It's the young Cubs fans I worry about at times like these. I've been through '69, I can handle it. This kind of relentless, searing, emotionally devastating heartbreak is difficult for their poor young psyches that just haven't been conditioned to it yet.
P - and I - wonder if someone isn't paying Marmol (and maybe Sveum) to throw games...
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Jun 16, 2013 - 4:07pm
Prodigal_SOB wrote:
It's the young Cubs fans I worry about at times like these. I've been through '69, I can handle it. This kind of relentless, searing, emotionally devastating heartbreak is difficult for their poor young psyches that just haven't been conditioned to it yet.
oh...dear god. okay, so who in the league is paying marmol to lose games? jeez louise. he does fine if he pitches early innings....but put him in to close, and ....BAM. loss.
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Jun 16, 2013 - 1:14pm
It's the young Cubs fans I worry about at times like these. I've been through '69, I can handle it. This kind of relentless, searing, emotionally devastating heartbreak is difficult for their poor young psyches that just haven't been conditioned to it yet.
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Jun 16, 2013 - 1:01pm
And now a single. He just needs a double and triple to pitch for the cycle.
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Jun 16, 2013 - 12:58pm
Home run and a walk still nobody out. It's like deja vu all over again.
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Jun 16, 2013 - 12:56pm
Marmol coming on in the 9th in a save situation! WTF is Dale thinking? I swear sometimes I think Epstein has him playing for draft picks.
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Jun 16, 2013 - 11:50am
It's so nice to see someone hit a lead off double hit against the Cubs just stay there.
BTW: Those of you not watching it really ought to go to the video section of gameday and watch the "Cubs score on Mets errors" play
Years later pitcher Steve Trachsel also acquired the same nick name. One can only imagine how long an at bat might have lasted if they had ever faced each other.
crimony.
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Jun 14, 2013 - 6:25am
Mike The Human Rain Delay Hargrove
Years later pitcher Steve Trachsel also acquired the same nick name. One can only imagine how long an at bat might have lasted if they had ever faced each other.
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Jun 13, 2013 - 9:31am
Prodigal_SOB wrote:
The AC is for Anno Catuli (in the year of our Cubs) the 04 is the years since we won the division, 67 the years since we were in the series, and 104 years since we actually won it. It's all a very loose Latin translation. Catuli is most often used to mean puppy but can be a young animal of any sort. A real Latin scholar with no knowledge of baseball would probably come up with something like "Let us proceed whelps" for it but Google translate thinks it means "Go Cubs"
Yeah, I remember reading about it somewhere and the word "whelp" being used....
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Jun 13, 2013 - 8:23am
triskele wrote:
a reminder of the Cubs' infinite capacity for futility!! "GO LITTLE BEARS!" and the number represents the numbers of years since the last pennant, world series, etc....not sure how it works out but that's the gist....
The AC is for Anno Catuli (in the year of our Cubs) the 04 is the years since we won the division, 67 the years since we were in the series, and 104 years since we actually won it. It's all a very loose Latin translation. Catuli is most often used to mean puppy but can be a young animal of any sort. A real Latin scholar with no knowledge of baseball would probably come up with something like "Let us proceed whelps" for it but Google translate thinks it means "Go Cubs"
