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Max Power

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Grew up a Sandberg/Grace fan.  Took an early day off school to watch the Cubs vs Braves,  Andrew Jones was getting heckled all game.  Some Bleacher (8$ tickets) fans threw batteries at him.  He gave us the DMX "suck it" sign and they won easily.  Best skipping school day ever.

 
Mordecai Brown got his nickname from a incident in a St Louis brothel, when three hookers overwhelmed him on two days rest.  

 
I attended HS with Rhino's niece.  She was my science lab partner and we became close friends.  She was a hottie and very sweet and unfortunately, at the time, out of my league. She invited me to Wrigley with her family to watch the game in the 84 season and enjoy a private dinner afterwards with Rhino, some players and coaches.  A very memorable experience.

 
Friend in high school was a Cubs fan.  For graduation his parents flew us to Chicago in the morning to see a doubleheader then flew home that night.  I've been to more games at wrigley than anywhere but Astros games. 

 
Abraham said:
Friend in high school was a Cubs fan.  For graduation his parents flew us to Chicago in the morning to see a doubleheader then flew home that night.  I've been to more games at wrigley than anywhere but Astros games. 
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Is "doubleheader" a euphemism? 

 
1984, sitting in 8th grade class and getting paged over the intercom system to come to the principal's office.

Walk in and my dad is standing there, in front of the principal and his secretary, reminding me that I had a dentist's appt.

Get out to the car and there are tickets for game 1 of the NLCS on the dash.

Cubs win 13-0. Sutcliffe throws a gem and goes yard.

 
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In 1987, the Cubs beat the Phillies 9-1 in a game where Mike Schmidt hit a big home run - closing in on 500.  In that game, Leon Durham, the "goat" of the 1984 NLCS despite hitting 2 home runs in that series because he had a fielding error that cost the Cubs, hit a broken bat single.  I have the bat, kept together with small nails and tape.  His curse is broken with the billy goat curse, and the bat goes up in my office tomorrow.

 
I still don't get why this old drunken Chicago White Sox announcer is associated with the Cubs.  Jack 'Hey Hey' Brickhouse is the voice of the Cubs. 

 
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One of my best friends in high school used the old Print Shop on his C64  to print out a banner on his dot matrix.   It had the Cubs logo on one side and the Sox on the other,  and it said "Sox rule,  Cubs drool."

And they did,  they really did,  you know? 

Man, good times.

 
jon_mx said:
I still don't get why this old drunken Chicago White Sox announcer is associated with the Cubs.  Jack 'Hey Hey' Brickhouse is the voice of the Cubs. 
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Probably because When Carey was doing it, tons of people around the country got WGN with their cable subscription. You couldnt get thousands of games a year on TV. 

 
The news had a story about a pair of cubs breaking into this person's pool cage. It was cute watching the cubs play on their pool.

 
I once caught a foul ball from Todd Walker when he was playing with the Cubs at Great American in Cincy. 

 
I always tell people my first concert was Ozzy/Metallica. The reality is that it was Sha Na Na at Wrigley Field after a Cubs game. Before the lights.

 
i have some friends who are cubs fans.  to this point, they had not seen the cubs win the world series.  but now, they have seen the cubs win the world series.

 
Cornholed at Wrigley two years ago with scorchy, JZilla, bigbottom, urbanhack, and urbanhack's buddy.  Left in like the 6th inning because baseball is boring.

 
Saw a double-header against the Braves in '87 or '88 when I was 6 or 7. My mom crossed 4 lanes of traffic in 30 seconds getting to the game, then walking up the ramp to our seats Bobby Cox walked out of a door and asked us if it was still raining. The 2nd game of the double header ended in like the 7th or something due to darkness. I don't remember who won either game. Since then it has been misery, which was somewhat erased last night.

 
I'm not really a Cubs fan, but have always favored them given parallels to my Red Sox. Have been to Wrigley once, on September 2nd 2011 when in Chicago for a work trip. A coworker had an old College buddy who worked at a finance firm who had 4 sets of season tickets in the park and said he could get us in but didn't know which we'd get. 

They knew I was a huge baseball fan and were all giggly when we met up for bloody mary's in the hotel lobby.. wouldn't show me the tickets. We head down to the park and start pregaming... where we found pictures of @shuke on every telephone pole around wrigleyville.

After a few rounds we walk into the park with a nice buzz... walking down toward the field behind home... closer...closer.... to our seats Field Box 16, Row A, Seats 1-4 (on the aisle next to on deck circle). Front row against the brick, across aisle from the owners.  Best seats I've ever had for a game in my life. Was betting Bud Lights (his favorite, he said) with Soriano that he couldn't get a hit (he didn't)...etc.

Got blind drunk in the bars afterward and don't remember much of that evening outside of blowing lines back at some chick's apartment, then ending up back at the hotel with buddy and the blonde and her wanting to get tag teamed. I respectfully called it a night at that point. :lol:

Good times. Next time I go I wanna sit in the bleachers. 

 
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TheWalkmen said:
Saw a double-header against the Braves in '87 or '88 when I was 6 or 7. My mom crossed 4 lanes of traffic in 30 seconds getting to the game, then walking up the ramp to our seats Bobby Cox walked out of a door and asked us if it was still raining. The 2nd game of the double header ended in like the 7th or something due to darkness. I don't remember who won either game. Since then it has been misery, which was somewhat erased last night.
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August 28, 1987.

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1987/08/28/page/45/article/cubs-braves-split-maybe

 
My uncle took me to my first Cubs game, I was maybe 8 or 9, and my cousin was 3 or 4. Uncle buys my cousin a t-shirt that says 'Cubs Win' with Snoopy on it. I thought it was a pretty cool shirt. Cubs were down 2-0 in the 9th, rally and win it. Not a great story but I'll always remember my first game.

 
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I sneaked into Game 5 without a ticket.
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I saw that on Twitter. Lucky SOB!

My Cubs story is just my dad chatting with Vedder at length about the Cubs a few years ago. 

ETA -  oh, and the day my son was born the Cubs flashed the birth details on the marquee on Clark and Addison. 

 
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I saw that on Twitter. Lucky SOB!

My Cubs story is just my dad chatting with Vedder at length about the Cubs a few years ago. 

ETA -  oh, and the day my son was born the Cubs flashed the birth details on the marquee on Clark and Addison. 
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"BUY CUBS TICKETS ONLINE AT CUBS.COM ... WELCOME SAINTFOOL JR 7 LBS 5 OZ W LOTS OF PLACENTA AND GOOP ... STADIUM TOURS AVAILABLE THROUGH MARCH 31"

Too many details if you ask me.

 
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Mark Grace's slump buster story is hilarious:

On the definition of a "slumpbuster", after being pressed by host Jim Rome in a now-infamous 2003 interview on the television show "Rome is Burning" to clarify the baseball slang term (this is the "official" word-for-word transcript from the interview)...
"A slumpbuster is if a team's in a slump, or if you personally are in a slump, you gotta find the fatest, gnarliest, grossest chick and you just gotta lay the wood to her. And when you do that, you're just gonna have instant success. And it could also be called jumping on a grenade for the team."

 
Had a bunch of friends fly in for "Chicago weekend" which included a game against the Cardinals.  This was in ~2005 when Jim Edmonds was playing center field.  He used to be engaged to girl that we knew named Paige, and we heckled him mercilessly from the bleachers. He kept looking up at us so we knew we were getting to him.  He went 0-5 with 2 Ks that day.  Best line was from my friend, "Hey Jim, Paige and I hocked your engagement ring and we're going to Tijuana next week.  ARRIBA"  He shook his head at that one.

 
June 5, 1985.

I faked sick so I could stay home from school.  I convinced my hypochondriac friend, who was already home sick, to pick me up at home.  Then I convinced him to take his dad's sports car without permission.  We then conspired to break my hot-as-balls girlfriend out of school as well.  

The three of us headed to Wrigley to watch the Cubs play the Braves.  Alas, the Cubbies lost 4-2.   But I did catch a foul ball hit by Claudell Washington.  

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
June 5, 1985.

I faked sick so I could stay home from school.  I convinced my hypochondriac friend, who was already home sick, to pick me up at home.  Then I convinced him to take his dad's sports car without permission.  We then conspired to break my hot-as-balls girlfriend out of school as well.  

The three of us headed to Wrigley to watch the Cubs play the Braves.  Alas, the Cubbies lost 4-2.   But I did catch a foul ball hit by Claudell Washington.  
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Winner 

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
June 5, 1985.

I faked sick so I could stay home from school.  I convinced my hypochondriac friend, who was already home sick, to pick me up at home.  Then I convinced him to take his dad's sports car without permission.  We then conspired to break my hot-as-balls girlfriend out of school as well.  

The three of us headed to Wrigley to watch the Cubs play the Braves.  Alas, the Cubbies lost 4-2.   But I did catch a foul ball hit by Claudell Washington.  
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Nice!  Have lunch at the park?

 
My first ballgame was Cubs- Cardinals at Sportsman's Park at Grand and Dodier - Cardinals won 8-0. It was a good day

 
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