Blow it out your ass. That was as tragic as it gets.

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Yeah, 03 was a real kick in the nuts..total collapse-choke job.

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They were going to go all the way in 2004.

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Not saying it wasn't a kick in the nuts...I'm just saying that Marlins team wasn't some kind of fluke. They were really fucking good.

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Didn't they choke their way out of the playoffs in September of 04?

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Was a really good team! Miggy and Beckett, both Stud showings. That said....No reason to lose 3 straight.

Can we now stop talking about it.

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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.’”

Cub collapses (rated on disappointment scale. #1 being the most)

3. 1984 Cubs
2. 1969 Cubs
1. 2003 Cubs

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

Just remember when reading Cof's predictions he predicted many times this season that they would not make the playoffs.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

84 would be ahead of 03 with me.

I wasn't around in 1969, but I'd put that in front of 2003.

3. 1984
2. 2003
1. 1969

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to be fair, I doubt the Cubs brass expected that either. I thought the Nats would be too good...I thought the Cubs would finish with 90 wins tops.

So take my predictions with a saltshaker, that's fine.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

If this is how 2106 is going to play out, I'll just take my business elsewhere: wall to wall coverage (including breaking news) of an industry award even the majority of baseball fans do not care about.

Little Larry tried so desperately to talk Cubs in the first hour of his show. He steered and steered but each time he went to a caller it was all Bears.

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

Yes it will be all Cubs. When spring comes the only this that will save you is the Bear's draft.

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Elections have consequences.

I wonder if every spring training game will now be broadcast like it was (seemed so anyway) during the WSOX days. I hated that shit.

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Proud to be UNVERIFIED.

Yeah, I didn't mind the first couple each spring. They just broadcast too damn many of them.

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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 Elon, Tulsi, and Don

spring training sucks. I have no idea how people generate an interest in it. It used to be for old coots with nothing better to do.

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

Agree, but get ready for meaningless spring training baseball. I'm sure most of the games will be on.

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http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/despite- ... v-network/

Two questions regarding the forthcoming Cubs channel:

1) Do you really think you can do this without the Blackhawks to provide destination programming the other six months?

2) Comcast dominates the cable market in Chicago. Comcast owns Comcast SportsNet, duh. Do you like the idea of the Cubs deserting Comcast and then asking Comcast to pick up their new channel, surely with a very high carriage fee? If you answered "yes," congratulations! You are Jerry Reinsdorf.

The Cubs will probably get their own channel, but by necessity it will be under the aegis of Comcast.

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Yes, constant reruns of the 2016-2019 Cubs World Series victories.

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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 Elon, Tulsi, and Don

When this topic used to come up, Terry would make fun of YES and how shitty it is outside of Yankee games, that it's just documentaries on Thurman Munson replayed a hundred times or some guy trying to sell you Mickey Mantle's ass hair, his point being that this is the most decorated sports franchise in America and even they struggle to program an entire cable channel of their own. (They have Nets games in the winter, but I rank them below the collectible home-shopping shows with the ass hair.) God only knows what the Mets' channel airs the rest of the year. UConn/'Cuse games, I guess maybe.

That Chicago only has one RSN while others have more isn't a bug, it's a feature. I'm glad we don't have that public-access MASN bullshit channel like the DMV does, or the utter clusterfuck L.A. has with the Dodgers' channel. I think it's great that about 25% of our teams' games are over the air (though I could do without the channel 50 sub-package) and not burdening cable subscribers with more and more carriage fees at a time when people are ready for massive change in how we consume pay TV. Fuck your revenue streams.

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Exciting De Paul basketball featuring the dolcet tones of your play by play announcer Lawrence Holmes

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

Ironically, a big part of the Cubs becoming the bigger of the two Chicago franchises was the ill-advised move of the White Sox to UHF followed by their cutting edge foray into pay TV. Would it really be so difficult to see the Cubs making a decision regarding the way their games are televised that caused it to go the other way?

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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 Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Everyone in Chicago will have the CUBS network by the All Star game.

The only danger for the Cubs is that they waited too long to do this. By 2020, it is conceivable that cable television is thrown in for free with your internet service.

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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!

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

That's going to be based on how much it costs.

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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 Elon, Tulsi, and Don

There will be a race to be the first to get it between Directv, Comcast, and FIOS/U-Verse, and that will set the price.

As I said though, the only issue may be that cable television may not be something people pay for by then. It may be a throw-in for internet service as we all watch netflix/hulu/yahoo. In that scenario, the CUBS network probably doesn't get much from cable providers, or they have to do a subscription model which forces jimmypasta to pay $8 a month for his CUBS network.

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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!

Well, it may be more than 8 bucks and IMU will pay it and jimmy will probably pay it, but Spaulding and Frank, et al won't and that isn't exactly the fat model the Cubs are dreaming about.

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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 Elon, Tulsi, and Don

1. 1984. Cubs were up 2-0 inn a best of 5.
2. 2003
3. 1969

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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

I know. I'm saying the CUBS may simply be too late.

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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!

Chronic
Underachievers
Broadcasting
Service

I like it!

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