he’ll be fine.

The bullpen came in and gave up another 3 runs today!

3 K’s, 0 for 4.

Is he really spinning at the plate like a whirling dervish these days?

 I got so desperate in the eighth that I put on a rally cap. No, several rally caps. I put all five of my Cubs hats on top of my head and I wasn’t even drinking. This goes against all my values, against everything I stand for. I’m scared what I may do next. Will I try to start the wave? Will I start to enjoy listening to Sirott in the 5th inning? Help!

I’m with you on Milton – but Joe Mauer as “perhaps the best hitter in the game today”? Man, I’m gonna be doing some studying and comparing tonight.

Moving Sori to second is going to be another “gaffe.”

that I’m happy with my work schedule that I can’t watch most of these games. It feels like every time something goes well, something else goes poorly to offset it. Every time I think they’re turning a corner, the next game goes back to being flat.
It doesn’t feel like they’re progressing.

because it would basically ruin any defense we might have had. Now I don’t care, just freaking do it Lou. it doesn’t matter if we can catch the ball or not.

Not too much to say about this one they just looked bad. The guy that looked the worst was the one who provided most of the offense, Bradley.

This is just a reprecussion of wasting so many good pitching perfromances, sooner or later you are going to have to outscore the other team and this team doesn’t seem to be able to do that right now.

Very worried right now.

something THE CUBS have had a lot of trouble with.

/fixed

But just imagine how much better that 30M couldve been spent

The list of second basemen whom I would prefer to see wearing the blue pinstripes is too long to print here, so I will summarize it:

All of them.

Given the lack of hitting, run scoring, poor defense and now today a MILTON MOMENT,
the team is still in the thick of the race

Did I every tell you how much I like the Rockies last week ?

Lets only hope we are still here when RAMI gets back

I’ve been in his corner but not now. The booing he will suffer will not rival LaTroy Hawkins, it will surpass it and maybe set a Cubs booing record. For 10 million a year and three fingers and an infield and outfield that signal outs, it’s not too much to ask to know how many outs there are. I wish he were hitting .321 as last year but now more than ever I think he’s going to be booed every time he comes up and will not be long for a beautiful cubs uniform. I just don’t see him bouncing back from this AT ALL. If he stays in the Cubs lineup all summer after this, it will be a long summer.

Is that hitting for the “cubbie occurance” cycle? Oi.

I was watching the Twins broadcast on EI (no WGN on my cable system; bit…). After Bradley threw the ball away and the runners advanced, the camera showed Lou sitting in the dugout chuckling.
You know, the players weren’t laughing; Bradley wasn’t; the fans certainly weren’t. Everyone was embarrassed, angry or both, except the manager. Why? What was so funny? Losing? Has Lou stopped caring?
Lou Piniella lost my respect when he announced that the Soriano “experiment” was over after only trying it for a couple of days. (Only in Chicago putting your top HR hitter to bat 3rd is an “experiment”. Come up with a better explanation, please!) Now, with his lackadaisical attitude, after his urge to dismantle this team during the winter and leaving it with no offense and no bench, I believe it’s time for Lou to seriously think what he is doing (or not doing).
There. That’s my rant. Agree or disagree, or don’t care. I just had to vent. (Thanks for the chance, Al)

to WFAN out of New York today coming home from work. Jerry Manuel was being interviewed. He made the comparison of his Mets and Phillies, He said " We are playing with a spark, The Phillies play with a fire" Insert the Cubs with playing with a spark, or maybe no spark.
 This team right now has no belly, no guts. Goodness Soriano at 2b, oh my. This will be interesting. But you know, what else are you suppose to do? Miles, Scales, and Blanco, yikes.

right on Jim Hendry. He has done this to Lou like Dusty got the shaft in 2006. Crappy decisions must not be excused. We need an owner in place that someone has to answer to.

I kept track of the game using the Yahoo box score like I usually do (it’s less graphic intensive than Gameday) and I had no idea Bradley was the goat. I figured “At least Milton got some hits and scored some runs!”

He’s even the “Top Batter”!

From MLB (Muskrat):
Bradley: “If I stayed [on second base], maybe he [Joe crede] throws home and we don’t score a run.”
Lou:

From MLB (Muskat):

Bradley: "If I stayed [on second base], maybe he [Joe crede] throws home and we don’t score a run."
Lou: “That was a bad baserunning play.”

Lou: “I’m sure he’s somewhat embarrassed by it.”
Bradley: “I wasn’t embarrassed.”

Milton, please, man up.

while I was in favor of signing Abreu instead, I wish Milton nothing but the best and want him to succeed. I will want him to succeed for as long as he is a Cub, but in my mind it’s painful to watch sometimes knowing that there were other options out there which I think were a better fit for our team. Yes, he lost a ball in the sun and that’s certainly not his fault (in fact, I thought he deked the runner fairly well on that play), but not knowing how many outs there are is inexcusable, and if I were Lou Piniella I would’ve pulled him out of the game immediately had the personnel been available.

I repeat: I do not want Bradley to fail. But I’m getting a little tired of him always being the negative story.

He’s the negative story because you chose to make him so. You could have led off with “Milton Bradley provided half the runs scored by the Cubs today, and batted .500 for the day but had some errors in a day punctuated with Randy Wells’ worst start of the season” and it would have been just as true.

might be in our outfield

Kerry would have gotten the save but silly Indians scored two extra runs in the bottom 8th so not a save situation
Alas Brewers up 3-2 on White Sox.

Al, the Twins fans were, in part, there courtesy of Joe Mauer. Len said that Mauer had literally bought hundreds of tickets for this series. Other than that, I figure most were your basic baseball tourists, who seldom get the chance to see their team at Wrigley.

Brewers beating the crap out of White Sox , something I would love on almost any other day.

you could be a Mets Fan watching your ace closer induce a pop up to AROD only to see your aging 2nd basemen drop it and allow the tying and game winning run to score. It was brutal.

That Milton turns it around in the second half.. his bat is slowly coming back, but mistakes like what he did today can add up…

The absence of Ramirez is hurting the entire offense.. Lee and Bradley will improve with Ramirez’s return, kind of like A-Rods return to the Yankees and how that improved the rest of their lineup. Still not an excuse, but things will look up from here..

……I hope

I thought Lou did right today…was the lineup.

He appeared to attempt to try to lengthing the lineup so there was not so much dead weight at the back end. It did not work, but I liked the attempt.

Who are the IF backups now? Hoffpauir for 1B, Miles and Soriano for the rest? Ouch! “Great job”, Jim and Lou! (in sarcasm font) Meanwhile, we have 13 pitchers on the roster. Beautiful! (in sarcasm font)

And I’m usually optimistic by nature.

I can’t believe it, but I am in complete agreement with BLou on the topic of Hendry

This organization is a mess. No minor league system, and when not allowed to spend like a drunken sailor, Hendry has no ability to improve a ballclub.

Two years for Miles. Joey Gathright. 12 (now 13) pitchers. Yeah, he’s made some good trades, but the Marlins and Pirates were in giveaway mode with Lee, Ramirez, Lofton. The Pierre trade looked stupid to most Cub fans when it happened. None of us were happy with the 2008-2009 off-season.

Hendry deserves a bit of a pass for Soriano – they were trying to change the mindset of the Cubs not being a premiere destination for free-agents, and he was the best out there at the time. I was ok with the Bradley signing – but there’s got to be discipline. Piniella and/or Hendry has to get the reins on Bradley, Zambrano . . .

Maybe it’s the NyQuil causing this, but I am not excited at all about Cubs baseball right now. I think the Cardinals are the best team in the division – but I will watch again tomorrow to see if the Cubs can get back to 2.5 games out.

Maybe they should carry 25 pitchers – the pitchers are the only ones doing anything, anyway.

were by far the biggest douche bags I have ever been around out there, bigger that Cardinal, Brewer, or any other fans(I have never been out there with Sox fans though). It was just the guys I was sitting near, it was Twins fans all over, in the concourse, streets, and in Murphy’s.

Making the MOST of what you have. Fundamentally sound in all aspects of the game. Not complaining or whining at the umpires when things don’t go right. No excuses.

A total team effort with great coaching and managing.

People look at the Twins and wonder how they stay in contention every year as a small market team in a bad ballpark. Well, the “how” was in full display Friday afternoon at Wrigley.

And I’m saying this as a die-hard Cubs and Tigers fan.

The Twins simply do the game proud.

That’s the only word I have for this team right now.

His day of bloopers yesterday (at least tossing the ball to the fans) wasn’t that costly but not the kind of game to have when you have been slow to contribute (and when you lose at home).

I m beginning to have some small doubts about this team putting anything together, but there’s still plenty of time to get it going and there are some quality players on this team. Still in good position just painful to watch games like yesterday.