hey DU cub fans! chime in here!

[Gato Moteado]

we're doing so well this year that i'm worried that the june swoon will really take a toll on us.

when do you think the dive will start?

are you stocked up on valium or prozac?

do you have the suicide prevention hotline number handy at all times?

[x-g.o.p.er]

1. Ahem...

Go CARDS!!!

Seriously, you guys have a great team this year. Wood looks like a natural for the closer role after a shaky start, top to bottom you have the best lineup in baseball, starting rotation has some questions after Z and Lilly, but so far so good.

It looks like you guys are on the verge of taking off and hiding from everyone else in the division. I just hope the Cards can hang around and stay in contention for the division or the Wild card.

I hate to admit it, but the Cubs are the team to beat.

Oh, and Jim Edmonds in a Cub uniform? Have you no shame?

[Gato Moteado]

4. actually lilly is a big question mark

i think dempster is the most solid after zambrano.

starting rotation is wafer thin after zambrano and dempster. the bullpen looks good. the offense is out of control. defense is so-so.

they're playing great ball now, but, it's the cubs.

[Silver Swan]

2. My spouse is a life long Cubs fan--from back in the 1950's

He is watching the game now.

I don't like any kind of competition, so I am on the computer. When things get tense, I play solitaire madly--it seems to help.

If the Cubs actually were to make it to the World Series, I'm certain my spouse would drop dead of a heart attack. After all, he had quadruple bypass surgery a few years ago.

But he would die happy!

[RoyGBiv]

3. Number on speed dial ...

I will remain completely cynical until the last out of the Division final.

I love the Cubs. My grandma loved the Cubs. Watching them on WGN in the afternoons when I was a kid was our thing. And now she's gone, so it's personal, as it is with many other Cubs fans.

I'm enjoying watching them this season, but I'm waiting for August before I let myself hope even a little.

[Gato Moteado]

5. i went to grammar school at st lucy's on lake street and austin ave.....

....on chicago's west side in the early 70s. in the spring i used to run home after school to catch the start of the 3:05 games or the end of the 12:20 games.

was there a better pitcher than fergie jenkins?

[RoyGBiv]

6. Ahhh, Fergie ...

I loved Fergie.

Of various players through the years, Grandma was particularly fond of Bill Buckner and very sad when he was sent away. She maintained that the BoSox's had an additional curse put on them by taking him away from Chicago.

She didn't like Larry Bowa too much ... thought he had a Napoleon complex.

I'm certain, btw, that my grandma had a crush on Harry Carry. :)

[Gato Moteado]

7. ernie banks and billy williams were my favorites

and i loved it when we'd play the cards and fergie would go up against gibson. we'd usually lose 1-0 or something like that. but those two guys were the greatest pitchers i ever watched.

[Mugu]

8. I clearly have a defective Y chromosome.

I live in northern Illinois and couldn't care less.

Regards, Mugu

[RoyGBiv]

9. Yeah, it's a guy thing ...

Certainly my grandmother's affection proves that.

:eyes:

[mopinko]

10. white sox nt

[Gato Moteado]

12. ever since veeck sold the team, it's hard to get excited about the sox.....

....though i did love watching them sweep the hapless astros in the series. i especially took joy in watching poppy bush and his quaker oats guy husband sitting behind home plate suffer as their team got destroyed.

i was depressed when they tore old comiskey park down and just can't get into the new park.

[mopinko]

13. it took DH quite a while to get over the old park.

he went to many, many, many games there with his dad as a kid. a typical male bonding thing. they couldn't talk, but could share ball games. they tore it down the year after he died. then there was the strike.
nothing like a title to put that all away.
but i love this team. i love the way they play. grinderball.
i love ozzie. seeing the guy on the tv, in a post game interview, crying, it's just too much.
i love the white sox, inc. jerry reinsdorf is, well, there is no better word, he is a mensch.
the cell grows on you. they have good food, good beer.


and they are downright commie pinkos. after they won the series, player after player came up to the mic to say- we are all pulling on the same rope here. from jerry on down, all pulling on the same rope.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

11. Guys, I'm a lifelong South Sider and a Cub fan.

My Mom used to take myself and my brother up to Wrigley Field for the Friday Ladies Day games in the 1960's. We used to take the El from 63rd & Loomis up to the Addison stop on the North Side.

I used to love Ernie Banks and Billy Williams as well and Fergie Jenkins was the best. I saw one of those games he pitched against Bob Gibson and it was sublime.

If the Cubs do win this year, and I highly doubt that they will, I can die a happy woman. My mother, RIP, waited all her life for the Cubs to win a World Series and in 1969 she was devastated that they blew it. So was I, but I was only a junior in high school at the time, and I figured that the Cubs would win at least one World Series in my lifetime, but I was wrong.

The cruelest was in 2003. They were 5 outs away from the Series when Moises Alou couldn't make the play on the Bartmann ball. I sat in horror and watched what happened. It was a total nightmare. I vowed that night never to watch the Cubs again, but the following spring came and of course, I tuned in.

Who knows maybe this year will be the year, but I'm not counting on anything till the last out in the last inning of the World Series.