BleedCubbieBlue81

Man on second, no outs...

I have two words for you: Mark Prior. Amen.

Both Griffey and Dunn came up, and no one hit a home run? I'm confused...

Yeah, there was a tight group of guys on that high school team that busted their @$$es to get where they are today. Hard work breeds hard work. It worked, he's at Northwestern, and Santucci is starting at Notre Dame now.

Hmm, Griffey and Dunn are up. Wait for it.... wait for it....

That really shouldn't have made me laugh as hard as it did...

I'm guessing you're from Chicago, so McGarigle? Nice stroke by Lawton. Yep, Tim is a year or two younger than me though. Really nice guy, and one hell of a football player.

JONMDAVIS: I went to high school with one of the guys in your sig.

Nice trick by Corey. He knows everyone is expecting to see his new swing, so he gets on base by fooling them with a bunt. Wow, I'm amazed

Yep, sounds about right. That's what I was expecting. Only you can substitute Burnitz's name with anyone else out there.

No, they'll wait till Dunn and Griffey come back up again. That's when they'll tear the cover off the ball. So much for our "RBI guys" getting the job done...

Gamecast said the pitch was really low. If that's true, maybe Lee is trying to do too much lately.

I hate these situations. They never work out well for the Cubs. (knocks on wood)

It said in the Sun Times today that Dusty was going to sit Nomar today to let him rest. Is sportsline right? Is he playing?

Uh oh. Hope he's ok. Ron's having an adjustment done on his prostetic legs. It was scheduled, he might make it for the late innings.

Hey guys, I'm late. How's Prior's curveball looking?

Posted in the Stoney thread, but I thought it was relevant to what I was trying to say:

Stoney, one guy who's not afraid to tell it like it is. Gotta love him for that. I agree with everything he said, except for the not firing Baker thing. If Hendry's reputation is on the line, then sticking with a lost cause isn't going to help it. Dump Dusty, take the $4 million hit, and move on. I was shocked by the Murton comment about the Red Sox. But if you think about it, it makes sense. Maybe we can correct whatever they didn't like and turn him into one hell of a major leaguer.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm an equal opportunity hater. Both Dusty AND Hendry need to go in my opinion. But I think Dusty has done more to damage this team's chances of winning this year than Hendry has. Yeah, Hendry failed to get us a big bat in the offseason, but he was handicapped by the Sosa contract (which he had no part of to begin with). He did the best he could with the money he had. And Burnitz has not exactly been horrible for this team. He's been our most consistent outfielder by far. I don't see his signing as a huge black spot for the Cubs. I just think the team would be much better off without Dusty. He's the right manager... for the wrong team.

You make a strong point, and then you put the blame on Hendry? Is it Hendry's fault the pitchers aren't covering first? It is Hendry's fault Burnitz has been picked off? He gets the players, it's Dusty's job to make them perform. If Dusty can't do that, it's Hendry's job to find someone who can make them perform. And I don't believe it's all Dusty's fault. A lot of it has to do with the players. I know they are sub par defensively, but there's no excuse for laziness... and no excuse for a manager that allows laziness on his team. I guarantee you if LaRussa or Guillen were coaching the Cubs, we wouldn't have a problem with guys not covering first. Because it only would've had to happen once before someone was fined or benched.

:shock: :shock: I'll be watching that. I love Bobby Knight.

I agree that a managerial change is probably in the best interest of the cubs. But this season is not Baker's fault. This current cubs team is just plain bad. We have top to bottom a below average pitching staff. A horrible defense and half the time no offense. We're a .500 team at best. I blame this season on Jim Hendry. It's not Baker's fault that we can't field, hit a cutoff man, execute a hit and run, bunt, hit a baseball, take a walk, throw a strike, get a big out in the late innings. Jim Hendry assembled this pathetic team so I blame him. Actually, a large portion of that can be attributed to Baker. Almost none of these players were having fundamental breakdowns this frequently when they were on other teams. Sure they had their mistakes, but nothing like this. It's now a team wide epidemic, and Dusty always finds ways to rationalize it in the papers. Yesterday's Sun Times said he's urging the Cubs to bring back the entire coaching staff for next year. If you ask me, I don't see one person there that's doing their job well enough to earn an extension. The fundamentals are partially the coach's responsibility. He is allowing his players to become lazy because they know he'll defend them later. I know he doesn't coach baseball, but get me Bobby Knight immediately. He'll clean house in a week, and I guarantee you the pitchers will be covering first base.

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I honestly think I'd rather just see the Yankees win it. They've won 26 already, so one more wouldn't mean too much to the rest of baseball. And we wouldn't have to hear ribbing from anyone.

Eh, I see you live in Lansing. That trophy wouldn't be paraded around your town, and you wouldn't have to deal with the majority of White Sox fans. Sure you'd catch a little ribbing here and there, but I'm surrounded by Sox fans. Some of whom have already told me that WHEN they win the World Series this year, they're going to join thousands of others in one big party... right outside of Wrigley Field. (Apparently this is being planned on a few websites) And when I pointed out that they said WHEN and not IF, they went off on me like I just said the holocaust never happened. It'll be a different experience for Cub fans in Chicago than Cub fans in other areas.