7/7 Gm 2 Cubs (Williams) @ Braves (Smoltz) 6:35 PM, WGN

[OldHappyCubFan]

How fitting, Corey striking out at the end of the game .

[otis89]

IMO, Lee is the only one who gives a crap about this team.

 

Ramirez certainly gave a crap tonight. 3 RBI including a 2-run homer.

[Flames24Rulz]

IMO, Lee is the only one who gives a crap about this team.

 

Ramirez certainly gave a crap tonight. 3 RBI including a 2-run homer.

 

yeah forgot about him...he was pretty disgusted in game 1 today.

[USSoccer]

IMO, Lee is the only one who gives a crap about this team.

 

Ramirez certainly gave a crap tonight. 3 RBI including a 2-run homer.

 

Agreed. ARam has handled himself very professionally over the past 2.5 years. It's why he's my favorite player.

 

Sod the rest of this lot, though.

[erik316wttn]

Put a fork in us - we're done. The team is self destructing right before our very eyes.

 

Welcome to Cubs baseball. You know they had to start playing the Cubbie way sooner or later. It just took them to the NLCS to do it in 2003 and late September to do it in 2004.

[XZero771679666304]

Predicted headline in tomorrow's Tribune: Despite Woes, Baker Gets Vote of Confidence.

 

If not tomorrow, I guarantee we will see a headline in this vein in the coming days.

 

The sad thing is that you are probably right.

[erik316wttn]

Predicted headline in tomorrow's Tribune: Despite Woes, Baker Gets Vote of Confidence.

 

If not tomorrow, I guarantee we will see a headline in this vein in the coming days.

 

The sad thing is that you are probably right.

 

Yes, but the "vote of confidence" is usually a death knell for most managers. With the Cubs, it will probably actually BE a "vote of confidence."

[rabidawg900]

Dusty needs to be fired immediately.

 

Plz don't blame Novoa.

[UMFan83]

I can't stand when people say that players from a losing team don't care or have no heart.

[sethuel1]

I will say this: if, in two months, I'm at Ryno's Number Retirement game and the team is still horrible and Dusty's still the coach, I will have a spectacular sign out in left.

 

"We're sorry you can't be proud to be a Cub today, Ryno."

[XZero771679666304]

Put a fork in us - we're done. The team is self destructing right before our very eyes.

 

Welcome to Cubs baseball. You know they had to start playing the Cubbie way sooner or later. It just took them to the NLCS to do it in 2003 and late September to do it in 2004.

 

At least last year I felt like the injuries really were the aggravating factor in the Cubs overall failure. This year it has just been incompetance, and it happened alot earlier, which is a blessing in disguise, I guess.

[UMFan83]

Predicted headline in tomorrow's Tribune: Despite Woes, Baker Gets Vote of Confidence.

 

If not tomorrow, I guarantee we will see a headline in this vein in the coming days.

 

The sad thing is that you are probably right.

 

Yes, but the "vote of confidence" is usually a death knell for most managers. With the Cubs, it will probably actually BE a "vote of confidence."

 

Well he's already gotten one this year and lived to talk about it

[J.R.]

Dusty Baker, known for his motivational magic, just allowed a talented team to play its most lifeless, craptacular ball of the entire year in four of the biggest games to date.

 

If Hendry has any sense, he'll can the idiot before sunup.

 

If not, we'll have to suffer through 495 more days of utter torture.

[Derwood]

It's telling when a game thread only produces 16 pages of posts. No one here even cares, and we're among the biggest fans in the world.

[XZero771679666304]

Dusty needs to be fired immediately.

 

Plz don't blame Novoa.

 

Novoa sucked but it doesn't matter much at this point. Hendry handicapped this team in the offseason, and Dusty has done a bang-up job of killing it off.

[ltb]

if this doesn't spell the end of dusty, there's no way he'll be fired before the end of his contract.

 

i really, really, really hope to wake up to the news that he's been fired.

[erik316wttn]

if this doesn't spell the end of dusty, there's no way he'll be fired before the end of his contract.

 

i really, really, really hope to wake up to the news that he's been fired.

 

Don't hold your breath.

[ltb]

if this doesn't spell the end of dusty, there's no way he'll be fired before the end of his contract.

 

i really, really, really hope to wake up to the news that he's been fired.

 

Don't hold your breath.

 

oh i'm certainly not expecting it, just saying that it would be the only possible good news coming from this team tomorrow morning.

[XZero771679666304]

if this doesn't spell the end of dusty, there's no way he'll be fired before the end of his contract.

 

i really, really, really hope to wake up to the news that he's been fired.

 

I'd bet they'd wait until the team comes back to Chicago after the Florida series. I just hope it gets done at all.

[erik316wttn]

if this doesn't spell the end of dusty, there's no way he'll be fired before the end of his contract.

 

i really, really, really hope to wake up to the news that he's been fired.

 

I'd bet they'd wait until the team comes back to Chicago after the Florida series. I just hope it gets done at all.

 

Who would be interim? Pole or Rothschild?

[rickrolled]

Fire Dusty. Please.

 

This game was disgusting.

[ltb]

if this doesn't spell the end of dusty, there's no way he'll be fired before the end of his contract.

 

i really, really, really hope to wake up to the news that he's been fired.

 

I'd bet they'd wait until the team comes back to Chicago after the Florida series. I just hope it gets done at all.

 

Who would be interim? Pole or Rothschild?

 

i'd guess rothschild, because he's a hendry guy. hopefully only until grady little can find his way to chicago - that, or jim leyland.

[XZero771679666304]

if this doesn't spell the end of dusty, there's no way he'll be fired before the end of his contract.

 

i really, really, really hope to wake up to the news that he's been fired.

 

I'd bet they'd wait until the team comes back to Chicago after the Florida series. I just hope it gets done at all.

 

Who would be interim? Pole or Rothschild?

 

I think Pole would quit and go with him. Rothschild would be my first guess, Speier second. Isn't Grady Little still with the orginization?

[ltb]

if this doesn't spell the end of dusty, there's no way he'll be fired before the end of his contract.

 

i really, really, really hope to wake up to the news that he's been fired.

 

I'd bet they'd wait until the team comes back to Chicago after the Florida series. I just hope it gets done at all.

 

Who would be interim? Pole or Rothschild?

 

I think Pole would quit and go with him. Rothschild would be my first guess, Speier second. Isn't Grady Little still with the orginization?

 

grady is currently a catching instructor in the minors, i believe.

[XZero771679666304]

if this doesn't spell the end of dusty, there's no way he'll be fired before the end of his contract.

 

i really, really, really hope to wake up to the news that he's been fired.

 

I'd bet they'd wait until the team comes back to Chicago after the Florida series. I just hope it gets done at all.

 

Who would be interim? Pole or Rothschild?

 

I think Pole would quit and go with him. Rothschild would be my first guess, Speier second. Isn't Grady Little still with the orginization?

 

grady is currently a catching instructor in the minors, i believe.

 

I'd fire Baker, Pole, and Clines. I'd name Little interim manager, and promote Von Joshua to batting coach.