I love my Cubbies, as you can tell by my name!

This was sent to me from one of my buds

My favorite National league team. Now, to win a World Series in my lifetime.

Good old Steve Bartman.

:posting: Last great chance to make it to the Series was 2003 if my memory is correct. The "reach over the wall" and muff a routine ground ball scene that hints of the "billy goat curse". I have been a Cub Fan sense Harry started doing the Cubbie games. Yep, really do dislike the "fair weather" Cardinal fans! Win or lose we love our CUBS.

Please God, let the Cubs at least make it to the World Series while my dad is still with us to enjoy this miraculous event! He turns 83 in a few months...please make the Cubs win soon. :pray:

Mr Cub R.I.P.
 

Baseball lost a true gentleman yesterday. Ernie Banks, hall of famer and two time MVP will be missed. "Let's play two" showed his love for the game.

He was the greatest!

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A very nice, enthusiastic, gentleman. One of the great slugging shortstops.

RIP - Erniie

I can't believe he's dead. He's still thirty something, still playing and smiling in my mind's eye. I don't think I ever someone love the game as much as he. May baseball find more like this man. A class act all the way. RIP

It was quite a shock to hear of Mr. Cub's passing last night. This story has dominated the Chicago news since then. I only got to see him play a couple of times towards the of his career when my dad and I traveled to Chicago to see the Cubs play. He was quite a trail blazer and a true gentleman.

One Chicago radio host said this morning: "Ron Santo is now showing Ernie Banks around the clubhouse at that great baseball stadium in the sky."

I wish he could have played in a World Series.

It would have been nice but when the Cubbies do finally make it, you know Ernie will be rooting his team on and maybe his ghost will be fielding a ball or two.

Mr Cub R.I.P.
 

Probably loved by more fans of other teams than any other player I can think of. It'll be double headers for him from now on...and he deserves the best.

It's a shame a great player like Ernie never had a good team around him. I've always felt that he and Ralph Kiner deserved better. R.I.P. to a class act.

Minnie Minoso
 

Chicago's first black major league baseball player, Orestes "Minnie" Minoso, passed away this morning. He was an exciting player to watch. He could hit with power but still lay down a bunt. Quick in the outfield and on the bases also. RIP Minnie.

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Mr. White Sox - RIP

Another great Chicago baseball player passing.

RIP - Minnie

The name Minnie Minoso brings back memories because of a game played on June 10, 1959. I can remember the date because it was a game in which Indian Rocky Colavito hit 4 homeruns.

Growing up in Baltimore and a big O's fan, my dad told me we were moving to Florida that fall. It didn't come as a big shock because every summer we took our vacation to Florida. We made our last trip to see an Orioles game that June 10, 1959 against the Cleveland Indians. We sat in the left field bleachers at old Memorial Stadium, the Orioles home from 1954 until Camden Yards opened in 1992.

The whole game our section razed leftfielder Minnie Minoso. He never gave anybody any notice no matter how loud the chants and crowd got. Rocky Colavito was having a career day with 4 home runs. Infielder Billy Martin of the Indians got thrown out for arguing with the home plate umpire.

With all the runs being scored by both teams, final score was Indians winners 11-8, Minnie got up late in the game and socked a homerun in our direction. The next time he took leftfield we all started razing him again, and somebody said where did you get all the power from. Minnie finally turned around to the leftfield fans, and flexed his left arm and pointed to his muscle. I never forgot that day at Memorial Stadium with my late father.

You can see the Indians had quite a lineup that day with the likes of Vic Power, Tito Francona, Rocky Colavito, Minnie Minoso and Billy Martin.

Cleveland Indians
Name Pos AB R H RBI

Woodie Held ss 5 1 1 0
Vic Power 1b 4 1 0 0
Tito Francona cf 5 2 2 1
Rocky Colavito rf 4 5 4 6
Minnie Minoso lf 5 1 3 3
Willie Jones 3b 3 0 0 0
George Stickland 3b 2 0 1 0
Dick Brown c 4 0 1 0
Billy Martin 2b 3 1 1 1
a-Ray Webster ph 1 0 0 0
Gary Bell p 3 0 0 0
Mike Garcia p 1 0 0 0
Totals 40 11 13 11

June 10 is my birthday and as a young Tribe fan living in Cleveland that night lives in my memory. I met The Rock in the 70s and thanked him for one of the best birthday presents.

Minnie was always fun to watch. I can still mimic his batting stance. He was a great member of the Tribe as well as the White Sox.

Here's a 1959 baseball card image:

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Wrigley home opener
 

A friend of mine sent this last night. He is disturbed by the loss of purity to historic Wrigley Field due to the Jumbotron. It is quite a contrast to the old fashioned scoreboard.Attachment 50012

The purist in me winces to see it. The realist kind of understands why it was done.

They've done the same thing to Fenway Park. They've made several changes and upgrades over the years. They have a jumbotron there but they still have the old manual scoreboard. You get used to it in a very short time and if done right, the new blends nicely with the old.

How do you like us now?
 

Bloomberg Businessweek (US) - Coverjunkie.com

I will have to show this cover to my father a very long term Chicago Cubs fan. He has been waiting and waiting and waiting for that World Series win.

One of the items I brought we me when we moved here is my dad's Cubs baseball hat.

Love to wear it so my diehard neighbor (a Reds fan)goes nuts when he sees it.

As we say in Chicagoland "this is da year".

Cubs are Hot
 

Cubs didn't fold this year. A young team that has won last 8 games going into playoff with the Pirates. Look out this really could be the year!

Cubs/Cardinal series would be special. :posting:

Congrats to the Cubs, quite a pitching performance. Arrieta has Cy Young written all over him. Cubs/Cardinals division series up next.

Go Cubs Go!
 

Go Cubs Go! Right after 10:00 p.m. tonight the streets around Wrigley Field were filled with jubilant Cubs fans. Could this be the year? Fingers crossed -- my father was 15 years old the last time the Cubs went to the World Series in 1945, so I am hoping for his sake that this is the Cubs year. For the Cubs to go to the World Series would really make this year a good one for him.

Having #14 on their uniforms is a good sign...

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Ernie Banks and Ron Santo are looking down from that baseball diamond in the sky and smiling... :thumbup:

Baseaball been berry berry good to me.
 

Thing's could be way worse. You could be a Yankee fan...shut out in a one game playoff...George Steinbrenner must be on a rotisserie in his grave. Then we have the NY Giant's who hand over the first game of the season to Dallas...before it happened I gave Ms. Priscilla the script of how they were gonna hand the game over to Dallas. Now for the entire balance of the football season I have to hear about it from my kids & friends. I'm changing to all Florida teams once we move....except the Yank's just can't give those bums up.

Chicago Cubs thread?

My son and I used to go to the Rays games and were always in awe at what Joe Maddon was able to do with little money and young players. Glad to see he still has the magic touch to have a winning team. Will be for Cubs just for Joe.

Jake Arrieta, winning pitcher last night at locker room celebration. Looks like pro wrestling could be his next career. [emoji6]

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Jake Arrietta gave a dominate performance........ nuff said.

I never thought Pittsburg would survive the one game playoff, with Jake going for the Cubbies.

MY sentimental favorite for the World Series.

GO CUBBIES!!!!!

Cubs looked a little "flat" as they lose first playoff game to Cardinals. Maybe a little too much celebration following the wild card game. Good pitching by the Cards.

Big W ----advantage Cubs. Barring black cat plague, fan interference or the billy goat curse they have a very good chance to down a Bird! Go Cubs!

:BigApplause::BigApplause:

Come on Cub fans. Let's hear it for the Cubbies! The game is at 5:07 CDT today. Lots of pressure on Jake but I have Believe he can handle it.

Go Cubs Go. Go Cubs Go. Hey Chicago what do you say? The Cubs are going to win today!

Lyrics by Steve Goodman