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I was laughing my ass off on the tank job those laughable losers pulled tonight. I really want the Cubs to win, but for crying out loud that really didn't happen did it?
I can't wait until tomorrow to see who will blow the game this time
JetBoatRich
10-14-2003, 08:20 PM
Game 7 tomorrow, That fan that touched the ball has to feel terrible :mad: he screwed up.
It is natural to try and catch the ball in the stands, but your home team move out of the way.
little rowe boat
10-14-2003, 10:22 PM
They snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. cry
cal-air
10-15-2003, 04:29 AM
The turning point....He had to be escorted out
http://i.cnn.net/si/2003/baseball/mlb/specials/postseason/2003/10/14/marlins.cubs.game6.ap/t1_alou_fan_ap.jpg
cal-air
10-15-2003, 04:30 AM
here's another angle
http://i.cnn.net/si/2003/baseball/mlb/specials/postseason/2003/10/15/bc.bbn.cubs.foiledagain.ap/p1_foiled_again_ap.jpg
voodooCanoe
10-15-2003, 06:02 AM
That kid is going to have a hit on him if the CUBS
loose the series. Either way, I bet he has to move out of his neighborhood. Fans can be brutal!
JetBoatRich:
Game 7 tomorrow, That fan that touched the ball has to feel terrible :mad: he screwed up.
It is natural to try and catch the ball in the stands, but your home team move out of the way. I feel you, but it is not natural if you have your wits about you and realize that you are only a spectator. Fans should know better. He was selfish and he wasn't thinking.
MagicMtnDan
10-15-2003, 06:06 AM
Everyone is focusing on the fan-in-the-hat but that's because few people want to blame the Cubs shortstop who booted a double-play ball that would've ended it.
MagicMtnDan:
Everyone is focusing on the fan-in-the-hat but that's because few people want to blame the Cubs shortstop who booted a double-play ball that would've ended it. Good point. But, that fan sure change the momentum. Prior was dealing just before this incident. Pierre got a 1 out double; big deal. Just a couple of innings before this, Prior struck out the side. He was dealing and shuting the Marlins down. Now, the fan interferes (technically he doesnt because the ball is foul), Gonzales boots a double play ball, and Prior throws a wild pitch. A wild pitch? He was cruising just before all of this crap.
I sure do like seeing a game 7!!!!
Her454
10-15-2003, 09:12 AM
Someone refresh my memory on the old Cubs curse....something about a man and his goat from the 40's I think.....I remember hearing my dad talk about it? I wouldnt want to be that fan...and I agree, when its your home team get the hell out of the way!!!
If memory serves me correctly. A older man went to a Cubs game with his pet goat, back in the day. Long story short. They escorted him out of the stadium with the goat. I don't remember if they wanted him to buy a ticket for the goat or, he had to leave because no goats allowed. He wasn't real happy and then he put the "hex" on the Cubs for ever more. If that's not correct please help!
JetBoatRich
10-15-2003, 02:11 PM
Something on the curse:
:confused:
Breaking the Cubs' Curse
By George Beres
Mr. Beres, a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, was sports information director at Northwestern, and later at the University of Oregon.
After a drought of 58 years without a place in baseball's World Series, the day has come for an act that can remove from Chicago's Wrigley Field the Billy Goat Curse of 1945.
Time is ripe. Bolstered by the strongest young pitching arms in baseball, the Chicago Cubs-- longtime symbols of diamond futility-- have mystifed the baseball establishment by staying in the tight race for the Central Division lead in the National League. So they should be ready for the mystical that could free them of the curse that has kept them out of the World Series since 1945.
The somber tale is familiar to longtime Cubs fans who had grown accustomed to pennant winners during the first half-century of Big League baseball. It was the 16th World Series for the Cubs when they played the American League's Detroit Tigers in 1945. Division playoffs were a long way off, and each team was the champion of its eight-team league. Fans laughed when a Chicago tavern-keeper, Sam Sianis-- angered over his ejection from a '45 Series game-- pronounced in his broken English: "Never agin will World Series be played in Wrigley Field." The laughter has died, as almost six decades have passed without the Cubs adding that elusive 17th pennant. They have become America's "favorite losers," as Chicago super TV station, WGN-- owned by the same company that runs the Cubs, the Chicago Tribune-- has given the perennial Cubs frustrations a national viewing audience.
One fan, angered by the Cubs image of ineptness, has proposed an exorcism to disolve the curse. He even has arranged for the exorcist: Fr. Guido Sarducci, the "Saturday Night LIve" television identity of actor, Don Novello. Fr. Guido said he is prepared to come to Chicago to perform the exorcism. He would be resplendent in his vestments as he invokes a cleansing invocation while a cherrypicker lifts him high above the main entrance of the ballpark.
The original Billy Goat Sianis, who bequeathed his business-- and the curse-- to his nephew, gave Wrigley Field ushers good reason to eject him from that Series game against the Tigers. He used his second ticket to bring with him his tethered goat. Getting through the gates with his smelly pet was an achievement. Being ejected was a foregone conclusion, as nearby fans complained about the goat's odor.
As the years passed, the curse evolved into one of Chicago's unique traditions, like Ms. O'Leary's cow kicking over the lantern that started the Chicago fire. Mike Royko, Chicago's famed syndicated columnist, wrote an annual column about the curse-based failure of the Cubs.
In 1994, Tom Trebelhorn, one of a string of 10 successive Cubs managers to last no more than a year in the job, did his best to get rid of the curse. He arranged for the second generation Sianis and Cubs great, Ernie Banks, to join a robed group of chanting monastic monks in what was intended to be a curse-cleansing procession around the vine-covered interior walls of Wrigley Field. Nothing changed, and Trebelhorn headed out the Cubs managerial revolving door at the end of the season.
Trebelhorn made one mistake. He failed to involve an exorcist. Now the time has come. Fr. Guido awaits a summons to Chicago to evict the curse of the goat, and resurrect the glory days of the Cubs.
JetBoatRich
10-15-2003, 02:13 PM
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Ziggy
10-15-2003, 02:20 PM
MagicMtnDan:
Everyone is focusing on the fan-in-the-hat but that's because few people want to blame the Cubs shortstop who booted a double-play ball that would've ended it. Exactly!!! he's certainly not the only guy with his hands out for a ball, he just happened to be the one closest to it. Its sad because he is getting all the blame for the Cubs loss...fans are so brutal when their team looses.
JetBoatRich
10-15-2003, 06:30 PM
not looking good right now cry
Dr. Eagle
10-15-2003, 07:04 PM
JetBoatRich:
not looking good right now cry no, but we could still have a cubs vs red sox series, gotta think positive!!!
JetBoatRich
10-15-2003, 07:08 PM
Dr. Eagle:
JetBoatRich:
not looking good right now cry no, but we could still have a cubs vs red sox series, gotta think positive!!! I believe eek! in positive thinking
Dr. Eagle
10-15-2003, 07:10 PM
Ouch, sammy out on strikes...
JetBoatRich
10-15-2003, 07:11 PM
titties and beer:
its only a game jawdrop tell that to the Cubs Fans
JetBoatRich
10-15-2003, 07:21 PM
titties and beer:
whats it been 45 years 58years
mbrown2
10-15-2003, 07:25 PM
Pretty tough to watch these guys go down cry
mbrown2
10-15-2003, 07:28 PM
That guy might as move to Florida; he might be a hero down there :)
JetBoatRich
10-15-2003, 07:33 PM
it is over, sad for the Cubs cry
JetBoatRich
10-15-2003, 07:34 PM
titties and beer:
THAT GUY FILLS LIKE SHIT NOW I would say so, they annouced his name and where he worked on the radio today frown
mbrown2
10-15-2003, 07:35 PM
I just heard a news brief, that fan just caught a flight out of O'Hare....
No info on the destination...
Dr. Eagle
10-15-2003, 07:38 PM
crap...
Dr. Eagle
10-15-2003, 07:38 PM
crap...
Dr. Eagle
10-15-2003, 07:38 PM
crap...
JetBoatRich
10-15-2003, 07:41 PM
mbrown2:
I just heard a news brief, that fan just caught a flight out of O'Hare....
No info on the destination... his life will be changed now, :confused: poor guy.
The Cubs Lost the three games in a row and four out of 7, he didn't.
mbrown2
10-15-2003, 07:42 PM
I can only imagine the atmosphere at the bars on Rush Street...sucks...
Sox and Cubs would have been nice...
Dr. Eagle
10-15-2003, 07:42 PM
JetBoatRich:
mbrown2:
I just heard a news brief, that fan just caught a flight out of O'Hare....
No info on the destination... his life will be changed now, :confused: poor guy.
The Cubs Lost the three games in a row and four out of 7, he didn't. Tough neighborhood...
hd&boatrider
10-15-2003, 08:33 PM
I was rooting for the Cubs but they blew it. More importantly Dusty blew it. He kept Pryor in too long last night. You could see the velocity and location of his pitches were based on him having no gas left. Dusty left him in a couple of batters too long. Another thing Dusty did was insead of having Pryor give the IBB before taking him out he had the relief pitcher walk him. What kind of shit is that?! You want the reliever to come in throwing strikes...not 4 balls to start out. For the record I am a Giants fan and always have been. I have seen Dusty do great until the money is on the line and strategic decisions need to be made under pressure. While I think Dusty is an awfully nice guy he just can't get it done in crunch time. Just my opinion as a life long baseball fan.
[ October 15, 2003, 09:37 PM: Message edited by: hd&boatrider ]
hd&boatrider
10-15-2003, 08:35 PM
Ziggy:
MagicMtnDan:
Everyone is focusing on the fan-in-the-hat but that's because few people want to blame the Cubs shortstop who booted a double-play ball that would've ended it. Exactly!!! he's certainly not the only guy with his hands out for a ball, he just happened to be the one closest to it. Its sad because he is getting all the blame for the Cubs loss...fans are so brutal when their team looses. he blew the play but they were not going to turn that double play,,,,,
Taylor LP
10-15-2003, 09:17 PM
In the words of
http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/654bevis-butt1-ani-avatar.gif
"the Cubs suck more than anything that has ever sucked before."
JetBoatRich
10-16-2003, 05:27 AM
hd&boatrider:
I was rooting for the Cubs but they blew it. More importantly Dusty blew it. He kept Pryor in too long last night. You could see the velocity and location of his pitches were based on him having no gas left. Dusty left him in a couple of batters too long. Another thing Dusty did was insead of having Pryor give the IBB before taking him out he had the relief pitcher walk him. What kind of shit is that?! You want the reliever to come in throwing strikes...not 4 balls to start out. For the record I am a Giants fan and always have been. I have seen Dusty do great until the money is on the line and strategic decisions need to be made under pressure. While I think Dusty is an awfully nice guy he just can't get it done in crunch time. Just my opinion as a life long baseball fan. Well said Tom, just like last year against the Angels.
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