You'd think the Best Fans in Baseball would have figured out by now that Phillips enjoys being booed. 

artie_fufkin wrote:

What a difference 300 miles make. It's really, really cold in Chicago tonight. Arctic Circle cold, by the looks of what people are wearing.

For the 21 years I lived in the Chicago area, and the parts of 9 years that I lived in St. Louis, that was the case.  That's why St. Louis is in that ice belt, that gets storms that topples trees beause they become overloaded with ice, while Chicagp gets clobbered with blizzards and freezing cold.  The broder lies somewhere between Champaign, which is not one jot wermer than Chicago, and Lawrenceville, which like St. Louis, benefits from the sweeping arc of the Gulf of Mexico's effect on climate.  Even before global warming, our friends and relatives down in Lawrenceville would talk about 2-3 snow storms per year, with maybe 2-4 weeks of snow on the ground.  In Chicago during that period you could count on solid snow pack December through March.  We had a blizzard in the middle of fucking April one year.

Max wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

What a difference 300 miles make. It's really, really cold in Chicago tonight. Arctic Circle cold, by the looks of what people are wearing.

For the 21 years I lived in the Chicago area, and the parts of 9 years that I lived in St. Louis, that was the case.  That's why St. Louis is in that ice belt, that gets storms that topples trees beause they become overloaded with ice, while Chicagp gets clobbered with blizzards and freezing cold.  The broder lies somewhere between Champaign, which is not one jot wermer than Chicago, and Lawrenceville, which like St. Louis, benefits from the sweeping arc of the Gulf of Mexico's effect on climate.  Even before global warming, our friends and relatives down in Lawrenceville would talk about 2-3 snow storms per year, with maybe 2-4 weeks of snow on the ground.  In Chicago during that period you could count on solid snow pack December through March.  We had a blizzard in the middle of fucking April one year.

We had a huge snow storm here on April 1 a few years ago (1997?) and we had an ice storm in May when I was in high school, but it's rare to have any snow in Boston proper after, say, the first week of March. Part of it is elevation, and part of it is proximity to the ocean. Worcester, which is 50 miles inland and 1,000 feet up, probably gets twice as much snow as we do in any given winter.
But there are worse places to live, weather-wise. I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would live in upstate New York. It's a shitty, depressing place to live anyway, but from about mid-October to April 1, it snows almost continuously. The coldest place I've been to is Burlington, Vermont. If you take a leak outside, your piss freezes before it hits the ground.

artie_fufkin wrote:

APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

Did Hrabosky really just say Wigginton scares the other team?

does he have the flu?
 

LOL. Maybe he put on one of those ghost masks and was running up behind the Reds shouting "Boo!!" during batting practice.

I kid you not, during his post-game interview Matheny was crediting Wigginton (among others) for Adams' HR.  Matheny prattled on about how Wigginton and Mabry are constantly in Adams' ear telling him how to stay prepared inning to inning and what to watch for from the pitchers, etc...

 

"Matheny prattled on about how Wigginton and Mabry are constantly in Adams' ear telling him how to stay prepared inning to inning and what to watch for from the pitchers, etc..."

Pissa. The Cardinals are paying $5 million over the next two years for a consultant to the hitting coach. That's obscene even by government standards.

artie_fufkin wrote:

Max wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

What a difference 300 miles make. It's really, really cold in Chicago tonight. Arctic Circle cold, by the looks of what people are wearing.

For the 21 years I lived in the Chicago area, and the parts of 9 years that I lived in St. Louis, that was the case.  That's why St. Louis is in that ice belt, that gets storms that topples trees beause they become overloaded with ice, while Chicagp gets clobbered with blizzards and freezing cold.  The broder lies somewhere between Champaign, which is not one jot wermer than Chicago, and Lawrenceville, which like St. Louis, benefits from the sweeping arc of the Gulf of Mexico's effect on climate.  Even before global warming, our friends and relatives down in Lawrenceville would talk about 2-3 snow storms per year, with maybe 2-4 weeks of snow on the ground.  In Chicago during that period you could count on solid snow pack December through March.  We had a blizzard in the middle of fucking April one year.

We had a huge snow storm here on April 1 a few years ago (1997?) and we had an ice storm in May when I was in high school, but it's rare to have any snow in Boston proper after, say, the first week of March. Part of it is elevation, and part of it is proximity to the ocean. Worcester, which is 50 miles inland and 1,000 feet up, probably gets twice as much snow as we do in any given winter.
But there are worse places to live, weather-wise. I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would live in upstate New York. It's a shitty, depressing place to live anyway, but from about mid-October to April 1, it snows almost continuously. The coldest place I've been to is Burlington, Vermont. If you take a leak outside, your piss freezes before it hits the ground.

"I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would live in upstate New York."

They moved south from Quebec?  

Here in Bellingham we are further north than any part of Maine or any major US city, for that matter, but we don't get much snow, and what does fall melts quickly enough that the city sold their plows to the county, which uses them to keep the highway open to the ski area on Mt. Baker, which happens to get the most snow of any American ski area (currently 7" of fresh powder on a 181" base).  So we have a pretty dramatic climatological cline here.  

When growing up Chicago was not too different from "Farmer Boy" which took place in far upstate New York, but friends who have remained tell me the climate has changed drastically and the days of solid snow pack December-March are long gone.  The difference with St. Louis truly is the Gulf of Mexico, and I remember when living there seeing the weather maps that showed a very distinct arc, almost like a halo, that typically extended up to about Springfield.