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  1. champaignchris
    Kruk is one of them, I believe. Kruk always looked weird as a player, but now seems relatively normal looking. I realize now that he always looked 60 and now he’s actually 60. I’ll always respect him for his retirement announcement after battling testicular cancer. “I’m going to take my ball and go home.”
  2. champaignchris
    That surprised me as well. And then I thought, "maybe he was a really old rookie in 1989." But nope, he debuted at 25. We're just getting old. What an amazing rookie season he had. He was never quite able to reproduce those results, although he did have a bit of a renaissance in 93-94. Thinking of Dwight Smith made me pull up Jerome Walton's stats for reference and I was amazed by his stat lines from 94-98. It was a very limited sample size over those years, but he was consistently hitting around .300 with OPS in the 750-900 range. Why didn't he get more at bats during that timeframe? Does anyone know why he retired at 32? Don’t know, but the fact that Maddux, Walton, Dwight Smith, Grace, Mitch Williams and Dunston transitioned into one of the worst teams of the 90’s is pretty sad. Edit: and even Sandberg into the mid 90’s had he not quit for awhile. There were some pretty astoundingly bad trades in there to help make that happen. The Cubs turned Lee Smith, Dennis Eckersly, Rafael Palmeiro, and Jamie Moyer into one decent year of Mitch Williams. Add the failure to resign Greg Maddux to that and you have a recipe for a lot of years of suck.
  3. champaignchris
    I still can’t get over how utterly insane it is that a team would even consider trading away 2.5 years of a talent like Soto on his rookie contract instead of spending the remaining time you have control of him trying to make a run at another WS. Miguel Cabrera is the only similar example I can think of, and that was the Marlins and the worst owner in baseball history.
  4. champaignchris
    It will be really interesting to see how ownership handles the off-season assuming the remainder of the season goes the way it looks like it’s going to go. You can’t put one of the worst teams in franchise history on the field and then not respond to it, right? If ownership was actually trying to win and actually cared about the product on the field, you’d fire some combination of Hoyer and Ross.
  5. champaignchris
    .378 headed into tonight’s game. If you’re 40 or younger the competition is .377 in 2012. If you’re 41-55 it’s 1981’s strike-shortened .369. If you’re 56 or older, the Cubs’ all-time worst record came in 1962 and 1966 - .364. Considering we only have 2 or 3 more weeks of Contreras and Robertson and whomever else they decide to sell off, this has a very good chance of being the worst team in most of our lifetimes and possibly the worst Cubs team of all time.
  6. champaignchris
    5 teams have 6 losses in extras this year. The Cubs have 9, pending this almost certain loss.
  7. champaignchris
    The Cubs are 9-10 in their last 19. Every loss has been by 1 or 2 runs or in extra innings.
  8. champaignchris
    Beth Mowins is fine. Sutcliffe is awful, though. I was gonna say, what’s wrong with Beth Mowins? She’s solid. I like Mowins. She has an accent that sounds like she’s from the Midwestern sticks, somewhere like rural Kansas or my neck of the woods Central Illinois. I looked up her Wikipedia and was surprised to learn she grew up in Syracuse. But then, I suppose to someone from NYC, Syracuse IS the Midwestern sticks.
  9. champaignchris
    It was only 33 games, but Higgins hit the crap out of the ball at AAA in 21 and earlier this season. He was trending upward in performance from 17–18-19 before the COVID season.
  10. champaignchris
    Sampson now has a 2.86 ERA in 56.2 innings pitched as a Cub between 21 and 22. He was DFA’d and unclaimed by any other teams at one point during this period.
  11. champaignchris
    And Alzolay and Mills, too. The top 6 starting pitchers in the organization headed into this year. On a related note, what the heck with Sampson? He got shelled in Korea. Has never been anything special at AAA, but just keeps getting people out for the Cubs through about 50 innings.
  12. champaignchris
    Hendricks to the IL. No corresponding move announced. So it could be that Smyly or Stroman is brought off the IL, but at least for the next hour or two Stroman, Hendricks, Smyly, Miley, Mills and Alzolay are all on the IL.
  13. champaignchris
    3-8. No other team has more than 6 losses. Lol Yeah. 48 losses this year. 1 in 6 has been in extra innings.
  14. champaignchris
    3-8.
  15. champaignchris
    Left him out there 2 batters too long.
  16. champaignchris
    3-14 from 4/19 to 5/8 2-13 from 6/4 to 6/21 27-19 outside of those dates.
  17. champaignchris
    WSCR guys yesterday were looking at the Anthony Davis to Lakers trade as a reasonable comp. That was a three team trade, but if you just look at the assets leaving the Lakers, it was 7 players - and not just scrubs, they included 5 actual assets in Lonzo Ball, Josh Hart, De’Andre Hunter, Brandon Ingram and Moritz Wagner - three 1st round draft picks and a 2nd round draft pick.
  18. champaignchris
    He only has three years left of team control, better trade home before he hits free agency.
  19. champaignchris
    This team currently has a worse winning percentage than the 2012 Cubs, the worst team of the Theo rebuild, and would be the 4th worst team in franchise history with only 1962, 1966 and 1981 being worse, all before Contreras, Robertson, and etc. are traded away. This year’s team wasn’t supposed to be great, but it wasn’t supposed to be “one of the 5 worst teams in the 147-year franchise history” bad.
  20. champaignchris
    The Rams got to the Super Bowl with Goff and then included him in the package to acquire the QB that they won the Super Bowl with. I’d happily take a “Jared Goff situation.”
  21. champaignchris
    Cubs current winning percentage of .371 would be the 4th worst winning percentage in team history, with only 1962, 1966 and 1981 being worse.
  22. champaignchris
    You can squint and see how they could be a pretty good offensive team next year by adding someone from the Turner/Correa/Bogaerts trio and Josh Bell in free agency. But then, they could have been a pretty good offensive team THIS year if they’d have added a couple more of the available bats.
  23. champaignchris
    What the Hell is Frazier doing on this team if he can’t even make contact in that situation?
  24. champaignchris
    Contreras has to swing at the one a foot outside of the zone because the umpire called that a strike in the last at bat.
  25. champaignchris
    Epic at bat from the rook!
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