SB Nation User Blog: tucsoncubsfan

D'backs, Rockies looking to move from Tucson ST

tucsoncubsfan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:21:04 -0000

Here is a link to the Arizona Daily Star http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/268050

There was a discussion on this in another post the other day and so I thought I'd post an update here. With the $5 million settlement between the Sox and Pima County to allow the Sox to break their contract, has triggered the "out" clause in the Rockies and D'backs contracts.

I sure hope the county can persuade another team to come here so the Rockies and D'backs won't leave but I really doubt that will happen. Looks like spring training will cease to exist here in a few years.

Historic Photos Site

tucsoncubsfan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:40:07 -0000

Found this site and thought the group here at BCB might like to look at this.

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Here is the link to historic Cubs pictures.

http://images.google.com/images?q=chicago+Cubs&q=source%3Alife

Enjoy!

Lefties have advantage

tucsoncubsfan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:16:18 -0000

Here is an interesting article from the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson regarding left handed ball players having an advantage over righties. http://www.azstarnet.com/sports/247686

Don't usually have a reason to do a fan post so hopefully you all find this an interesting read. I'm also short the required amount of words so I'm hoping this puts me over the top. Never thought it would be so hard to come up with 75 words but it is.

OT - George Carlin

tucsoncubsfan — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:25:01 -0000

This is my first fan post and unfortunately it's not a very happy one. Yesterday I was so happy seeing the Cubs sweep the Sox but today I'm sad because we all lost a great comedian. I saw George Carlin twice, once in 1977 and later in the early '80s and just loved his way of telling a story along with great facial expressions.

I liked a lot of his routines but one of my favorites was his routine about "Lets make a deal". He did this on Johnny Carson one night and my brother and I were literally rolling on the floor. My dad was laughing more at me and my brother but he too enjoyed Carlin.

I have attached a link to one of his routines comparing baseball with football. Although I'm not terribly fond of this routine (mainly because he seems to make fun of baseball and I really do like baseball more than football), I chose this because this is a baseball site and wanted the post to be baseball related.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YphEUa5LPjM