I admit it...

[Saul Goodman]

...I was genuinely upset after Rizzo grounded out with the bases loaded in the 8th.

Why wouldn't you have been?  

Oh right, you're a Cardinals fan.  

Probably because he was afraid any expression of actual anger over this team would have been met with a bunch of people yelling that it's just one game, Theo has a plan,  blah blah competitive window, blah blah why can't you just be happy the games actually matter for the first time in five years (but I mean they dont' matter too much yet, that is, because see the aforementioned windows and plans argument).

I was pissed on Monday and I was pissed as shit last night.

I want this team to win and they're good enough to win now, young or not.

Just because they can win for many years to come doesn't lessen the desire to want them to win now.

Or does it? I have to check Twitter to see what the groupthink machine is saying today.

Hey if I have to read your petulant spleen-venting over every little thing, then it's only fair you deal with me yelling at you for acting like a roomful of Fro Dogs.

Wait, are you talking to me or SKO?

Obvious answer is obvious.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

...I was genuinely upset after Rizzo grounded out with the bases loaded in the 8th.

Why wouldn't you have been?  

Oh right, you're a Cardinals fan.  

Probably because he was afraid any expression of actual anger over this team would have been met with a bunch of people yelling that it's just one game, Theo has a plan,  blah blah competitive window, blah blah why can't you just be happy the games actually matter for the first time in five years (but I mean they dont' matter too much yet, that is, because see the aforementioned windows and plans argument).

I was pissed on Monday and I was pissed as shit last night.

I want this team to win and they're good enough to win now, young or not.

Just because they can win for many years to come doesn't lessen the desire to want them to win now.

Or does it? I have to check Twitter to see what the groupthink machine is saying today.

Hey if I have to read your petulant spleen-venting over every little thing, then it's only fair you deal with me yelling at you for acting like a roomful of Fro Dogs.

Wait, are you talking to me or SKO?

Well you haven't yet offended my sensibilities by betraying your intellectual capacity for the payoff of an instantly gratifying bitchfest in letting the world know YOU'RE MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE, but your defense of such  behavior in this very thread moments ago has now made you suspect, commie.

[SKO]

...I was genuinely upset after Rizzo grounded out with the bases loaded in the 8th.

Why wouldn't you have been?  

Oh right, you're a Cardinals fan.  

Probably because he was afraid any expression of actual anger over this team would have been met with a bunch of people yelling that it's just one game, Theo has a plan,  blah blah competitive window, blah blah why can't you just be happy the games actually matter for the first time in five years (but I mean they dont' matter too much yet, that is, because see the aforementioned windows and plans argument).

I was pissed on Monday and I was pissed as shit last night.

I want this team to win and they're good enough to win now, young or not.

Just because they can win for many years to come doesn't lessen the desire to want them to win now.

Or does it? I have to check Twitter to see what the groupthink machine is saying today.

Hey if I have to read your petulant spleen-venting over every little thing, then it's only fair you deal with me yelling at you for acting like a roomful of Fro Dogs.

Wait, are you talking to me or SKO?

Well you haven't yet offended my sensibilities by betraying your intellectual capacity for the payoff of an instantly gratifying bitchfest in letting the world know YOU'RE MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE, but your defense of such  behavior in this very thread moments ago has now made you suspect, commie.

Frankly I just seriously don't even know what we can and can't bitch about anymore. What is the reaction to a loss supposed to be? Just "oh well, we'll get them tomorrow?" That seems boring and not at all how a lot of people watch sports. I don't think I've yet said the sky is falling or Bryant sucks or Soler sucks or whatever. I've wanted bad bullpen pitchers shot, bad catchers cut, and a part time mediocre outfielder benched for a few days, and been shouted down for all of them because lord only knows why.

I think we've spent so much time around this place and on twitter mocking meatballs and Fros that we've lost the ability to distinguish between people who are actually screaming "DOOM" and people who are just bitching that the team is sucking in the here and now and angrily suggesting ways to fix it. There's no nuance left.

I don't know why it's controversial or panicky to say Chris Coghlan, a guy who has sucked in 5/7 of years of his career, probably sucks. I don't know why it's an issue to say David Ross presence on the roster hurts the team because he provides sub-replacement level production and he's taking a roster spot they sorely need given the injuries they've had and the need to carry 13 pitchers because they can't find one who can get a guy out. What I do know is that saying those things isn't saying "THE 2015 CUBS ARE DOOOOMED HOW MANY MORE TEARZ THEO" but it's easier to just reduce my argument to that and call me butthurt, I suppose.

[PenFoe]

...I was genuinely upset after Rizzo grounded out with the bases loaded in the 8th.

Why wouldn't you have been?  

Oh right, you're a Cardinals fan.  

Probably because he was afraid any expression of actual anger over this team would have been met with a bunch of people yelling that it's just one game, Theo has a plan,  blah blah competitive window, blah blah why can't you just be happy the games actually matter for the first time in five years (but I mean they dont' matter too much yet, that is, because see the aforementioned windows and plans argument).

I was pissed on Monday and I was pissed as shit last night.

I want this team to win and they're good enough to win now, young or not.

Just because they can win for many years to come doesn't lessen the desire to want them to win now.

Or does it? I have to check Twitter to see what the groupthink machine is saying today.

Hey if I have to read your petulant spleen-venting over every little thing, then it's only fair you deal with me yelling at you for acting like a roomful of Fro Dogs.

Wait, are you talking to me or SKO?

Well you haven't yet offended my sensibilities by betraying your intellectual capacity for the payoff of an instantly gratifying bitchfest in letting the world know YOU'RE MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE, but your defense of such  behavior in this very thread moments ago has now made you suspect, commie.

Frankly I just seriously don't even know what we can and can't bitch about anymore. What is the reaction to a loss supposed to be? Just "oh well, we'll get them tomorrow?" That seems boring and not at all how a lot of people watch sports. I don't think I've yet said the sky is falling or Bryant sucks or Soler sucks or whatever. I've wanted bad bullpen pitchers shot, bad catchers cut, and a part time mediocre outfielder benched for a few days, and been shouted down for all of them because lord only knows why.

I think we've spent so much time around this place and on twitter mocking meatballs and Fros that we've lost the ability to distinguish between people who are actually screaming "DOOM" and people who are just bitching that the team is sucking in the here and now and angrily suggesting ways to fix it. There's no nuance left.

I don't know why it's controversial or panicky to say Chris Coghlan, a guy who has sucked in 5/7 of years of his career, probably sucks. I don't know why it's an issue to say David Ross presence on the roster hurts the team because he provides sub-replacement level production and he's taking a roster spot they sorely need given the injuries they've had and the need to carry 13 pitchers because they can't find one who can get a guy out. What I do know is that saying those things isn't saying "THE 2015 CUBS ARE DOOOOMED HOW MANY MORE TEARZ THEO" but it's easier to just reduce my argument to that and call me butthurt, I suppose.

I basically agree with SKO and I'm not happy about it at all.

[InternetApex]

The Cardinals are best team I've ever seen. They're never going to lose again.

[Bort]

...I was genuinely upset after Rizzo grounded out with the bases loaded in the 8th.

Why wouldn't you have been?  

Oh right, you're a Cardinals fan.  

Probably because he was afraid any expression of actual anger over this team would have been met with a bunch of people yelling that it's just one game, Theo has a plan,  blah blah competitive window, blah blah why can't you just be happy the games actually matter for the first time in five years (but I mean they dont' matter too much yet, that is, because see the aforementioned windows and plans argument).

I was pissed on Monday and I was pissed as shit last night.

I want this team to win and they're good enough to win now, young or not.

Just because they can win for many years to come doesn't lessen the desire to want them to win now.

Or does it? I have to check Twitter to see what the groupthink machine is saying today.

Hey if I have to read your petulant spleen-venting over every little thing, then it's only fair you deal with me yelling at you for acting like a roomful of Fro Dogs.

Wait, are you talking to me or SKO?

Well you haven't yet offended my sensibilities by betraying your intellectual capacity for the payoff of an instantly gratifying bitchfest in letting the world know YOU'RE MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE, but your defense of such  behavior in this very thread moments ago has now made you suspect, commie.

Frankly I just seriously don't even know what we can and can't bitch about anymore. What is the reaction to a loss supposed to be? Just "oh well, we'll get them tomorrow?" That seems boring and not at all how a lot of people watch sports. I don't think I've yet said the sky is falling or Bryant sucks or Soler sucks or whatever. I've wanted bad bullpen pitchers shot, bad catchers cut, and a part time mediocre outfielder benched for a few days, and been shouted down for all of them because lord only knows why.

I think we've spent so much time around this place and on twitter mocking meatballs and Fros that we've lost the ability to distinguish between people who are actually screaming "DOOM" and people who are just bitching that the team is sucking in the here and now and angrily suggesting ways to fix it. There's no nuance left.

I don't know why it's controversial or panicky to say Chris Coghlan, a guy who has sucked in 5/7 of years of his career, probably sucks. I don't know why it's an issue to say David Ross presence on the roster hurts the team because he provides sub-replacement level production and he's taking a roster spot they sorely need given the injuries they've had and the need to carry 13 pitchers because they can't find one who can get a guy out. What I do know is that saying those things isn't saying "THE 2015 CUBS ARE DOOOOMED HOW MANY MORE TEARZ THEO" but it's easier to just reduce my argument to that and call me butthurt, I suppose.

I basically agree with SKO and I'm not happy about it at all.

Ditto.

Do what Desipio already basically suggested I do: make fun of him anyway.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I don't know why it's controversial or panicky to say Chris Coghlan, a guy who has sucked in 5/7 of years of his career, probably sucks. I don't know why it's an issue to say David Ross presence on the roster hurts the team because he provides sub-replacement level production and he's taking a roster spot they sorely need given the injuries they've had and the need to carry 13 pitchers because they can't find one who can get a guy out. What I do know is that saying those things isn't saying "THE 2015 CUBS ARE DOOOOMED HOW MANY MORE TEARZ THEO" but it's easier to just reduce my argument to that and call me butthurt, I suppose.

I've agreed with you on Coghlan and Ross you overly-sensitive, persecution complex-riddled asshat.

That's a little different than say, screaming about Kris Bryant taking a first pitch strike during an at-bat (an at-bat in which, I guess should point out, he eventually reached base).  I mean seriously?  Maybe pass on hitting "send" once in a while, that's all.  Sit back and see how it plays out.  It's really a beautiful game.

There was some fuckhead Monday who called people who wouldn't agree with his shrieking hot take that it was a BIG GAME idiots and to stop following him (in which I gladly obliged).  Even IAN's favorite terrorist tried to get him to reconsider his frothing take.  I don't need that shit--it's fucking May.  Forgive me for suggesting you chill the fuck out--though I am amused that doing so only fuels more butthurt so I'm sorry/not sorry in advance for continuing to do it as long as you're holding up your end of the bargain.

If you actually think I wasn't annoyed as fuck the last two nights at watching this shitshow you're missing the point (and wrong).  But having to scroll through this shit every time we're ebbing takes me back to the Ron Santo broadcasts.  No thanks.

[SKO]

I don't know why it's controversial or panicky to say Chris Coghlan, a guy who has sucked in 5/7 of years of his career, probably sucks. I don't know why it's an issue to say David Ross presence on the roster hurts the team because he provides sub-replacement level production and he's taking a roster spot they sorely need given the injuries they've had and the need to carry 13 pitchers because they can't find one who can get a guy out. What I do know is that saying those things isn't saying "THE 2015 CUBS ARE DOOOOMED HOW MANY MORE TEARZ THEO" but it's easier to just reduce my argument to that and call me butthurt, I suppose.

I've agreed with you on Coghlan and Ross you overly-sensitive, persecution complex-riddled asshat.

That's a little different than say, screaming about Kris Bryant taking a first pitch strike during an at-bat (an at-bat in which, I guess should point out, he eventually reached base).  I mean seriously?  Maybe pass on hitting "send" once in a while, that's all.  Sit back and see how it plays out.  It's really a beautiful game.

There was some fuckhead Monday who called people who wouldn't agree with his shrieking hot take that it was a BIG GAME idiots and to stop following him (in which I gladly obliged).  Even IAN's favorite terrorist tried to get him to reconsider his frothing take.  I don't need that shit--it's fucking May.  Forgive me for suggesting you chill the fuck out--though I am amused that doing so only fuels more butthurt so I'm sorry/not sorry in advance for continuing to do it as long as you're holding up your end of the bargain.

If you actually think I wasn't annoyed as fuck the last two nights you're missing the point (and wrong).  But having to scroll through this shit every time we're ebbing takes me back to the Ron Santo broadcasts.  No thanks.

Man, if you're going to complain about me tweeting "goddammit" and "fuck" during sporting events on twitter I have to ask, why follow me on twitter. I've been on there through like, five disappointing Bears seasons now. Meatball SKO takes the reins between the lines on gameday, friend.

[Tonker]

...I was genuinely upset after Rizzo grounded out with the bases loaded in the 8th.

Why wouldn't you have been? 

Oh right, you're a Cardinals fan. 

Probably because he was afraid any expression of actual anger over this team would have been met with a bunch of people yelling that it's just one game, Theo has a plan,  blah blah competitive window, blah blah why can't you just be happy the games actually matter for the first time in five years (but I mean they dont' matter too much yet, that is, because see the aforementioned windows and plans argument).

There's only one person yelling around here.

[Powdered Toast Man]

...I was genuinely upset after Rizzo grounded out with the bases loaded in the 8th.

Why wouldn't you have been?  

Oh right, you're a Cardinals fan.  

Probably because he was afraid any expression of actual anger over this team would have been met with a bunch of people yelling that it's just one game, Theo has a plan,  blah blah competitive window, blah blah why can't you just be happy the games actually matter for the first time in five years (but I mean they dont' matter too much yet, that is, because see the aforementioned windows and plans argument).

I was pissed on Monday and I was pissed as shit last night.

I want this team to win and they're good enough to win now, young or not.

Just because they can win for many years to come doesn't lessen the desire to want them to win now.

Or does it? I have to check Twitter to see what the groupthink machine is saying today.

Hey if I have to read your petulant spleen-venting over every little thing, then it's only fair you deal with me yelling at you for acting like a roomful of Fro Dogs.

Wait, are you talking to me or SKO?

Well you haven't yet offended my sensibilities by betraying your intellectual capacity for the payoff of an instantly gratifying bitchfest in letting the world know YOU'RE MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE, but your defense of such  behavior in this very thread moments ago has now made you suspect, commie.

Frankly I just seriously don't even know what we can and can't bitch about anymore. What is the reaction to a loss supposed to be? Just "oh well, we'll get them tomorrow?" That seems boring and not at all how a lot of people watch sports. I don't think I've yet said the sky is falling or Bryant sucks or Soler sucks or whatever. I've wanted bad bullpen pitchers shot, bad catchers cut, and a part time mediocre outfielder benched for a few days, and been shouted down for all of them because lord only knows why.

I think we've spent so much time around this place and on twitter mocking meatballs and Fros that we've lost the ability to distinguish between people who are actually screaming "DOOM" and people who are just bitching that the team is sucking in the here and now and angrily suggesting ways to fix it. There's no nuance left.

I don't know why it's controversial or panicky to say Chris Coghlan, a guy who has sucked in 5/7 of years of his career, probably sucks. I don't know why it's an issue to say David Ross presence on the roster hurts the team because he provides sub-replacement level production and he's taking a roster spot they sorely need given the injuries they've had and the need to carry 13 pitchers because they can't find one who can get a guy out. What I do know is that saying those things isn't saying "THE 2015 CUBS ARE DOOOOMED HOW MANY MORE TEARZ THEO" but it's easier to just reduce my argument to that and call me butthurt, I suppose.

I basically agree with SKO and I'm not happy about it at all.

SIGH. Me four.

[Eli]

There was some fuckhead Monday who called people who wouldn't agree with his shrieking hot take that it was a BIG GAME idiots and to stop following him (in which I gladly obliged).

That was Tommy Cook. I basically agree with what he was saying (even if he got a tad hysterical, probably because it was late at night and he's young and it was past his bedtime). Anyway, he's still one of my favorite Cub-follows.

[Eli]

I think we've spent so much time around this place and on twitter mocking meatballs and Fros that we've lost the ability to distinguish between people who are actually screaming "DOOM" and people who are just bitching that the team is sucking in the here and now and angrily suggesting ways to fix it. There's no nuance left.

DPD, but this is well said. Related, I also think people's patience/tolerance is a little overdeveloped because of the past 4 years and that affects how they talk about every single thing. And it's annoying as hell at this point.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

There was some fuckhead Monday who called people who wouldn't agree with his shrieking hot take that it was a BIG GAME idiots and to stop following him (in which I gladly obliged).

That was Tommy Cook. I basically agree with what he was saying (even if he got a tad hysterical, probably because it was late at night and he's young and it was past his bedtime). Anyway, he's still one of my favorite Cub-follows.

Well have fun with that, then.

[Richard Chuggar]

I don't know why it's controversial or panicky to say Chris Coghlan, a guy who has sucked in 5/7 of years of his career, probably sucks. I don't know why it's an issue to say David Ross presence on the roster hurts the team because he provides sub-replacement level production and he's taking a roster spot they sorely need given the injuries they've had and the need to carry 13 pitchers because they can't find one who can get a guy out. What I do know is that saying those things isn't saying "THE 2015 CUBS ARE DOOOOMED HOW MANY MORE TEARZ THEO" but it's easier to just reduce my argument to that and call me butthurt, I suppose.

I've agreed with you on Coghlan and Ross you overly-sensitive, persecution complex-riddled asshat.

That's a little different than say, screaming about Kris Bryant taking a first pitch strike during an at-bat (an at-bat in which, I guess should point out, he eventually reached base).  I mean seriously?  Maybe pass on hitting "send" once in a while, that's all.  Sit back and see how it plays out.  It's really a beautiful game.

There was some fuckhead Monday who called people who wouldn't agree with his shrieking hot take that it was a BIG GAME idiots and to stop following him (in which I gladly obliged).  Even IAN's favorite terrorist tried to get him to reconsider his frothing take.  I don't need that shit--it's fucking May.  Forgive me for suggesting you chill the fuck out--though I am amused that doing so only fuels more butthurt so I'm sorry/not sorry in advance for continuing to do it as long as you're holding up your end of the bargain.

If you actually think I wasn't annoyed as fuck the last two nights you're missing the point (and wrong).  But having to scroll through this shit every time we're ebbing takes me back to the Ron Santo broadcasts.  No thanks.

Man, if you're going to complain about me tweeting "goddammit" and "fuck" during sporting events on twitter I have to ask, why follow me on twitter. I've been on there through like, five disappointing Bears seasons now. Meatball SKO takes the reins between the lines on gameday, friend.

I think he's more saying that every time anybody comes to insipio now, there are a shitload of blue buttons and it's 45 new posts from you saying the exact same thing over and over again, plus then he has to see it on twitter as well.  I think what huey's saying is sit some plays out and log off the computer and go outside or something.  Or just write what you want to write and just don't click "post" on about 5/6th of them b/c we all get it.

[PenFoe]

I don't know why it's controversial or panicky to say Chris Coghlan, a guy who has sucked in 5/7 of years of his career, probably sucks. I don't know why it's an issue to say David Ross presence on the roster hurts the team because he provides sub-replacement level production and he's taking a roster spot they sorely need given the injuries they've had and the need to carry 13 pitchers because they can't find one who can get a guy out. What I do know is that saying those things isn't saying "THE 2015 CUBS ARE DOOOOMED HOW MANY MORE TEARZ THEO" but it's easier to just reduce my argument to that and call me butthurt, I suppose.

I've agreed with you on Coghlan and Ross you overly-sensitive, persecution complex-riddled asshat.

That's a little different than say, screaming about Kris Bryant taking a first pitch strike during an at-bat (an at-bat in which, I guess should point out, he eventually reached base).  I mean seriously?  Maybe pass on hitting "send" once in a while, that's all.  Sit back and see how it plays out.  It's really a beautiful game.

There was some fuckhead Monday who called people who wouldn't agree with his shrieking hot take that it was a BIG GAME idiots and to stop following him (in which I gladly obliged).  Even IAN's favorite terrorist tried to get him to reconsider his frothing take.  I don't need that shit--it's fucking May.  Forgive me for suggesting you chill the fuck out--though I am amused that doing so only fuels more butthurt so I'm sorry/not sorry in advance for continuing to do it as long as you're holding up your end of the bargain.

If you actually think I wasn't annoyed as fuck the last two nights you're missing the point (and wrong).  But having to scroll through this shit every time we're ebbing takes me back to the Ron Santo broadcasts.  No thanks.

Man, if you're going to complain about me tweeting "goddammit" and "fuck" during sporting events on twitter I have to ask, why follow me on twitter. I've been on there through like, five disappointing Bears seasons now. Meatball SKO takes the reins between the lines on gameday, friend.

I think he's more saying that every time anybody comes to insipio now, there are a shitload of blue buttons and it's 45 new posts from you saying the exact same thing over and over again, plus then he has to see it on twitter as well.  I think what huey's saying is sit some plays out and log off the computer and go outside or something.  Or just write what you want to write and just don't click "post" on about 5/6th of them b/c we all get it.

So here I sit and I agree with both SKO and TDubbs in the same day. 

What a world.