take in a minor league game?

Although for those in the Chicago area, you’ve only got 15 minutes to get out to Kane County before the game starts there.

I would have figured I’d see at least seven “I’m done with the Cubs, throwing in the towel for rooting for baseball forever” after this game….none have popped up……yet lol

Attendance was 26,999.

We got as many hits as the Pirates did today. And gave up nine more runs.

this season has been very different then last season. The cubs seem to either have everyone clicking on offense or no one clicking in this games. ie the last two games a 11-3 win and a 0-10 loss. But i really do think that its all because of the opposing pitcher and lingering injuries. Sometimes you just have to as much as i hate to say it tip your cap to the opposition. But still I am still neither worried. This team is incredibly strong and will bounce back to win the division. There is SO MUCH baseball left. The cubs have an incredible line up and one of the best skippers in the game. So games like this hurt but more cubbies will be smiling in the future.
GO CUBS

Good evening! Just thought you guys should know i love this site and have been following you guys since spring trainning and i find your insight very valuable (Except for the useless we need this and we need that crap.)

I’m a baseball gambler and your knowledge of your team has helped me greatly so far and i hope to be along for the marathon all the way to October.

I don’t bring much into insight, but i have been following you guys religiously so far in this young season.

This is my first year betting on baseball as it seems to be the only sport where you can actually win money from (trust me, i’ve learned the hard way with the others).

I decided to ride the Cubs and with your help, i’ll get through this marathon with some $$$.

So, again, it’s my first year so, my contributions will be limited, but i will have tons of questions for ya!!

Looking forward to this homestand Arami$ coming back!

GO CUBS!!!

10 runs one day, 6 the previous 4 games, then 2, then 10, then 0. Hopefully the bats will show up tomorrow. I’ll chalk this game up to “getaway day” and look forward to hooking the Fish tomorrow.

Marmol should close
Wood would have guaranteed we scored and hit the ball better
Theriot is too above average to be able to man SS
MB is done, he never will hit again
Dlee is too “nice” about the teams problems, and should be sent to see a therapist
Soriano has anger issues, and will challange Lee at UFC 100 Live from Las Vegas
The ledge jumpers have buiilt a grandstand so they can see over Wrigley Field in the US Cell
Hendry forgot to reup the contract with Wheeties for between inning snacks
Zell asked the Cubs to lose so that the sale will be prolonged
Rickets is the Cubs savior, but so is Cuban, and MTV will have a celebrity Death Match for Cubs ownership
Its 20 games in, so the other 142 are guaranteed to produce the same results
Jake Fox is a modern day He Man and needs to be batting 4th
Lou cannot manage, he just got luck with two winning seasons in the NL Central
The entire team should be sent to Iowa and the iCubs should be at Wrigley tomorrow

He might be dl’d? So what is that 2 weeks?

July 1st? June 1st?

I hope they continue the Canadian Drive By with a victory in the second round over Vancouver

Why does Lou have so much faith in Larry Rothschild?

Why is it that many guys leave this staff and do better elsewhere? Or when guys get here, they rarely improve upon the game that they brought to the Cubs. I know Larry is no Dave Duncan, but I have never liked his approach. Maybe he is just too weak to be his own man in front of Lou, but I didn’t like him when he ran the staff with Dusty.

I know walks are 51% mental, but this has to get solved, and fast. It is contagious. I am not a ledge-jumper and it is a long season. I just think there is plenty of talent on this staff that doesn’t get fully exploited. I have faith in the pitchers (ex-Cotts) that we’ve got.

its is way too soon to

The Cubs have played their “A” lineup (Soriano, Fukudome, Lee, Bradley, Ramirez, Fontenot, Soto, Theriot – in no particular order) 5 times. Look at that again – 5 times. I’m pretty certain this team was built for those 8 to play together more than five times.

As Al said in his recap, this team needs health. With so many injuries, Lou has not had the luxury of using players in their normal spots in the batting order (see Reed Johnson batting fourth the other night) or using his role players as intended (with the exception of Joey Gathright, perhaps).

(If you want to point out a flaw with this team, I would go with the lack of a replacement in the event of an Aramis Ramirez injury. While it’s odd to say, Ronny Cedeno would have played a role for this team in that spot, allowing Fontenot to stay at second.)

Once this team is healthy (and it hopefully will happen in the next week or so), I except things to start clicking, once players get comfortable with their spots in the batting order and in their roles for this team.

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. He’s completely worthless to this team. Completely.

but this year I feel like every game we lose, we lose big time as a result of the bullpen. Very 2005-ish type pen we have..

any chance we can move the games to hohokam?

It just needs to be forgotten about.

The biggest problem with this team is that I can’t figure out what its identity looks like. We looked unstoppable yesterday, and we got TWO F-ING HITS on DOUG DAVIS today. I have no idea which is the real team. It’s very frustrating, and I know we as BCBers are expressing that frustration. Someone above said that we know Jim and Lou aren’t going to “wait the storm out”, they are go-getters, and we will have a refueling, new supplies, and some badass new weapons in here before too long. That, or Lou is gonna break some stuff.

Okay, time for LOST.

Dan

And Kevin Gregg wasn’t hurt and also issued three walks — that was ten altogether for the staff today.

I was listening to the radio in the car at that point, and I heard Gregg got ejected for jawing with the ump. I was glad to hear at least ONE Cub get some fire in his belly. Were the pitches badly thrown or badly called by the ump?

Slowly the small sample size argument is going away. This team is very frustrating because they can be as good as last night, but also pull the crap from today.

That Dempster contract isn’t going to look so hot as the season goes on. No longer does he like to throw strikes until after he has allowed runs. That needs to be fixed ASAP.

The bullpen is the other problem. Marmol needs to be put on the DL. I don’t care what he says, just give him two weeks off to rest his arm.

The offense will show up once Aramis is back and the Marlins are gone. I sure hope a weekend home is just what we need, and everything goes well.

Still, the Cubs have had a lot of struggles and are .500. Hopefully guys get healthy and over time we’ll get more production. The bullpen could be an issue all season and the bench needs to be improved. I expect the Cubs will address the latter from outside, but the former may be in-house. It’s a long season and I’ll be more surpised/shocked if this team doesn’t get it together and compete. Given their health issues and the bullpen I think .500 is good.

Both still hurt.