And DeRosa's last blog entry...

[Schwarber Fan]

This one is way worse than last year's NLDS. I don't know why that is. Any time you get to the postseason, you have a chance to win a championship. It should feel the same but for me, this team was so special and I had so much fun for six, seven months and played on the best team in the National League. To perform the way we performed for three days is shocking.

 

This one will be a tough one to get over because you never know when we show up to Spring Training who is going to be there. Not everyone who's here will be there.

 

We want nothing more than to be on the team that gets it done. I would say almost to a man that's why guys come here. They want to be a part of the team that wins it for the city of Chicago and for the fans. For us to play so well for six months and to come out here and perform for three days the way we did is just terrible.

 

At least he showed up, for the most part

[KenCub]

At least Mark didn't tell us to be patient.

[ArthurVandalay]

Same story another year. Can't wait to see the blog entry in '09.

[Post Count Padder]

If not for that error, he was probably our most productive player this series. Not that it mattered.

[Andy]

Not quite as depressing as I expected. Can't fault him too much, though. This whole thing would've happened with or without his screwups and he did pretty well besides that.

[Cynosure]

Poor DeRo... don't we have him for one more year? Not like he'll be as good as this year, but still.

[Moises a loo]

What sucks is he'll be the guy who loses his everyday job to get another lefty in there.

[bcl412]

Maybe the problem is that people come here to win it for the city. Come here because the Cubs are a good baseball team and it gives you a chance to win a WS. Stop saying that you're coming here to win it for the city, you're putting way to much pressure on yourselves.

[JeffH]

Evidence of how badly we played:

 

It doesn't sound completely ridiculous to say that DeRosa "showed up".

 

He was horrible, just not as bad as the rest.

[SoonerCubFan]

If not for that error, he was probably our most productive player this series. Not that it mattered.

 

He was about the whole offense in Games 1 &2, but that error and the first pitch ground out last night stranding Soto at 3B were 2 of the 3 biggest plays in the series (along with the Loney game 1 foul tip). Each game had a chance to be totally different - or at least keep them competitive and not embarrassing.

[17 Seconds]

Evidence of how badly we played:

 

It doesn't sound completely ridiculous to say that DeRosa "showed up".

 

He was horrible, just not as bad as the rest.

 

Huh? So one error (albeit a key one) means he was horrible?

 

.333/.333/.750 with 2 doubles, a home run, and 4 of the 6 RBIs

 

That's horrible?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Evidence of how badly we played:

 

It doesn't sound completely ridiculous to say that DeRosa "showed up".

 

He was horrible, just not as bad as the rest.

 

Huh? So one error (albeit a key one) means he was horrible?

 

.333/.333/.750 with 2 doubles, a home run, and 4 of the 6 RBIs

 

That's horrible?

 

He also put the ball in play in a 3rd<2 situation.

[abuck1220]

i'm not getting too jazzed up about his two run double in game 2 when it was like 43-1 in the 9th inning. everyone can stop acting like that mattered or something.

[abuck1220]

Evidence of how badly we played:

 

It doesn't sound completely ridiculous to say that DeRosa "showed up".

 

He was horrible, just not as bad as the rest.

 

Huh? So one error (albeit a key one) means he was horrible?

 

.333/.333/.750 with 2 doubles, a home run, and 4 of the 6 RBIs

 

That's horrible?

 

He also put the ball in play in a 3rd<2 situation.

 

which resulted in a whopping zero run(s).

[XZero771679666304]

Evidence of how badly we played:

 

It doesn't sound completely ridiculous to say that DeRosa "showed up".

 

He was horrible, just not as bad as the rest.

 

Huh? So one error (albeit a key one) means he was horrible?

 

.333/.333/.750 with 2 doubles, a home run, and 4 of the 6 RBIs

 

That's horrible?

 

He wasn't horrible, but his error was disastrous (though compounded by Theriot's error preceding it), his first pitch swinging at a pitcher's pitch last night was a boneheaded move in a spot that could have made a difference, and one of his doubles and half of his RBI came in the bottom of the ninth in a 10-1 game.

[JeffH]

Everything considered, he was horrible.

[Garwilly]

Stats don't matter to me. I am upset and throwing blame where it doesn't belong.

 

Why didn't you just say so?

[JeffH]

Stats don't matter to me. I am upset and throwing blame where it doesn't belong.

 

Why didn't you just say so?

 

Don't be ridiculous.

 

If Soriano had a stat line like DeRosa's, but he had dropped a routine flyball costing five runs and later failed to drive in a runner from third with one out in a crucial situation with an extremely poorly executed AB, no one would hesitate to describe his performance as horrible.

 

Just because DeRosa is generally a solid fundamental player, some choose to lessen his culpability.

[17 Seconds]

Everything considered, he was horrible.

 

If by everything you mean "one bad play", then yeah.

[17 Seconds]

Stats don't matter to me. I am upset and throwing blame where it doesn't belong.

 

Why didn't you just say so?

 

Don't be ridiculous.

 

If Soriano had a stat line like DeRosa's, but he had dropped a routine flyball costing five runs and later failed to drive in a runner from third with one out in a crucial situation with an extremely poorly executed AB, no one would hesitate to describe his performance as horrible.

 

Just because DeRosa is generally a solid fundamental player, some choose to lessen his culpability.

 

You make no sense. People (reasonable people, at least) wouldn't generalie an entire performance based on one play.

 

DeRosa definitely had a key error and the at-bat with Soto at third was not good, but to say he was "horrible" is ridiculous and you know it.

[DiamondMind]

DeRosa, buddy, I love you. You're probably my favorite Cub. But you let me down this year, I don't know how else to put it. All of them let me down.

[Flames24Rulz]

"This one is way worse than last year's NLDS. I don't know why that is."

 

Because you guys showed you were by far the best team in the NL for 161 games and the fans expected at least a National League pennant this year. That's why.