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Here at CUB TRACKS NEWS AND NOTES™, we have news for you. Bad news. The losing streak has gone to ten and the skid shows no signs of stopping.
The Cubs' losing streak hit 10 games Monday with a blowout loss to the Phillies.https://t.co/TZOkVQ9YFS
— Cubs Talk (@NBCSCubs) July 6, 2021
Highlights:
.@JSMarisnick squares it up! #CubTogether @BinnysBev pic.twitter.com/w5SGBrmGDh
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) July 6, 2021
Javy smokes an opposite-field double to score KB from 1st!#CubTogether pic.twitter.com/xhgOE1qaGt
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) July 6, 2021
Sad. When Gregorius hit that homer and tied the game, it felt like a loss. We’re getting to 2012 (if not 1975) dimensions, when I assumed the box score was going to have an L next to ‘Chicago Cubs’.
Make it stop.
— OBVIOUS SHIRTS® (@obvious_shirts) July 6, 2021
Maybe today. Maybe. If the string runs out to eleven, Bolingbrook promises to spontaneously combust, like a Spinal Tap drummer or a Chicago Cubs catcher. Is that a bizarre gardening accident or an Eric Sogard at-bat?
Let’s win one today, boys. This team is so bad now that there’s not even any coverage to cover. All there is this Paths of the Dead march toward the end of this month and an uncertain future for the sport.
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The whole interaction as David Ross got ejected for arguing balls and strikes on a full-count walk to Bryce Harper pic.twitter.com/iBLj9EGonP
— Shaun Nestor (@shaun_nestor) July 6, 2021
- Gordon Wittenmyer (NBC Sports Chicago*): Cubs flirting with wrong kind of franchise history. “...no Cubs team ever has had a losing streak longer than seven games and made the postseason.”
- Paul Sullivan (Chicago Tribune* {$}): As the Chicago Cubs’ playoff hopes fade and a trade deadline sell-off looms, it seems like old times. “The Cubs are still the Cubs.” Sahadev Sharma boards this train {$}: Steve Greenberg waves the white flag.
- Matt Johnson (Sportsnaut*): 3 Chicago Cubs trades if team decides to be sellers before MLB deadline. “...the Cubs now look like sellers with the MLB trade deadline approaching.”
- Brett Taylor (Bleacher Nation*): Jed Hoyer speaks: When to pull the trigger on buy-sell, lack of walks, returns from injury, pitching, more. “Not that he’s going to tell the public he’s in sell mode just yet.”
- Sahadev Sharma (The Athletic {$}): Cubs’ best options to fix rotation, now and in the future, may just be in-house. “Could Keegan Thompson or Justin Steele get starts for this team?”
- MLB.com*: Bryant, Kimbrel to represent Cubs at ASG. “It’s always special, each and every one,” Bryant said.
- Meghan Montemurro (Chicago Tribune* {$}): Can Nico Hoerner fix the Chicago Cubs’ offensive woes? ‘He just needs to be himself,’ says manager David Ross. “I know he’s wanted to help out,” Ross said.
Games pitched in since the Cubs’ last win:
— Meghan Montemurro (@M_Montemurro) July 6, 2021
Eric Sogard — 3
Craig Kimbrel — 1
Tell us your feelings about Joe West, but keep it clean challenge!
Food for thought:
Is it a car or is it a plane? We're not sure.
— Futurism (@futurism) July 5, 2021
https://t.co/vYl63Hg0FA
Watch A Diamond Crack Under Pressure https://t.co/wAKYrncVi8 pic.twitter.com/abRCS1NVUA
— Popular Science (@PopSci) July 5, 2021
In a bout of nomming worthy of Pac-Man, a black hole gulped down the neutron star whole.
— Science News (@ScienceNews) July 5, 2021
https://t.co/iraC0viiSi
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