Road Trip Stories

[bringbacktuffy]

How about good Cubs road trip stories to opposing parks? I'll start.

My roommate, a St Louis native and huge cardinals fan, took myself and another cubs fan friend down to the lou during Busch's last year. It was ridiculously hot, over 100 degrees after the sun went down. We had good seats in right field, but almost didnt make it through the first inning it was sooo hot. Prior started the game and gave up 3 straight solo shots to start the game. Edmonds, Mabry, and I think Pujols but i cant be certain. My roommate starts getting all cocky and so on, like cards fans do, while the offense wasnt doing anything. Then in the 5th or 6th, Blanco steps up and cracks a 3 run bomb. Before we knew it we were in extras and we loaded up the bases for neifi, who hits a bullet into right for the game winner. I jumped and screamed like a little girl. I loved it. Suck it Busch.

[bringbacktuffy]

My next would be the very next year at new Busch stadium. Took a booze bus down, we had a skybox (all we could drink!!) directly behind the right field foul pole. Went down to the field when the cubbies were taking BP, Rusch and some other bullpen guys were out shagging balls and JJ was at the plate. I was rocking my pinstripes as usual, and surrounded by cards fans. Rusch waddled over and picked up a ball hit into the corner, saw me and flipped it over. Of course, I dropped and thank christ he tossed it again. It was the first ball I had ever gotten at a game, and Ive been to lots. Ill always have a soft spot for him cause of that. Anyway, Maddux was on the hill that day and we won. Somehow. A lot of classless a holes walked out flipping us off just for being cubs fans too. Jerks.

[diehardnorthsider]

Last summer I went to Minneapolis for the Twins series. Boy they have some rude fans!!! I was sporting my pinstripes as well and man did the twins fans take notice!!! I was called every dirty name in the book, I was told to "Go back to Chicago" a countless number of times. An old lady at the Holiday Inn I was staying at saw me walking to my room and whispered to another lady that was with her "I wish all these Cubs Idiots would go home, this is our dome". To top it all off I had a heckler right behind me at Saturday's game and he yelled at Todd Walker for everything. Maybe Todd ran over his dog or stole the guys milk money in school, but what ever the reason was he sure hated Walker and heckled him the most.

Well we got smoked all three games that weekend but I didn't hang my head and I didn't let the Twinkie fans get to me. I ended up meeting a few nice ones at the hotel bar and got drunk with them and talked Baseball so it wasn't such a bad trip.

[ryno4ever]

Before we knew it we were in extras and we loaded up the bases for neifi, who hits a bullet into right for the game winner. I jumped and screamed like a little girl. I loved it. Suck it Busch.

I remember that game well! I worked with a Cardinals fan. A bunch of us were going to a Cubs/Cards game the next month. So, as a friendly wager, we had a bet going on the series that you are talking about. If the Cubs won the Series, I would have had to wear his Albert Pujols jersey on the bus to Wrigley. Walk once around the perimeter of the park and then have my picture taken in the jersey in front of Harry's statue. Vice Versa for him. He would have had to wear my Todd Walker jersey on the bus...etc. We were both at work and watching the game on ESPN. The series was tied. I had that sick feeling in my stomach knowing I was going to have to wear a Cardinal's jersey...on a bus full of Cubs fans... and have proof of it in a picture. Then Neifi pulled through...and it was JUST fair! I jumped around like a schoolgirl! It was great. Yep...he wore my Todd Walker jersey on the bus (which is a two hour ride...)to Wrigley. We walked around Wrigley once and I got pictures!

[Sheffield_&_Waveland]

I remember that game well! I worked with a Cardinals fan. A bunch of us were going to a Cubs/Cards game the next month. So, as a friendly wager, we had a bet going on the series that you are talking about. If the Cubs won the Series, I would have had to wear his Albert Pujols jersey on the bus to Wrigley. Walk once around the perimeter of the park and then have my picture taken in the jersey in front of Harry's statue. Vice Versa for him. He would have had to wear my Todd Walker jersey on the bus...etc. We were both at work and watching the game on ESPN. The series was tied. I had that sick feeling in my stomach knowing I was going to have to wear a Cardinal's jersey...on a bus full of Cubs fans... and have proof of it in a picture. Then Neifi pulled through...and it was JUST fair! I jumped around like a schoolgirl! It was great. Yep...he wore my Todd Walker jersey on the bus (which is a two hour ride...)to Wrigley. We walked around Wrigley once and I got pictures!

Thats funny sh*t, good story

[HOLYCOW!25]

That has to be my favorite homerun of all time. Not only was it a grand salami in extras, but just how it stuck in the fence there, beautiful.

[ryno4ever]

There was an angel in the outfield that day knowing how it was going to severely emotionally scar me if I had to wear Cardinal red to a Cubs game. I tried not to gloat too much around my co-worker, because i knew it was just as hard on him to have to wear my Cubs jersey.... but gosh, was it fun!

[Brutus T Manstrength]

It had to be an angel if Neifi pulled through.. I never minded him too much, but lets be honest, he was never our most clutch hitter.

[HOLYCOW!25]

Yea that's true, but at least it pulled it off there.

[Sheffield_&_Waveland]

It had to be an angel if Neifi pulled through.. I never minded him too much, but lets be honest, he was never our most clutch hitter.

The whole Neifi situation is funny to me now but I really hated watching that guy play. What I have a hard time understanding is that there was big talk about Aram not hustling but let me tell you I seen Neifi in Cinci last year and if there is anyone that doesn't hustle on the field it is definatly him.

[HOLYCOW!25]

A few years ago I went down to Texas with my freind and his mom, who are both big Sox fans (probably 2 of the only real loyal Sox fans I know). So we're around Dallas, and we had tickets to a Rangers game against the A's. So we get there early, and this was before I became a big Cub fan, it was still when I would basicly know if the were doing good or bad, but anyways, they had a shop there, and we went there before the stadium tour we had before the game, and I bought it, and everyone on the tour was amazed that a Cubs fan and a Sox fan could get along. So we're at the game, and I forget who but someone hit a home run, and it went right into the Rangers dug out, and some guy jumped over the wall to get the ball, and they kicked him out.

Then the next day we wanted to see another game, against the Yankee's, and we're at the ticket booth, and I was 14, and my friend was 13 at the time, but he looked older then me back then, and he had this little crappy "I just hit puberty" mustache goin. And before we bought the tickets, we saw a sign that said kids 12 and under got a discount, so we tried convincing the lady at the booth that we were both 12. And she was not buying it, but then my friend's mom looks at her son and says, "Oh please, he's had that mustache since the 4th grade!" And she still didn't buy it, but she gave us the discount anyways. And before the game we were watching the Yankee's stretch, and I called Alex Rodriquez a pansy. I've hated that guy ever since the 2004 ALCS when he hit that ball out of Bronson Arroyo's glove.

[Shwerve]

Last summer I went to Minneapolis for the Twins series.


I also went to that series. I thought that people were pretty quiet there. One of the games, I was out in left center. One of the Twinkie fans yelled out to JJ something along the lines of still liking him and congratulating him on the birth of a kid or something. Jaque looked over and acknowledged the fan by nodding and waving. I thought that it was blasphemous a player could actually hear the fans from so far away. Depressing series

[HOLYCOW!25]

I also went to that series. I thought that people were pretty quiet there. One of the games, I was out in left center. One of the Twinkie fans yelled out to JJ something along the lines of still liking him and congratulating him on the birth of a kid or something. Jaque looked over and acknowledged the fan by nodding and waving. I thought that it was blasphemous a player could actually hear the fans from so far away. Depressing series

Damn, that's quiet.

[bringbacktuffy]

They can hear us at wrigley, believe it. I was out there once during a game against the reds. We all heckled Mike Cameron so bad he turned and flipped us off. What an ***, I never could stand that guy after that. At least the twinkie fans were being cool to JJ, a lot of a hole fans would get on him hard for leaving the team and so on.

[HOLYCOW!25]

This has nothing to do with baseball, but for the last MLS season, we had season tickets to the Chicago Fire games, 3rd row. Oh man did I heckle those players. I tore Landon Donovan a new *******, he was yelling at his team like a little bitch, and I screamed at him to shut up at the top of my lungs, and he didn't yell the rest of the game. It was beautiful.

[taz57]

A couple of buddys and I went down to St. Louis for a weekend series with the Cubs. This was during the 1980 season. After a tough Cubs loss in the Friday night game, we decided to hang out at the hotel that the Cubs were staying at. We went into the bar and ordered up our first beer, when the WGN tv and radio announcers walked in. We walked over to say hi to Jack Brickhouse, but once we started talking baseball, Jack was more than willing to tell us stories that happened some 20-30 years earlier like it happened yesterday. After some 2 to 3 hours of talking to Brickhouse, it was last call time at the bar. Jack handed me $20, and told me to get whatever I wanted from the bar, and bring him back a scotch. So I went to bar to place my order, but the bartender told me that the bar was closed. I told him it was for Jack Brickhouse, and his reply was "Jack who". So I went back and gave Jack his money back. He grabbed the $20, and told me to follow him and he will show me how to open up a bar. Once we got there. the bartender shot Jack down also.

[ryno4ever]

That's an awesome story, Taz! You "partied" with Jack Brickhouse!

[taz57]

That's an awesome story, Taz! You "partied" with Jack Brickhouse!

That was great!!!

Just thinking back when I was a kid rushing home from school and watching Brickhouse doing the rest of the Cubs games on WGN. The difference I noticed about him in person was that he was alot more soft spoken than when he was doing the games on tv.