Cubs Look Dead

[A-Cal]

Thanks again.

 

I suppose I was never a Milton Bradley fan. Seems to me like he played for a contract last season in one of the best hitters parks in baseball.

 

Too bad our general manager is clueless.

 

Bradley also OPSd .947 between Oakland and San Diego in 2007 so last year wasn't a complete fluke.

 

The problem with him is injuries.

 

that and him also being better from the right side which...well...we all know where this leads

[Fanatic3332000]

Did anyone else see the fly ball the other day to shallow left where soriano almost ran into theriot after theriot called him off. Theriot ended up catching the ball (no one was on base I think) but never did they acknowledge each other after the catch. There wasn't a "my bad" or usually you see two players laugh about something like that, but in that case there was nothing. Soriano ran back to left and Theriot went back to short. I'm not trying to start anything, just took notice of that play as maybe the clubhouse isn't so together.

[Soul]

It's pretty hard to quantify player emotion, and how that might play into a club's success or failure.

 

But yeah, they look dead. They are probably having a hard time generating any excitement among themselves, knowing that right now they just aren't a very good baseball team. They have their best hitter out and questionable for the remainder of the season, and their supposed hot acquisition looking like he won't perform at all this season. That's your best 2 big bats, removed for all intents and purposes.

 

Tends to make it harder to be all rah-rah.

[dew1679666265]

The question is, can you expect a team that is hovering around .500 and is severely underperforming to be whooping and hollering? If the players were cracking jokes with each other and looking generally excited, would that not make the same people question how much they cared? It seems like you'd get the question of, "How can the players be joking around and look so loose when they're batting .250 as a team and hovering around .500?"

 

It's a double edged sword at this point for a struggling team. If they look dejected and depressed, then they're criticized for looking "dead" and Lou "doesn't have any passion." But, if they joke around with each other and are seen laughing and cutting up in the dugout, people will start asking why they don't seem to care and how they can be so aloof when they're struggling.

 

Does being happy, loose and aloof come with winning or does it cause winning? There's no way to know.

[Soul]

There's no way to know, and I agree with your point about it being a double-edged sword. Either way, the club is going to be criticized.

[Outshined_One]

While I agree with the substance of this article, who wrote this crap?

 

Seriously. The one sentence per line thing has to stop.

 

I mean it.

 

Really.

 

Sentence fragments, too.

 

And the whole, um, use of, uh, informal language like, umm, the writer is totally a moronic valley blonde?

 

So not cool.

[SouthSideRyan]

Regarding Bradley being a clubhouse problem, his Rangers teammates adored him last year.

[Sammy Sofa]

Regarding Bradley being a clubhouse problem, his Rangers teammates adored him last year.

 

Hasn't Bradley had the reputation of typically being popular with his teammates regardless of his conflicts elsewhere over the years?

[CyHawk_Cub]

Regarding Bradley being a clubhouse problem, his Rangers teammates adored him last year.

 

Hasn't Bradley had the reputation of typically being popular with his teammates regardless of his conflicts elsewhere over the years?

 

That's the sense I have--he tends to be cool with team mates. I'm thinking he just has general issues with authority figures.

[Fanatic3332000]

Back to back home runs make quite a difference. =D> :clapping:

[illiniguy]

On pace to score 675 runs for the season.

 

No Cubs team has scored fewer than 700 runs since the 1997 disaster.

 

I wonder if any team in MLB history has gone from scoring over 850 runs in one season to fewer than 700 the next.

Prolly the 1997-to-1998 Marlins.

[dew1679666265]

On pace to score 675 runs for the season.

 

No Cubs team has scored fewer than 700 runs since the 1997 disaster.

 

I wonder if any team in MLB history has gone from scoring over 850 runs in one season to fewer than 700 the next.

Prolly the 1997-to-1998 Marlins.

 

Nope. The 97 Marlins scored 740 runs and the 98 Marlins scored 667.

 

The 97 Marlins, despite all that talent, were a wild card team. Their 92 wins were 10 behind the 101 win Braves.

[dew1679666265]

The 2001 Mariners scored 927 runs and the 2002 Ms scored 814. The 2000 Mets scored 802 runs and the 2001 Mets scored 642. The 2001 Indians scored 897 and the 2002 Indians scored 739 runs.

 

Those are some of the biggest dropoffs I've found.

[illiniguy]

On pace to score 675 runs for the season.

 

No Cubs team has scored fewer than 700 runs since the 1997 disaster.

 

I wonder if any team in MLB history has gone from scoring over 850 runs in one season to fewer than 700 the next.

Prolly the 1997-to-1998 Marlins.

 

Nope. The 97 Marlins scored 740 runs and the 98 Marlins scored 667.

 

The 97 Marlins, despite all that talent, were a wild card team. Their 92 wins were 10 behind the 101 win Braves.

Wow. Just a guess off the top of my head. They won 92 games with only 740 runs scored? Impressive pitching I guess.

[dew1679666265]

On pace to score 675 runs for the season.

 

No Cubs team has scored fewer than 700 runs since the 1997 disaster.

 

I wonder if any team in MLB history has gone from scoring over 850 runs in one season to fewer than 700 the next.

Prolly the 1997-to-1998 Marlins.

 

Nope. The 97 Marlins scored 740 runs and the 98 Marlins scored 667.

 

The 97 Marlins, despite all that talent, were a wild card team. Their 92 wins were 10 behind the 101 win Braves.

Wow. Just a guess off the top of my head. They won 92 games with only 740 runs scored? Impressive pitching I guess.

 

They allowed 669 runs. There were just 6 other teams with 80+ wins in the NL that year, though. Braves, Mets, Astros, Giants, Dodgers and Rockies.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Pythagorean wins of 88-74. They weren't *that* good.

[dew1679666265]

Pythagorean wins of 88-74. They weren't *that* good.

 

A lot of big names, though.

[SouthSideRyan]

The Cubs were taken to a better hospital, where their status was upgraded to alive.

[Outshined_One]

http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/notdeadyet.jpg

 

The Cubs think they'll go for a walk.

[Shilzzz]

Back to back home runs make quite a difference. =D> :clapping:

 

Lou must've yelled at Soriano and Soto before today's game.

[UMFan83]

Back to back home runs make quite a difference. =D> :clapping:

 

I wonder how they managed to find heart between yesterday and today.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I think the heart was behind the Gatorade machine.

[Guest]

On pace to score 675 runs for the season.

 

No Cubs team has scored fewer than 700 runs since the 1997 disaster.

 

I wonder if any team in MLB history has gone from scoring over 850 runs in one season to fewer than 700 the next.

Prolly the 1997-to-1998 Marlins.

 

Nope. The 97 Marlins scored 740 runs and the 98 Marlins scored 667.

 

The 97 Marlins, despite all that talent, were a wild card team. Their 92 wins were 10 behind the 101 win Braves.

Wow. Just a guess off the top of my head. They won 92 games with only 740 runs scored? Impressive pitching I guess.

 

They allowed 669 runs. There were just 6 other teams with 80+ wins in the NL that year, though. Braves, Mets, Astros, Giants, Dodgers and Rockies.

 

The biggest dropoff for those two Marlins teams was in the pitching staff. They went from 669 runs allowed to 923. Yes, 254 runs more allowed the next year.

[bcl412]

I'm starting to hear a pulse.....

[Outshined_One]

http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/notdeadyet.jpg

 

The Cubs think they'll go for a walk.

 

They feel happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

 

They feel happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.