Scott G. F.

Hay Sweaty Joe!!! If pitching for the Cubs he loses the game since he's for any other team. I say 123 game over!!!

Ouch!!

No better time to rally!

Back at what? Mediocrity? With the larger pieces in place, this team fully healthy is a good team. World Series good? I don't know.

Fergie, I too am looking for another less painful competative sport to watch. The NBA isn't it for me and NHL is well horrable to watch on TV. I'm thinking WNBA.

I did for 2003, '04 and '05 . This year not so much.

I could never get that far ahead of myself. With a healthy team coming out of this year. Prior, Wood, Miller, D Lee, Pagan. I see good things. Hendry makes some move to plug holes he thinks he can address and the Cubs'll be back at it.

Ouch. At least not the White Sox. I like to see the D-rays do good since I drive past the Trop. everyday. Free parking and 8 dollar seats is great.

I'm stuck at 1 until the ASG. Even if they get swept by the Florida Marlins? They of the AAA team? Yes even then. I will have hope (be in denial) until then. It's just how I am. I actually don't see this season as being such a bad thing. A full season for Murton and Cedano, Marshall, some starts for Hill. Get people healthy and make some moves this team will get back on top. No pressure rehab year for Wood, Prior and D. Lee oh yeah and Wade Miller.

I'm stuck at 1 until the ASG. I cannot believe the season is over until then. So I'm in very much Denial. I find it pathetic and funny when the other teams announcers actually feel bad for the Cubs. They were like "look there swinging at the first pitch again! incredible". The camera flashes on Dusty and he seems to be napping.

I thought this: Jones Am Ram Pitching prospect

The five stages of grief over the 2006 season are: 1-Denial-"this can't be happening to the Cubs again", No crying. Not accepting or even acknowledging the losses. 2-Anger-"why the Cubs again?", feelings of wanting to fight back or get even with the management, blaming the players for being hurt. 3-Bargaining-bargaining often takes place before the loss. Attempting to make deals with other teams or attempting to make deals with God to stop or change the losing. Begging, wishing, praying for them to come back. 4-Depression-overwhelming feelings of hopelessness, frustration, bitterness, self pity, mourning losses of games as well as the hopes, dreams and plans for the World Series. Feeling lack of control, feeling numb. Perhaps even feeling like rooting for another team. 5-Acceptance-there is a difference between resignation and acceptance. You have to accept the losing, not just try to bear it quietly. Realization that it takes more then wishfulthinking to make a season succesful. Realization that the Team is gone (in death of the season) that it is not their fault, they didn't lose on purpose. (even in cases of talentlessness, often the teams were not in the same league as other teams) Finding the good players that can come out of the pain of losing, finding comfort and healing of our hurt players. Our goals turn toward personal growth and next year 2007. Stay with fond memories of the season thus far as rare as that might be. Finding help for next year and healing the hurt players. They will survive. They will get better, even if you cannot believe that now, just know that it is true. To feel pain after a loss is normal. It proves that we are alive, human and Cubs fans. But we can't stop living. We have to become stronger, while not shutting off our feelings for the hope of one day winning the World Series. Helping others through something we have experienced is a wonderful way to fascilitate our healing and bring good out of this tragic season.

Out of spite against whom? Cubs fans? Yeah that doesn't make much sense. They'll entend Dusty. Makes more sense than saying the only move is to extend Baker and that things are improving. Actually it makes more sense to bemoan everything anyone is trying to do with the Cubs and sit back and make snarky comments.

Out of spite against whom? Cubs fans? Yeah that doesn't make much sense. They'll entend Dusty.

Extend Dusty is the only move the Cubs have right now. I have heard enough and there is no other way. One thought though. Could the Cubs trade Dusty to the Angels for Mike Scoica?

My observations from last night was. Jones is hiting much better Am Ram is the king of solo home runs. He GIDP twice before the Solo shot. Dusty actually got Marshall out of the game to preserve some confidence he might have left only down 4 in the 4th. Cedano swings at the first pitch every time if it's even near the back stop. The Cubs look like they all have the Corey Patterson plague. They don't look confortable at all and don't look like they have a plan. During the White Sox game Hawk Harrelson was commenting on how you plan for a pitcher each game. If he is young and has control problems then you take a few and make him throw strikes. The Cubs coaching staff is teaching something other then that apporach from what I can see. I believe they teach swinging at certain zones. If the ball looks like it's in your 'zone' then you swing. It's the totally wrong apporach. But work for players like Barry Bond and Jeff Kent (ala, vereran player that have aunderstanding of baseball.) No wonder why the younger players struggle under the current make-up of the Cubs. The coaching staff coaches thinking the players have more basebal knowledge then they actually do.

I hoping with every fiber of my being that that doesn't happen. Because you're right...that's going to be a real problem for me. If and when it does happen I expect the band wagon will become very roomy indeed. He he.

The "house cleaning" you seek will never happen. Wishing for the Cubs to lose is...well....I don't understand it at all. What will you do when they extend Dusty Baker? Sean marshall had a rough game yesterday. That's all. Nolasco pitched a good game. Nothing more.

Why wallow in what they failed to do? I'm not wallowing, I'm realizing. They failed to do a whole lot of stuff. They've been failing to do good stuff for a really long time. It's not wallowing to realize that's indicative of a team that's going to continue failing. I don't believe they will continue to fail.

So you saw the Cubs win a game with a late rally and you now see a team taht can beat a superior team in a game? Um, I've got news for you, lesser teams beat superior teams virtually every day. Very few teams are playing over their head by winning 1 of 3 games. That last game was different. I'm not going to go in to all the factors because you're smart and probably know most of them. Only the next game and series will tell the tail.

Why wallow in what the team failed to do? Can this team improve in those areas? Their last DEAD last in batting. I believe that's a pretty good place to start to improve. Ronny Cedano putting a couple down the RF line yesterday. Jones actually going with the pitch for a HR. The Cubs hitting in clutch situations. I see that as a good things. Our most volatile pitcher kept it together with Baseballs biggest jerks trying to get the best of him. I'd say the Cubs regained a focus during that last game.

I didn't. I saw something else. Guys like Theriot and Wood and Novoa. He didn't see Pagan and Williams and Wuertz. Yes that too. I also saw a team that looked like it could win. That it could take on a superior team and beat them. They might have been playing over the head by beating the Sox. I don't believe that.

This team is improving and isn't as bad a people would make it out to be. Are they world beaters right now? No, far from it, but I see this team on the up swing. My sample size is smaller then yours. It's more difficult to see improvement in your sample size. Banedon, you be any type of fan you'd like to be. I believe we're all pulling for the same team. I just choose to see what the team can do today, tomorrow and next week, not what they haven't did yesterday or 2 weeks ago.

Not really. Just looking for what I consider a much better team to emerge from a couple of very difficult weeks. I'm not seeing a team ready to phone it in.

I didn't. I saw something else.