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My co-worker who lives in one of the rooftops witnessed the whole thing and said it was 3 Cub fans who beat the crap out of the off duty cop. One of the Cub fans had to be Tasered by the cops. At first I thought there might have been a Sox fan involved, but that's not the case......actually it is, but it was a Red Sox fan.

QUOTE(Steff @ May 23, 2005 -> 09:40 PM) I could only do it once since the boss and his son got there late (I didn't want to have to explain to my boss what it meant) but I think it was effective.. I was scared he was going to have us tossed. Was that right about when he started plunking out hitters?

QUOTE(Steff @ May 23, 2005 -> 09:35 PM) We were sitting right behind the Cubs dugout, which would normally be an awesome line.. but I had Godzilla sitting in front of me. Every way I leaned.. he leaned. By the way.. I failed to mention this but on Saturday I got the look of death from Carlos twice.. once when I asked him "what are you looking at up there...??? " and a second time when I said "does anyone know what marycon means...?" within his earshot.. I forgot who told me to say that but it was priceless. We took my boss and his 6 year old and a group of jerkoffs behind us kept screaming how the "effing umps" were giving the "effing Sox" all the "good calls". They shut the hell up when we took the lead and I offered them tissues.. Wow, you really went there with 'Maricon". LMFAO, good job Steff!

QUOTE(HSC's Biggest Fan @ May 23, 2005 -> 07:18 PM) How about the Twins, Jacque Jones and the steroid fellow for Hawkins, Patterson or Dubois and cash??????? LaToya back in Minny.? Uh Uh.

I'm concerned about them having an emotional let down after the big series this past weekend and coming out flat. Time to get that west coast monkey off our backs, even though we really took the series from Oak. out there.

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 23, 2005 -> 05:33 PM) I was thinking today, if the Cubs and Sox didn't play in Chicago, where would they fit in? The Cubs seem like a L.A. team. The fans, the atmosphere, the "charm". The Sox seem more like Detroit or Pittsburg. Chicago should be rejecting the plastic, fake Cubs and embracing the Sox, yet it still isn't close. It just doesn't make sense. What happened the the working man's teams? The Bears during the Dikta regime tapped into it. To answer your orignal question, times change, sports change and areas change. I look around Chicago (and I mean the actual city, not the burbs) and I see it moving away from it's blue collar reputation. No, it's not impossible to win with our payroll and a huge payroll doesn't guarantee success, but can you imagine what KW might be able to accomplish with just an extra 10-15 extra mil per year?

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ May 23, 2005 -> 07:13 PM) While building up the surrounding area would help attendence I think by a bunch, Idonno if we would outdraw the cubbies unless they were like the royals bad and us being as good as we are now. That being said, look what happened when they built up woodfield, that whole place was dead and now its a hot spot to hang out and see movies and go to that awesome ice cream store... so building up the surrounding area is very important. Who cares about outdrawing the Cubs. I care aboutdrawing our own attendance from past years.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 23, 2005 -> 06:50 PM) There are too many people in bridgeport that dont want that element to come to their area. Its too bad because just a little ways north University Village is a great place for people to live and it could be the LP/wrigleyville relationship of the south. Yep. There's always been a kind of south side, blue collar, belly up to the tavern image that a lot of people want to keep. To a lot of people in the area, the Sox are not even really that important.

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ May 23, 2005 -> 06:20 PM) Well for 81 days those bars would make money. What about the rest of the time. Bridgeport is not a destination. As much as I hate to say it, Wrigleyville is. You go to Sluggers or Hi-Tops in January and they are still packed. I will go so far as to say if the Sox won the World Series, the TV crews would get better fan reaction and party shots if they went to the Wrigley bars. Just geography. I love the Cell and I love parking, but the surrounding area is not Wrigleyville. I have gone to games at the Cell and then took the L back up north to party. Wrigleyville hasn't always been the Wrigleyville it is today. Put a few bars and restaurants in, then the neighborhood will slowly change, then you put more bars and eateries in, then more young, hip people move in, then more bars and restaurants, etc. Pretty soon, it will be a fun area year round because you have enough people living there looking for things to do. You have to start somewhere. The problem is too many people seem to resist that kind of change to the area.

Let's see, so far Pauly and Busty didn't like the play, everyone else, including Lee is OK with it. Next time STFU Palsy.

QUOTE(Leonard Zelig @ May 23, 2005 -> 06:09 PM) The NFL has just announced that punt returners are no longer able to signal a fair catch when they have no intention of catching a ball. Also, play action passes will no longer be allowed as they are an attempt to deceive the defense. Double pumps in the paint have been banned by the NBA and players will be fined for each offense.

QUOTE(ISF @ May 23, 2005 -> 06:04 PM) As soon as Trusty Dusty can explain how it's different from the hidden ball trick or the fake-to-third-throw-to-first move BlackJack used to have, I'll listen. It's called deception. Lee should be paying no attention to Uribe. Lee: "Excuse me Juan, was that ball fair or foul?" Uribe: "It was foul Derek." Lee: "Thank you for telling me Juan, you're a kind sportsman indeed." :puke Pay attention to your damn coaches! You learn that much in Little League. You have to remember that the Cubs are a team who blames Bartman for them not getting to the WS.

QUOTE(JimH @ May 23, 2005 -> 05:49 PM) Just to stir this pot, any chance Konerko's comments were made tongue in cheek and this board is overreacting? Well, whoever wrote the article doesn't seem to think it was tongue and cheek and I assume he heard it come out of Pauly's mouth.......otherwise he would have written it differently, maybe

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 23, 2005 -> 05:46 PM) He should be taking the blame. There's 2 outs. He should be running on anything. Uribe's distraction shouldn't have had any affect on Lee, if Lee was doing his job right. Exactly, what's next, blaming the catcher for talking to you and trying to mess with your focus when you come up to bat??

Ok, I just read Lee's quotes on another board. "I fell for the Okeydoke" "Hey, he's just trying to help his team win" if Lee takes the blame, why the EF is anyone else running their mouth about it?

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ May 23, 2005 -> 05:02 PM) Couldn't this hurt the team chemistry? The team leader calls out another member for helping the team with a trick that is used a lot in baseball. The last thing they need is to hurt the chemistry. IMO, Pauly was way off in his statement. Slight chance, hopefully Uribe just laughs the whole thing off. Honestly, I don't know how Uribe kept a straight face on the fildl after the play. I woulda been laughing my ass off at Lee. How did the story get to the media anyway?

QUOTE(The Critic @ May 23, 2005 -> 04:57 PM) I have a feeling that if Perez did this to Konerko ( just reversing the position players for the sake of argument ), a lot of people here might have a slightly different opinion about the sportsmanship of that play. Things seem less offensive when your team benefits from it, that's just the nature of the way things are. I don't have a huge problem with what Uribe did, but it is kind of a cheap trick. Lee should have been looking to an ump or a coach, but I've seen players slow someone down on a foul ball as kind of a courtesy before, so I think it was a little cheap. I think the same thing about Paul speaking on the record about it - not a huge deal, but not really a good thing to go on the record with against a teammate. I'd be saying that our player made a stupid mistake on the bases.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ May 23, 2005 -> 04:32 PM) http://www.suntimes.com/output/cubs/cst-spt-cub23.html Konerko is the leader of this team, we all know that. Should he have said this in the media or in private? The thing about rocks kind of sounds like he's saying that he is trying, but Uribe isn't and is just playing dirty. What does everyone else think about this? Nah, the rocks comment just means he (Konerko) didn't see or hear what Uribe said to Lee. Still not sure why Pauly is commenting on it at all though.

Why did Konerko feel the need to comment on this? As far as the play goes, if Lee's head is so far up his ass that he he falls for that kind of little league bulls***, than I can't feel sorry for him or blame Uribe.

I bet your HUGE Rangers fan buddy did come up with that idea.

If his foot feels fine and his swing is decent, I say bring him asap. It doesn't mean we have to play him every day. He might as well start looking at some real pitching. We slowly ease him back into the lineup.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 23, 2005 -> 01:59 PM) 5 out of 6 will give us bragging rights. No worries. This year it will, but how many years has the season series split?

How can you not enjoy it? I like that the series are a month apart again, last year they were like 2 weeks apart. I'd change one thing: make the series an odd number of total games. Make it either 5 total or 7 total. Alternate which park gets more games each year. That way there is no season split and someone gets bragging rights.

Did I miss it, or what EXACTLY was Palmer's question?........and how did he ask it? That makes a difference sometimes.

Although he won't admit it, I think Ozzie really, really wanted the sweep and maybe regrets putting in Viz. He just unloaded his frustrations on Bradley....as Mike McKaskey likes to call him.