Tag: Chicago Cubs
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Chicago Cubs Game Time – OYO Sportstoys – 10% off
third party affiliate Just wanted to share one of the awesome, fun promotions that was handed out before games at Wrigley this season. This one is a Handy Andy a ’40s throwback OYO Sportstoys mini figure, Andy Pafko figure was given out during the Mets homestand on June 8th. June 8th, 2014 – Cubs vs…
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Bill Veeck: Happy 100th Birthday to a Baseball Pioneer
Bill Veeck would have turned 100 years old today. Coincidentally, Wrigley Field turns 100 years old in a little over 2 months. Bill Veeck was a major pioneer in baseball and he got his start at Wrigley Field as a member of the grounds crew. His father was team president and Veeck had worked as…
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Wrigleyville Rooftops Can Go To Hell
Wrigley Field turns 100 years old in 2014. It is the second oldest stadium in MLB behind Fenway Park which turned 100 in 2012. Wrigley is the only stadium probably in any sport that is smack dab in the middle of a neighborhood. It is definitely the only stadium that is so entrenched into a…
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Masahiro Tanaka Is Coming To MLB!
Masahiro Tanaka will be pitching in the MLB next season. It has been the biggest roller coaster ride of the off season as every day reports would come from Japan saying that he was going to be posted and that he was not going to be posted. MLB negotiated a new deal with the Japan…
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Cubs Charities helps tornado victims
It was always a dream of mine to work for the Chicago Cubs. For the last three seasons, I have gotten to live that dream. Each day, I thank my lucky stars that I get to go to Wrigley Field for my job. While I love my coworkers and love being a security services ambassador,…
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Dale Sveum Fired
The Cubs announced this morning that they had relieved Dale Sveum of his duties as manager. I liked Coach Sveum. He always treated me nicely and I will always fondly remember his first day on the job. I was working security at the door of the United Club, checking in the media, for the press…
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10-88 – Fan on the Field
A fan ran onto the field in his underwear during last night’s Tampa Bay Rays vs. Texas Rangers game. At Wrigley Field, we call that a 10-88 (any fan running onto the field…we don’t have a special code for those that do it in their underwear). If you run onto the field during…
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Josh Donaldson
Josh Donaldson makes one of the best catches of the year in MLB by diving over the tarp, crashing into the wall and holding on to the ball. Donaldson has been a major part of the Athletics successful season. His WAR of 6.1 is just unreal. If it weren’t for the seasons that Miguel…
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LA Dodgers Bobblehead
“Ball one and wait a minute, there’s an animal loose, two of them..” “It looks like he’s going to burn a flag!” “”And Rick Monday runs in and takes it away from him! That guy was going to set fire to the American Flag! Can you imagine that? Rick will get an ovation, and properly…
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Anthony Rizzo great amazing infield dugout catch
Anthony Rizzo may be slumping at the plate but he went all out to make this catch. #MLB #Cubs