The most embarrassing moment in Cubs history over the past 20 years. You decide.

But I’ve stopped watching. They stinks.

I remember how furious I got when A.J. Pierzynski hit a go-ahead homer against the Cubs in 2006 at Wrigley. This happened in the cross-town rematch after the first series when Barrett and A.J. scuffled. The Cubs were doing just as bad at that time as they are now and I remember thinking how good it was going to feel to get that win. Instead, A.J. hit the homer. When he hit it, he stood there, admired the fly ball, and twirled his bat in the air. While rounding the bases, the FOX broadcaster said “take that Cubs fans”. When A.J. crossed home plate, he pointed to the seats. Don’t know if he was pointing to someone in particular or if he was just showing up the Cubs fans. That home run REALLY hurt. I remember smashing several empty DVD spindle cases… and then took a picture of it to keep the glorious, wonderful memory of great times watching the Cubs.

Also, on A.J.‘s homer… It looked like he didn’t even use half of his power on the swing. That’s how it always seems to go for teams playing against the Cubs: just flick your bat out there nonchalant and destiny will take care of the rest.
Or better yet: everything works out for the Cubs opponents just as it was scripted. And the writer of this script apparently hates the Cubs. Kind of like this weekend. Pujols hit two freaking walk-off homers against the Cubs… just as it was scripted.
Nothing ever seems to go “as scripted” for the Cubs. This is what I mean by “as scripted” for the Cubs: Lets get a win today Cubs! Can’t ask for TOO much.

Now that I am ranting, I just thought of something else. I once heard someone say: “There’s 162 games in a season… and we can’t win ’em all.” Well, I would like to ask them: “Can’t lose ’em all, could we?”

when the Cubs were playing the Braves which allowed the runner to easily come home.

The absolute asininity of the play defies description. It moved Bob Brenly to snarl “Play the game, argh!”

Anybody remember May 18, 2006?
 
Cubs vs. Nationals at Wrigley. The Cubs were losing 5-3 in the bottom of the 9th inning against the Nationals’ closer Chad Cordero. The Cubs had the tying runs on first and third with two outs…

Neifi decides to lay down a horrible bunt and is easily thrown out at first. Brilliant…and embarrassing to say the least. The winning run bunts in the 9th? Still shaking my head…

as the most annoying. Ronnie Cedeno overrunning 2nd on a walk in the 9th inning against the Cardinals , effectively killing a Cubs come back ( Instead of two on and no outs , they had a runner on first and one out after the walk)

Was pretty awful.

… they were bad plays in good years, or collapses of good teams.

“Embarrassing” pretty much describes what’s going on right now.

They lost on opening day, despite Tuffy Rhodes’ three home runs – that’s the only good memory I have from the ’94 season.

1. They didn’t win a home game until May 3rd. During that streak, they made a big show of bringing out the goat and walking him around the bases. Before that, the “billy goat curse” was just a joke, a funny story. But that appearance was the first time that Cubs organization embraced that joke and they’ve continued to do so ever since. Personally, I find that “curse” to be embarassing – it’s a marketing ploy for a tourist bar and it implies that Cub fans are overly superstitious.

2. Sandberg played poorly for the first time in his career, which was troubling enough, as he suddenly looked washed up. Then he retired in June without warning. Then it became public just how much the players resented Larry Himes. It’s one thing for the team to play badly, it’s another for the clubhouse atmosphere to become so toxic that the most beloved Cub of his generation becomes so embarassed that he quits.

3. And it all ended with a player’s strike. So, unlike in most of the team’s mediocre seasons, we couldn’t even look forward to September call-ups or root for strong finish. Instead, we were stuck with the lingering disappointment while wondering if there would even be a next year.

That whole season was more than just awful. At the handful of games I attended that season, the crowds seemed nastier than before. Lots and lots of booing – it felt like the end of the 2004 season, except that it went on for months.

It’s one thing to lose. It’s another thing not to be very good. It’s worse to lose and not be good and to be a jerk.

Honorable mentions:

• The aftermath of the Sosa corked bat thing
• Milton Bradley accusing his kid’s teachers of being racist

Why does losing the first 14 games of the season never register a whimper when I bring that up?

Is everybody here less than 20 years old? Or have you all forgotten how that season was over after 2 weeks???? That’s FAR worse than what we are seeing right now.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/1997-schedule-scores.shtml

There was really only one good player on those teams — Bill Buckner. Rick Reuschel, too, until he was traded mid-1981.

Loss after loss after loss. The ’81 team would have set the club record for losses if not for the strike; they were on pace to win fewer than 50 games.

I don’t think anything Mike Quade has done so far belongs on a ‘top ten most embarrassing moments’ in the past 20 years.

Two two votes – 0-14 and Sammy and the corked bat.

I’m not sure if this helps anything and makes us look like maybe we shouldn’t be following this team. (This has nothing to do regarding the Indians cap I bought yesterday.)