Reds (Lowder) vs Cubs (Peterson): 8/28/26, 1:20pm

[JBears79]

I wont be surprised if this roster completely collapses in September. 

[UMFan83]

Going 4-8 in our last 12 games is not ideal in late August

[Rex Buckingham]

that's enough of watching the Cubs bullpen for me today

[JHBulls]

Nice to see the spirit of Phil Maton is still alive and well in this bullpen. 

[soccer10k]

Lol. Didn’t take long for the pen to blow up today.

[UMFan83]

Hoby Milner was apparently not good enough for this bullpen

[Derwood]

I can't wait to go 1-6 against the Brewers

[Irrelevant Dude]

Outside of striking gold with the Webb signing, Hoyer has once again shown he has no clue how to build a bullpen.

[chibears55]

Its really hard sometimes to take this team serious as a playoff team, if they can survive the next month.

 

[Geographyhater8888]

Baseball is like that. We’ve been long overdue for our starting pitching to blow up. The offense is due for another may too. 

[JBears79]

Just now, chibears55 said:

Its really hard sometimes to take this team serious as a playoff team, if they can survive the next month.

 

IT's hard to take them seriously when guys are sitting there laughing in the dugout.

[squally1313]

6 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Problem will be in my mind, is if they bring him back on a 2-3 years deal, and bring Suzuki back , now Hoyer will probably be looking to trade the outfielders that are blocked

well i mean, that's a totally different set of hypotheticals. to me, it seems incredibly unlikely that they're going to commit $50m to the offense in the offseason and basically lock in their entire lineup. 

the very obvious plan going forward is to bring back one of the outfielders (seiya at this point, but happ on three years or less is fine), and find some cheap platoon for the other spot. that keeps the corner spots mostly open for the prospects that are actually outfield prospects, ie that project as hopefully above average hitters, but are at least a year away. and then you trade the blocked infield prospects for pitching.

Edited 1 hour ago by squally1313

[squally1313]

1 minute ago, JBears79 said:

IT's hard to take them seriously when guys are sitting there laughing in the dugout.

yeah man, why aren't they crying

[JBears79]

Just now, squally1313 said:

yeah man, why aren't they crying

Take the game seriously. There is nothing to laugh and joke around about right now.

[Papa Cub]

This team is spiraling 🌀-

[squally1313]

1 minute ago, JBears79 said:

Take the game seriously. There is nothing to laugh and joke around about right now.

hopefully someone punches the wall or something to meet your level of dugout behavior in the sixth inning of an august baseball game

[JBears79]

Just now, squally1313 said:

hopefully someone punches the wall or something to meet your level of dugout behavior in the sixth inning of an august baseball game

Yeah, this team needs a blow up. They are consistently blowing leads in important games. Sitting around and joking about that is a terrible look. You dont care about winning though so this isnt surprising coming from you.

[UMFan83]

4 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

hopefully someone punches the wall or something to meet your level of dugout behavior in the sixth inning of an august baseball game

If no ones hands are broken after this game, we've failed as an organization

[dfnowak]

11 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Outside of striking gold with the Webb signing, Hoyer has once again shown he has no clue how to build a bullpen.

He won’t spend the money on them nor develop them in the minors.

[Papa Cub]

1 minute ago, JBears79 said:

Yeah, this team needs a blow up. They are consistently blowing leads in important games. Sitting around and joking about that is a terrible look. You dont care about winning though so this isnt surprising coming from you.

Obviously, there is tension with many of the fans because of the frustration due to how they have been playing recently. That is totally understandable. I see your point about they need to take things seriously because as the old saying goes “horsefeathers around. And you will find out.“ However, I do agree with Squally that lose their horsefeathers and blowing up isn’t gonna help either. Bottom line is we as fans are frustrated. The players should take every game seriously because the way the national league is playing out it’s gonna be tight for us to get in the playoffs. Nothing is given or guaranteed.

[squally1313]

2 minutes ago, JBears79 said:

Yeah, this team needs a blow up. They are consistently blowing leads in important games. Sitting around and joking about that is a terrible look. You dont care about winning though so this isnt surprising coming from you.

are they out there in the field cracking jokes? going up to the plate and laughing when they miss a pitch? if not, who the horsefeathers cares. banning smiles in the clubhouse isn't going to make thornton start striking people out

[UMFan83]

Just now, squally1313 said:

are they out there in the field cracking jokes? going up to the plate and laughing when they miss a pitch? if not, who the horsefeathers cares. banning smiles in the clubhouse isn't going to make thornton start striking people out

you can't prove that

[Geographyhater8888]

Fire Counsell.

[JBears79]

I disagree. Team leaders need to hold guys accountable. This team needs to shoot for higher standards. Our FO clearly isnt.

[UMFan83]

5 minutes ago, JBears79 said:

Yeah, this team needs a blow up. They are consistently blowing leads in important games. Sitting around and joking about that is a terrible look. You dont care about winning though so this isnt surprising coming from you.

I think they're a good team with some glaring holes that prevent them from being great.  Sounds like a 90-92 win team which is probably where they'll end up.  They're also incredibly streaky and have been the last couple of seasons (even factoring in that baseball teams/players are inherently streaky).  Right now they appear to be entering another slump.  Hopefully they can right the ship before they get in real trouble.