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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SteveBailey on April 24, 2008, 11:13:55 AM
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So much hope in April, so much heartache in September. So it goes for our lovable losers. Does this year feel any different?
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Nope.
1st MLB game I ever saw was in Wrigley. My uncle bought box seats on the 3rd base line. I saw Ron Santo and Ernie Banks that day. Been a Cubbie fan ever since.
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I remember as a third grader in Waukegan, IL running home from school to see Ernie Banks hit home run #500. I was too late, but I did get to see the post-game interview. After the '69 Cubs got edged out by the "Miracle Mets", I've still been a fan. "Die Hard Cubs Fans".
They'll win it all someday. I hope I live to see it.
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Im a Sox fan who grew up a Cubs fan, "well I was a sox fan then too". I remember 1969 like it was yesterday. That was back when a kid could afford to see almost all the home games in the bleachers just by tossing newspapers at 0400 and cutting lawns. I can still remember their starting lineup in '69, Santo, Kessinger, Beckert, Banks in the IF. Williams, Hickman, Phillips, Young, in the OF. Hundley at catcher, starters were Jenkins, Holtzman, Hands, Selma. Best relievers were Regan, Aguirre, and Ted Abernathy with his submarine pitch. They were up 9 games in the middle Of August, ended up winning 92 games for the year, but lost to a red hot NY Mets teams that came out of nowhere to win 100 games and eventually the 1969 World Series. Beating the Orioles 4 games to 1.
I was crushed from that year.
Then there was 1984 remember? They won the first two at home and have 3 trys to win one on the road at San Diego for the pennant. And they ended up losing all 3. Cursed!
I hated the Tribune company and how they ran the Cubs. I never hated the Cubs. Now that that is changing I'm hoping they go all the way this year.
In 2003 I was working down at Wrigley and right before that Bartman kid pulled his act I said to my partner, 'they might just win this thing", and , "this place is going to go nuts". I predict if the Cubs ever win a WS, most of all if they do it at home, this town will go ape in a way that would make the Bulls championship riots look like a square dance. Wrigley is located in the middle of a large tavern district and that area, this city, would go mad.
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June is just around the corner, and then all will be right with the world.... :D
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I predict if the Cubs ever win a WS, most of all if they do it at home, this town will go ape in a way that would make the Bulls championship riots look like a square dance. Wrigley is located in the middle of a large tavern district and that area, this city, would go mad.
I never understood why people would riot, destroying a portion of the city that they live in, because some sports team won a game.
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Go Brewers!
:D
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I was a fan until '84, took me about 10 years to get it back, then the Barski ball...... :furious :furious :furious
Go Sox!
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I remember as a third grader in Waukegan, IL running home from school to see Ernie Banks hit home run #500. I was too late, but I did get to see the post-game interview. After the '69 Cubs got edged out by the "Miracle Mets", I've still been a fan. "Die Hard Cubs Fans".
They'll win it all someday. I hope I live to see it.
ROX
Weird, I think I was in third grade in 1969. I was in Waukegan Il, too. Seriously.
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1st MLB game I ever saw was in Wrigley. My uncle bought box seats on the 3rd base line. I saw Ron Santo and Ernie Banks that day. Been a Cubbie fan ever since.
I got to meet Santo a few years ago at Wrigley, I'm in a wheelchair so I get to park at the field were the players and ever else who works there parks, this was when he was doing radio broadcast for the games, on our way out he was getting into his SUV which was a few parking spaces from were we were parked, so we went over to him and all got his autograph and talked with him for a couple mins. This was a few weeks before he had his first leg amputated.
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Weird, I think I was in third grade in 1969. I was in Waukegan Il, too. Seriously.
I went to Clearview School for third grade, West of Topps & Bells...none of which exists today
I know! There are some VERY strange things about it being a small world.
Aces High Staffers, take note!
Steve and I grew up and lived about 1/2 mile from each other. Because of where we lived, he went to Waukegan East High School, I went to Waukegan West High School. I saw the tv special about his kids but never figured it out at the time.
A couple of months ago bignadsy was along with a big bunch of knights taking bases. I asked him about his squad affiliation, ony to find out he had just been invited to join one of our squads fraternal squads. About a week later, I am just about to sign into the game I get a phone call from bignadsy. He asks my real name, I tell him, and we both have a big laugh because we not only went to Junior High together, we went to High School together! He was a year behind me!
Both Steve & bignadsy and myself had no real interaction with each other until Aces High!
bignadsy is coming to Hot Springs for the annual Biker Rally...I hope to have an adult beverage or two with him when he does.
My athletic director at my old high school is now the Mayor of Waukegan.
And for a Cubs story, my wife got a wild hair about wanting to go see the Cubs. I asked her about being uncomfortable in those stadium seats since she was 8 months pregnant at the time, but she said it would be ok. After her first $5 Coke, guess what, she had to go to the bathroom. When she got there the line was way out the door and she had to go real bad... but about four other women took her by the hands shouting "Pregnant Lady--coming through!!" and got her in right away. Now those are real Cub fans!
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PS You may be asking yourself how the three of us could live so close but not really know each other until Aces High. Each class in the Jr. High had 13 full classrooms of 35 kids each for each grade. The High School had about 500 to 800 kids in each graduating class depending on what year you were born. You literally could go to school for 4 years with someone and never really "meet" them.
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For the "Go Brewers" cheesehead who posted....
The next summer after Ernie hit #500 our Beach Park Little League was supposed to have an after season outing to go see the Cubs, but for some reason went to see the Brewers. No problem.
August 1st, 1970, Milwaukee, WI...
We were behind the dugout on the first base side. Not bad seats considering. About the 5th inning New York Yankees catcher Thurmon Munson steps up to the plate. First pitch he fouls off high to the bleachers behind us. Second pitch he fouls out almost right at my head...it goes through my hands and hits the kid behind me in the arm--bounces off him and lands right in my lap. I try and get the ball hunder me as like 5,000 hands start trying to pry it away. I held on. I still have that ball.
I also had a hot dog...it had Boetjes' Brown mustard from Rock Island, IL on it.
You can't be 9 years old and have a better day than that.
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PS My case of Boetjes Brown Mustard arrives UPS tomorrow! Yeah Buddy!
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Go Mets.
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Go Mets.
Mets suck.
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uh-huh.
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The next summer after Ernie hit #500 our Beach Park Little League was supposed to have an after season outing to go see the Cubs, but for some reason went to see the Brewers. No problem.
I played in that league. I remember my last coach, his name was Mr. Toughe. Not sure of the spelling but pronounced Too-E. We were undefeated our last year and then beat the league allstars... that was great. Rox, did you know Mike and Mark Maze? They lived up by you, played baseball too and were about your age.
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I dont think Ive ever seen a ball player with 1/2 the class of Ernie Banks. I thank God I was able to see him play so often. Back then it was very rare for Wrigley to sell out. I remember bleacher seats being like $1.75 and always available. Thats when we had the real bleacher bums, not this sorry exuse for bleacher bums that we have today.
The original bleacher bums were, well, bums! They were like "the dude" in "The Big Lebowski" movie. They were lazy, "refused to work and miss Cub games", drank to much, smoked to much weed in the stands, dressed like Bums, and generally contributed nothing to society. But they were a riot to sit with and Loved Cubs baseball. None of them would take a job that interfered with the baseball season. By the 7'th inning they were so stoned they'd be dancing on the top of the wall in LF, remember there was no fence back then to catch you if you fell. And as ignorant and uneducated as those bums were they respected the game and never threw crap on the field. Not like these drunken yuppie screwballs of today.
We used to ask permission of the players and threw balls at them in pre-game with pens to get autographs. They would throw them back up after signing them. It was nothing to see Ernie Banks spend 1/2 hour signing autographs for kids on the sideline. Ernie was my childhood hero.
Many times I'd watch a day game at Wrigley and when the old man came home we'd go catch the Sox at Comiskey for a night game. Back then a working guy could afford to take his kids to a lot of games. But now??? :lol $50 for bleacher seats? What kind of drugs are they on?
It was a hell of a time to be a ballfan in this town during the '60s and '70s. Neither team won it all but still it was a hell of a time.
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I dont think Ive ever seen a ball player with 1/2 the class of Ernie Banks.
Let's play two!
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My mom was a die hard Cub fan. She grew up on the North Side of Chicago in the Italian hood and could name the infield for every year from 35 to 55 with ease. She was dieing of cancer in late September 1984 when the Cubs made the playoffs. The last time I saw her smile was when I told her the Cubs were winning. She passed away a coupe of days later.
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My mom was a die hard Cub fan. She grew up on the North Side of Chicago in the Italian hood and could name the infield for every year from 35 to 55 with ease. She was dieing of cancer in late September 1984 when the Cubs made the playoffs. The last time I saw her smile was when I told her the Cubs were winning. She passed away a coupe of days later.
See, even the angels above are cubs fans.
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i hate baseball
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i hate baseball
Thanks for sharing zoozoo. Really, your timing is impeccable.
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i hate baseball
Desperaterly trying to build your post count, huh.
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Barring a lot of injuries they are looking pretty darn good so far. :aok Not sure if they are good enough to go all the way but it's early in the season and anything can happen. I'm a cubs fan first and brewers second. Hate the smelly sox.
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Took my kids to their first Cubs game last Saturday, they had a blast. Notice there is no ambulance, that's because it can't get back in the firehouse before, during, and
My daughter loves singing "Take me Out to the Ball Game" and "Go Cubs Go". after a Cubs game (too many people wandering the street.) Ambo 6 sucks during game day can't make a meal, too busy picking up inebriated Cub fans.
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We had good seats. I don't know why there are so many Ronny "Woo-Woo" haters, I've got two pre-schoolers, he's nothing.
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I played in that league. I remember my last coach, his name was Mr. Toughe. Not sure of the spelling but pronounced Too-E. We were undefeated our last year and then beat the league allstars... that was great. Rox, did you know Mike and Mark Maze? They lived up by you, played baseball too and were about your age.
OMG!
Mr. Toughy lived on North Bonnie Brook about 6 blocks from Green Bay Road and was one of the Beach Park baseball league "big whigs". I remember after 3rd grade we had moved to Waukegan from Beach Park and my mom driving us to Mr. Toughy's house to ask permission if I could play that year. He said OK. Good guy.
Mike & Mark Mays got into more trouble than any two kids I ever knew. They lived over near the airport near me. They went to East and I lost track of them after that.
Maybe it's just a "Waukegan" thing, but the Mays brothers were the masters of "Hoogieing". Hoogieing was when in the winter the roads were covered with packed snow...the Mays brothers would grab on to the back bumper of the school bus, using their shoes as "skis", would hang on and ski along behind the bus. It was totally dangerous and stupid, but I must have seen tham do it dozens of times. Gotta remember the bus was going like 25 to 35 mph at times.
Can you even Imagine that now?
BTW: kot...GREAT pics! Cute kids too!
I miss Greektown...ya just can't get a decent gyro in Arkansas. Every time I go to visit my mom back in Waukegan the first stop is GoJo's restaraunt on Green Bay Road for a gyro plate...next day it's Hillery's Ribs on Lewis Avenue...the next day its off to Leno's Subs. Man I miss those places.
Hillery's has the best BBQ on the planet, bar none and Leno's make's Subway look like a giant booger.
If I had the recipies from those 3 places I'd be a millionaire.
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