Is it going to stay there forever or was it shipped to Cooperstown?

If it is still there, how much do you have to pay to visit it?

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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!

Always stated it was temporary...I picked it up yesterday when I got some sod from Wrigley.

http://abc7chicago.com/news/cubs-fans-can-take-home-wrigley-field-sod-for-free/1063739/

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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.’”

Biggie - you seriously got the Schwarber ball? Well done, sir.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Was it transported to a forever home?

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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!

No...but they are giving away the Sod...its just sitting out there.

I was looking in the Cubs Collectibles and they are sold out of key Chains with Wrigley Dirt in them. Was thinking about taking some dirt...as they have the pile of dirt sitting across the street from my parking space on eddy....but just too much of a pain in the ass.

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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 assume it will see the auction block.

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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 fans have been eating dirt for 108 years,keep it.

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

Speaking of Dirt, God I love Beer League.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

That's the Artie Lange masterpiece,right?

I thought it was pretty funny.

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

Yes, lots of funny scenes and characters. It's dumb but pretty damn good.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

that movie is a steaming pile of shit

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

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

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

It's gone. Looks like I won't get to visit it and marvel at it for decades.

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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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Kenny Williams fell for the banana in the tailpipe

It was up there for a reason. I was hoping it would become a tourist attraction.

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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!

I'm assuming it will make an appearance at the Cub Convention.

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-- source

The Chicago Cubs Made an Important, Symbolic Move This Week
This is how dynasties start. ​

BY MICHAEL SEBASTIAN
JAN 14, 2016
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Somewhere inside Wrigley, the Chicago Cubs must have a dusty, crowded attic. They're one of the oldest teams in baseball and have accumulated an untold number of artifacts over the decades. Ghosts are certainly rattling around up there, including the spirits of Frank Chance, Johnny Evers and Joe Tinker—Tinkers to Evers to Chance—who were the backbone of the last Cubs team to win a World Series, all the way back in 1908. Steve Bartman will surely haunt the place one day.

This week, Cubs management added another artifact to the attic: Kyle Schwarber's home run ball from Game 4 of the 2015 National League Division Series. Let me jog your memory: A young Cubs team played scorching baseball in the second half of last season, finishing with nearly 100 wins. They go to the playoffs, where they meet arch rival St. Louis Cardinals. By Game 4, the North Siders are up two games to one in a five-game series, and in the bottom of the seventh inning it's 5-4 Cubs. At this point, you can smell the National League Championship Series and, if you close your eyes and inhale deeply enough, can pick up the faint aroma of the World Series.

Schwarber, the Cubs' 22-year-old slugger, gets a fastball inside. He turns on it, violently, crushing the ball high over the right field fence. His towering solo home run buries the Cardinals' hopes and sends Wrigley Field erupting into bedlam. The Cubs go on to win.


The ball landed atop the Cubs video scoreboard in right field, a fitting resting place because the scoreboard—like so many members of the team—is new to Wrigley. The team promised the ball would stay on that scoreboard, protected by plexiglass, for the rest of the postseason. Unfortunately, the Mets swept the Cubs in the NLCS, quickly ending their playoff run. On Tuesday, a Cubs spokeswoman told the Chicago Tribune Schwarber's ball was no longer up there. The team removed it "sometime after the season," the Tribune said.

The ball, the spokesman added, is in "a safe, secure place."

So it's in that attic, which is a good thing. Time to move on from 2015—and from Schwarber's embarrassingly terrible defensive play against the Mets—to 2016 and beyond, where, in the mist, you can almost see the outline of a dynasty.

It's probably with the Ron Santo sympathy cards in the trash.

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Schwarber's will be my favorite fall from grace of all the Cubs in 2016.

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

I think between he, Bryant and Russell, Schwarber is most likely to have the sophomore slump

Well Spiegs told us today the Cubs do not NEED to have all their young phenoms become superstars. Some (he used Baez as an example) can just be good defensive utility tools with pop.

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Elections have consequences.

What would a sophomore slump look like from Russell? He didn't hit for average, didn't get on base and struck out a ton. Maybe his power numbers could dip but I don't see much room for him to fall offensively. Russell either takes a step towards being an all around player or inches closer to becoming an inferior version of Andrelton Simmons.



How similar are the Cubs to the 2008 Rays? I mean this is almost verbatim shit people said going into the 2009 season when Maddon/Friedman could do no wrong and the Rays were assured a title in the next 5 years. Rays won 97 games in 2008. Price wasn't up yet so everyone assumed they were a year early. I guess the big differences are the Rays won their division and managed to get to the World Series.

Rays only made the playoffs twice more and got bounced quickly each time. Despite Zobrist, Price and Longoria all reaching superstar status the supporting cast they were counting on never did it. BJ Upton was even pretty good for them but it wasnt enough. They just never got enough out of Desmond Jennings, Sean Rodriguez, Wil Myers, etc. to make a push. They even went after old free agents on the decline of their careers (Johnny Damon was a Ray).

Amen

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Can we now agree that putting the ball in plexiglass at the top of the scoreboard was one of the dumbest things in Cubbie history?

I can imagine Ricketts and Crane Kenney getting together and thinking after they won the World Series they could charge people $5 to go up and see a baseball in plastic.

If it was a World Series home run then maybe.

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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!

I think it if was even a famous part of the run to an eventual world series title, then they could definitely monetize it.

If they made 1 cent off it, it's worth it.

ON display at Cubs Convention

https://twitter.com/BleacherNation/stat ... 9028569088

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