What is your Rock Bottom?

[Southpaw191679666239]

We've been discussing in various threads what it will take for the Cubs to hit "rock bottom". What will it take for YOU the Cubs fan to hit "rock bottom", and what defines your "rock bottom"?

 

I'm not quite there yet, but the games that I attend this year, I will not wear any Cubs gear. No hat, no jersey, no t-shirt, no jacket - nada. Regular summer street clothes and a non-Northsiders hat.

[Banedon]

Rock bottom is impossible to judge until there's some kind of upturn.

 

As far as me personally, I'm not going to be anymore upset with the Cubs than I am right now (I don't think) so I'd say I've hit my rock bottom as far as Cubs pride.

[halplm]

Dusty Extended...

 

It will make me no longer care anything for the team for at least until he's fired...

[Ding Dong Johnson]

First pitch of a game, right down the middle, ump blows it and calls a ball. Zambrano giggles in that "you gotta be kidding me" way, kills the ump, is sentenced to death. Kevin Tapani is brought in as his replacement.

[Southpaw191679666239]

First pitch of a game, right down the middle, ump blows it and calls a ball. Zambrano giggles in that "you gotta be kidding me" way, kills the ump, is sentenced to death. Kevin Tapani is brought in as his replacement.

 

Wouldn't it have just been easier/quicker to type 'tomorrow'? :P

[Backtobanks]

Webster's updated definition of "Rock Bottom" is when any team gets swept by the 2006 Chicago Cubs.

[Jon]

"Hendry, this is God...frey Jones from the TV magazine show 'Rock Bottom.'"

[soapy]

mine will be if/when Dusty gets extended (so...any day now).

[Abe Frohman]

I have this Dusty Baker jersey I got on Ebay that I am thinking about burning. I guess whenever I snap, I will take it outside and make it hot.

[UMFan83]

100 years = rock bottom

[VicCub]

I was lucky enough to be out of town and busy during the Marlins series so I would imagine that rock bottom will occur if the Braves sweep us.

 

A friend of my dad's once threw his tv out the window while watching a Cub game in the 70's. That is a sure sign of hitting rock bottom.

[JeffH]

We've been discussing in various threads what it will take for the Cubs to hit "rock bottom".

 

Look up.

[Master Shake]

Rock bottom already happened for me...

 

 

"the rumored other Chicago team" winning the WS before we do.

[Soul]

The only acceptable rock bottom for a winner is anything less than a championship.

 

If that sounds ridiculous to you, then you just hit on why we are a perennial loser, while other teams make runs at World Series titles.

 

We have been lulled into accepting low standards. We take the scraps from winners and pray for a miracle, while others are implementing strategies designed to produce champions.

[Scott G. F.]

Rock bottom for 2006 is being mathematically eliminated from playoff contention.

 

I have the blinders on and a huge glass of blue cool ade (along with an Old Stlye).

[Big Fergie J]

When the Pirates pass us and we are last in the NL Central.

 

That should happen over the next couple of weeks.

[Soul]

Rock bottom for 2006 is being mathematically eliminated from playoff contention.

 

I have the blinders on and a huge glass of blue cool ade (along with an Old Stlye).

 

Welcome to the boards, Jim Hendry!

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Rock bottom for 2006 is being mathematically eliminated from playoff contention.

 

I have the blinders on and a huge glass of blue cool ade (along with an Old Stlye).

 

Anyone know why Scott has an Old Style? Because he already drank the other 23.

[hrowengartner]

When the Pirates pass us and we are last in the NL Central.

 

That should happen over the next couple of weeks.

I would have to agree with you, Once this happens do you think hendry has the stones to sign Baker for another 2 years?

[Dirt Dog Sparly]

The only acceptable rock bottom for a winner is anything less than a championship.

 

If that sounds ridiculous to you, then you just hit on why we are a perennial loser, while other teams make runs at World Series titles.

 

We have been lulled into accepting low standards. We take the scraps from winners and pray for a miracle, while others are implementing strategies designed to produce champions.

 

Posted again for 100% truth.

[Jon]

The only acceptable rock bottom for a winner is anything less than a championship.

 

If that sounds ridiculous to you, then you just hit on why we are a perennial loser, while other teams make runs at World Series titles.

 

We have been lulled into accepting low standards. We take the scraps from winners and pray for a miracle, while others are implementing strategies designed to produce champions.

Who is accepting low standards?

 

Hendry isn't accepting low standards, either. He just has no idea what he's doing and actually believes he's buidling a winner.

[oldstyle81]

if some core players are traded

 

id keep

 

Aram

Dlee

Zambrano

Marshall

eyre

howry

dempster

cedeno

 

i would do everything i could if i was GM to get cabera in a trade and carlos lee off free agency. i would give up the farm for cabera

[Soul]

The only acceptable rock bottom for a winner is anything less than a championship.

 

If that sounds ridiculous to you, then you just hit on why we are a perennial loser, while other teams make runs at World Series titles.

 

We have been lulled into accepting low standards. We take the scraps from winners and pray for a miracle, while others are implementing strategies designed to produce champions.

Who is accepting low standards?

 

Hendry isn't accepting low standards, either. He just has no idea what he's doing and actually believes he's buidling a winner.

 

Standards are too low if anything other than a Championship is acceptable.

 

Hendry may have convinced himself he's building a winner, but he's put himself in the sweepstakes for better players than what we have. He just settles for less and the Trib, being the board room faceless owners that they are, don't allow him to spend whatever it takes.

 

We could build from the minors and save alot of money; that's an alternate route to spending a ton of cash. Other teams have done it. But Hendry has built a farm system of crap with no emphasis on fundamentals, no emphasis on OBP. It's terrible. Those are low standards. Takes alot of work to build a winning franchise. Ours has never shown---and I mean NEVER shown----the gumption to do the damn difficult work and the long hours and the digging in the dirt that it would take to turn this thing around, either from the FA perspective, or the development perspective. Those are low standards.

 

Where is the teaching? Where is the commitment to acquiring the best, no matter the cost? Where is the accountability? Don't hand me the payroll figures, either. I'm so sick of that argument. Trib bloats it's payroll on junk players so it can claim it wants to win. Bull-pucky. They care like a millionaire cares when he buys his 15th Mercedes.

 

Some may think they're going to live forever so they can handle a few more years of terrible baseball in the hopes that it works out. I did this in the '80s. I'm too old now. Seriously, I've bled Cubbie blue for 40+ years. I want to see a Champion before I die. I watched my Dad die without ever having seen one just last year. I'm sick of this nonsense. Everyone has a clever argument why this stuff is all going to work out, or it isn't as bad as it seems. Meanwhile, we continue to tank over & over. Enough! I want some accountability. Who among us would have a job with this kind of performance?

[oldstyle81]

Who among us would have a job with this kind of performance

 

who among us would have a job and get a extension with this kind of performance is the real question

[YearofDaCubs]

Dusty Extended...

 

It will make me no longer care anything for the team for at least until he's fired...

Agreed. Dusty and staff being extended would be absolute rock bottom for me.