Little Slide Rooter

The I Cubs faced a reliever named Mark Hamburger. Im sure everytime this guy guves up a home run, the meatball jokes pretty much write themselves.

LOL at this trash.

These guys suck. If you take a look at the June schedule, if we can go at lest 5-4 vs. Mets Pirates, and Astros, we may as well back up the truck sooner than later.

You'd probably have to throw in a 3rd team for us to rip off as well. As for Ramirez, I was not aware that his option automatically kicks in if he's traded. I wonder if hed waive that right to be traded to a contender. He's not going to net a Montero, but he could get us a solid return. Otherwise, Fukudome and Pena are our main trade chips. Kerry Wood could generate interest as well. Also Reed Johnson if he keeps terrorizing lefties the way he has.

The Cubs are 19-14 in games started by their original starting 5. It's the sacks of crap we've ran out there otherwise that have sabotaged us. They showed a stat on WGN at the beginning of the game that said the Cubs are 3-12 when Russell, Coleman and Davis start and those three have an ERA over 8 when they start. So even if the Cubs could have gone 8-7 in those starts, they'd be 27-21 right now and in second place, 1.5 out of first. 5-10 in those starts would put them at .500. Going 8-7 with 3 horrendous pitchers is asking alot. Even if we had Wells and Cashner, its far from a guarantee that we would have. Lets face it, its not like this is Cain and Lincecum were missing. So you're going from calling Wells and Cashner "a more than solid 4-5" to saying it's far from a guarantee the team would have a .500 record with them pitching instead of the crap they've been running out there? I wasn't saying it was a guarantee that they could would have been 8-7 if Cashner and Wells didn't get injured and I also understand that injuries happen. But the fact is that the other starters the Cubs have been throwing out there were absolutely horrendous and if they'd have just pitched poorly or bad, the Cubs could be a couple games better than they are. The Cubs were 19-14 when the other guys started and that's including some bad luck starts from Garza and Dempster's disastrous April. No team can overcome starts like the ones Russell/Coleman/Davis have given us and the taxing of the bullpen that comes from those guys not being able to make it through five innings. I agre that its not at all onconceivable that we could have gone 8-7 with Cashner and Wells, but once they went down, we knew it would be rough when it came to those spots in the rotation. I dont know if we thought that the subs would have been as awful as they were, but we didnt exactly have much pitching depth.

So wait, are Coleman, Carillo, and Cabrera all going to Iowa? With Cabrera going to Iowa, and Whitenack likely to be gone for god knows how long, someone has to be going to Tenn. Could be Struck and/or Kurcz. I wonder if they'll demote Jay back to Tenn.

I guess we'll be seeing him mid 2012 then :bye:

It's McKurczeeler Day! Make that Bibens-McKurczeeler

Looking at the DSL Rosters, here's where the 6-figure bonus players are: DSL Cubs 1: 2B Carlos Penalvar - $550,000 bonus, DOB: 5/17/94 3B Jeimer Candelario - $500,000 bonus, DOB: 11/24/93 OF Jeffrey Baez - $350,000 bonus, DOB: 10/30/93 SS Francisco Sanchez - $350,000 bonus, DOB: 12/17/93 LHP Angel Mejias - DOB: 10/30/93 RHP Alexander Santana - DOB: 10/23/93 SS Antonio Gonzalez - DOB: 1/27/94 DSL Cubs 2: RHP Gilberto Abreu - 8/8/93 As an aside, some of the DSL Cubs 1 and 2 rosters are inaccurate and still have last year's players, like Gioskar Amaya, Starling Peralta, Willengton Cruz, Amaury Paulino, Marco Hernandez and Willson Contreras who are all at Fitch. I was in high school when these guys were born. [expletive] I feel old.

The kid may walk about as much as Stephen Hawking, but as long as he keeps slugging .500, Ill accept it.

According to Chicagocubsonline via twitter he doubled over in pain after a pitch and he left the game after that. :x Any chance it was food poisoning :bye:

Anyone know why Whitenack was pulled after 2.2 with 41pitches and a 5-0 lead? [expletive].

Even if we have, its not like Doug Davis, Rodrigo Lopez, or whatever retread or minor leaguer will be much better.

To be fair, he wasnt much worse than the rest of the starters. IMHO, if they were dying to dump someone, it should have been Diamond or Bibens Dierks. Theyve been equally as bad, and havnt devoted their entire adult lives to the Cubs minor league system.

The Cubs are 19-14 in games started by their original starting 5. It's the sacks of crap we've ran out there otherwise that have sabotaged us. They showed a stat on WGN at the beginning of the game that said the Cubs are 3-12 when Russell, Coleman and Davis start and those three have an ERA over 8 when they start. So even if the Cubs could have gone 8-7 in those starts, they'd be 27-21 right now and in second place, 1.5 out of first. 5-10 in those starts would put them at .500. Going 8-7 with 3 horrendous pitchers is asking alot. Even if we had Wells and Cashner, its far from a guarantee that we would have. Lets face it, its not like this is Cain and Lincecum were missing.

As good as Sharks been lately, not that he can find the strike zone I wonder if he would have been the best option when we were looking to fill those rotation spots. Too late now, but still.

who's the guy that was good but drank a lot? soda popinski? that's the cardinals. Id think that would be The Brewers.

Come on Cubs. The Pirates are the Glass Joe of the division. I know your only the Von kaiser, but you should be able to beat them.

Didnt Casey Coleman just get rocked the other day? Im guessing this means that either Wells and/or Garza are coming back to claim their rightful rotation spots soon.

Talk about the last guy who deserved a promotion. Thanks for the info though Bruce.

Bruce Tweeted that Brett will be back with The Smokies on monday.

Fuke RF Barney 2B Castro SS Aram 3B Pena 1B Sori LF Campana CF Hill C Davis P

The Cubs are 19-14 in games started by their original starting 5. It's the sacks of crap we've ran out there otherwise that have sabotaged us. Thats my point. Z and Garza have been good. Demp has been solid as of late, and Wells and Cashner were great in their very short time.

Maybe we can scoop up another one of our former first round picks. And whats Mark Pawalek up to these days?

So they're basically a 2-5 run/game team, with the occasional feast and the occasional famine. Being a 2-5 run team is fine and dandy if you have the type of pitching staff, which we dont. At this point, we have a solid 1-3, assuming Garza isnt on the DL for long, a great back of the pen. Shark and Russell are decent enough middle relieve options, but other than that, theres Coleman, Davis, Grabow, Maine, and Berg(until now) who have no business on a big league roster. I know most teams have a few mop up men in the pen, but those 4-5 starters are just killing us.