Cubs Lead, Pitching Fails, Cubs Lose: Same Old Story

If they still need another 5th starter and they don’t want to call shark up, give the guy with the funny name a shot. Nothing to lose at this point and he has been pitching very well at Iowa.
I assume they could easily take Diamond off the 40 man roster and add Bibens-Dirkx , unless someone is afraid of losing Diamond.

Blake DeWitt is hitting .316 since becoming a Cub

It means they stink.

that they continue the youth trend for the rest of the year and see what some of our AAA high level AA guys have. September came a little early this year. If nothing else I dont think next year will suck nearly as bad as this year has and hopefully Jimbo can shed some salary this offseason. This team does look promising down the road, granted the rotation is shaky and the bullpen is always a question (is it ever not a question on a team?) but we do have ALOT of young guys that show potential and hopefully next year is a REALLY young team.

Looked like the Cards fans fell asleep during this one as well (mid game). Weird to see the Cubs not field their best team during a Cubs Cards series (knowing full well we have “injured” players).

Oh yeah. Agree on spellcheck. If not now..when?

And it seemed so quiet there. Very little background noise. I’ve never been there. Is there something about the ballpark that deadens sound? Or was it just me watching the inevitable happen again, my brain deadened by the hopelessness?

is to bring up the AAA players who are marginal at best. With he exception of Adduci, all the guys on the 40 man squad are at Iowa. It does seem to show that Sandberg has a bunch of over the hill players that are essentially playing out their careers.

The entire list of rookie pitchers we’ve seen thus far have been terrible and they don’t belong on a major league squad. There is no way I want to see Shark or any other prospect hurler brought into this excuse for a baseball team. It’s clear that the entire coaching staff on the Cubs have done almost nothing to improve the team. But the worst paro of it is that we’re essentially looking at the 2011 Cubs. I can’t wait to hear the rationalizations at the Cubs convention.

(Number of Cubs losses and WC leader wins needed to eliminate the Cubs from the Wild Card.)

Git ’er dun, Jimbo!

Sigh. Man, we all deserved better than this for our devotion to this team…

about this season in the spring, but I never dreamed this team would be as horrible as it has ended up being. I figured they would hang around .500. Now I think they have a legitimate shot at losing 100 games. I hope management figures something out for next year.

It also appears that we have a lot of mediocre to poor pitching in the organization. Of the million different guys who have been up this season, Russell and Cashner are the only one who give me any hope, and I think Cashner still has a long way to go. I know there are better arms waiting down in AA, but the guys they have rotated in this season have been brutal.

Looks like I made the right choice.

It means that due to all the close games early in the season due to the players’ inability to hit in the clutch, the recent rookie callups and Lou’s excessive use of bullpen matchups early on (again, due to the closeness of games), our bullpen is full of good but tired and mediocre but rested arms. In other words, the bullpen was burnt out early.

Casey McGehee. Let go for nothing.

BEAR DOWN!!!

LWDYWMTD?

people needing to hit more (in order to win), but what does he do?

If he goes 1-for-5, it is a good day for him. Maybe he could go all Matt Holiday on the opposition, since they both are making about the same amount of money per year.

I just love .250 hitters who make $18 million a year!