i really hate this 'millar'

[Baliset]

what happened with the cubs game that you guys are referring to? i didn't watch it. (I watched Disney's Aladdin instead)

the cubs were up 3 to 1 in the 7th inning. The Marlins got a couple guys on base and the next hitter hit a fly ball which i guess allowed one guy to score and was going to be caught by an outfielder but a fan in the stands grabbed the ball first. Then the Cubs switched pitchers and the Marlins scored another 6 runs or so and beat the Cubs 8-3. This is all within two innings mind you.

 

[FuSoYa]

damn! was the guy who caught it a Cubs fan or a Marlins fan?

 

[Baliset]

damn! was the guy who caught it a Cubs fan or a Marlins fan?

here's the full story:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2003/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=1638390&partnersite=espn

 

[Baliset]

my favorite quote:

"They don't go to school," Alou said, "to be taught what balls not to touch."

 

[FuSoYa]

oh god, reading that was painful.

 

[TheNewChupe]

going along with the article's overstated impact of this moment, if the cubs lose the 7th game, i would expect:
1) barbed wire barriers to be put up between the fans and the field
2) ivy to be replaced with fan-eating carnivorous plants of relatively high intellect (that avoid eating players)
3) random crowd sobriety checks
4) the price of baseballs to increase from $10 (!) to $10.23
5) the price of boxed chocolates and fake moustaches/wigs/sunglasses to go up slightly
6) this to be long talked as "the season the cubs won the world series" because if they don't make it past game 7, this will CLEARLY be the ONLY reason they didn't win the WS, which they rightly deserved to- however, FBI intervention (of whom the fan was clearly an agent) was put in place to dissuade nationwide melee, not to mention the possible Apocalyptic demise of our planet (Cubs/Red Sox series)

 

[Novembers Paul]

EXACTLY. Even if the Cubs blow it tonight, this poor sap will be blamed for the next 100 years. Nevermind the errors on the field, or that Florida's actually a good team, this guy is to blame.

I will not jinx the game as I did last nights game... Tonight I try something new... I pray.

Go Cubs... Go Red Sox. Thats a WS we need to see.

 

[FuSoYa]

red sox just blew it.

 

[TheNewChupe]

it would seem that somewhere, in someone's book of rules, the Cubs are only allowed one world series victory per century. it'd be a shame to take it now, so early in the millenium. why not stretch out the fun?

seriously, i think it'd be amazing to see a cubs/red sox series. it'd no doubt get more attention than the i-70 series i remember from childhood (kansas city/st. louis) or the subway series (mets/yankees)

 

[TheNewChupe]

10:29pm central: oy vey. now i feel bad for jinxing the cubs.

 

[Novembers Paul]

Ugh. You know... This is what sucks about being a Chicago fan.

I am however, still gunning for the Red Sox. Next to Chicago, Boston is my favorite city in this country (well, that i've seen anyway). They still have one last chance!

GO BOSTON!

 

[The Dope]

Stretching it out to Game 7...

GO SOX!