by the way the phillies are scoring runs, i don't know that they need to define a "closer" for a while...

Also if you fuck someone like they are a millionaire they might go try to be one.

Why must a thread predicated on gold old-fashioned Sox bashing turn into an excuse for Cubs bashing? I think the Cubs blow too. In fact, I think they are considerably worse than the .500 baseball they have been playing. I would not be surprised to see both teams finish the year with 70 wins. Pointing out how bad the Cubs are (which is also fun, to be sure, and I encourage it -- the math probably doesn't look much better for them) does not mean that all the blowhard prognostications about the collapse of the Twins and playoff runs this year and the best starting staff in baseball are forgotten.

This team should have been blown up a year ago, if not sooner, but the pigheadedness of the GM, along with the fickleness of fans that won't show up to financially support a real rebuilding operation, led the team down this path.