9/11 Cubs (Marquis) @ Astros (Backe) 7:05 CSN

[BigSlick]

Lou's slowly losing his mind on Comcast if anyone cares.

 

He needs to stop calling for 3 sac bunts in a game, and then he can be justified in losing his mind.

 

This was about one of teh worst disgusting losses I've experienced.

[third eye]

I'm aghast that a team of supposedly major league baseball players is befuddled by the Astros, who are all of nineteen games under .500 coming into tonight.

 

Quite honestly, I don't want the Cubs to make the playoffs. Just go on a nice 10-game losing streak and end this crap already, because they've proven they obviously don't want the division badly enough.

 

 

I feel your frustration, but look at the Cards last year. Let's just get there and see what happens. Making the post season is great no matter what your record is.

 

Have people not figured out yet that this is a .500 team and no matter how upset you get with them they are still going to be a .500 team? If by some stroke of luck being a .500 team is good enough to make the playoffs they will. Then they will probably lose in the first round in 4 games. No point in getting all worked up about it every night like this some awesome team that is way underachieving.

 

The problem though isn't that people are expecting a .500 team to overachieve.

 

It's that people expect this team to earn their $100 million+ salaries. And frankly, a .500 record ain't cutting the mustard when you have hundreds of millions committed to franchise players over the next four seasons or more.

 

At this point it doesn't matter what the payroll is, after 140+ games you know what this team is. Maybe they will get lucky and run off a 10 game winning streak, or maybe they will get unlucky and run off a 10 game losing streak. But most likely they will be 10-8 the rest of the way and hope that Milwaukee fades.

 

The argument could easily be made that our 3 best hitters are all having down years, at least in terms of power. And our best pitcher is having by far his worst year. So in that sense, you could expect more than a .500 team. I understand that Lilly and Marmol are certainly outperforming expectations, but on the whole, its not like the individuals here are playing at their career norms and keeping the team at .500. They are in fact underperforming. I did expect better than .500 out of the team, and I think even average years by the veterans would have had them 2-3 games up right now.

 

Anyway, its hard to ever expect better than .500 from the Cubs. Dunno why I never learn...

[soccer10k]

I last saw the score of this game when it was 4-4 in the seventh inning. I predicted to my girlfriend later, before I checked the score again, that the Cubs had lost 5-4 in the 11th inning. Yeah. Good job boys.

[C.C.]

Glad I went to bed when it was a 4-4 tie in the 10th. I knew they would lose this game.

[gflore34]

Its not like we didn't know this crap wouldn't happen, 10 BB's? 15 LOB? I could accept losing to the Astros if they beat the Cubs but, they didn't, as has been the story far too often this season, the Cubs beat themselves.

[anabiono]

15

 

 

ha

 

 

15

 

 

OMG

 

 

FIFTEEN!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

wow

[CuseCubFan69]

Its not like we didn't know this crap wouldn't happen, 10 BB's? 15 LOB? I could accept losing to the Astros if they beat the Cubs but, they didn't, as has been the story far too often this season, the Cubs beat themselves.

 

The Cubs hitters walked 10 times? Hey, baby steps towards taking some pitches and getting a better OBP!

[ElectricJ]

Pop him up Dempster