07/28 CUBS (Wells) @ Houston (Norris) 1:05 CDT, CSN TV

[Outshined_One]

No pressure Randy, but if you give up 2 runs you will lose.

 

We're boned.

[Ballgame64]

How do you let a guy score from 1st standing up on a double down Houston's LF line? The ball has nowhere to go and is like 17 feet from 3B.

 

 

Oh, and Wells' day goes from wildly effective to pretty crappy in a hurry.

When your idiot manager plays a guy who can't field or throw in left field, bad things are bound to happen. Don't worry though, Nady will make up for it with his awesome hitting.

 

Why didn't Ricketts just tell Lou to go home after Lou announced he is retiring. Just pay the man and let Trammel run things from here on out.

[lumafia]

2b riot

ss castro

cf colvin

3b ramy

lf nady

rf fuke

1b baker

c hill

p wells

 

rofl

 

Cubs will score 10+ with that lineup. :lol:

 

It's a crappy lineup for sure, but I can recall a few times in the past where we've scored a bunch of runs with the "forfeit lineup".

 

I remember the days when Dusty would pencil Macias, Perez, Hairston and Blanco into the same lineup. Ha.

[Ballgame64]

The Cubs are on the way to losing their 4th series of the year to the Houston Astros. I wouldn't make any changes either Tom. Let Crane Kenney and Hendry pick the next manager, they have done a great job up to this point.

[erik316wttn]

2b riot

ss castro

cf colvin

3b ramy

lf nady

rf fuke

1b baker

c hill

p wells

 

rofl

 

Cubs will score 10+ with that lineup. :lol:

 

It's a crappy lineup for sure, but I can recall a few times in the past where we've scored a bunch of runs with the "forfeit lineup".

 

I remember the days when Dusty would pencil Macias, Perez, Hairston and Blanco into the same lineup. Ha.

 

Oh god, don't remind me.

[lumafia]

2b riot

ss castro

cf colvin

3b ramy

lf nady

rf fuke

1b baker

c hill

p wells

 

rofl

 

Cubs will score 10+ with that lineup. :lol:

 

It's a crappy lineup for sure, but I can recall a few times in the past where we've scored a bunch of runs with the "forfeit lineup".

 

I remember the days when Dusty would pencil Macias, Perez, Hairston and Blanco into the same lineup. Ha.

 

Here's another good one....Jose Macias (.444 OPS), Tom Goodwin (.460), Ramon Martinez (.605), Paul Bako (.582) in the same lineup.

[SouthSideRyan]

Boost that trade value Ryan!

[jersey cubs fan]

I wonder if Lou values Soto on days like this.

[illiniguy]

2b riot

ss castro

cf colvin

3b ramy

lf nady

rf fuke

1b baker

c hill

p wells

 

rofl

 

Cubs will score 10+ with that lineup. :lol:

 

It's a crappy lineup for sure, but I can recall a few times in the past where we've scored a bunch of runs with the "forfeit lineup".

 

I remember the days when Dusty would pencil Macias, Perez, Hairston and Blanco into the same lineup. Ha.

 

Here's another good one....Jose Macias (.444 OPS), Tom Goodwin (.460), Ramon Martinez (.605), Paul Bako (.582) in the same lineup.

A team with those guys made the NLCS. Damn Wood and Prior were good.

[SouthSideRyan]

Here's another good one....Jose Macias (.444 OPS), Tom Goodwin (.460), Ramon Martinez (.605), Paul Bako (.582) in the same lineup.

A team with those guys made the NLCS. Damn Wood and Prior were good.

 

Macias wasn't on that team. A half-dead Troy O' Leary was though. 3/4 Dead Doug Glanville too.

[jersey cubs fan]

I hope they find a way to blame this game on young relievers.

[lumafia]

The Cubs are on the way to losing their 4th series of the year to the Houston Astros. I wouldn't make any changes either Tom. Let Crane Kenney and Hendry pick the next manager, they have done a great job up to this point.

 

The Cubs have had the unique opportunity to play 3 of the worst offensive teams in the last 17 years of Major League Baseball this season. The Seattle Mariners (.642 OPS), Houston Astros (.649 OPS) and Pittsburgh Pirates (.672 OPS) have the 1st, 2nd and 5th worst team OPS since 1992.

 

The Cubs are 8-19 (assuming today results in a loss) against those teams. :shock:

[lumafia]

I wonder if Lou values Soto on days like this.

 

Koyie has struck out in 9 of his last 11 AB's.

[pccubfan]

The Cubs are on the way to losing their 4th series of the year to the Houston Astros. I wouldn't make any changes either Tom. Let Crane Kenney and Hendry pick the next manager, they have done a great job up to this point.

 

The Cubs have had the unique opportunity to play 3 of the worst offensive teams in the last 17 years of Major League Baseball this season. The Seattle Mariners (.642 OPS), Houston Astros (.649 OPS) and Pittsburgh Pirates (.672 OPS) have the 1st, 2nd and 5th worst team OPS since 1992.

 

The Cubs are 8-19 (assuming today results in a loss) against those teams. :shock:

 

You really have to try to be this bad.

[lumafia]

If someone would have told me after spring training that the 3 best hitters in a lineup would have been Castro, Colvin and Fukudome, I would have sworn on everything that is holy that all 3 would have been traded to the Pirates at some during the year.

[Ballgame64]

The Cubs are on the way to losing their 4th series of the year to the Houston Astros. I wouldn't make any changes either Tom. Let Crane Kenney and Hendry pick the next manager, they have done a great job up to this point.

 

The Cubs have had the unique opportunity to play 3 of the worst offensive teams in the last 17 years of Major League Baseball this season. The Seattle Mariners (.642 OPS), Houston Astros (.649 OPS) and Pittsburgh Pirates (.672 OPS) have the 1st, 2nd and 5th worst team OPS since 1992.

 

The Cubs are 8-19 (assuming today results in a loss) against those teams. :shock:

So if the Cubs did to them what the rest of baseball does to these three teams, the Cubs would be fighting for the division lead.

 

So what are we to conclude from this information? It is just baseball. The Cubs are better than we think. They don't take these teams seriously so they don't play as good. Lou and his staff have not done a good job of preparing the team to play also rans. Bad luck. A combination of all of these...

[jersey cubs fan]

I kind of like how they are just letting Bobby Howry go down in a ball of flames.

[jersey cubs fan]

So what are we to conclude from this information? It is just baseball. The Cubs are better than we think. They don't take these teams seriously so they don't play as good. Lou and his staff have not done a good job of preparing the team to play also rans. Bad luck. A combination of all of these...

 

The conclusion is that the Cubs are a bad baseball team.

[Fred Hornkohl]

This isn't even fun anymore.

[Fred Hornkohl]

The question was raised about the CUBS hitting with the bases loaded and nobody out..........

 

CUBS                    AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA     RC   IsoD   RBI%
bases loaded 0 outs      9    1    1    0    0    1    7    0    1  0.111  0.200  0.444  0.644  0.000  2.90    0.8  0.089  0.214
bases loaded            79    9   22    4    1    2   68   10   15  0.278  0.324  0.430  0.754  0.323  3.64   11.0  0.045  0.288
overall               3392  428  886  174   19  103  413  306  728  0.261  0.327  0.415  0.741  0.306  3.78  459.5  0.065  0.174

 

..... hard to imagine any other team has a worse record.

[Schwarber Fan]

fake rally!

[Fred Hornkohl]

fake rally!

 

Last time the CUBS scored 8 runs in an inning.... Fri 14 Aug 09 (10 runs in the 4th inn) in a 17-2 win over Pittsburgh at Wrigley

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Careless]

I hope we lose every game against these guys and the Pirates.

[Robert23]

The Cubs are on the way to losing their 4th series of the year to the Houston Astros. I wouldn't make any changes either Tom. Let Crane Kenney and Hendry pick the next manager, they have done a great job up to this point.

 

The Cubs have had the unique opportunity to play 3 of the worst offensive teams in the last 17 years of Major League Baseball this season. The Seattle Mariners (.642 OPS), Houston Astros (.649 OPS) and Pittsburgh Pirates (.672 OPS) have the 1st, 2nd and 5th worst team OPS since 1992.

 

The Cubs are 8-19 (assuming today results in a loss) against those teams. :shock:

So if the Cubs did to them what the rest of baseball does to these three teams, the Cubs would be fighting for the division lead.

 

So what are we to conclude from this information? It is just baseball. The Cubs are better than we think. They don't take these teams seriously so they don't play as good. Lou and his staff have not done a good job of preparing the team to play also rans. Bad luck. A combination of all of these...

 

I think it's clear that Lou doesn't take these teams seriously from todays lineup. And if thats the case he probably doesn't put much effort into preparing the team.

[Fred Hornkohl]

It feels so good when they stop.

 

:banghead: