It seems likely now that we’ll wonder if Corey’s the biggest talent flame out in Cubs’ history. What we’ll never know is if Ed Lynch hadn’t rammed him through the minors against the advice of a farm director named Jim Hendry if Corey would have actually learned how to play to his talent.
This only partially steaming pile of Phil Rogers can’t go unchallenged. Parts of it are strangely lucid by Phil’s standards, others are confusing as usual.
Well, at least the Cubs have an official scapegoat now.
Identifying the root of their troubles was about all that will be accomplished by the Cubs sending Corey Patterson to Triple-A Iowa after getting swept Thursday in Atlanta.
It would be nice if this stark wake-up call could send a signal to Patterson, but that’s asking too much. Patterson does not appear capable of adjusting his free-swinging approach, so the guy once likened to Rickey Henderson is doomed forever to remain on the Gary Pettis career path.
No, if the Cubs were going to accomplish something significant, they would have found somebody to take Patterson in a trade, saving themselves the tease. With the exception of the first half of 2003, before he blew out his knee, Patterson has been a major disappointment for two managers now.
Phil’s doing fine so far. Good points, nice Gary Pettis reference…
Anyone paying attention grasped this long before Cubs manager Dusty Baker, who had Patterson in the right spot in the batting order for exactly one game back in June–when he hit him eighth at Yankee Stadium. Why Baker let Patterson persuade him to put him back in the leadoff spot–the move that triggered the losing streak that reached eight games with the sweep by the Braves–is a mystery.
Yeah, that’s nice, but it’s not true. Corey was leading off for almost a week before the skid. True, it was s dumb move but “triggered the losing streak” seems a little…wrong.
But the truth is Baker has had just as bad a season as has Patterson. Ditto general manager Jim Hendry, who is spitting in the wind if he thinks neophyte outfielders Matt Murton and Adam Greenberg will be upgrades over Patterson and Jason Dubois. They have potential, but neither has played above Double A. They could get eaten alive.
Just like Braves outfielders Kelly Johnson, Jeff Francouer and Ryan Langerhans?
Dubois was as well prepared for the majors as a hitter can be, proving himself through the minors and in winter ball. But even such a relatively seasoned 26-year-old couldn’t handle being jerked around by a manager who would rather turn a veteran role player (Todd Hollandsworth) into a regular than develop a young hitter. Dubois would have survived with regular at-bats but wasn’t getting them.
That’s absolutely true. Dusty is unable to understand that Hollandsworth’s best role is as a fourth outfielder. Which is why Dusty is the wrong man to have in the dugout.
While Patterson’s 6-for-46 slump was the centerpiece of the Cubs’ latest swoon (7-17 since June 11), it’s too easy to put their problems on him. The reality is that the biggest problem remains the bullpen. And Baker’s handling of the team has been curious since spring training.
It’s July 8, and the Cubs still don’t know who their second-best relief pitcher is. That is an indictment of both the front office and the manager.
Was anyone surprised when the bullpen surrendered six runs in the eighth inning to lose the nightcap against the Braves? Ryan Dempster has been a blessing as the closer, but the setup crew has been in shambles all season. The worst injury of the year, worse than Nomar Garciaparra, Kerry Wood or Mike Prior, was Chad Fox’s blown elbow in April.
That, of course, could have been prevented (or at the very least delayed) if Baker had not brought Fox into a 10-3 game and not left him in for 29 pitches on a night he didn’t have it. The season-long bullpen situation might have been better if Baker had not called a late audible that moved Dempster into the season-opening rotation.
If Dempster had opened the season as the closer, which was the plan entering spring training, LaTroy Hawkins might have found his comfort zone back in setup relief. Instead Hawkins infected the staff with bad karma until Hendry peddled him to San Francisco–the best move he has made since the Sosa trade.
Meanwhile, the thin lineup around him exposed Patterson for being little more than a supporting player.
For all the talk about how he needs to use his speed, the one thing that kills Patterson is his vision. He swings at far too many pitches, including pitchers’ pitches that are just outside the strike zone, and struggles to make hard contact. He never has learned to trust his bat speed, letting the pitches get closer before he commits.
Phil’s back on a role here. See, from time to time he can actually make sense. Not often, though.
Murton and Greenberg are both promising hitters, but the best outfielder in the Cubs’ farm system is Felix Pie, a 20-year-old center fielder who was playing between Murton and Greenberg at Double-A West Tenn. The Cubs don’t want to rush him, but he’s a better bet to be the Cubs’ center fielder in 2007 than is Patterson.
Will Baker still be the manager in ’07?
Barring a dramatic turnaround, that’s the question that will occupy the last months of this season. A center fielder can be assigned only so much blame.
Phil, it’s not 2006 yet. I think you’re one number off on your year there. You can blame that on your editor.
Dusty says the players are “working and trying.” Yes, they’re working on a losing streak and trying our patience.
Mark Prior was lousy yesterday. Remember that he was 10-0 with a 1.66 ERA when pitching after the Cubs had lost two or more games in a row? Yeah, well, neither did he.
Teddy G. on Sandberg and Morgan, the loathsome little game-show winner Mike Hall, Wally Dallenbach’s love for Lisa Marie Presley and Bob Brenly getting out the whuppin’ stick yesterday.
Jim Hendry’s saying all the right things about Corey coming back. Sure. Whatever.
More good news, Derrek Lee’s shoulder hurt even worse yesterday. Great.
Mike Kiley uses the word ballyhooed to describe Jason Dubois. Is that French for “botched fly ball?”
Eddy Curry’s mad the Bulls aren’t going after big free agents. Uh, Eddy, if they resign you and Tyson they don’t have any cap room until next summer when they have a crap load. Besides, if Michael Redd is worth what the Bucks are going to pay him, I’ll eat my hat. Eddy says he might have to leave Chicago. Yeah, sure. Whatever. Just try and keep your heart beating, OK, Ed?
Jay Payton pissed and moaned about how he was handled in a double switch, and now he ‘s not a Red Sox. Hee hee. The Red Sox do not mess around. They traded him for a guy just off the 60-day DL. Former White Sox and Moneyball fave Chad Bradford.
If this is true, the Reds are surely the dumbest franchise ever. They won’t trade overpaid, underperforming Eric Milton to Washington because they don’t want their former GM, Jim Bowden to win with the Nats. Have they seen Milton pitch? Trading him to Washington might just be the thing that puts Washington under the hump.
Bruce Miles says it’s time to dump the veterans. You aren’t playing for the 2005 playoffs anymore, but you can start playing for the 2006 ones.
Baseball and softball are no longer Olympic sports. I don’t blame them. The baseball teams were low rent, and nothing is more boring than scoreless Olympic softball.
Let’s send Jose Macias to Turkey.
Another classic from America’s finest news source, this time it’s an Akron woman implicated in a “sex-for-security” scam.
I’m going to the white sox now ? Who starts these rumors, anyway ?…Kenny Williams ? Well, you can’t argue with me, Burnett, Oswalt, Schmidt, for the stretch run.
Love the comparison, but I won five gold gloves.
It’s not that Corey didn’t have options that kept him here, it’s that he had to clear waivers to get sent down. Seven weeks ago, I think someone would have claimed him. Not so this week.
70$!!! For food only? This is more than my family makes in a year. I love baseball !!!
Jose, I’ve been to Turkey, and I don’t recommend it.
Send me one of those calendars that doesn’t have a July on it.
I think the reason Phil used 2007 is that Dusty would need a new contract to manage that year. That said, he could have articluated that and mentioned that 2006 isn’t even here yet.
Yeah. bad editing.
Just remember how well I pitched after the break in 03′.
After literally napping their way through a 6-0 humiliation in the early game of yesterday’s doubleheader…
Yo Dolan, I think I’m the word you were literally looking for.
Tasty Dose though. Nice and tasty. One can only hope that it’s followed up with a nice juicy speculative rant about all the ways this could concievably be interpreted as the first couple of letters being written on the wall… with the rest of the message, “Mr. Baker, the time has come for you to meet your Dustiny.” possibly coming sooner than later.
5 pages please, single-spaced. Have it on my desk by the time my lunch arrives. Thanks.
If the death knell for this shitstorm of a regime is about to sound, I’d like to spend as much time as possible between now and then reading about its impending arrival.
It doesn’t have to be true, just more pleasant than the reality.
Sure Brenly pointed out Novoa’s bad pitch (he also got on Ramirez for loafing on a flyball) but did he mention that the reason Novoa was pitching was because Dusty used our defacto setup man Michael Weurtz to pitch a meaningless inning in Game 1? Maybe Weurtz wouldn’t have fared any better, but I’d have liked our chances with him pitching better than Novoa.
Last night, I pooped my pants with the best of them.
When is the last time the Cubs’ organization developed one of us?
I’m a righthanded hitter, not a lefty.
leading off tonight……GOOD!
The best part of the broadcast last night was when we spent several minutes positively gushing over the way the Braves “are an organization who certainly aren’t afraid to call up their youngsters and throw them into the fire.” We pointed to all the guys our viewers had probably never heard of who were busy handing the Cubs their own asses for the third straight time, we talked about Andruw Jones coming up at 19 and never looking back, etc. etc. etc.
And all the while some magnificent bastard had his camera trained right square on Johnnie B. Baker, sitting on his thumb, looking morose and beaten.
Almost makes a brother wonder whether or not we did that on our own, and just decided to take the chance that the rules are different for us than they were for Chippy & Stoney, or whether somebody had given us the green light beforehand… possibly even suggested it. Plot thick enough for ya yet?
I’m really surprised no one in the media called me out for saying junior couldn’t play left because it’s so tough to play, yet I put the Gremlin in like 6 different positions because he plays them equally – all bad. Don’t forget, I get paid thru 2006 whether I work or not.
Great dose. Been on the road all week. Glad to see I hardly missed anything, except for 1,876 Santo groans yesterday as I was driving through Wisconsin. I swear, he’s going to be dead by the end of this trip. I honestly don’t know why he subjects himself to this. A good “Heckle”-type satire would involve Santo quitting, explaining he can’t stand watching these lifeless bums while being forced to lob softballs to an increasingly-senile Dusty Baker before each death-march of a game. I wish it would happen for real. Or if he died, everyone could blame the Cubs’ play for sending him to his grave, because it sure sounds like he is literally affected, physically, by their entire approach to playing baseball.
The one question that this Patterson situation begs to be asked is…
How will his demotion affect Rex Grossman’s ability to stay healthy for a full season?
In other words, Go Bears.
You know, CT, I thought about the Wuertz thing, too, but Novoa had been really good since coming back. It just didn’t work out.
Now last night’s effort was positively Kyle-esque.
Hopefully Dusty will be paid for not working during me.
I wasn’t too bad.
I got rid of Sammy in 2004 because Dusty had enough.
I sent Corey out in 2005 because everyone had enough.
I wonder who I will have enough of next?
If Milton got dealt to the Natty’s I would strongly urge all of you to go get him on the cheap for your fantasy teams. RFK is where home runs go to die.
The last one of us to be developed was Mark Grace?
Thats only been, what, 16 years?
Anyone else think that my all of a sudden critical comments regarding the Cubs may be my ‘early intereview’ regarding a possible managerial opening for the team (whether this season or next)?
Um, Jim…you haven’t had enough of me yet, have you ?
Murton? Really? I need sources!!
(Hiding)…
Hey, Bob. Don’t tell that to James Renwick.
My sources have confirmed this.
Sanjay! Get back to work! That magazine stand isn’t going to dust itself.
“Or, maybe Greenberg can convince Dusty that he’s Doug Dascenzo, and that he’s in his 40s and should play all the time?”
Todd Walker must have been proud of the 7th last night. You don’t want to just stand there and watch Smoltz throw more than 3 pitches in an inning.
John Smoltz pitching:
Ronny Cedeno: Cedeno flied out to center.
Neifi Perez: Perez lined out to left.
Jose Macias: Macias grounded bunt out to third.
End of Inning (0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors)
CF Murton
2B Walker
1B Lee
RF Burnitz
3B A Ram
LF Holly
SS Cedeño
C White
P Zambrano
Come on home to mama, Corey. I got some sugar for ya. We’ll get you fixed right up.
Brian, Novoa has been pitching well, but hasn’t he been the 7th inning guy? There was absolutely no reason to use Weurtz in the first game especially with Remlinger available to pitch.
Guys, I don’t play CF. I play LF.
How come Doug Dancenzo gets a mention before me? I have been juicing just so I can get another shot with the cubs
I play CF!!
Can I play today?
Greenberg, it will be shabbos for tonight’s game.
Dusty’s right. Leftfield is too tough for little Jerry. Let only the pros handle this mine field of terror. Where’s my toothbrush?
Hey! Me too!
There was a long posting on the Cub Reporter about the whole waivers thing. Look at the comments to this:
http://www.all-baseball.com/cubreporter/archives/019383.html
They detail the difference between ‘Major League waivers’ and ‘Outright waivers.’ Korey only had to pass through ‘Major League waivers’ to go to Iowa. Major League waivers are revocable, so teams usually don’t try to claim players on that particular waiver wire. If they did, the team putting them on waivers would simply pull them off waivers.
The stat-heads over there do a much better job of explaining it than I do. Heck, I didn’t even know there was more than one type of waiver.
How bad am I that I actually cleared waivers before being demoted to Iowa??
Why is my last comment “pending moderation”?
Corey’s going to be doing some field work for me for my farm reports.
I don’t think we’ll be seeing Dubois again unless he mysteriously learns to play defense or suddenly develops 60 HR power. I’ll never forget how he could cremate a fastball down the middle though.
Don’t be shocked if I develop into a 30 HR guy in 2-3 years.
I’ll only hit .260, but I can mash.
Hardly anybody who isn’t a top tier prospect comes in and hits his potential right away.
Adam’s Rain Delay Theatre:
It means you’re too subversive and not communist enough and you must be stopped. Happens to me all the time.
I’m very underrated in this forum. Some people here pine for Moises Alou’s return to soccer-style play in the corners. It’s would be fine to let Dubois find his way around major league pitching here but you have to face the fact that the man couldn’t catch AIDS in the Congo.
Boy, if you can’t catch AIDS in me, you’re really not trying.
None of me in 2012.
I’m back, I’m back, I’m back, I’m back. Well Korey Patterson didn’t get traded but a demotion to Iowa is just as good. It is actually humorous.
I said at the beginning of the year and you can all look back in the Desipio archives, that Korey Patterson and Kerry Wood would be the goats this year. I’m pretty much dead on.
Korey has fucked up the offensive side of things and Kerry Wood has fucked up the defensive(pitching) side of things. These two assclowns are what’s left of the 2001 roster. Now we only have Kerry Wood on the roster after Korey’s demotion.
This leads me to Jim Hendry. This stupid fuck has really fucked up this team. Let’s wait until we have an eight game losing streak to make any rational moves at all that could actually help. Can you be that ignorant?
Jim’s next move should be firing Dusty Baker. Dustbag has infected this team with his Dumby Dusty Baseball Disease. We’ve all seen how that is played over and over again.
Next, Jim needs to trade most of his veterans like Remlinger, Hollansdworth, Burnitz, Rusch, and yes even Kerry Wood. Wood is no good except for collecting a paycheck.
It’s time to instill a different philosophy with this team and a different set of standards. You have to get rid of Dusty to do this though. Until then, all of these moves can be considered useless with that Cancer around.
FDBF=Fuck Dusty Baker Forever
Baker Basher
Yeesh.
“FDBF=Fuck Dusty Baker Forever
Baker Basher”
I agree, that dude’s an asshole!
Yeah…Cuz I’ve been a regular Carl Yazstremski out in LF.
If you equalize our stats to the same number of innings played….
Dewboys is slightly ahead (by 2) in total chances & put outs, barely ahead (by 1) in assists, and down 1 in errors (actually his 1.5 to my 1).
Our OPS’ss are virtually identical, but he’s got to hit 3 times every week. I get to bat daily.
I’m 32. He’s 26.
Who exactly has the brightest future here?
Well not me, that’s for sure.
Just a reminder here one more time, in case anyone forgot. Chip Caray is a fuckin’ douche-bag weasel. Him and the other announcer made wiseass remarks about the Cubs several times, and the other guy even tried to sneak a “blaming-the-woes-on-the-broadcasters” joke in at one point and Chippy cracked a smarmy, Stoney-style laugh.
I spent the whole series ripping the Cubs. I fucking suck. Let the Braves have me.
My partner and I, on the other hand, were all about the Cubs and their fans. Why, I’m not sure considering the Cubs were like the only team I didn’t play for. I used to be the only thing good about the Sox, no surprise I’m gone.
Those are some nice stats there Mullet! I hadn’t seen those. I don’t see a lot of things though apparently. I don’t see breaking balls well and I don’t see routine flyballs either. Is there a stat for balls that should have been caught bouncing off of the wall for doubles in tight games or standing maddeningly close to the wall when I ball is about to bounce off of it so that the fielder has no chance of fielding it and holding the runners in place? If there is,let me see it ‘cuz I need to work on that at Iowa. You know, gotta get this thing going back uphill, mmhmm!
Don’t matter to me dude, can’t have no rookies on the field. Playing rookies ain’t fair to the veterans, it means you are giving up, bro.
Well Chippy, the team may suck, but the announcers are bearable, not like you and Mr. SCORE
I’m loathe to admit that I’m pretty sure I thought Murton was a lefty only because he’s hitting so well in West Tenn.
I’m sure we can’t think of a guy playing for the Cubs who bats righty and can hit upwards of .370.
Can’t think of one. I’ll ask Derrek Lee.
I’m a dope.
Also, after I posted the Dose, I saw that bit about Corey clearing Major League waivers. Had he been claimed, the Cubs would have likely tried to get him to agree to an assignment to Iowa, and I can’t believe he’d have signed off on that.
He had an option left, so he could be outrighted, but enough service time to require he go through Major League waivers. If he didn’t have an option left, he would have had to have been Borowski’d to go through, and like I said before, he wouldn’t have let them send him down.
You don’t want to go “uphill” Jason. Trust me.
Hey Duwah, it’s called the fielding like me stat
Man, playing left field is the most demanding athletic challenge there is. Considering I couldn’t do it worth a shit, there must be something to what Dusty’s saying.
What’s possibly the most annoying thing about me is that I keep whining that the Cubs got rid of me because the players blamed me for their problems. Didn’t the players just think I was the most annoying person alive and simply wanted me off their plane? There’s a difference between them disliking me (which they did) and blaming me for their play (which, I’ve never heard any of them doing).
That Dumby Dusty. He has the Cubs playing Dumby Ball.
Why do I get the feeling Baker Basher is posting these messages from a mental care facility?
You’re right, the Cubs played a lot of good baseball throughout the 4 games that we should have been raving about. We’ll send you a TBS beach towel to wipe your nose.
Basher, why haven’t you updated me?
I just looked at the hour-by-hour forecast for Miami. Every hour from now until 9 a.m. Monday has a raining cloud icon on it. Is that good?
Remember me from last year ? More of the same bitches.
“I just looked at the hour-by-hour forecast for Miami. Every hour from now until 9 a.m. Monday has a raining cloud icon on it. Is that good?”
Yes, maybe Dusty and his coaches will get washed out to sea and the trib won’t have to pay them.
Praise Gawd, those O-lympics gettin’ rid of softball means no more lesbians on my TV. Gawd be wid cha.
Well, we can’t lose ’em if we can’t play ’em!
Chippy, maybe the players wanted you off the plane because you defamed their Gawd with your blatant homo-seggsuawlity. Now go play in traffic, sissy boy.
Kitchen and the bedroom, Florida! Kitchen and the bedroom!
Damn, DAMN, DAMN!!!!
Greetings from Dick Mell’s Cousin’s illegal landfill in Joliet.
I am heartened by the unexpected moves made last night, but my joy will only last until I see that the fuckstick Baker brought them up to pinch hit.
At a bare bones minimum, Macias needs to be cut, Neifi demoted to the bench and Cedeno starting every day at short until Nomar’s groin grafts back onto his bones.
I’m only giving Miami a 90% chance of rain tonight. That’s not so high, is it?
a. MLB postponed this weekend series, and the cubs would play again until next thursday.
b. They could travel back to chicago today.
c. They would meet in Wrigley Field tomorrow to start a 4-day Mini Training camp with emphasis on throwing, catching, bunting and hitting (the fundamentals).
d. Off day on wednesday
e. Get on a roll starting thursday.
a. 0%
b. 0%
c. 0%
d. 100%
e. 5%
We’d probably host a doubleheader Sat. or Sun. (or even Monday) if this whole series will be a washout in Fla.
Here is something interesting…
I was watching ESPN Classic here a little while ago today, and they were showing the Randy Johnson 20K game from 2001 when he was with Arizona against the Reds. Bob Brenly was, of course, the manager of the 2001 Diamondbacks… But who was the third base coach for the 2001 Diamondbacks???
CHRIS SPEIER!!!
“Had he been claimed, the Cubs would have likely tried to get him to agree to an assignment to Iowa, and I can’t believe he’d have signed off on that.”
Huh? Had he been claimed one of: A) the claiming team would have been needed to be bought off if the Cubs wanted to keep him; B) the claiming team could work out a trade for him; or C) the Cubs could have let the claiming team have his sorry ass and the remainder of his $2.8mm 2005 salary.
Corey had no say in the matter. Right?
The Chris Speier?!
B.C., whatsoever could this mean?! Thanks for the insight gleened from your television viewing there from a little while ago today.
Dark Helmet: Before you die there is something you should know about us, Lone Star.
Lone Starr: What?
Dark Helmet: I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
Lone Starr: What’s that make us?
Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing!
The only one who delivered me flawlessly was Higgins from Magnum P.I. It was usually followed up with a droll “Really, Magnum….”
Baker Basher should just go back and lay down on his bed in the mental institution that he lives in. He is so full of shit with his predictions for what will happen in the past. Hey Basher, did you think that Hendry knew the Cubs were going to lose 8 games in a row before they lost eight games in a row? I bet you predicted it though, didn’t you. You always know what is going to happen in the past. Basher, just do us all a favor and go back to that hole you live in and just STFU FOREVER !!!!!!!
It might mean Speier gets to be third base coach for Brenly again in ’05… Who knows? Use your imagination.
BTW, it’s looking like Preston Wilson is going to the Nationals…
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=nationalstotradeforrocki&prov=tsn&type=lgns
Forever…YEAH !!!!!!
Baker has to go, but is Brenley really the answer? Lou Pinella would be great…the chemistry that he and guys like Carlos would have would be outstanding. He does have one good idea, and that is to make his relievers openers and his starters closers…this way Kerry Wood could finally be where he belongs…in the bull pen. Also, I see no reason at all to keep Perez at short …Mr. Hamm’s return is right around the corner and that combined with C-Pat being demoted, Perez being released, Sweet Lou in the club housew, Wood nailing down the 9th, D-Lee streaking to some Andrae Dawson like numbers, Prior back healthy, A-Ram doing his thang at 3rd should turn this thing around…..Who the fuck am I kidding? this is the worst assembly of talent and baseball IQ the Cubs have had since Jim Essiam was in the Iraqi army driving tanks…fuck it I quit. Go Sox.
I quit too.
I’m either quitting or getting fired.
Why does one get pissed because I’m so right about things? It’s like you stupid fuckers actually like the torture of Baker’s malcontent dumbass management decisions and Korey Patterson’s pathetic play.
Why can’t actions like these get called out and bashed for what they are worth?
I’m just stating facts here. I’m not making this bullshit up. I call a spade a spade and a shitty manager/player a shitty manager/player.
So get real and you shut the fuck up unless you have something factual to say.
Baker Basher
What are you calling me Basher, a spade? I know all about you Southern Indianans, dude. You’re all racist down there, bro.
Just giving you the facts, Jack.
Please take me
Hey Dusty, you’re the one who’s been spouting racist shit the past few years and the one who wears the Malcolm X glasses.
Why so glum, chum?
The fantasy baseball everyone concocted after the White Sox series is a distant memory now. This team is not coming together, as predicted two weeks ago  it’s falling apart at the seams. How anyone could believe the Cubs would evolve into a Wild Card contender is lost on me. This team struggles to score runs every game. Without Lee in the line-up, they are hurting even worse. A trade is needed, sure, but it’s like a Band-Aidâ„¢ on a gaping wound. If a couple of bats could be brought in to support Lee and Aramis, things might be on the upswing, but the bullpen is still in shambles (3+ months into the season), and the starting pitching has been shaky (no consistency yet from Prior, Wood, or Williams). And forget about Nomar being the savior. He used up all his Jesus Juice getting to this point. To play in ’05 is a waste.
I’m starting to seep deeper into the morass here as trucks pile more and more garbage upon me, and the summer heat is working nicely as far as the putrefacation process is concerned. Of course, in my case, that was underway way before I jumped off of the ledge.
Anyway, I’m kinda glad I will be halfway down in the trash for this weekend, for each day that passes will bring another postponed game, which will mean that the Cubs won’t be able to end the losing streak, which will enhance the anguished moans and dire predictions amongst Cubfandom everywhere. I won’t hear anything but the grind of the bulldozers, as they shove piles of used diapers on top of me.
Hey Basher …. Why don’t you take the afternoon off, you don’t sound like you are feeling well this afternoon. Sounds like you are getting ready to make some more bold predictions like the Cubs will lose both ends of yesterdays doubleheader. BSTFU forever = BASHER SHUT THE FUCK UP forever.
m-m-m-m…week-old donuts!!
YEAH! afternoon off! YEAH!
Heh! L-L-Loooser! [snort] Heh heh!
There’s just one thing, dude. Do ya have ta use so many cuss words?
Have you ever heard such profanity from a “Christian?” We kicked him off the team weeks ago. Not that he couldn’t hit but he couldn’t find his tuckus with two hands in the outfield. We tried DH’ing him but he just sat there and complained to the coach the whole time. The last straw was the JB48 patch he sewed on his t-shirt. We don’t approve of idol worship. We also don’t approve of racism and he called our black parishoners “spades.” Not cool.
I’m actually only 16 year’s old. That would explain plenty wouldn’t it?
What the hell happend to us today ?
Just how many homers will Matt Murton hit onto “Banks Boulevard”?
Don’t touch me because I am on fire.
I’m now about nine inches deep into the landfill pit, and you’ll never guess who I ran into?
Yup, the Rotting Corpse of Joe Borowski.
I also bumped into those two kids that were murdered by their dad a coupla years ago, and dumped along I-80. Wellyep, this WOULD qualify. They’ve been here a while, and I wouldn’t know it was them so much, except there are several Citgo coffee cups wedged inside their ribcages.
My guess was Ron Santo’s bladder, but that’s back in Arizona.
Really? Oh yeah, that’s right.
There’s a rumor being spread by the maggots in here that a chunk of Ronnie’s right leg is sitting down near the southeast corner. Of course, at this point it’s probably impossible to discern between it and last July’s afterbirth waste from Silver Cross Hospital.
Look, I just had to come back, not to rub it in (too easy), but to remind you that the best team in the game resides on the southside. It’s never too late to jump on the bandwagon. There is no shame in it, you guys would all rather root for us over the Cards. You know it’s gonna be a Sox/Cards series, and you guys should support the team you hate less. I almost feel bad for you guys, well not really, but Sox fans have our own stuff to take care of. We need one more arm, probably A.J. Burnett, and one more arm in the pen as well. We know Garland or Beuhrle is gonna get the Cy Young, and Hermanson will win the Rolaids Relief award. Garland should get a Gold Glove and Crede and Rowand have a chance at one too. Scotty Po will lead the world in stolen bases as well. But none of this matters, we have our eye on the prize. Only a World Series win will do now. Good luck with the young talent, these guys are no Borchard, or McCarthy, but they sound okay.
Will I ever stop whining ?
I’ve been released. Corey you motherfucker. Your suckiness has a trickle down effect, you screw everyone from the Cubs to me. You better run, boy. I may be 63, but I can still stick and move.
They mentioned this guy last night on the score in a trade for Murton. Is this guy our savior? Is he magically gonna make the pathetic offense turn around? Will he make Dusty any less of a shit-for-brains? Is Jim Hendry even entertaining the notion of swapping Murton for a reliver with a career ERA of 4.29?
10 Mike MacDougal’s wouldn’t help this team right now.
Hey, Mike, throw in a box of donuts, and we’ve got a deal.
But I throw hard, and that, to the Cubs at least, is all that matters. All flamethrowing relievers are awesome. It’s not like we are a dime a dozen. You know like, Farnsworth, Novoa, Matt Anderson, Jorge Julio, Yhency Brazobhan, etc… are all awesome because they throw hard, MacDougal is just a taller, lankier, and whiter version of these guys.
Go get him Jim.
So long Detroit.
If I trade Murton for MacDougal, I am retarded and need to be fired immediately. Now who started this rumor anyway ? I can’t be this dumb.
Just speaking for myself here, but if it’s Sox-Cards, I’m rooting for the Cards.
Hendry should be fired if he even said “I’ll think about it” when KC made the proposition.
The proper answer to that trade request is “get the fuck outta here”.
Used to backing the loser, huh. Must be habit… enjoy cubs “baseball”.
I am inevitable.
If you search any Doses or gamecasts of late, you can jump right to the most pointless posts by searching space+? or space+!. For example, in this one it’s clear that the same guy bashes Baker Basher and then 2nds his own motion a few posts later. Not sure who has time to do this, type a different name and salute their own post, but the space followed by 14 exclamation points tends to give it away.
I’m not very good with computers, but the boys in the lab did some pattern matching and the space-before-punctuation guy is (“remember this guy?”) Cubsfaninfla.
Speaking for myself, if it’s Sox-Cards, I’m rooting for another earthquake.
Technically, I could happen too. Interesting…
I meant theoretically I could happen. Technically works, but isn’t quite right.
I’m not sure that it’s correct that, if another team had claimed Corey on waivers, Corey could have stayed with the Cubs by agreeing to a minor league assignment. I’m pretty sure that if another team claimed him, the Cubs could revoke waivers and keep him, but could not send him to the minor league in any event. In other words, consent or no, you have to clear waivers to go to the minor leagues.
But I could be wrong.
My life sucks so bad, I’m stuck at home on a friday night, listening to Cubs baseball on wgn radio. and posting here.
Intrepid Reader: Waivers
July 8th, 2005 at 7:11 pm
I’m not sure that it’s correct that, if another team had claimed Corey on waivers, Corey could have stayed with the Cubs by agreeing to a minor league assignment. I’m pretty sure that if another team claimed him, the Cubs could revoke waivers and keep him, but could not send him to the minor league in any event. In other words, consent or no, you have to clear waivers to go to the minor leagues.
But I could be wrong.
That was my point. Had a team claimed Corey, the Cubs would have pulled him back and the only way he could have gone to Iowa would have been to be designated for assignment and agreed to go to Iowa, like D’Angelo Jimenez did when the Reds’ sent him to AA last month.
A small correction. his name is Scut Farkus, not Scott.
I got a chance to see MacDougal throw a few in Denver a few weeks ago. All I could think of the whole time was the Farns… Scorching heat with zero movement and no control.
I’m proof that good athletes don’t always turn out to be good ballplayers.
Um..yeah, the opposite of what he said.
I’m good.
How long until I am initiated?
Now do you see why we were so pissed about the Nomar trade? It sure didn’t have anything to do with him, we all love Murton too…
We hope Dusty can teach us the real fundamentals of the game. Not these ones we’ve been using throughout our successful minor league careers, thus far.
Get off my nuts, I’m sure to flop at some point. Just don’t boo me.
I’m good.
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