Mariners (Gilbert) vs Cubs (Rea): 6/22/25, 1:20pm

[gflore34]

Just get this motherfucker out,

[WhyCantWeWin]

Shota is about to be reactivated right? Hopefully this is Reas last start

[CUBDOM4life]

Just now, WhyCantWeWin said:

Mastroboner revenge game

I hate him

[profisme]

DFA Pearson.

[chibears55]

8 minutes ago, PackLandVA said:

Is there ever a reason to question why Brujan is pinch hit for???

No,  wondering cause he was slow getting up the inning before when he dove for ball and kinda weird to PH for him with Turner leading off an inning in the 7th.

[WhyCantWeWin]

Pearson was horrendous his first time up, not surprised he still sucks. 

[JHBulls]

4th inning in a row this bullpen has given up runs after reducing the deficit. So horsefeathers annoying. 

[Hot Sauce]

May as well announce that Pearson is DFA’d now.

[Geographyhater8888]

Mariners are scoring runs yet all their hits have landed in the ballpark. I think they’ve hacked baseball.

[chibears55]

I guess Pearson wasn't ready to be activated..

Might as well leave him in and save the rest of pen for the Cardinals 

[Derwood]

Pearson now sporting a nifty 13.97 ERA

[cubfansince77]

That's 30 runs in 26 innings of this series by this gas can of a staff. Can't remember a worse 3 game series by a Cub pitching staff....ever. It's all time record kinda bad no matter what the cheerleaders in the booth are saying right now. 

[Derwood]

Just now, cubfansince77 said:

That's 30 runs in 26 innings of this series by this gas can of a staff. Can't remember a worse 3 game series by a Cub pitching staff....ever. It's all time record kinda bad no matter what the cheerleaders in the booth are saying right now. 

JFC

[Rcal10]

3 minutes ago, profisme said:

But let’s be clear, CC was not managing to win this game. Leaving Rea in to start the 6th inning was the clear indicator. 

I don’t agree with leaving Rea in, but I don’t think that was Counsell giving up. Putting Pearson is was. But it has always been said Craig doesn’t chase wins. He wasn’t going to use a pen arm he likes to use in high leverage in a game they were losing by 3 runs. 

[NorthsideAvenger]

We are now in the Cubs are going to.annoy their fans portion of the schedule.

Can not even try to rally if your pitchers keep giving up runs.

[Geographyhater8888]

1 minute ago, cubfansince77 said:

That's 30 runs in 26 innings of this series by this gas can of a staff. Can't remember a worse 3 game series by a Cub pitching staff....ever. It's all time record kinda bad no matter what the cheerleaders in the booth are saying right now. 

How about 41 runs through 27 inning from August 11-13 2021. There’s been worse.

[squally1313]

The guy who has been a cubs fan for 48 years has never watched a wrigley game where the wind is howling out 

[Derwood]

All the histrionics over one series for a team that hasn't lost more than 3 in a row all season

[UMFan83]

Waited all season for the wind to start blowing out at Wrigley, now I’m hoping the wind blows in next series. 

Im guessing the ball will be flying in STL too

[JHBulls]

It says a lot about Pearson that the manager will use him to “save the better bullpen arms”. That’s a polite way of saying he sucks. 

[squally1313]

I hope we go down to St. Louis and prove how much better of a team we are for obvious reasons, but also to at least temporarily shut up the half of this board who hate this team 

[gflore34]

That's 10 RBI's and 4 HR for two of the worst hitters the Cubs have faced this year.  Well, every scrub has a day or series now and then.  Except, of course, Cubs' scrubs, who shockingly, perform like scrubs.  Hell, did Mastrobuoni even have 3 hits in a one month period as a Cub?

Edited June 22, 2025 by gflore34

[squally1313]

Just now, gflore34 said:

That's 10 RBI's and 4 HR for two of the worst hitters the Cubs have face this year.  Well, every scrub has a day or series now and then.  Except, of course, Cubs' scrubs, who shockingly, perform like scrubs.  Hell, did Mastrobuoni even have 3 hits in a one month period as a Cub?

Our backup catcher was the best hitter in baseball for like 6 weeks dude 

[cubfansince77]

3 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

I hope we go down to St. Louis and prove how much better of a team we are for obvious reasons, but also to at least temporarily shut up the half of this board who hate this team 

2 things: seen and been to plenty of games at Wrigley with the wind blowing out but I've never personally witnessed pitching as bad as this weekend....deal with it. Secondly, people come onto sports message boards to vent and make simple observations, not because they 'hate' the team. Sorry your butt hurt that our team sucks the last week or so. Hope life (and the Cubs) get better for you. Buck up buttercup.

[chibears55]

5 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

I hope we go down to St. Louis and prove how much better of a team we are for obvious reasons, but also to at least temporarily shut up the half of this board who hate this team 

Gotta at least split there, stay at least 5 better in the loss column