Zambrano Must Go After Epic Meltdown In 6-0 Loss To White Sox

i dont see who they would want to unload, but Z and Ozzie have a friendship that might be able to save Z’s career IMHO

Bradley was pretty much dumped on while Zambrano was permitted to get away with his antics. The difference was that Zambrano actually contributed something to the organization whereas Bradley really didn’t have that history. When you consider how far they let things go with Zambrano over the years, it’s no surprise that they couldn’t handle Bradley. They were just quicker to do something about the Bradley problem because the guy seriously underperformed. Zambrano was at least an All-Star in 2008.

They need to try to deal with this problem.

…he’s a smart baseball guy. God that was painful to type.

… he’s got a firestorm waiting for him when he gets back. And I’ll bet he never takes a family vacation during the season again.

It was a lame attempt at a joke, and on Twitter, you can’t “joke” like that. Not funny especially under the circumstances.

Ricketts could show that SOMEONE cares. Right now the entire franchise seems adrift. No, I don’t want a Mark Cuban type owner sticking his nose into everything.

But right now this franchise is in turmoil and its leader is in Africa.

Tom Ricketts should be here. Period. This is a mess consuming his franchise.

To question someone’s fanhood is a terrible thing to do and the basis of your argument is completely shallow and vapid. What one person does to show fanhood is not equal to another person’s. Some people stalk the cubs. Others buy them.

The absolute only way you could ever legitimately question someone’s fanhood is if they openly root for another team. There is no question that the Rickett’s family is a die-hard cubs family.

Some here are expecting them to literally hang onto the Cubs every hit, walk, strike and ball. That’s absolutely unreasonable and ridiculous to ask of them. If you want to do that, great! I do that myself for stretches of time, then I take a mental break. Don’t lecture other people on how to be “good fans”.

This is the first year under this ownership. Give them a few years before you can accurately grade their performance.

But if Z has a modicum of composure in Game 1, we sweep Florida.

With NTCs and over priced contracts there’s so little to do. You have to ride them out and maybe salvage something in the off season when the deals that need to be done here can be done. .

This is a talented team. I do think that they will win more games from this point on than they will lose, but that’s only because all the pressure is off. We’re at rock bottom.

Green’ed.

what each player feels. But having perceived this team, they certainly appear not to care as much as many fans do about the urgency of winning. I’ve seen many many players across many sports willing to do whatever it takes to win. Yet we have veterans unwilling to work with a hitting instructor when they are in the midst of a terrible slump. Veterans who are only willing to take 2 games in A ball to recover their stroke. Players who pout when it’s suggested they move someplace else in the order to help the team.

If perception is even close to reality, it’s easy for many fans to suggest they don’t care enough to go the extra mile.

For all we know, they couldn’t care less.

I’m shocked it’s taken this long for Z v. Lee — it’s like Matter vs. Antimatter. Insane Over-the-top antics when Dealing with Failure vs. Unwavering Stoicism in the face of Hilarious, Ridiculous Failure.

I’m not even sure which side I’m on here. Z was way out of line, and probably should be moved. But that exact same tantrum, with maybe 25% less intensity, would be within reason – this team DOES need to “wake up.”

And that exact same tantrum is seen on at least half of the sidelines every Sunday in the NFL.

Bottom line – Z needs some time away. But this situation was definitely a strong possibility when we decided to demote Z for basically no reason in April. You mess with the insane bull, you get the horns.

I’m not the only one saying something like this. BB called them a “dead ass” team. It’s not a stretch from that to question how much they want to win.

And I do not believe that every player in baseball is most concerned with winning. Yes, everyone would rather win than lose but I’m sure there are guys out there that are doing it for themselves or doing it for the money. If that wasn’t the case, you wouldn’t see so many “career years” in contract years.

Speaking of the two players you mentioned, I don’t buy it. Look at Lee physically and over the past few years. He’s in great shape and has always been. I don’t see a degradation in his physical skills and he’s only 35. There’s no reason he should be this bad from a physical standpoint. Maybe his best years are behind him, sure, but not this. It was just last year he was getting MVP votes.

I can’t explain what is going on with Ramirez. I’m sure part of it is injury, but I’m willing to bet that he has a big year next year just in time for a new contract.

Green’ed.

Talk about professional emasculation…

This is a baseball matter. Hendry is the GM. Hendry needs to deal with it and already has started to do so. If Ricketts has to say anything above and beyond a few cursory comments, it should be to say Hendry is the GM and is taking care it and I support him 100%. Call that a kiss of death if you like, but again – this is a baseball matter. This is what the guy in charge of your baseball operations does – he takes care of stuff like this.

If Ricketts has to really get involved and make some sort of direction-setting statement about how the Cubs are going to handle this situation, then he might as well announce that Hendry’s been reassigned to other baseball duties.

The owner should not be doing the GM’s job.

I’m not sure what other “leadership” is needed. At this point you want what? Ricketts piling on? I have no pity for Zambrano, he brought this on himself, but he’s been sent home. For Ricketts to come out tomorrow and say “We won’t tolerate this and Zambrano should be sent home!” is just…….silly

Ricketts has made a number of public statements this year. It would be weird for him to wait until October to talk about something like this.

And as an aside – everyone involved in this trainwreck of a season probably needs to go. From Hendry, to Z, to (sadly) Lee. This team has a complacency problem, and a “not being very good at baseball” problem.

Brenly is different from Stone in my opinion. He’s just frustrated by the team’s effort and it’s well deserved. I don’t think it’s been self serving yet imo.