Mark Prior - Someone else's problem

[Quality Start Machine]

Mark Prior - looked up to Fred McGriff.

That article was longer than Prior's actual career.

3 comments...all gold

look, the guy was a moody, ornery person . Lets not idolize him for anything more than he was which is a 'flash in the pan". Now that he's older he wants to say "I shoulda been different".......................sorry Prior, too late.....we remember your grumpy attitude at autograph signings where you couldn't wait to get out the door.

An all-time great pitcher.

Mark Chicago will always love you , we feel you gave us a 11 0% when you pitched for us You and Woods where special in our hearts and still are. I hope the Cubs offer a position with the organization. But what happens in your life we hope you and your family the best. Thank you for the thrills you gave us and us who are old enough to remember you always felt that if you were not injured you would have been a Hall of Famer. Good luck in the future and we hope for the best for you

Who else will Mark Chicago always love?  Oh right, Mark DeRosas and Tony Campanas.

Fuck the guy who hit over 60 HRs in a year.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Mark Prior - looked up to Fred McGriff.

That article was longer than Prior's actual career.

3 comments...all gold

look, the guy was a moody, ornery person . Lets not idolize him for anything more than he was which is a 'flash in the pan". Now that he's older he wants to say "I shoulda been different".......................sorry Prior, too late.....we remember your grumpy attitude at autograph signings where you couldn't wait to get out the door.

An all-time great pitcher.

Mark Chicago will always love you , we feel you gave us a 11 0% when you pitched for us You and Woods where special in our hearts and still are. I hope the Cubs offer a position with the organization. But what happens in your life we hope you and your family the best. Thank you for the thrills you gave us and us who are old enough to remember you always felt that if you were not injured you would have been a Hall of Famer. Good luck in the future and we hope for the best for you

Who else will Mark Chicago always love?  Oh right, Mark DeRosas and Tony Campanas.

Fuck the guy who hit over 60 HRs in a year.

Sorry for derailing the thread but I love that the best hitter and pitcher for the Cubs between 2003 and 2011--the most successful run since WWII-- have been and would be (If he ever got the chance) booed upon his return to Wrigley.  Both are hispanic, natch.

[Gilgamesh]

Mark Prior - looked up to Fred McGriff.

That article was longer than Prior's actual career.

3 comments...all gold

look, the guy was a moody, ornery person . Lets not idolize him for anything more than he was which is a 'flash in the pan". Now that he's older he wants to say "I shoulda been different".......................sorry Prior, too late.....we remember your grumpy attitude at autograph signings where you couldn't wait to get out the door.

An all-time great pitcher.

Mark Chicago will always love you , we feel you gave us a 11 0% when you pitched for us You and Woods where special in our hearts and still are. I hope the Cubs offer a position with the organization. But what happens in your life we hope you and your family the best. Thank you for the thrills you gave us and us who are old enough to remember you always felt that if you were not injured you would have been a Hall of Famer. Good luck in the future and we hope for the best for you

Who else will Mark Chicago always love?  Oh right, Mark DeRosas and Tony Campanas.

Fuck the guy who hit over 60 HRs in a year.

Sorry for derailing the thread but I love that the best hitter and pitcher for the Cubs between 2003 and 2011--the most successful run since WWII-- have been and would be (If he ever got the chance) booed upon his return to Wrigley.  Both are hispanic, natch.

You wouldn't boo this man, would you?



PRAISE BE, TODD WALKER!!!

[Brownie]

Mark Prior - looked up to Fred McGriff.

That article was longer than Prior's actual career.

3 comments...all gold

look, the guy was a moody, ornery person . Lets not idolize him for anything more than he was which is a 'flash in the pan". Now that he's older he wants to say "I shoulda been different".......................sorry Prior, too late.....we remember your grumpy attitude at autograph signings where you couldn't wait to get out the door.

An all-time great pitcher.

Mark Chicago will always love you , we feel you gave us a 11 0% when you pitched for us You and Woods where special in our hearts and still are. I hope the Cubs offer a position with the organization. But what happens in your life we hope you and your family the best. Thank you for the thrills you gave us and us who are old enough to remember you always felt that if you were not injured you would have been a Hall of Famer. Good luck in the future and we hope for the best for you

Who else will Mark Chicago always love?  Oh right, Mark DeRosas and Tony Campanas.

Fuck the guy who hit over 60 HRs in a year.

Sorry for derailing the thread but I love that the best hitter and pitcher for the Cubs between 2003 and 2011--the most successful run since WWII-- have been and would be (If he ever got the chance) booed upon his return to Wrigley.  Both are hispanic, natch.

Intrepid Readers: A black Alabamian, a Dago from Seattle, a black Canadian, a Jew from St. Louis, a drunk from KC, a mute from Spokane, a black Cajun, a black Floridian, a white chain-smoking womanizing Tent City resident, a scrawny little shit from Vegas, and an Armenian field manager.

Ahem, we're from 1967-1975 and 1984-1992. Our returns to Wrigley have been triumphant. Except for the Armenian.

[CBStew]

Mark Prior - looked up to Fred McGriff.

That article was longer than Prior's actual career.

3 comments...all gold

look, the guy was a moody, ornery person . Lets not idolize him for anything more than he was which is a 'flash in the pan". Now that he's older he wants to say "I shoulda been different".......................sorry Prior, too late.....we remember your grumpy attitude at autograph signings where you couldn't wait to get out the door.

An all-time great pitcher.

Mark Chicago will always love you , we feel you gave us a 11 0% when you pitched for us You and Woods where special in our hearts and still are. I hope the Cubs offer a position with the organization. But what happens in your life we hope you and your family the best. Thank you for the thrills you gave us and us who are old enough to remember you always felt that if you were not injured you would have been a Hall of Famer. Good luck in the future and we hope for the best for you

Who else will Mark Chicago always love?  Oh right, Mark DeRosas and Tony Campanas.

Fuck the guy who hit over 60 HRs in a year.

Sorry for derailing the thread but I love that the best hitter and pitcher for the Cubs between 2003 and 2011--the most successful run since WWII-- have been and would be (If he ever got the chance) booed upon his return to Wrigley.  Both are hispanic, natch.

Intrepid Readers: A black Alabamian, a Dago from Seattle, a black Canadian, a Jew from St. Louis, a drunk from KC, a mute from Spokane, a black Cajun, a black Floridian, a white chain-smoking womanizing Tent City resident, a scrawny little shit from Vegas, and an Armenian field manager.

Ahem, we're from 1967-1975 and 1984-1992. Our returns to Wrigley have been triumphant. Except for the Armenian.

This describes every WWII movie made between 1942 and 1946, except you forgot William Bendix playing the guy from Brooklyn, and appropriately named "Brooklyn".  He gets killed in the next to last scene, before John Hodiak puts his arm around Ann Baxter's waist as they stare at the sunset, with an American flag superimposed over them

[Quality Start Machine]

This describes every WWII movie made between 1942 and 1946, except you forgot William Bendix playing the guy from Brooklyn, and appropriately named "Brooklyn".  He gets killed in the next to last scene, before John Hodiak puts his arm around Ann Baxter's waist as they stare at the sunset, with an American flag superimposed over them

Stew clearly forgets the order in which all WWII Movie Americans die:

1. Guy from Brooklyn
2. Guy from Italy who love-a his new home
3. Fresh-faced naive kid from the sticks
4. Hard-boiled drill sargeant
5. The huge asshole who dies at the end, saving everyone else.

Then as John Hodiak puts his arm around Ann Baxter's waist and you see the flag, these 5 dead guys appear transparent in front of the flag.

DON'T FUCK WITH THE FORMULA, STEW!

[Brownie]

Oh, they're all cast as well.

1. Guy from Brooklyn


2. Guy from Italy who love-a his new home


3. Fresh-faced naive kid from the sticks



4. Hard-boiled drill sargeant



5. The huge asshole who dies at the end, saving everyone else.

2003-2011 more successful than 1984-1992 or 1967-1975? Discuss.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

2003-2011 more successful than 1984-1992 or 1967-1975? Discuss.

Won twice as many playoff games.
Earned 3 trips to the postseason to 2.
Won 3 divisions to 2.

Most recent era all the way.

I'm not even acknowledging the abortion that was the colossaly disappointing 4 HOFer Durocher-Era teams.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Most recent era all the way.

I don't think anyone's going to deny that it's the most recent of those three eras.

[Brownie]

2003-2011 more successful than 1984-1992 or 1967-1975? Discuss.

Won twice as many playoff games

That's cute. The Cubs went 3-7 (.300) from 1984-1992, compared to 6-12 (.333) from 2003-2011.

Earned 3 trips to the postseason to 2.

True, but 2003 and 2007 were direct results of injury-weakened St. Louis teams. Milwaukee was OK in 2008, but the NL Central was rancid during that time. From 1984-1992, the Strawberry-Gooden-Carter Mets and the Whitey Herzog Cardinals and the remains of the Mike Schmidt Phillies, and the never-to-be-forgotten Montreal Expos, and the Bonds-Bonilla-VanSlyke Pirates made it consistently a better division, top-to-bottom.

I'm not even acknowledging the abortion that was the colossaly disappointing 4 HOFer Durocher-Era teams.

W            L            PCT.          GB
Cubs 1967-1975                  733        716            .506          ---
Cubs 2003-2011                  733        723            .503          3.5
Cubs 1984-1992                  721        730            .497          13

[Quality Start Machine]

I'm not even acknowledging the abortion that was the colossaly disappointing 4 HOFer Durocher-Era teams.

W            L            PCT.          GB
Cubs 1967-1975                  733        716            .506          ---
Cubs 2003-2011                  733        723            .503          3.5
Cubs 1984-1992                  721        730            .497          13

The Durocher Cubs also got fat on bad expansion teams to pump their wins & losses. Fact is, the closest they ever came to the postseason was 1970, when they finished in second, 5 games back. They were also 5 back in 1973, but they were in 5th place in the worst sprint to the finish line ever.

[Brownie]

I'm not even acknowledging the abortion that was the colossaly disappointing 4 HOFer Durocher-Era teams.

W            L            PCT.          GB
Cubs 1967-1975                  733        716            .506          ---
Cubs 2003-2011                  733        723            .503          3.5
Cubs 1984-1992                  721        730            .497          13

The Durocher Cubs also got fat on bad expansion teams to pump their wins & losses. Fact is, the closest they ever came to the postseason was 1970, when they finished in second, 5 games back. They were also 5 back in 1973, but they were in 5th place in the worst sprint to the finish line ever.

Fork, is your name Huey?

Let's look at it another way. Since the "end" of the Korean War (by 1953, things were back to normal in baseball), the Cubs have played 6 complete decades:
                            W                 L              PCT         GB              Post    .500+     Pennant   
63-72                    804             808             .499          --             0        7            0
83-92                    792             821             .4910       12.5           2        2            0
03-12                    794             824             .4907       13              3        5            0
93-02                    727             827             .468         48             1         4            0
73-82                    708             852             .454         70             0          1           0
53-62                    652             895             .421         119.5         0          0           0

The Cubs from 1983-1992 were far superior to the 03-12 Cubs.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I'm not even acknowledging the abortion that was the colossaly disappointing 4 HOFer Durocher-Era teams.

W            L            PCT.          GB
Cubs 1967-1975                  733        716            .506          ---
Cubs 2003-2011                  733        723            .503          3.5
Cubs 1984-1992                  721        730            .497          13

The Durocher Cubs also got fat on bad expansion teams to pump their wins & losses. Fact is, the closest they ever came to the postseason was 1970, when they finished in second, 5 games back. They were also 5 back in 1973, but they were in 5th place in the worst sprint to the finish line ever.

Fork, is your name Huey?

Let's look at it another way. Since the "end" of the Korean War (by 1953, things were back to normal in baseball), the Cubs have played 6 complete decades:
                            W                 L              PCT         GB              Post    .500+     Pennant   
63-72                    804             808             .499          --             0        7            0
83-92                    792             821             .4910       12.5           2        2            0
03-12                    794             824             .4907       13              3        5            0
93-02                    727             827             .468         48             1         4            0
73-82                    708             852             .454         70             0          1           0
53-62                    652             895             .421         119.5         0          0           0

The Cubs from 1983-1992 were far superior to the 03-12 Cubs.

TJ's jut trying to make this more about Sutcliffe and Sandberg than Zambrano and Ramirez.

Racist.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I'm not even acknowledging the abortion that was the colossaly disappointing 4 HOFer Durocher-Era teams.

W            L            PCT.          GB
Cubs 1967-1975                  733        716            .506          ---
Cubs 2003-2011                  733        723            .503          3.5
Cubs 1984-1992                  721        730            .497          13

The Durocher Cubs also got fat on bad expansion teams to pump their wins & losses. Fact is, the closest they ever came to the postseason was 1970, when they finished in second, 5 games back. They were also 5 back in 1973, but they were in 5th place in the worst sprint to the finish line ever.

Fork, is your name Huey?

Let's look at it another way. Since the "end" of the Korean War (by 1953, things were back to normal in baseball), the Cubs have played 6 complete decades:
                            W                 L              PCT         GB              Post    .500+     Pennant   
63-72                    804             808             .499          --             0        7            0
83-92                    792             821             .4910       12.5           2        2            0
03-12                    794             824             .4907       13              3        5            0
93-02                    727             827             .468         48             1         4            0
73-82                    708             852             .454         70             0          1           0
53-62                    652             895             .421         119.5         0          0           0

The Cubs from 1983-1992 were far superior to the 03-12 Cubs.

TJ's jut trying to make this more about Sutcliffe and Sandberg than Zambrano and Ramirez.

Racist.

God damnit, Fork.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

You guys are collectively Hueying the fuck out of this quote thread.