The Chicago Cubs..Please Just Go Away!!!

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mca47

81 wrote:

Nothin' like keeping your head in the game!! :? :evil:

Either way, Castro is the least of my worries on this POS team!

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mca47 wrote:

81 wrote:

Nothin' like keeping your head in the game!! :? :evil:

Either way, Castro is the least of my worries on this POS team!

i agree.

you have a 3rd baseman that doesn't give a shit

a pitching staff that pretty much blows from starters to the middle relievers to the backend

a left fielder that can't field and is only an average hitter

who in's right? fuck, i don't know

jerome walton....errrr....soto behind the plate.

a 1st baseman that shouldn't have ever been signed. 10M for a one year deal. that still makes me shake my head.

and a manager that doesn't watch the games.

to top it off...a "superstar" short stop that doesn't know how to take ball, field a ball, or know when a ball is being pitched.

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Cubs Culture.

It must be expunged and replaced.

It must be torched and buried.

It must be memory-holed, both past and present. Otherwise, there’s no future for this sinkhole of a club.

Imagine: Shortstop Starlin Castro, the Cubs’ emerging superstar, actually can play in a ‘‘Sunday Night Baseball’’ national telecast and not bother to face the plate while his own pitcher is pitching.

This happened.

It was worse. Throughout the top of the sixth inning Sunday night against the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field, Castro looked like a kid who was chasing butterflies in his head.

Several times he stood straight up as Cubs pitcher James Russell began his delivery. Castro roamed around in the dirt, looked at the night sky, reached for sunflower seeds in his pocket even as a pitch was being thrown. He madly chewed and spat seed husks as though he were a hamster preparing for hibernation. He looked as ready to be a major star as a Little Leaguer counting clouds in deep right field.

That TV announcer Bobby Valentine picked up on the display — and ranted about its harmful effect on any team-building — is a good thing.

How can any major-leaguer care that little? What kind of teammate allows it? What kind of manager, for God’s sake?

And then we get even more interesting Cubs Culture insight.

Alou’s admission

We now have learned that after the disastrous sixth game of the National League Championship Series in 2003 — the ‘‘Bartman Game,’’ if you will — Cubs third baseman Aramis Ramirez, along with teammate Moises Alou, booked a flight home to the Dominican Republic for the day after Game 7. All the Cubs had to do was win Game 7, and they would have been in the World Series for the first time 58 years.

But as Alou told interviewer Alex Gibney for the upcoming ESPN documentary ‘‘Steve Bartman: Catching Hell’’: ‘‘I remember myself and Aramis booking a flight home. Even before Game 7. Just in case. But you know, that’s the thing that we would have done if we felt positive about the outcome of our next game. Because of all the things that happened before.’’

Alou’s statement doesn’t make much grammatical sense, but all those ‘‘things’’ apparently were Bartman’s innocent interference on a foul ball that shouldn’t have made any difference whether it was caught or not, and just the usual . . . Cubs stuff.

Get out of town early.

Leave fans and management wondering — just like Sammy Sosa and Carlos Zambrano did.

What is the deal here?

Manager Mike Quade, who said he ‘‘wasn’t looking’’ when Castro was acting the fool — even though the shortstop was almost in front of Quade and the behavior went on for a long time — benched Castro for Monday night’s game.

It was a ‘‘mental day off,’’ Quade said, when he actually meant it was a mental day on.

Attention deficit disorder was brought up, as if Quade’s a therapist. And maybe all Castro needs is some Ritalin or Adderall, so he can join the many other prescription-medicated ballplayers who no longer are allowed to gobble illicit ‘‘greenies,’’ like guys did back in the day.

Or maybe Castro just needs to be told.

The kid is just that, a kid. He’s 21, and he’s amazing. But he’s all over the place and basically rudderless.

He not only leads the league in hits, he also leads it in errors.

If Cubs Culture gets him, he’ll become a secret loser who might put up All-Star offensive numbers but never will learn how to win.

Ramirez in the clouds, too

Ramirez, who seems to be the master of putting up huge stats when things don’t matter, hasn’t helped. How — tell me how — can a third baseman play a few yards from the shortstop and not tell him to quit jacking around and get your damn mind on the game, even if we’re so far out of the race it’s pitiful?

Of course, there have been apologies all around. And it’s possible Castro simply is learning the game in public and will, as he promised, never repeat such disrespect and vapor-headedness.

He joined the Cubs’ organization at just 17, and who knows what a college education or even junior-college stint might have done for him?

People might say there’s a Latin culture that’s not intense, almost non-caring. But there are Hall of Famers of Latin descent who were as fierce and focused as lions.

There are answers for this 103 years of losing everywhere. And there is a bit of truth in all of those answers, but not one thing alone.

As Alou says in the film regarding the Cubs’ future, ‘‘We had a bad feeling about it.’’

That must end.

And it has to start now.

mca47

I said it before and I'm sure I'll be saying it for a long time...
They should have hired Sandberg! He's a take no bullshit kind of manager...the EXACT kind of manager a club like the Cubs need. A guy the players respect, a guy who will call your ass out for say....not paying attention on the field, a guy who would have no issue benching a guy making 10 mil/year.

Oh, and apparently Hendry was not big on Sandberg for manager.

Hendry is gone, and the Sandberg bridge was long burned. Typical Cubs.

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mca47 wrote:

Hendry is gone, and the Sandberg bridge was long burned.

i don't think so. i think if the Cubs offered him the job today, he would take it.

mca47

81 wrote:

mca47 wrote:

Hendry is gone, and the Sandberg bridge was long burned.

i don't think so. i think if the Cubs offered him the job today, he would take it.

That's hard to say. I think it would be more likely with Hendry gone....
Either way, I don't see it happening and I'm pretty sure if they fire Quade (which I think is unlikely), they'll probably just hire some guy off the street who has never even seen a baseball game.

Its funny watching games where they have former managers talking about the Cubs. Whether its Brenly, Valentine, or whoever...they all seem to see a much bigger and accurate view/insight of this team than the manager himself.

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mca47 wrote:

81 wrote:

mca47 wrote:

Hendry is gone, and the Sandberg bridge was long burned.

i don't think so. i think if the Cubs offered him the job today, he would take it.

That's hard to say. I think it would be more likely with Hendry gone....
Either way, I don't see it happening and I'm pretty sure if they fire Quade (which I think is unlikely), they'll probably just hire some guy off the street who has never even seen a baseball game.

Its funny watching games where they have former managers talking about the Cubs. Whether its Brenly, Valentine, or whoever...they all seem to see a much bigger and accurate view/insight of this team than the manager himself.

Quade has not impressed me at all. He seems so clueless. I think it's highly likely that he gets tossed, unless the new GM decides to just leave him in place since 2012 is going to be a failure on the field as well.

Wobbie

the cubs and their fans revel in losing.

mca47

81 wrote:

Quade has not impressed me at all. He seems so clueless. I think it's highly likely that he gets tossed, unless the new GM decides to just leave him in place since 2012 is going to be a failure on the field as well.

He is far to passive and laid back for a team that needs a boot up the ass. I think he understands the game well enough, but what he lacks in is the teaching and practicing of fundamentals....you know, the stuff they go over in spring training over and over again before a season starts?

I think Quade will be back for the simple Cubs rule - "Never do what makes sense." Besides, they fired Hendry...they've exhausted their 'once in a decade smart move' already.

Indifference71

mca47 wrote:

81 wrote:

Quade has not impressed me at all. He seems so clueless. I think it's highly likely that he gets tossed, unless the new GM decides to just leave him in place since 2012 is going to be a failure on the field as well.

He is far to passive and laid back for a team that needs a boot up the ass. I think he understands the game well enough, but what he lacks in is the teaching and practicing of fundamentals....you know, the stuff they go over in spring training over and over again before a season starts?

I think Quade will be back for the simple Cubs rule - "Never do what makes sense." Besides, they fired Hendry...they've exhausted their 'once in a decade smart move' already.

Quade is in way over his head.

It sounded like Ricketts will let whoever the new GM is evaluate the managers position and make that decision. I don't see any way a new GM would stick with Quade...

cowboypjfan

Not sure if this was posted, but it's worth another look anyway....

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crazypjfan wrote:

Not sure if this was posted, but it's worth another look anyway....

http://network.yardbarker.com/mlb/artic ... d=backyard

that is one of the few reasons to go to wrigley. for some reason (beer), the women down there have a tendacy to get a little crazy

mca47

crazypjfan wrote:

Not sure if this was posted, but it's worth another look anyway....

http://network.yardbarker.com/mlb/artic ... d=backyard

Nothing better than baseball and smokin' hot chicks!!!


Oh....and beer!

Gary Carter

81 wrote:

crazypjfan wrote:

Not sure if this was posted, but it's worth another look anyway....

http://network.yardbarker.com/mlb/artic ... d=backyard

that is one of the few reasons to go to wrigley. for some reason (beer), the women down there have a tendacy to get a little crazy

The Juggler

mca47 wrote:

I said it before and I'm sure I'll be saying it for a long time...
They should have hired Sandberg! He's a take no bullshit kind of manager...the EXACT kind of manager a club like the Cubs need. A guy the players respect, a guy who will call your ass out for say....not paying attention on the field, a guy who would have no issue benching a guy making 10 mil/year.

Oh, and apparently Hendry was not big on Sandberg for manager.

Hendry is gone, and the Sandberg bridge was long burned. Typical Cubs.

ryne sandberg? you mean the phillies next manager after charlie manual steps down?

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I forgot to post last friday......


E6

mickeyrat

81 wrote:

I forgot to post last friday......


E6

:?:

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mickeyrat wrote:

81 wrote:

I forgot to post last friday......


E6

:?:

Castro had an error last friday

E = Error
6 = Scoring Position

Pitcher = 1
Catcher = 2
1st base = 3
2nd base = 4
3rd Base = 5
SS = 6
RF = 7 right????
CF = 8
LF = 9 right???

mickeyrat

81 wrote:

mickeyrat wrote:

81 wrote:

I forgot to post last friday......


E6

:?:

Castro had an error last friday

E = Error
6 = Scoring Position

Pitcher = 1
Catcher = 2
1st base = 3
2nd base = 4
3rd Base = 5
SS = 6
RF = 7 right????
CF = 8
LF = 9 right???

gotcha. been a lifetime since I followed baseball. Did the Pirates win? Thats who they were playing last friday werent they?