Posted on 04/05/2009 6:19:12 PM PDT by cubsfanconswoman
Any thoughts from my fellow baseball loving Freepers out there? Predictions Hopes?
And who's a lesser known guy on your team we should keep an eye out for?
This year I'm telling people watch young starting pitcher Sean Marshall.
I think the Cubs won't win 97 again but have a team better suited to go places in October.
I think the Cincinatti Reds will surprise.
My second team has become the Cleveland Indians because they have my boy Kerry Wood.
And here's a song for today
Opening Day By Terry Cashman
Verse 1:
I've been counting the days in the winter haze since the leaves began to fall Now it won't be long til the sun comes shining through when the camps start breaking my spirit awakens to that irresistable call of that old american song that's always new
Refrain: And the robin is here the sky is so blue there's a band there's music and the flags are flying too The grass is so Green it's like never before It's opening day I can be a kid once more
Verse 2: Will the champs repeat in the summer heat? will the races go down to the wire In April every team has a chance to wear the ring and a rookie phenom who tore up the farm and the fans who never get tired of chasing the dreams that dance in the air every spring
Refrain
Verse 3 Open the gates and let the people in Let the sun shine in And the home team always win (okay not in Houston where the Cubs are)
The robin is here
And can anyone who’s also a football fan tell me what a quarterback does? Being a Bears fan as well I’m not so sure.
Go Mets !!!
How many did you catch?
Wind Chill of 20 degrees with snow showers here in St. Louis as the Cardinals open their quest for their 11th World Championship.
Me? I’ll stay by the fire.
Wife and I spent ten days out in Mesa watching the Cubbies. Soriano is still the laziest player I’ve ever seen. I don’t care if he hits a homer every time he leads off, he’s LAZY!!!
Gotta love Fontenot at second with Theriot by his side.
DP Lee...he needs a long rest, Haufpauer will do fine at firts. Fukodome, send him back to Japan. REED owns center. I do like Miles and Bradley, think they will be fine...
We win the division again and make it to the Big One...after that...who knows? Cubs in SEVEN???
I am trying something different tonight I am watching the Braves-Phillies MLB opener online instead of on tv.
No, not like Tampa.
They could lose 115 games.
Thankfully we Burghers have the Steelers.
Red Sox will win the World Series over the Cubbies...
...sorry.
The quarterback is kind of like the state child support enforcement division, only there can be no more than one quarterback under center to start a play. They take the ball from the center then give it to someone else. They almost never keep it for themselves, especially at the higher collegiate and definitely not at the NFL level. In the NFL there are monstrous freaks(think 6'3 245 lbs, running a 4.5 40 yard dash) who pretty much make it so the quarterback gets the ball out of his hands as soon as possible.
Additional responsibilities for the quarterback include dating/marrying the hottest models/actresses and peddling stuff on commercials. Good starting quarterbacks are paid about 12 million a year.
Manny can’t do it all. Clayton Kershaw, a 21 year old lefty pitcher for the Dodgers. The Dodgers’ historically vaunted pitching isn’t there this year, so if they have a chance to repeat as Division champs, Kershaw will need to have a breakout year. During his first year (last year) he had an ERA of 4.26 and 100 strikeouts and 52 walks over 107 innings. He has a curveball that’s virtually unhittable—it appears that it is going behind the batter before it curves into the strke zone.
Go Dodgers!
1. My prediction is the Cubs will go the same place they always go in October - home.
2. Here's the song for today:
A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request
by Steve Goodman (1983)
(You can play a clip here)
By the shore's of old Lake Michigan
Where the "hawk wind" blows so cold
An old Cub fan lay dying
In his midnight hour that tolled
Round his bed, his friends had all gathered
They knew his time was short
And on his head they put this bright blue cap
From his all-time favorite sport
He told them, "Its late and its getting dark in here"
And I know its time to go
But before I leave the line-up
Boys, there's just one thing I'd like to know
Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy-covered burial ground
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League
Told his friends "You know the law of averages says:
Anything will happen that can"
That's what it says
"But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan"
The Cubs made me a criminal
Sent me down a wayward path
They stole my youth from me
(that's the truth)
I'd forsake my teachers
To go sit in the bleachers
In flagrant truancy
and then one thing led to another
and soon I'd discovered alcohol, gambling, dope
football, hockey, lacrosse, tennis
But what do you expect,
When you raise up a young boy's hopes
And then just crush 'em like so many paper beer cups.
Year after year after year
after year, after year, after year, after year, after year
'Til those hopes are just so much popcorn
for the pigeons beneath the 'L' tracks to eat
He said, "You know I'll never see Wrigley Field, anymore before my eternal rest
So if you have your pencils and your score cards ready,
and I'll read you my last request
He said, "Give me a double header funeral in Wrigley Field
On some sunny weekend day (no lights)
Have the organ play the "National Anthem"
and then a little 'na, na, na, na, hey hey, hey, Goodbye'
Make six bullpen pitchers, carry my coffin
and six ground keepers clear my path
Have the umpires bark me out at every base
In all their holy wrath
Its a beautiful day for a funeral, Hey Ernie lets play two!
Somebody go get Jack Brickhouse to come back,
and conduct just one more interview
Have the Cubbies run right out into the middle of the field,
Have Keith Moreland drop a routine fly
Give everybody two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt
And I'll be ready to die
Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats,
And toss my coffin in
Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow
From the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind
When my last remains go flying over the left-field wall
Will bid the bleacher bums adieu
And I will come to my final resting place, out on Waveland Avenue
The dying man's friends told him to cut it out
They said stop it that's an awful shame
He whispered, "Don't Cry, we'll meet by and by
near the Heavenly Hall of Fame
He said, "I've got season's tickets to watch the Angels now,
So its just what I'm going to do
He said, "but you the living, you're stuck here with the Cubs,
So its me that feels sorry for you!"
And he said, "Ahh Play, play that lonesome losers tune,
That's the one I like the best"
And he closed his eyes, and slipped away
What we got is the Dying Cub Fan's Last Request
And here it is
Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy-covered burial ground
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League
As for for the AL East, probably the three best (I geuss) the yankees to get the wild card. I'll pick the Indians in the ALCentral and maybe the Angels in the NL west.
Wow I didn't know that. So the cubs gave up on him. Shazam.
no - RANGERS will surprise this year! It’s their turn for the Series! (yes - extreme optomism - but I live in “Bills” country....need I say more?)
My prediction? No Cubs in the series.
On the plus side, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Cleveland will all suck as usual.
Naw. That's the 2012 World Series. When the Cubs and Red Sox meet in the Series, it will be the last one ever ;-)
First game for my Tigers is in Toronto tomorrow. Good thing it’s not in Detroit because it looks like they’d be playing in the snow.
My gf has tickets to Red Sox opening day. (Invited her son - not me.)
Hope they play.
I have a rather painful confession to make.
You see...I'm...
a...a VIKINGS fan!
There! I've said it!
(breaks into uncontrollable sobbing)
Cheers!
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