WestWYOPoke
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TSpoke said:
Oh come on, it's not like the Cubs aren't in the World Series all the time...oh wait...you mean you don't want to wait another 71 years for them to make it???
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Biggest game in a I don't know how long??????
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Oh come on, it's not like the Cubs aren't in the World Series all the time...oh wait...you mean you don't want to wait another 71 years for them to make it???
WestWYOPoke
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COS Cowboy said:
They are still made of aluminum, but they are on a large hinge that allows for them to quickly be lowered after the game if the admin feels like they may be in danger of being torn down.
OrediggerPoke
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SDPokeFan said:
You must have had plans to that big South Dakota vs. Western Illinois FCS game :lol:
LanderPoke
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You're just going to be checking your phone for Wyoming updates all night, anyway. Might as well just make it to the WarTSpoke said:
McPeachy
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TSpoke said:
The Cubs? LOL! Their fanbase is built off "loser-lovers". People clung to being Cub fans for decades because they have always sucked. You know, it's easy to love a loser (see Boston Redsux 1918-2004). Wonder what will happen now, especially when they win it all. Will we see the normal bandwagon fans come out touting their new Cubs gear, or will the "loser-lovers" start cheering for the Cleveland Indians (coincidence, I think not) LOL!!!
That said, I would sacrifice any of my "pro" teams winning anything to watch a Cowboy Football win this Saturday, and each Saturday. #lovewyo #trueuwfootballfan #gopokes #playforpride
fromolwyoming
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This. Plus, I never much cared for baseball.McPeachy said:
Expat_Poke
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McPeachy said:
Cub fan here, and I am not a loser lover. It is a fan base built in large part on Chicago transplants infiltrating the rest of the nation and the WGN days allowing those transplants (or in my case the transplant's kid) to keep watching the team they grew up watching. Also say what you will about Chicagoans, but they are very midwest as far as loyalty. There have been plenty of times that out of frustration at an awful season, horrible FA signings, taking the Cubs off the national broadcast of WGN, etc. that you want to leave the team, but you can't. I dunno maybe I am different than other Cub fans.
That said, I am trying to organize a group of people to go to the Boise St game and would sacrifice watching the Cubs in the WS to watch the Pokes. I have more invested in both the University of Wyoming and the state UW represents. I don't post/follow Cubs forums, I do for the Pokes. That's me though, to each their own.
WestWYOPoke
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Wyokie said:
THIS +1,000,000...I love baseball, but a salary cap would make things so much better.
TSpoke
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Expat_Poke said:
My grandpa was a huge cubs fan from the days when he was a kid. Could get the games on WGN radio in Wyoiming. I grew up near him and he would come in from working the ranch every afternoon in the summer and watch the Cubs game on WGN on the Giant Satelite dishes they used to have. I spent many an afternoon with him watch Harry Carry and the Cubs stink up the joint.
The Cubs are the only professional team that I care about. I greatly prefer Football and probably even basketball to baseball but the Cubs are right up there with Cowboy Football and Basketball as the only teams I am passionate about. I care more about the Cowboys slightly but it is a once in a life time experience to be in Chicago during the first WS in 70 years.
McPeachy
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Wyokie said:
Derailed thread part 3...
But but but...a salary cap would have kept the Redsux from EVER winning a world series!! Regardless whose business model it was (NYY) - it is largely how baseball works these days.
To quote (as it applies to MLB more than any sport): "Free agents have ruined the goddamned game" - Shelly Marcone
Amen.McPeachy said:
I guess it's mostly because I grew up in a college town with a D1 College Football program instead of a city with a pro team, but, I've never understood the deep emotional investment in professional sports. Especially in instances where the team can load onto trucks in the middle of the night and move to another city. I just can't feel all that deeply for privately owned organizations (or any brand, really) staffed by millionaires.
Asmodeanreborn
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Wyovanian said:
I see the draw with both - with pro you do get your legends that sometimes spend a decade or longer with the team just because it's where they want to be, while in college you have at most 4 years of a single athlete. The pros also play at the highest level there is, generally (then again, I love Colorado Eagles even if they're two levels removed from the NHL).
With college you get an entirely different level of passion, schools that have played the game since the 1800s, athletes who picked your school because that's who they want to represent, not because (most of the time) they were the highest bidder or happened to have whatever draft pick.
At large, I still find it weird that college athletics is a thing, and yet I absolutely love it.
On the flip side, I can't stand what's going on in some sports (especially the NFL) with Billionaire owners taking cities and their tax payers hostage to spend tax money to build stadiums and then the Billionaires still get all the profit, like Las Vegas with Adelson. Suuuuure the increased hotel taxes is all it'll take to cover the construction costs - that's why the city itself has to cover if it doesn't, right? Compare that to the new NHL arena there that was constructed completely with private funds, just like the Pepsi Center in Denver.
St. Louis still has $140 Million to go before they've paid off the stadium they built for the Rams.
