7.6 Jake v Phillies

[Tim]

Huh...I wonder if Williams will go long today to slot into Jake's spot in the rotation

Unlikely.

It would have been in his interest to pitch...better.

[soccer10k]

Well he did pitch better than Jake.

 

Very low bar of course.

[17 Seconds]

has the crowd they been booing? might as well get as ugly as possible

[OleMissCub]

Sutcliffe is drunk

[Cubfanintheknow]

Sutcliffe is drunk

 

I would be, too.

[chopsx9]

Sutcliffe is drunk

 

I would be, too.

JD might be too.

[Sosa21MVP]

I have this week off work and a couple of weeks ago I was thinking about driving up for one of these games. Glad I held off. wtf

[UMFan83]

The Cubs have been outscored 83-29 in their soon to be 11 game losing streak. The crazy thing is that 5 of the 11 losses have been by 1 run. They just got blitzkrieged in the other 6

[Schwarber Fan]

I think it’s safe to say that this is the lowest point of Cubs baseball since 2014. Perhaps 2013 since ‘14 was actually a somewhat fun season.

[soccer10k]

I think it’s safe to say that this is the lowest point of Cubs baseball since 2014. Perhaps 2013 since ‘14 was actually a somewhat fun season.

 

The beginning of 2014 if you exclude the minors. At least the last two months of 2014 you had Baez and Soler getting called up. If you include the minors, then it goes back earlier since we drafted KB in 2013 and he destroyed the ball right from the start.

[d_money]

I think it’s safe to say that this is the lowest point of Cubs baseball since 2014. Perhaps 2013 since ‘14 was actually a somewhat fun season.

The only positive is that it turned the decisions to be made black/white and no longer a grey area. It’s sell time. Bring up the kids to get experience and get rid of Arrietta, Sogard and Heyward (if you can)

[Soul]

Let’s move all Cubs content to the Other Sports forum.

[Soul]

I think it’s safe to say that this is the lowest point of Cubs baseball since 2014. Perhaps 2013 since ‘14 was actually a somewhat fun season.

The only positive is that it turned the decisions to be made black/white and no longer a grey area. It’s sell time. Bring up the kids to get experience and get rid of Arrietta, Sogard and Heyward (if you can)

Call ‘em an Uber.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Robinson Chirinos has cemented himself as the best backup catcher this season!!

[mias_tisg]

The Cubs are now chasing 3 teams in the NL Central

[PackLandVA]

If you’re on the highway, driving in the right lane with your hazards on, and cars in the left lane are passing you, are you really chasing them. Or is it just your sh!tty car allowing everyone else to pass you?

[NOLA]

I think it’s safe to say that this is the lowest point of Cubs baseball since 2014. Perhaps 2013 since ‘14 was actually a somewhat fun season.

 

The beginning of 2014 if you exclude the minors. At least the last two months of 2014 you had Baez and Soler getting called up. If you include the minors, then it goes back earlier since we drafted KB in 2013 and he destroyed the ball right from the start.

Yep. Even before 2013 there was a blind optimism that Theo would usher in "waves and waves". I don't think even the most optimistic of us has the same feelings now. This has the feel like the end of 2005 when we knew things were about to crater.

[UMFan83]

I think it’s safe to say that this is the lowest point of Cubs baseball since 2014. Perhaps 2013 since ‘14 was actually a somewhat fun season.

 

The beginning of 2014 if you exclude the minors. At least the last two months of 2014 you had Baez and Soler getting called up. If you include the minors, then it goes back earlier since we drafted KB in 2013 and he destroyed the ball right from the start.

Yep. Even before 2013 there was a blind optimism that Theo would usher in "waves and waves". I don't think even the most optimistic of us has the same feelings now. This has the feel like the end of 2005 when we knew things were about to crater.

 

Yeah 2012 sucked because we were really just starting the rebuild and had a long way to go, but at least we had the hope and confidence of having Theo building for us.

 

2013 was better because you could start to see our system really rise to the top even though it was still a few years away. But you could feel the rebuild starting to turn started to see other fanbases start to envy our position having a strong farm and very low payroll that left a lot of room for building

 

2014 was pretty great even though Mendy and Javy disappointed. I honestly didn't think we were 1 year away but thought maybe 2016 was the year we'd start contending. Our farm system became the envy of baseball and you felt pretty good about a long run of success coming

 

This year feels more like 2010 to me. Bad contracts, poor farm system, haven't even really started the rebuild yet, questions about the owners who were cutting payroll and having difficulty getting funding for the Wrigley renovations. Little hope in the FO who seemed like they were still trying to catch lighting in a bottle and contend by signing guys like Carlos Pena as stop gaps. Farm system had a few players of note (who mostly didnt turn out) but the development system had a poor track record of developing players, especially position players. But the worst thing is that we were still pre-rebuild and werent even sure if the FO was going to rebuild and instead opt to build decent teams but not legit contenders.

 

This team is still in pre-rebuild. Hopefully by the end of the month they will have accepted reality and kicked off a rebuild or a retool or whatever is best for the long term. But I don't have that confidence that I had in the FO back in 2012 that I have now. Jed might end up being solid but we can't just throw all the blame at the organizational stagnation at Theo (Though we also can't give Theo all the credit for building this WS winning core).

[UMFan83]

This game sucked because it ruined the "4 runs or less over the last 22 games" stat AND the "Backup catchers have done nothing at all" stat, and they still got completely blown out anyways.

[NOLA]

Man, I loved some Mendy Alcantara back then and really wanted him to be at minimum a serviceable regular at 2B.

 

Also, I was convinced Felix Pie was going to be Kenny Lofton.