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Off Day Fun Poll: Who is your Cubs MVP to date?

flachimesa — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:51:11 -0000

The 2008 Chicago Cubs are a very special team with different heroes every game.

Who would you vote as this year's Chicago Cubs MVP?

Rank your top 5 choices in order in the comments section and vote for one in the poll. Choose from the following list or you may add others if you feel they deserve consideration:

Alfonso Soriano
Aramis Ramirez
Carlos Marmol
Carlos Zambrano
Derrek Lee
Geovany Soto
Jeff Samardzija
Jim Edmonds
Kosuke Fukudome
Mark DeRosa
Mike Fontenot
Reed Johnson
Rich Harden
Ryan Dempster
Ryan Theriot
Ted Lilly

Poll

Who is your Cubs MVP to date?

Alfonso Soriano

36 votes

Aramis Ramirez

14 votes

Carlos Marmol

2 votes

Carlos Zambrano

11 votes

Derrek Lee

1 votes

Geovany Soto

27 votes

Jeff Samardzija

0 votes

Jim Edmonds

7 votes

Kosuke Fukudome

1 votes

Mark DeRosa

27 votes

Mike Fontenot

0 votes

Reed Johnson

2 votes

Rich Harden

1 votes

Ryan Dempster

95 votes

Ryan Theriot

8 votes

Ted Lilly

0 votes

232 votes | Poll has closed

A prediction by Nostradamus?

flachimesa — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:36:03 -0000

Did Nostradamus predict that the Chicago Cubs will win the World Series in the 100th year?

And behold from the walls of Ivy green
Shall come men numbering nine
With spiked wing afoot and born of the bear
They shall lay claim to a throne lost for one year and 99

This is a fun read from The Arizona Republic / AZCentral.com: Cubs win? An elite seer provides '08 predictions

Fans wearing "Keep It Wrigley" T-shirts to home opener

flachimesa — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:34:43 -0000

A United Press International (UPI) News website writes that Chicago Cubs fans are buying hundreds of "Keep It Wrigley" T-shirts to wear to Monday's home opener at Wrigley Field.

A newspaper (Chicago Sun Times?) is "giving away 100 'Keep it Wrigley' shirts to contestants who submit the most creative limerick explaining why the revered baseball stadium should keep its name."

Link to website article

Filmmaker and crew to follow the 2008 Cubs

flachimesa — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:42:28 -0000

Filmmaker John Scheinfeld and a Chicago crew will follow the 2008 Cubs for a movie with a working title, "We Believe."

The documentary will take a revealing inquiry of Chicago, its people and the Cubs.

Carrie Muskat writes about We Believe at MLB.COM.

"It's not a history of the Cubs," Scheinfeld said Tuesday. "What we're doing is a film exploring the love affair between the great city, Chicago, and it's ball team, the Cubs -- what makes Chicago unique, the city, and what makes the people of Chicago unique and why they have supported this team so passionately for so long. We'll get into the psychology of that, the history of that.

The article claims, "this isn't...a sports movie," but Scheinfeld did mention to Cubs manager Lou Piniella during a recent interview "that it would definitely help if the team won it all."

We believe that you should honor that request, Lou.

Rockies Suspend Online WS Ticket Sales after System Malfunction

flachimesa — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:41:55 -0000

And we thought the VWR was a nightmare...

The Rockies had to suspend the sale of tickets for World Series games at Coors Field after a ticketing system malfunction earlier today (Monday).

"After more than 8.5 million hits on the Colorado Rockies website, Paciolan, MLB's ticket vendor, experienced a system wide outage that impacted all of its North American customers. As a result, the Colorado Rockies have suspended the sale of 2007 World Series tickets scheduled to be played at Coors Field" until a new plan is announced.

Although some ticket transactions (less than 500 seats) did take place this morning, virtually all of the tickets for the three games in Denver remain available. A new plan to sell them will be announced soon.

Rockies WS Ticket Update

Press Release