2012 Chicago Cubs

[CEValkyrie]

Agree. It's not looking good for me. August has been a hurtful month with only 6 wins. The Cubs road record is 17 & 48. They have 16 road games remaining. Doh!

[Dan Michler]

Is anybody else not feeling that great about Rizzo any more?  Down to a .440 slugging%.  Thats less than Soriano, LaHair, Jeff Baker, Reed Johnson, and Wellington Castillo this season.  He's 23.  Its time to start hitting at the big league level.  The Cubs offense is the worst I've ever experienced.  I've never felt this bad about the Cubs and their immediate future.  We always at least had a Sandberg, Grace, Sosa, Derrek Lee type player to tune into.  This team has nothing worth watching.  And the farm system has nothing to get even a little bit excited about.  And our 'savior's' previous team just dumped about every player he had signed in an effort to start over.  This is depressing.

[pdga#7648]

Finally! I guess men do seem to get wise with age? 

[CEValkyrie]

It's the dog days of summer. Teams are definitley staying away from him now that they've seen him. No one is hitting right now. This has been by far the worst month of the season.
August
Soriano .205
Rizzo .238
Castro .245


As for the Boston trade. Yes they did dump those guys and start over but they had a willing buyer for those players. I have a feeling there is a lot more behind the scenes bullcrap than any of us know.

[CEValkyrie]

One other thing I have. I would much rather just burn the barn down than sit there for years piecing together nothing. This team would have been better with ARAM, Z, and Dempster. It would have been somewhat better to watch but for what? This is our redo button. I'm looking forward to the future.

[Dan Michler]

Brett, I agree its better we said goodbye to those players.  I'm just trying to look for something to be optimistic about, but I don't see it on the big league roster and I don't see it in the minors.  This is bad.

[pdga#7648]

Magic #15 now with still 32 to play!

after today Dan, you might say at least they have some heart? down 9-3 come back to tie at 9. Then down 11-9, Rizzo ties the game with a 2B, and they won 12-11.  At least cheer for  them to get 15 more wins, that will make ya feel better. It will cost me $20.00

[CEValkyrie]

I was just looking at the standings. Boston is 2nd in the league in run scored at 645 runs    It just shows pitching is what it takes.

It has to be rough for Nats fans with Strasmageddon coming.

[Dan Michler]

It has to be rough for Nats fans with Strasmageddon coming.

I don't feel too bad for them.  Superprospects like Strasburg, Bryce Harper, and Mike Trout don't come along very often.  For the Nats to have scored 2 of the 3 is amazing luck.

And they are clearly in the playoffs, which are pretty much a crapshoot in baseball.  Once you're there, anything can happen.  And they still have Jordan Zimmerman and Gio Gonzalez at the front of their rotation.  Throw in the fact that all 3 of their stud pitchers are under 27 years of age, and all I can be is jealous of Nationals fans.  It must feel so good to have that much young talent on your roster.

[Clonan]

Congrats to the cubs for winning 7 games in the month of August! Can they make it 8 games???

[pdga#7648]

against the Giants?? I say no

[Clonan]

Completely
Useless
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September

[pdga#7648]

104 years and counting!   

[CEValkyrie]

Don't you guys have any new material?

[pdga#7648]

yea, it was 103 years last year!  LOL

[pdga#7648]

keep your chin up Brett. football is a week away, at least you can watch intently for 10 weeks before the Bears season is over too.

[pdga#7648]

Magic #14  with 31 to play!

I think the tide has turned, and they will make it to 65! They hear you fans bad mouthing them! 

[CEValkyrie]

The Cubs are now 12-23 in one-run games.  

Dale gets my Quade manager of the year award today. Vitters is 0 for 20 on a brutal stretch and he bats with 2 outs and a runner on 2nd in the 9th. The rosters just expanded. Not one guy who can make contact on the bench? Vitters predictably goes down on the K.

[Dan Michler]

Well Dale sure is getting the most out of our guys.....this is the new Cubs Way.  Castro's game has really gone to a new level this year and just look at how prospects Brett Jackson and Josh Vitters are growing by leaps and bounds!

Can someone explain why we couldn't even grant Sandberg an interview because of his lack of big league experience?  Was Sveum's previous big league experience vital to leading this group of AAA players to total failure?  Wouldn't Sandberg's successful experience in the minors have been more suited to this rebuilding job?

I'll give Epstein alot of credit.  He successfully parlayed this illusion that he's some sort of baseball organizational mastermind into record contracts for him and his friends.

[CEValkyrie]

I agree that Sandberg should have gotten a shot but it's better off he didn't get a job. They just broke a record for the number of players used this season. Pretty brutal year.