May 28 Cubs (Wells) vs Dodgers (Wolfe) 7:05 CST

[Arnold Layne]

I didn't know we were required to drink the Kool Aid.

 

What is there to be positive about with Cubs baseball? They haven't won a WS in 101 years and have put forth some of the worst choke jobs of all time. That's reality. I accept it as a Cubs fan and embrace it. You can't get better until you realize you are at the bottom. All you can do is expose everything in the light and make adjustments.

 

React in a postive fashion when there is a postive product out on the field. It's a two way street. This is a $139 million team that is playing very poor baseball. Why should that be rewarded?

[chasinf5s]

Wasn't the 8th inning also 1st and 2nd no one out and no score? That is so much scoreless fake rallying it couldn't even fit into one inning.

 

the cubs are hitting .248 with RISP this year, last year they hit .278, take that along with the huge OBP difference from this year and last and not hitting with risp is that much more magnified

[TruffleShuffle]

They haven't won a WS in 101 years

 

ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!?

 

i thought it was like 15 or 20... screw this, i'm outta here to become a red sox fan.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

sigged for awesomeness.

[chasinf5s]

I didn't know we were required to drink the Kool Aid.

 

What is there to be positive about with Cubs baseball? They haven't won a WS in 101 years and have put forth some of the worst choke jobs of all time. That's reality. I accept it as a Cubs fan and embrace it. You can't get better until you realize you are at the bottom. All you can do is expose everything in the light and make adjustments.

 

React in a postive fashion when there is a postive product out on the field. It's a two way street. This is a $139 million team that is playing very poor baseball. Why should that be rewarded?

 

its not like anyone is running away with the division like in 2004 and the cards. There isint much good about this team but there are some things like the starting pitching which has been pretty good overall and Randy Wells has really surprised me.

[Arnold Layne]

I didn't know we were required to drink the Kool Aid.

 

What is there to be positive about with Cubs baseball? They haven't won a WS in 101 years and have put forth some of the worst choke jobs of all time. That's reality. I accept it as a Cubs fan and embrace it. You can't get better until you realize you are at the bottom. All you can do is expose everything in the light and make adjustments.

 

React in a postive fashion when there is a postive product out on the field. It's a two way street. This is a $139 million team that is playing very poor baseball. Why should that be rewarded?

 

its not like anyone is running away with the division like in 2004 and the cards. There isint much good about this team but there are some things like the starting pitching which has been pretty good overall and Randy Wells has really surprised me.

 

 

This team looks like the team that showed up in the playoffs. I like your positive energy, but the Cubs just aren't good.

[UMFan83]

I didn't know we were required to drink the Kool Aid.

 

What is there to be positive about with Cubs baseball? They haven't won a WS in 101 years and have put forth some of the worst choke jobs of all time. That's reality. I accept it as a Cubs fan and embrace it. You can't get better until you realize you are at the bottom. All you can do is expose everything in the light and make adjustments.

 

React in a postive fashion when there is a postive product out on the field. It's a two way street. This is a $139 million team that is playing very poor baseball. Why should that be rewarded?

 

What do the last 100 years have to do with this one?

[Little Slide Rooter]

I didn't know we were required to drink the Kool Aid.

 

What is there to be positive about with Cubs baseball? They haven't won a WS in 101 years and have put forth some of the worst choke jobs of all time. That's reality. I accept it as a Cubs fan and embrace it. You can't get better until you realize you are at the bottom. All you can do is expose everything in the light and make adjustments.

 

React in a postive fashion when there is a postive product out on the field. It's a two way street. This is a $139 million team that is playing very poor baseball. Why should that be rewarded?

 

What do the last 100 years have to do with this one?

 

Because Gabby Hartnett, Hack Wilson, Ernie Banks, and Shawon Dunston have contributed 0 this season.

[weis21]

too mentally weak. that's the problem - just like last year....

 

 

 

 

:roll:

[A-Cal]

good lord, why even bother reading or posting on this board if every post is going to be the same?

 

just let people be whoever they want to be, most likely they didn't kick your dog, so stop acting like they did

[chasinf5s]

I didn't know we were required to drink the Kool Aid.

 

What is there to be positive about with Cubs baseball? They haven't won a WS in 101 years and have put forth some of the worst choke jobs of all time. That's reality. I accept it as a Cubs fan and embrace it. You can't get better until you realize you are at the bottom. All you can do is expose everything in the light and make adjustments.

 

React in a postive fashion when there is a postive product out on the field. It's a two way street. This is a $139 million team that is playing very poor baseball. Why should that be rewarded?

 

its not like anyone is running away with the division like in 2004 and the cards. There isint much good about this team but there are some things like the starting pitching which has been pretty good overall and Randy Wells has really surprised me.

 

 

This team looks like the team that showed up in the playoffs. I like your positive energy, but the Cubs just aren't good.

 

This is a different team with Ramirez in the middle of the lineup. They arent good right now but they were decent with Ramirez. This team isint really as far as you think it is. Is this team as good as last years, no but id rather fight my way into the playoffs like in 2003 then stroll in like last year

[Little Slide Rooter]

They haven't won a WS in 101 years

 

ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!?

 

i thought it was like 15 or 20... screw this, i'm outta here to become a red sox fan.

 

I could have sworn there was 1 in the late 80's/early 90's. No?

[BigSlick]

This team is a lot less talented on offense than last years team

 

mostly from weird (but possibly predictable) declines in Fontenot, Soto and Lee

 

Loss of Ramirez is pretty tough too.

 

Yeah this team is pretty mediocre. Time will tell if they come around but even if they start playing the way they 'should' combined with the pretty bleh bullpen we might be in for a tough year.

 

I'm fully expecting 2004, so buckle up guys.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Could be worse, I guess. The defending state champion baseball team up here (although winning a state championship isn't that hard in North Dakota) is Williston, and they just had an epic meltdown in the first round (quarterfinals) of the state tournament.

 

4-1 lead going into the bottom of the 7th. Inning goes: K, 4-3, BB, BB, BB, E4 (grounder to second, throw hits runner and gets away, three runs score and batter goes to second), walk-off 1b to right.

 

(I'm covering the game by radio and calling the coach because of budget cuts. I hate budget cuts).

[Arnold Layne]

I didn't know we were required to drink the Kool Aid.

 

What is there to be positive about with Cubs baseball? They haven't won a WS in 101 years and have put forth some of the worst choke jobs of all time. That's reality. I accept it as a Cubs fan and embrace it. You can't get better until you realize you are at the bottom. All you can do is expose everything in the light and make adjustments.

 

React in a postive fashion when there is a postive product out on the field. It's a two way street. This is a $139 million team that is playing very poor baseball. Why should that be rewarded?

 

What do the last 100 years have to do with this one?

 

 

Do you really think that fans operate in some vortex? If people were born within a year, loved the Cubs then died within that year you might have a point. But people live 65+ years, and experience the long droughts of this pathetic franchise. The goal is to win the world series. Until the Cubs do, they will have that stigma, and so will the fans. That's the perception.

[Little Slide Rooter]

This team is a lot less talented on offense than last years team

 

mostly from weird (but possibly predictable) declines in Fontenot, Soto and Lee

 

Loss of Ramirez is pretty tough too.

 

Yeah this team is pretty mediocre. Time will tell if they come around but even if they start playing the way they 'should' combined with the pretty bleh bullpen we might be in for a tough year.

 

I'm fully expecting 2004, so buckle up guys.

 

If we can get a 2004 season, only hang on for the next month, Ill be more than happy. Much like 2004, hoepfully this 1 is complete with high profile deadline aquisition, only this ones worth a damn.

[Arnold Layne]

Could be worse, I guess. The defending state champion baseball team up here

 

Sounds like that team actually won something though. So no, it's not worse.

[UMFan83]

I didn't know we were required to drink the Kool Aid.

 

What is there to be positive about with Cubs baseball? They haven't won a WS in 101 years and have put forth some of the worst choke jobs of all time. That's reality. I accept it as a Cubs fan and embrace it. You can't get better until you realize you are at the bottom. All you can do is expose everything in the light and make adjustments.

 

React in a postive fashion when there is a postive product out on the field. It's a two way street. This is a $139 million team that is playing very poor baseball. Why should that be rewarded?

 

What do the last 100 years have to do with this one?

 

 

Do you really think that fans operate in some vortex? If people were born within a year, loved the Cubs then died within that year you might have a point. But people live 65+ years, and experience the long droughts of this pathetic franchise. The goal is to win the world series. Until the Cubs do, they will have that stigma, and so will the fans. That's the perception.

 

Still doesn't answer why I shouldn't be positive about this team because the Wrigley family/Tribune Co. was too cheap to spend money on good players in the 80s and 90s for example.

Edited May 29, 2009 by UMFan83

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Could be worse, I guess. The defending state champion baseball team up here

 

Sounds like that team actually won something though. So no, it's not worse.

 

Winning the NL Central is a lot harder than winning the North Dakota state title in anything.

[cubswin2009]

They haven't won a WS in 101 years

 

ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!?

 

i thought it was like 15 or 20... screw this, i'm outta here to become a red sox fan.

 

I could have sworn there was 1 in the late 80's/early 90's. No?

Didn't we win one in 2003? I went out of the country after Game 4 of the NLCS and didn't get a chance to see any of the remaining scores.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Could be worse, I guess. The defending state champion baseball team up here

 

Sounds like that team actually won something though. So no, it's not worse.

 

Winning the NL Central is a lot harder than winning the North Dakota state title in anything.

 

They might have been able to take it in '06 and '07.

[chasinf5s]

I didn't know we were required to drink the Kool Aid.

 

What is there to be positive about with Cubs baseball? They haven't won a WS in 101 years and have put forth some of the worst choke jobs of all time. That's reality. I accept it as a Cubs fan and embrace it. You can't get better until you realize you are at the bottom. All you can do is expose everything in the light and make adjustments.

 

React in a postive fashion when there is a postive product out on the field. It's a two way street. This is a $139 million team that is playing very poor baseball. Why should that be rewarded?

 

What do the last 100 years have to do with this one?

 

 

Do you really think that fans operate in some vortex? If people were born within a year, loved the Cubs then died within that year you might have a point. But people live 65+ years, and experience the long droughts of this pathetic franchise. The goal is to win the world series. Until the Cubs do, they will have that stigma, and so will the fans. That's the perception.

 

Still doesn't answer why I shouldn't be positive about this team because the Wrigley family was too cheap to spend money on good players in the 80s and 90s for example.

 

and then letting one the the very best pitchers of all time walk away

[chasinf5s]

They haven't won a WS in 101 years

 

ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!?

 

i thought it was like 15 or 20... screw this, i'm outta here to become a red sox fan.

 

I could have sworn there was 1 in the late 80's/early 90's. No?

Didn't we win one in 2003? I went out of the country after Game 4 of the NLCS and didn't get a chance to see any of the remaining scores.

 

Are you Serious, please tell me that you are joking around

[Hairyducked Idiot]

We won one in the early 90s. Remember, we had that young pitcher who could throw really hard because he broke his arm or something?

 

Visual proof:

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_935wAgojuqw/SbqddXz4YPI/AAAAAAAAAt0/zPnePErRsAs/s400/Picture+18.png

[weis21]

This team is a lot less talented on offense than last years team

 

mostly from weird (but possibly predictable) declines in Fontenot, Soto and Lee

 

Loss of Ramirez is pretty tough too.

 

Yeah this team is pretty mediocre. Time will tell if they come around but even if they start playing the way they 'should' combined with the pretty bleh bullpen we might be in for a tough year.

 

I'm fully expecting 2004, so buckle up guys.

Lee is OPS'ing .968 in May. Soto is slumping but is getting on base at a decent clip as of late (plus solid defense as always). Fontenot is batting .400 for the past week.

 

Mediocre may be a far cry when this is all said and done. It's very early yet.