Are the Cubs lazy slackers with an over rated captain?

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

exactly; and we're not fans of a team with a pedigree of winning anyway. so i'm happy with the fact that i can emotionally be involved with them again. the past few years were horrendous. the whole championship or bust mentality gets nauseating.

The Giants were the second wild card team last year.

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So out of everything I typed you simply pull this quote out and proclaim victory.

This is exactly what I am talking about when I say you used to be one of the best baseball posters around here.

Sad.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

CH being negative about the Cubs is the best thing I have seen for awhile.

Hopefully it has the same effect on the Cubs as it does the Hawks.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Perfectly stated.

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Proud to be UNVERIFIED.

Who do you think will win the World Series this year? Who do you think will win the World Series next year? Who do you think will win the World Series three years from now? Enlighten us please!

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Proud to be UNVERIFIED.

This is how I feel about the plan. Baseball is fun again. The games mean something and for the first time in my lifetime, the Cubs have a real farm system and money to sign FA to fill holes.I'm hopeful for the future and will enjoy the ride as long as I can.

Not the Cubs.

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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

Cubs will lose one game playoff? Didn't happen in 1998!

The 1998 National League wild-card tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1998 regular season, played between the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants to determine the winner of the National League (NL) wild card. The game took place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, on September 28, 1998. The Cubs won the game 5–3, holding the Giants scoreless for the majority of the game until the Giants threatened heavily in the ninth inning and scored all three of their runs. As a result of the game, the Cubs qualified for the postseason and the Giants did not.

The game was necessary after both teams finished the season with identical win–loss records of 89–73. The Cubs won a coin flip late in the season which, by rule at the time, awarded them home field for the game. This victory advanced the Cubs to the 1998 NL Division Series (NLDS) where they were swept by the Atlanta Braves, ending the Cubs' season. Michael Jordan, a popular Chicago sportsman then ending his career with the Chicago Bulls, threw the game's ceremonial first pitch. In baseball statistics, the tie-breaker counted as the 163rd regular season game for both teams, with all events in the game added to regular season statistics.

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

JORR's baseball world is falling apart more and more every day. The Cubs are like chinese water torture. He is strapped down tight by the failures of his beloved White Sox. Unable to defend himself as every move his team makes tightens the straps around his wrist.

The first drip (Rickett's buying the team) was laughable to him. "Ha, he said. Rickett's are cheap, Cubs suck, exc exc.)
But the drips kept coming
(HIRE THEO) DRIP DRIP.....
(The Plan) DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP........ . . . .
(Rizzo) DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP.... . . .
(Number 1 draft picks) DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP...... . . . . .
(Draft Picks being called up to the majors) DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP...... ...
(Maddon) DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP.....
Finally, JORR begins to show signs of insanity.. W/L, Abreu far superior exc exc and the Sox Subdivision was formed as a place for White Sox fans to gather the troops and circle the wagons. DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP......... ....... ... .

But even the mighty Subdivision and all of it's trolls couldn't stop the drips from running down JORR's forehead. DRIP DRIP DRIP..... ..
(SOLAR, BRYANT, RUSSELL) Make it stop! cried JORR.... Frantically he tried to escape this nightmare, but his mind was too far gone and his post only rang hollow like an old grandfather clock striking noon in the middle of a desert. DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP.......

Now the Cubs are leading the Wild Card half way to September and the water is getting colder and unbearable sensitive on his forehead. He sees each drop form that little bubble and he hopes each one is the last, but just like each Cub win, the next one just keeps coming and coming, slowly eating away at what is left of his sanity. DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP...... . .

JORR's only hope is that the Cubs fail. The plan fails and they miss the playoffs. But Theo and Co. seem to have hooked up the water line to Lake Michigan.

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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

I still hope the Cubs win the World Series in principle, but I think my window for it being an emotional experience for me closed for good in 2008. I don't really know these players. They don't mean all that much to me. (How many of these guys were toiling on the 2012 and 2013 teams? I don't even know. I couldn't watch such bad baseball.) I have to go on a scavenger hunt to find the telecast on a given day. The commentators are kinda crappy, and not even crappy in a fun way. Ron Santo and Ernie Banks are dead. Wrigley Field is full of jumbotrons with crap like this:



This must really enhance the gameday experience. Which Cubs hat brought to you by New Era the official on-field cap of MLB is the baseball under? I can't wait to find out! I bet it's 2. It's gotta be 2. Ohhh, it was 3! Thanks, New Era, the official on-field cap of MLB. You've provided memorable and thoughtful entertainment while MONETIZING EVERYTHING. It is because you took the time to ask us under which of your official on-field caps of MLB the ball was hidden, surely bringing fathers and sons together for one magic monent, that we have the revenue streams to pay for rookie callups and the desiccated remains of Dan Haren.

But above all that, the fact is that the Cubs alienated me with five years of hopelessly shitty baseball, three of them by design. 2005 and 2006 were shitty, too, but at least they represented some sort of continuity, and trying to tell yourself Jeromy Burnitz could replace Sammy Sosa somehow wasn't as awful as watching Tony Campana and Darwin Barney amount to nothing. It turns out that blowing it up and starting it over is easy to think other people's teams should do, but really terrible when it's your own team, the team plays 162 blown-up games per season, and you can find other stuff to like -- such as, for instance, the Blackhawks winning three championships in the time that the Cubs were puking all over themselves. I'm sure I'll forget all this in the moment they do win it all, should there be one, but until then, I feel like something is missing in my heart.

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You enjoyed the Black Hawks championships? I'd hate to think what happens when you don't enjoy something.

This is okay. We don't want you. Go me jaded elsewhere. You are the exact fucking reason the Cubs were able to get away with being the lovable losers for so long.

As long as you had Santo and Ronnie Woo Woo and the drunken bleachers and WGN and better attendance than the South Side, GO CUBS! The actual baseball team? Secondary...

I state again...we don't want you. This is a baseball organization trying to win...not your little time capsule for nostalgia.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

IMU: bouncer of the bandwagon!

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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

No bandwagon. Win or lose, we don't want him.

He isn't a fan of the Chicago Cubs baseball team. I'm not sure what he was trying to explain he is a fan of. Cuba?

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

All are welcome to join us on this most joyous of journeys.

All the jealousy, hatred and silliness will be forgiven when we win it all.

Praise be to Theo.

Funny, IMU is the kind of fan I wouldn't want.

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JORR Sox Fan Douche

Scooter Cub Fan Loser.

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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

thank u

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

I don't like most Cub fans. That's only cause I'm a crotchety old coot.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

I'd like to respond but there are far too many words in these posts and ain't nobody got time for that

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

If they would have beaten Sale yesterday, I might have gotten a little overly excited.


Im enjoying this team though.

Yesterday Bryant looked kind of like what I would expect if Dan Bernstein ever actually got in there to prove that he could turn on a 95 mph fastball

by the way, I was standing behind the catcher just outside the bullpen watching Quintana warm up Saturday. The ball hits the mitt seemingly at the same time it leaves his hand and he is not a 95 mph type. Bernstein isn't hitting that even with preparation

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

PRAISE BE TO THEO!