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…

We’re 2 games in the loss column (1 gb) behind the rays for best in the majors, and we’re 1 game behind the Angels in the loss column (0.5 gb) for the 2nd best.

and the first thing I looked towards was the scoreboard. 9-0?! Well, that sucked. But this team is too good to continue like this, we’re still four ahead of the Brewers (not to mention, worst-case scenario, Wild Card standings) and this is happening in early September, not October. Things will be fine. And I’m going Wednesday night, so things better be right by then. :D

Also, when I saw the headline of the recap today I instantly thought of Once. Absolutely loved that movie. Learned “Falling Slowly” on guitar myself and got to see The Swell Season in concert back in May. Breathtaking.

…to change the Tom Petty theme from “Running Down A Dream” to “Free Falling?”

…just to listen to the banter between Lou and Sinatro would be hilarious I bet, especially once Lou realized they were lost.

gets called back up just in time to get shelled by the Reds AGAIN.

circa George Castanza from Seinfeld. We all need to go opposite for today. It worked wonders for George, telling women he lived with his parents and was a loser; he got the girls! Anyhow, we all go opposite to get this streak stopped. For me, my traditional Lou Pinella show on the radio for pregame: NO. Not going to listen. Wearing cub shirt: NO. We all need to go opposite day and start NOW!

Ghosts of Cub winners, driving past Wrigley to change the mojo. They’ll probably get lost on the way to Cincy but it doesn’t matter. CUBS WIN!

But Al, I’m just curious do you have a Panic!!! picture to go along with your infamous Don’t Panic! picture (the green ball in space)?

Just wonderin’

Get the guys together early in the clubhouse (maybe even cancel BP). Pop a copy of the May 30 game against the Rockies in the DVD player to get their minds off losing and to remind them how good they all are. Might be the change in perspective they need to start rolling again.

Soriano and Rami were the keys to the Cubs coming out of this funk. I continue to believe that it is the offense that needs to lead this team back. In spite of the weak performance (in all facets) again last night, I still think that Sori and Rami are going to have a big trip. Their bats will wake this team up. My guess (and it is nothing more than that) is it happens tonight now that we got that pesky Arroyo game out of the way.

BTW, I too lived through 1969 and this feels nothing like 1969 to me. Though I have worried a bit about the overuse of Marmol and Woody (and the two innings each the other day did not help in that regard), I think there are no other parallels to 1969. I do think that Lou has been a bit more judicious in his use of the two in the second half of the year (and Woody’s injury gave his arm a nice rest).

But, wouldn’t it be some sort of poetic justice if Jason Marquis ends this streak?

() No one chasing us is on fire like the ’69 Mets
(-) That was also true true in 2004
() This is too good a team to let it all slip away
(-) We were lucky to get 35 over. All our weaknesses are being exposed.
() The Wild Card provides a safety cushion
(-) That will end up making this collapse worse than ’69
() All winning teams go through and come back from losing streaks
(-) But these are, after all, the Chicago Cubs

kinda put a damper on the Magic Number countdown we were all hyped up about not too long ago.

by Cueto tonight.

Im done being positive, maybe this negative idea will work.

…that Harden’s start has been pushed back further. Anybody else heard this?

Sorry I just can’t help myself. Here is my version of beating a dead horse.
Since Aug 1 ( or July 31 if you prefer) when Eyre was DFA’d , here are their respective
stats.

Howry 13 appearances 14 IP 20 hits, 10 runs 1W 12K
Eyre 9 appearances 8.2 IP 2 hits 0 runs 2W and 11K

Ok I get it Eyre is a situational lefty and Howry is allegedly a righty set up guy and oh yes
Howry hardly ever walks anyone , he just gives up hits. The both sucked at the end of July but to me the big issue has ALWAYS been how Lou had treated them since his arrival. Eyre was never one of Lou’s boys, as long as he pitched lights out , he was used but if he struggled he was gone. Howry was coddled and despite CLEAR signs that he should NEVER be used in a game situation Lou did it over and over again including the debacle this week. The reason I keep bringing this up is that Lou is far from the brilliant manager he is being held up to be. When you play favorites like this ( and Lou does it a lot) bad things happen. The combination of his “trusting” some players and freezing out others ( some one want to remind me why Pie is still in Iowa when he might be useful NOW!) is a major factor in his mind boggling bad in game decisions and his by the book obsession with righty/lefty match ups is the other.

I have plenty of faith in this TEAM but I remain terrified if Lou does modify his way managing they won’t go far in the post season. The less he does the better as far as I am concerned.

THE LOSING ENDS!

PERIOD

LETS GO CUBS!!!!