6/14 Astros[Oswalt] @ COBS!!![Maddux] - 7:05 pm CT on WGN

[Derwood]

Carolina just played the last minute of regulation like they didn't know how much time was left

[Fred Hornkohl]

This was the third time this year that the CUBS pitching staff has held the opponent without a walk. No surprise what these 3 games have in common....

 

Gm#    Date       Opponent         Score  Starter
12  Mon 04/17  @ Los Angeles   N   4- 1  Maddux        
26  Wed 05/03  @ Arizona       N   1- 5  Maddux        
64  Wed 06/14    Houston       N   4- 5  Maddux       

[Derwood]

This was the third time this year that the CUBS pitching staff has held the opponent without a walk. No surprise what these 3 games have in common....

 

Gm#    Date       Opponent         Score  Starter
12  Mon 04/17  @ Los Angeles   N   4- 1  Maddux        
26  Wed 05/03  @ Arizona       N   1- 5  Maddux        
64  Wed 06/14    Houston       N   4- 5  Maddux       

 

See, dude, walks are overrated. Don't need now .OBP nonsense

[soccer10k]

I am guessing Murton and Walker will be sitting tomorrow

 

But Neifi will start.

Of course he will Dusty is free to do whatever he wants. He ruined our team. Ruined it. He took our hero and drove him out of town(Sosa), yet he keeps garbage like Perez around. He pitched Wood and Prior so hard they are shells of what they should be. He sits productive big leaguers like Todd Walker. He cost us the playoffs two years ago by insisting on letting Hawkins blow game after game down the stretch when everone, LaTroy included was calling for someone else to close. He cost us going to the World Series by allowing Mike Lowell to hit instead of Lenny Harris. You know the same Lenny Harris who hit .183 for us including several games at leadoff. I am done with the Cubs until he is fired. He has ruined my passion for baseball.

 

I'm not a Dusty sympathizer - and do think he should be fired - but I don't think that Dusty is completely responsible for this year. Of course injuries are an issue, but is it Dusty's fault that the team wasn't adequately prepared for Prior and Wood to go down? No, that's Hendry's fault. Is it Dusty's fault that it took the team over a month to make a move following the Lee injury? No. Sure Dusty doesn't always make the best on the field moves but management is just as much to blame, if not more, than Dusty is.

 

Dusty also didn't force Sammy out of town. That was ownership and Sammy himself. Sammy needed to realize that he was no longer the star he used to be and he needed to change his philosophies. It was Sammy who refused to move closer to the plate when anybody with an eye could tell that Sammy couldn't touch the outside pitch. Was it Dusty's fault that Sammy corked his bat? Didn't think so. But Sammy isn't solely to blame with this issue either. It was ownerships fault for exposing everything that happened in regards to Sosa walking out. They should have solved everything in house. But that isn't Dusty's fault.

 

Dusty should and will take a lot of blame for this year, but not everything is his fault.

[soccer10k]

This was the third time this year that the CUBS pitching staff has held the opponent without a walk. No surprise what these 3 games have in common....

 

Gm#    Date       Opponent         Score  Starter
12  Mon 04/17  @ Los Angeles   N   4- 1  Maddux        
26  Wed 05/03  @ Arizona       N   1- 5  Maddux        
64  Wed 06/14    Houston       N   4- 5  Maddux       

 

And we still lost two of the three games.

[Fred Hornkohl]

This was the third time this year that the CUBS pitching staff has held the opponent without a walk. No surprise what these 3 games have in common....

 

Gm#    Date       Opponent         Score  Starter
12  Mon 04/17  @ Los Angeles   N   4- 1  Maddux        
26  Wed 05/03  @ Arizona       N   1- 5  Maddux        
64  Wed 06/14    Houston       N   4- 5  Maddux       

 

And we still lost two of the three games.

 

Yeah, yeah, yeah...... but how's this for correlation ??

 

Team record by number of walks allowed

 

CUBS are 1-2 when they allow 0 walks

CUBS are 3-1 when they allow 1 walks

CUBS are 8-3 when they allow 2 walks

CUBS are 2-3 when they allow 3 walks

CUBS are 6-8 when they allow 4 walks

CUBS are 3-5 when they allow 5 walks

CUBS are 1-6 when they allow 6 walks

CUBS are 1-5 when they allow 7 walks

CUBS are 0-1 when they allow 8 walks

CUBS are 0-2 when they allow 9 walks

CUBS are 1-1 when they allow 10 walks

CUBS are 0-1 when they allow 11 walks

[soccer10k]

This was the third time this year that the CUBS pitching staff has held the opponent without a walk. No surprise what these 3 games have in common....

 

Gm#    Date       Opponent         Score  Starter
12  Mon 04/17  @ Los Angeles   N   4- 1  Maddux        
26  Wed 05/03  @ Arizona       N   1- 5  Maddux        
64  Wed 06/14    Houston       N   4- 5  Maddux       

 

And we still lost two of the three games.

 

Yeah, yeah, yeah...... but how's this for correlation ??

 

Team record by number of walks allowed

 

CUBS are 1-2 when they allow 0 walks

CUBS are 3-1 when they allow 1 walks

CUBS are 8-3 when they allow 2 walks

CUBS are 2-3 when they allow 3 walks

CUBS are 6-8 when they allow 4 walks

CUBS are 3-5 when they allow 5 walks

CUBS are 1-6 when they allow 6 walks

CUBS are 1-5 when they allow 7 walks

CUBS are 0-1 when they allow 8 walks

CUBS are 0-2 when they allow 9 walks

CUBS are 1-1 when they allow 10 walks

CUBS are 0-1 when they allow 11 walks

 

Small sample size, I know. I was just making an observation.

[YearofDaCubs]

Why the f--- is Neifi starting again?? After another 0-fer his average is down to .214 and his obp is under .300. Why is he here and why does he start? I honestly don't get this anymore.

Not only does he start but he is put in the 2hole by the worst manager in the business.

[YearofDaCubs]

Why the f--- is Neifi starting again?? After another 0-fer his average is down to .214 and his obp is under .300. Why is he here and why does he start? I honestly don't get this anymore.

 

It's really to drive us all crazy. It makes me so mad I want to break things.

I'm with you man. So far I haven't broken anything but I've been close.

[YearofDaCubs]

I am guessing Murton and Walker will be sitting tomorrow

 

But Neifi will start.

Of course he will Dusty is free to do whatever he wants. He ruined our team. Ruined it. He took our hero and drove him out of town(Sosa), yet he keeps garbage like Perez around. He pitched Wood and Prior so hard they are shells of what they should be. He sits productive big leaguers like Todd Walker. He cost us the playoffs two years ago by insisting on letting Hawkins blow game after game down the stretch when everone, LaTroy included was calling for someone else to close. He cost us going to the World Series by allowing Mike Lowell to hit instead of Lenny Harris. You know the same Lenny Harris who hit .183 for us including several games at leadoff. I am done with the Cubs until he is fired. He has ruined my passion for baseball.

 

I'm not a Dusty sympathizer - and do think he should be fired - but I don't think that Dusty is completely responsible for this year. Of course injuries are an issue, but is it Dusty's fault that the team wasn't adequately prepared for Prior and Wood to go down? No, that's Hendry's fault. Is it Dusty's fault that it took the team over a month to make a move following the Lee injury? No. Sure Dusty doesn't always make the best on the field moves but management is just as much to blame, if not more, than Dusty is.

 

Dusty also didn't force Sammy out of town. That was ownership and Sammy himself. Sammy needed to realize that he was no longer the star he used to be and he needed to change his philosophies. It was Sammy who refused to move closer to the plate when anybody with an eye could tell that Sammy couldn't touch the outside pitch. Was it Dusty's fault that Sammy corked his bat? Didn't think so. But Sammy isn't solely to blame with this issue either. It was ownerships fault for exposing everything that happened in regards to Sosa walking out. They should have solved everything in house. But that isn't Dusty's fault.

 

Dusty should and will take a lot of blame for this year, but not everything is his fault.

Agreed. This season is down the tubes thanks to Hendry but his sidekick loser Baker has no clue how to manage. I'm surprised he has surpassed the high school level of coaching, that's how bad this idiot is. Sosa leaving was def not Baker's fault, if anything Baker covered for him. I mostly blame Baker for being the worst manager in baseball by not only starting Neifi but putting him in the 2 hole. When was the last time we had a consistent lineup? How is the offense going to gel when we have never had a consistent lineup? What's up with his double-switches too? I also hate how he handles his pitchers and has one extra bullpen arm which isn't necessary. And then people wonder why some of our pitchers go an entire week without pitching. That's the worst manager in baseball in a nutshell.

[Derwood]

An extra arm rotting in the pen vs. an extra rookie rotting on the bench. Discuss.

[BigSlick]

I can't wait for this season to be over. I hate everything about the Cubs and if I was a quitter I'd be cheering for anyone but the Cubs right now.

 

I hope you feel pain Dusty you stupid loser.

 

It makes me sad to see much pain in this man's heart.

[Andy]

Dusty wasn't even going to PH Walker for Pierre. Even in the event that Dusty gets away with ignoring him the first 3 times around, Walker should PH for Pierre, and if it gets to extras you move Womack at 2B to CF and put Walker at 2B. But Dusty wasn't going to do that.

 

It is absolutely mind boggling. There is NO WAY one person is this stupid.

[soccer10k]

Dusty wasn't even going to PH Walker for Pierre. Even in the event that Dusty gets away with ignoring him the first 3 times around, Walker should PH for Pierre, and if it gets to extras you move Womack at 2B to CF and put Walker at 2B. But Dusty wasn't going to do that.

 

It is absolutely mind boggling. There is NO WAY one person is this stupid.

 

Oh but there is.

[Drew Doughty]

the dodgers have a few former cubs to root for...but...kent...

 

*sigh*