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

[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.

 

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

 

Not when you are given a $40 million dollar head start.

[chasinf5s]

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.

 

Not when you are given a $40 million dollar head start.

 

too bad the cubs have someone who makes terrible decisions with that amount of money

[Flames24Rulz]

Now I know why I've been avoiding game thread's much more frequently this year.

 

Pretty sad.

[erik316wttn]

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.

 

I think 101 years is enough of a sample size.

 

Now we spend the money, but we just give absurd contracts to players who don't deserve it, and we trade away players who are at their maximum value for dog crap on a stick.

[BCVM22]

Epic fake rallies suck even more live.

[thefranchise]

Epic fake rallies suck even more live.

[Sammys Boombox]

I wasn't able to watch this game tonight and just looked at the play-by-play log. Boy am I glad I didn't watch this one. How many times did they have runner on second, 0 out, or runner on third, 1 out and not score? That's horrible. There were so many situation where pretty much anything but a strikeout, popout or double play would have worked and they either struck out or gidp. This one is frustrating looking at the recap. I can't imagine actually watching it.

[Andy]

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

Hey, wait a second, we didn't let him walk away. We retired his number, it's not like we had him for 2 pretty good years and a few mediocre-to-bad ones.

 

Oh, wait.

[Little Slide Rooter]

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

Hey, wait a second, we didn't let him walk away. We retired his number, it's not like we had him for 2 pretty good years and a few mediocre-to-bad ones.

 

Oh, wait.

 

LETTING him walk away would suggest that he wanted to leave, which as I recall was not true.

[dew1679666265]

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

Hey, wait a second, we didn't let him walk away. We retired his number, it's not like we had him for 2 pretty good years and a few mediocre-to-bad ones.

 

Oh, wait.

 

We had Maddux for one bad season, one fantastic season and four good ones before he left for Atlanta. He then returned for two more average seasons.

[Soul]

I want to congratulate the Dodgers and especially their announcers for beating the Iowa Cubs.