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Madtowntripper
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More Cubs Misery...or, The Last 10 Years, Redux
#5671812 - 05/25/06 07:50 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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So its no big secret that the Cubs are bad. Fine, We're TERRIBLE. Probably the worst team in the majors. But thats fine, I'm used to it, theres always next year. I've almost convinced myself we arent a cursed team, that maybe theres a light at the end of the tunnel.
Then I turn on the Yankee's game last night and see Kyle Farnsworth striking out Big Papi and looking like freaking Brad Lidge. When the fuck did this guy become a real pitcher? I watched him in Chicago for 3 years and you could see his eyes get wild and tense anytime someone even mentioned a pressure situation. We always said he had great potential, if nothing else because he can throw 180 mph, but he never had the mind to be a real pitcher. It figures that we trade him away and all of a sudden he has his shit together. I mean, come on, how much can 1 team take?
As if thats not enough, I see Corey Patterson, another Cubs loser who we traded away after watching him struggle for years and years and years, is hitting over .300, slugging .500, and has 15 stolen bases for the Orioles. He struck out twice a game last year!!!!
Anyway. I'm at my wits end with this team. Is it football season yet?
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Infrared
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Re: More Cubs Misery...or, The Last 10 Years, Redux [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5672305 - 05/25/06 11:03 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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seriously... i knew farnsworth would be good eventually.. all he ever needed was even a bit of control and hed be dominating, but the cubs couldnt wait that long we also had tom gordon before the yankees too.. he just went on to be one of the premiere set up men. also dontrelle willis.. also jon garland... nolasco, shall i continue?
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OneMoreRobot3021


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Re: More Cubs Misery...or, The Last 10 Years, Redux [Re: Infrared]
#5672317 - 05/25/06 11:05 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Farnsworth had a chance to be Atlanta's closer this year too. Says a lot that he chose to be a set-up man for Mariano instead. 
That Ortiz strikeout last night made my fucking day.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Re: More Cubs Misery...or, The Last 10 Years, Redux [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5672349 - 05/25/06 11:10 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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just wait til you guys get in a brawl... farnsworth can drop fools left and right
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OneMoreRobot3021


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Re: More Cubs Misery...or, The Last 10 Years, Redux [Re: Infrared]
#5672365 - 05/25/06 11:12 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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There was a lot of talk that a Yankee pitcher was gonna plunk Manny yesterday, after the showboating he did the day before.
He does pwn us this year though.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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robbyberto
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Re: More Cubs Misery...or, The Last 10 Years, Redux [Re: Madtowntripper]
#10041081 - 03/25/09 07:20 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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The Cubs are awesome now. Ted Lilly and Ryan Dempster will lead you to victory! Nolasco is great, Farnsworth is still mediocre but he got a totally ridiculous contract out of Kansas City.
-------------------- “People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn’t necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change my life.” -Karl Pilkington
Edited by robbyberto (03/25/09 07:26 PM)
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Madtowntripper
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Re: More Cubs Misery...or, The Last 10 Years, Redux [Re: robbyberto]
#10041123 - 03/25/09 07:26 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm not worried!
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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whattheheck
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Re: More Cubs Misery...or, The Last 10 Years, Redux [Re: Madtowntripper]
#10043391 - 03/26/09 01:12 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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The world as we know it is about to end, the Cubs winning the series is the opening of the 7th seal.
-------------------- A society whose whole idea is to eliminate suffering and bring it's members the greatest amount of comfort and pleasure is doomed to be destroyed -Thomas Merton
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Redstorm
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Re: More Cubs Misery...or, The Last 10 Years, Redux [Re: Madtowntripper]
#10044831 - 03/26/09 10:14 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Madtowntripper said: I'm not worried!
Of course not since they're not down in an opening round playoff series that they're favored to win yet.
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mr.bixby
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Re: More Cubs Misery...or, The Last 10 Years, Redux [Re: Redstorm]
#10046909 - 03/26/09 03:47 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Redstorm said:
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Madtowntripper said: I'm not worried!
Of course not since they're not down in an opening round playoff series that they're favored to win yet.
Exactly, but who knows? Boston finally got it going in the postseason and maybe the Cubs will get used to not choking and playing well when the pressure is on.
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