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MLB 2015 POSTSEASON |OT| Screw you, Satan!
- Thread starter Frozenprince
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Rock And Roll
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What the h was that Flores?
Edit: LMFAO ROSS
Edit: LMFAO ROSS
lazybones18
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Mets don't score. Praise Bartman
Some cities dont throw billions at a new stadium when half of the city is in poverty or known for being one of the most racist cities in the US.
Just realized I can listen to ESPN radio, while watching TBS feed. Last 5 innings just became a lot more enjoyable.
riiight.
riiight.
Dmncnby2k9
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teams already tired of this shit
baxter2231
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That knee to the head seems to have effected him
DoktorEvil
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I could get behind a fandom made predominantly of female baseball fans.
I just imagine all female Cubs fans are like her:
Still, one of the oldest parks in MLB history. The place is sacred.
Ew espn
Herpes Reasons
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Mets radio announcers would be more fun for Cubs fans to listen to than the TBS TV announcers
100% agree.
Is that the city or the owners haven't pulled the threaten to move card? I agree new stadiums are a scam on the people but I'm just skeptical that this case is due to the efforts of upstanding Chicago politicians. Don't really know, though.
DoktorEvil
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Could be worse... Like Joe Buck.
We have Howie Rose doing radio calls and he has that old timer voice to him.
RumblingRosco
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TBS feed with ESPN audio of a Cubs vs Mets NLDS. That's so fucking awful on every level.
The ownership WANTS to preserve it. There's just red tape from messing with a landmark, plus appeasing the surrounding neighborhood. The past years have seen a lot of effort going into a ton of much needed repairs.
http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/chc/restore-wrigley/
Carpe Libertatem
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Think it's totally a dumb idea for Stl to spend a cent of public money on a shitty football team (especially when the owner wants to leave anyway)
Doesn't make Wrigley less of a dump (but again, I understand why it's there)
Do you really think winning in a new stadium vs winning at Wrigley is at all the same? Its a great atmosphere.
I think you misunderstood my post. To be fair it was horribly written. I was suggesting that the reason Chicago (the city) hasn't spent money to build a new stadium is because the Cubs owners have never threatened to leave if they didn't get one. Not because the city wanted to protect the citzens.
they don't build a new stadium because the fans would vanish.
you don't go to Wrigley to root for the cubs, you go for the history and the beer.
the place is horrid smelling and falling apart if it wasn't for the history it would have been gone long ago.
that and the fans tend to riot every time a new stadium is even mentioned. Players don't need warm showers or safe to drink water (so many of the pipes are rusted through they either don't work or aren't safe to use) as it's part of history
They do at least do a decent job of keeping it looking decent for tv. but unless you have nice seats actually being there is bad. There are pillars blocking your view everywhere, and the smell of spilled beer and urine is just a permanent smell you get to sit through for a game.
why wouldn't you want to save yourself money and preserve a dump knowing full well a new stadium will cost you fans not get you more
?DoktorEvil
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they don't build a new stadium because the fans would vanish.
you don't go to Wrigley to root for the cubs, you go for the history and the beer.
the place is horrid smelling and falling apart if it wasn't for the history it would have been gone long ago.
that and the fans tend to riot every time a new stadium is even mentioned. Players don't need warm showers or safe to drink water (so many of the pipes are rusted through they either don't work or aren't safe to use) as it's part of history
They do at least do a decent job of keeping it looking decent for tv. but unless you have nice seats actually being there is bad. There are pillars blocking your view everywhere, and the smell of spilled beer and urine is just a permanent smell you get to sit through for a game.
Man, and people wonder why the Cubs haven't won in so long...
I'd be pissed if I had to play on a team that didn't have working showers.
How have the players not collectively said anything?
Edit: LOL @ MURPH and the Yankees mention.
tiggerkiddo
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I didn't realize Wrigley was THAT bad off.
Carpe Libertatem
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Like I said, I understand why it's still around and I think it should be around (but maybe with some renovations like they're doing)
It's still a dump.
to be fair they may have fixed it by now, and I think it was only the visitor's showers that were nearly unusable. This was back about 10 years ago when a number of players started talking about the horrid state of Wrigley.
I'd say def Murphy.
I went there plenty of times this year. No smells beer or urine. He is grossly exaggerating. Only a handful of seats are blocked by pillars. Pro tip.... Don't buy those seats. Clubhouse is being upgraded along with other much needed amenities for the players.
Wrigley also has urinals.
DoktorEvil
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Still, its lame to hide behind tradition to not offer an updated facility, at least inside the park.
Whatever happens, the overall playoff hero is deGrom. I'm still amazed by how he survived that Dodgers game.
they have made improvements over the last so many years, it's in better shape now than it used to be but it was really bad in the mid 2000s.
I mean you had parts of the building falling down
their big solution was to put up netting lol
as i said it may have gotten better, but between 1995 and 2005 when I went to a number of cubs games it was always the same, it smelled horrid of beer and urine. (note I don't drink nor enjoy beer and don't like the smell of it so it really stands out to me.)
and if 10% or so of the lower level being blocked in some way is just a handful... well to each their own, but there are a ton of pillars, and when you do group buys for birthday parties at least one of them will end up completely behind a pillar :/
Herpes Reasons
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Just showed a pic of Cespedes in visitors' clubhouse:
yeah I'm kidding NBA season can't come fast enough
I hate Buck, at least he tells me who is coming up, and whos on deck. Tbs and fox are awful
It's going to be pretty incredible oncethe renovations are finished in 3 years.
Sight-lines in the park (sans for the occasional obstructed view seat behind a pole) are amazing.
lazybones18
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Cubs with a hit
DoktorEvil
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Urine smells are nbd.
People say NYC smells like urine all the time...
People say NYC smells like urine all the time...
it will be interesting to see how it is in a few years, but it will likely just be a nicely polished turd with a pretty coat of paint that will show it's core with in a decade.
I dont live in stl, or follow its politics, so maybe this changed, but it made it to me via a college buddy from stl.
http://m.stltoday.com/sports/baseba...5f52-aa30-9f05e6040265.html?mobile_touch=true
Cant pay firemen, give baseball team money, baseball team fucks city over.
#cardinalway
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