So Will the Cubs go all the way this year???

tkepearljamn wrote:

I second that. Go Cards. I feel blessed that I have been able to see my team in the series 2 times and win one of them. I don't count 85 and 87 bc I don't remember those two series. I wasn't born in 82 yet when we won. But 2006 was awesome.

One of the funniest moments of my life was on a bus shuttle to Wrigley. My buddy is a South Side Sox Fan and I am From Saint Louis. We were driving up during the first game of a double header. Game one went to 16 innings.. so we decided to go to game 2. While on the bus I said... "The cards are due to go to win a world series or at least go to one." The people on the bus through a shit fit bc they thought I was being an a-hole. In reality I was just using statistics. I had to leave the bus and find a new way to wrigley. The Cards won game 2. This is in 2004 and we did go to the series.



In 2004 we lost ( with honor ) to one of the greatest sports stories in history. In 2006 the Cards won a world series with the help of Carp and Wano and little David Eckstein.

sorry, cards got thier asses stomped in 04. there was NO honor in lying down for the red sox "nation".

Too many issues with starting pitching IMO to allow them to win in the post season.

Case in point:

Zambrano, aside from his no hitter, has been terrible and sore lately
Hardin can only pitch 80-90 pitches, Marmol is not Marmol (Circa May)
Dempster has been solid, but can he keep it up?
Wood (can he pitch several days in a row?)


also, cubbie karma suggests they will blow it.

pjfan020 wrote:

we've been a bandwagon team since 2003...you know how hard it is to get tix after that year...either way yes it's our year.

As a White Sox fan, i know all about the bandwagon. I went to 3 games in 2005 and could scalp some good seats for face value or below.

2006, went to 2 games and could only afford the upper deck.

jackwvu wrote:

not if the phils have anything to say about it!!!!!

Right!!

Nope, they'll choke in the end. They always do. Go Cards!!!

White Sox beat Cubs 1-0 in Game 7 letting the curse live on. As Paul Konerko catches the last out you can hear Ernie Banks mutter... "200 years".

i'm still hoping the astros will somehow sneak in there....

tkepearljamn wrote:

In 2006 the Cards won a world series with the help of Carp and Wano and little David Eckstein.

Don't forget the help of a crap AL team. The Tigers' season was a fluke.


Sorry to say it to all the haters out there, but this year is the Cubs year. I've been going to games since 1981 and I can say that the bandwagon effect won't really be felt in Chicago, but it sure as hell will be felt in other cities where people swich loyalties like T-shirts. As much as I hate Cards fans and White Sox fans (and believe me, I do hate them with every fiber of my being, even though I've got more than a few friends of that curious persuasion) at least they are real fans who live and die with their teams and would never think of jumping ship. In a way, I've got more respect for those true fans who hate me for being a Cub fan, than those moral equivalists who say you root for your team and I'll root for mine and who cares who wins, it's just a game.

The beautiful thing about sports is that the sentiment of "My country, right or wrong" is wholly deplorable, whereas "my team, right or wrong" can be admirable, because people's lives and livlihood don't hang in the balance. It's a healthy outlet for black and white fanaticism (no coincidence that's "fans" root word) so that we can approach life in all it's complexity; those varrying shades of grey.

In short: Go Cubs Go!

brother5vs.1 wrote:

only a cards fan could make up a nickname as poor as the scrubs and celebrate how many posts they have at the same time. as always "the cardinals take it in the pujols". as for the cubs, our team is looking as strong as ever, but i will withhold my prediction for fear of being a part of the many curses that have plagued us for so long. cards suck, go cubs

So you combat a post about Cards fans nicknames for the Cubs with the oh so original "take it in the Pujols" line?

Nice.

Fuck the Cubs.