Chicago Cubs to make History!!!

[ticklingfeet4fu]

Far be it for me to NOT pick on the lovable losers from Chicago. But in this case I am not going to pick on them. Yes, this is their 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY since winning a World Series. But that is not what this is about.

This season ( probably April ) the Cubs will join the San Francisco Giants to be the ONLY teams to have won 10,000 games. This is quite an accomplishment. Right now the Chicago Cubs have 9,985 wins. And while they have been tagged the lovable losers they have lost 9,459 games in their entire history. That gives the Cubbies a .514 winning percentage which is sixth on the all-time baseball list.

So forge forward and join the Giants as the two winningest franchises in the history of the sport. Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs!!!

As a side note: The Dodgers ( 9876 wins ) and Cardinals ( 9843 wins ) will hit 10,000 in 2009. The Braves ( 9696 wins ) will get to 10,000 in 2011. The Reds ( 9672 wins ) will get there in 2011 if they average 82 wins a season for the next 4 years, otherwise it will be 2012. Pittsburgh has 9624 wins and will reach 10,000 wins in 2012.

Once again, Congratulation to the Cubs on their pend 10,000th win.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Loveable?

 

[milagros317]

Heh, 10,000 wins and a century without winning the World Series, all in the same year. Very amusing. 😀

 

[Goodieluver]

You play long enough, you will have the most of something

Hell, Cy Young is the best pitcher who ever lived, he has the most wins AND the most losses in baseball

But chalk up the 10,000 wins to the "who cares" file because surely most of their fans wont\dont. They're too busy being yuppies and drinkin old style and would be few and far between to know what the score of the game even is.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

The front office history of the Chicago Cubs is an interesting read. The almost fifty years under Phillip K. Wrigley resembled a sorry sitcom, filled with all kinds of Ted Baxteresque characters, and no one was a more ridiculous character than Mr. Wrigley himself. It was an era of gross incompetence and hare-brained, idiotic ideas and misspent money, and the narrative would have you laughing out loud, or shaking your head and whistling through your lips.

Cubs fans, from the team's broadcasts on WGN, surely must be an infantile lot. I distinctly remember Steve Stone apologizing on the air one day for applauding the extraordinary defensive play of an opposing shortstop. A great play is a great play, whoever makes it, but not to a kindergartener. Is that what Wrigley Field is filled with?

100 years. Well, some wag said that "anyone could have a bad century." Funny how the Yankees, and the Dodgers, for instance, or even the PALE HOSE aren't just anyone, are they?

 

[natural tickler]

Well, this will finally be the year we end all of this drought talk. Finally something for the North Siders to cheer about. Finally.

 

[milagros317]

Well, this will finally be the year we end all of this drought talk. Finally something for the North Siders to cheer about. Finally.

It is truly amazing how you Cubs fans can be optimistic year after year. 😱

 

[Goodieluver]

It is truly amazing how you Cubs fans can be optimistic year after year. 😱

They think all the BS the Cubune feeds them is fact

 

[ticklingfeet4fu]

You play long enough, you will have the most of something

Hell, Cy Young is the best pitcher who ever lived, he has the most wins AND the most losses in baseball

But chalk up the 10,000 wins to the "who cares" file because surely most of their fans wont\dont. They're too busy being yuppies and drinkin old style and would be few and far between to know what the score of the game even is.

The fact is, the Cubs have more wins than the Reds, the Phillies, the White Sox, the Yankees, the Dodgers and all the other teams that have been around forever as well. The only team to reach 10,000 wins is the Giants.

Yet they do not have the most losses in the history of the game. That distiction belongs to Philadelphia. Also with all the Cubs failures as well documented as they are, the fact that they have the 6th best winning percentage in the history of the game is pretty good.

Now I am not a Cubs fan as everybody knows but I thought it was an interesting historical tidbit. Sorry I pissed you off Goodieluver. I'll try not to piss in your Cheerios next time. Or maybe you can tell me what I can post next time.

 

[Goodieluver]

The fact is, the Cubs have more wins than the Reds, the Phillies, the White Sox, the Yankees, the Dodgers and all the other teams that have been around forever as well. The only team to reach 10,000 wins is the Giants.

Yet they do not have the most losses in the history of the game. That distiction belongs to Philadelphia. Also with all the Cubs failures as well documented as they are, the fact that they have the 6th best winning percentage in the history of the game is pretty good.

Now I am not a Cubs fan as everybody knows but I thought it was an interesting historical tidbit. Sorry I pissed you off Goodieluver. I'll try not to piss in your Cheerios next time. Or maybe you can tell me what I can post next time.

There are only 2 teams that have been "around" since 1876, the cubs and the braves
82,83 and 1884 are the years more of the long term teams came around like the giants and whatnot

and what the hell are you talkin about, who says i was pissed or objecting. Im just laughing at how people idolize and try to find the good in the piece of shit sandbox known as the cubs who play at the urinal

My losses comment simply said if you play long enough mediocre or anything, you will break records

 

[ticklingfeet4fu]

There are only 2 teams that have been "around" since 1876, the cubs and the braves
82,83 and 1884 are the years more of the long term teams came around like the giants and whatnot

and what the hell are you talkin about, who says i was pissed or objecting. Im just laughing at how people idolize and try to find the good in the piece of shit sandbox known as the cubs who play at the urinal

My losses comment simply said if you play long enough mediocre or anything, you will break records

Then please explain how they are the 6th best team percentage wise of any team in baseball history. That takes into account any team that exists or doesn't exist anymore and it doesn't matter what year they came into existance either. Once again, I am not a Cubs fan. But I must ask, why do you have so much distain for the Cubs organization??? And correct me if I am wrong, are you a White Sox fan???

 

[Knox The Hatter]

The shame of it all is that if you look at the Cubs' performance prior to WW2, it was pretty good.

They were a perennial contender in the late 20s to the end of the 30s. During that time, one of those years, they went on a very, very long winning streak to steal a pennant from out under the noses of a couple of other perennial contenders, the Giants and Cards. Another pennant turned on a Gabby Hartnett homer off Pittsburgh's Mace Brown long after the umpires should've called the game due to darkness.

The Cubs of that era had a rep for being, by far, the trash-talkingest team in baseball. From their dugout, they had an army of catcallers and acid tongues, great for disrupting the opposing batter, or pitcher, or even the umpire. Babe Ruth's disputed 'called' home run in the 1932 World Series (I know, I know...'Cubs' and 'World Series' in the same sentence...strange, eh?) happened because the Cubbie bench rode him mercilessly.

The Cubbies won that last pennant in 1945, at the end of the war, with a wartime squad of people who were either too old, or way too young, or would never have been allowed on the field in AA ball. The series went seven with an equally paltry Detroit club. It's very, very sad that Wrigley hasn't seen a Series since. And, it had nothing to do with some stupid goat that some imbecile wanted to bring into the game either. It had to do with very poor, incompetent management.

I truly believe Cubs fans do deserve better than this shit. Because that's what it's been, and that's what it is. Shit.

 

[lovedemfeet]

Hey---ANY team can have a bad CENTURY!

 

[baldadonis]

Hey I'm full of love for the Cubs these days because Alfonso Soriano was on my fantasy team last week when he hit 7 home runs and hit .531. GO CUBBIES.

 

[phutball]

1st place and 2 games up as of this post. Magic # 116.

 

[Sleepy Jean]

You play long enough, you will have the most of something

Hell, Cy Young is the best pitcher who ever lived, he has the most wins AND the most losses in baseball

But chalk up the 10,000 wins to the "who cares" file because surely most of their fans wont\dont. They're too busy being yuppies and drinkin old style and would be few and far between to know what the score of the game even is.

Jealousy is one of the seven deadly sins, my friend.

Your team won the WS in 2005. Isn't that enough for you? You don't think every Cubs fan in the world wouldn't want to change places with you?

 

[Sleepy Jean]

The front office history of the Chicago Cubs is an interesting read. The almost fifty years under Phillip K. Wrigley resembled a sorry sitcom, filled with all kinds of Ted Baxteresque characters, and no one was a more ridiculous character than Mr. Wrigley himself. It was an era of gross incompetence and hare-brained, idiotic ideas and misspent money, and the narrative would have you laughing out loud, or shaking your head and whistling through your lips.

Cubs fans, from the team's broadcasts on WGN, surely must be an infantile lot. I distinctly remember Steve Stone apologizing on the air one day for applauding the extraordinary defensive play of an opposing shortstop. A great play is a great play, whoever makes it, but not to a kindergartener. Is that what Wrigley Field is filled with?

100 years. Well, some wag said that "anyone could have a bad century." Funny how the Yankees, and the Dodgers, for instance, or even the PALE HOSE aren't just anyone, are they?

I'm sure a surgeon could successfully remove that bug from your anus, Knox.

 

[Sleepy Jean]

It is truly amazing how you Cubs fans can be optimistic year after year. 😱

You say that like it's a BAD thing.

 

[Sleepy Jean]

There are only 2 teams that have been "around" since 1876, the cubs and the braves
82,83 and 1884 are the years more of the long term teams came around like the giants and whatnot

and what the hell are you talkin about, who says i was pissed or objecting. Im just laughing at how people idolize and try to find the good in the piece of shit sandbox known as the cubs who play at the urinal

My losses comment simply said if you play long enough mediocre or anything, you will break records

Sorry your beloved White Sox don't get the love you feel they deserve. I would rather see my team win a World Series than be "baseball's darlings."

And I don't read the Tribune.

 

[lovedemfeet]

Sorry your beloved White Sox don't get the love you feel they deserve. I would rather see my team win a World Series than be "baseball's darlings."

And I don't read the Tribune.

My brother once postulated that they could turn EVERY seat in Wrigley around 180 degrees, and they'd still fill the place.