8/26 Cubs (Z!) @ Pirates (Snell) - 6:05 WGN TV

[kujay]

In an ultimate act of irony, Marquis will throw a complete game shutout tomorrow.

 

Then I'll know we're charmed.

[17 Seconds]

Let us never speak of this game again

[bcl412]

It's not often that the Cubs win an "I get pissed off and go play video games" game. And to win it by 5 none the less.

[Soul]

10-0 Crew. I'm gettin' good & ready to declare the Cards dead. You know, in my own mind.

[Guest]

The Cubs are 32 games above .500, tying the most games over .500 in both 1969 and 1984. Before that, you have to go to 1945.

[Careless]

I don't think Wood could have made it anyway, but that was bad.

 

 

What are you talking about? He stood there, then he decided to jog over.

And was about 20 feet from the bag when he crossed.

[ChiCubsfan0502]

pirates announcer: "well there are a good number of cubs fans here, but one thing we don't have to deal with is that dumb song they play at wrigley after cubs wins."

 

BITTER PIRATES FACE

 

 

 

http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2008/2/14feb6-bitter-beer-face.jpg

[bukie]

So much for the Cubs giving up the least amount of runs in the league.

[ChiCubsfan0502]

So much for the Cubs giving up the least amount of runs in the league.

 

Best ERA in the league.

[David]

The Cubs are 32 games above .500, tying the most games over .500 in both 1969 and 1984. Before that, you have to go to 1945.

 

...and that team played in a watered down league, as a lot of the biggest stars were at war.

[Derwood]

Hillary Clinton made me miss the comeback.

[abuck1220]

wow, another really, really embarrassing game thread. don't you guys want to enjoy any of this historic season, or do you plan on continuing to break down into tearful fits of rage after every little mistake any cubs player makes? have a little perspective...ridiculous.

[E.J.]

wow, another really, really embarrassing game thread. don't you guys want to enjoy any of this historic season, or do you plan on continuing to break down into tearful fits of rage after every little mistake any cubs player makes? have a little perspective...ridiculous.

 

You could take the high road and stop reading the game threads if they upset you so much.

[Derwood]

wow, another really, really embarrassing game thread. don't you guys want to enjoy any of this historic season, or do you plan on continuing to break down into tearful fits of rage after every little mistake any cubs player makes? have a little perspective...ridiculous.

 

for once, I'll agree with you. It's the greatest Cubs season in my 16 years of being a fan, and yet this board is the least fun it's been since I joined. Why is a historically great Cubs game turning everyone into a-holes?

[David]

wow, another really, really embarrassing game thread. don't you guys want to enjoy any of this historic season, or do you plan on continuing to break down into tearful fits of rage after every little mistake any cubs player makes? have a little perspective...ridiculous.

 

Well, to be fair, it was a really ugly game and the frustration of one of our best pitchers continuing to get shelled (and by a crappy team, no less) didn't help.

 

Still a lot of overreaction and stuff, but I don't think it's nearly as bad as the ones from last week.

[weatherdood]

Since there's no game thread for tomorrow's game, I figured I'd post here... Pittsburgh is due to receive quite a bit of rainfall during the day on Wednesday thanks to the remnants of TS Fay. Computer models range from .5" during the day on Wednesday to over an inch. There's a chance this game could start out dry, but conditions are likely to worsen as the day progresses. You hope that it gets in, regardless...because you'd hate to see this one get called. Neither team shares an off day through the end of the season... and while it would be highly unlikely that we'd need to play on the Monday following the end of the regular season...I just don't even want to have that be anything that resembles an option.

[abuck1220]

wow, another really, really embarrassing game thread. don't you guys want to enjoy any of this historic season, or do you plan on continuing to break down into tearful fits of rage after every little mistake any cubs player makes? have a little perspective...ridiculous.

 

You could take the high road and stop reading the game threads if they upset you so much.

 

i only read them now to mock them. the best part about games like this (a game, by the way, that i was 100% confident in the cubs winning at all times...even though if they hadn't won, it would not have mattered one iota) is coming here to read a bunch of hysterical weirdos denounce the team (a team with the best offense, pitching, record, etc in the league, by the way) for meaningless individual plays in meaningless games.

 

i can't believe that this board is now almost completely void of decent baseball discussion during the best season of any of our lives. it's pathetic. i mostly just come here now to talk about movies and make fun of derwood (who is actually right for once on this subject, so i can't even make fun of him for that).

[CubmanPi]

wow, another really, really embarrassing game thread. don't you guys want to enjoy any of this historic season, or do you plan on continuing to break down into tearful fits of rage after every little mistake any cubs player makes? have a little perspective...ridiculous.

 

for once, I'll agree with you. It's the greatest Cubs season in my 16 years of being a fan, and yet this board is the least fun it's been since I joined. Why is a historically great Cubs game turning everyone into a-holes?

 

It's a tired, over-played debate, and one from which I normally choose to stay away, but for some reason I can't resist this time, even though I am knowingly solidifying yet another game thread's derailment into the depths of NSBB purgatory.

 

The highlighted remark is pompous, to say the least.

 

I invite you to peruse a game thread void of said reactions of rage over little mistakes. While I was watching tonight's game at a bar and have yet to read anything between my first post in the thread and page 41, I guarantee what you will find in between are people whose hopes for this team are high enough that each one of them has a laundry list of financially and socially debilitating things they would put themselves through if it meant the Cubs would win it all, and each one of those people is enjoying this season immensely.

 

Being at 32 games over .500 ties the highwater marks of both 84 and 69, and it hasn't been topped since 45. Roughly once a generation, a Cubs team this good comes along. That once in a generation has yet to produce a winner, and every last one of us wants this one to be it. Then we watch the freaking Pirates become the third team of the last four to light up our ace, and we watch boneheaded mistakes all night, highlighted by a lazy fly ball bouncing off the inside of a mitt to gift wrap the lead in the late innings.

 

People fling themselves off cliff edges, smash their panic buttons, hide from the sound of the other shoe dropping, jump at the chance to be the first to correctly call this the turning point that turns this team into the 69 team, propose trades sending Z to Boise for a sack of potatoes, etc. They throw their shoes at the TV when an obvious ball 4 to Edmonds is called a strike, and they vow to smash Sori's obnoxious hummer when his stupid little hop returns the lead to the bad guys.

 

Please don't be so ignorant as to believe that hyper-dramatic negative reactions from dedicated fans somehow equates to them enjoying it any less than you are. In a community of opinionated people who will disagree on every last possible topic of discussion, the one common thread we all have is our celebration of those two magic words, Cubs Win. For those of us who have been displaced from the area (9 years and counting for me), having such a community has made following the Cubs incredibly more enjoyable, even when they don't have the same reactions to some points in the season that I do. Every last person who cared enough tonight to post an over-reaction about this game is enjoying this season in their own way, and asserting otherwise is nothing less than pure arrogance.

[Sammy Sofa]

I invite you to peruse a game thread void of said reactions of rage over little mistakes.

 

Man, I don't remember that game at all, but I apparently really hated Dempster after it.

[BCVM22]

Man, I don't remember that game at all, but I apparently really hated Dempster after it.

 

Pierre, CF

Fast Freddie, 2B

Ramirez, 3B

Murton, LF

Moore, 1B

Blanco, C

Coats, RF

Cedeno, SS

Mateo, P

 

That's uglier than a Gracie slumpbuster.

[Guest]

I have to say that I couldn't possibly be enjoying this season more than I am right now. Early in the season things affected me more than they do now but at this point, I have total confidence in the Cubs to come back and win virtually any game (well, with the exception of my "Daryle Ward is going to hit into a DP" post seconds before he hit the three-run homer in Florida). Sure there have been a few poor stretches of the season, but every team goes through that.

 

While a lot of people were complaining about the hitting being really inconsistent, what was vastly overlooked was how well the pitching staff was doing. The Cubs have the best record in the majors by 1.5 games and are 9.5 games clear of the second place team in the Wild Card standings. They have scored the second most runs in the league while allowing the fifth fewest. Those numbers improve to No. 1 (by 80 runs) and No. 2 in the NL. We wanted this team to rid itself of the Dusty Baker approach and take more walks. Now they have the most walks in the majors and lead the majors in OBP and have the second highest OPS.

 

Yeah, sure, things could be better. It would be great if DLee and Fukudome were producing a little bit more. But at the same time, the Cubs have Jim Edmonds at a prorated league minimum putting up a .962 OPS (tops on the team), Reed Johnson at .821 and Ryan Theriot with a .396 OBP. They survived Soriano missing 40 games. They got Rich Harden (1.47 ERA in 8 starts) and Chad Gaudin for very little, Ryan Dempster is having a career year and the pen, sans Howry, has been amazing. They survived Rich Hill being a complete non-factor.

 

Like I said, team's go through rough stretches all the time. It's baseball. Even the best team is likely to lost 60 games in a season. But this Cubs team has proven time and again that they can come back against virtually anybody and down by virtually any margin (right, Colorado?). I could understand if this team was hit-or-miss and they had equally as many bad games as good ones but that simply isn't the case. They've clinched an over .500 record in August with 30 games left to be played. I understand things can be frustrating at times but some of the reactions are pretty ridiculous. I'm not saying that those people aren't enjoying the season and aren't enjoying the games, just that the reactions are mostly unwarranted with how good this Cubs team is.

 

It's called perspective and some people need to get a little bit of it.

 

Oh, and did I mention that I love this team.

[RedFlash]

Man, I don't remember that game at all, but I apparently really hated Dempster after it.

 

Pierre, CF

Fast Freddie, 2B

Ramirez, 3B

Murton, LF

Moore, 1B

Blanco, C

Coats, RF

Cedeno, SS

Mateo, P

 

That's uglier than a Gracie slumpbuster.

 

Or it's uglier then a Rolling Stones group picture...........

[Ding Dong Johnson]

wow, another really, really embarrassing game thread. don't you guys want to enjoy any of this historic season, or do you plan on continuing to break down into tearful fits of rage after every little mistake any cubs player makes? have a little perspective...ridiculous.

 

You could take the high road and stop reading the game threads if they upset you so much.

it's most certainly not just him. the lack of civil discourse is nearly repulsive sometimes. expressing displeasure with individual plays is a natural reaction that I can live with, but harping on them with the chicken little mentality often makes game threads completely unbearable

[CubInOK]

So the season isn't actually over?

[rawaction]

wow, another really, really embarrassing game thread. don't you guys want to enjoy any of this historic season, or do you plan on continuing to break down into tearful fits of rage after every little mistake any cubs player makes? have a little perspective...ridiculous.

 

You could take the high road and stop reading the game threads if they upset you so much.

 

i only read them now to mock them. the best part about games like this (a game, by the way, that i was 100% confident in the cubs winning at all times...even though if they hadn't won, it would not have mattered one iota) is coming here to read a bunch of hysterical weirdos denounce the team (a team with the best offense, pitching, record, etc in the league, by the way) for meaningless individual plays in meaningless games.

 

i can't believe that this board is now almost completely void of decent baseball discussion during the best season of any of our lives. it's pathetic. i mostly just come here now to talk about movies and make fun of derwood (who is actually right for once on this subject, so i can't even make fun of him for that).

 

You don't really add anything by mocking the game thread and the people in it. And what's the point of coming into every game thread and announcing how bad they are? Are you trying to show that you are better than everyone else because you knew the Cubs would win the whole time and didn't react emotionally to the mistakes in the game? I'm sure you've reacted the same way privately as people do publicly. I agree with EJ, take the high road.