Good gawd the Cubs are doing well… still holding on to first place in their division for several weeks now! Will they start to choke again or has Pinella found a way to break the curse and work some magic? It would be kinda freaky if they ended up being champions this year, after exactly 100 years of bitter failure. Just keep Steve Bartman FAR FAR away from Wrigley if he is still not in hiding somewhere…
Baseball is for homosexuals.
Jizzim and i love it…we’re big Reds fans.
You better love baseball, boy!
Not liking baseball is downright un-American in my book!
FUCK SOCCER!!!
At least Football (or Soccer for uneducated yankee doodle dandys) fans kick eachothers cunts in before and after the match…hell they even throw sectarianism into it!!
Baseball fans are just big dumb hotdawg eating panzys!
it’s all about the red sox! manny threw me a ball he caught last monday night when they spanked the tigers. i’ll have to try and go to another game at wrigley this year too. i’d like to see them win one finally. but right now i’m way too preoccupied with the nba and nhl playoffs to think too much about baseball.
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Yet another homo.
I’d like to hear you say that to some rabid Yankee or Red Sox fans or the the crazy drunken Mick Sox fans on Chicago’s south side…
You’d be in for the asswhoopin’ of your life boy… and not the kind you like from your buddy Jizzm…
Ok, I get it you don’t like Baseball… you said your peace now quit trollin’ my thread!!!
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Yet another homo.
Tell that to them on the South Side in Chicago. I’m sure they’d agree.
I’m not the biggest baseball fan (I do watch all of the postseason each year). That being said, the D-Backs are having a great year so far (of course, we just got SWEPT by the Cubs). So much that fans are already bringing ‘magic number’ signs (for clinching the division) to the games. A bit optimistic (and silly), but we haven’t been this good since probably the 2001 season when we won it all. Brandon Webb has been on fire this year.
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I’m a White Sox fan myself.
Growing up I was a Cubs fan but I kind of lost interest in them once Harry Carray started to lose his mind after the stroke and the whole franchise was worshiping that steriod-shooting bat corking loser Sammy Sosa. He wouldn’t have had nearly as many home runs as he did if he were not playing in Wrigley field and totally juiced up…
But anyway, after going to Wrigley over ten times over the course of my youth and not seeing the Cubs win ONCE I just couldn’t take it anymore… got tired of the “lovable loser” cutesyness of the franchise. Plus now Wrigley is practically a symbol of gentrified Chicago and most Cubs fans are retarded frat-boy types who just go to Wrigley to chug Old-Style and proceed to get extremely drunk and obnoxious…
White Sox may have a new, corporate field but at least most of their fans are truly interested in watching Baseball.
I still wish the Cubs well, just because the kid in me still likes the Cubs and it’s just downright painful to watch them choke year after year after year…
I’m not the biggest baseball fan (I do watch all of the postseason each year). That being said, the D-Backs are having a great year so far (of course, we just got SWEPT by the Cubs). So much that fans are already bringing ‘magic number’ signs (for clinching the division) to the games. A bit optimistic (and silly), but we haven’t been this good since probably the 2001 season when we won it all. Brandon Webb has been on fire this year.
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Diamondbacks eh? How are the fans out there in Arizona? It seems like they must be pretty fair-weathered if they weren’t even selling out their stadium in the post-season! I live in Seattle and the Mariners have a beautiful ballpark, but most of the fans really aren’t that passionate. I guess it’s harder for younger teams like the Diamondback and the Mariners to have the same following as teams that have been around forever like the Yankees, Boston and the White Sox…
cubs rule. wrigley field rules.i remember the big party at wrigley field when they went to night games. bill murray and other “chicago” types who didn’t really grow up there.
a lot of fans love the park.
as far as the retard jocks go, hope for a homer over the bleacher bums and some stunned fratboy from depaul or northwestern gets what’s comin’.
my favorite wrigley field day was riding a very fine motorcycle to see the cubs, stopping at a mexican place to get a steak burrito to sneak in, and the air was really cold. i puked from the burrito about three minutes into the game.
no offense, cubbies.
just a memory etched forever.
I’m a MN boy for the past decade so have been greatly enjoying the Twins this year. 3 in 4 against Red Sox, not too shabby for a team with so many new players.
Diamondbacks eh? How are the fans out there in Arizona? It seems like they must be pretty fair-weathered if they weren’t even selling out their stadium in the post-season!
We do have the reputation of being a fair-weather town, but what city isn’t, really? It doesn’t help that Phoenix is a melting pot of transplants, many from Chicago and New York. A D-Backs-Cubs game here is practically a Cubs home game! After AZ won the series in '01, the team got worse, and the crowds got smaller. In regards to last year’s playoffs, I’m sure a lot of fans weren’t convinced yet that we were a good team again. That’s how it goes in sports. I don’t think the ‘old’ teams are an exception. The Cubs had a notorious 1983 season where they were packing in a whopping 3,000 fans a game! You can have a large fanbase for a storied team, but when your team starts losing, people stop going. I’ve seen it happen in every sports town. That said, filling a stadium in Phoenix with 45K baseball fans is definitely hard to do!
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[reply]Diamondbacks eh? How are the fans out there in Arizona? It seems like they must be pretty fair-weathered if they weren’t even selling out their stadium in the post-season!
We do have the reputation of being a fair-weather town, but what city isn’t, really? It doesn’t help that Phoenix is a melting pot of transplants, many from Chicago and New York.[/reply]
I hear about this a lot (people from Chicago moving down there) - true?
Yeah, you should see the number of Chicago-run hot dog shops and NY-run pizza places, they’re everywhere. I see more Yankees stickers on vehicles than any other team. I’ve met quite a few people over the years from those cities. I love the ones who tell me I haven’t had real pizza/italian food until I’ve gone to New York. ‘Ok, whatever’…that always cracks me up. We have half of those places here now, anyway. We even have a Ted’s Hot Dogs (from Buffalo) in Tempe (great place, too). I think it’s the winter vacations that get people from back east to move here.
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We even have a Ted’s Hot Dogs (from Buffalo) in Tempe (great place, too)
no shit. ted’s is pretty popular in buffalo but i never thought their dogs were all that great compared to other joints (prefer zweigle’s over the sahlen’s teds uses). thats cool they branched out though. do they have the white hots down there? never seen those outside of western new york. but that area does pride itself on good dogs.
That’s funny - I used to go to Ted’s for lunch when I lived in Buffalo. That is cool they branched out. I tend to prefer the mom and pop places like that. As far as dogs, char boiled dogs, Chicago style. Let’s go.
I bet AZ has some real damn good Mexican food there too.
byron’s for the dogs in chicago. i guess they still have a stand on irving pk. they had another one by the river/old montgomery wards building. don’t know if it’s still there. dog with tomato/relish/mustard/pickle/lettuce and if you ask, hot peppers.
i know everyone talks about the no ketchup thing in chicago, and it’s probably true. they taste better that way.
fries are okay but who cares when you sink into one of those babies.
wow. the best beef sandwiches are somewhere around the corner, for all the meateaters here. not much for me now, but i did do a taste test a few years ago.
go italians! i mean cubs…
Ted’s is really good here, when they don’t burn the shit out of my dogs! The chili is really good (fries, too). They do have the white-hots here, in-fact the menu is supposedly identical. The lunch line starts at 11, and the wait can be 20+ to get your food. I read somewhere that the owner’s brother owns the shop in Tempe. If you look at the map on their website, there’s 8 pointers on NY, and just the 1 on AZ! Looks kinda weird. The best dogs I’ve ever had were at Pink’s in Hollywood. Pretty sure I waited almost 40 minutes in line to get a hot dog. Sounds crazy, but their dogs are out of this world.
Afra, there’s so much Mexican food here, it’s insane (hell, we border the damn country!) There’s so much, in-fact, that you really have to do some research to find the good places. There’s a lot of average-to-poor Mexican joints, scattered everywhere, but there are some real gems in town, too. We also have Tamale Fest in dowtown every December, where a street is blocked off and set up with vendor tents. I just walk up and down the street, sampling $2 homemade tamales, burritos and tacos for a couple of hours. Heavenly. Another option is Rocky Point, which is only 4 hours south of where I live (closest beaches to Phoenix).
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