We are not mocking the Cubs enough

[joshua]

1908 - The Cubs win their most recent World Series

4 years after that - Arizona becomes a state.

86 years after that - Arizona gets an MLB team.

3 years after that - The Diamondbacks win the World Series.

Thinking about this makes me laugh. Hard.

[Chip R]

Non-player finishes second in Cubs bunting contest.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...2597--mlb.html

[Gary Redus]

Just moved to Chicagoland this past summer - caught a Reds-Cubs titanic struggle at Wrigley. Really more of a social event than a ball game people will go to the yard even when they are terrible - I mean 1980's Reds Paul Householder terrible.

Hard to mock those who really don't care.

[marcshoe]

If anyone caught The Simpsons last night, the regular bullies were asked why they became bullies. One said "Abuse" the next "neglect" and the third said, "I'm a Cubs fan."

[westofyou]

Found this in my notes, I wrote it about 4 years ago:

1908-1910 Winning Percentage = .666

1908 – Kerosene outsells Gasoline as a fuel and Henry Ford sells his first Model T

1909 – Indianapolis opens their famous Race Track and stages the 1st ever event.

1910 – May 18 – The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.

1911-1919 Winning Percentage = .553

1911 – IBM incorporated as Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) in New York.

1912 – The RMS Titanic sinks, along with 1,494 people.

1913 – General Electric begins to sell stoves and toasters.

1914 – Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.

1915 – Orson Welles is born

1916 – The light switch was invented by William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg

1917 – The National Hockey League is formed .

1918 – Canned Tomato Sauce is introduced.

1919 – The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women.

1920-1929 Winning Percentage = .526

1920 – The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.

1921 – Green Bay Packers are formed with $500 of backing from a local meat packing plant.

1922 – In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.

1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

1924 – American airman Russell L. Maughan flew from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit

1925 – Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.

1926 – U.S. Route 66 was established.

1927 – The first demonstration of television before a live audience.

1928 – Sliced Bread Introduced

1929 – The radio comedy show Amos and Andy makes its debut

1930-1939 Winning Percentage = .579

1930 – Betty Boop premiers in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.

1931 – Nevada legalizes gambling.

1932 – Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.

1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration,

1934 – John Dillinger and two others shoot their way out of an FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin

1935 – World’s first parking meters, in Oklahoma City.

1936 – The Girl Scouts of America sell their first cookie.

1937 – Spam is invented

1938 – Du Pont announced a name for its new synthetic yarn: “nylon”.

1939 – The Hewlett-Packard Company is founded.

1940-1949 Winning Percentage = .479

1940 – RKO releases Walt Disney’s second full-length animated film, Pinocchio.

1941 – Captain America Comics #1 issues the first Captain America & Bucky comic.

1942 – Lions became extinct in Iran by this date.

1943 – Rioting between military personnel and Mexican American youths erupts in East Los Angeles and is dubbed the “Zoot Suit Riots”.

1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

1945 – Micky Dolenz is born

1946 – Frozen French Fries are invented

1947 – The Chicago Cardinals the NFL’s oldest franchise wins their last championship, they are now in Arizona and playing the role of the Cubs in that league.

1948 – Hells Angels founded in California.

1949 – First Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC.

1950-1959 Winning Percentage = .437

1950 – Britain formally recognizes Israel.

1951 – I Love Lucy debuts on CBS.

1952 – Bob Costas is born

1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest.

1954 – The New York Giants win the World Series, the franchises last.

1955 – Disneyland opens, in Anaheim, California.

1956 – Elvis Presley enters the United States music charts for the first time, with “Heartbreak Hotel.”

1957 – Better Home and Gardens publishes their first Microwave cook book

1958 – December 28 – The Baltimore Colts beat The New York Giants 23-17 in overtime to win The NFL Championship.

1959 – The Barbie doll debuts.

1960-1969 Winning Percentage = .459

1960 – 1960 Summer Olympics: Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing.

1961 – Catch-22 is first published by Joseph Heller.

1962 – AT&T’s Telstar, the world’s first commercial communications satellite, is launched into orbit, and activated the next day.

1963 – ZIP Codes are introduced in the U.S.

1964 – Coke in a can is introduced

1965 – Bob Dylan releases his album Highway 61 Revisited

1966 – Luna 10 enters orbit around the Moon.

1967 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. The last time they won the championship

1968 – Johnny Cash records “Live at Folsom Prison”.

1969 – The Mets win the World Championship in their 8th season… beating the Cubs.

1970-1979 Winning Percentage = .487

1970 – Riverfront Stadium opens

1971 – Nine MLB pitchers throw more then 285 innings, 4 of them topping 310.

1972 – Volkswagen Beetle sales exceed those of the Ford Model-T when the 15,007,034th Beetle is produced.

1973 – O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills became the first running back to rush for 2,000 yards in a pro football season.

1974 – Stephen King publishes his first novel, Carrie, under his own name.

1975 – NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live

1976 – The Seattle Seahawks first football game is played.

1977 – The first Apple II computers go on sale.

1978 – Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 3,000th major league hit.

1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.

1980-1989 Winning Percentage = .472

1980 – Mobster Henry Hill busted on drug possession.

1981 – Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed

1982 – The car brand Toyota Camry introduced.

1983 – Hooters opens up in Clearwater, Florida.

1984 – Cubs win Division then lose in Playoffs

1985- Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match which he wins by a first round knockout.

1986 – Hands Across America: At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California

1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom

1988 – The Chicago Cubs play their first ever night game at home in Wrigley Field,

1989 – The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, strikes the San Francisco-Oakland region.

1990-1999 Winning Percentage = .476

1990 – Microsoft releases Windows 3.0.

1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV.

1992 – H. Ross Perot re-enters the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign.

1993 – Late Night with Conan O’Brien premieres on NBC.

1994 – South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections.

1995 – Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California.

1996 – The Nintendo 64 video game system is released in Japan.

1997 – The Detroit Red Wings win their first Stanley Cup championship in 42 years

1998 – Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants.

1999 – Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France.

[Old NDN]

For me, it's not so much the Cubs team I despise. In fact, back in "the old days", when cable TV first became available in my area, WGN used to carry the Cubs almost daily. For a baseball junkie, it was nice. The teams were awful. But it WAS baseball....kinda.

My distaste is for the arrogant, obnoxious, drunken Cubs fans that seem to migrate to Cincinnati for the Cubs-Reds series. It makes you just hope the Reds bury them every game! And it pees me off that sometimes they seem to outnumber Reds fans. That's not been as noticeable the last couple of years.

[George Anderson]

Cubs to add a mascot.

http://tracking.si.com/2013/03/10/cu...tion=si_latest

I am thinking a goat might work or a drunken, idiot frat boy screaming "we got more points than you do".

[_Sir_Charles_]

WoY, that list is fantastic. I'm still laughing at the fact that the Cubs haven't won a Series since the invention of SLICED BREAD. ROFLMAO!!! :O)

[joshua]

Originally Posted by _Sir_Charles_

WoY, that list is fantastic. I'm still laughing at the fact that the Cubs haven't won a Series since the invention of SLICED BREAD. ROFLMAO!!! :O)

I had to look it up. They seriously haven't won since 20 years before sliced bread was introduced.

[Roy Tucker]

I just hope that if the Cubs ever win the World Series (god forbid), a Jimmy Fallon/Drew Barrymore filming scene ruins the moment.

[Dom Heffner]

Originally Posted by joshua

1908 - The Cubs win their most recent World Series

4 years after that - Arizona becomes a state.

86 years after that - Arizona gets an MLB team.

3 years after that - The Diamondbacks win the World Series.

Thinking about this makes me laugh. Hard.

I watched an interleague game in Tampa against the Cubs and it made me realize the reason they put their games on TV was because even they can't stand to watch a game with their fans.

I saw a guy literally go nuts over a bloop single that dropped two feet past third. Like seriously losing his mind happy.

[traderumor]

Originally Posted by George Anderson

Cubs to add a mascot.

http://tracking.si.com/2013/03/10/cu...tion=si_latest

I am thinking a goat might work or a drunken, idiot frat boy screaming "we got more points than you do".

“Probably not,” he replied. “People aren’t going to go to Wrigley Field and want to see a mascot. There are other things people want to see.”

Obviously, good baseball by the home team isn't one of them since they keep showing up. From what I can tell, they want to see fat guys with their shirts off, A "C" painted on their chest, and a beer in a plastic cup that's spilling on the people in front of them.

[redsrule2500]

Is it just me or does this thread seem like a giant jynx waiting to happen?

[George Anderson]

Originally Posted by redsrule2500

Is it just me or does this thread seem like a giant jynx waiting to happen?

It's just you.

[MikeThierry]

Originally Posted by Dom Heffner

I watched an interleague game in Tampa against the Cubs and it made me realize the reason they put their games on TV was because even they can't stand to watch a game with their fans.

I saw a guy literally go nuts over a bloop single that dropped two feet past third. Like seriously losing his mind happy.

They are arguably the most insufferable fan base in baseball. It's at least a tie between them and Red Sox fans.