Where were you: Part Deux

[HOLYCOW!25]

Well the first one made me think of this... Where were you when Lee injured his wrist?

It was one of the few times I wasn't watching the game on tv, or listening to it on the radio, because I had to type a paper for english. So I was upstairs in my room, and I did have the radio on for awhile, but it was distracting me, and this was a big paper, so instead I just had the play by play thing up from the Cubs website, and I would check that every once and awhile. Well I looked at it, and it just said that there was an injury on the field. I was a little worried for who, and I just starred at the screen for a bit. I was about to turn on the radio, but then it said there was a pitching change, and Derrek Lee was out. I freaked, I ran downstairs and turned on the tv, and I just heard them talking about it. Then they showed a replay, and my body cringed. I went to school the next day and heard everyone talking about it. I didn't know how long it was gonna be, and then I walked past someone and heard them say, "Yea, Lee's gonna out for at least 6 weeks!" and I was pissed the rest of the day.

[diehardnorthsider]

Once again I was listening to Pat and Ron and did the same thing you did, I ran downstairs and turned on the TV.

[ChiCubs1984]

I think I was working at the time. I didn't know what happened untill I turned on the post game show after the game on 720. I immediately went oh crap (not the word I used) there goes the season. Sure enough. well its okay another season in the books and 2007 to look forward to.

[HOLYCOW!25]

I was optamistic for about a month after that, then I knew it would take a miracle, and it never came.

[chicubs]

For me I was listening to the game on the radio for the whole game,but i turned off my radio about an inning before it happened.I went to sleep and when I woke up the next morning to check what the final score was Cubs.com said lee was injured.I figured our chances at a playoff run slimmed at that point.

There should be a special section on this forum called "Where were you when...

[Brutus T Manstrength]

I was watching the game at my mom and dad's house.. I remember sitting there, and seeing it all unfold.. I was so pissed at the whole thing.. the guy shoulda been a cub. Eyre shoulda never thrown that crazy throw.. I remember seeing Lee.. then they took him out, and said that it was probably nothing all that major.. I just remember thinking that I was more worried about Eyre than I was about Lee.. I mean, that guy NEVER gets hurt, right? The Baseball Gods wouldn't let that happen to us... would they?

[Webgem]

Watching it on the tube....I didn't think of it much at the time....I just thought it was a sprain....I wish I was right..:(

[Ivy Killa]

My wife and i were watching that game on the trusty old tivo....needless too say when that happened....man i was PISSED.

[ARamfan]

I was watching it on T.V. and hoping for a minor injury. I was just happy to have D-Lee playing that day, since he had recently gone back to Sacramento to see his ailing grandfather. When I heard the reality of it, no kidding I got a migraine that lasted for 5 days!:p My brother called from San Diego, since I was planning to visit him and go w/ him to the 4-game series there in May, and I told him right then and there, that the season was over! Sorry to say I was so dismal, but I felt it.

[HOLYCOW!25]

Oh yea, I forgot about that thing with his grandpa. **** Lee really had a rough season.

[ryno4ever]

I was at my now-ex-boyfriend's house. I was making him watch it with me, although he really isn't a baseball fan. It happened, and all I could keep saying over and over and over was "Oh, my God, NO! Oh, my God, NO!" Tears started to well. He looked at me and asked why I was getting so worked up over some guy who just sprained his wrist. I looked at him with the most evil eye I could have ever given anyone and said "That's not "SOME GUY"...THAT'S DERREK LEE! AND YOU ARE A JACKASS!" I knew right then our season was over. The weird part was, I had looked up earlier in the day to find "This day in baseball history" and the exact year before to the day is when Nomar got hurt with his groin injury!

One lesson I learned at DeeLee's expense, is that they guys I date, HAVE to be at least a baseball fan, if not a Cubs fan! When we watched the movie Fever Pitch, he asked me if I got any royalty money from the movie because it seemed as if they wrote it about me (only changed the main character around to be a male so the movie would sell)!!!

[HOLYCOW!25]

Lol, I was watching Fever Pitch the other day. I admit, it may be a bit of a chick flick, but it's about the Red Sox in '04, and Jimmy Fallon is hilarious. And Drew Barrymore's hot.

[Doba]

Sitting on my couch watching the game. Thinking to myself how much this was like the year before watching Nomar come out of the box tearing his groin. "There goes the season."

[Brutus T Manstrength]

Sounds like a douche, congrats on dumpin' his ***... Crown his *** while you're at it..

[ryno4ever]

Sounds like a douche, congrats on dumpin' his ***... Crown his *** while you're at it..

Sad to say, but one of the straws that broke the camels back was he offered to take me to a WHITE SOX game!?! Whatta moron!

[HOLYCOW!25]

It would of only made sense if the Sox were playing the Cubs. Other then that, crown his ***.

[bringbacktuffy]

I was watching on the tube. When DLee went down I took a deep breath, opened a beer, and made a comment about the season going down the tubes.

[ryno4ever]

I was watching on the tube. When DLee went down I took a deep breath, opened a beer, and made a comment about the season going down the tubes.

I remember thinking the same thing...we're done. See ya next year.

[VanMan]

I was watching the game in my bedroom, as it was a 9 p.m. local game and I think I had to go to work the next morning (was it a Wednesday night game?). My first though is, "What is it with the Cubs and freak injuries? First Prior gets his two freak jobs, now Lee? I hope we can hold out until Prior and Wood come back next month." Of course, we all knew what happened.

Ryno4ever: It's great to hear you dumped your ex after he made that crack about DLee being "some guy." And to top that off to take you to a White Sox game? It'd be like you were a Red Sox fan and your boyfriend took to you a Yankee game. You were right to crown his @$$.

Speaking of the Red Sox and "Fever Pitch," did you guys know the movie with Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore was actually an adaptation of a British film of the same name? The male protagonist is a huge fan of the Arsenal soccer club in London, and like the 2005 film, the relationship ebbs and flows with the team's performance. However, in the original, Arsenal fails to win the Premiere League title. The Red Sox version was supposed to end with heartbreak as well. I think I heard the script was originally written similar to the end of the 2003 season, the Red Sox losing to the Yankees in the post season. It was going true to form in the ALCS when the Yanks had a 3-0 series lead, but when the Red Sox made the comeback, the writers had to quickly redo the ending and let it flow with the final four games of the ALCS and the World Series. They also had to fly Jimmy and Drew to St. Louis to film the ending sequences when the Sox finally broke the Curse of the Bambino.

Who would have thought that art had to imitate life?

[HOLYCOW!25]

Yea I actually did know it was from a story about Arsenal, which I found out from my brother. And I remember after I saw it at the theater that I wondered how they got the movie out so fast, and then I found out it was supposed to end with them losing, untill they ended up winning it.

[ryno4ever]

I think they have the "behind the scene/stories" on the DVD extras. I would have to go back and re-watch it... but I remember the part where they had to go back and re-film the ending.