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THIS IS A VIDEO THAT I MADE TO HONOR MY BELOVED CUBBIES AND THE WONDERFUL BASEBALL THEY HAVE BROUGHT US ALL THIS YEARS. the CUBS HAD A GREAT SEASON IN 2007 BUT UNFORTUNATLY THE PLAYOFFS WERE NOT THAT GREAT BUT STILL WE LOVE OUR CUBS AND ALL WE NEED IS TO BELIVE AND WE CUBS FAN BELIEVE IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN!!!! NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!!!! I ALSO THINK THE CUBS HAD A WONDERFUL SEASON BECAUSE ALL OF THE NEW ENERGY THEY BROUGHT TO THE TEAM LIKE RYAN THERIOT OR THE–RIOT ,MIKE FONTENOT AND ALOT OFF GREAT PLAYERS AND WE CAN’T FORGET ALL OF THE FACES ALREADY IN THE CHICAGO CUBS 2 YEARS AGO OR MORE LIKE DERREK LEE, ARAMIS RAMIREZ CARLOS ZAMBRANO AND KERRY WOOD AND ALL OF THOSE PLAYERS THAT HAVE BEEN WITH THE CUBS THROUGH THE YEARS.!!!! GO CUBS GO!!!!

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LEE ELIA TIRADE Elia’s outburst occurred on April 29, 1983, after the Cubs suffered a one-run home loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The rant took place during a postgame session with reporters in his office. Elia was pissed off at the continual booing by the Wrigley crowd (both during and after the game) and frustrated that no one could see beyond the Cubs’ 5-14 record for any of the progress he felt the team was making. The fact that Elia’s rant has been preserved for posterity is something of a miracle. In the early 80s, “baseball reporters didn’t work with tape recorders. But radio guys certainly did. So it was that Elia’s outburst came to be a part of the public domain.” Les Grobstein, aka “ubiquitous” Les, was lurking on the edges of Elia’s office, with tape rolling. For Grobstein, graduate of Chicago’s Von Steuben High School, “it was his Zapruder moment.” Elia commented that he dearly wished Grobstein “had gotten a flat tire on his way to Wrigley that afternoon.” (Grobstein recounts the event at: www.grobber.com Elia clearly regrets his ourburst. “I made some comments that I don’t even know how they came out of my mouth, because they were not comments that I normally would make. Never in my wildest dreams did I think somebody would run out of there and put it on the air.” 1983 turned out to be Elia’s final year as the Cubs’ manager. Many have argued that Grobstein’s tape sealed upper management’s decision to fire Elia. Grobstein heartily disagrees. He commented …

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tempe12.com presents Tori from Indiana University talks about her love for baseball and the Chicago Cubs.

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