they would have make morton look like cy young in june

proves to me that we as Cub fans whine too much. We could be Pirate fans, who have absolutely nothing to be optimistic about.

Signing Maclouth to a 3-year deal in January, then jumping him in late May was an embarrassment. He should have been the guy they hung on to and built around. But no, it proves they have no direction as an organization.

A win is a win. Just don’t go getting shut out tomorrow :)

It’s a win, and winning is better then losing. I don’t think anyone’s taking this and suggesting that it means we’re going to win the World Series based on this performance.

i don’t think there will be anyone saying that beating the pirates today 17-2, in and of itself, means we have a great team. this is a straw man.

Scoring 17 runs against any Major League team is an accomplishment.

But calm down…there are no FanPosts declaring the “giddiness” you refer to. You’re shouting into the silence.

Sorry for, um, allowing myself to enjoy just one tiny shred of life as a sports fan.

The Cubs have played like shit for the last week, and they finally come out and just pummel an opponent. And this is your reaction? God, you must be a bundle of joy to be around.

If I didn’t know better I’d say you were BLou, but he won’t be around at all since the Cubs won.

They won. They got a lot of hits and scored a lot of runs. It was fun. I imagine the team feels pretty good. A win is a win. Enjoy it, won’t you?

Jake Fox, DLee and most of the offense hit the ball hard, but Soriano still struck out looking like an idiot in the 3rd inning. The only reason he didn’t K in the 2nd when he hit the RBI single is because with 2 strikes they decided to throw a fastball instead of anything crooked.

… and they can hit BP fastballs off of pitchers that apparently no one else in baseball wanted (because, if they did want them, they would have been traded already.)

it’s better to write something, get it out of your system — and then, don’t post it.

This win does not mean any thing other than providing us with a good laugh. We deserve that.

Enjoy it.

I’m gonna use an old cliche and say they have to take it one game at a time, and with so many games left, not worry about how many or which teams are ahead of them. We can start to scoreboard watch the 2nd week of September.

Any win is good, but it’s especially good when it breaks a losing streak regardless of the competition. If the Cubs had lost today, there would have been complaining that the Cubs couldn’t even beat one of the worst teams in the National League. Does this win today mean they are guaranteed to finish the season on a red hot streak, win the division, and go 11-0 in the postseason? Heck, no! However, the first step in making a late season charge is beating up on the Pirates. Enjoy the win!

You seem to be saying that, because the Cubs blew out the Pirates, they’re not in the same class as the “true” contenders – but wouldn’t those teams blow out the Pirates, too?

You’re right. Today’s win didn’t prove anything. But, honestly, no one in his or her right mind said it did. Calm down.

not to trade for these Pirates

…could we get giddy or would they have to start releasing players? I’m confused.

than thinking this team has turned some corner after today’s performance is thinking that people believe this team has turned some corner and creating a fanpost to run your mouth about it.

One game at a time.

to see if there are positive effects from today? A day like today can release some tension from the recent poor games. Remember: “Baseball is 90% mental — the other half is physical.”

Enjoy todays W and as Gibbon stated: “One game at a time.”

And KNEW there would be at least one post like this on BCB today. Look, I want to doubt this team as much as the next guy, but doesn’t a game like this ultimately show what this team is and HAS BEEN capable of all year? We had two of our main offensive weapons sitting out today (I use that term VERY lightly with Bradley, recent performance excluded) and we still managed 18 hits an 17 runs. I think that says a lot about a team coming off a 5 game losing streak and a couple of really disappointing blow outs. A lot of other teams would just phone it in the rest of the year, but I think we have enough guys who are still hungry that we can make a real race of this thing over the last 1/3 of the year. I think we all need to take a deep breath, enjoy today’s result, and use this as the litmus test against which to judge the laugher losses we’ve endured over the past few ballgames.

it regained some confidence, to the players as well as to almost every fan out there. its a great start to the weekend, lets hope its a great start to a great rest of the first season. all of us here know the cubs are the freaking phillies or anything, but we still love the cubs, and will be super excited when they win, especially when its a big win. Every game counts (cept i guess if you already clinched or a re eliminated, but even then games still matter, for morale,etc) Yes it was against a AAA team, essentially, but if the cubs would have lost or even won by 1 or 2 runs, ppl would be like “OMG THE CUBS COULDNT EVENT BEAT THE PIRATES, etc..” so noone can ever win. Be happy they won and move on

A win feels good. a big win feels better. people are in the euphoria of the blowout let them bask in it for a while. Hopefully this is the fire under them that will get them going, but like its been said many times above, one game at a time.

Go Cubs

has so eloquently said.

E-Man, you know I love you, but this kind of a post reinforces my view that a lot of Cubs fans just enjoy being miserable. Don’t feed into that.

And I do get a little peeved about the “It’s only the Pirates” crap. So if they lost to the Pirates, that would be OK, too, because it’s only the Pirates, after all. You play who’s on your schedule, and beating teams you should beat is what good teams do.

And stupid DLee wasted all those ribbies too!

Would you have been happier if the Cubs had lost?

They have one more tick mark in the “W” column; period.