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I always liked him as a player and heard good things of him as a person - glad he hooked up somewhere - wish he could have made it with us but his on the field stuff was never what we hoped for

Agreed, nuke, and I am really tired of this thread it was cute the day it went up but it is boring and tiresome enough is enough I am the last person to be bothered by language too but the obscenities in the thread title, having looked at them for so long, I'm just really sick of seeing them again the day Heather posted it was ok since she was reacting to an event (or nonevent) but now... just tired of it

Steff, love you always - thanks for being a friend

Steff, not nasty to you, not all all - you are a dear friend - just so much stuff going on, I think you have just tipped me that it is time to let it all go on this issue.

I don't have time to parse today. Ok. I am wrong. Never again. I shut my mouth on this forever. I am not saying this nasty to you, not to you of all people. It is just fine, you win, I am wrong, that is all I have time for now and for a while to come. Some stuff happening here that leaves me less time than usual so what Fisk or IRod is called is now deemed irrelevant to me. I will say no more on this forever.

No, no I won't - a HOF player was one of ours people go on about how we disrespected him in 1993 at the playoffs (which we did), etc and all that but then we disrespect him by giving his nickname to a lesser player because lazy sportswriters do the same? it is my pet peeve and I am sticking to it!

Yes, Fisk brought it from Boston and it has been his nickname from long before IRod ever began playing baseball.

true I read the article yesterday in the Freep and thought good luck to them, we are set at catcher and maybe, just maybe the Freep (Free Press) is just running a story on a slow news day

that too

which again proves that anyone could have managed the 2000 team and JM who can't manage didn't contribute a thing

when our own fans continue to give I-Rod the nickname that belongs to Fisk, as in this thread title, then we deserve nothing because if we don't give a s*** about our legacy, why should anyone else?

no doubt it is easier cubs wise most of the year since there are fewer of them but for the playoffs a lot of cubbie fans surfaced - when the Tigers are doing well I hear it - and of course we have the UM-MSU thing - and since I grew up in Chicago I know what you mean - i really mean it that it is important to have other things to talk about - constant trash commentary on baseball does get tiresome

ok, I overstated that part, you got me - after all my 5-6-7 year old best friend's father was a cubs player - my parents were cubs fans - one of my good friends is a devout cubs fan - we do avoid talking about it unless there is something positive to say about the other - we never trash talk, those who ride high will fall low and vice verse - we just base the frindship in friendship and leave the ball thing alone

by the way, the subtitle "there is only 1 baseball team in Chicago" really, really, really, pisses me off greatly

would you put that comma between the two "p"s in "papper"????????? just kidding - couldn't pass it up back in 1971 after the 106 loss Sox season we signed anyone possible - most didn't contribute much but it gave the fans the sense that something was happening - all that is happening in Detroit - they will improve 20 games and thus lose 99 - I am not too worried - Greg Norton does not lead them to the promised land and if he plays for them as he did for us, so much the better - they are just doing the pr thing to sign warm bodies with MLB experience to get to that 99 loss level in 2004 while I try and deveop some minor leaguers.

a lot of good stuff here to be direct: I don't give a f*** what the cubs do and I don't give a f*** what their fans say and I don't give a f*** for championships awarded in January. if anything, the higher the dream, the greater their ultimate despair but I am a Sox fan, not an antiCub fan. 1970 - we lost 106, they contended most of the season. I gave no f***ing concern. I was at my ball park with the team I love and what they do is irrelevant, a non issue to what is important to me. And for that tiny little part of me that notices them - I know they will fail. For that 6th game, when too many here were Chicken Littles The Sky is Falling, I went to the local bar, played the NTN game as CWSOX, so every half hour the phrase Game Winner CWSOX got flashed in the bar, and told everyone there I was there to see how the cubs were going to screw it this time. No Fear. No Sweat. And when the first out in the 8th was made, I was as confident as I was pre game. Oh they signed this person and that persona nd we didn't do this and that. KW's job is not to make moves to give people to say "so what, we got..." to with their friends. Hell, if you have friends who are cub fans, get f***ing new friends. I grew up on the NW side. Every friend I have from back in day, the ones I go to USCF with, are Sox fans. You choose your friends. Or if all people can talk about is who the cubs signed or sox signed, you seriously need to expand the topics you can converse about - maybe literature? the 2004 election? something? Sox fan through and through forever. Nothing changes that. That is the team that matters to me. And I think USCF is a wonderful place to view a game, great transpoprtation there and back, some of the least expensive concessions in sports, and the place when my family and friends gather because it is so accessable and because no matter what, you can't beat fun at the old ballpark.

I was the music director, then program director... does it scare you that we have something in common?

we knew all along Ponson was not coming here so why so upset?

thank you for a sane note here does anyone understand the phrase "be careful what you ask for, since you may get it"? What about Trump makes anyone think of the word "loyalty"???????? He'd move the Sox outta here so fast if he had a chance...

actuallky he doesn't strike me that way I think the competitive fires burn really deep in him questions may be with his tenure (is it money? bad judgment? other GMs don't like him? not much out there we can use if we know the whole story?), but I think he lusts to be a winning GM just because I think he lusts to win

it was a tough call, Steff just do it or be open about what was done so everyone here had the explanation I didn't want to be accused of doing something in stealth so that is waht decided the tough call but I could see your way really easily, why it gets unpinned tonight