So Beane was "talking up" Russell to get increased trade value? Too bad the Cubs have not thought of doing the same thing with regards to their prospects.

Go Cubs!

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Proud to be UNVERIFIED.

Dale Murphy sheds a single tear

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I loved Sosa in those "Panther" days, as infuriating as he may have been.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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If Bernsie is a lifelong Cub-fan turned fake White Sox fan, then Spiegel is a lifelong Red Sox-fan turned fake Cub fan.

You'll need to declare which one is the Cub fan now. They both can't be by your logic.

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I thought the It's Gonna Happen guy was the bro that ran out of the stands and tried to punch Randy Myers.

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You know me like that.

Not sure who it was, but that was not developed or marketed by the Cubs. You are correct about that.

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Pretty sure that's why the Cubs got particularly mad about that one.

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You are correct Doc.

You know that annoying guy we keep seeing at Cubs games sticking his "It's Gonna Happen" sign in front of the camera? The guy who also keeps popping up outside the ballpark, and is now also selling shirts with the ambiguous catchphrase? Well that guy's name is John Murray. He's also the knucklehead who ran onto the field and rushed Cubs closer Randy Myers.

Mike North on Chicago radio station 670 The Score and guest Steve Stone recently poked fun at the slogan as being ambiguous and allowing for anything. North said, "When I see a Cubs fan holding up a sign that says 'It's Gonna Happen' I think of bad things." But that was before either of them knew of the past of Murray.

On September 28, 1995, Cubs closer Randy Myers gave up a go ahead home run to the Astros' James Mouton. As Myers was being yanked from the game, Murray stormed onto the field and ran up to Myers to yell at him. Myers, a former black belt in karate, performed what teammate Shawon Dunston described as "one of those martial arts moves" and pinned Murray until security arrived. Murray was escorted out of the park and was eventually banned from Wrigley Field for one year.

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

And former Soybean Meal broker

Aww, he hit a double off of the wall. That isn't a home run.

Kris Bryant is disappointing.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Huh? They're both Cub fans.

bernstein is a longtime Cub fan who pretends to be a Sox fan on the radio. One of his bits is his "childhood" hero who played for the Sox when he was 17-20 , Ivan Calderon. The bit juxtaposes the journeyman Calderon with Cub greats like Ernie and Billy in order to poke fun at the futility of White Sox.

Spiegel grew up a Red Sox fan. I'm sure he still roots for them, but he's in Chicago and has adopted the Cubs as his new team. If you asked him who he'd root for in a World Series, I'm sure his answer would be something like, "I don't care. I'd be in baseball heaven."

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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

But Dan has always hated all the ancillary Cubdom things. He hated Ron Santo and thinks Ed Farmer calls a better game than Pat Hughes does. He cares so little about Wrigley Field that he'd be happy if the name were sold. He hates Steve Goodman's songs about the Cubs and alleges not to know who Steve Goodman even is. He has recently intimated upon the man's death that the team's most beloved player was a grifter and an Uncle Tom, though not in those exact words. He hates the cargo-shorted, collar-popping, beer-swilling yuppies who go to the games. Come to think of it, hey, I hate those people too, but none of that other stuff -- especially the part about Pat Hughes, what the fuck. But at the same time, his love for all the things the Chicago Cubs organization itself does cannot be matched. It's either hard to figure out or not hard at all. The situation remains fluid.

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Calderon was a lot of my Sox fan friends favorites in his day

I don't suppose it's any different from considering Ryan Theriot or Andrew Shaw your favorite player. With Calderon, you got to adore a scrappy journeyman whom lesser fans wouldn't think to appreciate and not have it be a white guy.

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I remember it like he was gonna take over for Baines or he was next up (didn't know Harold would play so long and with the white sox again)

bernstein acts like Calderon was his childhood hero. He was fucking seventeen years old!

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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

Yeah I haven't heard him on Calderon

Maybe its Hipster pride on Bernstein's part (I liked the less popular team)

calderon made the best catch I ever saw while watching a game. that one in Tigers stadium.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

back to the topic, so Bryant is a fucking butcher at third, eh? that's what B&B were saying. disappointing.

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Bernsie's Calderon thing back then was a bit. He was all into his looks and chains and so on. Any fan back then was a Fisk, Guillen or Baines guy before Calderon.

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Ivan did rock those gold chains though. Not everybody can pull that off. Dunston could too.

Dunston would be my Ivan Calderone if I was a White Sox fan pretending to be a Cub fan while really being a White Sox fan pretending to love the Cubs since the formative age of 19.

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Some good stuff going on in this thread.

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I am thinking we keep this Bryant kid around!

I know Scott Boras doesnt believe in early signings but, an early signing for Bryant might come with $100 +mill locked in and I cant imagine his dad, a baseball lifer, would let the kid pass that up.

If it was my kid....we are going to figure out something as the chance to never worry about money for generations is on table, you get a deal done.

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“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.’”

Guilty

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Kenny Williams fell for the banana in the tailpipe

The Cubs haven't won anything yet, but a lot of Sox fans look very dumb because of their jealousy.

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JohnKirk wrote: I dont get it...

That's bullshit. He's no gold glover, but his defense is fine. He has improved greatly and is probably average at 3rd at this point. Honestly, I like Baez at 3rd best, with Bryant in the outfield where I think he does a better job and his speed is better utilized. But now that Soler is back, it's a matter of whether they use Castro at 2nd and Baez at 3rd with Bryant in the outfield, or Bryant at 3rd, Baez at 2nd and Soler in the outfield.

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Go Cubs!!!!

I know you are fairly new here so: 2005!

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

It happened.