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Bob2112

Sunday, October 05, 2003 - 07:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cubs Win! Cubs Win!

Holy Cow!!!


<...should have been a shutout if 1 of 6 umps could see the catch in the 6th...>

Ladytex

Sunday, October 05, 2003 - 09:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
GO CUBBIES!!GO CUBBIES!!

so much for the Cubs tanking

Tabbyking

Sunday, October 05, 2003 - 09:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
missed the tejada thing, but my son said the 3rd base coach told tejada he got to go home because of the 'interference' and when tejada DID go home, they tagged him out.

too bad they have to go to a 5th game, but grandpa (west roxbury, MA) is digging it!

Wendo

Sunday, October 05, 2003 - 09:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yipeeeeeeeeee! Holy Cow! Go Cubbies! (After over 90 years...'bout time. LOL!)

We miss ya Harry!

Still hoping for my dream World Series, Red Sox vs. Cubs. How FUN would that be?!

:)

Tabbyking

Sunday, October 05, 2003 - 10:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
not as much fun as an A's--Cubbies :)

Cjr

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 05:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tabbyking, I love your thinkin'

Julieboo

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 05:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, boy am I glad I was wrong. But can ya really blame me, I mean those Cubs have let me down so many times before. And now I am afraid to get excited. Everytime I do I think I jinx them. But HOLY COW!!!! GO CUBBIES!!! Harry would be/is so happy! I hope for Red Sox vs. Cubs Too!!!

Julieboo

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 06:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Poor Ron Santo... He's gonna have to miss this Marlins series cuz he has to have surgery to remove tumors from his bladder. That guy has gone thru so much-both legs amputated (diabetes is such an awfull insidious disease!)and now this. The timing truly sucks!!!!

Goddessatlaw

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 06:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I deserved to but didn't hurt myself throwing hurkeys (the first of my life) around the living room last night with the Cubs win. This morning, I'm sort of like "did it really happen? Did they really win?" Hope they don't pull a Pacers and just be happy to be included in the championship games. Go BoSox, too!!!!! Great win yesterday.

Ladytex

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 06:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I know my Grandpa James is up there some where still partying! He used to take me to Wrigley for afternoon ball games. What a treat they were!

Aus10

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 06:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Happy Happy Joy Joy! Happy Happy Joy! *Aus is still dancing around cause the cubbies won!!!) And a little jealous because she just heard from the son that he's got tickets at Pro Player :( and she can't go.......

Ladytex

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 06:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Aww man, Aus, that stinks ... I think I'm jealous, too

Mware

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 07:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
WooHoo! Red Sox come back to tie up the series. Pedro Martinez starting Game 5 on full rest, while the Oakland pitcher is starting on short rest. I like those odds!

Marej

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 09:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Go Cubs!!!. Good season for my MN. Twins; but it's over now. Am hoping for Cubs/Red Sox series; did anyone watch The Curse of the Bambino on HBO. If the Red Sox win, they will the Yankees. I think, is that right?

Aus10

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 09:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ladytex.....thanks for the sympathy! Mom just can't afford it right now seeing how I have to pay tuition. LOL...And see where my tuition dollars are going...for him to see the cubs. :)

Bronxie

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 11:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK all you Cub fans....here's to a great four games (at least), maybe more. I'm rootin for my Marlins, but my little boys are apt to get frostbite with your temps hovering in the 40's at night...they're coming from the high 80's. So I'll give you the first game. ....but then...
GO MARLINS

Julieboo

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 01:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Many Cubs fans may hate me for this, but I totally agree! (And remember I AM a BIG Cubs fan!) This is from today's Chicago Tribune: (Eric Zorn)

CHILL, CUB FANS

The Cubs haven't advanced this far in the playoffs since:

A. 1908
B. 1945
C. 1989

The correct answer is C.

No matter how many times announcers and scribes and headline writers invoke 1908 (the last World Series victory by the Cubs) and 1945 ( the last World Series appearance by the Cubs), the truth is that it was only 14 years ago that the Cubs were in the position they found themselves after Sunday night's close-out victory against the Atlanta Braves: Preparing to play for the pennant in the National League Championship Series.

The round of the playoffs the Cubs just won didn't exist before the introduction of the wildcard and playoff expansion in 1995.

Now, yes, 14 years is kind of a long time and Sunday's win was undeniably cool and satisfying.

The pleasure taken in it by my 6-year-old son Ben was a memory I'll always treasure. We put him to bed in the 7th inning, but he ran so many times to the top of the stairs to ask what was happening that we invited him back down to to living room to watch the final outs.

What I didn't say to Ben I'll say here: The series victory over the Braves is not that big a deal. The years of futility are not yet over. The purported curse has not yet been broken. The Cubs have to win eight more games before they shed the label of "lovable losers" by winning the World Series---in 1989 they came up seven victories short; in 1984, five victories.

All this mad merriment in Wrigleyville feels forced and phony, drunken people inventing a reason to carry on crazily deep into the night.

The Cubs advanced to the NLCS Sunday. Excellent. Pumped fists and satisfied shouts all around.

It's time to be "quietly subdued and happy," as manager Dusty Baker described himself in this Trib story this morning.

In a year or two, no one aside from a few baseball stat geeks will remember or care which team lost the 2003 NLCS. And as long as ignominy still looms, street celebrations are simply an embarrassing reminder of how new Cub fans are to all this.

Grooch

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 01:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The Marlins are going to kick the cubs' collective butts!!!

Bob2112

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 03:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Here's the deal with the Cubs. For the first time since the late 60's they have put together a foundation of a team that should be good for the next 3-5 years. While a World Series win would be awesome, a winning record in back to back seasons would be quite the accomplishemnt and something they have not done since 1972.

This year is a little of surprise and making the playoffs was more than most expected. Finishing with a winning record and developing some of the younger players (and finding a 3rd baseman, which it looks like they have) was about it. They will go as far as Wood and Prior will take them in these playoffs. Two years ago, that was enough for Arizona. I expect the series with the Marlins to go 6 or 7 games. Prior would pitch game 6 in Chicago on 5 days rest and Wood would pitch game 7 in Chicago on the normal 4 days rest. I like those odds. :)

Prior (no pun intended ) to 1969, there were no playoff series. The winner of the American League played the winner of the National League in the World Series. In 1945, the Cubs at 98-56 were supposed to be the better team and lost to the 88-65 Tigers 4 games to 1. I think beating an Atlanta Braves team that won 101 games during the regular season and also swept the Cubs out of the same round of the playoff in 1998 is quite an accomplishment.

Of course, I don't give much credence to any curse on the Cubs, other than that of the Tribune Company who could afford to run the Cubs like the Yankees, but chooses to run it as just another business unit.

For me, I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts!

Reader234

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 03:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Bob!! But you have to admit the "reverse the curse" was hilarious, and a great publicity (Radio) stunt!!

However, you didnt post thoughts on how Dusty Baker fits into the equation!!! There have been lots of thoughts on the $$$ the Tribune Company spends... or not... but it does always come down to pitching doesnt it!! (I like the odds too!!)

Thanks Julie for posting I love reading Zorn!!

sorry Grooch, your Marlins cant kick us - they cant, now play fair, no karate choppin at 1st base!!

Mak1

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 06:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This Sox/As game is almost more than I can stand tonight...what awesome pitching! Now we need some scoring from the record-breaking batting-average Sox. Congrats to all Cubbies fans, happy happy joy joy!!

Reader234

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 07:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, just a note... last year the Cubs only won 67 games... THIS year... Dusty Baker, and woohoo...

Also, so much talk of a Sox vs Cubs World Series, lol that they forgot to add WHICH color Sox!!

and no, I havent been drinkin!!

Mak1

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
GO SOX!!

Wendo

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 08:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yippee! My Red Sox v Cubs World Series dream lives on. LOL! Congrats Red Sox fans. Sorry A's fans. A great game to the last strikeout.

Julieboo said, "The series victory over the Braves is not that big a deal."

Actually, it is a big deal considering the Atlanta Braves had the BEST record, along with the NY Yankees, in baseball, had the highest average of scored runs per game than any other team, and the highest batting average than any other team. So, I'd say it WAS a very big deal.

The Cubs beat the Braves when many (most) predicted that the Braves would over power the Cubs.

Ladytex

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 08:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
After seeing the obnoxious A's fans heckle that poor guy that got hurt, I was seriously rooting for the Red Sox. Before that, I really didn't care.

Go Cubbies!! I'm gonna root for them regardless of what others say. I'm not gonna bad talk them or put down what they have accomplished. I think it IS a big deal what they have accomplished. They were an underdog going into the Braves series, and they dispatched them. They have won a postseason series for the first time since 1908, regardless of your semantics, you cannot take that away from them. You may still consider them losers, but coming back from last season and accomplishing what they have, they are NOT losers, unless you consider every team that does not win the world series a loser. Congratulations Cubs! Y'all are winners to me already!!