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Playtwo

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Clarkaddison

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #451 on: July 23, 2012, 11:32:15 am »
"Rogers" and "nice article" are oxymorons.

Clarkaddison

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #452 on: July 23, 2012, 11:32:52 am »
From Wired:

1962: The Telstar 1 communications satellite relays the first trans-Atlantic television signal in history.

Telstar was the product of an international collaboration to push the development of satellite communications. NASA, AT&T, Bell Labs and the French and British national post offices were all involved, with Bell Labs doing the actual construction.

A spherical satellite festooned with solar panels and packed with transistors, Telstar used a helical antenna to receive microwave signals from the ground station, which were then amplified and rebroadcast to the main receiving station in southern England.

The satellite was launched July 10 aboard a NASA Delta rocket and placed in an orbit that provided for a narrow, 20-minute transmission period per orbit.

President Kennedy was supposed to launch this historic moment in communications with a trans-Atlantic press conference, but the transmission signal was acquired before JFK was ready, so Ernie Banks may have been the first human image relayed across the Atlantic. Needing to kill a little time, the producers picked up a TV broadcast of a major league ballgame between the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs from Wrigley Field.

JR

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #453 on: July 23, 2012, 12:52:12 pm »
Amazing that Joe West still has his job 21 years later.

StrikeZone

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #454 on: July 23, 2012, 10:04:29 pm »
Did the Care Bears throw up all over Dan Roan's shirt?

JR

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #455 on: August 30, 2012, 03:25:58 pm »
Adam Greenberg seeks one official at-bat with help of campaign and petition

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/adam-greenberg-seeks-one-official-bat-help-campaign-171733871--mlb.html

Nice story but it is not going to happen.

Actually with as much crap as there is right now on the Cubs roster, that's a feel good story Theo and Ricketts should pick up on.

davep

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #456 on: August 30, 2012, 08:06:50 pm »
It would be an even nicer story if he came back for one more at bat and got hit in the head again.

I should have been an author.

CurtOne

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #457 on: August 30, 2012, 08:59:42 pm »
You're one sick ********

davep

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #458 on: August 31, 2012, 12:09:54 am »
How can you be a teacher if you can't spell.

The correct spelling is one sick *&%#$*&*

JR

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #459 on: September 05, 2012, 06:26:03 pm »
I agree.  Imagine the howling if the player cut to make room for him turned out to be anything for some other team.

Well, the Cubs have plenty of 40 man roster spots that aren't going to really great use.

I'm not sure the chances are all that great that losing Michael Socolovich or Anthony Recker would ever really hurt us down the road.

davep

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #460 on: September 05, 2012, 06:51:33 pm »
I'm not sure the chances are all that great that losing Michael Socolovich or Anthony Recker would ever really hurt us down the road.

The chances of either player ever being good down the road are not very good.  Buy their chances are infinitely greater than the chances of Greenberg being good down the road.

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #461 on: September 05, 2012, 07:19:42 pm »
The chances of either player ever being good down the road are not very good.  Buy their chances are infinitely greater than the chances of Greenberg being good down the road.

Honestly, though, sometimes you just need to put stuff like that aside.  It's been a terribly crappy season.  It'd be one of the very few feel good moments we'd have this year if they gave him a shot. 

I think really there's more to be said for having a feel good story like that during an extremely trying season than to make sure we don't miss out on the 1% chance of Socolovich or Recker turning into a meaningful player.

Clarkaddison

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #462 on: September 06, 2012, 10:36:01 am »
I'm surprised Greenberg is going along with this.  It's nothing more than exploitation.  If he couldn't stick with an independent team, he knows he has no business in the majors.

Plus, right now he is unique in major league history.  A latter day Moonlight Graham. 

Giving me an at bat makes as much sense. 

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #463 on: September 06, 2012, 01:53:23 pm »
Giving me an at bat makes as much sense. 

Let's start a petition drive....

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #464 on: September 06, 2012, 03:10:37 pm »
He's much more memorable if he never gets the AB, sad as that might be...