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[tecmobowler]

You are correct sir.  Zambrano is a joy to watch pitch, and I couldn't be happier he took a hometown discount this late in the season.

A Beermaker loss tonight and we sit on top of the division outright for the first time this year.

[lineback]

IceMan you're closing in on 100 posts!

Cubs/Cardinals this weekend!  The NL Central is ugly, but that doesn't mean it doesn't count!

Just got back from the cubs/cards game with plenty of cards fans.  One of my favorite experiences in sport spectatoring is when the visiting fans have the lead just long enough to start talking smackie to me, so I don't feel like a jerk for cheering really loud and obnoxiously once the cubs fight back.

Everyone was very excited about the Zambrano deal. 

Got a call from MIOH last night post-PBR Lights.

Then this morning I got a call from MIYH and was lucky enough to speak to MIOH's mom which was the highlight of my week.

go cubs. go bombers.

lineback out

[gobombers15]

Today, I went to lunch at a sports bar where there were some Cards fans watching the game. Overhearing some of their conversation--which was being spoken just loud enough so that the Cubs fans two tables down could hear them--they were speaking like it was inevitable that the Cards were going to win that division, nevermind the fact they've looked utterly putrid for most of this season and still hold a losing record. One of the guys was even wearing a red and white shirt that read:

Completely
Useless
By
September

Moral of the Story: I hate Cardinals fans.

[lineback]

Compared to other fans at cubs games, I've found cardinals fans to be one of the best. The best opposing fans I've ever sat next to at Wrigley were definitely Yankees fans.  They were so excited about $4.50 Old Style Beers that they bought beers for me and my brother. 

The worst are white sox fans by far. 

[tecmobowler]

I went to Yankee Stadium, and people there seemed shocked and miffed that people actually liked the Cubs.  They were dripping with entitlement... heck, they simply call the place they play, "The Stadium"!

As I type the Brewers go down in miserable fashion (make sure you catch Griffey's little league HR on the highlights).  Sorry Beermakers.

Howdy first place! Yippee!

[Knightstalker]

I went to Yankee Stadium, and people there seemed shocked and miffed that people actually liked the Cubs.  They were dripping with entitlement... heck, they simply call the place they play, "The Stadium"!

As I type the Brewers go down in miserable fashion (make sure you catch Griffey's little league HR on the highlights).  Sorry Beermakers.

Howdy first place! Yippee!

Calling Yankee Stadium "The Stadium" goes a long way back.  At one point it was the only Stadium in baseball and was refered to as "The Stadium" all over baseball.

Think about the old ball parks:
Forbes Field
Ebbets Field
The Polo Grounds
Fenway Park
Comiskey Park
Wrigley Field
Shibe Park
Sportsmens Field
League Park
Crosley field

the only other Stadium I can think of was Tiger Stadium.  It was not called a stadium until 1935 when it was renamed Briggs Stadium from Navin Field.

Cool site about old stadiums

I think it was probably the late 40's and into the 50's and 60's that all the "Stadiums started to pop up in baseball, and that was partially due to dual purpose stadiums being built.

It's not entitlement, it is just what we have always heard it called.  You go to The Stadium to see the Yanks and to Shea to see the Mets.  The full name is rarely used.

Edited when read the article about Scooter, it mentions The Stadium.

[superman57]

the thing you have to understand about Yankee stadium is it's not that people are miffed you like the cubs...it's that the fans at yankees stadium are such die hard fans that they can't believe going to see anyother team but the yankees... they see it as a sign of disrespect if you come in wearing another team... #1 on the list of do nots and yankee stadium is to wear anything mets or red sox.... I've even seen little kids get booed and stuff thrown at them for wearing red sox stuff to a non yankee-red sox game...

[AUPepBand]

ouch............
but what good song doesnt have cow bell.................

There are different kinds of cowbells. The small cowbells used by Fisher fans are higher in tone and are deemed annoying. When they say a song needs "More Cowbell," they are talking about the larger, lower tone bell that Will Ferrell plays so exquisitely. AU Pep Band occasionally uses a cowbell as percussion in accompanying some songs...

Mornin' fellas, N. S. Rowdy B punchin' in-

Lets be honest Pep... cowbells can help certain songs along but must be played in concert with the rest of the instruments.  If beat repeatedly much like they do in XC races and at Fisher games as a loud obnoxious and somewhat painful and slightly distracting enhancing tool it just not called for... those applications give the cowbell a bad rapp.

thats great news about our recruits.  Playing on a broken ankle... yikes!  the guy sounds like a rabbid animal... I kinda like it.  Nice to hear we got some OL guys too.  Juvan needs all the time he can get to get those perfect passes off to the corners.  Ooooh I cant WAIT to see some long bombs into the endzone!  .. gives me chills just thinkin about it!  EHHHH BOMbers!

Not So Rowdy....

Pep thinks we are in agreement here. There are a few AU parents of players who in the past have brought their little bells to games to support the Saxons. However, those few, after attending an AU game or two, seem to leave their cowbells home. Pep would like to think the band playing upbeat cheers in response to action on the field has been good reason for them to leave their cowbells home. Why use noisemakers when you can groove with a pretty good band....or, in IC's case, a pretty rowdy First Down Club?

[bombsquad47]

anybody been to camp yet to see what we got this year and how the guys are doin???  i heard great things about the coaching staff recently, the addition of recent bomber graduates is helping to ease the transition of coaching staffs...word is that garrett couture (O-Line) has been huge in coaching the young lineman this camp

[tecmobowler]

Oh man, the Yankee backers come from far and wide!


If "The Stadium" doesn't count as entitlement, how about what seems to be their belief they are the only only team in pinstripes.  "He'd sure look good in pinstripes...."

And people really were shocked at "The Stadium" that there were Cubs fans in existance.  People in the Northeast seem to think the whole country is obsessed with the Mets, Yankees, and Red Sox, which is a load.   Go west of the Mississippi it becomes St. Louis, Chicago, and Dodger territory.

[lineback]

Oh man, the Yankee backers come from far and wide!


If "The Stadium" doesn't count as entitlement, how about what seems to be their belief they are the only only team in pinstripes.  "He'd sure look good in pinstripes...."

And people really were shocked at "The Stadium" that there were Cubs fans in existance.  People in the Northeast seem to think the whole country is obsessed with the Mets, Yankees, and Red Sox, which is a load.   Go west of the Mississippi it becomes St. Louis, Chicago, and Dodger territory.

How New Yorkers view the world.

[superman57]

Tecmo...clearly this is a battle that neither will win...while the cubs, cards and dodgers all have good fan bases...nothing compares to a yankee-red sox fan... and nothing compares to baseball in october in the Northeast...nothing...









except fisher finally beating IC at butterball

[tecmobowler]

Tecmo...clearly this is a battle that neither will win...while the cubs, cards and dodgers all have good fan bases...nothing compares to a yankee-red sox fan... and nothing compares to baseball in october in the Northeast...nothing...

Point proven.

[superman57]

first off yes other teams wear pin stripes but no other team has the history of the yankees... they are the pin stripes....this just sounds like sour grapes to me... that your a fan of a team that has not won in a really long time....

[lineback]

That's not sour grapes.  Sour grapes is when you act like you don't want something because you can't have it.  Like if you said you didn't care that the Yankees will be spending October sitting in their living rooms watching the playoffs.