edjr 5,731 Posted October 24, 2016 That is how they celebrate in Chicago right? The city will BURN! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drobeski 3,061 Posted October 24, 2016 Man, can that theo build teams or what. 21 in addition to the 380 weekly average. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
posty 2,315 Posted October 24, 2016 It is Chicago, they will just shoot each other... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edjr 5,731 Posted October 24, 2016 Man, can that theo build teams or what. I will admit! He is great and coming in and using other GM's players to win like no other. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 12,958 Posted October 24, 2016 How are we going to know why they are killing each other? Some may say it's the Cubs, but I think it's a lack of vegetables. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dain11279 933 Posted October 24, 2016 As much as I'm pulling for the Indians it's pretty much a given that this will happen. A statistical improbability that Cleveland wins 2 championships in one year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mungwater 589 Posted October 24, 2016 That why I'm going to game one in Cleveland. A clinching game in Chicago there will be some folks killed. Not as much shootings, but if more scared of tripping on a curb and getting stomped. People are going to start drinking at seven in the morning for a 7 pm game, receipe for disaster Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted October 24, 2016 I thought the cubs was pretty much the white bread north Chicago team? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mungwater 589 Posted October 24, 2016 I thought the cubs was pretty much the white bread north Chicago team? They are, but if you have a 108 year wait and that many drinks, it's going to be nasty Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Djgb13 2,338 Posted October 24, 2016 How are we going to know why they are killing each other? Some may say it's the Cubs, but I think it's a lack of vegetables. Seems like they need some type of guard....one that can secure the perimeter...but only with a flashlight and a whistle...like a security guard! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 12,958 Posted October 24, 2016 Seems like they need some type of guard....one that can secure the perimeter...but only with a flashlight and a whistle...like a security guard! All thise gunshot victims, who will clean their bedpans? Bedpan Dan, that's who! ( you're bedpan Dan). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edjr 5,731 Posted October 24, 2016 IF just like the 2004 world series, the only people in the country that thought the red sox werent going to win were red sox fans and rockies fans, everyone else knew. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
giraldi02 470 Posted October 24, 2016 Englewood is in the south side. Aren't they all White Sox fans? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thornton Melon 549 Posted October 24, 2016 just like the 2004 world series, the only people in the country that thought the red sox werent going to win were red sox fans and rockies fans, everyone else knew. Why Rockies fans? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edjr 5,731 Posted October 24, 2016 Why Rockies fans? usually the home town team fans think their team is going to win? especially when they went 7 - 0 in the playoffs to get to the world series. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mike Honcho 4,154 Posted October 24, 2016 All those old people who have been just hanging on waiting for the Cubs to win just one championship. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thornton Melon 549 Posted October 24, 2016 usually the home town team fans think their team is going to win? especially when they went 7 - 0 in the playoffs to get to the world series. Ummm...maybe you should go back and read your post to see where you went wrong Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edjr 5,731 Posted October 24, 2016 Ummm...maybe you should go back and read your post to see where you went wrong i know I'm not that bright. It seems right to me? Red Sox fans and Rockies fans both though the Red Sox would not win the world series in 2004. (aka the rockies would win) Everyone else thought/knew the red sox would win where did I go wrong? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thornton Melon 549 Posted October 24, 2016 i know I'm not that bright. It seems right to me? Red Sox fans and Rockies fans both though the Red Sox would not win the world series in 2004. (aka the rockies would win) Everyone else thought/knew the red sox would win where did I go wrong? I have no idea what Rockies fans thought, but what are your ideas on how Cardinals fans thought? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edjr 5,731 Posted October 24, 2016 I have no idea what Rockies fans thought, but what are your ideas on how Cardinals fans thought? got me there This is why I ceased to be a wiseass when answering. I am ALWAYS wrong. Well played Sir. I was right about the Rockies being 7 and 0 going into the world series, that just happened to be in 2007 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dain11279 933 Posted October 24, 2016 got me there This is why I ceased to be a wiseass when answering. I am ALWAYS wrong. Well played Sir. I was right about the Rockies being 7 and 0 going into the world series, that just happened to be in 2007 We already are aware of your shortcomings in math. Now it appears that literature isn't your strong suit either. How have you not gotten hit by a bus yet? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thornton Melon 549 Posted October 24, 2016 got me there This is why I ceased to be a wiseass when answering. I am ALWAYS wrong. Well played Sir. I was right about the Rockies being 7 and 0 going into the world series, that just happened to be in 2007 Maybe you should take the afternoon off, ed Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edjr 5,731 Posted October 24, 2016 We already are aware of your shortcomings in math. Now it appears that literature isn't your strong suit either. How have you not gotten hit by a bus yet? Hey! It's hard enough remembering to breath. take it easy on me Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 12,958 Posted October 24, 2016 got me there This is why I ceased to be a wiseass when answering. I am ALWAYS wrong. Well played Sir. I was right about the Rockies being 7 and 0 going into the world series, that just happened to be in 2007 Let it be noted that one of the most arrogant Yankee fans on earth is giving you a pass on this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dain11279 933 Posted October 24, 2016 Hey! It's hard enough remembering to breath. take it easy on me Breathe* Apparently spelling is a challenge too Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edjr 5,731 Posted October 24, 2016 Breathe* Apparently spelling is a challenge too How ridiculous. Why add the E? that's like the K in nife. dumb 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edjr 5,731 Posted October 24, 2016 Maybe you should take the afternoon off, ed Thanks for not being so hard on the beav Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kozmiq 70 Posted October 24, 2016 The closest thing Back To The Future got right in predicting 30 years in advance of 1985 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edjr 5,731 Posted October 24, 2016 The closest thing Back To The Future got right in predicting 30 years in advance of 1985 Sorry to burst the bubbles of Cubs fans, Back to the Future fans and fans of sheer randomness, but I’ve got some bad news for you: The second movie in the trilogy doesn’t actually predict that the Cubs would win the World Series in 2015 (something that’s growing less likely in our current year, but is still technically possible). Oh, it predicts it in the 2015 to which Marty and Doc originally travel, but if you’ll bear with me through some high-level nerdery, you’ll see why said prediction was only made within a timeline that no longer exists in the world of the film. Okay — and you’re going to have to bear with me here (Cubs pun!) — so Doc, Marty and Jennifer go to 2015 from 1985 because something has to be done about their kids. Doc knocks out Jennifer and then tells Marty to go into the Cafe ’80s to stop his son from making a disastrous pact with Biff’s grandson, Griff. Marty looks around, sees the hologram news feed of the Cubs beating Miami in a sweep, meets the old guy who wants to save the clock tower, discusses the baseball news in which Marty is surprised by Miami’s existence, not the Cubs winning, to which the old man says the line that sets the whole plot in motion: “I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season and put some money on the Cubbies.” The win is even mentioned in the next day’s USA TODAY (the Cubs swept in five, suggesting MLB had moved to the old best-of-nine Series format). It also gets little publicity in the paper, suggesting the Cubs winning wasn’t as momentous as it would have been this year or that baseball is no longer a huge sport. I mean, it’s under the Slamball playoffs beginning, for Great Scott’s sake! But, in this timeline, the Cubs did win the World Series over Miami. That part is completely true. However, sensing a good idea that will quickly turn evil, Marty buys the sports almanac, old Biff sees it, then steals the DeLorean to go back to 1955 and give it to his younger self. Automatically, that creates the alternate 1985 timeline, in which Biff is a Trump-like billionaire who earned it all off gambling thanks to the almanac. At that point, in order to save humanity, Marty and Doc, who were surprised to find out about their hellish new 1985, have to go back to 1955 to keep old Biff from giving young Biff the almanac and get regular 1985 back on track. They of course end up doing just that, but while they’re celebrating, the DeLorean gets hit by lightning, Doc goes back to 1885, Marty realizes 1885 Doc is eventually killed by Buford Tannen over a matter of $80 and Marty decides he has to go to the old west and save Doc. So, back to 1885 he goes, there’s all that nonsense with Mary Steenburgen and, eventually, Marty gets pushed by the train to 88 mph to return to the regular 1985 whereupon the DeLorean is immediately crushed by a real train. While on his way back to the tracks with Jennifer, Marty avoids the drag race with Needles that would end up affecting his entire life. At the end of the film, with Marty and Jennifer milling about the destroyed time machine, Doc comes back in the time-machine train with Clara, Jules and Verne and says that since the time machine is smashed and Marty didn’t get hurt in a drag race, he has altered history in such a way that the future isn’t written. We leave the films with a 2015 in which anything can happen. There is no set future anymore. All that stuff that happened in the beginning — Marty’s kid hanging around with Griff, the crash through the clock tower, the release of Jaws 19 and, most importantly, the Cubs winning — doesn’t necessarily have to happen in this new timeline. It’s like a butterfly effect thing. Marty changed the course of history. To sum up, the 2015 showcased in the early part of BTTF2 is not the 2015 that Marty and Jennifer will end up living through. It’ll be a different timeline and one in which, say, the Washington Nationals could have won the World Series in 2015. Nah, too far-fetched. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
posty 2,315 Posted October 24, 2016 The Cubs should have Steve Bartman throw out the first pitch for game 3... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edjr 5,731 Posted October 24, 2016 The Cubs should have Steve Bartman throw out the first pitch for game 3... especially if they are down 0 - 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shotsup 832 Posted October 24, 2016 especially when they are down 0 - 2 When not if. Fixed Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mike Honcho 4,154 Posted October 25, 2016 Tired of the Cubs fans, for Christ sake, act like you've been there before. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MTSkiBum 1,605 Posted October 25, 2016 When the Indians win I get my second shark tooth. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745 Posted October 25, 2016 Tired of the Cubs fans, for Christ sake, act like you've been there before. But they haven't... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mungwater 589 Posted October 25, 2016 At the airport getting ready to go to Cleveland.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mike Honcho 4,154 Posted October 25, 2016 But they haven't... Thanks for the assist Captain Obvious. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edjr 5,731 Posted October 25, 2016 did you see the price of tickets on the secondary market for games at wrigley. starts at 2 grand up to 13,000 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites