The Cubs are about to clinch a spot in the post-season. They still have a shot at winning more games than the 1984 and 2008 teams that were the best teams of my lifetime. And they're doing it ahead of schedule.
Everyone should be in a pretty good mood, right?
Shockingly, Paul Sullivan has been stewing for 10 months and he's finally going to let us know what's been bothering him about Joe Maddon since his introductory press conference.
Paul never got his free shot and a beer that Joe offered when he spoke at that first media session. He claims none of the media did:
But we, the media, were too busy interviewing Maddon, Epstein, Hoyer and agent Alan Nero to partake. Maddon's kind gesture went nationwide, but the reality is he didn't buy us any drinks.
But didn't Theo tell Dan Patrick there was a "stampede" for the bar?
WHAT ABOUT THAT, PRETTY BOY?! WHY THE FALSE FLAG?!!
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Paul, in his own words, "confronted him" soon after:
Epstein: "You look miserable."
Tribune: "What about this story you told Dan Patrick that all the media was running to the bar to get the free drinks?"
Epstein: "Yeah, I used some creative license. I was mainly talking about you."
Tribune: "Did you see me take a drink? You didn't see any of us take a drink. Let's clarify that right now. It was taken as the truth."
Epstein: "Who cares?"
Tribune: "I just want you to fess up."
Epstein: "OK, Paul Sullivan is too stupid to take advantage of a free drink. There. It's on the record."
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
Theo gives zero fucks and it's magnificent.
Meanwhile, Paul channels his inner Yellon even more when he continues:
I've kept quiet for 10 months. But now the Cubs are about to throw the party of the century, and we're still waiting on our shot and a beer.
Seriously, if you didn't know it was from the Tribune and Paul's name wasn't explicitly mentioned in the article, doesn't this read like a classic Alvin post when he's bitching about sale price bleacher tickets or some shit?
I honestly don't know why he ran this. Did he think people would feel bad for him? Is it tongue-in-cheek? It doesn't read that way to me.
I have a theory though.
Comments
I was finally goaded into reading it and I feel bad now.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Like, I don’t get the point of this. Is he trying to be ironically funny? Is he whining because he never got a drink and therefore the Cubs are liars and/or cheap? Is he out of column ideas?
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Cubs win another series, but lose the last game, thus leaving me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
I was feeling kinda shitty about the Cubs not sweeping the Brewers. But Paul Sullivan being miserable (and OV taunting him about it) cheered me right up!
Thanks.
UrkQuote Reply
???? Sullivan is insane
Nate the old recalcitrant one from a long time agoQuote Reply
That’s the only plausible explanation.
dmick89Quote Reply
Good luck with your blog.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
Was this a joke article that he submitted as a prank, and forgot to replace it with a real article?
MillertimeQuote Reply
Millertime,
My understanding is that the media actually did not get their drinks per other sources but only one guy complained, so I don’t know how important this is in the grand scheme of things.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
Yeah, it just seems like such an unimportant and uninteresting story. I get that there’s probably some backlash to the hero worship Theo and Joe normally get, and maybe even some of that backlash is deserved. This just seems like a strange way to do it though.
MillertimeQuote Reply
He wanted to poke fun at Maddon and Theo but realized he’d look like a sorry-ass loser so he also poked fun at himself. It did not play out the way he must have imagined it in his mind.
Suburbank IdQuote Reply
Mercurial Outfielder,
I’ve spent the last 10 minutes on Google trying to find the BUNT bat signal for you.
JonKneeVQuote Reply
Suburbank Id,
Yeah. People are insisting it’s tongue-in-cheek, but it doesn’t read that way at all. It’s bizarre.
And if it’s so light-hearted, why wait 10 months? Isn’t the window on light-hearted closed at that point? Maybe a month afterwards, he could drop in a “I’m still waiting for that shot and a beer we were promised” or something. 10 months later the timing is off and it just seems petty.
I don’t know. Whatever.
aisle424Quote Reply
My favorite moment from ACB for sure. Glad to see you around here too, MO. Been a long time.
Suburbank Id, I think that’s what he was trying to do and yeah, it didn’t work out as well as he thought. Still trying to figure out how he could have thought it would work out well.
It was just yesterday when I was thinking to myself that I missed Paul Sullivan’s idiotic columns.
dmick89Quote Reply
He hasn’t been nearly as obnoxious since he was on the beat. This was good old-fashioned Angry Hobbit Paul Sullivan. Good times.
aisle424Quote Reply
Who has more median wins
GBtSQuote Reply
GBtS,
What I can say is that Arrieta is the clubhouse leader in TWTW and it isn’t close.
mylesQuote Reply
myles,
Arrieta is so good his wins in a median start are > 1
GBtSQuote Reply
None of them have been. The fan base and the media have been schooled over the last few years. It’s nice to see, but it gives me less to write about.
dmick89Quote Reply
I don’t know about this. Arrieta by most measures has been the better pitcher, but not by enough to conclusively say that he has had the better season. I’m OK with any of them winning the Cy Young award.
I might care more about Arrieta winning the Cy Young, but the Cubs are contending so that’s really all that I care about. If Arrieta beats Pittsburgh on October 7th, I’m going to be a very happy person. If he doesn’t, I’m still going to appreciate how good this season was, but it’s going to suck that Cubs baseball is over for awhile.
dmick89Quote Reply
Greinke’s DRA is 2.05, Arrieta’s is 2.19 and Kershaw’s is 2.17. Greinke’s DRA WARP is 7.36 and the other two are tied at 7.31. Each of them are deserving of winning the award this year.
dmick89Quote Reply
These guys are so close I’d be OK with one of the voters using best beard as the tie-breaker. Arrieta wins.
dmick89Quote Reply
Figure out a way to add the ability to edit comments for registered users and users who aren’t logged in without sacrificing security or the load times of the site. I just need to make a few edits and then I’ll add it to the site here. Give me a couple days though.
dmick89Quote Reply
No, you order it with a pizza emoji. Fucking emojis will bring something else to your door.
berseliusQuote Reply
dmick89,
Don’t tell me what to do.
JonKneeVQuote Reply
Just testing
aisle424Quote Reply
Hey, embedding tweets works! Cool.
aisle424Quote Reply
JonKneeV,
It’s gone forever, I fear.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
dmick89,
Berselius alerted me to the return to non-liveshyte commenting. THE BITCH IS BACK.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
http://youtu.be/lc4TnopiuzQ
GBtSQuote Reply
berselius,
GBtSQuote Reply
RIP upvote buttons…………………
JimLQuote Reply
Rec’d 111!11111!!111 LSA 11!1111 NAMBLA
aisle424Quote Reply
As soon as I get this edit comment stuff figured out, I might look more into that. I miss it too.
dmick89Quote Reply
I think so. I’ve looked through all the files and I can’t find it anywhere.
dmick89Quote Reply
I think that will work for admins, but it’s not going to work for others for what it’s worth. We could probably enable it, but it could open the door to some fairly easy attacks and I think that’s the last thing we want.
dmick89Quote Reply
We definitely don’t want to be vulnerable to attack for the next Great Cubs Blog War.
aisle424Quote Reply
Memory jogged briefly of GROTA, Cubs Blog Coast Guard, etc.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Thought I’d take a second look through the files to find the bunt signal. Came across this one.
(dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
One time when we got hacked
dmick89Quote Reply
Nothing will beat the Aisle424/Wrigleyville23/ACB v. HireJimEssian/IvyChat/Desipio v. LeagueofHerOwn battle of 2010, IMO.
aisle424Quote Reply
This is a pretty good representation of it.
aisle424Quote Reply
Is HJE still defending Paul Sullivan? Their love affair with one another was/is strange.
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
I don’t know. Kermit doesn’t really write much anymore. Andy acknowledged seeing it on Twitter, but all he said was that he loved Theo owning Sullivan.
aisle424Quote Reply
I believe the term is “starfucker.”
mylesQuote Reply
FTFY
JonKneeVQuote Reply
i don’t know, the brief rant sports commenting was pretty amazing. as my mom always says, “it’s not a true war unless you use the word ‘jabroni'”.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
Rant Sports… hadn’t heard that name in awhile (dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
How do you post images again?
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Suburban kid,
http://www.howdoyoupostimagesagain.com
JonKneeVQuote Reply
[img src=”http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d3li4GzVvEk/TbckXAcf8qI/AAAAAAAABM4/bJkk7GpRYto/s600/yellon%2520complaint.jpg”]
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JonKneeV,
dmick89Quote Reply
Suburban kid,
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
aisle424Quote Reply
Betcha Paul is getting more clicks out of this train wreck than he has seen in years. First time I have read a article from him in a long time
djlalowQuote Reply
Holy Shit. Urk, MO, Cerulean, Perkins, Nate. I feel like I’ve wasted years sitting around at bloguin and decomposing with SK.
GWQuote Reply
Party like it’s 2008! Except without the early exit from the playoffs.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Wait, weren’t those your works (circa 2012)???
(I was looking for the bunt signal and came across so many good pics)
Suburban kidQuote Reply
GW,
Hey!
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Suburban kid,
Yeah, they were. But it’s hilarious to see them resurface after all this time.
aisle424Quote Reply
Between Greinke’s missing a start, and Kershaw’s mediocre performance today, Arrieta looks like the current CYA front-runner.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Searched the comments for bunt signal. The old image by Ryno and RC was on ImageShack and has expired. Here’s the image that someone later suggested putting the bunt signal on.
Berselius, that image url is from your user page at UT. http://www.math.utexas.edu/users/haack/pics/Bundt_Signal.jpg
dmick89Quote Reply
My bunt signal one was really crude compared to Ryno’s.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Found it
dmick89Quote Reply
I think I found the one you did on my old MacBook, along with the one above.
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
It’s out of date. Where are the video boards?
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
The image was made back in 2011 or 2012.
dmick89Quote Reply
The Giants aren’t helping. Guess the Cubs will just have to clinch on Saturday.
Also, Nats were eliminated. I’m sorry if that was said, but I don’t read every post.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
If the Giants win tonight, the Cubs can still clinch tomorrow. Giants face Sonny Gray tomorrow.
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
This is true, but I’m not counting on it.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
GBtSQuote Reply
OR THEY COULD CLINCH TOMORROW BECAUSE THE PADRES STOPPED SUCKING AND OH MY GOD ALL CAPS EXCITING
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Saw all the old pictures and was feeling left out
GBtSQuote Reply
This year it should be much easier to achieve an early exit. No over-underachievement necessary!
ceruleanQuote Reply
At least Maddon seems to have the team loose enough to avoid a repeat of the Entire Infield Commits Errors Behind Z Game.
berseliusQuote Reply
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aisle424Quote Reply
I thought I might have more stuff stashed there, but looks like no dice.
berseliusQuote Reply
HTML work?
Rice CubeQuote Reply
That one is just as funny as ever.
dmick89Quote Reply
aisle424,
(dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Objectively hot.
aisle424Quote Reply
berseliusQuote Reply
berseliusQuote Reply
The Campana one by GBTS still makes me laugh every freaking time.
berseliusQuote Reply
You’ll have to explain the jokes to me because I’m a bit slow tonight.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
aisle424Quote Reply
My folks were at that game. What a nightmare.
Though I wouldn’t put it past these Cubs to strike out 15+ times against Cole.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Stats don’t play the game my frent.
berseliusQuote Reply
Perkins,
They’ll strike out 15+ times during batting practice.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
GBtSQuote Reply
Anyone remember these commercials during the Blackhawks first Stanley Cup run?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yET8mA6JxQs
GBtSQuote Reply
aisle424,
GBtSQuote Reply
We need to harass Alvin more, is what I’m gathering from this.
mylesQuote Reply
Jorge Soler’s BABIP chart in Sept. is neat.
SamQuote Reply
Sam,
And it didn’t post my link, will try againhere’s the link I think
SamQuote Reply
I think I found the it’s a way of life gallery that we set up. I’ll look again this weekend and post others. Many were done by you I think.
dmick89Quote Reply
Pretty badass thread, jabronis.
Not only did I get to laugh my ass off all over again, I even got a whiff of nostalgia for those OV days of yore. Well done.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
(dying laughing) on the brink of clinching postseason and still can’t make a new thread. discreditation foreva!!!
Suburban kidQuote Reply
dmick89Quote Reply
It’s more exciting doing this:
dmick89Quote Reply
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GBtSQuote Reply
La Stella in the line up today against Cole. Looking like that’s what we’ll see in the WC game.
JonKneeVQuote Reply
JonKneeV,
Cubs got to Cole early in their last matchup (although Pirates pulled it out). Love seeing the super patient 1-5, buncha LH plus KB.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
new shit for SK: http://obstructedview.net/news-and-rumors/cubs-clinch-a-spot-in-the-postseason-with-next-win-or-giants-loss/
dmick89Quote Reply