Showing posts with label theriot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theriot. Show all posts

Ticket Time Capsule

Sometimes I think 1945 wasn't that dern long ago. And I remember '69 like it was yesterday. '84 and '89 now that is recent history. '98 and '03 . . . painfully close.

Having the good times in Cub history on my mind, one might reckon that I'd recall '07 and '08 - the last seasons spent in the playoffs - well, I suppose you'd reckon I'd remember them like nobody's business. But, I'll tell ya, after this year - after this long and painful year . . . it seems like a lifetime ago since we were good at baseball.

Now please oblige me on this one. Take a gander at this here ticket stub my grandson found while he was fiddlin' through my dresser drawers - no doubt looking for some spending money.
Take a gander at those boys high five-in on that stub. Makes you kind of miss them boys, don't it? It sure as heck makes me miss the winning days. That date there - September 20th - just two short years ago . . . that's when we clinched our division, on our way to a near one hundred win season. Seems like it has been forever and a day, and I sure hope it ain't forever until the winning ways return.

Go Cubs!

cubs ticket stub

Want The Ball!


My advice to Ryan Theriot as he starts in LA; avoid praying during games "god... please don't let the ball come to me".

After sitting through a Cubs/Cards game a few weeks ago in which Theriot dropped a flyball and booted two others it was clear he's got to start wanting the ball to come his way. I'm guessing Torre has already told him that when you ask god for the ball not to come to you guess where it's going.