2015: The Back To The Future Season

[Tonker]

How the fuck has nobody mentioned Cagney and Lacey in this conversation yet?

Because we're not gay homosexuals?

In this conversation about classic theme tunes, you Irish clod.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

How the fuck has nobody mentioned Cagney and Lacey in this conversation yet?

Because we're not gay homosexuals?

In this conversation about classic theme tunes, you Irish clod.

I know, but to have been familiar with the Cagney & Lacey theme I imagine people would have to have watched Cagney & Lacey.  Since I assume most of us probably never did--nor would, even even if Vietnamese police were holding hot prongs to our nether regions--then the theme is beyond us.

[InternetApex]

DPD: this Cubs Perfect Strangers intro is the best: http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-08-25/chicago-cubs-perfect-strangers-video-sitcom-intro-mashup-giants-pirates-full-house-family-matters

That made me happier than something that cheesy ever should.

'

They say we're living in the golden age of television but we no longer have cheesy 80s theme songs so I call bullshit on that. The only one I'd have preferred over the Perfect Strangers theme would have been Growing Pains, which would have been extremely suitable with a team full of rookies and all.

But Growing Pains didn't take place in Chicago or have Wrigley in its credits.

This is true but I have long maintained that the Growing Pains theme song is the greatest theme song in the history of corny TV theme songs and so I must champion it wherever possible.

I won't knock you for that. I've been championing "Movin' On Up" since before I can remember.

That's a banger. I'll take "Cheers."

Instrumental category: "M*A*S*H*" Honorable mention: "Night Court"

Sleeper pick: "227"

No longer appreciated due to Cosby affiliation: "A Different World"

Does it have to be 80's? Because the Sammy Davis Jr. version of the Baretta theme song is epic.

Hell almost any 60's - 70's cop show theme music is killer.

Instrumental-- Rockford Files and CHIPs were classics (St. Elsewhere a sleeper pick)
Sitcom  just wanted to put a good word in for Alice and Three's Company

Sanford and Son

Hell yes. What a dummy I am forgetting that.

[Chuck to Chuck]

DPD: this Cubs Perfect Strangers intro is the best: http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-08-25/chicago-cubs-perfect-strangers-video-sitcom-intro-mashup-giants-pirates-full-house-family-matters

That made me happier than something that cheesy ever should.

'

They say we're living in the golden age of television but we no longer have cheesy 80s theme songs so I call bullshit on that. The only one I'd have preferred over the Perfect Strangers theme would have been Growing Pains, which would have been extremely suitable with a team full of rookies and all.

But Growing Pains didn't take place in Chicago or have Wrigley in its credits.

This is true but I have long maintained that the Growing Pains theme song is the greatest theme song in the history of corny TV theme songs and so I must champion it wherever possible.

I won't knock you for that. I've been championing "Movin' On Up" since before I can remember.

That's a banger. I'll take "Cheers."

Instrumental category: "M*A*S*H*" Honorable mention: "Night Court"

Sleeper pick: "227"

No longer appreciated due to Cosby affiliation: "A Different World"

Does it have to be 80's? Because the Sammy Davis Jr. version of the Baretta theme song is epic.

Hell almost any 60's - 70's cop show theme music is killer.

Instrumental-- Rockford Files and CHIPs were classics (St. Elsewhere a sleeper pick)
Sitcom  just wanted to put a good word in for Alice and Three's Company

Sanford and Son

Hell yes. What a dummy I am forgetting that.

I always had a deep like for the theme music from Quantum Leap.

[Brownie]

DPD: this Cubs Perfect Strangers intro is the best: http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-08-25/chicago-cubs-perfect-strangers-video-sitcom-intro-mashup-giants-pirates-full-house-family-matters

That made me happier than something that cheesy ever should.

'

They say we're living in the golden age of television but we no longer have cheesy 80s theme songs so I call bullshit on that. The only one I'd have preferred over the Perfect Strangers theme would have been Growing Pains, which would have been extremely suitable with a team full of rookies and all.

But Growing Pains didn't take place in Chicago or have Wrigley in its credits.

This is true but I have long maintained that the Growing Pains theme song is the greatest theme song in the history of corny TV theme songs and so I must champion it wherever possible.

I won't knock you for that. I've been championing "Movin' On Up" since before I can remember.

That's a banger. I'll take "Cheers."

Instrumental category: "M*A*S*H*" Honorable mention: "Night Court"

Sleeper pick: "227"

No longer appreciated due to Cosby affiliation: "A Different World"

Does it have to be 80's? Because the Sammy Davis Jr. version of the Baretta theme song is epic.

Hell almost any 60's - 70's cop show theme music is killer.

Instrumental-- Rockford Files and CHIPs were classics (St. Elsewhere a sleeper pick)
Sitcom  just wanted to put a good word in for Alice and Three's Company

Sanford and Son

Hell yes. What a dummy I am forgetting that.

I always had a deep like for the theme music from Quantum Leap.

The A-Team and Magnum, P.I.
/thread.

[Bort]

DPD: this Cubs Perfect Strangers intro is the best: http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-08-25/chicago-cubs-perfect-strangers-video-sitcom-intro-mashup-giants-pirates-full-house-family-matters

That made me happier than something that cheesy ever should.

'

They say we're living in the golden age of television but we no longer have cheesy 80s theme songs so I call bullshit on that. The only one I'd have preferred over the Perfect Strangers theme would have been Growing Pains, which would have been extremely suitable with a team full of rookies and all.

But Growing Pains didn't take place in Chicago or have Wrigley in its credits.

This is true but I have long maintained that the Growing Pains theme song is the greatest theme song in the history of corny TV theme songs and so I must champion it wherever possible.

I won't knock you for that. I've been championing "Movin' On Up" since before I can remember.

That's a banger. I'll take "Cheers."

Instrumental category: "M*A*S*H*" Honorable mention: "Night Court"

Sleeper pick: "227"

No longer appreciated due to Cosby affiliation: "A Different World"

Does it have to be 80's? Because the Sammy Davis Jr. version of the Baretta theme song is epic.

Hell almost any 60's - 70's cop show theme music is killer.

Instrumental-- Rockford Files and CHIPs were classics (St. Elsewhere a sleeper pick)
Sitcom  just wanted to put a good word in for Alice and Three's Company

Sanford and Son

Hell yes. What a dummy I am forgetting that.

I always had a deep like for the theme music from Quantum Leap.

The A-Team and Magnum, P.I.
/thread.

KNIGHT. GODDAMN. RIDER.

[flannj]

DPD: this Cubs Perfect Strangers intro is the best: http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-08-25/chicago-cubs-perfect-strangers-video-sitcom-intro-mashup-giants-pirates-full-house-family-matters

That made me happier than something that cheesy ever should.

'

They say we're living in the golden age of television but we no longer have cheesy 80s theme songs so I call bullshit on that. The only one I'd have preferred over the Perfect Strangers theme would have been Growing Pains, which would have been extremely suitable with a team full of rookies and all.

But Growing Pains didn't take place in Chicago or have Wrigley in its credits.

This is true but I have long maintained that the Growing Pains theme song is the greatest theme song in the history of corny TV theme songs and so I must champion it wherever possible.

I won't knock you for that. I've been championing "Movin' On Up" since before I can remember.

That's a banger. I'll take "Cheers."

Instrumental category: "M*A*S*H*" Honorable mention: "Night Court"

Sleeper pick: "227"

No longer appreciated due to Cosby affiliation: "A Different World"

Does it have to be 80's? Because the Sammy Davis Jr. version of the Baretta theme song is epic.

Hell almost any 60's - 70's cop show theme music is killer.

Instrumental-- Rockford Files and CHIPs were classics (St. Elsewhere a sleeper pick)
Sitcom  just wanted to put a good word in for Alice and Three's Company

Sanford and Son

Hell yes. What a dummy I am forgetting that.

I always had a deep like for the theme music from Quantum Leap.

The A-Team and Magnum, P.I.
/thread.

KNIGHT. GODDAMN. RIDER.

When Johnny Cash sings your theme song that pretty much ends the discussion.

[R-V]

Let's say Javy comes up Sept. 1 and plays well, and the team decides that Javy at 3B and Bryant in RF is their best lineup. What would need to happen for Javy to make the postseason roster, would someone who was on the 25-man prior to Sept. 1 have to be DL'd? I seem to recall something like that happening with Soto in either '07 or '08.

[Bort]

Let's say Javy comes up Sept. 1 and plays well, and the team decides that Javy at 3B and Bryant in RF is their best lineup. What would need to happen for Javy to make the postseason roster, would someone who was on the 25-man prior to Sept. 1 have to be DL'd? I seem to recall something like that happening with Soto in either '07 or '08.

I'm pretty sure those aren't the lyrics to the Hardcastle & McCormick theme.

[Eli]

Let's say Javy comes up Sept. 1 and plays well, and the team decides that Javy at 3B and Bryant in RF is their best lineup. What would need to happen for Javy to make the postseason roster, would someone who was on the 25-man prior to Sept. 1 have to be DL'd? I seem to recall something like that happening with Soto in either '07 or '08.

I feel like it shouldn't be too hard of a bar to clear. Basically they'd have to think he can contribute more than Herrera, right?

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Let's say Javy comes up Sept. 1 and plays well, and the team decides that Javy at 3B and Bryant in RF is their best lineup. What would need to happen for Javy to make the postseason roster, would someone who was on the 25-man prior to Sept. 1 have to be DL'd? I seem to recall something like that happening with Soto in either '07 or '08.

I've heard people on Twitter say that the rules for postseason eligibility have changed, and that one merely need to be on the forty man roster by 9/1.  However, I haven't actually seen when this happened or what the new rule expressly states so it could be just a bunch of people twittering out of their arseholes.

But even if the rule hasn't changed, I'm sure they could be creative with an injury replacement and whatnot.  I seem to recall that Todd Worrell pitched in the postseason for the '85 Cardinals and was called up after 9/1 (he won the ROY in '86 after being their closer in the World Series the previous season).  I could be wrong there but I am pretty sure there are some pretty easy workarounds.

[SKO]

Let's say Javy comes up Sept. 1 and plays well, and the team decides that Javy at 3B and Bryant in RF is their best lineup. What would need to happen for Javy to make the postseason roster, would someone who was on the 25-man prior to Sept. 1 have to be DL'd? I seem to recall something like that happening with Soto in either '07 or '08.

I've heard people on Twitter say that the rules for postseason eligibility have changed, and that one merely need to be on the forty man roster by 9/1.  However, I haven't actually seen when this happened or what the new rule expressly states so it could be just a bunch of people twittering out of their arseholes.

But even if the rule hasn't changed, I'm sure they could be creative with an injury replacement and whatnot.  I seem to recall that Todd Worrell pitched in the postseason for the '85 Cardinals and was called up after 9/1 (he won the ROY in '86 after being their closer in the World Series the previous season).  I could be wrong there but I am pretty sure there are some pretty easy workarounds.

Basically the only rule is you have to be on the 40 man before September 1st. If you aren't on the 25 man you can only be placed on the postseason roster as an injury replacement, but it'd be damn easy to make up a case of hemorrhoids or something for Herrera in order to get Baez on there.  It's not really a new rule. The Angels did it with K-Rod in 2002, the Cubs did it with Soto taking the place of Hank White in 2007. Hank conveniently got hurt right around the time Soto was hitting .380.

[Tonker]

Let's say Javy comes up Sept. 1 and plays well, and the team decides that Javy at 3B and Bryant in RF is their best lineup. What would need to happen for Javy to make the postseason roster, would someone who was on the 25-man prior to Sept. 1 have to be DL'd? I seem to recall something like that happening with Soto in either '07 or '08.

I've heard people on Twitter say that the rules for postseason eligibility have changed, and that one merely need to be on the forty man roster by 9/1.  However, I haven't actually seen when this happened or what the new rule expressly states so it could be just a bunch of people twittering out of their arseholes.

But even if the rule hasn't changed, I'm sure they could be creative with an injury replacement and whatnot.  I seem to recall that Todd Worrell pitched in the postseason for the '85 Cardinals and was called up after 9/1 (he won the ROY in '86 after being their closer in the World Series the previous season).  I could be wrong there but I am pretty sure there are some pretty easy workarounds.

Basically the only rule is you have to be on the 40 man before September 1st. If you aren't on the 25 man you can only be placed on the postseason roster as an injury replacement, but it'd be damn easy to make up a case of hemorrhoids or something for Herrera in order to get Baez on there.  It's not really a new rule. The Angels did it with K-Rod in 2002, the Cubs did it with Soto taking the place of Hank White in 2007. Hank conveniently got hurt right around the time Soto was hitting .380.

Butthurt, I imagine.

[R-V]

Let's say Javy comes up Sept. 1 and plays well, and the team decides that Javy at 3B and Bryant in RF is their best lineup. What would need to happen for Javy to make the postseason roster, would someone who was on the 25-man prior to Sept. 1 have to be DL'd? I seem to recall something like that happening with Soto in either '07 or '08.

I've heard people on Twitter say that the rules for postseason eligibility have changed, and that one merely need to be on the forty man roster by 9/1.  However, I haven't actually seen when this happened or what the new rule expressly states so it could be just a bunch of people twittering out of their arseholes.

But even if the rule hasn't changed, I'm sure they could be creative with an injury replacement and whatnot.  I seem to recall that Todd Worrell pitched in the postseason for the '85 Cardinals and was called up after 9/1 (he won the ROY in '86 after being their closer in the World Series the previous season).  I could be wrong there but I am pretty sure there are some pretty easy workarounds.

Basically the only rule is you have to be on the 40 man before September 1st. If you aren't on the 25 man you can only be placed on the postseason roster as an injury replacement, but it'd be damn easy to make up a case of hemorrhoids or something for Herrera in order to get Baez on there.  It's not really a new rule. The Angels did it with K-Rod in 2002, the Cubs did it with Soto taking the place of Hank White in 2007. Hank conveniently got hurt right around the time Soto was hitting .380.

Butthurt, I imagine.

I'll be goddamned if I'm going to sit here and let you besmirch the team-first mentality of one Henry F. White.

Unless you mean he had diarrhea, because that's funny.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Dan Haren reminds me of when the Cubs tried to get anything--ANYTHING-- out of Steve Trachsel in late 2007 (or Don Wengert in 1998).

Send this fucker out to pasture.  He's done.  His existence on this team is pointless.  Surely they can't do any worse than Wada, right?  Right?