This past season we used the slogan "This is a year" for the Cubs. Since the season is ending the new one unofficially beginning when this one does end, so it's time for a new slogan. We're going to let you guys come up with it.
The winners will receive The Essential Games of the Chicago Cubs on DVD compliments of A+E Networks Home Entertainment/MLB Productions. Product description below:
Product Description & Features
- by A&E Video
- 4 Pack Set
- The Chicago Cubs have a rich history in Major League Baseball and is one of the two oldest active teams in "Major North American Sports"
- Chock full of historic moments, players, and milestones in the club's history, ESSENTIAL GAMES OF THE CHICAGO CUBS is a must have collectible for not only Cubbies fans, but baseball fans everywhere
MLB.com Exclusive Release Date: 07/17/12
The four fan-favorite games include:
- July 12, 1969 , Wrigley Field, Cubs beat Phillies 7-4, classic Cubs lineup
- 6/23/1984 – Ryne Sandberg
- 5/6/1998 – Kerry Wood 20 Ks
- 9/20/2008 – Division Clincher
We've generally ran the contests right here on the blog, but this time we'll be doing it on our Facebook page.
To enter the contest, leave a slogan on our contest page at Facebook (mobile users can visit this page). You must enter by Sunday. And you can enter more than once, but only one entry per person advances to the final 5.
The four of us who started this blog will select the final 5 slogans and then we'll have you guys vote for them, also on Facebook. The winner will receieve the DVD set linked above along with an Obstructed View t-shirt. The other 4 we select will receive the DVD set.
I love the rules for this one.
After you’ve entered, feel free to share the entry here.
I’m trying to access the link via my phone but when it gets into facebook, it says page not found. Any ideas? It’s an android phone.
@ Mucker:
I sent AC an email. He’s the one who set all this up so I’ll just blame him.
I get the same message on my iPhone.
I went to the OV page on facebook but I don’t see the contest. I see the thread that tells you about the contest but when I click on it, it just brings me back here. Do I just comment on the page or is there an actual link to click on facebook?
AC said this: I’ll look into it. Facebook pages are so problematic on their mobile app.
We’d prefer you leave your entry on Facebook in order to enter. It’s just easier for us that way. If for some reason you can’t (give AC some time to look into it), send an email to ov [at] obstructedview [dot] net with subject Slogan Contest.
Mish was a research subject at Ohio State.
Try this link to the contest on mobile. It works for me on iPhone:
http://a.pgtb.me/dl4x
@ AndCounting:
Works on mine too
I updated the post with a link for mobile users. Mucker, let us know if it works on Android
All right, well, I submitted 2, like a boss:
“Facilitating events that approximate baseball [or something, I already forgot]”
“Relive the agony”
@ SVB:
That’s bad news for people who are fans of Breaking Bad. (dying laughing)
Last year is here
@ mb21:
Yeah, that updated mobile user link worked for me.
@ mb21:
I imagine many readers of OV are setting up their own meth labs while wearing dirty clothes made of animal skins and plotting to kill their cousins (or whatever GoT is about–I couldn’t really tell on the one episode I watched last spring).
@ SVB:
Nailed it.
@ SVB:
If setting up meth labs is cool, consider me Miles Davis.
Two entries deep too:
Something about piss warm Old Style and “Our Ace is a 28 year old with a mullet!”
I thought I’d repost this comment I made to GBTS and Josh regarding Strasburg’s innings limit, since it was at the end of two threads ago and no one reads two-thread-old comments…
I thought the numbers were pretty interesting. Maybe you will too. Or just ignore them like you did the first time! (dying laughing)
@ josh:
@ GBTS:
Here’s an interesting stat that was in SI (july 30 issue on Dylan Bundy):
From 1981-2000 there were 102 high school pitchers selected in the first round of the draft…
20 career wins is a pretty low bar, but anyway. These include guys who threw more than 150 were guys like Maddux, Al Leiter, Tom Glavine, etc.
SI quotes folks suggesting that the breakdowns of Wood and Prior made everyone limit innings. Since 2002 the only HS 1st rounder with more than 150 innings in year 1 was…..drum roll…..Chris Volstad. ((dying laughing))
I sent two so far:
2013 Chicago Cubs: Who gives a shit?
Wait til next century!!
I’ve probably got another two or three in me.
@ mikeakaleroy:
I set up an ethylene lab at work. Am I cool?
@ SVB:
You can be whatever you want to be!
@ mikeakaleroy:
Is that your contest winning slogan, or my motivational speech for the day?
@ SVB:
Yes.
@ SVB:
So, because I’m too lazy to look back, you’re basically saying that shelving him is stupid, right?
So, how accurate is the depiction of making meth, near as any of you chem nerds can tell? Are they representing the process fairly accurately, to increase realism, or just making up some bullshit so they can’t get blamed? Like is it really possible to make meth from whatever they are making it from?
Yes, as are a lot of the other innings limits placed on young pitchers. But now back to work, so if this spurs more discussion, I’ll get back to it this evening, probably when the Cubs are down by about 3 to Houston.
I think I submitted one.
“I paid how much for this?”
Modified and changed because and due to redundant redundancy.
I detect a theme. So far about half of the 20+ entries use the word shit at least once. (dying laughing)
@ josh:
Compiling a cookbook, sir?
@ SVB:
Why 20 wins? That does seem low. Plus it seems misleading. Like, how many of the pitchers in that study who reached the 20-win cutoff (but barely) won no more because they sucked versus getting injured and were out of the game?
I really do think the Nats could’ve handled Strasburg differently with extra rest, skipped starts, etc., but I assume they know what they’re doing since they’re a multimillion dollar business with smart people in charge and I’m just posting on a sick day.
AndCounting wrote:
@ AndCounting:
I thought about using an expletive but I figured I’d try to keep it PG.
I found this page, which kind of answers my question:
http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Blue_Sky
@ mikeakaleroy:
I’m just inquisitive.
@ josh:
I Google’d “How to make meth”, and most of the results are blocked by my company’s web filter. Also, they’re currently boxing up the shit from my desk, and escorting me out…
“Pissing excellence into the wind.”
@ mikeakaleroy:
Apparently the method
HalWalt uses is similar to what bikers use to make, and would yield an very unsatisfactory process, unless he does some other purification step (which is implied in the Box Cutter episode), in which case it would create a very potent meth that would be clear, not blue. The blue thing is just cinematics.“The 2013 Chicago Cubs: Because We Have To”
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
This might win.
@ Rice Cube:
That’s a grown man versus an insect that couldn’t hurt him, bear in mind.
@ Rice Cube:
LoMo is a fucking weak one. It’s just a bug.
@ josh:
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
I don’t know what his problem was. The praying mantis (I assume) just wanted to be friends.
@ Rice Cube:
I only get like that around bees or wasps, because I get sick as hell when i get stung. Otherwise, brush them off and let them be on their way.
@ Rice Cube:
Looked like a (adult) female Chinese mantis. To me, it looked like it was thought he was a tree. You can see her reaching out, as though reaching for a closer branch. Then she can’t quite reach, so she does what mantids do, which is close the gap by flying briefly.
@ josh:
@ josh:
@ Rice Cube:
Fuck you.
@ mikeakaleroy:
And you.
@ josh:
Harsh, man. Harsh.
“It’s either this or the WNBA.”
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Most wasps and bees have zero interest in stinging you. Hornets can be aggressive, but your average mud dauber or paper wasp or honey bee is perfectly content to leave you alone if you avoid its nest. Now these bad girls are worth watching out for:
Nickname: Cow Killer. Referring to the intensity of its sting. That’s a wingless wasp called a Velvet ant.
My GF’s cousin is working towards his doctorate in psychology. As part of the dissertation process, he developed a survey that explores the links (if any) between perceived scarcity of resources and risk preference. He needs about 50 more responses to have enough data for the results to be meaningful. There is a better description of his purpose on the survey site for those interested.
It only takes about 15 minutes or so and he is giving away five $50 American express giftcards via a raffle of participants wishing to provide an email address so you might get something tangible for your troubles. The e-mail address is not connected to the data collected, so your answers remain anonymous.
https://qtrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cHjS2ydTVjU6koA
Thanks!
RIP Johnny Pesky
@ josh:
Yeah. the problem with wasps is that they’ve been really good at having nests where I don’t see them until it’s too late, like under a patio deck, or behind in a duct or something. Bees nests have always been easier for me to spot. Then there are hornets (or possibly yellow jackets) that burrow their nest in the ground, and god help you if you step on it.
I also have a fear that any bee I see is actually a killer bee after watching that stupid 70s movie with Michael Caine. Especially when I’m down south.
Raley ————–> Iowa
Bowden ———–> Cubs
Deck chairs ——> Rearranged
Mercurial Outfielder wrote:
Apparently the plan is to bring Raley back up for the double header on Saturday as the 26th man.
The 2013 Cubs: So Very Tired
Nowhere and Back Again
@ GBTS:
That sounds more like a Paul Sullivan slogan.
/Hobbit’d
@ Aisle424:
This is some fancy deckchair rearranging.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
The difference between this team and the Titanic is that the Titanic was once afloat.
@ AndCounting:
I meant the Titanic now.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Either way. I hear Celine Dion.
@ Aisle424:
There are ways to mitigate the risks, but I’ve seen people kill mud daubers who were minding their own business, simply because they were there. I’ve heard of people hosing down harmless cicada killers with hornet killer. I’d probably not tolerate a nest above my door, for example, but more often than not, you can leave them alone and never be bothered. Plus, they keep cicada, katydid, and/or spider populations from getting out of hand.
@ Aisle424:
Is that the one where they drove all of the bees into the Astrodome to save humanity? I liked that movie.
@ uncle dave:
The bees were probably acting in self-defense.
@ josh:
See, I’m torn. We planted daisies and geraniums around the garden to attract bees. Then crab spiders moved into the flowers and started wrecking shop on the bees (I have a great pic of this, BTW). Now I have wasps and no crap spiders, but the wasps also prey on the bees. So harvesting for supper is always an adventure.
@ AndCounting:
(dying laughing)
Mercurial Outfielder wrote:
Just indenture some serfs to do it for you.
new shit: http://www.obstructedview.net/commentary-and-analysis/starlin-castros-lineup-spot.html
GBTS —> Made a poor choice coming to Wrigley to watch baseball tonight
I posted details of this weeks OV-CON in the forum.
@ mb21:
Bastard