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It's time to roast that knarley old curr 🐐 or say good bye 👋 to the elusive dream for another flippin year. Will be 2 chats goiin tonite with the beat down at AFH so hope you all can stay on your toes for a few hours... Me ? Hell I don't even try anymore. Whatever happens, happens. Mike asked me to cover his tardiness & get the game thread out there so I figured he meant the one for his sweetheart 💝Cubbies. Hope they don't leave ya 💔 another year. A generation of 🐻 fans should at long last get their their championship & ride that wave for a well deserved year. One quest begins & another will end either tonite or tomorrow night. ROCK CHALK JAYHAWKS & OUR REIGNING 2015 WORLD SERIES CHAMPS KC ROYALS...

AND LETS GO CUBS !!

@globaljaybird Go Cubs Go, Go Cubs Go, hey Chicago whata ya say Cubs, are going to win today!!!

@brooksmd Hope so boss !!

@globaljaybird Maddon said if need be Chapman ready to go for 2 innings tonite. Did a hell of a job Sunday night.

@brooksmd u watching Cubs over Jayhawks?

Cleveland has this series. Don't see the Cubs scoring enough.

@Crimsonorblue22 Nope. Cubs on regular tv, KU is not down here. Waiting for it to start on ESPN3. Will have both going.

@BShark Haven't heard the fat lady sing yet. She hasn't even cleared her throat.

I'm cheering for Cleveland. Booooo Cubs.

@Crimsonorblue22 How come you haven't started a KU game thread yet?

@brooksmd Well, E3 is blacked out here at the Rock- Zenger gouging his biggest donors & fans doesn't set right with me...:imp:

@globaljaybird Hope they leave Tomlin in all night.

I got it . I got it. I got it. Oh you got it? lol

Zo making like a middle linebacker. Whacka!!!

Too late for a reliever, just leave Tomlin in.

@brooksmd whadi miss ? Was in the galley raidin the chili mac & its now 3-0 Cubs...

@globaljaybird Bryant started it with a solo hr. Rizzo and Zo singled. CF and RF forgot how to call for a fly ball. It dropped between them scoring Rizzo and Zo. Catcher had plate completely blocked and Zo cleaned his clock.

@globaljaybird Arrieta getting it done.

@globaljaybird Them boys still haven't figured out how to call for a ball.

Tomlin pitching a good game.

@brooksmd TF should give Tomlin da hook...

Aw crap, pulled just when he was hitting his stride.

Well then...

@globaljaybird GO CUBS GO!!! Grand Salami Russell. Whoop Whoop.

HELL YES

I'm very sad right now. Looks like we are headed to game 7.

@brooksmd So- Should they hold on & take game 6, does that make the Cubs da fav in game 7 facing Kluber & presumably a thoroughly rested Miller & Allen ?

Long way to go in this one

@DanR I ain't givin it to da Cubs yet either... Tribe has quite a few hacks left.

@globaljaybird That's the big question. But they always talk momentum and Cubs have it right now. Hendricks gets the start and everybody else will be available for gm 7 and the Cubs bats have come alive.

@brooksmd Only thing disappoints me about the exhibition game is I would have liked to see our friend's son (Lightfoot) play cause he may not see many minutes once the reg season starts. Great family, just great. Will IM you later.

@globaljaybird

you rooting for Tribe or Cubbies?

@globaljaybird Lightfoot played pretty well. Haven't seen a box score, but he must have been in at least 15 minutes. 5 boards, some free throws. Going to be a tough dude.

@VailHawk Tonite Cubs-tomorrow coin toss...AL Central proves itself year after year...

@globaljaybird

yeah I go back and forth. Prolly want Tribe to win for AL Central and to keep Cubs streak alive

@VailHawk :-1:

@DanR Thanks. When he was a toddler we hung out with his parents often, at WOF, the zoo..... at Arrowhead, Oakwood Country Club - last 2 without him of course !! When you're young those days seem like they'll never end my friend.

@globaljaybird When you post does it say posted less than a minute ago or posted an hour ago?

@globaljaybird I dont think Lightfoot will have any problems getting PT. Self won't roll without 4 bigs and Coleby isn't healed enough and may not be this season .

@brooksmd A minute ago usually.I think ??

And as Dan said, he was a beast. Wanted it more than Lucas or Bragg.

@globaljaybird For some reason it says an hour ago. Even yours and anybody else when they post it says an hour ago. Chatted with @approxinfinity trying to figure out if it's me or what. I've checked my time/date, cleared cookies, logged out/in and rebooted but we're scratching our heads.

@brooksmd This says less than a minute ago.

@brooksmd Maddon going wit da big dog .

Not sure how I feel about Chapman in the 7th again, so I guess I'll just watch and hope he only throws 5 or 6 pitches.

@brooksmd yeah I've seen stuff like that get out of whack every once in a while. Never that particular thing. See if it's the same in a different browser? Different device?

Really they went to Chapman in the 7th again? Nuts

Two pitches, out of the inning, and a jammed knee. Ice it up and get out of there.

@DanR Get some runs and take Chapman out for tmrw nite.

@DanR when he made the move I was thinkin it could backfire real easy-specially wit "da curse"

@globaljaybird how's my man doing?

I bought a Heyward shirt just to piss off my Cardinal fan inlaws... I would love it if he would finally do something. At this point, I'm not convinced he's not a St. Louis plant.

@Crimsonorblue22 Whose dat?

@Crimsonorblue22 Who you talkin girl, ME or Benny Z ?? JK !

Maybe tomorrow, Jason. Be a hero.

@DanR He'd be pickin splinters out of his butt if Schwarber was healthy.

Hitting the sack. Goodnight guys.

@approxinfinity Onda rebound boss, unless were dunked...

@globaljaybird Don't even think that. Repeat over and over: Game 7 Game 7 Game 7 Game 7 Game 7....

Three more outs and it's on to GAME 7!!!

Geez that was a train wreck at the plate when Zo scored.

RIZZO KABOOOOOOOM!!!

Come on Maddon save Chapman and bring in somebody for bottom of the 9th.

Loving the insurance runs. Maddon seriously going to leave Chapman in and go with all starters tomorrow?

@DanR Not me, I'd taken him out last inning. Shows little faith in his other pitchers to get a mere 2 innings of relief with a5 run lead-1 or 2 yeah, but 5???

@globaljaybird Benny and the jets!

@globaljaybird You can bet Chapman would still go 1 maybe 2 tmrw nite if needed. I have no doubt.

Talking heads all said Cubs tonite except Petey.

@brooksmd Who did Rose put money on though

@DanR :wink:

@DanR Not sure. Only one I know for sure was Thomas said Cubs in 7. Stupid me. The betting thing went right over my head. Good one.

Stupid baserunning.

Andre Dawson would have thrown a perfect strike, but that was still a nice damn throw by Heyward.

@DanR On the damn fly too.

@brooksmd Francona didn't look pleased about that flub.

@DanR Loved the Hawk when he was a Cub. Class all the way. Signed a blank contract with the Cubs just to get off artificial turf in Montreal and on real grass in Chicago for his knees.

Old guys like to strut when they're pissed... some of us that's all w can do anymore...

All right, guys. One more W.

If Maddon cares, Ross HAS to start tmrw nite behind the plate. I don't care if he's pulled after one inning, but he has to start.

Hell with it....ROCK CHALK CUBS!!!

@brooksmd Early start tomorrow?

Go Cubs Go, Go Cubs Go, hey Chicago whata ya say, Cubs are going to win today.

@globaljaybird Do hot bats and the big mo mean anything against Kluber?

@brooksmd Moneyball game 7 & Klubers stats show he's even tougher on teams the 3rd time he faces them...but those stats are not confined to a 10 day period... I like the Cubs hot bats. Ol man Wrigley musta bribed JOBU , ya think ?

Nice they do that gig the way they do but need to block the crowd noise a little so we can hear the talking heads.

@brooksmd We may have a lurker...

Or maybe he just fell asleep online ....

@globaljaybird You talking about @VailHawk ?

@brooksmd Yep

This business of having a second team. Ya'll were rightfully gungho last year for the Royals and now you're acting like you're life long die hard Cub fans. Geez, make up your mind!

Go Jayhawks...(.And Badgers!)

@wissoxfan83 I've told my story. Back in the day of the KC A's I couldn't stand what appeared to me to be basically a major league farm team for the Yanks. I've always been a Cub fan and when the Royals came along just added them also. But also back in the day I supported the Sox. Can still remember being allowed to stay up late to watch the game against the Tribe that clinched the AL title in 1959. Then the Sox got spanked by the Dodgers. Aparicio/Fox were a heck of a combo. But one can have more than one favorite.

Wait, is this the same guy we all joined with to cheer on his badgers a couple years ago? If I recall correctly he certainly didn't complain about it. Maybe he suffers from CRS. :wink:

@wissoxfan83 said:

Go Jayhawks…(.And Badgers!)

And LSU Tigers too, right?

Don't worry, I get it. I grew up in NW Illinois (life-long cub/bears/bulls/Illini fan), but I've moved around enough to follow and root for a few other local teams... as long as they weren't in the same conference or league.

Good stuff pops, you tell em. That 59' series was played about a month after I lost my Dad.& then his Dad passed the week after that WS ended. Big Ted Klezewski, Duke Snyder, Nellie & Louie, Early Winn, Larry Sherry-man now that's a who's who for sure . I can even recall ole Mel Allen with the call on my little "Monkey Wards" transistor ? Some of these young whippersnappers think we just got off the turnip truck but like my Dad used to say "Hell boy, I been farther around the outhouse lookin for the handle than you been on a train..."

@globaljaybird Your Dad and his witticisms. The man had an amazing way with words. :smiley:

@brooksmd Why thank you kind sir- Though sometimes he did get a might salty.

@DanR No, haven't become an LSU fan, although I've pretended so that I can score some tickets for football games!

@brooksmd Yes, I intentionally added the irony of my dual allegiance in hoops, and you know the FU thing was going on my post in response to you, right?

@wissoxfan83 Missed that. Not unusual for this old man.

@wissoxfan83 Dude, you have an LSU T-shirt. Kid at school there. You posted a pic in another thread. Were full-blown Simmons fanboy all last year. Own it.

@DanR The LSU shirt is just an LSU Dad shirt! I can't pick up another team to cheer for. My life is complicated enough! I did enjoy going and watching Simmons, true, but not sure I'd call me a full blown fan boy!