They just showed my baserunning on Comcast. It was the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in a while, people.
R.I.P., 2005!
Bears Season
on July 21, 2005 at 3:17 pm
When do I start? When Rex and Urlacher get hurt again, it’ll be just like the Cubs season never stopped!
Crash Davis
on July 21, 2005 at 3:27 pm
Bad baserunning, no timely hitting, stranding runners at third, average starting pitching, miserable relief pitching and meaningless late game home runs.
It’s 2004 all over again. Even after our overhaul this offseason and getting rid of the cancers, we still can’t play fundamental baseball. That can only point to one glaring weakness – and it starts with a “D” and ends with “usty”.
Nice work Dude, make sure you leave your office nice and neat so Piniella will enjoy it in Chicago.
Dave B
on July 21, 2005 at 3:28 pm
The vaunted Reds bullpen of Standridge, Coffey, Shackelford, and Belisle go 5 innings, giving up just 1 run, 3 hits, and 1 walk. Embarrassing.
Andy
on July 21, 2005 at 3:41 pm
I’m sure there are lots of people out there right now saying, “Big deal. It’s one freakin’ game. They win five of six and you’ll forget about it.”
But it’s not one game, it’s a pattern they’ve repeated all season long. And every promising season in recent memory has been sabotaged by a loss just like this one.
If it isn’t Preston Wilson pantsing Tom Gordon, it’s an eight run eighth in the NLCS or it’s Victor Diaz in New York. You can just feel it. In every case there was a chance to put it behind them and every time they haven’t been able to.
They had to get some momentum built up before they went to St. Louis and until last night they had. Then Wood’s arm falls off and today’s was just ugly from the fifth inning on.
Criticize all you want. But we’re experts when it comes to this stuff, and I can tell you this.
It’s over.
Go on, enjoy what’s left of the summer. Read a book under a tree, watch some old movies you’ve heard were good, develop alcoholism…
Whatever makes it better.
The Cubs
on July 21, 2005 at 3:43 pm
Hey, we’re still in it, there is a TON of season left. You know Jim is gonna make a blockbuster and Dusty will spur us on to victory, we have had over .500 seasons two years in a row. That should be as good as a world series to Cub fans…aww, who the fuck am I kidding, we are an underachieving, bunch of hacks who have no idea how to play fundamentally sound baseball. But, there are planty of excuses for us this year again. Injuries, etc…blah, blah, blah…enjoy another year of Dusty and his magic Cub fans…shit..
Dusty Baker
on July 21, 2005 at 3:44 pm
My teams always finish strong, dudes.
Baker Basher
on July 21, 2005 at 3:46 pm
I got it, we’ll call him Busty Faker from now on. I’m awesome!
Dusty Baker
on July 21, 2005 at 3:48 pm
Haven’t any of you figured out when I win it’s with veteran teams? Because I have no fucking clue what I’m doing. If you give me a team of veterans who don’t need to be managed, I’ve got a shot. But I can’t develop a young player because I have no idea where to even start.
Did I ever tell you about the time Hank Aaron…
Straw
on July 21, 2005 at 3:49 pm
You would think with the price of gas so high, that the Cubs bullpen wouldn’t use so much.
Kyle Farnsworth
on July 21, 2005 at 3:51 pm
This would have never happened if you’d kept me. I’d have drilled that Valentine asshole in the 8th for hitting two dingers. During the bench clearing brawl, I’d knee cap Griffey and kEARnS. Inning over. E-Ramis puts us on top in the top of the 9th and Sweaty Joe closes it out for the win.
Wait, you guys DFA’d Sweaty Joe?
Fuck. You guys suck.
Cubs
on July 21, 2005 at 3:51 pm
It would be pretty Cub to lose like this to the Reds and then win 2 of 3 in St Louis. A parallel to the sucking against loser pitchers and then doing okay against some pretty good ones thing, if you will.
It would also be pretty Cub to just suck all weekend and get swept, so we’ll see.
Me
on July 21, 2005 at 3:51 pm
Dolan says: Develop alcoholism
2 steps ahead of ya.
Dusty says: We just have to keep grinding.
Hey, that’s great. How about you go fuck yourself?
Farns
on July 21, 2005 at 3:52 pm
And I sucked yesterday at the Joan. Classic Farnsey trying to cough up a 5 run lead
Karen Carpenter
on July 21, 2005 at 3:57 pm
I fell like throwing a shutout tomorrow.
The Bell
on July 21, 2005 at 4:02 pm
I toll for thee, Cubs Fan.
The Bell
on July 21, 2005 at 4:04 pm
Do I toll, or do I toil?
Scott Williamson's arm
on July 21, 2005 at 4:09 pm
This doesn’t bode well for me…
Somebody go Tanya Harding on my knee so that I can’t be destroyed throwing 48 consecutive days because I’m a “veteran.”
Although I guess Chad Fox needs the company…
Dusty F. Baker
on July 21, 2005 at 4:12 pm
Someone please hit me in the head with a tack hammer.
Gary Sinise
on July 21, 2005 at 4:17 pm
I did that today, Dusty. I’m a rent-a-manager and I could handle that team about as well as you.
Trippico
on July 21, 2005 at 4:31 pm
When new man in town Gerut leads off and Burnitz is in Center on Wednesday and Barrett is batting 5th Thursday all I can say is how much more evidence does the tribune co. need in order to fire Dusty for incompetence.
Turtle
on July 21, 2005 at 4:36 pm
Do I smoke too much weed? I know Dusty does…… He probably crosses swords with Drama too….
Turtle
on July 21, 2005 at 4:36 pm
Do I smoke too much weed? I know Dusty does…… He probably crosses swords with Drama too….
Cincinnati Police Dept.
on July 21, 2005 at 4:37 pm
After today’s ballgame, a young man named Brian Crozier was found trying to drown himself in a bathroom sink at Great American Ballpark.
Cinci Paramedics
on July 21, 2005 at 4:42 pm
Funny thing about the Crozier case. He only had his ass in the water.
…
What?
That was head?
Cincinnati CSI
on July 21, 2005 at 4:51 pm
It’s both. His head was up his ass.
CSI Cincinnati
on July 21, 2005 at 5:11 pm
Starring Taye Diggs and Mary Steenburgen. This Fall. Saturdays on CBS.
Cubs
on July 21, 2005 at 5:37 pm
Hey, but at least we’re LIKABLE, that’s what you wanted, to get rid of the cancers.
we won’t fight with the announcers
we won’t pee in our hands
we won’t leave early
we won’t body-slam an opposing pitcher
We have a better attitude
we are much more nice
and we suck big time, maybe worse than last year.
Forget regression to the mean…
it’s “regression to the lovable losers”.
Come september, I am gonna be empty, just like the good old days…right? Who am I kidding? This is depressing as hell.
The Joan
on July 21, 2005 at 6:01 pm
Hey, don’t worry, so will I.
Hold up you fatalistic bunch of smartasses
on July 21, 2005 at 8:33 pm
It is just one game.
It was a very ugly game, but there’s no need for the tombstone, If for no other reason that the national league sucks.
There are other reasons, though,
The cubs have a solid core of players.
The heart of the order (Walker, Lee Ramirez and Burnitz) can rake, a very solid rotation even without Wood, (who has plenty more to contribute this season).
Before you guys plan the Cub funeral, think about the competion.
The nationals just lost Livan Hernandez, possibly for the rest of the season, and they will continue to fall off, so it’s really just the Marlins, (who are below .500 and can’t afford to keep the guys they have, much less make an aquisition) The Astros, who just don’t have a very good offense even though they are hot right now, and maybe the Phillies who are neither here nor there. All the wild card contenders are just as flawed as the cubs, if not more, and the cubs are almost certainly going to add another good bat to the lineup, (maybe not adam dunn, or juan pierre, but somebody good) and have Nomar and Scott Williamson come off the DL.
Things really woudn’t look so bad after todays game if the cubs had someone they could count on to get the ball to Dempster. The cubs have scored runs the last two games. The cubs lost the last two not because they are doomed to fail this year, and that we might as well give up hope now. They lost because they were forced to ask more of the bullpen than the pen was capable. You don’t typically get a 66 pitch start and 71 pitch game back to back. The reds are a bad team, but they are a very good offense.
The wild card race hasn’t really heated up yet, and so for now the cubs are still in it, even though they didn’t sweep the Reds. And the Cubs haven’t finished adding to the team.
Poster # 34.
on July 21, 2005 at 8:41 pm
I must be blind and/or retarded. The Nomar/Williamson thing? A guy hitting .150 with limited range who brought his struggles into the field, and a guy coming off of his second Tommy John surgery are locks to put the Cubs on top. Maybe I should watch the news or something because Livan is not having a surgery this year, he was just upset. Instead, I think I’ll throw common sense out the window, and slap on my BELIEVE bracelet.
Me
on July 21, 2005 at 8:50 pm
Hey…I’m still wearing my BELIEVE Bracelet…
Derrek Lee
on July 21, 2005 at 10:14 pm
Me, too.
The Cubs
on July 21, 2005 at 10:28 pm
We are gonna win it all! Yeah!!! Go Cubbies, you are the tops in my book. Wheeee!!!!!! We have champion written all over us.
D.F. Baker
on July 21, 2005 at 10:46 pm
Does it stand for Dusty F**kin’ Baker, or Dumb F**k Baker?
Desipio
on July 22, 2005 at 1:48 am
Now sponsored by fucking Tampax. Cry me a bloody one next Cubs loss.
Cubs Fans
on July 22, 2005 at 2:45 am
All right. Let’s play two! We have a shot this year for sure. We win every year, in dominant fashion. Our team is way better than the Cards and the Sox on an annual basis…oh wait, no they’re not, they are the worst franchise around. Oh well, we should still give them all of our money, since they so desperately need it. Those poor Cubbies. And that Santo, he is so insightful. Fuck us…again. This years’ team has the makings of a champion.
Desipo
on July 22, 2005 at 2:47 am
All other Cubs sights are absolute shit compared to me. Hail to the chief baby.
most popular cub t-shirt
on July 22, 2005 at 2:58 am
Well, #41, the Cubs are usually better than the Sox anyway… this year’s statistical aberration notwithstanding…
russ
on July 22, 2005 at 7:52 am
The Red’s series kinds of somes up the first half of the season. 500 ball. That’s all this team seems capable of.
Milkhammit Ali
on July 22, 2005 at 8:04 am
Cubs need more than just a player or two….Dusty’s gotta go. He is the most self centered piece of shit I’ve seen come through chicago since Ditka, with exactly opposite results. That hole in centerfield, not Jerry the Lesser, but rather the symbolic emptiness of talent in center is the most glaring deficiency….compbined with shitty pitch selectionat the plate by everyone but the two studs, crappy baserunning and general malaise toward the game of baseball tells me the manager sucks. Everyone wants to play for him because they are not held accountable…bring in Pinella just to watch him break these fags down for a few months then bring in someone who can actually manage.
Earthly remains of Sloth
on July 22, 2005 at 9:32 am
I called the time of death around the time that Chad Fox’s arm fell off, and Dusty ran LaTwat out there yet again. That was late April.
What took you so long?
Big Gremlin
on July 22, 2005 at 9:37 am
What is balk? I no balk! I keel someone now! Son of beech!
#46 is right. I don’t get a sense that this team is willing to do anything it takes to win–mainly the little things. I get a sense of “let’s just go out there and play and see what happens.” How many losses would be turned around if not for a few hustles, or a little heads-up baserunning, one less error…or not trotting Remlinger out for two innings. The Cubs give the other team five outs an inning half the time. Just look at last year. A few less fuckups and you surely could’ve won three or four more games and there’s the Wild Card right there. This team plays like it’s got 162 games to get it right, and every day there’s less of those games left to do it.
Andy
on July 22, 2005 at 11:10 am
Cosas means “things”, does Pequenos mean little?
Earthly remains of Sloth
on July 22, 2005 at 11:16 am
Si. Actually, I knew what “pequenos” was, but not cosas. I thought “cosas” meant “ideas”…
Cosa Nostra
on July 22, 2005 at 11:51 am
The Cubs are sleeping with the fishes.
Busty Faker
on July 22, 2005 at 12:16 pm
I sound like a stripper’s name.
Spanish Class
on July 22, 2005 at 12:50 pm
“cosas” finishes with “as”, so it’s “pequeñas” not “pequeños”.
“cosas pequeñas” = little things
Another example:
“niños pequeños” = little boys
“niñas pequeñas” = little girls
Now back to our regular Cubs discussion.
Comiskular Field
on July 23, 2005 at 1:02 pm
I still have about 5 seats left for each of the games this weekend. I’ve been filling to near-capacity, but there’s still room for a few of you!
That's Funny...
on July 24, 2005 at 4:19 pm
Paid attendance for sunday’s rubber game was a shade over 39,000, at least a quarter of which, were Red Sox fans. There were plenty of seats vacant.
Brian
on July 25, 2005 at 3:35 pm
The cell’s capacity is now under 40,000. Shit, would you have gone to any ballgame in Chicago on Sunday?
It was such a lovely season……sniff
They just showed my baserunning on Comcast. It was the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in a while, people.
R.I.P., 2005!
When do I start? When Rex and Urlacher get hurt again, it’ll be just like the Cubs season never stopped!
Bad baserunning, no timely hitting, stranding runners at third, average starting pitching, miserable relief pitching and meaningless late game home runs.
It’s 2004 all over again. Even after our overhaul this offseason and getting rid of the cancers, we still can’t play fundamental baseball. That can only point to one glaring weakness – and it starts with a “D” and ends with “usty”.
Nice work Dude, make sure you leave your office nice and neat so Piniella will enjoy it in Chicago.
The vaunted Reds bullpen of Standridge, Coffey, Shackelford, and Belisle go 5 innings, giving up just 1 run, 3 hits, and 1 walk. Embarrassing.
I’m sure there are lots of people out there right now saying, “Big deal. It’s one freakin’ game. They win five of six and you’ll forget about it.”
But it’s not one game, it’s a pattern they’ve repeated all season long. And every promising season in recent memory has been sabotaged by a loss just like this one.
If it isn’t Preston Wilson pantsing Tom Gordon, it’s an eight run eighth in the NLCS or it’s Victor Diaz in New York. You can just feel it. In every case there was a chance to put it behind them and every time they haven’t been able to.
They had to get some momentum built up before they went to St. Louis and until last night they had. Then Wood’s arm falls off and today’s was just ugly from the fifth inning on.
Criticize all you want. But we’re experts when it comes to this stuff, and I can tell you this.
It’s over.
Go on, enjoy what’s left of the summer. Read a book under a tree, watch some old movies you’ve heard were good, develop alcoholism…
Whatever makes it better.
Hey, we’re still in it, there is a TON of season left. You know Jim is gonna make a blockbuster and Dusty will spur us on to victory, we have had over .500 seasons two years in a row. That should be as good as a world series to Cub fans…aww, who the fuck am I kidding, we are an underachieving, bunch of hacks who have no idea how to play fundamentally sound baseball. But, there are planty of excuses for us this year again. Injuries, etc…blah, blah, blah…enjoy another year of Dusty and his magic Cub fans…shit..
My teams always finish strong, dudes.
I got it, we’ll call him Busty Faker from now on. I’m awesome!
Haven’t any of you figured out when I win it’s with veteran teams? Because I have no fucking clue what I’m doing. If you give me a team of veterans who don’t need to be managed, I’ve got a shot. But I can’t develop a young player because I have no idea where to even start.
Did I ever tell you about the time Hank Aaron…
You would think with the price of gas so high, that the Cubs bullpen wouldn’t use so much.
This would have never happened if you’d kept me. I’d have drilled that Valentine asshole in the 8th for hitting two dingers. During the bench clearing brawl, I’d knee cap Griffey and kEARnS. Inning over. E-Ramis puts us on top in the top of the 9th and Sweaty Joe closes it out for the win.
Wait, you guys DFA’d Sweaty Joe?
Fuck. You guys suck.
It would be pretty Cub to lose like this to the Reds and then win 2 of 3 in St Louis. A parallel to the sucking against loser pitchers and then doing okay against some pretty good ones thing, if you will.
It would also be pretty Cub to just suck all weekend and get swept, so we’ll see.
Dolan says:
Develop alcoholism
2 steps ahead of ya.
Dusty says:
We just have to keep grinding.
Hey, that’s great. How about you go fuck yourself?
And I sucked yesterday at the Joan. Classic Farnsey trying to cough up a 5 run lead
I fell like throwing a shutout tomorrow.
I toll for thee, Cubs Fan.
Do I toll, or do I toil?
This doesn’t bode well for me…
Somebody go Tanya Harding on my knee so that I can’t be destroyed throwing 48 consecutive days because I’m a “veteran.”
Although I guess Chad Fox needs the company…
Someone please hit me in the head with a tack hammer.
I did that today, Dusty. I’m a rent-a-manager and I could handle that team about as well as you.
When new man in town Gerut leads off and Burnitz is in Center on Wednesday and Barrett is batting 5th Thursday all I can say is how much more evidence does the tribune co. need in order to fire Dusty for incompetence.
Do I smoke too much weed? I know Dusty does…… He probably crosses swords with Drama too….
Do I smoke too much weed? I know Dusty does…… He probably crosses swords with Drama too….
After today’s ballgame, a young man named Brian Crozier was found trying to drown himself in a bathroom sink at Great American Ballpark.
Funny thing about the Crozier case. He only had his ass in the water.
…
What?
That was head?
It’s both. His head was up his ass.
Starring Taye Diggs and Mary Steenburgen. This Fall. Saturdays on CBS.
Hey, but at least we’re LIKABLE, that’s what you wanted, to get rid of the cancers.
we won’t fight with the announcers
we won’t pee in our hands
we won’t leave early
we won’t body-slam an opposing pitcher
We have a better attitude
we are much more nice
and we suck big time, maybe worse than last year.
Forget regression to the mean…
it’s “regression to the lovable losers”.
UNDER-ACHIVE-ING
UNDER-ACHIVE-ING
UNDER-ACHIVE-ING
UNDER-ACHIVE-ING
of how Triple A players become HOF vs the cubs
Post #5 is all you need to hear.
Come september, I am gonna be empty, just like the good old days…right? Who am I kidding? This is depressing as hell.
Hey, don’t worry, so will I.
It is just one game.
It was a very ugly game, but there’s no need for the tombstone, If for no other reason that the national league sucks.
There are other reasons, though,
The cubs have a solid core of players.
The heart of the order (Walker, Lee Ramirez and Burnitz) can rake, a very solid rotation even without Wood, (who has plenty more to contribute this season).
Before you guys plan the Cub funeral, think about the competion.
The nationals just lost Livan Hernandez, possibly for the rest of the season, and they will continue to fall off, so it’s really just the Marlins, (who are below .500 and can’t afford to keep the guys they have, much less make an aquisition) The Astros, who just don’t have a very good offense even though they are hot right now, and maybe the Phillies who are neither here nor there. All the wild card contenders are just as flawed as the cubs, if not more, and the cubs are almost certainly going to add another good bat to the lineup, (maybe not adam dunn, or juan pierre, but somebody good) and have Nomar and Scott Williamson come off the DL.
Things really woudn’t look so bad after todays game if the cubs had someone they could count on to get the ball to Dempster. The cubs have scored runs the last two games. The cubs lost the last two not because they are doomed to fail this year, and that we might as well give up hope now. They lost because they were forced to ask more of the bullpen than the pen was capable. You don’t typically get a 66 pitch start and 71 pitch game back to back. The reds are a bad team, but they are a very good offense.
The wild card race hasn’t really heated up yet, and so for now the cubs are still in it, even though they didn’t sweep the Reds. And the Cubs haven’t finished adding to the team.
I must be blind and/or retarded. The Nomar/Williamson thing? A guy hitting .150 with limited range who brought his struggles into the field, and a guy coming off of his second Tommy John surgery are locks to put the Cubs on top. Maybe I should watch the news or something because Livan is not having a surgery this year, he was just upset. Instead, I think I’ll throw common sense out the window, and slap on my BELIEVE bracelet.
Hey…I’m still wearing my BELIEVE Bracelet…
Me, too.
We are gonna win it all! Yeah!!! Go Cubbies, you are the tops in my book. Wheeee!!!!!! We have champion written all over us.
Does it stand for Dusty F**kin’ Baker, or Dumb F**k Baker?
Now sponsored by fucking Tampax. Cry me a bloody one next Cubs loss.
All right. Let’s play two! We have a shot this year for sure. We win every year, in dominant fashion. Our team is way better than the Cards and the Sox on an annual basis…oh wait, no they’re not, they are the worst franchise around. Oh well, we should still give them all of our money, since they so desperately need it. Those poor Cubbies. And that Santo, he is so insightful. Fuck us…again. This years’ team has the makings of a champion.
All other Cubs sights are absolute shit compared to me. Hail to the chief baby.
“WITH DUSTY WE GO BUSTY!”
Well, #41, the Cubs are usually better than the Sox anyway… this year’s statistical aberration notwithstanding…
The Red’s series kinds of somes up the first half of the season. 500 ball. That’s all this team seems capable of.
Cubs need more than just a player or two….Dusty’s gotta go. He is the most self centered piece of shit I’ve seen come through chicago since Ditka, with exactly opposite results. That hole in centerfield, not Jerry the Lesser, but rather the symbolic emptiness of talent in center is the most glaring deficiency….compbined with shitty pitch selectionat the plate by everyone but the two studs, crappy baserunning and general malaise toward the game of baseball tells me the manager sucks. Everyone wants to play for him because they are not held accountable…bring in Pinella just to watch him break these fags down for a few months then bring in someone who can actually manage.
I called the time of death around the time that Chad Fox’s arm fell off, and Dusty ran LaTwat out there yet again. That was late April.
What took you so long?
What is balk? I no balk! I keel someone now! Son of beech!
#46 is right. I don’t get a sense that this team is willing to do anything it takes to win–mainly the little things. I get a sense of “let’s just go out there and play and see what happens.” How many losses would be turned around if not for a few hustles, or a little heads-up baserunning, one less error…or not trotting Remlinger out for two innings. The Cubs give the other team five outs an inning half the time. Just look at last year. A few less fuckups and you surely could’ve won three or four more games and there’s the Wild Card right there. This team plays like it’s got 162 games to get it right, and every day there’s less of those games left to do it.
Cosas means “things”, does Pequenos mean little?
Si. Actually, I knew what “pequenos” was, but not cosas. I thought “cosas” meant “ideas”…
The Cubs are sleeping with the fishes.
I sound like a stripper’s name.
“cosas” finishes with “as”, so it’s “pequeñas” not “pequeños”.
“cosas pequeñas” = little things
Another example:
“niños pequeños” = little boys
“niñas pequeñas” = little girls
Now back to our regular Cubs discussion.
I still have about 5 seats left for each of the games this weekend. I’ve been filling to near-capacity, but there’s still room for a few of you!
Paid attendance for sunday’s rubber game was a shade over 39,000, at least a quarter of which, were Red Sox fans. There were plenty of seats vacant.
The cell’s capacity is now under 40,000. Shit, would you have gone to any ballgame in Chicago on Sunday?
Go to cubssuck.com and cry you pussy.