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The Cubs have definitely underperformed their payroll in the Hendry years overall, but his era certainly hasn't been some kind of awful mess. We're certainly not the only organization – or even the only good organization – that gives out bad contracts, overpays for relievers or underperforms at times. Though they have had their share of each. Having been a Cub fan for 56 years and watching those horrible teams in the mid-50's, it is hard to get too upset with the team that bounces between underperforming and contending. I despise the notion of this is as good as we've seen it, be happy. It was this same mindset that tried telling people to be happy with back to back .500 seasons and stop complaining about the Baker years. The Hendry years have been horrible in comparison to how they should have been. Back in 98/99/00, this team was on the verge of becoming a force, ownership went from providing a middle fo the road payroll, to top ten and kept climbing to top 5. The fact that other organizations have struggled is meaningless. The Cubs are a top payroll club, but a middle of the road performer in the Jim Hendry era. That is abysmal. It would be one thing if this club won 90-95 a few times and when they struggled, they only won 85. But this team has lost 90 three times this past decade, are flirting with 90-loss pace again this year. Struggling on occasion is completely forgiveable, but Hendry's track record has been terrible. You cannot seperate the underperforming payroll from the judgement of the job he has done.

So would I, but aside from DeRosa, when has Hendry sold high on a player? Barrett comes to mind immediately. Not after the fight with Zambrano. I think it was fairly common knowledge that Barrett was going to go after that. They were about 6 months late to trade him high. He was awful that year for the Cubs and after the fight they were just dumping.

yellow card for play acting

I don't really see that it's possible to choose not to be a fan if you already are one. I guess that's kind of what I'm saying; it's pretty clear that the regular posters here are fans and I don't really "believe" it when they say they think or know for sure that the Cubs will never win a WS "ever again." Well, I said I didn't have any faith that they would win. That seems very different from saying I know for sure they they will never win.

I don't really see that it's possible to choose not to be a fan if you already are one.

How? The first guy to cross the D was the guy carrying the ball. Didn't one guy dump it into the guy who eventually kicked it toward goal?

crazy goal there. completely offside right?

I never understand sentiments like this at all. If someone is convinced they'll never win another WS, then why be a fan of them? What's the point? Then it just becomes being a "fan" of misery, and I don't get that at all. I don't see why faith needs to come into the equation. I root for the Cubs because I like them. Doesn't have anything to do with whether or not I "believe" they will win. Sure, but an inherent part of rooting for a sports team is with the hope/faith/expectation/whatever that they will at some point win the whole damn thing, no matter how remote the odds. If you subtract that from the equation it seems like being a fan would then just be right up there with "oh, I like them because they have nice uniforms." I hope the Cubs win it one day, but I don't have any faith they will.

I was thinking the same thing. Wondering if they had any idea what the other was saying, even though they were having an exchange. English is the internationa language of conflict.

They are like half-french aren't they? From the looks of it, eye injuries must be huge in futbol.

What language are they arguing in?

Sure there is. What he does is valued by teams. But it doesn't mean you can get anything useful for him.

Phil with back to back birdies is now +2.

How many times has Lou confirmed a dumb decision a player made on his own. Eventually that reflects poorly on him, not getting the point across to stop being idiots.

For a month. He sucked in his time there last year, then climbed to the 25th best OPS in the league after a hot streak and they promoted him. Brett Jackson has significantly outperformed Vitters in Daytona in slightly less overall time there. There's no guarantee Vitters maintains that not all the impressive line he had in Daytona if he stays there for another month. There's 12 months seperating them, and 2 years of professional ball. Brett Jackson has been great from the outset at short season, low A and high A and his pro numbers are terrific. Vitters hasn't had near the success Jackson has had, the difference is the Cubs promoted him the second they could figure out a way to justify it.

Hell of a game.

Is it just me or are the Cubs not a good baseball team?

http://deadspin.com/5567304/what-needs-to-happen-for-the-us-team-to-advance

Colvin with a walk, maybe the leadoff spot would be good for him.

All those runaway nazis still holding a grudge?

Pat Hughes seems to think Lou saw something wrong with Silva when he went to take the mound in the 7th. Apparently, there was some sort of injury, as they're saying Howry got more than the normal eight warm-up pitches. He was injured the inning before.

The mental approach to hitting is a big weakness of this team. The Cubs seem to be very impatient when they have a pitcher in trouble. Which seems weird since Lou was supposedly a good hitting coach and they hire the guru, Jaramillo. The Cubs call that being aggressive.

He could, or he could hate him because of how he perceives they treat Muslim nations, or because of the US history of slaves from western Africa, or because an American knocked up his sister and ran off, or banged his wife, or he just took money.

So you let a pitcher hit for himself before taking him out, presumably because there's already 2 out and you are lacking bench players. But isn't that more of a reason not to carry a worthless 12 man pitching staff with an extra reliever?

Do they just mean not allowing a goal? They talked about the sheet when Slovenia was getting all those yellow cards, so I assume that's what it refers to. Clean sheet=shutout Oh, okay. What were they referring to when they were talking about all the guys going on the sheet with yellows? Different sheet? Or did I just hear wrong.