through a 6 game losing streak.. (i really can’t believe we’ve lost 6 straight) we still are 4 games up. So needless to say the Brewers aren’t playing any better. I’ve been comparing our recent slump the White Sox back in 05, they sucked, and i’m saying that again SUCKED in Sept that year. Got hot right at the end and we all know what happened from there. Maybe we need to cool off only to get our groove back going middle end of the month!! GO CUBS GO!!!

gone away. But this is a different era, a different manager and a different team. They will snap out of it this time. Maybe today , maybe the next day, but the bats will snap out of it all at once and they’ll score a silly number of runs. Everyone will relax and just play and then we can all relax a little.

Until then, has anyone seen my laudanum?

I’d rather it be early September then early October! Let’s get this slump in now and then put it behind us.

on the road to Cincy here in about hour and a half or so. Hopefully we can right the ship. We are too good of a team to keep this up.

once we were down 9-0 … hurt too much

On a less painful note, Once was my favorite film of 2008. It’s just lovely and the music is first rate and integrates seamlessly into the story. People either love the film or hate it. I loved it.

I still love the Cubs but it’s a melancholy love these days. The kind that makes me gaze upon them with a rueful smile, knowing they are capable of incandescence but right now they are stubborn and withholding.

I want my old Cubs back.

IIRC, the 2001 Cubs lost 8 games in a row, then suddenly got red hot and won 12 in a row. Just as it had seemed they’d never win again, it felt during the win streak as though they might never lose again. I saw them win the 12th in a row at Miller Park on my birthday, and oh how sweet that was! Baseball is a strange thing…

My girlfriend and I watched it, it concluded, and I turned to her and asked, “Wanna watch it again?”. She nodded “Yes”, and we started it back up. And “Falling Slowly” is the best Oscar song since “Streets of Philadelphia” by Bruce. I get sick of seeing Disney movies win that award. Oh, and “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp”, that one is actually good, too.

I digress…

Why have we not seen the Lou of television commercial past? Breaking things, screaming, red in the face, etc.? Does anyone agree this would be a damn good time? Maybe a good tirade at an ump, or a fiery speech in the clubhouse.

Dan

tonight is as good of time as any to stop playing like schmucks and get back to the business of winning like we have all season. As said earlier, would rather have this happen now. I think we’ll be OK.

Tossing and turning in my bed last night trying to figure out why I put so much importance on a stupid baseball game.
Perspective please…Even if the Cubs totally blow it this year and don’t make the playoffs(which they won’t do), life goes on it is only a game and there are many more important things in life which come before the Cubs.
I think sometimes we get so caught up in this game that maybe we lose some perspective on life.
Breathe in, breathe out, we’ll get there and if we don’t…life goes on.

Sorry Al, but this is not quite exactly how 1969 felt, at least not for me. Then, as a boy, I had a heart instead of a mass of scar tissue — like many other Cubs fans, the ’69 team completely tore my heart out. Scar tissue that has been ripped open repeatedly over the years, especially in 1984 and 2003. So the naive optimism of youth is gone and it is very hard trying to hold it together now. This is certainly a very different team and year. But it is sure getting harder and harder to swallow as the shadows of fatalism creep closer.

Still, this is by far the best Cubs team in my lifetime. And this losing streak can be nothing but a bad memory if we put a few wins together …..

After our nice 7 game win streak, I had this kind of losing streak in the back of my mind. I was worried that maybe we were peaking too early, that we could slump come October. Let’s get this crappy baseball out of the way now, and surge into and through the playoffs!

am I going to let ‘69, ’84, ’89 or ’04 affect how I feel. Ya think doom and gloom, it’s gonna happen. Like the late-great Sweetness used to say when asked by reporters about injury worries, “if you think you’re gonna get hurt, you’re gonna get hurt”.

All these problems (or it can be viewed on the rosy side they’re 7-6 in their last 13) and the lead is only 1 game less than at the end of July when they completed that 4-game massacre at Wrigley North.

No way, no way, no way are they gonna collapse. Besides I have great playoff tickets and I’m not about to let that opportunity go awry.

He’s right on with this one. All it takes is one win. Let’s hope they build up that ‘full head of steam’ (as Reggie Miller would say) and that we can all laugh about the beginning of September come October.

the Cubs were four games up. Was it nine or ten series wins in a row? They split with the Phillies. Forget about Houston. This series is still winable. Notice the Cubs and Sox scores? Good team bad team win lose symmetry. Catch it! Watch what happens. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

So will college football this afternoon

the Cubs were 1-6 since we got the dog a new Cubs collar. Today, the collar is off, her old one back on. Hopefully that will help as well.

This thread confuses me. What’s the point? It’s OBVIOUS we will NOT will another game for the REST OF THE YEAR. Just DEAL WITH IT. We SUCK. OK??? Sheesh.

(we’ll be fine, everyone – trust me)

AHHHHHH!!!

take the guys out bowling or something…clear their heads…get them loose…