68-86

After today's loss,Renteria couldn't even give a straight answer if EJAG will get another start.
This guy's ass must be sore with Theo's hand up it the past 8 months. Terrible and pathetic baseball in year 5 of Ricketts ownership,that's FACT! 5 fucking years of pure shit,there is no arguing that point!
Don't tell me what the future brings,because it will never justify 5 years of this!

If you disagree,then you are all minions of the propaganda. The Cubs are baseball's version of the Church of Scientology and I'm trying to break free. Please join me in my disgust and anger. Thank you for the dancefloor. (Coppock reference)

Paul Sullivan taking some shots,too:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ba ... story.html


the Cubs may be the first last-place team in major league history to take a victory lap in September.

As the 2014 season grinds down to a merciful ending, the Cubs have been busy patting themselves on the back for having the Minor League Player of the Year in Kris Bryant, for record attendance at their new spring training home and for a TKO over the rooftop owners in their battle to erect a beer sign in right field worth $140 million to them, a jumbo-sized video board in left and additional signage in between.


But the product on the field was as bad as advertised, as Friday's 14-5 loss to the Dodgers displayed.

But with four straight sub-.500 seasons heading into the season, expectations never had been lower, though Chairman Tom Ricketts had said in spring training the club would be "fine."

"We have a good, young nucleus of guys, if they get back on their career trajectory that we anticipate they will, and we have a great new manager and a lot of positive energy coming through. Anything can happen," he said in February. "We're going to be fine. It's going to fine."

No one believed that, and it turned out the Cubs weren't fine. They fell to 68-86 Friday as starter Edwin Jackson, returning from a strained right lat, failed to last one inning.

Jackson (6-15, 6.38 ERA) allowed five runs while recording two outs in a six-run first, putting the game out of reach. While Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw wasn't exactly Kershawian in his five-inning outing, he still managed to notch his major league-leading 20th victory.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I like the fire and passion Jimmy. After you've watched Chicago baseball for 30 40 50 years, the wait til next year stuff doesn't excite anymore.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Really, you don't see any way?

I guess MLB should just retire the organization then. Shut down the Cubs and open an expansion club in Las Vegas, OKC, Austin, or Portland.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

That's not true. This is the first year of the past 3 that gave fans a reason to watch. They've been basically a .500 team since June with contributions from young guys that will be relied upon to contribute in the next few years.

There are a number of players on this team performing well.

Rizzo
Castro
Soler
Coghlan
Arrieta
Hendricks
Ramirez
Rondon
Strop

If guys like Baez, Alacantara, and Bryant start to show some development. Add some others.

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You know me like that.

That's plenty of players performing well.... Yet they still are god awful. That should give you pause about the future.

They've been around .500 for months.

They've been better than god awful.

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You know me like that.

I know if chris Coglahn was on another team, some of them would not stop telling me he was ROY!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Yes, they've been decent in the second half. A .500ish team.

Tough to be ROY when you have 382 games and 1400 at bats under your belt before coming to the Cubs.

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and yet he was ROY

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I'm going to guess this is a shot at the Rockies fan base.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

not if he were in the AL...or NFC...ha, ha Kirkwood is my bitch! Maybe Dougie McBucketts will suck and not be NBA ROY.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

That's what a terrible ROY Coghlan was. Only bigfan and I knew he even won it.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

To be fair to Coghlan, he was actually pretty damn good as a rookie. Then was killed my multiple knee surgeries that basically kept him out for most of the past 4 years.

I think many people did. Especially anyone that paid attention when the Cubs took a flyer in the off-season.

They just weren't in this thread, myself included.

Honestly, the way bigfan phrased his original post seemed like it could mean 'deserving of ROY this season' which Frank called him out on. Not that I think bigfan intended it to mean it that way...but that is the bigfan / Frank relationship for you.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.