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  • #16
    Originally posted by Menious
    I have been a KC Royals fan since I was old enough to understand the game, bout '85. Granted that is when we won the World Series, but man, WHAT happened?

    Menious
    At least your team has one a World Series in the past century..

    Mine is one of the original baseball teams, playing in the oldest staduim.

    No worldseries victory in my life time, or my parents'.
    Draggar De'Vir
    92 Assassin - Povar




    Xzorsh
    57 Druid of Tunare - Povar
    47 Druid of Tunare - Lockjaw

    Hark! Who is that, prowling along the fields! It is Draggar De'VIr, hands clutching two hardened pitas! He cries gutterally: "In the name of Thor the Mighty, I hereby void your warranty, and send you back to God!!!"

    "No one can predict the future, so we all should eat our desserts first!" - Gaye from 'The Maelstorm's Eye" (Cloakmaster's Cycle book 3)

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    • #17
      And yet, and yet....

      I can't remember who said it, but I think most of the posters on this thread will agree:

      "There are only two seasons. Baseball season and the void."

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      • #18
        Um... the last time the Red Sox won the World Series was in 1918 or some such thing.



        They have BEEN in the world series in recent memory (1986 was most recent) but that year it was won by the NY METS.... wuwu go NY


        I've now lived in Chicago for over a year and still haven't managed to catch a cubs game though



        signed.... your neighborhood NY Yankees fan....
        Wandazula Akera
        Gaunt's sweetie
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        Tunare Server

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        • #19
          your neighborhood NY Yankees fan....
          Cubs fans scowl at you, ready to attack.

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          • #20
            I cannot stand the suspense at this point.
            It is Sept. 8th.
            They've won 5 in a row
            They are back in first place in their division.

            I keep waiting....for that final drop

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            • #21
              Draggar, Rex sox last won in 1918. Cubs last won in 1907.

              Would be quite different if not for those 2 words all red sox fans know and love...

              Bill Buckner

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              • #22
                Poor Bill Buckner. The story that 9 out of 10 people remember incorrectly.

                If Buckner catches that ball, the Red Sox win the World Series - right? unh-uh. Look it up.

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                • #23
                  Click to Cubs homepage...no change in score, click back to drawing before boss comes walking by. Ok, clear, click back to website...still no change.

                  They won't blow it this year..they won't blow it this year...

                  I know how you feel, Lling. *hugs*

                  Oh, and btw, it was 1908 the last time the Cubs won the World Series.

                  Hobbun
                  Last edited by Hobbun; 09-09-2003, 01:00 PM.

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                  • #24
                    All that heartache... I think I'll stick with occasionally watching Hockey.

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                    • #25
                      I am not a Cubs fan (Twins fan here), but I am cheering for them harder than I have ever cheered for a team.

                      My Grandmother has been a diehard Cubs fan since she was 8 years old. She still has the ticket from her first game in 1921. She just turned 90 and still watches every televised game. Her health has been fading in the last year or so and she may not make it through many more seasons.

                      I cannot imagine the joy she would get from seeing them finally make it to the top.

                      GO CUBS!!!!!!
                      Marteeny
                      65 Enchanter
                      Vazaelle

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                      • #26
                        This deserves to be posted here - I read it every time spring training rolls around and the hope starts anew!


                        "If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me." - Steve Goodman

                        A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request will forever link Steve Goodman with the Chicago Cubs. In the "windy city", you can hear the song around the start of baseball season every season.

                        The song debuted on Roy Leonard's WGN radio show the day. Here is Leonard's recollection of that day, "The most memorable of all the visits, however, occurred on March 16, 1983, when Steve (Goodman) and Jethro Burns walked into our WGN studios around 11:00 a.m. They had just finished a weekend at Park West and Steve said he had a introduced a song the night before that he would like to sing on the radio for the first time. With Jethro on banjo and Steve's guitar for accompaniment, A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request was heard on the radio the first time. Little did we know."


                        A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request

                        by Steve Goodman (1983)

                        By the shore's of old Lake Michigan
                        Where the "hawk wind" blows so cold
                        An old Cub fan lay dying
                        In his midnight hour that tolled
                        Round his bed, his friends had all gathered
                        They knew his time was short
                        And on his head they put this bright blue cap
                        From his all-time favorite sport
                        He told them, "its late and its getting dark in here"
                        And I know its time to go
                        But before I leave the line-up
                        Boys, there's just one thing I'd like to know

                        Do they still play the blues in Chicago
                        When baseball season rolls around
                        When the snow melts away,
                        Do the Cubbies still play
                        In their ivy covered burial ground
                        When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
                        But now they only bring fatigue
                        To the home of the brave
                        The land of the free
                        And the doormat of the National League

                        Told his friends "You know the law of averages says:
                        Anything will happen that can."
                        That's what it says.
                        "But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
                        Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan"
                        The Cubs made me a criminal
                        Sent me down a wayward path
                        They stole my youth from me
                        (that's the truth)
                        I'd forsake my teacher's
                        To go sit in the bleachers
                        In flagrant truancy

                        and then one thing led to another
                        and soon I'd discovered alcohol, gambling, dope
                        football, hockey, lacrosse, tennis
                        But what do you expect,
                        When you raise up a young boys hopes
                        And then just crush 'em like so many paper beer cups.

                        Year after year after year
                        after year, after year, after year, after year, after year
                        'Til those hopes are just so much popcorn
                        for the pigeons beneath the 'EL' tracks to eat
                        He said "You know I'll never see Wrigley Field, anymore
                        before my eternal rest
                        So if you have your pencils and your score cards ready,
                        and I'll read you my last request
                        He said, "Give me a double header funeral in Wrigley Field
                        On some sunny weekend day (no lights)
                        Have the organ play the National Anthem
                        and then a little "na, na, na, na, hey hey, hey, Goodbye"
                        Make six bullpen pitchers, carry my coffin
                        and six ground keepers clear my path
                        Have the umpires bark me out at every base
                        In all their holy wrath
                        Its a beautiful day for a funeral, Hey Ernie lets play two!
                        Somebody go get Jack Brickhouse to come back,
                        and conduct just one more interview
                        Have the Cubbies run right out into the middle of the field,
                        Have Keith Moreland drop a routine fly
                        Give everybody two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt
                        And I'll be ready to die

                        Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats,
                        And toss my coffin in
                        Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow
                        From the prevailing 30 mile an hour south west wind
                        When my last remains go flying over the left field wall
                        Will bid the bleacher bums adieu
                        And I will come to my final resting place, out on Waveland Avenue

                        The dying man's friends told him to cut it out
                        They said stop it that's an awful shame
                        He whispered, "Don't Cry, we'll meet by and by near the Heavenly Hall of Fame
                        He said, "I've got season's tickets to watch the Angels now,
                        So its just what I'm going to do
                        He said, "but you the living, you're stuck here with the Cubs,
                        So its me that feels sorry for you!

                        And he said, "Ahh Play, play that lonesome losers tune,
                        That's the one I like the best
                        And he closed his eyes, and slipped away
                        What we got is the Dying Cub Fan's Last Request
                        And here it is

                        Do they still play the blues in Chicago
                        When baseball season rolls around
                        When the snow melts away,
                        Do the Cubbies still play
                        In their ivy covered burial ground
                        When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
                        But now they only bring fatigue
                        To the home of the brave
                        The land of the free
                        And the doormat of the National League

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