Do-It-Yourself Game Post, Part Deux

This afternoon's ridiculous 10-9 loss to the Pirates probably has you feeling like that, doesn't it?

So YOU choose how you want this post to read.

This afternoon in Pittsburgh, the Chicago Cubs a random selection of nine Pirates fans Jim Hendry's donut salesmen He Who Shall Not Be Named The Ronny Cedeno Choir took the field and sucked worse than they have all year won their 15th game in a row blew yet another lead played a fabulous game of baseball promptly left the field, because they didn't belong there against the Pittsburgh Pirates the champions of the Little League World Series nine Britney Spears fans some bored Pirates fans Does it really matter?. The final score was 1-0 10-9 16,000-0 Does it really matter?. Ryan Dempster, for the second day in a row, blew a game he should have won sang the Canadian National Anthem on the mound came up with a new, creative way to blow a game wondered why he'd ever signed with the Cubs and, thus, the Pirates, who had twenty nine forty-two 13,000 hits, swept the Cubs in a series at Pittsburgh for the first time since last week 1999 1776 does it really matter?. Ryan Theriot had no five twenty sixty-seven hits today, which means that tomorrow against the Giants, he'll get to sing the National Anthem start at second base again be a hotdog vendor in the bleachers sit on the bench for a week. The Cubs blew no two sixteen 15,000 leads in this game, and have now lost no six 300 1,000,000,000 games in a row, the first time they've gone winless in a roadtrip or homestand of six games or more since last week 1997 1908 the last time Al did a Do-It-Yourself game post. Manager Dusty Baker, when asked how he could change his team's fortunes in the upcoming homestand, said: "I need my Neifi! back!" "I lost my toothpicks when I went out to argue in the 11th!" "When's the next plane to the West Coast?" "We had four walks today. Too much base-clogging! "I'll just say 'dude' some more. I love saying 'dude', dude!". Finally, this Friday, September 1, rosters can expand, and the Cubs will add Jim Hendry himself Felix Pie five more beer vendors 200 more beer vendors Gabby Hartnett, even though he's dead to the playing roster, and that will allow them to have a great September give even less playing time to Ryan Theriot have extra people to clean the toilets in the clubhouse get extra donuts delivered sell more scorecards.

There's not much more to be said. The Cubs had this game won, as they had last night's won, and blew it. Twenty hits and nine runs and still a loss to what is supposedly the worst team in the league, though the Cubs are giving the Pirates a run for that mantle -- and the Bucs get four more shots at the Cubs next week.

Here's something really weird. I first wrote a do-it-yourself post after the Tigers' 12-3 dismantling of the Cubs on June 18. And here is a paragraph lifted verbatim from that post:

Except for the Juan Pierre comment, that paragraph applies today, too. With 29 games left, what difference does it make who is in charge? The players lost the last two games, not management. Management only put this roster in a poor position to win ballgames.

One month left. On October 1, the explosion can begin.

I also wrote back on June 18:

This weekend, the Barry Bonds show comes to Wrigley Field. At least that makes things interesting.