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Showing posts with label Cubs fans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cubs fans. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
19 Famous Cubs Fans Flying the "W" For the World Series-- Part 2
11. Jim Belushi
12. Nick Offerman ("Parks and Recreation" TV show)
13. Joe Mantegna (actor "Criminal Minds")
14. Gary Sinise
15. Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave)
16. Hillary Clinton
17. Jeff Garlin (actor)
18. Bonnie Hunt (actress)
19. Scottie Pippen
What, No Michael Jordan" --RoadDog
THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT OKRA: Remember, boiled okra is so slippery, you may think you're swallowing little green oysters.
Monday, November 28, 2016
19 Famous Cub Fans Flying the "W" This World Series-- Part 1
From Celeb Chatter.
1. John Cusack
2. Bill Murray
3. Eddie Veder (Pearl Jam)
4. Vince Vaughn
5. Jake Johnson (not sure who he is)
6. Jack White (White Stripes)
7. Brett Eldridge (country singer)
8. Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)
9. Bob Newhart
10. Pete Wentz (guitarist Fall Out Boy)
Bill Murray, One Really Funny Guy. --RoadDog
THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT OKRA: Okra can be boiled, fried, steamed or pickled. But no matter how you do it, its still tastes exactly like okra.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
"Go Cubs Go," a 1984 Song, Hits the Billboard Charts-- Part 1: (For Some Reason)
From the November 10, 2016, Chicago Tribune.
Not only are the Chicago Cubs making history, but music about them is as well.
Steve Goodman's 1884 song "Go Cubs Go," which is played and sung loudly after every Cubs win at Wrigley Field, debuts on the Billboard Pop Digital Song Sales chart at #21 and on the Billboard Digital Song Sales Chart at 49 for the week ending November 19.
The song drew 15,000 downloads and 2.5 million U.S. streams (mostly from You Tube clicks in the week that ended Nov. 3), according to Billboard. The Cubs won the World Series against the Cleveland Indians on Nov. 2.
Well, How About That!! --Go CubDog
SIGNS AND NOTICES: Fitness Center sign: "Self esteem is feeling good about yourself - regardless of the facts."
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Alfons and "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" by Steve Goodman
If there were ever a bigger Cub fan than Alfons, I'd sure like to know who that might be.
So, it was kind of strange Monday morning, while I was listening to Len Braemer on Chicago's WXRT and he played Steve Goodman's "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request." That is a very fitting song to remember Alfons by, who took a lot of grief from all the Sox fans at Donovan's Reef in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. But his devotion never wavered.
Just about every day you could find Al at the bar, sucking down beers and playing that NTN game. And, if there was a Cub game on, woe be the person who tried to change it as it would be the Wrath of Al.
And, there he would be with that blue Cubs jacket. Well, seasonally. If not the Cubs jacket, it would a Bears jacket, his other team.
The words to the song hit home. WXRT is celebrating its 40th year of broadcasting Chicago's Finest Rock and going back to one year each weekday and spotlighting it. Monday was 1981. Braemer dedicated the song to Steve's mother, Annette Goodman, who still lives on Chicago's Northwest Side. The song payed at 9:33 AM. It sent shivers down my spine, having learned that Al had just died the day before.
Some of the words that hit home:
"Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy covered burial ground"
Give me a double header funeral in Wrigley Field
Make six bullpen pitchers carry my coffin
and six groundskeepers clear my path.
Have the umpires bark me out at every base
in all their holy wrath.
It's a beautiful day for a funeral
Hey Ernie let's play two
Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats
and toss my coffin in
Let my ashes blow in the beautiful snow
From the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind.
That Pretty Well Covers It for Ya, Alfons.
So, it was kind of strange Monday morning, while I was listening to Len Braemer on Chicago's WXRT and he played Steve Goodman's "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request." That is a very fitting song to remember Alfons by, who took a lot of grief from all the Sox fans at Donovan's Reef in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. But his devotion never wavered.
Just about every day you could find Al at the bar, sucking down beers and playing that NTN game. And, if there was a Cub game on, woe be the person who tried to change it as it would be the Wrath of Al.
And, there he would be with that blue Cubs jacket. Well, seasonally. If not the Cubs jacket, it would a Bears jacket, his other team.
The words to the song hit home. WXRT is celebrating its 40th year of broadcasting Chicago's Finest Rock and going back to one year each weekday and spotlighting it. Monday was 1981. Braemer dedicated the song to Steve's mother, Annette Goodman, who still lives on Chicago's Northwest Side. The song payed at 9:33 AM. It sent shivers down my spine, having learned that Al had just died the day before.
Some of the words that hit home:
"Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy covered burial ground"
Give me a double header funeral in Wrigley Field
Make six bullpen pitchers carry my coffin
and six groundskeepers clear my path.
Have the umpires bark me out at every base
in all their holy wrath.
It's a beautiful day for a funeral
Hey Ernie let's play two
Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats
and toss my coffin in
Let my ashes blow in the beautiful snow
From the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind.
That Pretty Well Covers It for Ya, Alfons.
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