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Final Score: Cubs 6, Marlins 9 [Live Thread, NLCS Game 7]
Fox Sports ^ | October 15, 2003 | Section9

Posted on 10/15/2003 1:00:32 PM PDT by section9

Post responses on this thread. Do or die for the Marlins. Break the Curse and Go to the Series or sink into ignominy for yet another year for the Cubbies.

Which will it be? Quien es mas macho?

Remember, Obey the Billygoat.....

Be Seeing You,

Chris


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: cubs; foulball; game7; gocubsgo; gofish; idiotsavant; marlins; nlcs; thebillygoat; thecurse; wrigleyfield
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To: clintonh8r
Mark my words as a lifelong Floridian...there will be NO fire sale.
1,441 posted on 10/15/2003 9:46:43 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (On Sale October 21st...Rush In Rio. 3 cd's and 2 DVD Set. Buy it! Support both Rush's!)
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To: 4Freedom
Forced to kiss the 3rd rail?

Via the Ravenswood El.

1,442 posted on 10/15/2003 9:46:45 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: Let's Roll
wondering if he's just a care-taker manager?

That's certainly my impression.

The ding-a-ling sports talk guy in Cincy tonight said that he though Dusty would be fired if the Cubs lost. Puh-leeze. They won their first post-season series of any kind in 95 years (having lost in all of their World Series appearances after 1908).

He was also criticizing some Cub fans as barbarians-if the people talking about harming or hurting Steve Bartman are serious, he's right.

Leave the guy alone. He didn't lose the series. He didn't help, but he didn't lose it. The Cubs' "something bad is going to happen now" mentality, which they have obviously never totally shaken, is to blame.

1,443 posted on 10/15/2003 9:47:48 PM PDT by litany_of_lies
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To: David1
With respect, I'm going easy on the fans down here. I remember during the losing seasons the Dolphins had. In the late seventies and late eighties. About 2/3 filled in the Orange Bowl and at Joe Robbie.

Fans stick with their club. Maybe the club will get a baseball stadium that young families can go to without getting raped at the parking garage. Or getting hosed at the concession stands. But I doubt it.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

1,444 posted on 10/15/2003 9:48:19 PM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Drop the sushi, clic on my pic, and visit my blog. Or else!")
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
Addison Ave. station.
1,445 posted on 10/15/2003 9:48:55 PM PDT by 4Freedom (America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
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To: metalboy
GET YOUR TICKETS!
Individual-game tickets for the World Series go on sale
Thursday, October 16 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Tickets will ONLY be
available via FloridaMarlins.com, by clicking on the
link below, or by phone. Don't forget to choose the Ticketfast
option for delivery and have your tickets in your hand
immediately by printing them at home.

More >> http://lists.mlb.com/u/307055/14680675
1,446 posted on 10/15/2003 9:49:03 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (On Sale October 21st...Rush In Rio. 3 cd's and 2 DVD Set. Buy it! Support both Rush's!)
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To: section9
I agree with much of what you say, especially about the need for a baseball park. Wayne Huizenga wanted us to pay for the stadium and always claimed he lost $30 million in 1997. I don't know if he did or not but there has always been a silver lining to the team's breakup. The Marlins, who had a good GM at the time, Dave Dombrowski, liquidated their prime talent for very good young minor leaguers. Just with the pitching alone we have the ripple effect over time that has guys like Beckett and Penny and Willis here today and also produced Matt Clement and Felix Heredia who we are seeing in the playoffs. Not to mention Kevin Millar of the Sox. The point I'm getting to is that success breeds success. I think that when we see this excitement and 65,000 in the seats for the playoffs, the outlook is much improved over the last several years.
1,447 posted on 10/15/2003 9:49:05 PM PDT by untwist
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To: montag813
Well at least you have Donovan McNabb...the best quarterback in the NFL!!!

You are cold.

1,448 posted on 10/15/2003 9:49:10 PM PDT by litany_of_lies
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To: Connservative
This guy may have to enter the witness-protection program. I told my roommate that and he laughed... I was serious.

Make that the witless protection program!

1,449 posted on 10/15/2003 9:51:02 PM PDT by hunter112
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To: section9
I have sat in Pro-Robbie many a night with 2 or 3 empty sections next to me. I was at a Rockies game a bit back and caught 22 balls in batting practice. There were 7 people out there with me. I know exactly what you are saying about the fans. But...remember...the Marlins fire sale really was a HUGE fuck you from Wayne. We have someone who will not do that to us now.
1,450 posted on 10/15/2003 9:51:10 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (On Sale October 21st...Rush In Rio. 3 cd's and 2 DVD Set. Buy it! Support both Rush's!)
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To: NYCVirago
Nah, loss builds character, good for the soul. Hopefully he'll learn when to pull pitchers and grow up to be a better manager than his dad (who's pretty good except for that one annoying trait).
1,451 posted on 10/15/2003 9:52:02 PM PDT by discostu (The Joan Wilder?!)
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To: montag813
I would still take him over Stewart and Chandler.
1,452 posted on 10/15/2003 9:52:38 PM PDT by sharkhawk
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To: Squantos
Next year, you'll have to stop by and watch the Cubbies on our 50" TV. It's the next best thing to being in a sports bar ;-).
1,453 posted on 10/15/2003 9:53:06 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: JulieRNR21
GET YOUR TICKETS!
Individual-game tickets for the World Series go on sale
Thursday, October 16 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Tickets will ONLY be
available via FloridaMarlins.com, by clicking on the
link below, or by phone. Don't forget to choose the Ticketfast
option for delivery and have your tickets in your hand
immediately by printing them at home.

More >> http://lists.mlb.com/u/307055/14680675
1,454 posted on 10/15/2003 9:54:15 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (On Sale October 21st...Rush In Rio. 3 cd's and 2 DVD Set. Buy it! Support both Rush's!)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
Nah, the Yankees inspire a particular level of bile - I can only imagine what the Mets fans must go through. The Cubs & White Sox fans actually intermarry around here ;-).

Yeah as a Met fan it's been tough especially since 2 of the world series the Yankees recently played in was against the Atlanta Braves (Our NL arch enemy). George Steinbrenner vs Ted Turner what a freaking nightmare.

1,455 posted on 10/15/2003 9:56:51 PM PDT by qam1 (Don't Patikify New Jersey)
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To: section9
I just wanted to point out that you just could not be so tough on Marlin fans after what Wayne did. About the fins, I have no idea because I was not born yet or too young then. But I do know football has always been, and will continue to be, king in this town.
1,456 posted on 10/15/2003 9:58:13 PM PDT by David1
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To: My Favorite Headache
Yup, I think now the Marlins will need a true ballpark and no more fire sells and they should be ok.
1,457 posted on 10/15/2003 9:59:41 PM PDT by David1
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To: untwist
I think that when we see this excitement and 65,000 in the seats for the playoffs, the outlook is much improved over the last several years.

Well, geez. At least a goodly portion of that 65,000 people in the seats were CUBS FANS.

1,458 posted on 10/15/2003 10:01:47 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
Well, geez. At least a goodly portion of that 65,000 people in the seats were CUBS FANS Could it be that the Cubs just have more fans everywhere in comparison to the relatively new Marlins? Also the fact that there are also a bunch of Illinois transplants down here. I know a bunch of them myself. Just like the NY transplants. I believe a great majority of the people who live in South Florida are transplants from one place or another.
1,459 posted on 10/15/2003 10:08:35 PM PDT by David1
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To: David1
Right. Exactly. But does that translate into the transplants actually attending regular season Marlins games? I bet the Red Sox and the Cubs get huge bunches of fans just going to their spring training games.
1,460 posted on 10/15/2003 10:11:13 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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