Maybe a few more Lets Go Cubbies chants from the upper deck would’ve kept some of those homers in.

Nothing to cheer about tonight, plain and simple.

is an embarrassment.

They lost a game. Big deal. There’s another one tomorrow. You never had a bad day at the office? Demp had a bad night. Doesn’t make him gutless. This post? Now that’s gutless. I bet you’re the type of guy who when Soriano homers, you’ll be the first one cheering.

Tonight’s game proved that the key to win in the playoffs is not which was the better team in the regular season but who finished stronger in September. The fact is the Cubs were cold the last month while the Dodgers were hot.

Right now things don’t look good for the Cubs. Tomorrow’s pitcher has been both horrible and brilliant the last month. His inconsistency is a bad omen. The corner outfielders are not hitting and the middle relievers are allowing too many runs. Meanwhile, too many runners are consistently stranded. That was September for the Cubs and nothing changed tonight. Dempster’s unexpected worst game of the season just added more misery to that situation.

Tomorrow is do or die for this team. That doesn’t help the team to relax. The fact that the manager couldn’t get this group of players to relax and play with confidence tonight is a very bad sign. This team could go out earlier than we thought.

And when DeRosa hit the HR, we were up. When we were given a reason to cheer, we did. Should we have been up screaming when Loney hit that HR? Crawl back to whatever hole you’ve been in the whole season, and take the rest of these bandwagon jumpers with you. Plenty of us have been around for the whole time, and don’t need idiots like you telling we aren’t good enough fans. F- off.

At least try and inject more humor, e.g., “DPLee”, that made me chuckle. More of stuff like that.

As far as I’m concerned, you’re accusing the white-haired lady seated next to me, proudly wearing her “1990 All-Star Game” souvenir sweatshirt, of not screaming enough. Really?

We can’t all be thuggish fanboys. Put the immediate blame on the team and remember that they can still get ’em tomorrow night.

momentum, and will stop a team and shut up a crowd — and that’s what happened tonight. Lowe….owns the Cubs. Always has.

The Angels, as other teams IN EVERY SPORT do — they inject artificial intensity into their crowd. The video board says clap — they clap. The board says ‘make noise,’ they make noise. Just like little robots. (Or, perhaps we need a HD/Super Magnificent Video Board with a freakin’ monkey jumping around?)

Perhaps that’s what we need….that’s what’s missing.

And how the hell do you know what the ‘team emotion ’ of the Cubs is?
I almost wasn’t going to check the site tonight, because it was going be loaded with this crap.

Sorry I stopped by. There’s too much of this shit here.

You want to get on his performance fine, but to attack a man heart that you have no idea what is going on inside of him is well “gutless”. Check yourself first.
 Dempster will make no excuses, he won’t blame the fans, the ump, he will look at himself for the Cubs loss.
 This is a good ballclub, they want to win MORE than you do.
Lets get a win today.

It’s OK to point out where the Cubs failed, and its more than all right to feel down after last nights game, but if you are going to be all out calling the players who helped get us here pathetic… or anything of the sort, well… Just go elsewhere. This is the time us Cubs fans unite… not divide. Even if the Cubs lose, which they won’t, this is the time to back our team like never before. I would rather be remembered as a legitimate Cubs fan, who loves his team and gets his heart ripped out time and time again than a two-headed horse which roots for the Cubs when they win, and walks out on then while they are losing.

The Cubs are deciding their desiny, and you are too. I’ve chosen mine and today is a new day… a new team… and once again, I’m singing “Go Cubs Go!”

This is the worst ever and I have made some really bad ones myself,

Attacking a players performance is one thing.. Calling him gutless is another

And calling out fans who act like adults and not drunken morons is even worse.

Because the players don’t kill themselves after the game people say it means they have no heart and no emotion. Then the next day Carlos Zambrano shows emotion and he’s called immature.

Actually you’re right. The Cubs purposely lost this game. They don’t want to win the world series. Not even this series. They all have plans to go home by the 7th.

What I know from watching and reading about him, I assume Demp is VERY anxious to have another shot to help this team win a game.

I look forward to his next start

Let it all out. There. Feel better?

Sure, calling Dempster “gutless” is ridiculous. I guess, from a performance standpoint, one could call him “pathetic.” Walking seven batters in a playoff game is certainly something, and “pathetic” is as good a word as any.

But I think you’re a little premature about saying this team lacks the required “killer” mentality. It was one game – one game that went horribly wrong and got far, far away from them. But it was still one game. Whether they are or aren’t a championship team is yet to be determined. Do the Angels lack the killer instinct because they let Lester dominate them? Is John Lackey gutless?

I think the series really comes down to tonight’s contest. If the Cubs win, I think they could take one of the games in LA and then bring it home in Game 5. If they lose, well, I may hold on to some shred of hope, but I’ll be asking for a blindfold and cigarette nonetheless.

…the other fifteen percent are writing useless and annoying FanPosts like this. Because if they’re the real Chicago fans, they can kiss my ass downtown, AND PRINT IT.

(And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, Google “Lee Elia”.)