5/25 Cubs (Dempster) @ Pirates (Burnett) 6:05 on CSN

[Rizzo Smash]

10 losses in a row! \:D/

[MWV]

10 hits. No runs. 10 straight losses.

[InconspicuousZ28]

This team is brutal to watch. Terrible. 10 hits and not a [expletive] run to show for it.

[rocket]

i perversely want to see ryan dempster pitching in the all star game with 0-3 (at least) record and a sub 2.30 ERA.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Dempster will go the distance, 1 hit, 14ks.

 

That one hit will be a Cutch HR in the 4th.

 

Pirates win, 1-0

 

/TROLL

 

Close enough.

[Careless]

I can't believe that a lineup featuring Joe Mather, Koyie Hill, Tony Campana *and* Adrian Cardenas would struggle to score runs.

Campana didn't bat

[Schwarber Fan]

They're all major league players for a reason. No excuses... the Pirates lineup is worse

[Rizzo Smash]

http://i.imgur.com/VMxS0.png

[MWV]

Any team stupid enough to release and then re-sign Koyie Hill deserves never to win again.

[Careless]

Well, at least we're not on pace for -225 runs

[Little Slide Rooter]

17 game winless streak for Dempster. 2 runs or less in 8 of his 6 games this year. The good news is I can't imagine him blocking a trade to pretty much anywhere at this rate.

[El Duderino]

Pretty soon we'll be getting lowlight reels and people asking Jon Kruk why we are so terrible. I'm sure they'll blame it on Castro having 8 errors and 4 walks.

[MWV]

Pretty soon we'll be getting lowlight reels and people asking Jon Kruk why we are so terrible. I'm sure they'll blame it on Castro having 8 errors and 4 walks.

Errors, sure, but what makes you think those people value walks?

[erik316wttn]

10 losses in a row! \:D/

 

Woohoo! No reason we can't get that up to a Baker's Dozen or so, at least.

 

If we're gong to suck, go all out so we have a better draft position next year.

[UMFan83]

17 game winless streak for Dempster. 2 runs or less in 8 of his 6 games this year. The good news is I can't imagine him blocking a trade to pretty much anywhere at this rate.

 

Damn that's really impressive.

 

2012 NL Cy Young Award goes to Ryan Dempster 0-11 1.78 ERA 250 IP

[erik316wttn]

Any team stupid enough to release and then re-sign Koyie Hill deserves never to win again.

 

I mean this with very little hyperbole that anyone here who has any sort of baseball experience at the high school or college level could not possibly be worse catching for the Cubs today than Koyie Hill. Hell, see if OMC wants to lace them up again, even though I don't think he was a catcher when he played....

[davell]

I'm worried about the Twins. They're for real.

[El Duderino]

The Twins are killing us in run differential. These 1-run losses aren't going to cut it.

[MWV]

I mean this with very little hyperbole that anyone here who has any sort of baseball experience at the high school or college level could not possibly be worse catching for the Cubs today than Koyie Hill.

 

My favorite thing about Koyie Hill is that he's a "switch hitter". Career .567 OPS as a lefty, vs. a .590 as a righty.

Quick!! Warm up the righty! We've gotta turn Koyie Hill around!!

Why must you defile both batter's boxes with your shittiness, Koyie Hill? Why?

[erik316wttn]

I mean this with very little hyperbole that anyone here who has any sort of baseball experience at the high school or college level could not possibly be worse catching for the Cubs today than Koyie Hill.

 

My favorite thing about Koyie Hill is that he's a "switch hitter". Career .567 OPS as a lefty, vs. a .590 as a righty.

Quick!! Warm up the righty! We've gotta turn Koyie Hill around!!

Why must you defile both batter's boxes with your [expletive], Koyie Hill? Why?

 

So he can suck equally from both sides of the plate.

[davell]

I honestly doubt there has been a single time in Hill's career that a manager made a pitching change with him up, that even bothered looking at his splits. It's Koyie Hill. He's not made an opposing manager think once about anything, other than maybe a "my Gawd, how in the hell is that [expletive] on a roster?"

[Careless]

Looking at pitchf/x, 11 of the 23 called strikes against LH were out of the zone, mostly by a fairly large amount

and 9 of the 11 were against Cubs hitters.

[MWV]

I honestly doubt there has been a single time in Hill's career that a manager made a pitching change with him up, that even bothered looking at his splits. It's Koyie Hill. He's not made an opposing manager think once about anything, other than maybe a "my Gawd, how in the hell is that [expletive] on a roster?"

I'm sure you're correct. I can't help wondering if at any point in his career a coach or manager has taken Hill aside and told him, "There's no point in being a switch hitter if you can't hit for [expletive] from either side of the plate. Stop making an ass out of yourself."

[Sammy Sofa]

Looking at pitchf/x, 11 of the 23 called strikes against LH were out of the zone, mostly by a fairly large amount

and 9 of the 11 were against Cubs hitters.

 

Oh, THAT explains it.

[Sosa21MVP]

Obviously tonight's game was not a big game since Dempster pitched well. Since, you know, all his bad starts come in BIG games and all his good starts come in meaningless games. Or something like that.