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Exorcising "Demons"
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Mar 31, 2008 9:22 PM EDT
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My last Cubs poem was written very late into the night following that most infamous and regrettable of games that we would love to forget; but unfortunately gets woven in the fiery depths of our tortured Cubs fabric.
I do not believe in jinxes, other than human mismanagement - which too many Cubs teams have been "over blessed" with for far too many seasons.
In the "Hope Springs Eternal" optimism of Opening Day 2008, I am sharing a poem that I dedicated to my Mom, who died in early July 2003, before the Cubbies clinched their Central Division Championship.
Perhaps my 2008 Cubbies poem will be written very late into October with Mom permanently grinning her beaming Cubbie Blue smile - forever and ever! Amen!
[Note by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear, 03/31/08 8:09 PM CDT ](Poem Follows)
Opening Day Poem
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Mar 31, 2008 9:15 PM EDT
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After spending time in Texas with the USAF and completing school in San Marcos, I returned home to Chicago in the late Seventies at long last. Suffering from major Cubs and Wrigley Field withdrawal, I vowed to never leave home again, and remedy my baseball fever ASAP.
I was fortunate to attend Opening Day 1980 in Wrigley.
Later that night I composed my first ever Wrigley Field/Cubs poem. Al, I hope that you allow me to post this here to share with my favorite Cubs community.
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Cub Power 2008 - A New Century Rising!
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Jan 31, 2008 6:43 PM EST
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Baseball Musings just posted a review of the Cubs projected lineup production for this year that looks very promising:
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A few L.D.B., Casey, & Ernie Quotes en route to October
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Sep 17, 2007 1:38 AM EDT
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"Bear" repeating just in case we get too serious and hypertensive in the final stretch:
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Louis D. Brandeis
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. Brandeis
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Casey Stengel
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
Casey Stengel
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Casey Stengel
Now there's three things that can happen in a ballgame: you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.
Casey Stengel
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
Casey Stengel
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
Casey Stengel
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
Casey Stengel
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
Casey Stengel
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
Casey Stengel
You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
Casey Stengel
Brood Crude Poll
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Jul 8, 2007 2:33 AM EDT
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Wrigley Field North references do not play well in Cheeseheadland. The SB Nation site for our Northerly Neighbors is usually a place that I enjoy perusing, if only to check on the current milk and cheese futures. Tonight I found a rather disturbed "poll" posted there, that BCB readers might want to take note of, if only to remind Brew Crew Ball fans that BCB stands for Bleed Cubbie Blue!
Below is the "poll" that was posted (any guess which team's fans were notably missing?):
"My Right Arm" - a Kerry Wood article
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Jun 20, 2007 4:49 AM EDT
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by Buzz Bissinger, NY Times, June 3, 2007 appeared in the NYT Play Magazine section:
(Buzz Bissinger is also the author of "Friday Night Lights" and "Three Nights in August")
Cubs Fans, Stephen King & Stephen Crane
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Jun 1, 2007 11:37 AM EDT
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After reading some of the latest BCB diaries, yet again, bemoaning the Cubs latest, and historical, woe-is-us, this team REALLY sucks laments, I turned to a book by Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan about the 2004 Red Sox: FAITHFUL.
The book chapters are indexed and titled by months. Appropriately, the chapter titled June, is subtitled 'The June Swoon'. Even more ironically, the accompanying chapter's black and white photo shows Nomar G. while fielding a ground ball.
Here's where Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan come in to play...  . So, for what it's worth, here is Crane's poem, 'In the Desert' written in 1905, EVEN before Cubs fans had a chance to be embittered, cynical, pessimistic, forlorn, catastrophic, and any other negative descriptor you may feel or wish to add:
In the Desert
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said: "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter - bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."
Relief for Relief Pitching NOW!
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on May 26, 2007 11:41 AM EDT
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Remember the old Alka Seltzer commercial (well some of you may not): "Relief is just a swallow away!", is what their caricature "Speedy Alka Seltzer" would pitch. Well, this is exactly what the Cubs need right now!
Ron Santo BELONGS IN COOPERSTOWN!
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Feb 12, 2007 6:30 PM EST
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Al,
Thank you for your tremendously inspiring and laudatory account of my favorite Cubs player of all time!
Yes, I will ALWAYS acknowledge that Ernie IS Mr. Cub, but as one of our posts indicated, perhaps view Ron as Mr. Cub 2.
Jack Quinlan: Forgotten Greatness
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Jan 26, 2007 2:22 PM EST
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Before there was Harry Carey, Steve Stone, and Ron and Pat calling Cubs games for WGN, THE man in the booth was Jack Quinlan, a voice and human being beyond stellar in his spirit and the scope of accomplishments that he enriched us with in his too short-lived life.
Cubs' Championship Building "Chances" & Decision Making
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Oct 29, 2006 12:20 PM EST
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Thank you TribCo! I am usually using a critical and often satirical approach to coping with my unrequitted love and devotion for the Cubs. However, as Al has often eloquently, and persuasively (for me at least) pointed out, 'It's their candy store, and THEY get to make the decisions.' Then, it happened! today's Sunday Trib, front page of the PERSPECTIVE section ran THE REVELATION piece of the Cubs Century Gone Bad: 'When is it time to say, Enough?'
My Diary is NOT, let me repeat, is NOT, a political writing. I am NOT going to offer ANY opinions or statements about ANY national/international issues.
What struck me immediately about this article, occurred long before the writer, Jeremy Manier, had explained later in his article how the "sunk cost fallacy" also applied to NBA teams.
Why the Cubs keep losing & losing out
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Oct 23, 2006 3:26 AM EDT
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to more baseball saavy organizations is clearly evident when you read the recent (August 2006 I believe)interview with Ned Colletti. I am proud to say that Ned graduated from East Leyden HS in Franklin Park, IL; also an NIU grad. My background and roots are the same-East Leyden, Franklin Park, NIU...
Blowin' In the Wind...Time for a New Name for Cubs?
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Oct 17, 2006 2:23 AM EDT
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I apologize in advance for re-posting this; however, in my anguish over the latest blunderous news from tribcoland, I failed to attach my post to the correct diary that Al wanted on Lou P.
After further reading and reflection, it also occurred to me that maybe my satirical post attacking tribcoland was unhealthy. So I decided to repost here in a new diary with a serious poll question.
Let's Get Some Relief
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Jun 18, 2006 10:05 PM EDT
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We sat thru the torture of another Cubs pathetic showing on the field. Also had to endure the added insults of classless striped beast fans from the Mowdown City--hard to believe these tasteless troglodytes ever manage to navigate out of the Northlands to Wrigley!
My relief recommendation is a proposed Bleed Cubbie Blue book club. I'll start by recommending two fantasy books about the Cubs winning the World Series. I finished reading the first book this winter while waiting for the Cubs management to inspire me during the Hot Stove League:
How I Helped the Cubs (Finally!) Win the World Series; by Harper Scott (I believe?).
The writing was not stellar, but the premise was entertaining. Set in the distant future, a scientist (Cubs Fan) teams up to use a time machine to kidnap two 1908 World Series Cubs players, transport them to the 25th or 26th Century, and...
Best Cubs Moment, Part Two
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Jun 11, 2006 11:44 AM EDT
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Cubs Saturday Clinching 2003 Central Division Championship Doubleheader &
Billy Williams' Day, June 29, 1969!
Cubs hosted the hated Cardinals in a doubleheader. Cards players were boasting before the weekend series about how they would leave town in first place-NOT!
Cubs swept the Sunday doubleheader; I believe one W included beating Bob Gibson. My brother, Mike and I had our own makeshift "box" seats under the Center Field scoreboard (right field side) that we climbed into over the short chain link fence.
Bleacher Bums surrounded the Cardinals bus after the game and physically rocked it as we serenaded the Cardinals goodbye:
"Every time I come to town,
boys keep kickin' my dog around,
Even though he's just a hound,
better stop kickin' my dog around!"
Cubs remained in First Place.
Best games, greatest summer, greatest feelings in my baseball life!
...Someday! Someday!!!
Someday...
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on Jun 9, 2006 1:54 AM EDT
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OK, so maybe this team really does stink. But, as my brother always reminds me, "What do you expect-they're the Cubs!?"
So, to focus on all of the never-ending cliches of hopes, promises, and downright grasping-for- straws outlook of a Bleed Cubbie Blue fandom, I decided to try some Transcendental Meditation, or at least a Midwestern attempt at looking somewhere over the rainbow to ease my pain:
Someday...
Wait till next year will finally arrive.
A day late and a dollar short will fade into distant memories of a 100 plus W Flags season.
Groundhog Day
by hellfreezesoverwaittillnextyear on May 27, 2006 12:12 PM EDT
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From Webster's College Dictionary: "February 2,
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