Posts tagged with Chicago+Cubs.

Matt Garza gives Darwin Barney a cold shower. 

Photo taken by a Chicago Tribune photographer.
May 30 201209·26 pm26 notes

Matt Garza gives Darwin Barney a cold shower.

Photo taken by a Chicago Tribune photographer.

Marmol celebrating back to back strike outs. 

Photo taken by a Chicago Tribune Photographer.
May 07 201210·48 pm

Marmol celebrating back to back strike outs.

Photo taken by a Chicago Tribune Photographer.

Tuned into the #Cubs game with WGN Radio at #WrigleyField (Taken with instagram)
April 15 201209·38 am1 note

Tuned into the #Cubs game with WGN Radio at #WrigleyField (Taken with instagram)

First 5k of the year. (Taken with Instagram at Wrigley Field)
April 15 201209·36 am1 note

First 5k of the year. (Taken with Instagram at Wrigley Field)

Samardzija on Garza’s shaving cream pie: “He’ll pitch well once this year and I’ll pay him back.” — David Kaplan (@thekapman)

Garza gives Samardzija a shaving cream pie for his excellent outing.

Photo taken by a Chicago Tribune Photographer.
April 08 201205·51 pm47 notes

Garza gives Samardzija a shaving cream pie for his excellent outing.

Photo taken by a Chicago Tribune Photographer.

Ivy in mid May form. (Taken with instagram)
April 06 201207·17 pm4 notes

Ivy in mid May form. (Taken with instagram)

4/2 There’s nothing like being a Cub.

I’ve tried to explain to guys like Ian Stewart, David DeJesus, Chris Volstad what it’s like to play at Wrigley and to be a Cub. You come into town and love playing at Wrigley but it’s completely different when you’re an actual Cub and have 39,000 cheering for you. It takes me back to some things that Derrek Lee was telling me when I first came in about the excitement and what Billy Williams has told me —there’s nothing like being a Cub. You don’t know until you actually put the uniform on and get to run out there and hear the fans cheering out there I was explaining how I sort of salute left left center field, center field and right center field, and I told them they need to come up with a salute or something to acknowledge the bleacher bums. It’s one of those things that you can’t explain that feeling until you’re actually out there. These guys get to go through that this year. This is going to be a hustling team. I’ve been on teams where my hustle stood out and it’s not going to stand out on this team. That’s a good thing. It shouldn’t be that way; it shouldn’t be, “That guy hustles, that guy hustles.” You should say, “Oh, my gosh, that team is always coming. The Tampa Bay Rays, the Milwaukee Brewers, the Texas Rangers, the Philadelphia Phillies are always going hard. We’re going to be that team, too. I told those guys, being in Chicago, on and off the field, there’s nothing like it.

–Marlon

Going to the opening day at Wrigley Field tomorrow.