Top Ten Signs the Cubs Might Contend This Year
The Cubs aren’t that good. They were bad last year, and they haven’t taken any dramatic steps forward this offseason. They haven’t even taken very many marginally impressive steps forward. Baby steps maybe? LMFAO shuffling steps, perhaps, but this train ain’t pulling out of Losing-Season Station anytime soon. Case in point: there is no news to report today. Nothing of note. The Friday Facepalm is going to be pretty short, unlike the odds of the Cubs contending.
The few good things that have happened have involved the Cubs’ competition. Albert Pujols is gone. Prince Fielder is gone. Ryan Braun may miss 50 games. The Astros have an identity crisis, and the Pirates are the Pirates. And, oh yeah, the Reds. Well, here are a few other developments that, if they should happen, would point to the Cubs having a chance at contending thanks to addition by infarction:
10. Asteroid hits Cincy.
9. Ryan Braun syphilis rumors turn out to be true and rambunctious shower incident on 3-for-1 cocktail night wreaks havoc on the Brewers’ collective ability to walk.
8. Everyone who believes in Cubbies claps their hands and makes a wish and clicks their heels together three times and maybe stabs random members of NL Central opponents.
7. Your mom.
6. Ronnie Woo Woo changes name to Ronnie Voo Doo.
5. Pack of rabid dogs occupy visitor clubhouse at Wrigley.
4. Mayan calendar magically turns into a W flag.
3. You just woke up from a coma to find this year is actually 2018.
2. Dude, I’m having a hell of a time thinking of ten things, even impossible things, that could allow the Cubs to contend.
1. Every single game: Metamucil in the other guys’ Gatorade.
WTF
Wrigley Talk Friday with Aisley, ACey, and Julie allegedly airs today at 1:00 CT. No idea what we could talk about. None.
Is there a Cubs game today?
No.
(dying laughing)
mb21Quote Reply
False.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
Nice snark.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
At least it wasn’t PEDs
WenningtonsGorillaCockQuote Reply
Cache is enabled now so if there are any users who aren’t registered who want to follow the comments you should go ahead and register.
mb21Quote Reply
Registering…
SSQuote Reply
The season hasn’t even started yet and you’re predicting how the Cubs can win the division? Thanks, but I’ll wait awhile.
/First post’d
MuckerQuote Reply
new website would’ve looked better if you used geocities.
http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=3&music=9&url=http://obstructedview.net/
see?
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
Aww…Theo looks sad in the new banner. World Series trophy so far away….
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
EnricoPallazzo wrote:
That was an assault to my sense (dying laughing)
Rice CubeQuote Reply
TheRiot —_-_——–>< Giants
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/01/giants-to-sign-ryan-theriot.html
Apologies for the lack of a straight line, the information got caught in a rundown.
/TOOTBLAN'd
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Test
<img src="http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/3659/bigalvin.jpg".
GBTSQuote Reply
(dying laughing) EP that’s awesome. Don’t know why we didn’t think about that layout.
mb21Quote Reply
Fail.
GBTSQuote Reply
replace the . with > and you have it, GBTS.
mb21Quote Reply
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp
mb21Quote Reply
BEWB CUPCAKES
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
Wait, we can’t edit our comments anymore? I live in a world of shit now.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
GBTSQuote Reply
mb21 wrote:
(dying laughing) Fucking shift key.
GBTSQuote Reply
Mercurial Outfielder wrote:
Yeah, you can’t change your 3:30 A.M. sexual propositions into rants about Paul Sullivan at 6 A.M. anymore.
GBTSQuote Reply
I’ll look into an edit comments plugin later today.
mb21Quote Reply
@ EnricoPallazzo:
(dying laughing)
AndCountingQuote Reply
EnricoPallazzo wrote:
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
BerseliusQuote Reply
GBTS wrote:
Don’t be jealous just because they weren’t intended for you.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
This guy has figured out “embedding”
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more, say no more.
joshQuote Reply
Mercurial Outfielder wrote:
Hey, I answered them, you said I wasn’t mannish enough.
GBTSQuote Reply
joshQuote Reply
Or not
joshQuote Reply
@ josh:
Josh don’t you mean:
Twink, Twink, fudge, fudge, gay no more, gay no more?
/Wasn’t around to participate in gay bashing Josh last time’d
MuckerQuote Reply
To embed youtube, just post the url. To embed an image, click on that url I posted earlier. http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp
mb21Quote Reply
That’s what I did.
joshQuote Reply
test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoy4_h7Pb3M
BerseliusQuote Reply
BerseliusQuote Reply
I don’t know. My img src tag evaporates when I post.
joshQuote Reply
You can now edit comments.
mb21Quote Reply
We’re obviously long overdue for a post about posting.
AndCountingQuote Reply
Josh, it’s like this: [img src=”http:www.domain.com/image”]
Replace the brackets with
mb21Quote Reply
There:
[img src=”http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6206/6121502494_2592abbb6b_m.jpg” width=”240″ height=”160″ alt=”Bug Love”]
replace [ with <,
evaporates:
joshQuote Reply
It’s possible it’s not letting you guys post images. I’ll look into that too.
mb21Quote Reply
test
testyMcTestTestQuote Reply
What doe’s the “#” next to the date stamp do?
MuckerQuote Reply
Yeah, it’s definitely a user permission thing.
-b
testyMcTestTestQuote Reply
Mucker wrote:
It allows you to link directly to a comment
testyMcTestTestQuote Reply
testyMcTestTest wrote:
When I click “quote” it sometimes does this ^^
joshQuote Reply
@ testyMcTestTest:
Oh ok thanks Teste
MuckerQuote Reply
BerseliusQuote Reply
testyMcTestTest wrote:
Fail
Suburban kidQuote Reply
When’s Garza’s arb date?
MuckerQuote Reply
Berselius wrote:
Show-off.
joshQuote Reply
MishQuote Reply
josh wrote:
Ditto.
WaLiQuote Reply
Can anyone see my pic?
MishQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
No.
I guess the Cubs re-signed Bobby Scales to a minor league deal.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/01/minor-moves-french-tuiasosopo-redding.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook
joshQuote Reply
WaLi wrote:
Tritto.
joshQuote Reply
Yes I have the same issue as Josh (the one where my images don’t show an the HTML disappears, not the one where he finds attractive women unattractive).
MishQuote Reply
BOBBY SCALES! Now we just need to trade for Micah Hoffpauir, find Julio Zuleta, and bring Tuffy Rhodes out of retirement.
adnielsenQuote Reply
@ Mish:
Too easy.
GBTSQuote Reply
adnielsen wrote:
With Doug Dascenzo to pitch.
joshQuote Reply
Berselius wrote:
I would like to like this.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ josh:
He tripled my first game at Wrigley, so I’d be down for that more, as long as it doesn’t send us over our $105 million payroll.
adnielsenQuote Reply
Oooh, a half hour window to edit my post. I guess I should make sure to change that post about how you guys are a bunch of mindless statfags before my time runs out.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Wrigley Talk Friday is so WTF right now.
AndCountingQuote Reply
This is my first time listening to WTF. Who are Tim McGinnis, Adam Kellogg, and Julie DiCaro? Are they on OV? If so, what’s their screen names?
adnielsenQuote Reply
Tim is Aisle424, and Adam is AndCounting, unless it’s the other way around. Julie has her own blog.
joshQuote Reply
josh wrote:
It sometimes does what?
mb21Quote Reply
josh wrote:
GBTSQuote Reply
@ adnielsen:
Would you ask Tom Petty that question?
GWQuote Reply
Julie sometimes posts here as cubbiejulie, though it’s been awhile. She ran “A League of Her Own” and is part of the writer crew at Aerys Sports.
MishQuote Reply
josh wrote:
Gracias.
adnielsenQuote Reply
Epstein dead.
GWQuote Reply
mb21 wrote:
Just quotes partial text from the original quote. Actually, it happened when I quoted this, and it pulled text from Mish’s post. If I click “quote” a second time, then it’s fine.
joshQuote Reply
@ GW:
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
GBTSQuote Reply
GW wrote:
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! WHY GOD? WHY?!!!
Ohhhhhhh…. JUAN Epstein.
Nevermind.
Aisle424Quote Reply
Another math joke:
http://roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/funny-celebrity-pictures-bad-romance.jpg
Can’t has embed pic.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Asshole updated…
http://dontevenreply.com/view.php?post=109
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Demi Moore’s 911 call set to the Moneyball SoundtracK? mmmmmk
http://www.buzzfeed.com/provincialelitist/demi-moores-911-call-set-to-the-moneyball-s
MishQuote Reply
How am I supposed to know what posts are funny without a green highlighted post? I’m too lazy to read all of these. This shit be TGIF’s all up in here.
jtsunamiQuote Reply
Rice Cube wrote:
We don’t care what you do in the privacy of your own home, RC.
Aisle424Quote Reply
If embed doesn’t work: http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/tech-fun/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/pcandmac.jpg
WaLiQuote Reply
Aisle424 wrote:
Hilarious. Good luck with your blog.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Perhaps another stocking stuff to go with Bobby Scales?
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/01/rays-designate-russ-canzler-for-assignment.html
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Can one of you try posting an image now. If it doesn’t work I’m not sure what else there is to do.
mb21Quote Reply
WaLi wrote:
One astronomer used PS3’s connected together to create a supercomputer. I’m not sure where he ranks on this graphic.
joshQuote Reply
mb21Quote Reply
Image embed attempt:
joshQuote Reply
I posted a full Flickr copy, which includes an anchor tag to the original file, and it killed only the image tag, so that there’s an href tag around nothing.
joshQuote Reply
There’s no way to allow it in WP then.
mb21Quote Reply
Did you try this, maybe?
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-comment-images/
joshQuote Reply
It killed the img src tag? Weird. Oh well.
mb21Quote Reply
If stupid images aren’t post-able, I might as well log out. I got nothing else.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
josh wrote:
That says it’s only compatible up to WordPress 2.9.2. This is 3.3.1. I’ll try it though.
mb21Quote Reply
Below the comment box is a link (You can add images….). Try it out
mb21Quote Reply
mb21 wrote:
Yeah, I just noticed that too.
joshQuote Reply
Here’s an image I recently tested…[img]http://www.baseball-reference.com/bpv/images/f/f9/1908Cubs.jpg[/img]
Rice CubeQuote Reply
[img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q6TZq05jaX8/TTTqiJ54xfI/AAAAAAAABAc/mxvm0cnQqjo/s400/Spin+cycle.png[/img]
Aisle424Quote Reply
[img]http://vista-wallpaper.org/wp-content/gallery/funny-pictures/2_funny.jpg[/img]
I saw you in the street the other day josh. Converses are cool. Also, nice sack. It’s yellow and it looks like it can hold a lot of stuff.
WaLiQuote Reply
Embed still hates me.
joshQuote Reply
I did notice that every now and then, even if I don’t hit refresh, new posts pop up. I guess this means your site has an auto-refresh to some capacity.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Derp, I get it now.
[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6206/6121502494_2592abbb6b_m.jpg[/img]
joshQuote Reply
Hm.
[img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6189/6120955411_85c6d8b2c2_z.jpg[/img]
So now the old square bracket img code works. You don’t have to actually click on the link.
joshQuote Reply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7m-4Vc3MU#t=00m20s
Aisle424Quote Reply
WaLi wrote:
If this is your way of asking if you can touch my balls, the answer is “Yes, for $4.”
joshQuote Reply
Russ Canzler was DFA’d by the Rays. I know with Rizzo and LaHair we have some 1B options but he’s raked the last two seasons in the minors. Worth a flier? He was in the Cubs system previously…
MishQuote Reply
Is everyone just posting random images? Is this turning into Flickr?
jtsunamiQuote Reply
#ThisIsAboutMotherFuckingWordpress
jtsunamiQuote Reply
jtsunami wrote:
I was just trying to see if I could get it work.
joshQuote Reply
We’ve re-branded as a photography blog.
Aisle424Quote Reply
Aisle424 wrote:
MishQuote Reply
Nice. But the lack of like/dislike buttons has reduced my meager participation by about 50%. I know, I know, haters gon’ hate.
UrkQuote Reply
Oh, but I get my regular wordpress avatar picture, my grandpa looking sharp on the Bentonville square. Ok then.
UrkQuote Reply
Testing:[img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s320x320/400421_10101236562231190_1906997_68655330_1661164703_n.jpg[/img]
WenningtonsGorillaCockQuote Reply
Whoa. Freaky full-screen comment box option is freaky.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
[img]http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2012/01/Riann-2_2/1664644068.jpg[/img]
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Sorry if I went too far by posting your family photo up there berselius.
To make amends, I will give you one of my baseball cards.
[img]http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/blog/images/unfrozen_caveman_lawyer_card.jpg[/img]
Suburban kidQuote Reply
A joke:
My mom sent me that, and apologized in advance in case I thought it was “too sick”. (dying laughing)
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Testing again
MishQuote Reply
Ok I don’t get it, I can’t do images. Did I miss some post on how to post? If you guys were more like BCB…
MishQuote Reply
Look under the “submit comment” button
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
Can you post a link with that explanation?
MishQuote Reply
Yes.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Unless you are special, there should be some text under the “Submit Comment” button that says
not unexpectedly, “clicking here” is hyperlinked to one of those pop up things where you enter your fucking image URL.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Suburban kid wrote:
I’m no exhibitionist; pictures of me fucking are not to be posted here.
MishQuote Reply
[img]http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/2180192_460s.jpg[/img]
MishQuote Reply
Wait, did you guys get a new site?
Rodrigo RamirezQuote Reply
What’s with the timer after you post?
Rodrigo RamirezQuote Reply
Rodrigo Ramirez wrote:
It’s a bomb. GET OUT
MishQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
Did you plant it? I see you are made of brown.
Rodrigo RamirezQuote Reply
I tend to buck ethnic stereotypes. Case in point, my enormous penis.
MishQuote Reply
Hm, a new blogging system you say? Time for a test drive…
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2397/2123875890_2d23f32ce6.jpg[/img]
fang2415Quote Reply
@ Mish:
Don’t say that in front of Josh….
Rodrigo RamirezQuote Reply
Suburban kid wrote:
Well, you could always close the curtains since you
SkipVBQuote Reply
SInce we are on wishlists for the newly discredited website, here are mine:
1. A “preview comment’ function
2. When the page loads up, we hear one of JoePa’s greatest motivational speeches with angel’s humming in the background, until the “Joe Paterno Speaks” unobstructed view is knocked off the front page.
Thanks!
SkipVBQuote Reply
Glad to see that this business about unregistered users not being able to refresh for new comments was made up. I hate having to log in to a billion sites every time I restart my browser (dying laughing)
WenningtonsGorillaCock wrote:
Also, this test wins the internet.
fang2415Quote Reply
You have about 30 minutes to edit your comment.
mb21Quote Reply
Also also, the fact that invalid comments (e.g. by forgetting to put in name) send you to a whole new error page make me really glad I have this thing.
fang2415Quote Reply
mb21 wrote:
Don’t tell me what I have to do.
fang2415Quote Reply
My life feels incomplete without faget points. Everybody who’s posted something funny in this thread, please just imagine that I wrote (dying laughing) in response. Everybody who wrote something stupid in this thread, you’re an idiot. (dying laughing)
fang2415Quote Reply
These timers are making me feel like I should hurry up and edit my comments even if they don’t need editing. It’s like a limited-time offer on an extended warantee. (dying laughing)
fang2415Quote Reply
Not that you care but the two things I really miss are “end of comments” and “refresh comments” functions.
Rodrigo RamirezQuote Reply
Rodrigo Ramirez wrote:
Please read the post about posting before posting
fang2415Quote Reply
@ Rodrigo Ramirez:
I plan to add end of comments and top of comments link. They’re nice for the phone. There’s also another option that I might try first (it’s part of the reply/quote buttons plugins. Can’t do a refresh comments on WordPress unless one of you wants to write the script to do it. (dying laughing)
mb21Quote Reply
Whoops why can’t I see the comment I just posted about reading the post about posting? I guess I should have read the post about posting before posting a post about reading the post about posting before posting. (dying laughing)
fang2415Quote Reply
@ SkipVB:
1. I’ll look into that, but IIRC it’s resource intensive.
2. (dying laughing)
mb21Quote Reply
Hmm now I can see MB’s new posts but none of my own comments are showing up? Maybe there’s a faget limit in effect for unregistered rabble?
I do get the sense that like five comments of mine are going to show up all at once now…
fang2415Quote Reply
Hmm, I’m betting I’m only allowed five posts during the bomb-time-limit.
If so, this is an outrage. I demand the right to spam this forum with impunity.
[img]http://www.alexanderinteractive.com/blog/typing-robot-thumb.jpg[/img]
fang2415Quote Reply
@ mb21:
Great thanks!! And I hope you don’t think I’m complaining. I can’t imagine how intensive this switch has been.
Rodrigo RamirezQuote Reply
Hey! Cool new digs! May I be the first to offer no complaints or should I just fuck off?
frysredjacketQuote Reply
frysredjacket wrote:
Thank you for not complaining. We’re gonna get you so many lizards!
BerseliusQuote Reply
I didn’t put two and two together and realize that Theriot signing with SF meant the Cajun Connection was reunited. Or I guess technically it would be putting 3/2 and 3/2 together.
BerseliusQuote Reply
Berselius wrote:
I personally like the electric snail.
frysredjacketQuote Reply
mb21 wrote:
I’d do what he says, Mr. Kenny.
joshQuote Reply
@ Rodrigo Ramirez:
No, I don’t think anyone is complaining. I think change is difficult and we all get used to what we had. Me too. I think we’d all like this to be as close to the same as we’ve had it, but some things won’t be possible.
Speaking of change, I remember DJ saying he hated Joomla after ACB switched. Even if we had switched to Expression Engine, which is what ACB was using prior to Bloguin, he’d have preferred what he’d gotten used to. Everyone is like that.
mb21Quote Reply
Oswalt ————> Cardinals (soon)
BerseliusQuote Reply
mb21 wrote:
I prefer smoke signals myself.
I actually kind of liked the LiveFyre experiment even though I think SK and MO hated it (dying laughing)
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rice Cube wrote:
i liked it too, but it was very buggy
GWQuote Reply
mb21 wrote:
So, what was wrong with Joomla, again? I think WordPress has a lot of flexibility (though I don’t know much about Joomla), but requires a little more finesse. At least, that’s been my experience. For me, getting it set up was the hardest part, but it’s run smoothly once I got the kinks ironed out. I thought about experimenting with Joomla, but once you get one setup down, it’s hard to change, from an administrative standpoint in addition to the user side..
joshQuote Reply
I actually liked Livefyre, but all the complaints weren’t worth it. I disliked all of that a lot more than I liked the system. It’s much improved now too.
mb21Quote Reply
@ josh:
Joomla doesn’t have a native commenting component, which is nice in a way. You end up with components like we had, which was awesome. You’d never end up with something like that on WP because of the native commenting system. Jcomments hadn’t been updated for a long time and we were running Joomla 1.5. Joomla 1.6 came out a year ago, 1.7 last summer and 2.5 just came out. Still no Jcomments. There was also very little support at this point. Jcomments just wasn’t a reliable commenting component anymore. Many of the extensions we used were no longer supported (updated to 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5 of course) so not updating created some of the issues people were having. All of the other comment components for Joomla suck so it made no sense to switch to an inferior component than we could create here.
mb21Quote Reply
whoa, new format, same shitty content
Recalcitrant Blogger NateQuote Reply
is that timer shit for real, or is that a meme+technology = absurd shit kinda thing?
Joomla doesn’t have a native commenting component, which is nice in a way. You end up with components like we had, which was awesome. You’d never end up with something like that on WP because of the native commenting system. Jcomments hadn’t been updated for a long time and we were running Joomla 1.5. Joomla 1.6 came out a year ago, 1.7 last summer and 2.5 just came out. Still no Jcomments. There was also very little support at this point. Jcomments just wasn’t a reliable commenting component anymore. Many of the extensions we used were no longer supported (updated to 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5 of course) so not updating created some of the issues people were having. All of the other comment components for Joomla suck so it made no sense to switch to an inferior component than we could create here.
careful there. i’m really just testing to make sure I can do everything (dying laughing)
Recalcitrant Blogger NateQuote Reply
new shit: http://obstructedview.net/chicago-cubs/corpas-gone-kerry-wood-40-man-josh-vitters.html
mb21Quote Reply