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Post by bryzzobrist on Mar 15, 2024 17:29:39 GMT -5
FYI, the molina ball is on display at Harry Carry's Restaurant in river north neighborhood along with... 1907 baseball attributed to the last out of the 1907 cubs world series championship. 1908 baseball attributed to the last out of the 1908 cubs world series championship. ditto w/ 1945. And some other cool stuff.
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Post by Reverency on Mar 15, 2024 18:21:49 GMT -5
My hunch is that the Ricketts bought the team, didn't really care that much but didn't want to amplify bad publicity, and when there was never a huge outcry from fans to bring him back, and because he seemed kinda weird by bleaching his skin and that was making headlines, the Ricketts just decided to avoid a return from Sammy. Nah , don't think the weird skin thing matters at all. I think Ricketts is actually on record about wanting an admission and apology for using steroids which I thought was kind of odd. I thought the issue was more about Sosa walking out on the team and skipping the last game to dodge the media and then trying to lie about it , but I'm pretty sure it's just 100% the steroid thing and him wanting Sammy to apolgize to the Cubs and their fans. I could be wrong, but that's what I seem to remember, maybe somebody else remembers that as well ?
Entitlement syndrome. I'm sure it's not an officially recognized disorder, but I sure see a lot of it these days.
Sammy's interest in making it up with the Cubs (and publicly talking about now) is probably trying to monetize his past glory in a new age. He has my blessing to try.
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Post by threeandone on Mar 17, 2024 15:31:01 GMT -5
I don't need to see Sammy again. Too many reminders of the steroid days. I wish it would just all stay away. In my mind, the whole McGwire/Sosa thing turned out to be a joke. It started baseball down the whole stupid Home run/strikeout craze taking so much of the strategy out of the game.
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Post by chubbycub on Mar 17, 2024 18:20:38 GMT -5
Kerry Wood should be in on this conversation....he can walk in carrying a boombox on his shoulder playing "It's Too Late" by Carole King.
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Post by bryzzobrist on Mar 17, 2024 23:34:16 GMT -5
Nah , don't think the weird skin thing matters at all. I think Ricketts is actually on record about wanting an admission and apology for using steroids which I thought was kind of odd. I thought the issue was more about Sosa walking out on the team and skipping the last game to dodge the media and then trying to lie about it , but I'm pretty sure it's just 100% the steroid thing and him wanting Sammy to apolgize to the Cubs and their fans. I could be wrong, but that's what I seem to remember, maybe somebody else remembers that as well ?
Entitlement syndrome. I'm sure it's not an officially recognized disorder, but I sure see a lot of it these days.
Sammy's interest in making it up with the Cubs (and publicly talking about now) is probably trying to monetize his past glory in a new age. He has my blessing to try.
I didn't recall any of that. Thx for posting it. "This is my house!" After walking in being the last dude to show up to ST. 🤮 The worst one is the annoying music in the clubhouse. No respect. Wait, so sammy was Invited to the opponents clubhouse? Thats just as weird as him being there. Weird. That's weird. kinda weird. Just occured to me- whatre the odds that teams spy on opposing teams clubhouses? Couldn't possibly be zero. Its happened. Probably a LOT.
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Post by batman66 on Mar 18, 2024 6:38:30 GMT -5
Entitlement syndrome. I'm sure it's not an officially recognized disorder, but I sure see a lot of it these days.
Sammy's interest in making it up with the Cubs (and publicly talking about now) is probably trying to monetize his past glory in a new age. He has my blessing to try.
I didn't recall any of that. Thx for posting it. "This is my house!" After walking in being the last dude to show up to ST. 🤮 The worst one is the annoying music in the clubhouse. No respect. Wait, so sammy was Invited to the opponents clubhouse? Thats just as weird as him being there. Weird. That's weird. kinda weird. Just occured to me- whatre the odds that teams spy on opposing teams clubhouses? Couldn't possibly be zero. Its happened. Probably a LOT. the this is my house was well known and him blaring his salsa music in total disregard to others. The opponents clubhouse , not really that strange , it mentioned Pedro Guerrero and Sosa planned to go out after a game and Guerrero just asked Sammy to meet him in their clubhouse which apparently didn't go over that well with some of Pedro's teammates. I had no heard about that one, but nothing people should really be blaming or flaming Sammy for.
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Post by cubbies85 on Mar 18, 2024 10:43:19 GMT -5
I want Sammy back. All other steroid users have since been welcomed back but for some reason the Ricketts are stuck on Sosa with needing some sort of official admittance and formal apology. He wasn’t a good teammate but neither was Zambrano who has been welcomed back. Ricketts weren’t even the owners then so I’m not sure why they are harping this so much.
He was Cubs baseball for a decade, a lot of current fans, including myself, grew up with him and for many is the reason they became fans in the first place. It’s been 20 years. You don’t need to kiss his ass but Knock the crap and invite him throw out the first pitch already.
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Post by batman66 on Mar 18, 2024 11:22:39 GMT -5
I want Sammy back. All other steroid users have since been welcomed back but for some reason the Ricketts are stuck on Sosa with needing some sort of official admittance and formal apology. He wasn’t a good teammate but neither was Zambrano who has been welcomed back. Ricketts weren’t even the owners then so I’m not sure why they are harping this so much. He was Cubs baseball for a decade, a lot of current fans, including myself, grew up with him and for many is the reason they became fans in the first place. It’s been 20 years. You don’t need to kiss his ass but Knock the crap and invite him throw out the first pitch already. I don't get it either. When I'd keep hearing/reading that Ricketts needs a formal apology from Sammy I had always thought tit was over him leaving during a game and lying saying he had permission and lying about the time frame it happened. That's something I could see warranting an apology for basically quitting on your team. Being a steroid user , I don't see why there needs to be an apology or even a formal admittance. I'm not saying there was nothing wrong with it, but it was a choice that I don't think any player needs to apologize for unless it results in a suspension during a season that can hurt their team and Sammy was never suspended for steroids and his usage never hurt the team.
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