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Bennett

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1065 on: February 24, 2020, 02:50:27 pm »
Cubs trivia - who was the other Cub who made his MLB debut the same day as Adam Greenberg?

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« Reply #1066 on: February 24, 2020, 03:24:50 pm »
Cubs trivia - who was the other Cub who made his MLB debut the same day as Adam Greenberg?

Matt Murton

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1067 on: February 26, 2020, 11:03:36 am »
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Chicago #Cubs SS Shawon Dunston's arm was almost as awe inspiring as this image



One of my all-time favorite Cubs
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« Reply #1068 on: February 26, 2020, 11:25:52 am »
One of my all-time favorite Cubs

The first time I ever got to see the Cubs in person was 1991 in Atlanta when I was 12.  My parents took us to the hotel where the Cubs were staying afterwards to try to get autographs.  I lucked out and got Ryno to sign my ball when he was going up the escalator, but he was pretty much all business and pretty reserved.  I tried to get Dawson, but he made it clear he didn't sign autographs and made a beeline to the elevator. 

Shawon Dunston on the other hand stood in the lobby and signed for anyone who wanted an autograph and had a nice talk with my mom who told him how nice he was for treating the fans right and seemed really appreciate to hear that.  Just a super nice guy and one of my all-time favorite Cubs too for that.

That ball with Ryno's and Shawon's autographs on it is still one of my prized possessions to this day.
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Bennett

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« Reply #1069 on: February 26, 2020, 11:55:49 am »
Harry is a bit confused at the end of this video.  Was he that excited or had he had a few Buds during the game?





One of Harry’s idiosyncrasies:
“Dunston rounds third" and a second or two later "here’s a man trying to score”
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« Reply #1070 on: February 26, 2020, 02:25:09 pm »
One thing about how much baseball has changed in the last 20 years or so, it used to be just kind of a fun novelty that Dunston hardly ever took a walk.  Nobody really seemed to think it was that huge of a deal. 

The days of a guy going through the minor league development system and having a long major league career while only walking like 15 times over a 550 PA season are pretty much over now.

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« Reply #1071 on: February 29, 2020, 05:56:24 am »
Harry is a bit confused at the end of this video.  Was he that excited or had he had a few Buds during the game?


I remember this game like it was yesterday; it was just one of many dramatic wins for the two-games-over-.500 1995 squad.

The Cubs had the lead early and it looked like it would be an ordinary win, then Randy Myers blew the save and the Phillies scored three in the ninth.

The Cubs were down to their last out, and somebody reached on an error (Scott Bullett, maybe).  Then someone worked a walk, and Dunston homered to win it.

When David Bote hit his walk-off grand slam, all I could think of was this game.

July 29, 1995: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199507290.shtml

(I now see that Anthony Young got the win for us, something he couldn't do much of when he was a Met.  Hard-luck loser Heathcliff Slocumb, who came up with us, had one of those names that I loved hearing Phillies announcer Harry Kalas say.)
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« Reply #1073 on: March 17, 2020, 08:40:19 pm »
Watching the 23-22 Phillies-Cubs game from 1979. There were 11 combined pitchers between both teams used that day.  Guess the number of number of career saves for those 11 pitchers combined?

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« Reply #1074 on: March 18, 2020, 07:22:25 am »
Over 1000.

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« Reply #1075 on: March 18, 2020, 06:35:05 pm »
Name-Number (all-time rank)
Bruce Sutter-300 (29)
Tug McGraw-180 (65)
Willie Hernandez-147 (87)
Bill Caudill-106 (146)
Ron Reed-103 (149)
Donnie Moore-89 (187)
Rawley Eastwick-68 (243)
Doug Bird-60 (273)
Dennis Lamp-35 (442)
Ray Burris-4 (-)
Randy Lerch-3 (-)

1,095 total - jumped out to me how many guys who I remember as closers at some point when looking at the box.
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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1076 on: March 25, 2020, 09:04:10 am »
Game 7 starting now on MLBN...I haven't watched this game since I watched it live from a DC hotel lobby bar...

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« Reply #1077 on: March 25, 2020, 10:01:41 am »
I'm glad I know how this game turned out because taking Hendricks out in the 5th was still a really dumb move.

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« Reply #1078 on: March 25, 2020, 11:18:02 am »
What a hero Chapman was.  Amazing.
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« Reply #1079 on: March 25, 2020, 11:24:03 am »
What a hero Chapman was.  Amazing.

Yeah Chapman in Game 5 especially.  That was something I was thinking about while I was watching the game last night.  I'm actually amazed his arm is still attached to his body after that postseason. 

We don't win the Series without him. 
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