Game Two HATE Thread

…the time of death for this team was 9:11PM CST.

Cause of death: Gunshot wound to the feet, both of ’em.

I hope I eat crow at the end of the night, but this one seams about ready for a few forks…

Why, precisely, do you insist on being a sourpuss?

No matter how devoted we are, this is – AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN – a game. Period. A release from reality, for good or bad.

Maybe you should try checkers if you would like to be so cutthroat?

hate hate hate hate

Who are these guys? What has happened to their at-bats? Wasn’t Derrick Lee good when he was on Fla?

THEY ARE FUCKIN DONE!!!

I DONT WANT ANY FALSE OPTIMISM AND HOPE, THEY ARE FUCKIN DONE!!!

In truth they were done last night. All I had to do was read about the “deadening silence” of the clubhouse after the game to know that the Cubs had bowed to the pressure and packed it in.
I predicted the Dodgers in four-now it looks like we’ll be swept. It’s funnt how a team could win 97 GAMES and have so many troubling areas in the ir batting order.
All I can say is that if Lou goes into next season with Lee remaining in the three hole, I will NEVER respect him as a good manager again. We definitely need to pick up a real lead-off hitter (like, say, Brian Roberts?) and get soriano’s overpaid down several spots in the order-just for starters!

…in saying that the season is over you have to think. We have a really good pitcher in game 3, a pitcher pitching maybe the best in his career and took a no hitter deep into his last few starts, then we have dempster and z again who with the excetion of dempsters last game, have been decent.

It is still possible, we only have to win 3 games in a row.

Mindless and uncritical optimism is the dream of a fool.

Changes I’d like to see: Howry dragged through the streets like Hektor in the Iliad, Lou step down due to his failure to make important lineup decisions, like playing Fukudome too much when he’s clearly not the OBP machine he was in the first few months, allowing Soriano to bat leadoff instead of 3rd where he belongs, letting Lee hit third instead of platooning him with the Hoff or dropping him down to 6th, placing Sorriano and Pie on the playoff list. A real manager can’t worry about players feelings, but has to make the hard decisions. Lou talks tough but isn’t acting effectively

I’d like to see the Cubs make a real run at either Sabbathia or Sheets: whomever the Brewers decide not to sign so that Lily becomes the best 5th starter in baseball. GIDP Lee needs to be 6-4-3ing someplace else and if Marquis wants to make the squad it’ll be as a pinch hitter, not a pitcher, because it’s time to let that dream go.

Poor performances by a team that’s better than this
Mental mistakes and bad defense
Changing your patient approach at the plate and swapping it out for a swing-at-everything approach

But more than that I hate:
I-told-you-so threads gloating about the failure of the team we’re supposed to be cheering for
Posters who bring nothing to the table other than an abrasive tone and a stunning lack of insight
People with a hilariously misplaced sense of moral and intellectual superiority
Fans who take losing so poorly that it makes me think that they really do deserve a losing team

So thanks DaBard – at least you’ve put this loss in perspective. It turns out there are worse things than losing – and that’s losing like you do.

Pittsburgh & Milwaukee.