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God bless Jose Cardenal.

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You know me like that.

I pm'd you.

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Freedom is our Strength.

Jerry Morales had a nice season.

So is this JimmyPasta?

That's hot.



That would be the 1877 Cubs.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I so badly wanted to reference Heity Cruz but that was 1978.

Still.

Done.

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I guess if we were going to 1978, I could have also referenced Scot Thompson.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Isn't that the gay kids in the hall guy?

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Never saw it.

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I always thought I was the only one.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

The show was pretty funny.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
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Probably.

Some people like sushi. I wouldn't try it again if you paid me.

Have we discovered the identity of our mystery guest yet?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I hear you on sushi, Don.

But you just haven't had great sushi. I was once where you are. Let me bring you into the light.

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You know me like that.

Because it's you, I'd give it one more whirl.

But we both know we can never be seen in public together.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Sushi is awesome.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Don't feel bad.

I don't want to be seen in public with anyone.

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You know me like that.

I wasn't worried about you.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

And of course, Kingman.

I think I remember Heity Cruz hitting a big home run in Atlanta.

Yep. I listened on my transistor radio.

I think he hit 2 pinch hit home runs to win games that year.

I thought the Cubs had something. It was the beginning of a lifetime of Cub delusions.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I just awakened from a sound sleep to post this. Probably because I think I may be having a deep mental breakdown. This seemed like the right place to put it:

I was having this extremely vivid dream. I was showing Dr. Ken and a few other guys from the board (I couldn't tell you who) around my childhood home. We went down to the basement bar and it was exactly the way it was when I was a kid. My dad had a shitload of baseball memorabilia. It was all there, but in the dream there was even more of it. Dr. Ken was duly impressed. Especially with all the Cubs stuff. I kept pointing different pieces out. Most were things we actually had, but some didn't actually exist (at least not in our house). There were trophies and framed caricatures of historic baseball events. I went behind the bar and there were three helmets. One belonged to Glenn Beckert and had his number 18 painted on it (this was something I had in real life until I sold it). There was another batting helmet that had belonged to Heity Cruz (obviously a result of reading this thread before bedtime). Finally, there was a blue catcher's helmet/mask combo without a logo. It had the number 28 on it. I didn't know who it belonged to. Later in the dream we were discussing obscure Cub players and someone mentioned a guy named Taylor Gowejis. I remembered him as a catcher. We looked him up in my dad's Baseball Encyclopaedia. He had caught only 13 games for the Cubs and had also played for Toronto. We decided from the color that the helmet was actually a Blue Jays helmet.

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Freedom is our Strength.

You are a Cubs fan.

At what point did you reckon you were in bat country?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

keep forgetting to mention this/post a link to it:

it's an abridged (the horror, the horror) audio-book of Fear and Loathing put out on Margaritaville Records--yeah, that guy. Buffett makes a brief cameo as the state trooper who pulls over Thompson/Duke while Thompson/Duke's clutching "an evidence bomb [open beer]" firmly in his non-steering hand.

Similar to the scene from the first season of Fargo when Billy Bob T's pulled over by the local dude cop and thinly-veiled-threatens his way on down the road.

https://youtu.be/fhdP1180GJY

Absolutely not, but we did have a lot of Cubs stuff. My dad worked right down the street from the ballpark and knew a lot of people who worked for the team. Once when Montreal was in town, one of my father's friends brought Ellis Valentine into the bank because he needed to cash a check. My dad cashed the check for him and it bounced.

We had a shitload of game used bats. When I got divorced and my longtime business blew up I didn't have anywhere to keep all this stuff (and I needed money). I still regret putting Ken Boyer's bat on ebay and letting it go for fifteen bucks. I knew it was worth about $300.00. But it's hard to establish provenance and I was selling a lot of stuff on there at the time and I didn't think it was good practice to bid my items in. I sold all the bats except for two of them. One I didn't sell because I can't tell who's signature is on it. The other one I kept because it means a lot to me.

When he first got called up to the Cubs Darrin Jackson was in his early twenties. The Cubs went on the road and his wife was by herself in Chicago trying to set up a household. She had a relatively big check from Chicago National League Baseball Club, Inc. made out to her husband that she needed to cash. Now who was going to cash a check made out to a guy for some 20 year old girl? So she's here with no money and her husband is on the road. My old man took care of it for her. And DJ never forgot. He came to visit my dad when he was in the hospital dying and brought a get well card signed by the whole 1989 team. He also brought the bat I'll always keep.

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Freedom is our Strength.

Ken Boyer was a stud.

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DJ!

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Elections have consequences.

And DJ's reward for being a good guy is to be stuck broadcasting with Captain Weirdo? That is not right.

Very cool what he did, though.

Hell, I would have given you $18 for that Boyer bat.

What the hell did Larry Biittner ever do to you so that you'd pick Scot with one "t" over Biittner and his double "i," double "t?"