This team sucks ass! A Ram should not be batting cleanup the rest of the year, in fact he shouldn't be getting any at bats at all, enough is enough .158 is pathetic.
At least the Cubs didn't lose 10 to 1 against Cleveland yesterday.. God, what a shitty year. We don't even get to talk smack to each other because we haven't the grounds.
This team sucks ass! A Ram should not be batting cleanup the rest of the year, in fact he shouldn't be getting any at bats at all, enough is enough .158 is pathetic.
At least the Cubs didn't lose 10 to 1 against Cleveland yesterday.. God, what a shitty year. We don't even get to talk smack to each other because we haven't the grounds.
on the bright side, the cubs have lost 7 of 8 to the Pirates this season.
This team sucks ass! A Ram should not be batting cleanup the rest of the year, in fact he shouldn't be getting any at bats at all, enough is enough .158 is pathetic.
At least the Cubs didn't lose 10 to 1 against Cleveland yesterday.. God, what a shitty year. We don't even get to talk smack to each other because we haven't the grounds.
Yeah I know, I'm not even that pumped to go to the Cubs Sox game Friday.
Alpine Valley 6/26/98, Alpine Valley 10/8/00, Champaign 4/23/03, Chicago 6/18/03, Alpine Valley 6/21/03, Grand Rapids 10/3/04
Chicago 5/16/06, Chicago 5/17/06, Grand Rapids 5/19/06
Milwaukee 6/29/06, Milwaukee 6/30/06, Lollapalooza 8/5/07
Eddie Solo Milwaukee 8/19/08, Toronto 8/21/09, Chicago 8/23/09
Chicago 8/24/09, Indianapolis 5/7/10, Ed Chicago 6/29/11, Alpine Valley 9/3/11 and 9/4/11, Wrigley 7/19/13, Moline 10/18/14, Milwaukee 10/20/14
Alpine Valley 6/26/98, Alpine Valley 10/8/00, Champaign 4/23/03, Chicago 6/18/03, Alpine Valley 6/21/03, Grand Rapids 10/3/04
Chicago 5/16/06, Chicago 5/17/06, Grand Rapids 5/19/06
Milwaukee 6/29/06, Milwaukee 6/30/06, Lollapalooza 8/5/07
Eddie Solo Milwaukee 8/19/08, Toronto 8/21/09, Chicago 8/23/09
Chicago 8/24/09, Indianapolis 5/7/10, Ed Chicago 6/29/11, Alpine Valley 9/3/11 and 9/4/11, Wrigley 7/19/13, Moline 10/18/14, Milwaukee 10/20/14
A Ram should not be batting cleanup the rest of the year, in fact he shouldn't be getting any at bats at all, enough is enough .158 is pathetic.
..yet you still call him A Ram? :wtf:
.158 hitters don't deserve nicknames.
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
let me help you understand the cub fan just a bit. the cubs have sucked for over 100 years and deliver nothing come october (november now), thus the cub fan is forced to turn their attention to other sports in attept to diminish some of that pain.
let me help you understand the cub fan just a bit. the cubs have sucked for over 100 years and deliver nothing come october (november now), thus the cub fan is forced to turn their attention to other sports in attept to diminish some of that pain.
What did they do 100 years ago when Hockey, Football and Basketball weren't invented yet?
let me help you understand the cub fan just a bit. the cubs have sucked for over 100 years and deliver nothing come october (november now), thus the cub fan is forced to turn their attention to other sports in attept to diminish some of that pain.
What did they do 100 years ago when Hockey, Football and Basketball weren't invented yet?
In my lifetime, I've seen Championships in all 4 major sports: Football (Bears), Basketball (Bulls), Baseball (White Sox) and now, Hockey (Blackhawks).
I can easily say that we are blessed as Chicagoans!!!
In my lifetime, I've seen Championships in all 4 major sports: Football (Bears), Basketball (Bulls), Baseball (White Sox) and now, Hockey (Blackhawks).
I can easily say that we are blessed as Chicagoans!!!
speaking of the cubs....anyone interested in some Cubs/Reds tickets for July 3rd.
I've got up to 4 that i will trade for bootlegs.
Ha, I'm off to Cubs Sox this afternoon and don't even wanna go. I'm hoping it gets rained out so I can get a refund from this pathetic excuse of a baseball team.
Alpine Valley 6/26/98, Alpine Valley 10/8/00, Champaign 4/23/03, Chicago 6/18/03, Alpine Valley 6/21/03, Grand Rapids 10/3/04
Chicago 5/16/06, Chicago 5/17/06, Grand Rapids 5/19/06
Milwaukee 6/29/06, Milwaukee 6/30/06, Lollapalooza 8/5/07
Eddie Solo Milwaukee 8/19/08, Toronto 8/21/09, Chicago 8/23/09
Chicago 8/24/09, Indianapolis 5/7/10, Ed Chicago 6/29/11, Alpine Valley 9/3/11 and 9/4/11, Wrigley 7/19/13, Moline 10/18/14, Milwaukee 10/20/14
speaking of the cubs....anyone interested in some Cubs/Reds tickets for July 3rd.
I've got up to 4 that i will trade for bootlegs.
Ha, I'm off to Cubs Sox this afternoon and don't even wanna go. I'm hoping it gets rained out so I can get a refund from this pathetic excuse of a baseball team.
i'm hoping it starts to pour right around 10:30am. gf works in the loop and said the metra was packed with people going downtown for all the festivities.
4 errors is unacceptable for any big league team!!
Fire Lou, fire Rothschild.
Promote Ryno to manager, and Maddux to pitching coach.
Promise you, the whole team will transform immediately!
Unless Ryno can play 3rd and hit 35 Hrs....
And Maddux can win 24 games....
They wouldnt change a fucking thing......
This team is in DEEP SHIT......
Completely disagree Speedy.
People don't respect Lou anymore. He's a figment of the manager he used to be. He's now the manager of the 3rd highest paid team in baseball, yet has no control over anyone or anything. He knows it and I believe it really pisses him off.
Maddux is the best living pitching mind on the planet, and currently working for the organization. Simple enough transition to me. Besides, the vets have worked with Rothschild long enough to know he's shit. The young guys don't respect him. Maddog is going to be a monster of a pitching coach and eventually a manager.
Get that shit moving NOW!
Soriano is a bust....
Ramirez forgot how to hit....
Zambrano is a psychopath......
The blame goes to the players..........
4 errors Speedy.
We all know the Cubs can't hit worth a shit, but under no circumstance is 4 errors ever acceptable.
That kind of shit needs a boot up the ass...which Lou won't do anymore.
Soriano is a bust....
Ramirez forgot how to hit....
Zambrano is a psychopath......
The blame goes to the players..........
4 errors Speedy.
We all know the Cubs can't hit worth a shit, but under no circumstance is 4 errors ever acceptable.
That kind of shit needs a boot up the ass...which Lou won't do anymore.
D. Lee had 2 of those errors???
I am pretty sure they are his 1st 2 errors all season...right???
I agree though.....
Somebody on that team needs a good kick in the ass....
Actually they ALL need a good kick in the ass.........
Take me piece by piece..... Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
"Tonight is not a big-league game," Derrek Lee said. "We played like a Single-A team. I set the tone. … Tonight's on me. It's unacceptable."
"I kicked two balls," he said. "It's embarrassing. It's tough to let your team down like that. Z is probably out of that inning. … , and I just booted two balls, two easy plays, and It cost us the game."
Reading 2004
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016 Fenway 2, 2018 MSG 2022 St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023 MSG 2024, MSG 2024 Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
"Tonight is not a big-league game," Derrek Lee said. "We played like a Single-A team. I set the tone. … Tonight's on me. It's unacceptable."
"I kicked two balls," he said. "It's embarrassing. It's tough to let your team down like that. Z is probably out of that inning. … , and I just booted two balls, two easy plays, and It cost us the game."
When the season is over and the team you play for is a joke, it's hard to keep your head in the game...even if you are a gold glover.
"Tonight is not a big-league game," Derrek Lee said. "We played like a Single-A team. I set the tone. … Tonight's on me. It's unacceptable."
"I kicked two balls," he said. "It's embarrassing. It's tough to let your team down like that. Z is probably out of that inning. … , and I just booted two balls, two easy plays, and It cost us the game."
When the season is over and the team you play for is a joke, it's hard to keep your head in the game...even if you are a gold glover.
Why I blame the coaches!
you can't blame the coachs when a gold glover boots balls. however, you can share the blame between players and coachs on the second colvin error. that was castro's fault, he needs coaching. but then again, he is a rookie barely into his rookie season.
the cubs are offically sellers at the trade deadline.
Chicago Cubs television color analyst Bob Brenly has seen various levels of success from the North Siders in his five-plus seasons in the booth, but there has been one constant.
It's a lack of fundamentals, he said, and it frustrated him again Tuesday night at Wrigley Field.
"Ever since I've been here in Chicago, even going back to the Dusty Baker days, these teams -- and you hate to lump them all together because obviously there's different personnel every year -- but the same problems keep coming up, poor baserunning, poor defense," Brenly said Wednesday on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000. "The lack of timely hitting affects every team in the major leagues at one point or another, but it's the lack of solid fundamentals on a daily basis that really gets to me, and I think gets to a lot of fans.
"It's not playing the game the way it needs to be played to give yourself a chance to win."
Derrek Lee made two of the Cubs' four errors Tuesday as the Cubs fell 9-5 to the Oakland Athletics. It was the Cubs' 10th loss in their last 14 games, and they could fall nine games under .500 on Wednesday for the first time since 2007.
"I'm sure Derrek Lee wasn't trying to make errors last night, he's one of the best defensive first basemen in the game," Brenly said. "But the thing that was disconcerting to me was after the two errors, he didn't get in position to take a relay throw from center field from Marlon Byrd.
"And then in the next inning, there was a double hit off the wall in center field, and on that play the two middle infielders go out as a double cut-off. The first baseman is supposed to trail the batter as he goes from first to second. Derrek was just standing at first base. Those are the kinds of things that can be avoided. It takes a little focus, a little concentration, and in Derrek's case last night, he got a little distracted and forgot about what he was supposed to be doing out there."
Brenly, who managed the Arizona Diamondbacks to division championships in 2001 and '02, as well as the 2001 World Series title, also took exception to Cubs manager Lou Piniella batting pitcher Carlos Zambrano in the bottom of the sixth. There were two outs with a runner on second and the Cubs trailing 5-4. Zambrano popped to second, and then was relieved at the top of the seventh.
"No, I wasn't particularly enamored with that move," Brenly said. "I said it on the air, Zambrano is a good hitting pitcher, there's no question about that. But let's don't get carried away.
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"I would much rather have the worst pinch hitter I have available off the bench up at the plate rather than any pitcher. I just don't think there's anybody in the major leagues right now -- and that includes Micah Owings, who may be the best hitting pitcher to come down the pike in a long time -- I would rather have a hitter up there. Even if it means you have to burn one of your players."
Brenly didn't blame any one person for the Cubs' struggles this season. In fact, he suggested it could be an organizational issue.
"It's hard to say without watching it on a daily basis and seeing what is being taught and what isn't being taught, but certainly I think any organization strives to have consistency in instruction," Brenly said. "If [hitting coach] Rudy Jaramillo is going to be your hitting coach at the major league level for a number of years, you would think all throughout the minor league system we would be teaching what Rudy wants the guys to know when they get to the major leagues.
"I don't know if every organization is that way. I don't know if the Cubs are that way. It seems to me that the organizations that have the steady producers from their farm systems, the guys who come up and already know what system is in place in the big leagues and can step right in and be a contributing member of the team, those are the teams that are usually at the top of the standings at the end of the season."
It seems to me that the organizations that have the steady producers from their farm systems, the guys who come up and already know what system is in place in the big leagues and can step right in and be a contributing member of the team, those are the teams that are usually at the top of the standings at the end of the season.
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on the bright side, the cubs have lost 7 of 8 to the Pirates this season.
Yeah I know, I'm not even that pumped to go to the Cubs Sox game Friday.
Chicago 5/16/06, Chicago 5/17/06, Grand Rapids 5/19/06
Milwaukee 6/29/06, Milwaukee 6/30/06, Lollapalooza 8/5/07
Eddie Solo Milwaukee 8/19/08, Toronto 8/21/09, Chicago 8/23/09
Chicago 8/24/09, Indianapolis 5/7/10, Ed Chicago 6/29/11, Alpine Valley 9/3/11 and 9/4/11, Wrigley 7/19/13, Moline 10/18/14, Milwaukee 10/20/14
Chicago 5/16/06, Chicago 5/17/06, Grand Rapids 5/19/06
Milwaukee 6/29/06, Milwaukee 6/30/06, Lollapalooza 8/5/07
Eddie Solo Milwaukee 8/19/08, Toronto 8/21/09, Chicago 8/23/09
Chicago 8/24/09, Indianapolis 5/7/10, Ed Chicago 6/29/11, Alpine Valley 9/3/11 and 9/4/11, Wrigley 7/19/13, Moline 10/18/14, Milwaukee 10/20/14
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
.158 hitters don't deserve nicknames.
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
8-0
:shock:
Who would have EVER thought that would be possible?!?!?!
At the beginning of the season if someone told me "Z will go to the pen, and Silva is going to be the ace" I would have laughed and laughed.
Then again, had someone said "rookie Colvin will have a better average than Lee or Ramirez" I probably would have also laughed.
fuck it...
LET'S GO FLYERS!!!!
let me help you understand the cub fan just a bit. the cubs have sucked for over 100 years and deliver nothing come october (november now), thus the cub fan is forced to turn their attention to other sports in attept to diminish some of that pain.
What did they do 100 years ago when Hockey, Football and Basketball weren't invented yet?
they worked on the art of political corruption
I can easily say that we are blessed as Chicagoans!!!
3 out of 4 ain't bad Cubs fans! Wah wah.
I've got up to 4 that i will trade for bootlegs.
Ha, I'm off to Cubs Sox this afternoon and don't even wanna go. I'm hoping it gets rained out so I can get a refund from this pathetic excuse of a baseball team.
Chicago 5/16/06, Chicago 5/17/06, Grand Rapids 5/19/06
Milwaukee 6/29/06, Milwaukee 6/30/06, Lollapalooza 8/5/07
Eddie Solo Milwaukee 8/19/08, Toronto 8/21/09, Chicago 8/23/09
Chicago 8/24/09, Indianapolis 5/7/10, Ed Chicago 6/29/11, Alpine Valley 9/3/11 and 9/4/11, Wrigley 7/19/13, Moline 10/18/14, Milwaukee 10/20/14
i'm hoping it starts to pour right around 10:30am. gf works in the loop and said the metra was packed with people going downtown for all the festivities.
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Fire Lou, fire Rothschild.
Promote Ryno to manager, and Maddux to pitching coach.
Promise you, the whole team will transform immediately!
And Maddux can win 24 games....
They wouldnt change a fucking thing......
This team is in DEEP SHIT......
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Completely disagree Speedy.
People don't respect Lou anymore. He's a figment of the manager he used to be. He's now the manager of the 3rd highest paid team in baseball, yet has no control over anyone or anything. He knows it and I believe it really pisses him off.
Maddux is the best living pitching mind on the planet, and currently working for the organization. Simple enough transition to me. Besides, the vets have worked with Rothschild long enough to know he's shit. The young guys don't respect him. Maddog is going to be a monster of a pitching coach and eventually a manager.
Get that shit moving NOW!
Soriano is a bust....
Ramirez forgot how to hit....
Zambrano is a psychopath......
The blame goes to the players..........
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
4 errors Speedy.
We all know the Cubs can't hit worth a shit, but under no circumstance is 4 errors ever acceptable.
That kind of shit needs a boot up the ass...which Lou won't do anymore.
I am pretty sure they are his 1st 2 errors all season...right???
I agree though.....
Somebody on that team needs a good kick in the ass....
Actually they ALL need a good kick in the ass.........
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
"I kicked two balls," he said. "It's embarrassing. It's tough to let your team down like that. Z is probably out of that inning. … , and I just booted two balls, two easy plays, and It cost us the game."
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
Fenway 2, 2018
MSG 2022
St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
MSG 2024, MSG 2024
Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
When the season is over and the team you play for is a joke, it's hard to keep your head in the game...even if you are a gold glover.
Why I blame the coaches!
you can't blame the coachs when a gold glover boots balls. however, you can share the blame between players and coachs on the second colvin error. that was castro's fault, he needs coaching. but then again, he is a rookie barely into his rookie season.
the cubs are offically sellers at the trade deadline.
Chicago Cubs television color analyst Bob Brenly has seen various levels of success from the North Siders in his five-plus seasons in the booth, but there has been one constant.
It's a lack of fundamentals, he said, and it frustrated him again Tuesday night at Wrigley Field.
"Ever since I've been here in Chicago, even going back to the Dusty Baker days, these teams -- and you hate to lump them all together because obviously there's different personnel every year -- but the same problems keep coming up, poor baserunning, poor defense," Brenly said Wednesday on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000. "The lack of timely hitting affects every team in the major leagues at one point or another, but it's the lack of solid fundamentals on a daily basis that really gets to me, and I think gets to a lot of fans.
"It's not playing the game the way it needs to be played to give yourself a chance to win."
Derrek Lee made two of the Cubs' four errors Tuesday as the Cubs fell 9-5 to the Oakland Athletics. It was the Cubs' 10th loss in their last 14 games, and they could fall nine games under .500 on Wednesday for the first time since 2007.
"I'm sure Derrek Lee wasn't trying to make errors last night, he's one of the best defensive first basemen in the game," Brenly said. "But the thing that was disconcerting to me was after the two errors, he didn't get in position to take a relay throw from center field from Marlon Byrd.
"And then in the next inning, there was a double hit off the wall in center field, and on that play the two middle infielders go out as a double cut-off. The first baseman is supposed to trail the batter as he goes from first to second. Derrek was just standing at first base. Those are the kinds of things that can be avoided. It takes a little focus, a little concentration, and in Derrek's case last night, he got a little distracted and forgot about what he was supposed to be doing out there."
Brenly, who managed the Arizona Diamondbacks to division championships in 2001 and '02, as well as the 2001 World Series title, also took exception to Cubs manager Lou Piniella batting pitcher Carlos Zambrano in the bottom of the sixth. There were two outs with a runner on second and the Cubs trailing 5-4. Zambrano popped to second, and then was relieved at the top of the seventh.
"No, I wasn't particularly enamored with that move," Brenly said. "I said it on the air, Zambrano is a good hitting pitcher, there's no question about that. But let's don't get carried away.
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"I would much rather have the worst pinch hitter I have available off the bench up at the plate rather than any pitcher. I just don't think there's anybody in the major leagues right now -- and that includes Micah Owings, who may be the best hitting pitcher to come down the pike in a long time -- I would rather have a hitter up there. Even if it means you have to burn one of your players."
Brenly didn't blame any one person for the Cubs' struggles this season. In fact, he suggested it could be an organizational issue.
"It's hard to say without watching it on a daily basis and seeing what is being taught and what isn't being taught, but certainly I think any organization strives to have consistency in instruction," Brenly said. "If [hitting coach] Rudy Jaramillo is going to be your hitting coach at the major league level for a number of years, you would think all throughout the minor league system we would be teaching what Rudy wants the guys to know when they get to the major leagues.
"I don't know if every organization is that way. I don't know if the Cubs are that way. It seems to me that the organizations that have the steady producers from their farm systems, the guys who come up and already know what system is in place in the big leagues and can step right in and be a contributing member of the team, those are the teams that are usually at the top of the standings at the end of the season."
sounds like the Twins org.
why is it, when a pitcher throws a perfect game agiast the Rays, the forget hot to pitch?