sitting around, watching the Cubs, I just realized:

[Gabi Hayes]

Cubs=Demparty

Just Wait Until _____________.

fill in the blank


for those who aren't familiar, the most famous phrase in Cub fan parlance is ''Wait 'til next year!''

Sweet, achordate Cubby Blue


now, back to the game, and their fourth double play in a row.

[tridim]

1. Baseball is a good escape for me..

And man did I need it today.

I'm watching the Rockies chase the pennant.

[burythehatchet]

4. Life is interesting again for Mets fans

although they will win tonight. I'm still watching the Stl Phi game

[Gabi Hayes]

5. good luck! I listen at night from Chicago, on 850AM. ironic, in that the

Chicago AAR station is also 850, goes off at sunset, and is replace by that horrid horrid Denver station, the equvalent of WLS AM in Chicago, if not worse.

I'd love to see the Cubs play them in October, but my guess is that we'll both be waiting til next year.

but, wait! Soriano just threw the very fast Hopper out at the plate on a single to left field. that's exactly what the Cubs usually do...run into outs, and out of innings.

maybe there's still hope, Cubs/dems (country, actually. I've pretty much given up on dems. sorry)

[tridim]

8. Yea, I don't think the Rocks will make it, but they're sure making the effort

And the games have been so much fun to watch lately.

Last night's excitement was a 9th inning, 2 out, 2 run, walk-off home run for the win by Helton. It doesn't get any better than that!

[Gabi Hayes]

11. I wondered what happened. I was listening, but fell asleep.

it's a little too early to get them now.

waiting for the bounce.

[abq e streeter]

30. I was in Chicago

this summer visiting family... Listening to 850 when it went off the air and to my pleasant surprise the Denver station came on with the Rockies game. I'll take your word for it that they're a right wing talk station or something, but it was cool listening to the Rockies from Chi.

[Gabi Hayes]

36. here

all super RW aholes, except Rick Barber and Big Steve

http://www.850koa.com/pages/ondemand.html

[JTG of the PRB]

53. Hey! Buck up! The Rockies won again!

6-5 on an 8th inning 2-run blast by Brad Hawpe. That's 4 wins in a row!

Of course, they REALLY should have at least swept the Marlins... If they HAD done that, San Diego would seeing us looming in their rearview...

[KharmaTrain]

2. I Should Bite My Tongue...

But this White Sox fan is also watching the Cubbie game (please forgive me!!) and actually hope they make it to the play-offs. I've been to the "promised land" in 2005 and now back to baseball reality. Here's hoping my Cubbie fan friends also enjoy that same experience in their lifetimes. But as the late Jack Brickhouse once said "any team can have a bad century".

[Gabi Hayes]

6. Hey! I grew up with Jack Brickhouse doing both Cubs/Sox games, and

listening to Bob Elson every night Sox game. I'm one of those rare fans of both.

Light up a White Owl!

grew up HATING the Yankees for beating the Sox every year.

now I hate the Mets even more, ever since 69.

just hate Steinbrenner

not really hate, but you know what I mean....

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. Oh my, Bob Elson.

A local AM station here in Alabama carried the White Sox games back in the late 50s and early 60s. I loved listening to Bob Elson and Milo Hamilton announcing the Sox games. Milo later became the Atlanta Braves announcer in 1966.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. that's right. and Milo is a huge pug shill. did you know that?

I couldn't stand him, even as a kid.

now I know why.

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. Milo and Harry Caray hated each other.

Cannot remember what the problem was. He lost the Braves job because he critized the fans for not supporting a terrible team back in the mid 1970s. He was a good announcer but not in the league with Bob Elson or Mel Allen or Bob Prince or Jack Buck or Harry Caray.

[KharmaTrain]

38. Milo Was Promised The Cubs Job

He was supposed to be Brickhouses' heir...but the Tribune bought the team, Reinsdorf fired Carrey and the Tribune snatched him up. IRC, they tried having Milo on the radio and Harry on the TV but Milo resented being shoved aside for Harry.

Milo's best remembered for calling Hank Aaron's #755 and the longtime voice for Delta Airlines. I also thought he worked/is working in Houston.

[KharmaTrain]

14. Don't Forget Friendly Bob Adams

I still remember the phone number...LOL

I grew up with both Cubs and Sox...had my heart broken in '69, but always had been a Sox fan...especially when Harry started doing the games in the early 70s.

I think it's genetic now to hate the Yankees if you either don't live in the Bronx or just want to piss off a Red Sox fan. :rofl:

I really like Lou Pinella...he's made the most out of this team. I wouldn't even mind if Mark Cuban bought the team...a good Democrat.

Cheers...

[Gabi Hayes]

15. ha! Bob Adams....a mortgage company, IIRC. and I heard on the radio today

that the Cubs TV people were SPECIFICALLY ORDERED to NOT show Cuban in the stands the other day.

man, that umpire is squeezing the hell out of the strike zone in the ninth

Cubs lead by one run.

two down!

Wake up, Harry!

[Gabi Hayes]

16. Household Finance Co.! CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN!

http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/rwas/index.php?category=14&id=2198

[patsimae]

19. I think I remember the phone number

Was it Hudson3-2700?

[Gabi Hayes]

21. I think so, but my brain is singing "Empire" after the number. that's carpeting, though.

check this out. look for the highlight down the page:

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:B9ayPnh9rXkJ:education.ed.pacificu.edu/bailey/resources/papers/Laptops/brain.html+Hudson3-2700&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us

[KharmaTrain]

34. That's Magikist Carpet

or was that Bouchelle Carpets? LOL

The Local Loan Friendly Bob Adams number was ANdover 3-2020. Why do I remember this crap yet I can't remember what day of the week it is?

:toast:

Cheers....

[Gabi Hayes]

40. you're right! remember the MagiKist sign, off the Kennedy.?

near where RiverView used to be? I was very bummed when those lips came down

[KharmaTrain]

44. There Were Three Signs...

The Kennedy at the Edens (that was finally pulled down around 2000), another at 95th and the Ryan and the third at Cicero & The Eisenhower. That sign along with the Budweiser sign along the Kennedy are still vivid childhood memories.

I became a diehard Sox fan in 1964...we were driving past old Comiskey on the Ryan, my father had Bob Elson doing the game...and as we were driving past the part I hoped someone would hit a home run. Sure enough, Pete Ward (who wore an upside down 8) knocked one out as we were driving past and I got to see the fireworks. Later that year my father took me to a game and I was hooked.

Ahhh...laugh your troubles away at Riverview!!! There was no place like Alladin's Castle...especially running through the barrel and the air blasts. Shoot the Chutes, the Bobs, Flying Turns, Tunnel of Love...with Billy Stewart's version of Summertime playing on the PA system around the park. What a great memory.

[papau]

51. Welcome to my world! - :-)

:-)

[abq e streeter]

39. another rare fan of both

hey they're both Chicago, and besides I always thought it was mathematically unsound to have two teams that almost never won anything and then cut those slim chances in half by only rooting for one. Yankee hater for same reason...Sounds like you're my age give or take... First ever night road channel 9 telecast---Sept 22 1959, Gerry Staley comes in in the 9th and gets Vic Power to ground into a double play for the pennant; 48 years ago this Sat. and I can still remember that moment ( I was 8 yrs old).

[Gabi Hayes]

41. Cleveland! swear to god I was going to post that, about the double play! and didn't

Sherm Lollar hit a home run,too?

[abq e streeter]

52. just looked it up

on baseball-reference.com , a site with stats so obscure, I don't even know what they mean. But there's literally nothing you can't track down there. I remembered the Sox getting back to back homers in the 6th and remembered Jungle Jim Rivera had one; it was Al Smith ("the best .237 hitter in the American league" --true, too, great clutch hitter) who hit the other one.( I'd had it in my head that it was Bubba Phillips) Both off of Mudcat Grant. Lollar's last HR of the season (of 22) was 2 days earlier off of Don Mossi..Sherm used to manage the Tucson Toros of the PCL in the 70's and saw him here at the old Dukes stadium here in Albuquerque many times. (lived part of 70's in Chi., part here in Albq). By the way, there's a funny, but very sweet little appreciation of Sherm in The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book--from 1973; it starts out " When I was born, Sherm Lollar was catching for the White Sox. When I first went off to grammar school, Sherm Lollar was catching for the White Sox.When I was confirmed, Sherm Lollar was catching for the White Sox.And when I graduated from high school, Sherm Lollar was catching for the White Sox.At some point during my adolescence, it suddenly crossed my mind that Sherm Lollar had probably always caught for the White Sox,that in fact there had always been a White Sox, and Sherm Lollar had always been their catcher..."----a fun little book, probably out of print...by Brendan Boyd and Fred Harris.

[Retired AF Dem]

60. I'm with you on hating the Mets since 69

The first Cubs game I went to was in 69. What a game. Kenny Holtzman pitched a no hitter against the Braves. All the action was in the first. Hank Aaron hit one out of the park but the wind blew the ball back in and Billy Williams caught it with his back against the ivy. In the bottom of the first Ron Santo hit a three run homerun. Rest of the game was all Holtzmann. Cubs 3 Braves 0.

[rubberducky]

3. Perhaps that is why they are America`s team!

My heart belong`s to the Tigers, but have always had a nice warm spot left in my heart for the Cubbies. Everyone I know feels the same way about the Cubs!

[Gabi Hayes]

7. Right...losers! I was really looking forward to a Cubs/Tigers series in 84, but the Cubs

blew a 2-0 lead to the Padres, who were then swept (right?) by the Tigers.

last year's series was excruciating, btw.

sorry about the 'losers' sobriquet, but, seriously. when are they going to stand up?

tomorrow?

next week?

next month?

next spring?

next fall?

they could start by explaining why they don't force the pugs to actually filibuster? is it because they're askeered the pugs might do it to them? sort of like they used the nuclear option in the last session? I know changing Rule XXII wouldn't pass this senate, as comprised, but I can't really take much more

btw, Griffey just badly pulled a muscle. Cub player could have scored, of course, but he held up. Will he score the lead run with one out in the 8th?

time for another double play, I'm afraid

[Captain Hilts]

18. Red Sox, then the White Sox., then the Cubs didn't get the memo about winnin' the Series. nt

[Gabi Hayes]

22. last time the were even there was '45, and I think it was the Tigers that

beat them.

[Elwood P Dowd]

26. Hey Gabi, listen to Bob Elson from 1953

It's No. 1 on the link.

http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/rwas/index.php?category=14&id=2198

[Gabi Hayes]

31. thank you! sigh....I used to lie there, listening to the games....

there was a lighted church steeple, shining through the window, which I'd sort of zone out to as I drifted off to his VERY relaxed delivery. he made Vin Scully sound manic.

[madrchsod]

32. that`s why i`m i sox fan...

when i was but a boy my mom listened to bob elson on the radio...been a southsider ever since..

[Gabi Hayes]

46. I grew up in Homewood....south suburbs.

nose dripping w/nostalgia, I must call it a night.

listening to extra innings between Brewers/Astros

AM 620...

[Neecy]

13. I'm in mourning

[Captain Hilts]

17. Cubs, Mets and Red Sox are the official baseball teams of the Dem Party.

Or so it seems at all protests.

[Gabi Hayes]

20. Yankee felon:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/yankees/georgesnitch1.html

Before he was indicted for making illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon, George Steinbrenner considered singing for some leniency. According to this memo prepared by lawyers with the Watergate special prosecutor, Steinbrenner attorney Edward Bennett Williams said that his client had information on other illegal contributions, not to mention the sale of ambassadorships and a Teamsters slush fund. Steinbrenner, whose offer was rejected, eventually pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy count as well as a misdemeanor charge.

[KitchenWitch]

23. Hey, the Cubs won tonight!

Did the Astros pull one out too?

[Gabi Hayes]

25. Brewers tied it in the ninth on a two run homer

*holes

[KitchenWitch]

27. *growl*

Go 'Stros

[Kelly Rupert]

24. Sitting around, watching the White Sox, I just realized

my God, the White Sox suck.

[Gabi Hayes]

29. what HAPpened to them? 2005 was awfully sweet, the very sweetest aspect being

the look on George HW Bush's face, as well as that of his husband, Barbara, as the Sox took the series in Houston.

[KharmaTrain]

42. It Nearly Destroyed My Wide Screen LOL

Watching the Quaker Oats lady get all ferklempt during that series was only icing on the cake.

Good to see the Cubbies pick up the win. What'd the Brewers do?

Cheers...

:toast:

[Gabi Hayes]

47. brewers just lost in the tenth!

Go, Cubs, Go!

now, I really have to go, as I just had a sweet/sad flash:

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_cubs.shtml

Steve Goodman, RIP. hope you were watching tonight

sigh

[JVS]

28. Cubs= yuppie team just like the Yankees, but without all the baggage of winning

[Gabi Hayes]

33. sadly, you're pretty accurate on that. Wrigley has thousands of yupsters who

know squat about baseball. it's quite the scene to be seen......how annoying is it to see people talking on their cell phones.

they're still outnumbered by real fans, though.

[mark414]

57. they try to buy their wins like the yankees or red sox

but no matter what happens, the cubs still suck - end of the season choke is on its way.

[Captain Hilts]

59. This is so true, compared to the Pale Hose. nt

[madrchsod]

35. harry and jimmy

the best one two punch in at least the last 30 years.....

[Gabi Hayes]

43. amen! I didn't live here then, but listened when I came back, and they were

something else.

Jimmy Piersall, who is/was so crazy they made a movie about him. that was the best baseball broadcasting team I've ever heard.

remember when Piersall called some WhiteSox player's wives whores, or something very close to that?


http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/rwas/index.php?category=11&id=2852

[abq e streeter]

54. A somehow remembered snippet of Harry/Jimmy repartee

Harry ( to Piersall) : "You're crazy! And Jimmy's cheery reply: "yeah, and I've got the papers to prove it!" I still miss ol' JC Martin: "He's a good fielder, out dere ,in da field".

[democrat2thecore]

37. There was a year I was HUGE Cubs fan! (thank you wgn)

I was sidelined and at home for the better part of a year quite a while back. WGN and the Cubs made that year better for me. I was addicted to watching and I'm still a Cubs fan because of it!

[abq e streeter]

45. Cub fan syndrome

A firm , unyielding belief that no matter how promising something is looking, you know in your heart of hearts, it won't work out, and then you're proven right. I can remember watching the Cubs and Phillies in 77 , Cubs leading in the 5th 13-2,wind blowing straight out to left, and I turn to my brother and say " This isn't in the bag yet". Four Mike Schmidt homers later, ( and despite Kingman's three) the Phillies win 18-16... and no that's not the 23-22 game--that's two years later, the Phillies again with the wind, needless to say, howling from the south, straight out to left. Schmidt batting in the 10th against Sutter again, and remember thinking to myself, hey I've seen this game before, this is the part where Schmidt hits one out onto Waveland Avenue. I guess I don't have to say what happened next... But my tying in the Democrats with all this is a sadly recent phenomenon.

[Gabi Hayes]

48. Kingman played baseball/basketball at our rival HS: Prospect.

I'd just moved up to Arlington Hts, and he was a star in both sports, but was a fearsome pitcher, at 6-7.

he remains, I think, the player with the most homeruns not selected to the hall of fame

oops, it's now Canseco, with 462.

[Gabi Hayes]

49. couldn't agree more about the Cub fans' syndrome, btw. It'll be enough

just for them to make the series, but I don't see how they can possibly make it through the playoffs.

they are one game in front, now, though.

a HUGH lead!

[abq e streeter]

56. I remember, and Luzinski too

playing baseball and football at either Loyola Academy or Notre Dame High. I graduated Evanston in '68 , still the only basketball state champs in ETHS history. One of our starters, who I used to play softball with was Walt Pookie" Perrin , who I think is still director of player development or player personnel, for the Utah Jazz.---- Lots of good ballplayers up your way; Paul Splitthorf of the Kansas City Royals, among others...

[Captain Hilts]

58. How 'bout No Neck Williams? Jean Sheppard taught me to love the Pale Hose. nt

[abq e streeter]

61. No Neck...

Greetings Mookie---gabihayes had mentioned Dave Kingman playing at the archrival high school to his, and I'd mentioned Luzinski and Splitthorf as a couple other guys from the same 'hood. No-Neck was from Texas, but, yeah, certainly hard to not have fond memories of ol' No-Neck Williams. By the way, Carlos May, who played in the same outfield as No-Neck, lived about 4 blocks away from me for part of his time with the Sox, in the days before even .250 hitters made 5 million dollars ( i.e. it was a middle class neighborhood). I'm glad there are threads like this on DU; been fun for me reminiscing about old ballgames and old ballplayers, but if any conservatives are checking in to DU to see what those liberals who hate America are up to, hopefully one or two of em have seen this thread and realized a lot of us are still just good ol' boys ( and girls) who love a cold beer and and a good ballgame---we're not the alien creatures Rush and the rest of em would have them believe...

[Gabi Hayes]

64. Carlos May blew part of his thumb (IIRC) off with a mortar, during national guard duty.

remember that?

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:2H7aMs-fo5IJ:www.baseball-fever.com/archive/index.php/t-27147.html+carlos+may+thumb+national+guard&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

scroll down for highlighted words. that's the only thing that came up, but I remember that

hmmmm. national guard....infamy....what does that remind you of?

[abq e streeter]

65. Oh yeah, I remember

I wasn't gonna mention it because my friends and I rather cruelly referred to him as no-thumb...part of the outfield of No Neck, No Thumb and (for whoever was occupying the 3rd outfield position any given evening) No talent...

[Captain Hilts]

66. I think I have a Carlos May bubblegum card.

And Luzinski. And I know I have No Neck's. In fact, I gave a framed No Neck card to a Hose fan as a birthday gift a couple of years ago.

Wasn't Wilbur Wood amazing?

[abq e streeter]

67. Ah, baseball cards

a bittersweet subject. The first sentence in the epilogue of that baseball book I referred to in one of my replies to gabihayes is " So your mother threw out your baseball cards, I know, I know"...Apparently, I'm far from the only one....but I had THOUSANDS... going back to 1954; Aaron, Mantle, Mathews, Williams,Musial, Koufax, Banks, all the way to the immortal Coot Veal and Rip Repulski......sigh...Too painful to think about sometimes. yeah, Wilbur Wood; I was watching when he took that Ron LeFlore line drive in the knee, and for all intents and purposes, that was all she wrote...

[Gabi Hayes]

62. ha....Splittorf was a year ahead of me at Arlington. I played

summer baseball the year after I moved up here with his brother

He (video of him pitching) appeared briefly in The Bronx is Burning, during the Yankee/Royals playoffs.

did you see that? one of the most enjoyable baseball shows I've ever seen. John Turturro=excellent, as does most of the cast.

[Gabi Hayes]

50. one last...if the Cubs can do it, so can the DEMS, or at least some sort of

progressive/anti-fascist movement, right?

even the baseball players have a 'union!'



http://www.unitedmindworkers.org/

I feel much better now

http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/

[abq e streeter]

55. To gabi,

been fun going down the old memory lane with you. I barely drink anymore, but in my heart I'm hoisting a cold Old Style or Meister Brau or Falstaff (or whatever Harry was hawking at the moment--me and my buddies bought whatever rotgut Harry was drinking at the old ballpark and got drunk right along with him) to you and to the frantic hope that the Democratic party can get some huevos (literally eggs in spanish, but meaning balls) and stop being the living embodiment of Cub syndrome. Here's to ya, friend.

[Gabi Hayes]

63. same here, and a belated welcome to DU......

Huevos are in apparently short order these days; same as spinal columnae, or however

I think I'll have a few people over this weekend, and watch them on TV, as it's easy to suffer in a group, rather than stew in my own juices, as I did back in November, O4.

oops...there I go again

Think ++++++++++++, right?

Cubs/Dems WINNNNNNN!!!!!