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Cubs clinch first playoff spot since '08 with Giants' elimination (Mets,Jays,Pirates in too!)
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| 9/26/15
Posted on 09/26/2015 6:16:10 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: Artemis Webb
My grandmother moved to Chicago when Franz-Joseph was still Emperor of her home town. For some inexplicable reason, starting in the 20's, she always got season tickets to Wrigley Field.
In the 50's and 60's we'd take the Belmont Avenue bus, then on stop south on what was then the Englewood Line. She'd sit there, with a single cup of beer, and a cigar in a green jade holder, and study the game, focused like a Buddist monk. Only weekday games. (She thought cheering wasn't 'proper'.) Hey, she was a nutty Austrian lady.
It's been over a century. Please, just this once?
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posted on
09/26/2015 7:31:52 PM PDT
by
jonascord
(It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
To: jonascord
That is a GREAT story and for your Grandmother’s sake I guess Just This Once would be pretty okay!
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posted on
09/26/2015 7:36:49 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Let me know if you want on The Baseball Ping List)
To: Artemis Webb
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posted on
09/26/2015 7:44:46 PM PDT
by
JPG
(What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
To: Artemis Webb
Cubs are in the playoffs?
We are truly in End of Times.
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posted on
09/26/2015 7:46:25 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(How Come Mexico Sends its Ugly Citizens Over the Border while the Beautiful Ones Stay on TV?)
To: usconservative
I was also a White Sox fan years ago (Early Wynn, etc.), went away to college, the Navy, and got back to Champaign to finish college. I couldn’t get the Sox on radio but the Cubs came thru loud and clear. I morphed into a Cubs fan.
And I lived on the SW side.
Gary (now a Reds fan after 32 years in Cincinnati)
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posted on
09/26/2015 8:06:59 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
To: Rembrandt
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posted on
09/26/2015 8:11:26 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: ccmovrwc
Yeah... if the Cubs win, a 30 year old prediction comes true.
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posted on
09/26/2015 8:12:11 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
To: Crazieman
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posted on
09/26/2015 8:18:26 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: usconservative
Fowler, Bryant and Schwarber have been the difference on my fantasy team this year.
Dee Gordon and Carlos Correa too and Tuliwitski almost played a full season and had great numbers as well.
Abreu was really slow out of the gate but met expectations.
Hoping the Mets go all the way but Cubs are due.
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posted on
09/26/2015 8:27:29 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(SMASH THE CPUSA)
To: Crazieman
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posted on
09/26/2015 11:17:04 PM PDT
by
Empireoftheatom48
(God help the Republic but will he?)
To: Artemis Webb
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posted on
09/26/2015 11:23:17 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: Artemis Webb
I still think, however, that the Cubs from now on to be really successful contenders, they need to play far more night games at Wrigley Field--possibly as many as 50 games.
Former pitcher Curt Schilling surmises (correctly) the reason why: because the Cubs play most of their home games during the day, the biological clocks of the Cubs roster is different then other MLB teams. As such, once they reach the playoffs, the team ends up playing poorly when most of the games are in the evening hours.
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posted on
09/27/2015 3:46:30 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: RayChuang88
The schedule will probably change, but it will almost certainly be gradual. There are still a lot of Cubs fans who believe lights are the tools of The Devil.
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posted on
09/27/2015 3:48:42 AM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Let me know if you want on The Baseball Ping List)
To: doug from upland
Nope, to forgive is devine. Best of luck to the Cubs, they deserve it.
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posted on
09/27/2015 4:28:48 AM PDT
by
CPT Clay
(Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
To: jonascord
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posted on
09/27/2015 4:31:40 AM PDT
by
CPT Clay
(Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
To: Artemis Webb
Cubs owner Tom Ricketts already said once the Cubs complete most the renovations to Wrigley Field, the team wants to play a lot more night games there—probably half their home schedule. If they can pull that off, the Cubs will be far more successful in the playoffs, since the players will be more used to be night playing schedule given that most League Championship Series games and all World Series games will be played at night.
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posted on
09/27/2015 9:41:55 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: usconservative
Miami’s not going to make it.
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