Pollyellon banned me

[Quality Start Machine]

Holly and I were both interviewed for this 2007 article in Psychology Today. This quote from her in the article sums up the way I feel -- and maybe you do too, regarding the hope that someday, the Cubs will win it all:

"Each year, we all come together and share that hope. And when our hope is lost, as it frequently is, those same people buoy us up. The more you suffer at the hands of the Cubs, the deeper the ties you feel to the people who've suffered with you."

Can we send the Worm back out to North Korea and negotiate with Kim Jong Un to put Al in a prison camp with some of his regulars? The hope of one day getting out, coupled with the unspeakable suffering -- more than 81 times a year -- will provide Al with something that frankly, Theo cannot provide.

I second this motion, regardless of whether Alvin gains any perspective or not.

[Brownie]

Holly and I were both interviewed for this 2007 article in Psychology Today. This quote from her in the article sums up the way I feel -- and maybe you do too, regarding the hope that someday, the Cubs will win it all:

"Each year, we all come together and share that hope. And when our hope is lost, as it frequently is, those same people buoy us up. The more you suffer at the hands of the Cubs, the deeper the ties you feel to the people who've suffered with you."

Can we send the Worm back out to North Korea and negotiate with Kim Jong Un to put Al in a prison camp with some of his regulars? The hope of one day getting out, coupled with the unspeakable suffering -- more than 81 times a year -- will provide Al with something that frankly, Theo cannot provide.

I second this motion, regardless of whether Alvin gains any perspective or not.

I do think Kim Jong-Un should allow Al to publish his Open Letters to Theo Jong-Un and Kim DeJesus however.

[Brownie]

DPD. Let's look at Holly Swyers.



No, not literally...

blah blah blah

I left out the main reason I wanted to talk Holly Swyers. There's no doubt she is "one of Al's." Way back in 2005, she was well ahead of the Al-investigative reporting curve:


2005 - "Who Owns Wrigley Field?"  Sport in American Society - Past and Present, a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport 22(6): 1086-1105.

[Quality Start Machine]

Holly and I were both interviewed for this 2007 article in Psychology Today. This quote from her in the article sums up the way I feel -- and maybe you do too, regarding the hope that someday, the Cubs will win it all:

"Each year, we all come together and share that hope. And when our hope is lost, as it frequently is, those same people buoy us up. The more you suffer at the hands of the Cubs, the deeper the ties you feel to the people who've suffered with you."

Can we send the Worm back out to North Korea and negotiate with Kim Jong Un to put Al in a prison camp with some of his regulars? The hope of one day getting out, coupled with the unspeakable suffering -- more than 81 times a year -- will provide Al with something that frankly, Theo cannot provide.

I second this motion, regardless of whether Alvin gains any perspective or not.

I do think Kim Jong-Un should allow Al to publish his Open Letters to Theo Jong-Un and Kim DeJesus however.

So now I have hope...hope that Al writes enough Open Letters than there can one day be a dramatic reading of the collection.

[CBStew]

THE STORY THAT NEEDED TO BE TOLD.

At first I thought that article was going to be interesting.  I should have known better

[Chuck to Chuck]

Seems the @BleedCubTweets guy is running a "Guess when Al makes a post sans semi-colon" contest.

Winner gets this:

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

CT linked this in the sbox.

I'm posting it over here because I want the rest of you to suffer with us.

[Saul Goodman]

CT linked this in the sbox.

I'm posting it over here because I want the rest of you to suffer with us.

Melanie bought Scotty one of the greatest gifts a Cubs fan could ever hope for:

A championship?  Or a night with this beautiful woman or this one instead?  Tickets to a four-game Cardinals curb-stomping?

So what's the gift?

A commemorative brick paver in the Vince Lloyd section near the main Wrigley Field ticket window.

Oh.  A brick for all the Chads and Trixies and Woo Woos to walk and throw their trash on.  Thanks.

[Saul Goodman]

DPD.  Aside from not knowing the difference between a sidewalk and a wall, he's one hell of a writer, too.

Hola. I'm Danny Rockett. I'm and actor, writer, and musician. I produce my own podcast called Rockett Radio, [sic] and obsess about the Chicago Cubs. That is my life. Of yeah.... I tweet too.

Can the Cubs mend my broken brick?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

CT linked this in the sbox.

I'm posting it over here because I want the rest of you to suffer with us.

Like a Mecca for sadsacks.

[Internet Apex]

CT linked this in the sbox.

I'm posting it over here because I want the rest of you to suffer with us.

Like a Mecca for sadsacks.

Am I just imagining the BC in the bricks? Or did you already improve this?

[flannj]

CT linked this in the sbox.

I'm posting it over here because I want the rest of you to suffer with us.

Nope, not gonna.
I already dealt with one overflowing septic system today.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

CT linked this in the sbox.

I'm posting it over here because I want the rest of you to suffer with us.

Like a Mecca for sadsacks.

Am I just imagining the BC in the bricks? Or did you already improve this?

It's almost as if BC is staring into a giant, digitized mirror on the ground.

[ChuckD]

CT linked this in the sbox.

I'm posting it over here because I want the rest of you to suffer with us.

Like a Mecca for sadsacks.

Am I just imagining the BC in the bricks? Or did you already improve this?

It's almost as if BC is staring into a giant, digitized mirror on the ground.

Damn, someone put out the Mortsignal.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Am I just imagining the BC in the bricks? Or did you already improve this?

I admit it... this kind of made my day.