about me
but you can't sneak the Bravos past me
I'm gonna fry the Fish up, just you wait an' see
'cause I'm Kerry W-O-O-D

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 6 October 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

corny

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 6 October 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you trying to get a rise out of me/gygax!?

F'real, yo, I just can't stand Bonds. The SF teams were my favorites growing up, but I can't root for any team with Barry Bonds. It's getting that way for TO and the 49ers, too.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 6 October 2003 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

and the chicago cubs will beat every team in the league
and the tampa bay bucs will make it the way to january
and i will love you again

Alright, how many predictions in this song are actually going to come true this year? Tampa makes it one ... did the Philips Corporation admit to anything particularly nasty in 2003?

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 6 October 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I was very tickled to learn that the last time the Cubs won a post-season series they were managed by Frank Chance, as in

"Baseball's Sad Lexicon"

These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double--
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."

I would have enjoyed a poetic Cubs-Giants LCS but I am looking very much ahead to the rematch with Florida. Pudge, Dontrelle and Juan Pierre are suchs exciting players. IT will be interesting to see if Wood-Prior can shut down their running game.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 6 October 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm utterly confused by the new playoff structure. so the cubs have another round of games to go before they make the world series?

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 October 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. This playoff structure was established in 1995 with the advent of three divisions per league (East, West, and Central). Teams that advance to the playoffs are the divisional winners, plus a wild-card team (the team with the best record who didn't win their division). So, instead of starting with your two divisional winners in a league championship series, you now have to go through a round pitting a) two divisional winners, and b) a divisonal winner and a wild card. The winners of those series then advance to the league championship.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 October 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

so the cubs won the first round? didn't they do this in 1992?

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 October 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cubs haven't won any round of a postseason series since 1908. They made it to the Division Series in 1998, and were swept.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 6 October 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

the Cubs were in the World Series after 1908, they just didn't win (where do you think Babe's called shot comes from?).

― hstencil, Monday, 6 October 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

well everyone keeps saying how they haven't won a playoff series since '08. How then did they get to the World Series?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 6 October 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

they won the National League? Perhaps there weren't divisions yet, I dunno.

― hstencil, Monday, 6 October 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

that's all i can figure, too.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 6 October 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The League Championship Series began in 1969 as a five-game series, and expanded to a seven-game format in 1985.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 6 October 2003 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Which is why when Bobby Thomson homered off Branca in the 3-game playoff (as opposed to proper playoff series) because Dods and Giants were tied at the end of regular season play, ~~Lon Simmons~~ Russ Hodges sez, "GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT, THE GIANTS" etc.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 6 October 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, trublu atlanta braves fans bitch about that being the first year of the lcs all the time, the old way the braves woulda gone to the 69 series instead of the mets.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I still wonder if the Division Series is here to stay; if I remember right from SI's most recent overview of it, most of the winners of the Division Series face-offs are the teams with the worst of the two records ... and while upsets are great and everything (I mean, shit, it's top of the 9th here and I'm obviously pulling for my wildcard Red Sox), you have to wonder how that skews things for the LCS and Series.

(And other than 2001, have we had a really great World Series since 1995? We probably have and I'll go "oh fuck yeah!" as soon as someone mentions one, but none are popping to mind. Then again, we haven't necessarily had many great World Series pre-DS, either, proportionally.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

NYC Jingoisim aside, 2001's was pretty good, iffin you ignore the pussy-ass Co-MVP bullshit.

― MdJ, Tuesday, 7 October 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Except for the outcome, I thought 2k2 was EDGE OF YOUR SEAT ENTERTAINMENT.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Agree with the last two years and 1997 was won in dramatic game 7 extra innings fashion.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Figures. 1997 was one of two baseball postseasons I missed because of hurricanes. I didn't even remember who the Marlins beat until I looked it up.

(I wasn't all that thrilled with last year's Series, although I liked seeing the Giants in it. It wasn't bad, I just wouldn't call it great.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

1997 was an awesome series. Games with snow in Cleveland, Edgar Renteria playing shortstop wearing a ski mask. Two great looking rookie pitchers asserting themselves, Livan Hernandez winning the MVP, and Jaret Wright tapped to start game 7. Cleveland was just a few outs away from their first Series win in what, 50 years or something? Then Jose Mesa blows it.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

2001 was great for anyone who, like me, hates the Yankees.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 7 October 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm really enjoying the Cubs' run and watching the games but JESUS CHRIST do we really need pre-game shows on channels that aren't even showing the game? Why does everything have to be hyped to the point of making me sick of it?

I got a bad feeling about the game tonight--no faith whatsoever in Zambrano.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

no they don't

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 24 April 2011 19:55 (fourteen years ago)

they win every other game (literally): The Cubs are the first team in MLB history to start a season 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5, 6-6, 7-7, 8-8, 9-9, and 10-10.

― omar little, Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:17 (fourteen years ago)

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― omar little, Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:17 (fourteen years ago)

huge actual lol

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 24 April 2011 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

yeah the idea of an actual "you lose" medal is too funny not to

― frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:56 (fourteen years ago)

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