7/3 - Cubs (Smyly) vs Brewers (Teheran): 1;10pm, Marquee

[Nolansomebody]

Uh, Cubs? You gonna do something about this?

[CubinNY]

So disappointing 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Just when the Cubs almost had us sucked back in and considering the possibility of winning the NL Central, now we're back to them being terrible and likely being bad for years to come.

[Nolansomebody]

[Derwood]

Swanson has been pretty un-clutch recently

[abuck1220]

15 minutes ago, abuck1220 said:

please lose 8-6 to make a fucked up torture mirror of yesterday’s game 

we did it! 

came back from 6-0 yesterday, lost 8-6.

led 6-0 today, lost 8-6. 

ross’ masterpiece.

[17 Seconds]

just another lost season under the ricketts 

[PackLandVA]

3 minutes ago, 17 Seconds said:

just another lost season under the ricketts 

Because before the Ricketts took ownership, this did not happen??

[17 Seconds]

Just now, PackLandVA said:

Because before the Ricketts took ownership, this did not happen??

past ownership is gone, we don't need to insult them. the ricketts are all that matter now

[UMFan83]

Still 12-9 in our last 21!

[UMFan83]

33 minutes ago, 17 Seconds said:

past ownership is gone, we don't need to insult them. the ricketts are all that matter now

Since Ricketts took over before 2010 they’ve overseen 8 seasons of non-competitiveness and 6 seasons of competing. So 43% of the time they’ve been competitive.  They have made the NLCS 3 times in 14 years with 1 World Series title

Trib Company oversaw 17 non-competitive seasons and 11 competitive seasons. So 39% of the time they were competitive.  They made the NLCS 3 times in 28 years with 0 World Series. 

An improvement over the Trib Company but let’s be honest neither ownership has been super successful. We got our WS which is great but outside of that it’s a bunch of horsefeathers
 

Also Im just kind of swagging whether a season was competitive. Basically 84+ wins and/or finish within 5 games of a playoff spot.  

[Sosa21MVP]

6 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

Since Ricketts took over before 2010 they’ve overseen 8 seasons of non-competitiveness and 6 seasons of competing. So 43% of the time they’ve been competitive.  They have made the NLCS 3 times in 14 years with 1 World Series title

Trib Company oversaw 17 non-competitive seasons and 11 competitive seasons. So 39% of the time they were competitive.  They made the NLCS 3 times in 28 years with 0 World Series. 

An improvement over the Trib Company but let’s be honest neither ownership has been super successful. We got our WS which is great but outside of that it’s a bunch of horsefeathers
 

Also Im just kind of swagging whether a season was competitive. Basically 84+ wins and/or finish within 5 games of a playoff spot.  

I generally consider the more successful years under the Tribune to be 1984, 1989, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 (I know years like 1993, 1995 and 2001 fall into your swagging). 1993 was meh, 1995 was exciting when they won like 8 in a row at the end to get into playoff contention, 2001 felt great until the bottom dropped out in August/September. 

Under Ricketts, sucked ass 2010-2014 then 2015-2017 were the best consecutive years of Cubs baseball that any of us will ever see in a lifetime. NLCS 3 years in a row and a World Series title. 

For the Tribune years, it felt like the good years were spread out quite a bit and almost dumb luck while with Ricketts, they did the whole suck on purpose thing, brought in Theo and then we had that run and at the time, I thought the Cubs were positioned to be that good for a long time instead of fading back into a mediocre state of existence.

I don't think the current ownership gives that much of a horsefeathers now. The 2016 Cubs will be like the 1985 Bears in like 20-30 years, at least I am old enough to have seen both championships so I guess it isn't that bad eh? lol