4/11 Cubs (Gorzelanny) @ Reds (Leake) 12:10 CST CSN+

[TruffleShuffle]

fake rally caps

[Soul]

Let's make Russell the guy who comes in before the other team scores the winning runs.

 

Caridad can do the mop up duty after we've already lost

[Little Slide Rooter]

Considering the payroll Hendry had the past 3 years and the product it produced, I cant imigine the next one being worse.

 

Look around baseball. In no way am I fan of Hendry keeping his job, but look at how many GM's simply are not very good at their jobs.

 

This is true, but a lot of them, dont come close to the payroll that Hendry has had to work with. Also, the fact that Hendry caters way too much to Lous every whim. I know I dont need to bring up the dismanteling of the 2008 team because of 3 bad games.

[Roast]

Theriot groundout, Fuku walk, Lee flyout to the track, Aram flyout to the track

No way.

 

Theriot groundout, Fuku walk, Lee Double (fuku scores), Aram lines out to center and the CF drops the ball so Lee goes to third but the ump calls it an out anyway and double's Lee off.

[bcl412]

The moral of the story is when you have good starting pitching, but an absolutely pathetic offense, you need a good set up man.

 

The actual moral of that story is that if you truly have a pathetic offense the other two are pretty redundant.

the great debate here is which one is worse ourr offense in late innings or our BP. Flip a coin

 

I don't know but 18 runs in 6 games doesn't typically cut it. You're looking at a 486 run season if that continued, which it won't.

 

Most relievers are crappy pitchers (thus they are relievers). Crappy pithers will allow runs from time to time (duh). Those couple of runs they've allowed late wouldn't matter if the Cubs could hit.

[illiniguy]

Considering the payroll Hendry had the past 3 years and the product it produced, I cant imigine the next one being worse.

 

Look around baseball. In no way am I fan of Hendry keeping his job, but look at how many GM's simply are not very good at their jobs.

 

This is true, but a lot of them, dont come close to the payroll that Hendry has had to work with. Also, the fact that Hendry caters way too much to Lous every whim. I know I dont need to bring up the dismanteling of the 2008 team because of 3 bad games.

Even if it is true, you can't keep a guy around just because the next guy could be worse.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Let's make Russell the guy who comes in before the other team scores the winning runs.

 

Caridad can do the mop up duty after we've already lost

 

And whose next in line when Russell inevedibly starts blowing thin leads?

[Sammy Sofa]

The moral of the story is when you have good starting pitching, but an absolutely pathetic offense, you need a good set up man.

 

The actual moral of that story is that if you truly have a pathetic offense the other two are pretty redundant.

the great debate here is which one is worse ourr offense in late innings or our BP. Flip a coin

 

I don't know but 18 runs in 6 games doesn't typically cut it. You're looking at a 486 run season if that continued, which it won't.

 

Exactly. This is why I picked the offense in the poll recently posted here asking what we were most concerned about going into the season. If the offense can't bounce back from how anemic it looked last year then they're toast. The team has just gotten older and Soriano and Soto are by no means locks to be significantly better. If they can't rebound then the only realistic improvements you can see are Aramis (hopefully) staying more healthy and Byrd, and neither are enough to carry the team.

[TruffleShuffle]

james russell's minor league stats

 

hint: they're not good.

[Sammy Sofa]

Considering the payroll Hendry had the past 3 years and the product it produced, I cant imigine the next one being worse.

 

Look around baseball. In no way am I fan of Hendry keeping his job, but look at how many GM's simply are not very good at their jobs.

 

This is true, but a lot of them, dont come close to the payroll that Hendry has had to work with. Also, the fact that Hendry caters way too much to Lous every whim. I know I dont need to bring up the dismanteling of the 2008 team because of 3 bad games.

Even if it is true, you can't keep a guy around just because the next guy could be worse.

 

Right, which is why nobody has suggested that.

[A-Cal]

THERE IS NO GOOD NEWS LEN~!

[illiniguy]

 

Exactly. This is why I picked the offense in the poll recently posted here asking what we were most concerned about going into the season. If the offense can't bounce back from how anemic it looked last year then they're toast. The team has just gotten older and Soriano and Soto are by no means locks to be significantly better. If they can't rebound then the only realistic improvements you can see are Aramis (hopefully) staying more healthy and Byrd, and neither are enough to carry the team.

I agree with this, but I'm very afraid that we will be close enough that Jim will try and make a trade to save his job. I really don't want him trading away any prospects.

[Andy]

The fake rally begins.

[NotSoSober]

There we go, time for a Lee HR

[Ski]

Alright, let's go Lee.

[Sammy Sofa]

The moral of the story is when you have good starting pitching, but an absolutely pathetic offense, you need a good set up man.

 

The actual moral of that story is that if you truly have a pathetic offense the other two are pretty redundant.

the great debate here is which one is worse ourr offense in late innings or our BP. Flip a coin

 

I don't know but 18 runs in 6 games doesn't typically cut it. You're looking at a 486 run season if that continued, which it won't.

 

Most relievers are crappy pitchers (thus they are relievers). Crappy pithers will allow runs from time to time (duh). Those couple of runs they've allowed late wouldn't matter if the Cubs could hit.

 

Very true. This bullpen is far from ideal, but you just to look to last year where a very average, serviceable bullpen was tagged as being "bad" because it was routinely exposed by a largely ineffective offense that left them with way too many close games.

[Andy]

Haha, WTP. Typical again.

[A-Cal]

Maybe we should hire Joe Morgan to gain some balance and consistency.

[ctcf]

We really need to find some way to trick Fuku into thinking every month is April.

 

In other news, the Turkish word for April is Nisan. I think that's silly. Carry on.

[circlecitycub]

Give it a ride, Rammy.

[Ski]

Why do all of our deep flies go to dead center?

[UMFan83]

Looking at the positives from the first week, the starting pitching, save opening day, has been northing short of spectacular. The offense has underperformed. I expect it to still be below average but much better than what we've seen so far. We probably are going to win more than 75 games this year. How much more has yet to be decided. More likely closer to 80 wins than 90, but nothing is out of the realm of possibility yet.

[Roast]

Well damn.

[CubbieBum]

Why do all of our deep flies go to dead center?

 

Because otherwise they would be called home runs.

[Sammy Sofa]

 

Exactly. This is why I picked the offense in the poll recently posted here asking what we were most concerned about going into the season. If the offense can't bounce back from how anemic it looked last year then they're toast. The team has just gotten older and Soriano and Soto are by no means locks to be significantly better. If they can't rebound then the only realistic improvements you can see are Aramis (hopefully) staying more healthy and Byrd, and neither are enough to carry the team.

I agree with this, but I'm very afraid that we will be close enough that Jim will try and make a trade to save his job. I really don't want him trading away any prospects.

 

Yeah, I'm concerned that they're just going to middle around technically being in contention because of how bad the division is. If they do fall out of it it needs to be big so that both Hendry gets the boot and they wise up and look to move Lee/Aramis/Lilly/etc..