***This is Part II of the recap of my trip to Phoenix to watch the Cubs play the Diamondbacks. Check out Part I here. I will do the same mix of tweets and photos as I did in the first part.***
I left off with our little ticket mix-up. I went to will-call to pick up [...]
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***This is Part I of my “Cubs games in Phoenix” trip. I’ll post Part II tomorrow and you won’t want to miss tomorrow’s photos***
My wife and I take our kids to Southern California every summer for 3 weeks to visit my wife’s family. It just so happened that this year, the Cubs would [...]
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Andy, Corey and Kurt briefly discuss where the Cubs stand at the half-way point of the season. Then, Corey describes his experiences watching the Cubs play in Phoenix and Los Angeles. Stay tuned to Part II of Viva Los Doyers coming soon. In Part II, we will have a Dodgers season ticket holder on the [...]
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If you are at all interested in the Cubs anymore, I will be “tweeting” from the games in Phoenix for the next few days. Follow along at www.twitter.com/ivyenvy for all the action.
Also, it doesn’t appear that we will have a podcast for you this week. My computer took a dump 15 [...]
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Cubs vs. Cardinals. I believe it’s one of the best rivalries in baseball. My feelings may be biased though, as I grew up in the heart of Cubs vs. Cardinals territory. I draw the Mason-Dixon line of these two clubs at Galesburg, Illinois. The Quad Cities Area is 45 minutes north [...]
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We hosted our first event of 2010 on Monday at Twenty Sports Grille in Moline. We will be doing monthly events down there this season, and we kicked off the season with a live podcast recording. We’d like to thank everyone that came down to watch the Cubs play the Nationals with us. I know [...]
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Major League Baseball threw a big party today with signings all over the place. I’m assuming it was to celebrate the 24th Anniversary of the Bears winning the Super Bowl.
The Cubs finally named their 4th outfielder – Xavier Nady. I’m sure Cubs fans are already brainstorming nicknames based around the letter “X”. [...]
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We have set up a live-blogging program. Tonight’s game will be our first attempt. It’ll be just me throwing in some thoughts here and there. We will typically use this live-blogging when we have multiple Ivy Envy guys together watching games. The sketchy television coverage of Thursday night’s game might lead [...]
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Before I gush over Matt Murton, let me just say that I feel rattled staring at my first substantive post in months in the eyes. It’s the same feeling I got when we first started up Ivy Envy. I’m an awkward virgin teenager fumbling with the bra-straps of the blogging world.
I want to thank all [...]
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Let’s hope that the tv-radio delay isn’t that bad for TBS. I don’t know about anyone else, but my delay varies from day to day and channel to channel. Now I haven’t made it a secret that I don’t particularly enjoy listening to Pat and Ron because Ron is hard for me to handle sometimes. [...]
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