I dread losses like last night for two reasons. Number one, they royally suck. Number two, I end up cast in the Kevin Spacey role in The Negotiator the next day trying to talk this little corner of Cubdom in from off the ledge.
You know what? I’ll tell you when it’s time to panic. I’ll tell you when it’s acceptable to throw your hands in the air like Dez White and let reality slam into you like yet another dropped pass.
That time is now!
It’s over. The omens are all present. The cosmic tumblers have all moved into place. Matt Clement looks for a wussy way out of a pressure start and finds one. Calvin Murray gets an at bat in the pennant race. Mike Remlinger has Andy Pratt’s DNA coarsing through his veins. Even Chip Caray has us all convinced that the mighty Astros are going to blow by the Cubs and have the wild card wrapped up by next Thursday!
Chip of course ignores the fact that the Astros won 11 games in a row and are still trailing the Cubs. But I’m sure they can keep up that 1.000 winning percentage for the rest of the season.
The most frustrating part of last night’s game wasn’t Clement pulling an Al Czervik in the third inning, or Remlinger showing the accuracy of a syphillitic monkey at a dunk tank, it wasn’t even the fact that unofficially the Cubs stranded 37 runners yesterday. No, the most frustrating part of last night was watching every Cubs righthanded hitter make like Don Quioxte and stubbornly take on the windmill that was (ironically enough) the wind howling in from left field.
It’s true that the Cubs would have likely scored a dozen runs last night if the wind was either non-existent or blowing out. E-ramis would have hit two homers, Derrek Lee two, and Moises and Mike Barrett hit shots that had a chance. Nomar seemed like the only righthanded batter with a clue. How about a line drive?
Corey Patterson proved that the wind didn’t have much of an effect to right field. His first homer was so long that Chip forgot it even happened.
At times I feel like I might actually be imagining how irritating Chip is. Can somebody let me know if in fact he seemed to be openly rooting for Houston last night?
I have a theory (here we go…) that because Chip is so hated by the Cubs, that he doesn’t want them to succeed. It’s like this. Chip was no doubt picked on mercilessly in high school by the football team. I’m sure they pulled his underwear up to his neck on a daily basis and they probably shoved his pudding packs down his pants. In gym class, Chip used to hope he had lice so he’d be segregated from the rest of the students. Unfortunately, he grew in Missouri, and everybody has lice there.
So Chip developed a deep seeded hate for the football team. He didn’t actually go to the games, rather he played Dungeons and Dragons with the other social misfits, but he rooted against that football team. They were bullies and he wanted them to get their comeuppance. And, because he’s a prickly little twit I’m sure he used the word comeuppance.
I have a hunch the only thing missing this year is the Dungeons and Dragons. Clubhouse sources indicate that Kent Mercker and Moises Alou give Chip wedgies on regular intervals. The pilot of one of the charter planes the Cubs use claims that Chip never escapes a flight without a pantlode of pudding. And so, Chip’s hoping the Astros, with his beloved Beege can keep up their absurd (and temporary) hot streak. If not them, then the lovable Marlins with their huge fan base (who have actually known the Marlins were still in existance for nearly 340 days now) will do. If not the Marlins, then maybe those loveable, huggable Barry Bonds-led Giants! Chip just wants somebody to beat the Cubs.
Here’s the thing you have to take into account about this last month of the season. The Cubs will lose some games that just make you scratch your head and wonder how it’s possible. Losing to Sun-Woo Kim-Woo last night is one of them. It’s hard to lose a game in which the other team gives you three runs. But then again, it’s not so hard when you give them two right back.
This Cubs team has given us reason to think the end is here a few times this year. It goes all the way back to blowing that six run lead in St. Louis in early June. They were never going to recover from the Bruce Froemming game against San Diego, or the Farns’ implosion against the Dodgers and the Astros. It’s true that eventually they could reach a tipping point where the hellacious ways they can find to lose games will finally do them in. But that’s still a ways off.
All the Astros are doing this year is what the White Sox did last year. They’re turning it on in a disappointing season just in time to get their fans pumped up, only to pull the rug out from under them because there’s no way they can sustain it. It’s true that they’ve won 19 of 22, and it’s true that all three of those losses came to the Cubs. But it’s their death rattle. It’s the prolonged moment of clarity before it all ends. Trust me on this. When have I led you astray?
The Marlins are a concern and you just know that in the end it’s going to come down to them and the Cubs…again. I’d rather take them on this year without Derrek Lee and Pudge Rodriguez, though.
But that’s just me.
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ESPN has some new SportsNation thing they’re touting today. All it is a chat room. Oooh! How exciting. Besides, they’re in denial. Look at this drawing of Stu Scott:
That looks like two functioning eyes to me. We know those don’t exist.
Honestly, I don’t care if Matt Clement is hurt. Does that make me a bad person? Do I care? He’s pitched like crap for a month now, and he’s just the kind of guy to come up with a reason for it.
Bud says that if you’re hosting a game, you’re the home team. Sounds good to be, Bud.
Regular Joe won’t be back this year. That’s surprising, I thought he was pitching in the seventh last night. What? That was Remlinger?
The Bears want to beat their mean, old, coach. We’re playing the Dolphins?
Don’t worry folks, Carl Ford is here! Whooo!
Pat Sajak’s kind of funny.
Mariotti puts down the doughnut to tell us he’s against the Cubs putting up a sign on the bricks behind home plate. I’m sure he can tell us in the paper, on his unlistenable radio show and on his unwatchable TV show to pound this point home. Nobody knows a sell out, like a sell out.
Mike Kiley with some fascinating stuff about Regular Joe’s arm and Ben Grieve’s face. OK, it’s not so fascinating.
Mike Kiley says that if Carlos Zambrano wins a bunch more games he might win the Cy Young! Oh, that Mike Kiley, he’s way out on a limb, there.
The Wizard of Roz on the new HBO Sports documentary and it sounds like Tommy Hutton thinks Chip Caray’s a douche, too.
Jayson Stark takes the Yankees side on their request for a forfeit from the Devil Rays.
Lamar Gordon is now a Dolphin. I thought he was a running back! Oh, I kill me. I’ll be here all night! How about another hand for my opening act… Alex Kaseberg!
Ray Allen wants a hundred million….dollars? For Ray Allen? Really? No thanks.
A British judge says that a 12 year old girl was asking for it.
America’s finest news source wonders what we’re making small talk about:
I have sex with 12 year olds in England.
Huh? Explain, please, Michael. I thought the reason we got DiFelice was to have a criminal behind the plate.
I’m still wondering about Macias batting second. That one has me dazed and confused.
I also think part of the problem is when the Cubs play these AAA-level teams like the Expos and the Brewers they let them hang around, whereas here as of late the Astros and Marlins have been able to beat up and blow out the Reds, Pirates, and Mets.
B.C.-
Why don’t use BUY my space instead of renting it on a daily basis?
I’m wondering about Macias playing at all. Why don’t we play one of our outfielders in the outfield? Like say, DuBois.
Du-who?
Whoever is producing the Cubbie games on Fox needs a new gig. That kid in the Cubs towel from yesterday’s loss haunted my dreams last night.
B.C.–While it’s easy to belittle and dismiss the likes of the Expos and Brewers, they still have some (few, but they do exist) professional players who are capable of high output and exceptional games.
Thumbing your nose at certain teams the Cubs *should* be able to beat is just whiny. Whinning is annoying.
The bottom line is the Cubs are not a dominant team. They haven’t been all year. Stop deluding yourself in thinking they are, and maybe you’ll be a lot less disappointed. And perhaps less shrill in your tired Cubs Suck mimicry.
The Cubs Towel Kid they kept showing was haunting, but I got a kick out of his "Curses, foiled again!" fist shuffling as the Cubs wasted a great chance in the 10th or 11th.
At least you can be secure in the knowledge that this kid was a one-off appearance and won’t be showing up regularly like the hag with the old lady hat in the front row, near the Cubs on-deck circle.
I agree, #7. That kid was scary.
Also, there weren’t enough shots of me.
You know, of course, that I am demanding pics of Mrs. Walker. And how did she get past MY appreciative eyes?
I’ll bet if Todd Walker got to play more (like he should’ve last night against a right-handed starter and a lefty throwing the next day), they’d show his wife more often.
Grud’s AB in the 9th was pathetic. He looked at two right down the middle.
I’m sure my neighbors were wondering why they kept hearing me yell "Quit hitting it the f–king air!!!". I just can’t understand how hard it is to figure out that the wind was gonna knock down ANY fly ball to left. The Expos won because they were able to dink a few basehits together (and stand at the plate and watch Billy Bob Remlinger walk in two runs).
At this point, Maddux is the guy I’d want out there for pretty much a guaranteed quality start tonight. The wind will once again be blowing in. Let’s get a clue.
The wind is blowing in again tonight, and that’s not good news for a team that is dependant on the homerun. Alas, I’ve heard folks on this cite give Chippy a hard time for saying this over and over again. But, more than anything, it explains all of the Cubs early season shutouts. Cold weather=wind blowing in=Cubs anemic offense.
My favorite part of last night was when their chinese pitcher….woo woo whatever his name is retired like 5 or 6 in a row then gives up a hit. Stone says he was starting to run out of gas. Then they show his pitch count at like 75 or something. Normally I dont have a problem with Stone but I think Chip must be rubbing off on him or something.
Do I actually go by "Sunny" or was that just Chip’s interpretation of my name?
Sloth, I was going to add that I watched almost all of the game last night and didn’t see the shot of Walker’s wife everyone is drooling over either.
I will help you cub nation…..give the Astros three bombs in the first.
I’m in center today though, so that ought to help you cubbies out a little. Plus, it’s hilarious to watch!
Make it 4 homers…Astros 5 Reds 1
Gabor-
Check the last link (British judge…)
I don’t want to get into this, but…JH, your point about even bad teams having players that are capable of exceptional play is valid, however, I think you are overlooking the fact that the Expos did NOT play well last night. The Expos are not the kind of team that should be able to overcome giving up 3 unearned runs and still win a game. Their bullpen should not be able to outpitch ours in an extra inning game. The Cubs have been letting teams off the hook all year, and the games given away are starting to add up.
Christ, do I suck.
The problem with this team is the fact that they don’t come into a series meaning to sweep it. They just want to win or split the series. That’s why we can’t roll off 10 straight. It shouldn’t be that hard. But when you have Clement and Prior, being wusses, you can’t win back to back to back games. It’s always something with this tortoruous team.
Excuses, excuses, excuses.
But when Baker has to constantly use guys like Goodwin, Macias, Bako, and now this Murray in critical situations- we all know the result. They’re not going to get done and they’re not going to be successful.
Our bullpen has been shotty all year long. If you have to result to going to that, we definitely don’t have a prayer. We use 3-5 bullpen pitchers a game and guess what? One or two of them might be on. Those other ones couldn’t even take a gun barrel to their heads and connect.
Folks, as fans, I think we need to come back to reality and remember those days as Cub fans that we were just happy not getting beat by double digits day in and day out. We didn’t pay close attention to every game and every detail of that game.
This is the year we’ll always look back on and remember as a Cub, what could have been? What could have been if this team actually had some guts?
I know I’ve questioned a lot of what Baker has done this year. But quite honestly, I’ve thought about it. It’s not Baker, it’s these pathetic players. Big salaries with no pride in the real game of baseball. If they actually had to perform for their salaries, some of them would be in a world of hurt. We’ll see in these next couple of weeks who the real players are. If I was Baker, I would play those real players who have real heart. Why not, what do you have to lose, but be another Cub team that didn’t win it.
what’s a pantlode anyway? did you intend to write pantLOAD, Andrew? hmmmm?
or is pantlode like implode, like your Cubs are doing.
I am done for the day. I will pitch a career game against you Cubs in about 10 days though. Beware of me!!!!
Sun
Woo
Kim
Woo
Has anyone noticed that my man-love for Mark Lamb is starting to rival that of Chip and Beege?
Can’t we get one o’ them hurricanes to hit Houston, or sum’thin?
Last night’s game was just it for me. I am so tired of the Cubs. First of all, Jim Hendry is a moron. I mean, he traded for Ben Grieve and Mike DiFilice. Not only that, but he traded away He Seop Choi and did you see how many HRs he hit for the Marlins in April!?
Don’t even get me started on Nomar. He comes here and everyone cheers their hearts out for him and he TAKES GAMES OFF!
Then there’s Baker. He can’t do anything right, whether it’s putting a pitcher in or not putting him in. He’s just wrong any way he goes. From now on I’m calling him Bullshite Baker.
You know who I really hate? Sammy Sosa. All year, he swings for the fences, team be damned, but last night when we really need a home run, Sammy’s sitting on the bench. What the hell!?
Anyway, I’ve had enough. I’m going to wait to see who wins between the Yankees and Red Sox and that’s my new favorite team. I’m pulling for the Yankees, though, because Joe Torre seems like a great manager.
Looks like a word to me.
Houston, we have a problem!
I hope the Beege lets me touch his World Series ring!
Boy, the Reds sure look scrappy. I wish we had eight games left with them.
Oh, wait, we do.
No. 30 is my new hero. But don’t tell anyone you were trying to be satirical, or else you’d have to join my Powderpuff Posse. I suppose I could make you Treasurer or something.
Hey No. 30 if you want Hee Seop back I’ll go back and play for the Marlins.
I Dodger, no Fishie or Bear Baby.
I hit .164 for Dodger! We win pernant!
Shhh, Derrek. I think No. 30 is being sarcastic.
Andy,
you meant "crappy" right?
Andy,
you meant "crappy" right?
Am I supposed to panic, or what?
CT–I agree with your points, but my initial motivation for writing in #8 was to address the "Shoulda’s" that have gripped too many Cub fans like a pandemic.
It’s getting to be awfully painful to hear the hue and cry of "The Cubs should have…" and it always tilts toward what should have happened instead of what did happen.
The likes of B.C. and BakerBasher and his/her ilk are too wrapped up in the "shoulda" scenarios and seemingly refuse to address the realities.
Teams like the Expos will scrap out a win from time to time, even though the odds (and talent) aren’t in their favor. To dismissively wave one’s hand is so much whiny exasperation. Please stop, and accept the fact that a doddering, lesser skilled team with far less wins can put one over on you.
Even a blind squirrel gets an acorn once in a while.
We have six games left with Houston. Remember last year, when we openly rooted for the Astros to make the playoffs over the Cubs? What’s to stop us from tanking our remaining games with them this year, fear of losing the division? Muahahahahahaha!
Since I did such a great job for my other teams, the Marlins grabbed me up. Go ahead and draw a line through Florida Marlins on the contenders scorecard.
the blog is up…5 hours late
Sloth, you are a self promoting… ah… never mind.
Scrapy? The Reds? They are 5 1/2 games better than us.
If you are looking forward to 8 games with them, you should expect to win about 5 considering you only won 3 of 5 from us.
It’s not like you link to your piece of crap blog, every time you post.
Or is it?
Who says I’m a criminal?
"Mike DiFelice, backup catcher for the Arizona Diamonbacks, was arrested on charges he assaulted two women outside a nightclub: One woman told police DiFelice burned her with a cigarette lighter after she tried to prevent him from groping another woman."
http://www.whiteribbon.ca/articles/default.asp?aID=842
Anybody got a light?
Look, I’m as big a Cubs fan as anyone here, but why is it that if you complain about a pathetic effort by the team you love, you’re told to shut up? I’m not defending the idiotic ramblings of the Basher. I’m saying that if you want to complain about Clement wussin’ out, or the Cubs right-handed thumpers swinging for the seats in the face of a galeforce wind, why does that make you an arsehole? This team has underachieved, and many of the player’s have acted like asses. Let me complain because they’re pissing away a playoff spot that was theirs for the takin’
#47
The above is called, "irony."
I know what you’re gonna say. Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don’t get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony’s not really a, a high priority. We haven’t had any irony here since about, uh, ’83, when BC was the only practitioner of it. And he stopped because he was getting tired of being stared at.
Remember how angry the Satanic Fowl were with me back in the mid-70s when I allegedly allowed a dropped third strike go past me in a game against the Pirates that enabled them to eventually win and go to the playoffs instead of the Cardinals? Yeah, Don Denkinger and I are owed some payback from those paranoid hillbillies, so don’t put anything past them.
B-sides, I know Chuck loves me.
Hey, what’s great about the Post-Kobe incident period is that we can finally find out exactly what he was dealing with in his room at the time of the alleged crime:
Damned if I’d take "No" for an answer…
I am pitching hurt at San Diego. In fact I am getting shelled. Looks like I can’t pitch against the Astros. Don’t worry my boy Rick A. will throw.
Is it wrong that I am so happily enjoying watching Matt Morris get lit up like Farrah Fawcett’s mattress?
Check out what Peter Gammons has to say in this week’s missive about Mr. Morris…
"Matt Morris, RHP, St. Louis. There was a time when he looked like he could get Martinez money. But while his ERA (4.40) is still higher than the past, the 15-8 record indicates his willingness to stay in games, his heart has been shown in previous postseasons and there is every chance his stuff will come back more and more."
That’s just what you want to bet on, that a guy who’s already had Tommy John surgery…is on the wrong side of 30 and who has a "chance his stuff will come back." Ooh, where do I write that check?
That’s not what it looked like, Sloth.
Andy, I still have my "Why The Cubs Will Win The World Series" issue of Sports Illustrated, the one with Kerry Wood on the cover. I keep it next to the "Lee Elia sends his regards to Cubs’ fans" story on my Cubs’ Memorabilia shelf. These are classics which intend to have buried with me. Or maybe tossed onto the pyre.
Beyond Morris, you’ve got to think the Cards are one-year-and-done (like the death rattle that is the Yankees). They have very little on the way up from the minors. The trade for Walker almost assures that Renteria will be elsewhere next year. Woody Williams is about to be designated a National Park due to his age.
This team, even moreso than the Cubs, is built to win in 2004. The Cubs look, with a healthy Prior, Zamboni, Wood, Lee, Barrett, and yes, even Corey (light went back on last night) to be solid through 2007. And with cash freeing up from sayonaras to Alou, Clement and Sosa, plus Maddux after next year (likely), the Cubs are in great financial shape to sign free agents.
I was never as confident in 2004 as the year of the Cubs as I was in 2005.
That said, the ability of this team to piss away what is being plattered for them, and to be angry at everyone else while doing so, is simply amazing.
I have 14 wins, do I get "Matt Morris" money now?
It says 2004 is the year of the Cub, Sloth, not 2005.
I decided to listen to the Satanic Red Fowl game today. Wayne Hagan brings up more Cub info than Chip brings up about the Cards. These announcers cannot talk about there own team. He keeps saying remember those comebacks at Wrigley. I remember a couple comebacks last September at Wrigley. He also brings up that the Cubs are lucky to be in the playoff chase. What a total assclown. Worry about your own team. The shaky starting pitching lately, the pine tar bullpen, the hanging fastball closer, the old 1st baseman, the weary knee of Rolen, and the HIV+ dog Lassie is tagging. He also talks about the big lead they have in the central. Good for you! You still make the playoffs whether you win by one game or twenty. Sorry for the complaining, but Wayne Hagan is almost as bad as Chip….Almost.
2004 is the year of the Cub what?
The Cub Cookie? The Cub Coronary? The Cub Collapse?
I can’t wait to hear the complaints from St. Louis about how they got screwed in their trade because Larry Walker only played in 52 games in 2005. I mean, Larry Walker, injured? Who could see that coming.
It can’t be collapse. They were never far enough on top to have collapsed.
2004 is the year of the Cub blowing more opportunities than Taylor Hayes.
Maddux is here two more years if he gets the minimum innings (which he’s more than on pace to). Sorry. That’s why he came, for a three year deal.
#30 A former Cub fan, I thought I was negative. Ease up a bit there.
I do however agree with #49 Brian.
We do have the right to complain about this team consisting of assclowns. #41 JH, it isn’t acceptable losing games to the Expos either. They are a pathetic team that should always be beaten, especially in a playoff chase.
These Cubs take everybody lightly. They should go in with the mindset that everybody is as good as the Cardinals at this point. Oh no though, we can walk through this thing with our eyes closed, and people will just sidestep us because we are the so called best team the Cubs have had for over 100 years.
That’s horse manure if you have that logic, which these assclowns do.
It will definitely be interesting to see how we do against the Pirates and the Reds. We have a combined 14 games against these two teams. Of those 14 games, you should really take at least 11.
But guess what, we’ll probably take 8. Those 3 games we don’t take are very big losses. But this team thinks 8 games against these teams are good enough. Why would you want to sweep a series or two? Pathetic, absolutely pathetic is the way to define this team right now. They got nothing, no heart and no pride.
Maddux needs 400 innings to vest year 3. He’s on pace for about 213. I expect his 2005 to be fewer innings than his 2004. It’s gonna be very close.
Who knew that Mariotti put the doughnut down long enough to troll at desipio.com?
Does anybody realize that when I went down, this team was never the same?
Well, you’ll have to do it without me, because I’m basically out for the year.
I’ll be sweating it for you though.
Baker Basher took a little bit of thunder away from what I was going to say regarding the schedule…
I think the Cubs, at bare minimum, will need to do the following two things:
1. Beat Florida outright in the six games. They have to go 4-2. 3-3 probably won’t cut it.
2. Go AT WORST 9-5 in those 14 games against the Pirates and Reds. We really should get 10 or 11 wins in these games, but with the way the Cubs have played against these sorts of teams this season, I’m keeping my optimism lower.
Do you honestly think you have a chance in hell with playing a guy like me?
Also, Houston has a doubleheader tomorrow at Pittsburgh.
The Cubs didn’t have much luck in their doubleheader at PNC Park earlier this season. Let’s hope the same holds for Houston.
B.C. sorry about taking away some of your heat. I second your thoughts though. I think we need a sweep of those Marlins this weekend to get us on the right track. If we could get some great solid pitching from the starters, I think we could achieve the sweep.
But with Prior and Clement being the way they’ve been, don’t count on it.
Tonight the Expos are starting a guy with a 7.22 ERA. 7.22 is not an ERA, it’s a hat size. If the Cubs don’t win tonight with Maddux on the mound, it is time to panic.
I’m watching the Cardinals play today and good teams just don’t have efforts like these ever. I think they’ll be lucky to make the playoffs at this rate.
I also predict that the Cubs will have to win more games than the Astros, Marlins, Giants and Padres to win the Wild Card.
Now that BC and the Basher are sharing a brain, I think we’re all in deep trouble. I don’t mean Cubs fans, I mean humanity.
If you need me I’ll be in my bunker.
Greg Maddux pitches a complete game shutout and the Cubs win 1-0. Maddux also scores the game’s only run as Gabor Paul Bako II hits one of his bloop hits into shallow left field for the game winning RBI.
If the Cubs lose tonight, they’ll be suffering from Scott Downs’ Syndrome!
Am I batting behind Maddux, #75?
Maddux gets on base somehow and I drive him in? So either Greggie’s batting 8th and I’m 9th, or Greggie’s in the pitcher’s spot and I’m leading off. I know Dusty gets creative, #75, but I just don’t see him making those moves.
If the Cubs lose tonight, Chip might have his hair shaved off his testicles by the Beege.
Calvin Murray, cf
Neifi Perez, ss
Jose Macias, rf
Ramon Martinez, 3b
Gabor Bako, 1b
Mike DiFelice, c
Tom Goodwin, lf
Glendon Rusch, 2b
Sergio Mitre, p
I don’t think Baker Basher and myself are sharing the same brain.
The point is everyone is harping on how easy the Cubs’ schedule is, when this team hasn’t shown it can consistently beat underperforming teams.
Why aren’t I batting second?
So who would play 1b if I needed a day off? I’ve nearly played every day. You guys sure are lucky that a) I’m not a big pussy and/or b) I don’t go around breaking my groin, achilles, elbow, shin, back, etc. all the time.
I’m back in the lineup, buddy.
Another wonderful baserunning play by yours truly
What happened? I was too busy doodling HouStOn RoX on my notepad to pay attention.
And I was too busy polishing and dusting my framed photos of Roy Oswalt and Roger Clemens to care about what’s going on?
Just wondering if the fans booed Sosa as he got introduced tonight?
I’m sure they let him have it after he struck out yet again.
Playing from behind again tonight, that’s a surprise.
And if the Cubs do come back and get a lead of 2 runs or less, we’ll be sure to blow it for you guys
I think Roger Clemens and Roy Oswalt are BOTH going to win Cy Young this year!
Did you see how I almost beat that bunt out? I’ll be one of the few 20 HR 20 SB catchers next season. The Cubs better re-sign me
Next time you’re pretending like the players are WAY OUT OF LINE for attacking you, you stupid moron, look at what you just said at the end of that half-inning.
"Scott Downs is outduelling Greg Maddux."
BS. Maddux has given up an infield single and a flyball that Sammy Sosa horribly misplayed into a double. Downs hasn’t given up much, but he’s given up one more real hit than Maddux has. But you make a point of saying that Downs is outduelling Maddux. You deserve every bit of vitriol Cubs players and fans give you.
Glad to see where making Scott Downs into the next Cy Young again tonight. These guys are terrible. Can we not take a pitch and just drive it into the gap for a double. If we can’t hit homeruns, we’re just not going to score at all.
I’d have rather gone with the lineup in post #80. We know those guys are worthless so anything that was unexpected would have been bonus.
I’d suck my own, if I had one. I am a huge idiot and nobody in real life or on the internet likes me. I like to watch a baseball team I hate. I watch every game they play. God really has it in for me.
"Scott Downs just a little bit better than Greg Maddux tonight."
Haha! I just KEEP doing it! Reality has no bearing on what I say. Go Cub opponents!
Why doesn’t Chip just go work for a team that he likes? The Cubs have one of the biggest fanbases in baseball, yet they can’t find a decent announcer that will actually root for the team or at least not tiny pop boners over every other team in the league?
Words cannot do justice to just how badly I am playing.
If Dusty had any balls at all, he would yank every starter out of there and put in the scrubs. This is down right pathetic.
Maddux is pitching a hell of a good game and these other assholes sit back and don’t do diddle except act like a bunch of no good for nothing jackasses.
I am down right pathetic. Desipio is a hell of a good site and I sit back and don’t do diddle except act like a no good for nothing jackass.
We’ve gotten 2 hits in 5 innings. Very, very, very sad.
Are they trying to break a record here for quickest game every played?
All of them probably have to get to their hookers and spend their millions tonight at some blowout party.
"We", Basher? I didn’t know you were on the team. So which player are you?
This is my last comment of the night. Maybe we need to lose this game tonight 1-0 and get beat by another no name pitcher.
Maybe this team just needs this to light a fire up their asses. We’ve been leading this wildcard thing the past so many weeks by virtually playing shitty ball.
Maybe if we trail in this thing we can take a page out of Houston’s book. That means play exceptional ball and roll off about 10 or 12 wins in a row. Just maybe these guys can pick up their jockstraps and develop some pride and heart for the game. Don’t count on it though.
I am Wendell Kim. I am the ultimate dumbass.
The announcers hate us. Steve said we have been awful this evening. Two hits in seven innings off of a guy with a 7.70 ERA coming in is good! They mentioned that the Astros have won twelve in a row and will be ahead of us if we lose tonight. They should be banned from the city of Chicago.
Fork: Meet back.
How are we supposed to exploit an easy ending schedule if we can only go 3-3 in six games against one of the ultimate bad baseball teams, Montreal?!?!?
Should I at least start getting warmed up?
And did anyone notice that #31 didn’t seem to be overly thrilled with coming out of the game?
I know I got criticized sharply once for using this "I" word before, but I have to use it again.
This… Now THIS is inexcusable…
Here’s your daily dose. Get off the ledge. The Cubs had a bad game. Sure Bako sucked, but we knew that. Of course that doesn’t explain Sammy who I regularly fellate going in on a line drive 2 feet short of the warning track or Alou falling asleep for the 26th time on the basepath. Or the inability to get more than 2 hits. Or Remlinger giving up a gopher ball with the wind howling in (albeit more from left). Wow. If you guys aren’t about to get on board this team as they roll to the playoffs, I don’t know what to tell you.
I was bitching about Bako as I left. I came to this team to make the playoffs, get a ring, etc. But shit, John Kruk has more balls than this team put together.
You guys are surprised that the Cubs go 3-3 against the Expos? We took them 4 outta 6.
But be positive! You have a dead heat with the Marlins and 10 games with Cinci and Pitt.
The Cubs always get beat by shitty pitchers. Always.
Sorry guys we put up about 9 runs a game. Don’t think we are going to all the sudden go cold. Season over.
I’m sure this was caused by Chip and Steve not allowing Dusty to use his original toothpicks.
And did you hear Chip bad mouthing the team? I hate him. What’s to bad mouth? He’s a wimp who got beaten up by the football team and is only resentful. It had nothing to do with the steaming pile of shit that showed up at 1060 W. Addison tonight. Hey, want to hear me make jokes about Jim Edmonds or Biggio?
Okay. I shouldn’t make fun of Andy. I like this site a lot, but please don’t tell me that you can’t bad mouth this team after a game like that.
The Cubs sucked tonight.
Chip and Steve are ass clowns.
These are too separate non-related yet true statements. They have nothing to do with each other, #114. Bash the hell out of the Cubs for sucking, sure, but stop with the satircal mock-blaming Chip for the loss. Nobody blamed the loss on Chip, for god’s sack. They just made fun of him, like always, because he’s a big douche.
My point was just that people give him shit for allegedly rooting for the other team. I don’t buy it. He had nothing good to say about the Cubs because there was nothing good to say.
Of course people give him shit for openly rooting for other teams…because he does. There wasn’t anything positive to say about tonight’s "effort", but that certainly doesn’t change the fact that I hate Chip as an announcer and want to stab myself in the eye every time he whisper-cries about Craig Biggio or demands the Gold Glove for Albert Pujols. Not to mention how cheesy and ridiculous and asinine everything he says is.
On the bright side, the Cubs did not lose this game by only 1 run, thus sparing us from having to hear that idiotic stat again. But hey, let’s meet back here tomorrow so that we can divide up the blame. There’s plenty to go around. Frankly, I’m blaming our anemic offense on John Shoop.
I don’t know, #120, but I’d say NOW’S a good time to go BACK on the juice.
Cubs never win us, anyway. Maybe because the wind is more likely to be blowing in?
Gee, do ya think Sam was maybe on the juice all those years, and his complete collapse and ineffectiveness as a ballplayer now–as well as his frequent injuries–just, JUST might, be the aftereffects of long-term steroid use??
Naw, couldn’t be. Sammy would never use me. And we all know rusty needles never talk.
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