Late last night, Fat Lance Berkman homered to erase a ninth inning Giants lead and officially put the Cubs in the driver’s seat in the NL Wild Card race. Thanks. We’ll take it from here.
Behind another ho-hum 15 win season from legend-in-residence Greg Maddux, the Cubs won their eighth straight game against the mighty Pirates of Pissburgh and have now won 12 of their last 15 games. Maddux drove in two runs and pulled off more unnecessary flops than Lassie Edmonds can cram into a homestand in the Cubs 6-3 win. For many of us the only downside to the day was when our ears began to spontaneously bleed just seconds after Chip Caray referred to the Pirates as the “Burgers.”
Maddux has now won 15 games for 17 straight seasons. Not even strike shortened seasons in 1994 or 1995 could stop him. Did you think a little thing like a return to the Cubs would derail it? It’s fitting that the Cubs two most consistent starters won their 15th games in back-to-back efforts. Now, maybe Greg can get Carlos Zambrano to do it for another 16 years. Provided of course that Carlos doesn’t do most of it in Atlanta, of course.
Now, more than ever the Cubs know what their task at hand is. If they win, nobody can stop them. The only scoreboard watching they need to do is on their own game. The Astros are off to Milwaukee for the weekend where the Brewers have assumed the fetal position and are just hoping that eventually the other teams will stop kicking them.
Can we get a Wes Obermueller sighting? Would it kill the Brewers to give him a start against the Astros, considering he finished their season last year on that glorious Saturday when the Cubs won the doubleheader and the Astros ran around trying to find somebody to give them the team Heimlich?
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. At night I dress like a Hispanic and because of that, the Tribune Company offered me a job cleaning the newsroom. So the cinco of us, Consuela, Guillermo, Jose, Jose and myself were doing our normal chores on Wednesday night. It’s not as easy as it looks. You have to vacuum the doughnut crumbs up from the meeting room, John Kass does some hellacious things to the executive washroom and of course, you have to poke Mike Downey with a stick to see if he’s still alive. Lately we’ve just been holding a mirror under his nose. He doesn’t breathe hard enough to fog it up, but he still drools on it.
Wednesday night, I was over at Phil Rogers’ cubicle and after neatly stacking his gay porn magazines for him and celebrating the fact that Jose had drawn the short straw and was giving Phil’s Alex Rodriguez Blow Up Doll a thorough orifice “cleansing”, I noticed a note Phil had taped to his computer monitor. It was a reminder note to himself. Normally, I don’t pry. Just like the time I decided not to mention that Bob Greene’s toupee had love notes stuck to it by a 12 year old girl that were postmarked in 1974. Anyway…Phil’s note said,
Dear Phil,
You are the greatest sportswriter in the world. Remember that! Cherish it! You know more about baseball than any other writer in the world!
I love me,
Phil Rogers
PS – For Friday’s edition write the dumbest piece of crap you can positively think of about Nomar. Especially if that brilliant Chris DeLuca beats you to it on Thursday!
Somebody’s been watching way too much Dr. Phil.
Here’s a handy tip. If you ever have the urge to write yourself one of those self-motivational notes…just stick a gun in your mouth. Do us all a favor. Thanks.
So here’s the steaming pile of feces that Phil so proudly turned into his editor last night.
If you don’t have the time, I’ll break it down for you.
Phil says that Nomar doesn’t deserve a big contract and that the Cubs could just go out and sign one of these studs to play shorstop…(get this list), Omar Vizquel (old), Jose Valentin (bad), Cristian Guzman (bad), Neifi Perez (do we really want to press our luck) and of course Orlando Cabrera.
Maybe Ed Lynch wrote this and sent it in as a prank?
It’s not that difficult to see that the Cubs traded for Nomar for the long-term. If their idea was just to catch lightning in a bottle and patch the shortstop position for two months, they wouldn’t have traded for a guy whose Achilles’ won’t be right until March. They got Nomar because they wanted him to get comfortable in Chicago so they could sign him and keep him. Just how difficult is that to understand? The fact that both Chicago newspapers employ baseball experts who are still trying to figure out what two colors to mix together to get “green” is an insult to all of us.
You wonder if when the Tribune and Sun-Times hold interviews for that job that they don’t turn away candidates and say, “That guy’s just not dumb enough!”
Look, if you want to go to battle for 162 games with Neifi Perez because the Cubs got lucky and got through eleven games with him at short, try and fight the urge. And this isn’t a slam on Neifi, because he’s done a great job. But the law of averages are a powerful thing. If you started him in ten more games his batting average would find a way to get to the .240 that it yearns to be at.
Here’s a handy reference for guys like Phil who want to immediately equate Orlando Cabrera’s arrival as the reason the Red Sox are going to the playoffs.
I’m sure that hefty .319 on base average he’s posted since coming to the Sox is the reason that they are winning. Or something.
Orlando will be 30 in November, which makes him a whopping year younger than Nomar. Quite the youth movement there.
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Death, taxes and 15 wins for Greggie.
Sammy says he’s still going to hop. Hey, if he just hops when he actually hits one out, what’s the problem?
Moron the Lucky Deer.
Kerry got his weak back about a week back, but now it’s gone.
I didn’t name my second-chance Survival Football team The Todd Johnson Experience for nothing.
R Dub tries to play nice with Randy Moss. He’s just trying to limit the torching he’s going to get on Sunday.
Ed Sherman actually watched “Hu$tle”. He’s a better man than I. I have less than no interest.
Another Rick Morrissey half-assed column? This is getting old.
Mariotti puts down the doughnut for more exciting Sammy hop coverage. It’s not like there’s anything interesting to write about.
Chris DeLuca on the Shawn Green Yom Kippur controversy. He gets a quote from noted theologist Matt Herges, too.
Greg Maddux is good.
Bryan Johnson…a fullback the Bears actually use. How novel.
The Wizard of Roz on Green’s decision.
TJ Simers proves the Dodgers can’t lose every game. Just most every game.
The Packers might still trade Mike McKenzie. Though their plan is sneaky. They’re going to trade McKenzie and instead send Al Harris to the new team. See, he looks just like Mike, only he sucks. Wait, there’s no way Mike Sherman would have thought of this. He’s still standing on the sidelines waiting to get a chance to pick up the spare.
This seems like a perfectly rational way to respond to a bad milkshake. If they’d gotten a bad Big Mac they were going to firebomb the place.
Oh, the irony. Check the headline.
Gee, I’m shocked that the “ugly one” on Sex and the City (though that could actually apply to three of them) is a lesbian. Shocked! Next you’ll tell me that Liza Minelli has married two gay men in her lifetime!
I’m the only hot one.
Mary Kay Latourneau wants to get married! Ah, if only I was 12 again.
You read it first here yesterday (somebody posted it in the CubsLive thread) but some Jacksonville U students are my heroes.
The world’s greatest newspaper says that China is demanding that laundry become an Olympic sport.
The MOST absurd thing about Rogers’ article (and that’s saying a lot) is that the ONLY reasonable alternative to letting Nomar go–prying Edgar from the Deadbirds–wasn’t even mentioned by him. If they were to let Nomar go, it would make sense ONLY if they went and stole Edgar and Mike Shannon and Joe Buck and the rest of the gasbags cried in their pillows. But, if they can’t do that, then there is no other alternative–especially since they gave up two prospects to get Nomar.
Phil Rogers likes to cite that the Cubs are 11-4 when Nomar sits out, but with the gimpiness of the Cubs as a whole (Ramirez’s groin, Sosa’s hip, etc., Alou’s old age, Bako’s need to catch Maddux), Nomar’s presence has given Baker a lot more flexibility to swap guys out.
Now, I’ll concede that Baker sometimes goes overboard resting everyone on a given day. But generally, he’ll keep most of the big guys in the lineup when Nomar’s resting, and he’ll rest other people when Nomar’s in the lineup.
I guess I have a hard time understanding the whole problem with Nomar. The psychotic media and fans in Boston freak out because the guy acts a little perturbed at Baby Theo dangling his name around in his attempt to one-up the Yankees and get A-Rod. This is a team who fired their manager over staying too long with a pitcher in the ALCS. Hell, Dusty wouldn’t last a month in Beantown.
Rogers also fails to point out that Cabrera dogged it in Montreal for the past year or so. Yeah, that’s a guy I’d take over Nomar. renteria is slumping and his back may be something to be concerned about, but he’s the alternative if the Cubs don’t re-sign Nomar.
Andy, two points.
First, I know it’s been rehashed many times, but doesn’t the events of 1969 at least warrant a mention in passing. I, personally, am petrified at what might happen this weekend. Yeah, the Cubs are playing well, and the Mets are a team really struggling, but the karma can’t be good heading into this stadium, this late in the season, with a lead in the race for a playoff spot.
Second, Kris Benson is pitching, and you don’t think that’s a good enough excuse to put up at least one Anna Benson picture?
See, I can do it:
Well, reading Phil’s column, one sees that he lists the available shortstops in the context of signing Carlos Beltran.
With Beltran signed, I’d venture that Renteria is out of the picture.
Now, the mention of Nifty Perez? Dumb.
Mrs. Rogers says that Nomar dropping to sixth in the line-up would be a huge story in Beantown but it is not in Chicago? Last time I looked, don’t people like Phil dictate the stories. Plus it shows that putting Nomar in any spot doesn’t matter. If Boston had studs like Lee, Aramis, and Alou, it wouldn’t be a story either. The only stud in Beantown is Manny.
Please elaborate…
"Lately we’ve just been holding a mirror under his nose. He doesn’t breathe hard enough to fog it up, but he still drools on it."
Has Downey found a way to defy gravity and drool upwards, or was he upside down?
On the floor, face down?
B.C.,
I’ll take my 1984 and shove it up your 1969 aese, B.C.
How dare someone not named Sloth or Mike Murphy–anybody who’s not a friggin baby boomer– be haunted by ’69?
A) You weren’t there in the first place and B) If you WERE around in ’84 (AND ’89 AND ’98) the only thing you know about is whenever the Cubs have a had a good team–admitedly rarely-they have never failed to kick the Mets’ around.
Leave the generational burden to those who lived during the said generation.
#7, I think they’re just holding the mirror too low.
BC, in 1969 the NY Mets won 100 games and knocked the Cubs off while the 2 teams were fighting over 1st place.
The 2004 Mets are 67-86 and fighting over October tee times.
The magic record from here on in is 7-3 to solidify the wild card. You probably could slide by with a 6-4 record. I agree with Dolan about the New York series. The Mets really suck, but watch out and don’t fall asleep behind the wheel. Just keep on winning. Rusch, Prior, and Wood go at least 7 innings in each of those games and keep the walks down, I think we’re in business.
Regarding Nomar, I believe he’s going to be a big impact in these last 10 games. That’s why we got him for this stretch run. We’ll see what he’s all about. I’d put my money down that he’ll come through.
GO CUBS!
Screw you, Straw. None of those guys has 40 dongs.
But how many Cubs got a cameo spot on the Apprentice?
David you are worthless in the World Series games at the National League parks, when your wideass will commit 3 errors. Your 40 dongs are in a short porch to right field.
Nice cameo, Piazza. But admit it. You thought it was Queer Eye.
Finally, a lucid comment(s) by Baker Basher. The meds must be kicking in.
If the Cubs aren’t jacked up heading into this series and know where they’re at and what they’ve got to do, I don’t know what would do it.
We will send the Baker Basher into a tizzy. Just wait.
Basher:
7-3 "solidifies" the Wild card? More than that as 8-2 clinches.
I see the Astros going 7-3 or 8-2 down the stretch and the Giants will probably do no better than 7-3. That puts 7 wins as the number to clinch.
I’d venture that 6-4 makes it. 5-5 gets them a 1 game playoff.
We’re going 7-3 or 8-2 down the stretch? That’s news to me, because I thought we only had 3 in Milwaukee, then 3 with the Cards and 3 with the Rockies.
Interesting that we could go 7-3 as we too only have 9 games remaining. My english has improved.
Wow. I guess somebody doesn’t like me after all.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/09/24/missing.exec.ap/index.html
James Cockman? Sounds like my kind of guy.
Shut up, BC. The Mets-Cubs thing has about as much life left in it as I do.
BC,
Your posts are much more bearable when you post pictures of hotties.
Try it with your articles.
(How’s that for constructive?)
Anyone catch the four reasons last night why my show should be number one?
BC, are you heading over to Kam’s tonight to party with Mike Murphy and Jesse Rogers?
But a better friggin’ Division IA college football team is playing, at home, half the distance it takes to get to Champaign in DeKalb.
Under the lights, boyz. Go Huskies.
Din’t da Huskies loze last week?
Too much corn in their bellies from CornFest, no doubt.
Let’s hope they stayed out of the Paperback Grotto today and aren’t too tired for the evening’s game…
#27 brings up a good point. This current edition of Survivor clearly has the largest average breast size of any of the first edition.
Maybe the women’s tribe name should be the yabos.
Honesty compels me to say that #31 mean to type "any of the first EIGHT editions".
Hello out there anyone listening or watching the game tonight?
Hello Baker Basher! Hear you were looking for me? Here I am!
Nice move ace by putting in Farnsworthless. Once again, this guy proves how useless he is and what a piece of shit he is. WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY DID DUSTY PUT HIM IN?
The Farnworthless lucked out of one that inning. Dusty really likes playing with fire doesn’t he. I have an idea, you don’t use Kyle in these last 9 games and we’ll probably have no problems with this wild card. Enough of sweating out games when we don’t need to Dummy Dusty.
Now why couldn’t Dusty have put Leicester in to pitch the 7th and cause less stress and use Dempster in the 8th. Oh no, Dusty would rather use Farnsworthless and sweat it out. Dumbass ingnorant bastard is what Dusty is.
I am back in form buddies!!!
I’m a little late on this one, but I never watched "Sex and the City". I referred to them as The Cute One, The MILF, the Butter Face, and the One That Looks Like A Dude.
Turns out TOTLLAD is a carpet muncher…pardon me while I drop dead from shock.
F-you Baker Basher!!!!!!!!!!!
Bako should have pinch hit for Barrett. Jes, Baker is an idiot!
Baker Basher please stop watching the Cubs. Obviously you have sevre metal issues and cannot function. Please do this.
This just in:
Aramis Ramirez is pretty darn good. And he’s getting better.
I made the 10 o’clock news!
Basher…"you’re my boy", Blue, but we need to send Dr. Baker some positive energy…he sucks, but looks like we still might make it. It could be worse…we could have Larry Bowa back in a Cubs uniform. Baker’s job right now is to light a fire under Wood and Prior for the stretch run and the playoffs…I think they’re the keys.
I appreciate your feedback. But I have to state one thing, would the person who isn’t the real Baker Basher refrain from making their comments. There is and always will be just one true Baker Basher, especially on Desipio.com.
Now about last night’s game. What a gutty performance again from Glendon Rusch. That really hurt us taking Clement out of the starting rotation- we got a win. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings if we never see Wussy Matty pitch again in a Cubs uniform. If Baker has balls, that should happen. But once again, we know how Dusty hates stomping on anyone’s feet and hurting their feelings. So I’m sure he’ll get Clement in there somehow, just like he did with Farnsworthless.
Leicester was another one last night that had a great performance out of the pen. This guy can pitch and should be on the playoff roster being we make it, instead of the Farnsworthless.
Aramis came through again for us and props to Lee with a big hit. Prior and Wood need to take it from here and roll into the playoffs with a roar.
GO CUBS!
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I’m a piece of garbage and a moron.
Hey guys I’m back!!!!! 4 K’s…countless guys left on base.
At least I got my defense.
Buddy!!!!
My baseball team had won a playoff spot. Then I said, "But I don’t think my team is really ready for that kind of commitment," and promptly surrended a 2 out, 3 run, game-tying homer to some guy nobody’s ever heard of. I’m worse than Mel Rojas and my signing is something Jim Hendry now regrets.
Dusty just led off with me in the 11th inning of a 3-3 game with huge playoff implications. Thanks Dusty!
Hey, I didn’t walk two guys in the bottom of the 9th. Layoff fuckwad.
But hey in top of 11th Dusty is sending up Murray and Macias. Brilliant!!!!!!
I’ve left 8 guys on base.
Well, maybe they will win.
I’m what the guy who typed in the character of LaTroy Hawkins in order to defend LaTroy Hawkins is.
Dempster, for one thing isn’t the closer. For another thing, he struck out one of his walks TWICE on a check swing. For a third and final thing, LaTroy Hawkins just threw the Cubs season away. He’s a piece of garbage and anybody who defends him is garbage too. He’s talentless trash and I wish we’d never signed him. But hey, at least he makes up somewhat for his lack of talent with his awful attitude.
What a POS.
at Hawkins, but those two walks by Dempster and the men left on base in the 8th were the killers.
Don’t forget my 8 LOB!!!
Yep, #55 is right, our season is done. We won’t have the WC lead going into tomorrow because somehow the Giants will make up 2 games today.
I am the biggest, lamest, most worthless piece of shit imaginable. But I am The Gladiator! Buddy.
Sosa–fuckoff and die, dickwad.
Yo KKKKKKorey Patterson, nice approach at the plate shit for brains! Keep on pumping, I bet you can get another 10 K’s before the weekend is out, moran!!!!
Fucking Cubs idiots morans shitbirds!!!
Let’s not forget we didn’t bring LaTroy here to close games. If he could have stayed in the setup role, it would have been the one of the best signings of Hendry’s tenure.
-The Astros lost. Stay 2.5 back.
-The Giants and Dodgers still have 5 games against each other. This is the best thing for the Cubs. Even if their 6 game series is split 3-3, all we have to do is go 4-2 over that same span. If one of them takes over, we should be on top of the loser.
-If we can’t win tomorrow and can’t take 3 of 4 from the Reds- there’s room for concern.
GO CUBS
Some of us are cracking under the pressure of a second contending season in a row. They’re the ones sobbing, sitting in soiled diapers, and cursing uncontrollably. Sorry ’bout that.
The rest of us will wait and see what tomorrow brings.
GO CUBS!
Easy kids, let just calm down after this not surprising loss. Come on guys, what team are we following here. It’s the fricking Cubs. You know we had to blow a couple down the stretch in such popular fashion. Down to the last strike, another no namer ties the game up and another no namer hammers it home for the win. Just typical.
But anyway, you have to remember, we haven’t won more then 5 games in a row all this year if my memory serves me well. This would’ve been six today. We go 6-2 these last 8 games, we’re in.
Here’s what Baker needs to do to succeed in the last 8 games:
1)Keep Clement out of the starting rotation(doing well on this one, result last night-we won)
2)Every starter from here on out has to go at least 8 innings and I mean all 8 innings(not 7 1/3 bullshit)
3)It’s time to bench Sosa for good this season- 4 strikeouts and hitting into a doubleplay(one where we especially didn’t need it)Sammy you are the most pathetic 16 million dollar man ever
4)Enough is enough with Hawkins as closer. At this point it can’t get any Wuertz. That’s it, I would use Wuertz as my closer.
That’s the keys to getting in at this point. But realistically, we all know that it’s Dummy Baker. Not Smarty Baker.
We just have to keep crossing our fingers and hope the baseball God is good to us.
GO CUBS!
Shuddup, #50. The only thing I regret is not being able to kick your ass right now.
Yea, I don’t regret signing Hawkins. He’s a great closer. He’s 2 for 9 in converting 1-run saves, and he may have just cost us a playoff berth. I love that I signed LaTroy, just like I love that I signed Remlinger and Borowski. I should probably let somebody else GM the bullpen next year…
Yea, we’re just not used to contending, that must be it. It has nothing to do with an inexcusable loss at an inexcusable time of year. We’re just not used to contending.
Keep drinking that kool-aid, folks. If this loss didn’t shake whatever faith you had in this particular ballclub, you don’t have a functioning brain. The leadoff man is on pace to strike out 170 times, and I actually cheered when he fouled a pitch off today, so stunned was I to see it happen. The five hitter hasn’t made contact since Clinton was president. The closer is TWO for NINE in converting 1 run saves. TWO for NINE. And for those saying he wasn’t brought in to be the closer, stop kidding yourselves. He was, management made a mistake in signing him. He couldn’t do it before, he can’t do it now. The Cubs have never had such a bad closer, and it could not have happened at a worse time. But he’s the guy they wanted to close, so whatever. The manager is leading off eleventh innings in big games with Calvin Murray. He’s sending Mike Wuertz in to pitch in extra innings. This team has fundamental flaws that it’s not even trying very hard to cover up. I think they can make the playoffs, even after handing back a game in the worst possible fashion this afternoon. But what about afterwards? Even if they get a lead, work hard for one against a Russ Ortiz or a Woody Williams, what makes you think LaTroy Hawkins, who can’t get one out without giving up 3 runs in Shea Stadium, can shut down Pujols, Rolen, Edmonds, and on and on? He can’t. Can our starters throw 11 complete games? If not, we don’t have a shot at the World Series, because Baker will stick with Hawkins until there’s no season left for him to ruin.
Yea, I’m a sneaky moron. Will Mom cancel my net account? If not, you don’t have a shot of avoiding my unclever post-game managing diatribes.
Folks, Baker blew this game by bringing in Dempster to start the 9th. How many 3-run 9th inning leads has Hawkins blown? Not many. And about that 2-for-9 stat . . . that includes one-run leads he blew in the 7th or 8th inning when he was setting up. He’s been a stud for the last 3 weeks. Cut him some slack for one unfortunate pitch. Let’s get ’em tomorrow.
Yea, the Cubs never had such a bad closer as Hawkins.
Other than Alf, the Cubs have also had Mel Rojas and Rick Aguilera as closers, and that’s just in my lifetime! These guys don’t have anywhere close to talent Hawkins has.
Let’s be honest here. Yeah, today’s game is a very tough loss considering the circumstances, and the Giants coming back and beating the Dodgers makes it worse. But, really, we should have lost yesterday’s game but we didn’t. Also, the one game in Pittsburgh we won with the wild pitch and the final game in Cincy where we got Graves in the 9th were games we probably shouldn’t have won. But, we did. Losing one of these games would only be really bad had we lost those game.
Now, tomorrow will be tough since we are facing Leiter. However, the way the Cubs are they may blow up on him. The Cubs have scored five runs on the brutally inconsistent Benson and the no-name the Mets threw out there today. Now, with the Cubs facing one of the better lefties in the game, they’ll probably score 9 runs. It’s just the way they are.
One good part about today is Houston’s loss. Now, they realistically (If the Cubs do what they can and should be capable of down the stretch, which I think is 5-3) only get one more loss to play with for the rest of the season.
With 1 against the Brew Crew, 3 against the Cards, and 3 against a good hitting for a bad team Colorado club, I think the Astros can’t get through that with less than 2 losses at best.
So, if the Cubs go 5-3, then that leaves the Padres, Dodgers, and Giants.
If the Cubs go 5-3 the rest of the way, even if the Padres win out they can’t catch the Cubs.
Now, the second place team in the West is going to have at least two more losses, since LA and SF play four more times. If the Giants are the second place team, then if the Cubs go 5-3 that’s at worst a tie for the Wild Card at 92-70. And that’s assuming the Giants can sweep the start of the week series at San Diego.
Now, LA is ahead of us by two in the loss column. They get 4 with the afore-mentioned Rockies in Dodger Stadium before finishing with 3 against SF. If the Dodgers win tomorrow (It’s Weaver vs. Tomko, so who knows what the heck will happen), then I think that pretty much seals up the division for them barring an absolute collapse.
#67 you hit it on the nose. Hawkins should have been in there the from the start of the ninth. He hasn’t blown a three run lead when he takes it from the start. Dumpester will be good, but he blew his deal with the devil against Pissburgh. Dusty blew this game. He hasn’t blown many but this was one. Tommorrow we "leiter" up against Al. Don’t forget the offense blew a bunch of scoring opportunities today. Sorry folks, but offense is the key to the Cubs success. Pitching hasn’t lost us too many games this year. The bullpen is shakey, but not horrendous. Where are the Prior basher’s now!! He is still a stud and screw everyone that ripped on him. If the Cubs go 9-0 we will be just fine. Thank you Desipio and the Cubs!!
Thanks for mentioning us, #65, #67 & #70. Great minds must think alike.
As to Hawkins starting the 9th. Today was an audition for Dempster to replace Hawkins as closer. He failed.
But your real blame? Sosa and Korey. Shoulda been about 6 or 7 to 0 in the 9th.
Yes, the bullpen sucks. But the offense does have the ability to make the bullpen quality irrelevant. Korey’s 0-15 with 10 strikeouts is just laughable. And what is 7 for his last 52?
Ealier this year I was called out for comparing Korey to Kevin Orie. Well, Korey is about to strike out more this season than Orie did in his whole career of over 1000 PAs.
How is this team winning with two dead spots in their lineup? I have no idea.
If we weren’t Cub fans, it would be laughable just how bad Korey and Sham-me are. I mean, beyond awful. Does anyone doubt for even a minute that, had Sammy’s steroid abuse not caused him to miss six weeks from a sneezing attack (…pause while you consider just how ridiculous that is, for those who insist Sosa didn’t do steroids….), that he’d absolutely crush the single season K marks of Rob Deer, Jose Hernandez, Stormin’ Gorman Thomas, Adam Dunn, and other strikeout kings.
But we pay "The Gladiator" $17MM and must pay his sorry fat ass another $24MM to stink up the joint all next year too. Just wunnerful.
And as for Korey, well….let’s just say he may be the most overrated POS since Mike Harkey. A guy with some talent, but grotesquely overrated and overhyped by the Chicago media, to the point that the Cubs’ brass feel obligated to ride this "blue chip prospect" over and over again, until his pathetic ass lands on the DL or he gets run out of town on the Brian McRae Memorial Amtrak run. Or something.
Bottomline, I despise Korey and Sosa, my hatred for these two jerkweeds makes it hard for me to root for the rest of the team, it really does. Hate hate hate.
Why the hell do we bat after Sosa?
"He’s been a stud for the last 3 weeks."
No, he blew a one-run save a few days ago in Pittsburgh. He can’t close.
Yeah, it sucks, but he should have been in there at the start of the inning, and those guys wouldn’t have been on base in the first place.
But if you’re going to use the game as an closer audition for Dempster, don’t take out guys like Garciaparra and Walker. There’s a reasonable chance Dempster won’t be able to do it, and then you’ve got scrubs batting in the extra innings.
I’m at a loss for words from yesterday’s debacle. I got out of the truck to run a few errands after hearing us get out of the 8th, only to realize last night that we blew it. I almost puked when I saw the score flash on ESPN. I told my two week old son and he started bawling and messed his diaper. If we limp into the playoffs, it won’t be because we earned it because playoff teams win games like that against the Mets. And by the way, who was that ja&#ass annoucing with McCarver yesterday?
Basher…we need to round up the boys around town up today for the game…make a few calls. We can use my basement. Let me know.
***Class of 95
Lefcowitz,
I know what that sick feeling is, especially with this Cub team. That bullpen is as astrocious as the soil in your son’s diaper. Farnsworthless, Remlinger, Hawkins, Mercker-these guys are suppose to be the veterans of that bullpen. They are a fricking joke. Your son could pitch better then them right now. The guys that are doing good are Leicester and Wuertz. Rookies from Iowa. Screw it Baker, use and abuse these guys because your veterans are choking bastards.
Anyway, Lefcowitz, I’m in Cincy until Wednesday- for work and pleasure. So you’ll have to get the crew together today and watch the tortorous Cub game without me.
GO CUBS!
GO JFL COLTS TOO!
equals Korey, Soso, Farnsworthless, Alou,… did I miss anyone?
Whoo! We own Kerry Wood!
Hey #75, I didn’t do nothin’ wrong today. Don’t you want Dumpster, or LaT**t?
How does my .250 batting average look
So what that you didn’t do anything today, Farns. You’re still one of us!
I’ve conceded the Wild Card. To whomever. The Giants, probably.
Meanwhile, up 6-0, we inexplicably missed a fumble recovery in our own territory, and then on 3rd and 11 let the Vikings complete a 50 yard pass. This is a shame, as we had been the only Chicago team playing well.
Now we’re losing 7-6. Maybe we should learn how to fall on a fucking fumble.
I will get beat for a touchdown every week. I’m not guessing, I’m telling.
I suppose it’d help if I knew how to get from the five yard line to the end zone, somehow…still, it could be worse. We could be getting no-hit by Al Leiter.
We just took away a Bear’s possession and picked up a pass interference flag because Mongoloid Mike Tice said the ball was tipped at the line. It wasn’t, but it’s not like we were watching the play, and Mike’s not biased, so we took his word on it.
Now we’re running all over you on the possession we shouldn’t have. Life’s just not fair. Neither is football. That’s why we have all those rules and cameras.
Well we held them to 3 on the faux-possession. If we lose by 1, 2, or 3, you know whose fault it was.
Wait, you’re supposed to get to the first down marker? Oh, my bad. Sorry about your drive, fellas.
We’re great at just missing a sack, and giving up a 30 yard completion on the same play. We also like to get 15 yard face-mask penalties to negate what would have forced a 3rd and 16.
I just got a holding penalty. This season is my Vietnam.
We could go into halftime down 13-6. Not bad, not great.
Actual halftime score. Vikings have trouble snapping the ball on a field goal.
What a shitty call..that ball to Alou wasn’t even close.
To start the second half, we back the Vikings up deep in their own end, 3rd and 23, and then give up a 44 yard bomb to Randy Moss. I know we’re depleted, but that’s spineless.
Knock Knock.
I’m below .250 friends!!!!!!
It’s Sammy time.
Everyone invited to my birthday party in the Domeeenican Republic this winter!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then on 2nd and 15, we give up a 45 yard run. Again…I know we’re depleted, but this is absolutely spineless. And now they’re in, pretty much. We just completely blew this game.
Hey Cubs I’m doing my best to give you guys the game. 5 walks…
Dusty better pinch hit here for Woody.
He probably would’ve PH’d with me.
Nope, its me.
I’ll trust Dusty on this one.
Hi, I am the home plate ump today and my strike zone sucks.
I did it!
And, I did that too!
Shoot me.
Am I too dumb and biased or did Corey look safe to anyone else? He was tagged on the knee.
I should pinch hit for Sammy to lead off the 9th.
It’s a banner day for us.
What do John Lennon and the 2004 Cubs have in common?
They both died today.
Eh, Chicago, remember me?!?!?!?!?
No, they both died in New York. John Lennon died in December ’80.
I can only assume that your grief, which I don’t feel myself (season ended yesterday, Hawkins did it) has clouded your joke judgment.
You cant blame me for the loss.
I just was 0 for 3
Maybe you should blame me because I couldn’t get the runner home from 3b with 1 out. Story of the season.
Maybe you should blame the one-man buzzkill, me. I killed your season. If we miss the playoffs, do I play for this team next year? I’ll get booed at home.
I won’t PH for Sammy, but I’ll PH for Barrett!
Granted, Barrett has done sh1t this series, but wouldn’t you rather see Grieve-Barrett-Walker than Sosa-Walker-Grieve?
I choked … again.
Yeah, we are having a great day!!!
The strike call on Alou, the phantom "tipped pass", and now the offsides on that Bears’ two-point conversion. And that’s just in a couple hours worth of work!
Uh, don’t worry, Kerry. We choked, too. Didn’t Leiter walk a ridiculous number of guys? How did we not freaking score more than 2 runs??
Yeah, everything is LaTroy’s fault. He really f’ed up today’s game, huh? Did you see his at-bat in the 7th — pathetic!
whether Steinbrenner will take the sack of shit off our hands next year. I’d take a bag of sawdust for the rotting, decaying, dripping puss corpse of Sammy Sosa. Oh wait. Andy might get BC to strike this post. Christ, what a choke. Go Dodgers!!
All right, let’s step away from the keyboards for a moment.
Folks, it’s the Cubs!!!
If it were supposed to be easy, they wouldn’t be the Cubs.
If the Giants lose today we’ll still be ahead in the loss column, and if they win it will be a tie there and the Dodgers will only be one ahead there. Houston and San Diego, even if they win, will still be 2 and 3 back in the loss column respectively with just one week to go.
Plus, the Cubs have done this before. Remember that doozy of a series against the Expos? How about our great play against the Diamondbacks? So, I think we should relax just a tad. We aren’t even facing an elimination game yet…
I learned this weekend the Moises is banging the blond bartender at Dark Horse Tavern. FYI
What a sorry sac of pussbags those Cubs were today? They basically conceded today’s loss yesterday after giving away that one. These guys really are pathetic mentally. I just want to know who our team psychiatrist is? That guy should be fired as well. These guys on this team have not an ounce of mental strength. Can they not concentrate on their job at hand, which is to beat teams they should, because they are straight out better then those loser teams?
My big question is, if some how they do squeak through this wild card and win it, how are they going to perform after that? The way they’ve handled themselves this year, they don’t deserve to make the dance. The way these pussies need to look at it if they can sneak into this thing, it is a second chance. Take that second chance and play their ass off and turn it on to play the best they can. They haven’t hit their peak and that’s the truth. That’s one thing I will agree with Dusty on. But once again the mental makeup of these clowns is absolutely, undoubtedly, fucking horrible.
They just have to reach back somehow come back and beat the Reds 4-0 in that series and make a statement to the Braves before the playoffs and beat them 3-0 in that series.
Prediction: Reds-3-1 and Braves-2-1 and somehow, the Cubs being pussies like they are, will get help from the other teams and sneak in.
Then the Braves will beat the Cubs 3-2 in the first round of the playoffs.
Finally, thank fucking God this tortorous season will be over.
Hey, after going 0-5 with 4 Ks and a double play yesterday, I had a huge RBI today on a ground out to short. It’s hero time. That’s why I’m making 17 mil a year. By the way, notice how wind sock Jay is keeping quiet until he knows which way the wind is blowing. He also can’t bitch about me after blaming the Trib for not giving me enough money.
Wow. 2 straight bad losses to the Mets. The good news is, we’ve still got the wild card (thanks Dodgers). The bad news is, Corey and Sammy can’t hit, LaTroy can’t close and we weren’t able to extend our lead when we had the chance.
The most interesting thing about this Cubs team is that they seem totally immune to momentum, both positive and negative. They’ve had good wins, but never put together a long streak, and they’ve subjected us to horrific losses but never gone on an extended skid. So they’re limping home after an extended road trip, and hopefully they can get some rest in their own beds (or some bartender’s) and pound the depleted Reds in the next 4 games.
B.C- i’m very impressed with your maturity about the cubs this weekend, considering all that has gone on on this site this past week.
Giants lost again tonight. We still have that precious one game advantage in the loss column. If we can’t take 3 or 4 from the Reds (at home, them without their closer, or centerfielder) then we can be worried. For now, we’re still in control.
This team didn’t just get sucky again in 2 days. It’s as good as it was in Cincy and Pissburgh.
GO CUBS
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