Jimmy, I have a feeling you would still like Hendry to be the GM

I lasted one paragraph into this garbage: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/10/23/ ... he-moment/

Edit: Also, Terry's back! Almost forget. Can he bring a bit of sanity?

I lasted one paragraph into this garbage: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/10/23/ ... he-moment/

Holy fuck, what a piece of absolute garbage. He said less in a few hundred words than perhaps any article ever written

As with most of his articles, I couldn't even finish that turd.

They own the actual accomplishments for which you continue to yearn, achievements you reach out consciously to try to share alongside them.

Such is the absurdity inherent in all sports fandom but so magnified in this one, a one-way street of connection that’s radiating such joy in large part due to the truth that only one end of the relationship cares about it that much.

Players have been sufficiently insulated from any gravity exerted by this other world that orbits theirs, your world of your feelings.

No,but like i said in the White Sox thread,Theo & Jed had a lot of luck involved with their 3 year plan of planned sucking. I will never agree that was the right way.

Just because they wear that uniform and play in the same old ballpark doesn’t mean they inherit some shared history despite all the seeming desire to make it so.

This was the quote that got me. I know he wants to believe that because that is basically the entire point of that mess.

But, it's not true. They do inherit "some shared history". The same way Presidents that live in the White House inherit some shared history or radio hosts that take over a drivetime slot at a sports station inherit some shared history.

It may not mean much to the players on the field or it may mean a great deal. But, like it or not, Anthony Rizzo shares some history with Ernie Banks and Mark Grace and Larry Biittner because they played the same position in the same uniform on the same field.

I think it's 1000 words of garbage for Dan Bernstein to say that no Cub players care about the past or the fans. Some probably don't give a shit. Some may think it is very cool. He doesn't know. He just wants to believe it.

This was the quote that got me. I know he wants to believe that because that is basically the entire point of that mess.

But, it's not true. They do inherit "some shared history". The same way Presidents that live in the White House inherit some shared history or radio hosts that take over a drivetime slot at a sports station inherit some shared history.

It may not mean much to the players on the field or it may mean a great deal. But, like it or not, Anthony Rizzo shares some history with Ernie Banks and Mark Grace and Larry Biittner because they played the same position in the same uniform on the same field.

I think it's 1000 words of garbage for Dan Bernstein to say that no Cub players care about the past or the fans. Some probably don't give a shit. Some may think it is very cool. He doesn't know. He just wants to believe it.

I have a 3-hour drive today, and I'm leaving at 12:45 on the dot so that I can quietly reflect in the car with my daughter?

of course there was a lot of luck...there was a lot of luck in the Bobby Hill trade too that netted Aramis and Kenny Lofton. If they win the WS, and yes the playoffs are a crapshoot, it's over...

I never liked the plan, but when it meets with success, by any way possible, you congratulate the planners.

This crosstalk should really be something. Terry's health will probably remain a mystery and instead we will have "The King of Assholes" tell us we are wrong as fans to be happy.

This was the quote that got me. I know he wants to believe that because that is basically the entire point of that mess.

But, it's not true. They do inherit "some shared history". The same way Presidents that live in the White House inherit some shared history or radio hosts that take over a drivetime slot at a sports station inherit some shared history.

It may not mean much to the players on the field or it may mean a great deal. But, like it or not, Anthony Rizzo shares some history with Ernie Banks and Mark Grace and Larry Biittner because they played the same position in the same uniform on the same field.

I think it's 1000 words of garbage for Dan Bernstein to say that no Cub players care about the past or the fans. Some probably don't give a shit. Some may think it is very cool. He doesn't know. He just wants to believe it.

It was something with his throat.

I'll say it again: the most academically credentialed people on this site are the ones that dislike Dan the most. I don't pretend that academically credentialed is the equivalent of smart. Dan does, which is why I used the terminology.

The people who seem to love him the most are mildly educated bourgeois who think that agreement with him gives them status.

Exactly. And it most certainly does belong to the fans. Because if the fans didn't care Theo Epstein might be teaching a high school American history class in Brookline and Javy Baez would likely be working a drive-thru window in Jacksonville.