No shit you were trolling cub fans back then....Shocking...everything I said is awesome and everything you said was fucking dumb.


and yet, they are still above Youth Hockey coach with no kid on the team in social standing.


Die in a pool of water being held down by an insane hockey parent

You have to remember that in Game 5 the Marlins threw their best pitcher at the Cubs in Beckett while the Cubs thru their 3rd best pitcher in Zambrano, so losing that game was not unexpected.

So it wasn't as if Cub fans were confident just because Prior and Wood were pitching, it was also that the Marlins were throwing Carl Pavano and Mark Redmond in games 6 and 7.

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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The start point of my dislike for BernStine as he echoed those exact thoughts while shooting down every caller who dared to suggest that the Cubs might lose the series as if they were starting to panic for no good reason.

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

THIS

Exactly what you felt in GAME 5 is what I felt. They were great at making us forget the 'old cubbies', but that game 5, I remember it to this day, they got dominated just like the old cubbies. I remember the camera cut to Dusty and I got this awful feeling I only experienced when they blew that series in SD in 84 and other gut wrenching loses. But I thought they'd win Game 6 - I KNOW I was in denial.

Thats an odd nickname.

They definitely had weaknesses but Ill say this for Hendry, he went out and addressed every purported weakness of a team that went to the NLCS. Made Choi into Derrek Lee, got more left handed with Todd Walker (who was coming off a great postseason), added Maddux to the rotation and got the best middle reliver in baseball at the time.

On paper....

Added Garciaparra mid-season also.

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You know me like that.

Just thinking about the 2004 season makes me want to make an angry call to the Sox broadcast booth.

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oops!

I finally watched this last night, some thoughts about that whole series:
I got married on October 11, 2003, it was the planned date for a year...during Game 3 of the NLCS. Some people blame Bartman, others Dusty or Agon, I blame my mom and here's why:
My grandmother had passed away recently and she only wanted to see two things before she passed away: the cubs in the world series and more importantly, my wedding. She didn't make it, and at my wedding reception, my mom disappeared at the point of the mother of the groom/groom dance...why? she went across the street to a bar to watch the game in the middle of the reception-at this point the cubs were already up 7-0 (still a sore spot if you bring this up to my wife). I always believed that if there was an afterlife, that my grandmother saw this and got PISSED. How dare my mother leave my wedding reception for a blowout. So my grandmother called in a favor as karmic retribution on my mom. While I really do not believe this is true, it is fun to torture my mom about it. Does my story make sense? Maybe, maybe not but it means as much sense as blaming a fan or a goat. So to each their own.

What is true is that I was on my honeymoon for the rest of this series and was busy with some other activities that kept me from watch any of the games . So I had to read about it in the newspaper each morning and I was very happy that I was NOT in Chicago.

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Holy shit

If recall, those last two games were the ONLY back-to-back losses by Prior and Wood that season.



Gayest SI cover ever.

Finally watched it last night. Good stuff.

Game 7 happened on my 21st birthday, and I was sick. I blame Bartman.

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I just got to watch it too. My favorite part about this Red Sox documentary was when they talked about Bartman.

I couldn't help but get the feeling that it wasn't Bartman that really caused the collapse but the whole crowd that acted like the ship was sinking well before it was.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Yeah and Prior and Alou losing it contributed to that.

Seems like some Management might have been needed there.

Where has the black baseball player gone?

Clubhouse? Dugout?