The Chicago Cubs..Please Just Go Away!!!

SPEEDY MCCREADY

81 wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

I have tickets for Sundays game against Cincy......

ughhhh..............

can't wait for fridays game :roll:

76 + 9.12 in tax to sit out in the right field bleachs. oh boy. can't wait to be baked by the mid day sun.

I gave my tickets for Sundays game to a co-worker.

He said he had never been to Wrigley Field, and that he was going to take his 13 year old son, who is a BIG Cubs fan.

COOL.........

81

that'll be fun for the kid...you are such a good egg

SPEEDY MCCREADY

81 wrote:

that'll be fun for the kid...you are such a good egg

Yeah...

The guy I work with was ALL EXCITED!!!!!!
He looked like a little kid at Christmas.....

He wanted to offer me money...
But there was no way in hell I was going to take it....

He jumped on his cell phone right away, to call his son and tell him they had Cubs tickets for Sunday....


It was pretty cool to see someone so genuinley thrilled about going to Wrigley for the first time......

LikeAnOcean

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

It was pretty cool to see someone so genuinley thrilled about going to Wrigley for the first time......

Did you warn him not to use the restrooms?

QuarterToTen

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

81 wrote:

that'll be fun for the kid...you are such a good egg

Yeah...

The guy I work with was ALL EXCITED!!!!!!
He looked like a little kid at Christmas.....

He wanted to offer me money...
But there was no way in hell I was going to take it....

He jumped on his cell phone right away, to call his son and tell him they had Cubs tickets for Sunday....


It was pretty cool to see someone so genuinley thrilled about going to Wrigley for the first time......

It will be a day neither of them will ever forget.

Pretty cool indeed.

LikeAnOcean

QuarterToTen wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

81 wrote:

that'll be fun for the kid...you are such a good egg

Yeah...

The guy I work with was ALL EXCITED!!!!!!
He looked like a little kid at Christmas.....

He wanted to offer me money...
But there was no way in hell I was going to take it....

He jumped on his cell phone right away, to call his son and tell him they had Cubs tickets for Sunday....


It was pretty cool to see someone so genuinley thrilled about going to Wrigley for the first time......

It will be a day neither of them will ever forget.

Pretty cool indeed.

I still remember my first ball game at the old Comiskey Park. I was 10 years old. I remember the lady behind me beating the hell out of a guy with her umbrella because he stoled the foul ball she was about to catch. lol.

81

LikeAnOcean wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

It was pretty cool to see someone so genuinley thrilled about going to Wrigley for the first time......

Did you warn him not to use the restrooms?

what he didn't tell the guy was the seats were right behind a pole

SPEEDY MCCREADY

5th worst record in all of baseball........
17 games under .500....


I am now hoping these fuckers go 15-36, just so they can lose 100 games.....

mca47

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

5th worst record in all of baseball........
17 games under .500....


I am now hoping these fuckers go 15-36, just so they can lose 100 games.....

They haven't tried in the last month.
Pathetic...

davidtrios

I'm going to the Padres/Cubs game tonight at Wrigley . I know what you're thinking- I hate the poor Cubs. but, I am going there to root 2005 Chicago White Sox Hero Jon Garland as he goes on the bump for San Diego.

81

Davidtrios wrote:

I'm going to the Padres/Cubs game tonight at Wrigley

my condolances

LikeAnOcean

Cubs only chance to win is to demolish Wrigley and build a stadium someplace where they wouldn't have so many day games.

I was thinking about this the other day. When my work schedule shifts back and forth I get thrown off. These players get used to 3 to 11 shifts, followed by a night life. When they get a 1 PM game, all of a sudden they have to be ready for practice around 8 or 9 in the morning. Doing this once a week may be no problem, but switching back constantly over a 81 game home season can be tough. Having a routine is the best thing for an MLB player.

Ex Cub players will all agree that Wrigley is a brutal place to play. They can't complain as a current players because it would look like they were making excuses, but it's true.

It comes down to the fans. Do they want a winning team or a beer garden?

81

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Cubs only chance to win is to demolish Wrigley and build a stadium someplace where they wouldn't have so many day games.

I was thinking about this the other day. When my work schedule shifts back and forth I get thrown off. These players get used to 3 to 11 shifts, followed by a night life. When they get a 1 PM game, all of a sudden they have to be ready for practice around 8 or 9 in the morning. Doing this once a week may be no problem, but switching back constantly over a 81 game home season can be tough. Having a routine is the best thing for an MLB player.

Ex Cub players will all agree that Wrigley is a brutal place to play. They can't complain as a current players because it would look like they were making excuses, but it's true.

It comes down to the fans. Do they want a winning team or a beer garden?

i don't buy the too many day game arguement. look at 03, 07 and 08. you are telling me they chocked away the NLCS because they played one to many day games? or they got swept in 07 and 08 because they played to many day games? what about back in the 1910's 20's 30's 40's when nobody played night games?

here is why the cubs always choke. god is pissed that they built wrigley on a former seminary location

mca47

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Cubs only chance to win is to demolish Wrigley and build a stadium someplace where they wouldn't have so many day games.

I was thinking about this the other day. When my work schedule shifts back and forth I get thrown off. These players get used to 3 to 11 shifts, followed by a night life. When they get a 1 PM game, all of a sudden they have to be ready for practice around 8 or 9 in the morning. Doing this once a week may be no problem, but switching back constantly over a 81 game home season can be tough. Having a routine is the best thing for an MLB player.

Ex Cub players will all agree that Wrigley is a brutal place to play. They can't complain as a current players because it would look like they were making excuses, but it's true.

It comes down to the fans. Do they want a winning team or a beer garden?

Wrigley may be tough to play in the daytime (mostly due to the sun's effects on the right side of the field), but the overwhelming majority of baseball players prefer to play in the day with natural light.

Even in my baseball days (now softball days), I'd take a day game any day over a night game. Defensively I was much, much better during the day. I could see, and track the ball much better, and you don't have to worry about the haze of the artificial lights. I also had a much better batting average during the day too.

As a fan, I also prefer to go to a baseball game during the day (except for some late July, early August games).

The Cubs, while they more often than not suck, have had some good years. Besides, when they choked in the playoffs, weren't most of those games night games?

81

mca47 wrote:

The Cubs, while they more often than not suck, have had some good years. Besides, when they choked in the playoffs, weren't most of those games night games?

all were night games.

LikeAnOcean

mca47 wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Cubs only chance to win is to demolish Wrigley and build a stadium someplace where they wouldn't have so many day games.

I was thinking about this the other day. When my work schedule shifts back and forth I get thrown off. These players get used to 3 to 11 shifts, followed by a night life. When they get a 1 PM game, all of a sudden they have to be ready for practice around 8 or 9 in the morning. Doing this once a week may be no problem, but switching back constantly over a 81 game home season can be tough. Having a routine is the best thing for an MLB player.

Ex Cub players will all agree that Wrigley is a brutal place to play. They can't complain as a current players because it would look like they were making excuses, but it's true.

It comes down to the fans. Do they want a winning team or a beer garden?

Wrigley may be tough to play in the daytime (mostly due to the sun's effects on the right side of the field), but the overwhelming majority of baseball players prefer to play in the day with natural light.

Even in my baseball days (now softball days), I'd take a day game any day over a night game. Defensively I was much, much better during the day. I could see, and track the ball much better, and you don't have to worry about the haze of the artificial lights. I also had a much better batting average during the day too.

As a fan, I also prefer to go to a baseball game during the day (except for some late July, early August games).

The Cubs, while they more often than not suck, have had some good years. Besides, when they choked in the playoffs, weren't most of those games night games?

Easier or not, it's still the routine aspect. They just choked in the playoffs. If they have a more routine schedule, they will get into the playoffs more often. Remember, the other team gets to play in the daytime too with them so that negates that advantage.

81

LikeAnOcean wrote:

. If they have a more routine schedule, they will get into the playoffs more often.

all things being equal, they should win their division once every 6 years and the wild card once every 13 years.

they went to the playoffs 3 times in the last decade, so they are meeting the playoff target, at least recently.

LikeAnOcean

81 wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

. If they have a more routine schedule, they will get into the playoffs more often.

all things being equal, they should win their division once every 6 years and the wild card once every 13 years.

they went to the playoffs 3 times in the last decade, so they are meeting the playoff target, at least recently.

Well they have been throwing the money out there in recent years..

Still, in 102 years there has to be some trend thats hurting them. There HAS to be something about Wrigley. Poor management doesn't just last a century.

81

LikeAnOcean wrote:

81 wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

. If they have a more routine schedule, they will get into the playoffs more often.

all things being equal, they should win their division once every 6 years and the wild card once every 13 years.

they went to the playoffs 3 times in the last decade, so they are meeting the playoff target, at least recently.

Well they have been throwing the money out there in recent years..

Still, in 102 years there has to be some trend thats hurting them. There HAS to be something about Wrigley. Poor management doesn't just last a century.

you can throw out 1909-1935 as day only games being the issue. first nigt game in mlb was played in 1935.

management plays a huge roll. just look at the Pirates, if they don't change their managment style, they'll go forever without even cracking 500. (18 and counting now)

you can make an arguement for pressure of not having won in forever. that's pretty big. what's the first thing the media will ask the new manager? the curse, the 100 year itch, the pressure of it all.

speaking of the media. that's over blown imo.

i guess you can blame some things on Wrigley, like the lack of work out space, batting practice space etc. but are they that bad, when compared to old yankee stadium or fenway?

LikeAnOcean

Don't worry. Cubs will win the World Series in 2015 against Miami. Robert Zemeckis said so!