Considering this is about all the Cubs will be pushing for the next week, we may as well all jump in with our most memorable times. Even some of the Sox fans had to have some good times at the park. Maybe you got into a fight? maybe you met your wife in the bleachers? Maybe you used to smoke some weed with your gym teacher in the bleachers? maybe you went to the game with your Dad and he bought you the team? Maybe you got to piss into a trough with a bunch of strange drunk men? Maybe you got a floppy hat? Maybe you caught a HR?

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

This would have been the prefect year to get the hell out of that shit hole & actually move into a real major league baseball facility.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

You got one available?

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I went to a game that went deep into extra innings against the Pirates. I was there with my dad and grandpa. It was cold but I was one of those kids who didn't leave until the game was over. Very few people remained in the stands during extra innings. The ones who were left were a group of very drunk Latinos who yelled like crazy for everything Jerry Morales.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Build it and they will come...

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

August 8th, 1978.

1st Cubs game. My Dad and I.

Big Red Machine 8 Cubs 3

Kingman HR. Awesome.

Went to another game in 83 when they brought Fergie back. He pitched a masterpiece. Loved that guy. Dad walked me up to the press box where I got Harry's autograph. My last game with my Dad....he died unexpectedly in October of that year.

In my 20's, sat in the bleachers every year and had a lot of good times. Was at the game when Spike Lee was filming his Nike commercial about the ball hawks. Saw Billy Connors at a bar post-game. Just watched Greg Hibbard get his ass kicked so I gave him my drunken analysis.... "Billy, Hibbard's gotta get a changeup....if he doesn't get that curve over there just sitting on that weak fastball". Billy put down his chicken wing, looked me in the eye and said "How about you don't worry about it?". My buddies got quite a laugh out of that.

I was able to share a game at Wrigley with my grandpa shortly before his passing. If memory serves we even saw Sammy hit a home run and steal a base.

Lots of great memories here. My first ballgame. I can't say I really remember that though.

I do remember my first Opening Day, maybe in '74 or '75. My dad sent me with two lesbian friends of his, Liz and Mary. Of course at that age I had no idea about any bushwhackers. They were just a couple drunken old broads to me. It was cold as hell out there. The three of us agreed to go over to The Sports Corner after about four or five innings. They got loaded and I drank Cokes and ate Slim Jims. My dad met us after he got off work. I'm sure my mother would have freaked out had she known about this shit. Different times though.

I saw Hank Aaron hit number 727 there. I still have the complete scorecard I kept that day. Lane Tech boy Buzz Capra started that day for the Braves. It happens he's been dating a friend of a friend for the past few years. One day I'm gonna get him to sign that scorecard.

Watched Prior beat Maddux in the '03 playoffs from a rooftop on Waveland. Took a cute chick from Park Forest to the Florida game where Sammy hit the camera shack the next week. Earlier that season I was at the corked bat game.

Had a pair of tickets on a shitty cold day and couldn't find anyone else to go. Went by myself and should have seen Odalis Perez pitch a perfecto for the Dodgers if Corey Patterson hadn't beaten one out on the infield.

Had a Cub fan friend refuse to ever go to another game with me the day Patterson fucked up his knee running to first and Woody Williams beat Prior. I was laughing my ass off as the Cub fans filed out in the seventh and I kept taunting my buddy by saying, "There they go- the best fans in baseball!"

Lots of great times getting loaded in the Bleachers with my Sox fan friends, Mike and Chris. Especially during Sox-Cubs series.

Lots of great times with my dad when I was a kid. Sometimes we'd be at The Sports Corner and I'd go across the street and get in for free after the sixth while the old man stayed over at the bar drinking J&B and water. I used to keep score a lot back then. I also liked to sport my White Sox colors:

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

If there was one person on this board who would have been taken to a Cub game as a youth by two lesbians, JORR would have been my guess.

The Buzz Capra mention was also a nice touch. Always got that fuckers baseball card.

Used to get a free pair from Herm Berghoff for working on his vehicles. Took my wife and son when he was young enough to sit on our laps with no extra ticket. He's still a Cubs fan today. How did I go so wrong?

I saw a drunk bro try to catch a squirrel that hopped out of the ivy and run along the basket. He got bounced after almost falling into the basket.

First game ever was Robert Scheindels birthday (I hope google locks in on his name). April day game, freezing cold rain, we sat in 200 level, had a hot dog, they cancelled the game , we went home.

AHHHH...memories

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I remember going to games where the upper deck was closed due to low attendance and they didn't want to have to clean it up.

I was at Opening Day 2004, with Maddux on the mound. Froze my ass off.

Favorite memories as a kid were seeing a game-winning homer by Pete LaCock and seeing the Big Red Machine in their prime. Also watched the Pirates give the Cubs a 22-0 beat down (Rennie Stennett went 7-for-7, including two 2-hit innings). May still be the biggest shutout in history.

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I was 11 years old and sitting about 5 seats from the kid who became the plaintiff in this case (with my glove and scorecard). I'll never forget the sound of the hiss of the ball, the sound of the impact and the sound of the kid screaming. The one thing Bull Durham did that was worse than booting that ground ball.


http://www.leagle.com/decision/19921165 ... LUB,%20INC.

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Soccer 1,2,3
Spanish Honor Society 1,2,3,4
Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

The only time I went there in the past 10 years was with Darko. '08 I think. Facing the Pads and Peavy. I don't even remember who was pitching for the Cubs but he struck out the side to start the game and the Cubs shelled Peavy. I got drunk and had a good time.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I was at the Bartman game.

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Last game I remember going to was when the Cubs clinched at home in 2008 against the Cardinals. I was
never quite the same after they got swept by the Dodgers after having the best record in baseball. I have
tickets to a game in a month.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

I would be remiss if I did not mention that the first time I met anyone from this board was in pre-gaming for a Sox-Cubs game at Wrigley when I met Aggravated Bob, bigfan, and Rich Farmsystem at a bar on Clark Street. I cannot remember where it was. I don't think it was Yak-zie's. Maybe that place where Jimmy & Tai's used to be- the Full Shilling? That doesn't sound right either. I'm pretty sure the Sox won that day though, because Aggravated Bob, good dolphin, the Herberts, the Lanagans, and I were all very happy in the Bernie's beer garden after the game. It could be we were all just drunk.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

I went to like 11 or 12 Cubs and Sox games before I saw one of the teams lose.

Lots of memories

First time I saw a major league pitcher throw up close was Lee Smith warming up in the pen.

Sandberg hit a homerun at my first game

98 playoff against the Giants was just awesome

Prior's first game was memorable for what could have been

Saw most of the 2004 choke live at Wrigley

Saw Sosa win a game with a corked bat ground out (2 days before he got caught)



Good times. Nice park.

Best memory I have of Wrigley is seeing Pearl Jam there last summer. Been to a few Cubs games, probably most notably in 2006 maybe when Kerry Woods was making his first start of the season off the DL and gave up a couple of HRs to Soriano in a Cubs loss to the Nationals.

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Hey Chus, you have any idea what the odds against that must have been?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Oh yeah! Probably at least 10 years ago now, my buddy Phil (the guy who writes up the breakfast blogs) was hanging out in Wrigleyville. He saw they were resodding the field. The old rolls were being put onto a small dump truck parked on Waveland. He ran up, stole a roll and took off down the street. Some tourists were watching him with jaws agape and he yelled, "welcome to Chicago motherfuckers." We planted the sod at another friends house (who is a Cubs fan) and it lasted thru that season but did not survive the winter. I believe he may saved a small part of it in a flower pot that he keeps inside.

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Nothing eventful happened in the 10 or so games I have gone to over the last 20 years.

2 best memories would have to be seeing The Gambler play before the game for some mini concert promotion and seeing the Cubs win a few games without playing any dumbass victory song.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Since it was Cubs sod it would have been more appropriate if it had died in June.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Well, I started going in 83 so I caught a couple rare division winners

Throw in a punk band , a chick you used to bone but weren't quite "together' with, and 3 polacks and this could be a JORR story.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

June 16th 1998. First time I ever went to a game at Wrigley. My dad picked me up from football workouts and we headed over. It was a beautiful day and Trachsel was pitching. Cubs went down 10-0 before losing 11-2. My dad being the die hard Sox fan he is made us stay til the end of the game.

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I'm surprised the game is over already.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

I was at the first official night game. The first scheduled night game was rained out and I had tickets the next day. I took my friend who would later come out of the closet and now operates a Chicago restaurant on the west coast.

I used to go with no adult supervision all the time as a kid. It had to be as early as 6th but definitely by 7th grade. I'd hop on the Peterson bus to Bryn Mawr and take the red line to Addison. My friend and I were huge baseball fans and we both had little brothers who were the same age so we would all go together. I would buy a different team baseball hat at each game back when the mesh backround hats were really the only kind they would sell.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.