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Cubs fans won't shut up about the goat, Bartman, Brant Brown, Leon Durham, the black cat... Red Sox fans wouldn't shut up about The Bambino, Bucky f'n Dent, Bill Buckner... Sure Sox fans would bring up the Black Sox, but we never blamed our recent woes on them.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 10:46 AM) Starting to think he might not be around in this movie until late. Like maybe he has gone missing or something like that. I've read theories that he's kinda turned into a Yoda-like hermit.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 08:35 AM) Bill Murray was on Jimmy Kimmel and apparently said if the Cubs were to win the WS, Cubs fans could become unbearable. If a Cubs fan says that........... He also said that Red Sox fans were gracious in their losing before 2004. Of the three, I think White Sox fans were the most gracious. The other two fan bases could never shut up about how they were "cursed". The only thing we Sox fans complained about was bad teams.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 12:33 AM) This is a thread about a stop sign. Y'all crazy. It's a Greg thread.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 04:49 PM) I've been reading about predictions of impending doom. You should probably stop doing that.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 11:32 AM) No it shouldn't be that way. There are more Cubs fans than Sox fans. Why would media outlets spend the same amount of resources on each? That's a bad business model. The Cubs are more popular so more time should and will be spent talking about the Cubs. Of course if that same media owns the team they are writing about they are going to give them more coverage. Leading to a larger fan base over the course of 20 years or so...

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 12:14 AM) But it's risky with our ticket happy cops here in Ks. 3 seconds is a winner. QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 9, 2015 -> 02:13 PM) Then when you stop and count 3 seconds the guy/gal likely will be right on your bumper. And the people at the other stop signs are pissed at how slow you are progressing. QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2015 -> 01:09 PM) I was just out and about and again, people appeared mad at me for taking so long at the stop signs. QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 03:54 PM) So I had to finish pulling up to the stop sign, stopping, counting 3 seconds then driving through all after he waved me through. He looked PISSED. Sounds like the 3 second stop is just pissing everyone else off. Seriously, 1 second is long enough. Stop, look, go.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 02:42 AM) Well admittedly Greg has been off a bit on predictions. So Chicago Cubs fans are in trouble if this holds. For I see NO WAY the Cubs can lose to the Mets. Cubs are a lock. Why? Well the Mets aren't prime time material No. 1. No. 2? I hate to go there, but this is all for Ernie Banks. The Cubs are wearing 14 on the sleeve this year for Banks. So what happens? Somehow they actually make the playoffs ahead of schedule, beat the Cardinals of all teams and now play the Mets, yes the Mets. The team that made Ernie's life hell as Leo Durocher blamed him for the 69 collapse. the Mets are the team that prevented Ernie from going to the Series. The Cubs were never the same after that. I'm pretty serious about this. Is heaven letting Ernie orchestrate this postseason?? It sure as hell seems that way. Cubs are a lock to play Toronto in the series. Does this mean KC and New York are assured the WS? We shall see but Greg has given his honest analysis and I've been off my predictive game a bit of late. Kinda like the year they won it all for Harry Caray? Or the year they won it all because it was the 100th anniversary of their last WS appearance? Or when they broke the curse by bringing a goat to Wrigley? Or broke the curse by blowing up the Bartman ball? I'm sure Ernie Banks death is totally going to be the reason they win this time.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 15, 2015 -> 10:55 AM) The theory was crap to begin with. No one "shops" medical costs, because the entire system is set up such that you have NO idea what things will cost upfront. That plus the highly inflexible demand curve mean the shopping concept just doesn't work with health care. No one shops medical costs because when you have a medical emergency and call 911 shopping around for the cheapest option is probably the last thing on your mind. Get me in an ambulance and get me to a hospital ASAP. I'll worry about the costs later.

I've had DirectTV for almost 2 years now. I've been pretty happy with it but for some reason we lost the signal for AMC within the last week. We were able to watch the last episode of Fear the Walking Dead but it didn't record the season opener of Walking Dead. Of all the hundreds of channels we get, it is literally the only one that won't come in. Called customer support and they had me try a bunch of things but couldn't fix it. Paying $50 to have a technician come to the house. Of course they tried to sell me the "insurance plan" for $7.99/month which meant I wouldn't have to pay for the service call.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 15, 2015 -> 06:11 AM) Do you have 10 lb. balls? One is 15 and one is 16. It takes big balls to bowl.

QUOTE (whitesoxjr27 @ Oct 15, 2015 -> 07:44 AM) Watching the news this morning and they found a cub fan in Buffalo Grove that has been waiting for this for 70 years. I wonder where they find these people? Waiting 70 years for an appearance in the NLCS? Was he in a coma in 2003?

Just fyi, using the "everyone else does it" as a defense for getting caught doing something wrong is bad form.

Twice last night I heard someone ask if this win meant the Cubs were in the World Series.

I shot 220, 233 & 234 last night for a 687 series. Kicking myself for missing a few really easy spares. Could've easily had a 700 series had I converted one or two of them. It's my first 600 series of the year though, so I'm happy about that. My average jumped from 180 to 186. I'd like to get it up above 190 at least.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 08:17 AM) I was about to make a post very similar to that.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Oct 12, 2015 -> 04:47 PM) And hey, maybe the Cubs winning will bring all the White Sox fans out of hiding next summer. That's my hope. If anything, it would push them deeper into hiding.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2015 -> 01:59 PM) Say what you want about Ozzie. The one time we got in the playoffs we fricking went all the way. The Sox went to the playoffs twice under Ozzie...

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 9, 2015 -> 12:23 AM) since I stop fully and pause a full three seconds at stop signs now. If this was the result of giving you a ticket rather than a warning, then the cop just made the streets safer. There is now one less driver out there doing rolling stops.

I have a couple of Cubs fans on my FB feed that have posted but other than that, I haven't really had any interaction with any other Cub fans. I haven't seen/heard all that much from the media either. I bowled against a team on Tuesday night that were named Cubs fans. When I talked to them I found out one was actually a Sox/Cardinals fan. Another one was wearing a Twins shirt.

QUOTE (flavum @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 11:52 AM) I'm just assuming Arrieta does his thing and the Cubs move on to the Cardinals. On an intellectual level, I'll feel sorry for the team that loses tonight because I think the system in baseball isn't just unfair--it's wrong. Just a few years ago the Cubs would be playing golf right now. A few decades ago both the Cubs and Pirates would be out. Neither team won their division but yet they are still getting a shot at making the playoffs. 12 times the White Sox have won 90 or more games and missed the playoffs. How different would our history be if they had one final shot at the end of the season to advance?

I didn't realize until last night that I was pronouncing Dallas Keuchel's last name wrong. I didn't know the "ch" made a hard "K" sound.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 05:04 PM) The first and only trailer to The Force Awakens comes out on October 19th, according to the reliable Star Wars News net. They are the only site to come out and put their name on the line and attach it to a date. Talked to someone at the film festival office who works with Syncopy, and you'll get more info about the new Christopher Nolan film before the holidays. First and only? What about the one that's already out?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 02:32 PM) Can't get the sound here at work, but I wasn't disputing the amount of guns, nut more the motivation behind buying them. In the other links, nothing says that she bought them because she feared confiscation, except one woman who says she said that, and facebook posts they reference but don't link. I am not saying she didn't feel that way, asking if there was proof other than one person's word. And fyi, just about every gun owner thinks confiscation is out there somewhere, because it is. What do you think 'laws like Australia' is code for? I guess my point was this was another situation where the person had access to legally purchased guns (much like the Sandy Hook shooter). More/tougher guns laws doesn't seem to be the answer, although I don't know what is. We don't know who the "bad guys with guns" are until after they've already done something like this.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 11:46 AM) I clicked every link there, and all you have to back that up is one person saying the mom said this. They mention Facebook posts but no links. Have you seen anything to back this up other than hearsay? Sheriff says they seized 14 guns.