Done with the Cubs this year

[synergy]

After seeing what just happened. I give up on the Cubs this year. I don't even know if I'll bother watching them at all next year, I probably will because I'm a Cubs addict, but at least this year I won't. I know I'll go through some type of withdrawal, but after seeing what just happened it will be better for my health. I just punched a hole through my wall.

[Shavo]

It's really weird how I just took it in stride tonight. Have I seen this before?

[Larry Horse]

different faces....same result.....we'll get em next year....

[Lockes Eye Scar]

I just punched a hole through my wall.

 

are you serious? I think your problems are bigger than the Cobs.

[Andy]

It's really weird how I just took it in stride tonight. Have I seen this before?

I just giggled when we had the 5-run 9th. This team's funny.

[Sarcastic]

You're never done. It takes more than one night to cure an addiction. The only times I've been able to stop myself from watching the Cubs out of disgust is after they have been eliminated from the playoff race and the games don't matter.

 

I'll give him a week.

[tfarks]

At least you didn't hit the supported part of the wall...I'd take a hole before a broken hand.

[apete6]

To quote Rob Schneider from "The Waterboy": "Oh No, We Suck Again". Good thing another season is over before Memorial Day. If we were in any other division, we would be about 15 games out. Bob Howry and Will Ohman can rot in hell.

[Connor McConnor]

My experience....I'm 47 now.....thats 40 years of caring about this.......

 

The older you get.....the easier it gets.

 

My passion was at its peak in my late 20's to mid 30's. It's been less each year.

 

I will say that the 8th inning of game 6 (was that 03? I forget now) against the Marlins.....took a lot out of me. In a good way.

 

So.....if it is any consolation.....the pain will be less as the years go by.

[OleMissCub]

It's really weird how I just took it in stride tonight. Have I seen this before?

 

Me too. I'm totally indifferent right now. No emotion really.

[CUBZ99]

I stopped watching games 2 weeks ago. This year is just a repeat from last year. The Cubs could have Earl Weaver managing and still lose with the crap that Hendry put together.

 

Hendry has got to go. Sad thing is that it will take a few years to repair the mess that he has created.

[Sarcastic]

My experience....I'm 47 now.....thats 40 years of caring about this.......

 

The older you get.....the easier it gets.

 

My passion was at its peak in my late 20's to mid 30's. It's been less each year.

 

I will say that the 8th inning of game 6 (was that 03? I forget now) against the Marlins.....took a lot out of me. In a good way.

 

So.....if it is any consolation.....the pain will be less as the years go by.

 

The great thing about baseball is that it is played almost every day. This loss will fade in about a week into the blur of underachievement that is every Cubs season. Who knows, maybe they will even manage to win tomorrow, and this will be forgotten entirely.

 

That whole thing is why losses before off days are so hard. Multiply that by 100 to find out why playoff losses suck.

[Sarcastic]

I stopped watching games 2 weeks ago. This year is just a repeat from last year. The Cubs could have Earl Weaver managing and still lose with the crap that Hendry put together.

 

Hendry has got to go. Sad thing is that it will take a few years to repair the mess that he has created.

 

This team has enough talent to be mediocre. Considering the payroll, it should be a lot better than that, but this team is not the 2006 Cubs. They're more like the 2005 Cubs. Mediocre with a glimmer of hope for success, but ultimately horrendous underperformers who choke away close games.

[Justin]

This loss was so predictable. After our rally and getting a 3 run lead, I told my g/f to watch the bullpen blow it all away the next inning, just like they did in the Phillies series. They did, just like clockwork.

 

My g/f is new to Cubs fandom. She's kind of on the bandwagon by default just for living with me, poor girl. She screams and cusses at the players all the time. It's really comical. Then she gets mad at me for not getting mad too. I just tell her I'm used to it. Same team, different year. Things will never change.

 

For all intents and purposes, I think I might be done this year too. For the first time in my 19 years of Cub fandom, I don't care about this team in any way shape or form. I've already quit scheduling my day around getting home in time to watch the game. I just don't care anymore. I don't even bother checking the scores on games I do miss half the time.

 

This team is like being in a bad long term relationship. You know you're better off without them, but it's hard to just let go after putting so much into it for so many years. Either way leaves you feeling numb and unhappy. I'll never quit being a fan, I'm just done with them on an emotional level. If they win fine, lose fine. I don't care. They're not going anywhere this year.

[sandberg23]

I just punched a hole through my wall.

 

That's a pretty stupid reaction to a game that you're not even a part of. It's just a game. There are bigger things in life to become upset over.

[MPrior]

The worst part of it is that I have tickets to the game tomorrow. The one time all year I get to actually see the Cubs, and I have trouble bringing myself to care.

[davecubsfan]

I'm just glad to see you have two threads with the same thought posted in them on the first page of Baseball Discussions.

[Butterscup1679666578]

I'm trying to trade the Cubs for a new team. No offers thusfar.

[ondeckchamps]

My experience....I'm 47 now.....thats 40 years of caring about this....... The older you get.....the easier it gets.

 

 

It is,I'm 45 and just laugh.I tivo'd this game and after the big inning just fast forwarded through Howry and Oh-man,you had to know what was comming.This is yet another,in a long,long line of for one reason or another we can't win games.The faces change,but not the Cubs truely pathetic to the end.

[TruffleShuffle]

My experience....I'm 47 now.....thats 40 years of caring about this.......

 

The older you get.....the easier it gets.

 

My passion was at its peak in my late 20's to mid 30's. It's been less each year.

 

I will say that the 8th inning of game 6 (was that 03? I forget now) against the Marlins.....took a lot out of me. In a good way.

 

So.....if it is any consolation.....the pain will be less as the years go by.

 

It's the truth. Fortunately I'm already pretty numb, and I'm only about to turn 29. 2003 and 2004 (I was at the Mets game where the collapse really began) made me really angry, but now I don't bother. It helps that I root for Philadelphia teams too, because they're just as useless. Once you accept that the Cubs will always be bad and will never win another World Series, you can just take these losses with a laugh and a shake of the head.

[NewUserName]

My experience....I'm 47 now.....thats 40 years of caring about this.......

 

The older you get.....the easier it gets.

 

My passion was at its peak in my late 20's to mid 30's. It's been less each year.

 

I will say that the 8th inning of game 6 (was that 03? I forget now) against the Marlins.....took a lot out of me. In a good way.

 

So.....if it is any consolation.....the pain will be less as the years go by.

 

It's the truth. Fortunately I'm already pretty numb, and I'm only about to turn 29. 2003 and 2004 (I was at the Mets game where the collapse really began) made me really angry, but now I don't bother. It helps that I root for Philadelphia teams too, because they're just as useless. Once you accept that the Cubs will always be bad and will never win another World Series, you can just take these losses with a laugh and a shake of the head.

 

 

I echo lemmyhearya sentiments.

 

I have seen the collapse of 69, the 70s and early 80s, collapse against San Diego in 84(my favorite player leon durham being the goat), a good young looking team in 89 turning to crap the next couple of years, a GM saying it is better to have 2 good pitchers(Greg Hibbard and ?) than one great pitcher(Maddux), Joe Carter hitting a gamewinning HR for Toronto, the collapse of 2003, Prior and Wood going from part of the best rotation the Cubs have had in my lifetime to nothing, the collapse at the end of 2004. Even when the Cubs are on the cusp of greatness it eludes them. I certainly dont get to worked up anymore about a game on Friday night in LA.

[UMFan83]

I'm one of the most pessimistic people on this board but...c'mon we are alone in second place despite our terrible play. Milwaukee is losing 5 times a week, and you know that the team has played under expectations. The division is ripe for the taking, and we could easily win it.

[tkenm356]

My experience....I'm 47 now.....thats 40 years of caring about this.......

 

The older you get.....the easier it gets.

 

My passion was at its peak in my late 20's to mid 30's. It's been less each year.

 

I will say that the 8th inning of game 6 (was that 03? I forget now) against the Marlins.....took a lot out of me. In a good way.

 

So.....if it is any consolation.....the pain will be less as the years go by.

 

It's the truth. Fortunately I'm already pretty numb, and I'm only about to turn 29. 2003 and 2004 (I was at the Mets game where the collapse really began) made me really angry, but now I don't bother. It helps that I root for Philadelphia teams too, because they're just as useless. Once you accept that the Cubs will always be bad and will never win another World Series, you can just take these losses with a laugh and a shake of the head.

 

 

I echo lemmyhearya sentiments.

 

I have seen the collapse of 69, the 70s and early 80s, collapse against San Diego in 84(my favorite player leon durham being the goat), a good young looking team in 89 turning to crap the next couple of years, a GM saying it is better to have 2 good pitchers(Greg Hibbard and ?) than one great pitcher(Maddux), Joe Carter hitting a gamewinning HR for Toronto, the collapse of 2003, Prior and Wood going from part of the best rotation the Cubs have had in my lifetime to nothing, the collapse at the end of 2004. Even when the Cubs are on the cusp of greatness it eludes them. I certainly dont get to worked up anymore about a game on Friday night in LA.

 

I know we traded Carter back in '84, but what does him hitting a home run in the world series nearly a decade later have to do with the Cubs? With the exception of his home run, rbi totals, and sb totals in his earlier career, Carter was a pretty awful player

[tkenm356]

I'm one of the most pessimistic people on this board but...c'mon we are alone in second place despite our terrible play. Milwaukee is losing 5 times a week, and you know that the team has played under expectations. The division is ripe for the taking, and we could easily win it.

 

As much as I hate the Cubs this year, you're right. A hot streak for almost any team in this division could put them in 1st. Unfortunately, I don't expect that hot streak to come for the Cubs :(

[Productive Outs]

does this mean you're done with nsbb, too?