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Author:  torch! [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:23 am ]
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Don't know what won and could only listen for a little bit, but if I would've gotten a chance I would've said "Mac's vacations...errr, great show guys"
Author:  Chus [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:34 am ]
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Guest conductors for the seventh inning stretch at Wrigley. It should have been done for the first year to honor Harry, and then shelved. It has become and old and tired bit. When you are bringing in high school basketball teams, Ozzy Osbourne, and NASCAR drivers who don't even know the name of the building, it is time to let it go.
Author:  Killer V [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:39 am ]
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Losing.


(obvious?)
Author:  OakBrookJoe [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:41 am ]
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Listening to Mike Ditka and the '85 bears analyze "this year's bears" every preseason.
Author:  hawkeye [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:51 am ]
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Telling people what they should and should not put on their hot dog (ketchup). I don't use it myself, but can't stand others that complain about it. Who cares! You can tell someone else what to put on their hot dog when you buy it for them. Otherwise SHUT UP and watch the damn baseball game.
Author:  Brick [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:54 am ]
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Using dead people to vote (for the all star game).

(Had to make it sports related)
Author:  Hawkeye Vince [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:04 am ]
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1. Bear Weather when winter hits 'The bears are 100 and 10 when it's minus 50 with the winds off the lake'

2. The Blackhawks season

3. 'Bleacher Bums' - do these even exist any more in this day and age?
Author:  M_C [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:07 am ]
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hockey
Author:  Jagr Bomb [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:10 am ]
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"torch!" Don't know what won and could only listen for a little bit, but if I would've gotten a chance I would've said "Mac's vacations...errr, great show guys"


Yesterday's web poll was "Who's having the toughest week", with Silvy being one choice. In a similar vein to torch I picked "other" and went with, The Listeners to MJH.

Useless Sports Traditions? Are there any other kind in Chicago? I love Tailgating at The Cell and Soldier Field but that's not exclusive to Chicago.
Author:  Krazy Ivan [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:28 am ]
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Mike North
Author:  THE WIND SOCK [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:05 am ]
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Throwing back visitors home run balls at Wrigley. If I'm catching a home run ball off any MLB players bat, I'm keeping it !!!

You can also include the 20 and 30 year olds that gather on Waveland ave waiting for balls to leave the park and they stand around with baseball gloves on . Losers!
Author:  Sam in Hoffman [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:10 am ]
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Folks at Hawks games cheering and hollering during the Anthem.. grrr.. solemn respect.. not crazed hooting and hollering..

/am a military kid... so this was conditioned into me as a child.. along with people that wear hats when indoors.
Author:  good dolphin [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:09 pm ]
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The national anthem before any game
Author:  Mustang Rob [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:37 pm ]
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The national anthem before any game


Pinko commie :wink:

I always thought this should be reserved for contests involving the national teams.
Author:  Brick [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:46 pm ]
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Coach Crapowski wrote:
Rooting for Notre Dame despite having absolutely no connection (attended by the person in question or by his or her immediate family members) to the school.


I agree with this one, and to add my own thoughts.

People who root for Notre Dame who didn't attend there and talk about how great of an academic school it is. Just because you root for a football team on 12 or so saturdays a year does not give you the right to put down any school on academics unless you actually went to a school that is better.

I get so sick and tired of hearing about Notre Dame and academics, it is a good undergraduate school and excels in a few areas but it is not the greatest university in the midwest.

To put it another way, if they did join the Big Ten they would actually have to invest a lot of money to improve their academics since they would be at the bottom of graduate level programs and towards the bottom in research.

Sorry to go off on a tangent, and this is not an attack on ND alums(who normally have respect for other schools) or level headed non-ND alums but I really don't want some drunk idiot at a bar who thinks that just because he roots for ND that he is now an alumni.

Addition to my post: I guess I don't care as much who you root for, but how you root for them. If you want to adopt ND as your team than go ahead, but don't then start to act like they are the center of the college football universe.
Author:  good dolphin [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:48 pm ]
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I smell a TM post coming...
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:31 pm ]
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Rooting for Notre Dame despite having absolutely no connection (attended by the person in question or by his or her immediate family members) to the school.


well....i guess i can't root for the Bears, Sox, or Bulls anymore, Coach...seeing how I didn't play for them or work for them.

Go UIC!
Author:  31st street lot [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:04 pm ]
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THE WIND SOCK wrote:
Throwing back visitors home run balls at Wrigley. If I'm catching a home run ball off any MLB players bat, I'm keeping it !!!

You can also include the 20 and 30 year olds that gather on Waveland ave waiting for balls to leave the park and they stand around with baseball gloves on . Losers!


I couldn't agree with you more and I'd like to add a tid bit here. If you follow the ball from when it goes into the stands after a home run, that tradition becomes even more ridiculus. The ball goes from the fan in the stands, to an outfielder, to an ump, to a security guy or other Wrigley field employee along sides, and then he or she throws it to, you guessed it, a fan in the first couple of rows who keeps it. Stupid, it's just stupid.
Author:  Mustang Rob [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:13 pm ]
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Throwing back visitors home run balls at Wrigley. If I'm catching a home run ball off any MLB players bat, I'm keeping it !!!

Add to this the booing of anyone refusing to follow the "tradition", and the switch of the ball by Cubs employees as outed by the Fox cameras, and you really got nothing.
Author:  MattInTheCrown [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:03 pm ]
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If I'm catching a home run ball off any MLB players bat, I'm keeping it !!!

More a sports tradition in general, but the treating of baseballs as golden idols that should be acquired at any and all costs, including reaching into the playing field and fighting in the stands.

Throwing the ball back may be silly, I suppose, but keeping a ball is itself a sentimental act, and generally a silly one (unless it's a landmark home run or something).
Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:04 pm ]
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if a ball comes near me, ill reach or jump for it, but i wont take a header into the row in front of me..

if i end up with it, i toss it to a kid near me. ive done this a couple of times.
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:06 pm ]
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Matt....
one could argue that catching a home run ball is a landmark act for the individual.
i think it'd be pretty cool to catch one.
Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:06 pm ]
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actually...this leads me to another one..


grown men bringing thier baseball glove to a game. anybody over age..say 12 should be barred from entering the stadium if they are carrying a glove in*


*exceptions can be made for men of any age if they are simply holding a glove for thier son, grandson, or brother. if they use the glove to go after a ball, however, they should be removed from the park and tarred a feathered.
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:09 pm ]
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agreed....you can have a glove if it's to "protect" your kids or if your kids have gloves. otherwise, just kinda dorky.
Author:  STU-GOTZ [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:10 pm ]
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Frank Coztansa wrote:
if a ball comes near me, ill reach or jump for it, but i wont take a header into the row in front of me..

if i end up with it, i toss it to a kid near me. ive done this a couple of times.


Pretty cool they let you keep the ball at Little league games up in Bozeman there Frank . :P
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:17 pm ]
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:lol:
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:23 pm ]
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I did, but there is some truth.

I can't like ND or Florida or Nebraska b/c I didn't go there?
UIC doesn't have a football team.
Author:  Woodridge Ryan [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:24 pm ]
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Not a fan of this one

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Rooting for Notre Dame despite having absolutely no connection (attended by the person in question or by his or her immediate family members) to the school.


but I guess we all have our opinions. Does the rule apply to any college that you might be a fan of, or just Notre Dame? I don't get it.
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