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 Post subject: Cubs - This is the year thread!Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:21 pm 
Who thinks the Cubs will win The World Series in 2007? 
And yes, they are currently in last place after 1 game played. I vote -- This is the year!
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:44 pm
i vote no, Cubs will be in a meager third place and practically out of the hunt for the division by the All Star Break. Soriano will be traded to a contending team by the deadline, and by september chicago faithful will be crowding Soldiers field and not Wrigley. _________________ But I cannot discover any advantage except in honor, in glory, and in right action. Therefore I consider these goals to be primary and supreme over all others. Cicero |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:16 pm
If they embrace the winning attitude finally, I see them finally breaking the dry spell in the next few years. They have to think like winners, then good things will happen. _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:37 pm
TheAntrider wrote: If they embrace the winning attitude finally, I see them finally breaking the dry spell in the next few years. They have to think like winners, then good things will happen. If they stay healthy, I think it could be this year. And no, I'm not talking about Kerry Wood (already on the DL) and Mark Prior (starting the season in the minor leagues). If either of them come back to anywhere near their old selves, that would be gravy. But unlike past years, the Cubs are not banking on those 2 being in 2003 form (picking up a couple quality starters in the offseason in Ted Lilly and Jason Marquis). To see Mark Prior not even injured, and sent down to the minors to start the season (he just didn't have good enough stuff to warrent a spot in the rotation) is a sign that things have changed in Wrigleyville. As far as the position players, Soriano should prove a great offseason pickup, and getting Derrek Lee back healthy for the season is as good as an allstar caliber pickup (he was out most of last season in a freak, early-season accident). And most of the crappy OB% guys were traded or released (Neifi Perez for one). And after last year, just getting a new manager like Lou Piniella should go a long way (everyone wanted "Busty Faker" run out of town around July last year, and it just got worse from there). |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:27 pm
Something about spring sends even the most jaded baseball fan into a drunken euphoric state that has them pondering the prospects their team will actually win the World Series. By September most of these fans will have sobered up. I hope you're not one of them ... _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:36 pm
they're being sold at the end of the season. there's going to be too many distractions for them. but hey, at least they looked better than the red sox 
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:44 pm
I don't know if this is the year, but if they keep up their current push, they're almost certainly going to see a good upswing. And health (and not depending on Prior/Wood) will definitely help. Baseball season is fun, at least until people start the doomsday predictions after one game.  Of course, it's fun seeing those proven wrong, too ... _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:43 am
Who thought any team from the NL would win the world series last year? Yet St. Louis backed into the playoffs (losing more than than won in September, almost a complete colapse with a 7 game losing streak at the end of the season) and then got hot at the right time in the playoffs. You just never know with baseball. It seemed like the Tigers year last year, and then they didn't get it done. About the team being sold, Tribune has said it will be at the end of the season. With all the team has invested this year to put a competitive team and good manager on the field, I really don't think the sale of the team in the fall will have any impact. One distraction currently is Carlos Zambrano didn't get his contract extension done before the season started (and before the sale of Tribune was announced). Hopefully they can still get his extension done soon. |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:25 am
: L O L : even i know cubs never win. that is all i know about american football apart from lots of high school jocks do it and the waterboy is a funny film. |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:29 am
thesinisterpenguin wrote: : L O L :
even i know cubs never win. that is all i know about american football apart from lots of high school jocks do it and the waterboy is a funny film. Cubs is ...baseball? right? _________________ - Heather ^^ |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:32 am
just testing! |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:31 pm
I think these 2 were on the team ... about 1999 ... right?
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:36 pm
uuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhh I hate baseball, but for my dad's sake. Go White Sox! and for my best friend Go Cards. that's the first, last and only time I'll say that for the whole baseball season. _________________ ...i be running to Mexico City. virb |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:38 pm
I remember the days the Jays were good... Those were the days with Joe Carter. '93 World Series was awesome. _________________ - Heather ^^ |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:49 pm
My friend stayed home from school the day season tickets went on sale and spent 7 hours sitting on my computer in an e-line to get tickets. |
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