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The song is from the 80s, but I think it became really popular around 2007. I don't know when they started playing it at Wrigley.
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So is it weird that I have basically no desire to see the parade/go to the rally? I mean I've been a Cubs fan essentially since I was born 40+ years ago. I can still remember 84 and particularly 89. And while I didn't pay attention to the Cubs in the late 00s/early 10s, they will always be my team. I'm super happy for myself, my dad and of course the team that they won it all. However, it makes no sense to me to go stand around on the street for however long just to watch the team take a few minutes to drive past. I get that a lot of it is probably just an 'I was there' phenomenon but I still think it's a little silly.
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It's totally just for the novelty factor and bragging rights of saying you were there. Being at Grant Park would be neat because the players will speak but yeah.
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The 2004 parade for the Red Sox was awesome, and I'm really glad I went. Watching them on TV doesn't do it justice, and I know it seems stupid, but it was really great.
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beejay posted:It's totally just for the novelty factor and bragging rights of saying you were there. Being at Grant Park would be neat because the players will speak but yeah. Yeah I didn't have much desire to do the parade because you'd only see them for a few seconds and then be stuck in a crowd for an hour. I was outside Wrigley Field for the final out and that was awesome so I got my bragging rights and to join in the city celebration already.
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I've only been to one Yankees parade (and it wasn't 2009) but it was amazing and I am super happy I was at it. Also I have become a big Carl Edwards Jr fan, way out of proportion to how much he's played/I know about him.
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The broadcast of this parade is a hilarious shitshow. A minute ago the feed was coming from a cell phone with a thumb over half the lens.
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Nov 4, 2016 17:23
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Well I am antisocial and also I can't go to the parade so I'm biased maybe. Carl Edwards is awesome, I can't think of anything he did this season that was negative at all and I'm glad he got to play a big part.
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HOLY poo poo I just saw a smile on Kyle Hendricks' face. It can happen!
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Now it's Hendricks with a smile what the gently caress is wrong with these dummies on MLB Network?
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KH is doing a great job with this interview. The interviewer, not so much.
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Hendricks was finally freed from his captivity in the hostage room.. No more will he be forced to pitch and then be forced to go back to that beige room with a giant W flag in it.
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Yeah this coverage is terrible. CJ Edwards aka Hardees aka Stringbean is awesome, he's just a super lanky dude from backwoods Georgia and I'm really hoping we see a ton of him next year.
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I lived in Chicago for years and this is not what November 4 traditionally looked like.
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Popete posted:Yeah this coverage is terrible. Yeah I hope we get more Edwards and Montgomery
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Popete posted:CJ Edwards aka Hardees aka Stringbean is awesome, he's just a super lanky dude from backwoods Georgia and I'm really hoping we see a ton of him next year. He just seems so happy and also he did well in the games I watched and that's always nice 
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Grimm double fisting Buds.
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tadashi posted:It sounds like changing the QO is the players' number 1 priority after all the usual stuff (major league minimums and super 2 qualifications, for starters). The only issues Tony Clark has publicly spoken about bringing to the table in CBA talks is a 154-game season, revamping the QO system and potentially doing something about service time gaming (which is a difficult beast, since minor leaguers aren't part of the MLBPA). Manfred immediately shut down talk of shortening the season unless the union would agree to an across-the-board pay cut, but I think both sides see things that can be fixed with the QO. They need to get something worked out soon, though, since the CBA expires at 12:01 a.m. on December 1. quote:What's weird is that the QO is a much bigger gambit for teams than arbitration and it potentially hurts teams less than the old A/B compensation system but for some reason it's hurting players more than the old system. The problem with the QO, as it exists today, is that while it really has no effect whatsoever on star players -- last year, for example, no one was going to give a poo poo about surrendering a draft pick to sign Price or Greinke -- it does have a tendency to substantially soften the market for mid-tier guys. Stephen Drew and Kendrys Morales are two notable recent examples, and even this year Dexter Fowler didn't have a team until spring training because he had the QO stench on him and his 2015 bat was pretty much the definition of league-average.
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The lovely webcam quality of this broadcast makes it already look like a memory 
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Trib has the WGN stream up too. Can't speak to the quality of the commentray: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-live-stream-wgn-html-htmlstory.html That is one enormous crowd. When they turned off Michigan Ave. towards Grant Park the crowd continued south to the museums campus it looked like!
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Is Carl's Jr any good? We don't have that poo poo in Boston.
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Do you have Hardees? Same thing
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Lol I thought my newfound love for Carl Edwards Jr. was weird, it's not like he did anything particularly amazing. Thanks, goons, for validating my feelings. Also he's not from backwoods Georgia, he's from backwoods South Carolina, get your String Bean Slinger facts right please 
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The QO system needs some improving, the big thing is that qualifying offers should have to be left on the table. If they want to rescind the offer after the player elects for free agency, there shouldn't be a qualifying offer on him anymore. Along the lines of the A/B compensation, maybe there could be two tiers of qualifying offers that will effect first & second round draft picks.
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Paul Zuvella posted:Is Carl's Jr any good? We don't have that poo poo in Boston. For fast food, yes
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cebrail posted:Lol I thought my newfound love for Carl Edwards Jr. was weird, it's not like he did anything particularly amazing. Thanks, goons, for validating my feelings. He also reminds me of Crabman from My Name is Earl which makes him more endearing.
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cebrail posted:Lol I thought my newfound love for Carl Edwards Jr. was weird, it's not like he did anything particularly amazing. Thanks, goons, for validating my feelings. Edwards is great and I adopted him as my "player I really want to do well" when he came up last year. He's shown both sides of his "huge strikeout upside vs poor command/nerves" coin this season, but overall it was a hugely successful year for him and he got to pitch two of the last three outs in the WS  I'm still nursing a hope that he's the Cubs future shutdown closer.
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Yay Billy Williams My dad's first thought after the win was that he was the only one of the starts from the team he used to watch from the bleachers who got to see this day.
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Lol douchebag newscaster just interrupts lady newscaster's anecdote about her late Cubs fan father to remind us that the Cubs won the world series in 7 games 
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Bilirubin posted:Yay Billy Williams Yeah I'm so glad Billy Williams was still around to see it. I just wish Ernie Banks and Ron Santo could have seen this.
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Haha wtf is that belt Bryant is wearing
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Haha wtf is that belt Bryant is wearing 
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Acquilae posted:the WWE championship belt Kevin Love already did this and it was amazing.
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Pancakes posted:Lolich didn't start game 1, 4 and 7, if memory serves. Gibson won games 1 & 4 that series and pitched a complete Game in 7, losing on an error from Curt Flood in CF I'm pretty sure. Gibson was the last pitcher to successfully start and win games 1, 4 & 7 in a world series, 1967. I should have mentioned that about Lolich, I looked it up at some point when I was messing with that stuff. He started games 2, 5 & 7, which is almost more impressive. Pitched a complete game in all three too. You're right that Lolich wasn't the best pitcher that season on Detroit's staff, Denny McClain (who started game 1) was the Cy Young winner that year and Lolich was just a guy, his regular season wasn't impressive at all.
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If you haven't seen it here is a cool fangraphs article talking about how extraordinary it was that Almora had the instincts to go back and tag up on Bryant's deep flyout.
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So will Theo stick around awhile? I know he just signed the contract extension but I wonder if he'll get bored now.
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