It's not. Unless the Cardinals seriously stumble or this team as a drastic turnaround they're not going to be in contention to ever overtake them. And forget about the WC. Well, the NL is terrible. Who's the frontrunner for the wild card? The Mets? The Giants? Certainly not the Cubs. What have we seen that indicates they're not going to just stumbled half assed across the finish line lucky to be at .500?
It's not. Unless the Cardinals seriously stumble or this team as a drastic turnaround they're not going to be in contention to ever overtake them. And forget about the WC.
I agree. I'm terrified of the midseason move where Hendry trades several top prospects for a mediocre veteran reliever. Unless Aramis and Lee have pretty significant rebounds I don't think there's much worry to worry about in that regard. They're going to be nowhere near the WC or the Cardinals.
Yeah, Lou isn't the reason this team stinks. He's certainly not helping and contributing to the suck, but even the best manager would probably only have this team at .500 right now with their two most important hitters in the toilet.
[expletive], I'll happily take some kind of sucktacular Nady/Hoff 1B platoon monster if it means they'll unload the contents of a money bin on Adrian Gonzalez' doorstep.
Hopefully we don't have to care what he does next year when the Cubs do the smart thing and don't re-sign him, and it would be the smart thing to do even if he wasn't in the lull that he's in.
The way this inning played out was indeed sucktacular, but 3 hits in an inning are by no means a guarantee to score. True, but 3 hits THAT inning should have plated 1 run minimum and probably 2. Agreed. Just saying.
Grabow's got the 2008 Bob Howry role of the overpaid veteran reliever who has to go out there no matter how much he sucks. Though Howry at least kicked ass 2 of his 3 years with the Cubs. And he looked like some kind of awesome, murderous cyborg sent back from the future to murder John Connor.