The Comeback of the Century?
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 09:01 skinnydipinacid in the Official Unofficial Daily Cubs Blog | 2 Comments I don't know how big a deal I should make out of it... it was a bitter-sweet experience for me. I was stuck at work, because the bar next door didn't have it on t.v. (no wgn... no espn... no luck for skinny at the bar) while a handful of my friends, as well as my co-worker's son and friends were sitting behind 3rd base and the left field wall respectively. While I was stuck sitting in my office listening with a mixture of crazed laughter and shock, I was stuck answering my cell phone to random "WHOOO HOOOOoo's" and their mockings aimed at me of "I just got back from a 10 day vacation... I can't just take Friday off and got to the Cubs' game... let's go Saturday instead!"
Let's go Saturday instead... I'll never hear the end of that one.
Simply an amazing comeback. I was catching all sorts of hell from my Cub-hating coherts with the 8-0 score the way it was. I tried not to let it faze me, quipping when D.Lee scored the first run on a sac fly that "no... it's 8 to ONE... the comeback's only begun" ... not knowing of course just how RIGHT I was going to be.
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?&brand=null&videoId=3419454&n8pe6c=2
All the video highlights all seem to ignore Jim Edmond's first homer as a Cubbie... but I'll let it slide. It was great LISTENING to it (I thought Santo was going to have a heart attack), but I'm sure it was even greater for all my friends who got to witness it. I did get the last laugh today though... calling each and every one of them at 7 am off a fresh hangover... 4 out of 5 have answered and the 5th lives only a couple blocks away from me. As soon as I get done typing this I'm heading over to his house to jump on his bed... but only if he's still sleeping in it. I told the drunk assholes to get a picture of the scoreboard with the final score for this blog... I'll find out soon enough if they were at least that considerate.
Reader Comments (2)
Good work on the site, skinny! However, after 42 years of misery and disappointment, I REFUSE to start smoking the Cubs' corporate dope until after the All-Star break (and I'll probably have to be coerced into it even then!). I will say, however, that this upcoming road trip (23 of the next 32 are away, I believe?) will go a LONG way to dispelling my fears of the dreaded "June Swoon!"
It does get a little tiresome seeing these 'all-of-the-sudden' Cubs fans popping up all around me... seems to be the same people that weren't all that hopped up on the squigley wrigley back when they WEREN't winning. What sucks even more is that this weekend, I'm putting up a flag pole my parents gave me complete with the Cubs flag, brick trim, ivy, and my address painted in yellow numbers in the center... I only hope I don't come off as that 'off again/on again' typical Cubs bandwagon fan to the random passerby-er
BUT I can't let that distract me right now...
not while they... AND my Iowa Cubbies are in first.
that AAA team seems to be just as stacked as the big boys.
When the roster get expanded, things will really get interesting.
I'm looking forward to taking the kids to see them for the first time.
I haven't been to Sec Taylor Stadium since Woody's comeback.
My older sister worked there when I was a pretty young, so I got in free to just about any game I could make it to... plus we had a large number of former Cubs players that have coached and assisted on many of the little league teams I played on... ahhhh memories... yes ... many game of tag, baseball and smear the queer were played under those Sec Taylor bleachers.
I'm hoping to swing over there early July to check them out.