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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #375 on: October 23, 2016, 03:05:50 am »
That was then: The team with the most ex-Cubs lost.

This is now: The Cubs won because they were the team with the fewest ex-Cubs.

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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #376 on: October 23, 2016, 03:05:51 am »
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #377 on: October 23, 2016, 03:22:11 am »
If the Cubs win (I think they will in 6), it will be the first time they will have won a World Series in Wrigley Field.
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #378 on: October 23, 2016, 03:52:27 am »
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #379 on: October 23, 2016, 04:05:10 am »
The 1948 Indians . . .

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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #380 on: October 23, 2016, 04:23:05 am »
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #381 on: October 23, 2016, 01:50:26 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on October 23, 2016, 04:05:10 am
The 1948 Indians . . .



Wonder if any of those guys are still alive??  ^-^

I heard a 104 year old lady who's an avid Indians' fan and was at that 48 World Series who said, "Win one more for me before I die."

Lots of us remember with agony 1997, but it sure would be nice to remember a Series that we won!

Here's hoping!
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #382 on: October 23, 2016, 03:55:56 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on October 23, 2016, 01:50:26 pm
Wonder if any of those guys are still alive??  ^-^

One of the 1948 Indians is still alive---Eddie Robinson, first baseman. And he made the news the other day
when he expressed, shall we say, disappointment that he hasn't yet been invited to throw out a first pitch
in one of the coming World Series games.

As for the coming World Series, God help us!!!!!!

A Cub pennant, and a Code Blue World Series
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #383 on: October 23, 2016, 04:00:47 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on October 23, 2016, 01:50:26 pm
Wonder if any of those guys are still alive??  ^-^

I heard a 104 year old lady who's an avid Indians' fan and was at that 48 World Series who said, "Win one more for me before I die."

Lots of us remember with agony 1997, but it sure would be nice to remember a Series that we won!

Here's hoping!


Safe to say that all members of the 1908 Cubs World Series team is dead..
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #384 on: October 23, 2016, 04:26:41 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on October 23, 2016, 03:55:56 pm
One of the 1948 Indians is still alive---Eddie Robinson, first baseman. And he made the news the other day
when he expressed, shall we say, disappointment that he hasn't yet been invited to throw out a first pitch
in one of the coming World Series games.

As for the coming World Series, God help us!!!!!!

A Cub pennant, and a Code Blue World Series

Actually, the Indians are playing some great ball.  If they don't choke, it should be a good series.
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #385 on: October 23, 2016, 04:32:11 pm »



Here is the stadium that the Cubs used to play in before Wrigley Field.
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #386 on: October 23, 2016, 04:33:09 pm »
Quote from: kevindavis on October 23, 2016, 04:00:47 pm

Safe to say that all members of the 1908 Cubs World Series team is dead..

The last Cub Lennie Merullo from the '45 World Series team died in '15:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-lennie-merullo-obit-20150531-story.html
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #387 on: October 23, 2016, 04:44:21 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on October 23, 2016, 04:26:41 pm
Actually, the Indians are playing some great ball.  If they don't choke, it should be a good series.

Oh, I can see it now: it comes down to the bottom of the ninth, Progressive Field, the bases loaded,
two out, a 3-2 count on Carlos Santana with Aroldis Chapman on the mound, then, as the ball is
on the way to the plate . . .

Massive thunderstorm with massive bolts of lightning.

A corpulent "ho ho ho!" from the heavens.

Everything frozen in Progressive Field including the ball mid-flight to the plate.

And a stentorian Voice purring, "I'm sorry to have to do this, but I can't decide between you, and in
My opinion you're both too good to lose. So let's leave it at this and we'll see you here again . . . in
another 71 years."
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #388 on: October 23, 2016, 04:48:12 pm »
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #389 on: October 23, 2016, 08:45:27 pm »
Even though I've been a Dodger fan since they moved west in 1958, I can't feel too sad for them.

This is the Cubs' first pennant in 71 years. During that same period of time the Dodgers have won fifteen pennants and six World Series'.
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #390 on: October 24, 2016, 10:00:12 am »
Quote from: kevindavis on October 23, 2016, 04:00:47 pm

Safe to say that all members of the 1908 Cubs World Series team is dead..

Or anyone (even a child) who went to the series.
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #391 on: October 24, 2016, 07:26:11 pm »
Fun facts, courtesy of Yardbarker's Michael Dixon:

In the same year of the last Cubs World Series title, the following were born:

* Eve Arden
* Tex Avery
* Milton Berle
* Mel Blanc
* Joan Crawford
* Michael DeBakey
* Bette Davis
* Buddy Ebsen
* Ian Fleming
* Lionel Hampton
* Lyndon Johnson
* Estee Lauder
* Thurgood Marshall
* Abraham Maslow
* Edward R. Murrow and Joseph McCarthy
* Nelson Rockefeller
* Oskar Schindler
* The Model T Ford
* The Hoover vacuum cleaner
* The Christian Science Monitor
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #392 on: October 24, 2016, 09:06:24 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on October 23, 2016, 04:44:21 pm
Oh, I can see it now: it comes down to the bottom of the ninth, Progressive Field, the bases loaded,
two out, a 3-2 count on Carlos Santana with Aroldis Chapman on the mound, then, as the ball is
on the way to the plate . . .

Massive thunderstorm with massive bolts of lightning.

A corpulent "ho ho ho!" from the heavens.

Everything frozen in Progressive Field including the ball mid-flight to the plate.

And a stentorian Voice purring, "I'm sorry to have to do this, but I can't decide between you, and in
My opinion you're both too good to lose. So let's leave it at this and we'll see you here again . . . in
another 71 years."

You must no realize, @EasyAce , that Cleveland fans are inured to being mocked, so the more we get made fun of, the stronger we become.

LeBron (and a million others) said it.  It's the world against Cleveland.

Sometimes, Cleveland wins.

This time, if I were a bettin' woman..................   ^-^
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #393 on: October 24, 2016, 09:20:25 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on October 24, 2016, 09:06:24 pm
You must no realize, @EasyAce , that Cleveland fans are inured to being mocked, so the more we get made fun of, the stronger we become.

LeBron (and a million others) said it.  It's the world against Cleveland.

Sometimes, Cleveland wins.



This time, if I were a bettin' woman..................   ^-^


Can we expect to see the lines waiting to get into the Tribes Game to show up as proof of a glorious Trump rally!  Huge winning and all!

Prediction:  Cubs in 6 games.
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #394 on: October 24, 2016, 09:59:45 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on October 24, 2016, 09:20:25 pm

Can we expect to see the lines waiting to get into the Tribes Game to show up as proof of a glorious Trump rally!  Huge winning and all!

Prediction:  Cubs in 6 games.

LOL! 

First game (at the Jake..... won't call it "progressive"..... won't do it) Tuesday night, simultaneous with Cavs game at the Q, presenting them with their championship rings right across the parking lot.

Massive crowds in Cleveland for the two events.  Trump campaign seizes the photos, posts them as a Trump rally in Ohio, claiming Trump will be victorious in this purple state....

I can see it all now!

(After all, it HAS been done before!)
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Character still matters.  It always matters.

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"Sometimes I think the Church would be better off if we would call a moratorium on activity for about six weeks and just wait on God to see what He is waiting to do for us. That's what they did before Pentecost."   - A. W. Tozer

Use the time God is giving us to seek His will and feel His presence.

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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #395 on: October 24, 2016, 10:19:39 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on October 24, 2016, 09:06:24 pm
You must no realize, @EasyAce , that Cleveland fans are inured to being mocked, so the more we get made fun of, the stronger we become.

LeBron (and a million others) said it.  It's the world against Cleveland.

Sometimes, Cleveland wins.

This time, if I were a bettin' woman..................   ^-^

Who's mocking?

(The reason I suggested the seventh game in the ol' Jake is because the Indians have
the home field advantage---thanks to that asinine All-Star Game peg---and the game
would be played there if the Serious got that far . . . )
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #396 on: October 24, 2016, 10:20:48 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on October 24, 2016, 09:06:24 pm
Sometimes, Cleveland wins.

This time, if I were a bettin' woman..................   ^-^

OK, who got burned by the worst. trade. ever. . . . the Cubs, in Lou Brock for Ernie Broglio, or the Indians, in Rocky
Colavito for Harvey Kuenn?
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« Reply #397 on: October 25, 2016, 12:43:48 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on October 24, 2016, 10:20:48 pm
OK, who got burned by the worst. trade. ever. . . . the Cubs, in Lou Brock for Ernie Broglio, or the Indians, in Rocky
Colavito for Harvey Kuenn?

That Brock thing  to SL was a hard one to swallow.  Was that one of Louie the Lip
s great idea's?

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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #398 on: October 25, 2016, 12:48:30 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on October 25, 2016, 12:43:48 pm
That Brock thing  to SL was a hard one to swallow.  Was that one of Louie the Lip
s great idea's?



That did come back to haunt them a time or two...
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #399 on: October 25, 2016, 04:32:27 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on October 24, 2016, 10:20:48 pm
OK, who got burned by the worst. trade. ever. . . . the Cubs, in Lou Brock for Ernie Broglio, or the Indians, in Rocky
Colavito for Harvey Kuenn?

The Cubs by a mile. Broglio was gone two years later, but Kuenn remained a fine, solid player.

But let's not forget when the Dodgers traded Pedro Martinez to the Expos for Delino DeShields.
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