Enough with the “Cubs look to get back on track” and “Cubs win three in a row!” Honestly, I don’t have it in me anymore. This team stinks, and there’s no getting around it. Most of the lineup stinks, the manager stinks, and the third base coach most certainly stinks. This team is 22 games below .500 and dropping like a rock.
I would be remiss if I didn’t remind everyone that the online community (read: bloggers) told everyone this team was going to stink from the beginning. But I digress.
Want to know the real kick in the pants? Jim Hendry doesn’t think this team is that bad:
“You always need some kind of rebuilding when you’re in fifth place,” Cubs general manager Jim Hendry said Friday. “But you don’t look at it like we’re not going to compete. When somebody says, ‘Blow the place up and start over and do it right,’ OK, does that mean we should get rid of the people who are young?”
Hendry said the team needs only to add a few pieces, continue the development of young players like Tyler Colvin, James Russell and Starlin Castro, and next year should be different.
“Why couldn’t we be right back in it?” Hendry said.
You really want me to explain it to you, Jim? Okay, here we go. This team will stink next year for the same reason it stinks this year: streaky offense, so-so starting pitching, and a bullpen that can’t hold a lead. Oh, and because you apparently will be putting the team together again. If you need any more reasons, let me know. I have about 10,000 of them.
It’s one thing to put together a team that stinks. That’s probably happened to every GM on the planet at one point or another. But it is quite another thing to constantly thumb your nose at fans by telling them how few changes to plan to make to the ALREADY TERRIBLE TEAM. It’s disrespectful, arrogant, and presumptuous. And frankly, of the owners want to sell any tickets for 2012, they should tell their GM to shut the hell up.
If you’re looking for a bit of good news today, take a look at this:
ST. LOUIS — Cubs pitcher Andrew Cashner, on the disabled list with a strained right rotator cuff, will throw off the mound on Saturday in Mesa, Ariz., and is expected to join the team in Pittsburgh this week.
Cashner, who went on the DL after his first start of the season April 5, has been rehabbing at the Cubs’ facility in Arizona most of the season. He joined the team before the All-Star break.
I suppose this should make me happy, but instead, I’ll say this: Do you know what else the Cubs stink at? TRUTH TELLING. How many times did we hear that Cashner was “a week or two” behind Wells?
To sum up, I really hate this team and the brain trust that put them together. The End.
Oh yes, and there’s a game this afternoon. 3:10 pm CT on FOX. Â Rodrigo Lopez v. Kyle Lohse. I’m sure we’ll lose 587 – 0. Enjoy.
Well said, Julie.
I suppose it’s part of Hendry’s job to try to accentuate the positive…but still, he’s crossed the line into insulting our intelligence by telling us this team could be “right back in it.”
Reminds me of my youth watching Jack Brickhouse on the TV machine. During one of the many games our heroes found themselves down by a lot of runs, we put together a mini-rally to scrape out a run. Jack’s comment: “Another seven or eight hits like that, and we’re right back in this game.”
Maybe that’s Hendry’s rebuilding plan — all we need are another seven or eight good players, and we’re right back in this thing…
LOL – that reminds me of one game a couple of years ago. We had just come from behind and were up by one, I think. Ron said “that’s great, we just need another insurance run”. Pat replied, “yeah, or twelve”.
I believe it was Casey Stengel, who when asked how many players it’d take to turn around the Mets, said “Two.” When further pressed, he said “Yes, just two. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.”
Well said. I was trying to get myself into a mood to write something similar, but I just don’t have the energy. At this point, I’m beyond anger and I just don’t care to shout into the wind anymore.
This will be the Cubs modus operandi until they have to start working to sell the ~67% of tickets that are pre-sold every year to season ticket holders. They are arrogant because we allow them to be.
That is one of the best photoshop pics I’ve ever seen.
I’ve said this before…to think that a team, that has had two seasons that are bad by even Cubs standards is only a couple of moves away from competing again is insane.
Ignoring the last 45 games last year, the last time the Cubs had two consecutive seasons that were this bad was in the early 1960′s. It took them almost 5 years from that point before they became serious threats. Granted, they didn’t have free agency back then, but the point is still very valid.
The problem is that the Cubs had that bogus run at the end of last season that skewed the perspectives of a lot of people.
Put together a team??????
I Doubt that Hendry could put together a 1 car funeral correctly. Remember last year? Too many outfielders and not enough pitchers…AND NO TRADE to fix the problem.
Either he can’t pull the trigger when he needs to or he does a deal he should not.
I give him the benefit of the doubt on the old huge contracts…that was the asshats at the Tribune. The rest has been just plain incompetance. Ya he’s made a couple of decent moves, but overall his record bites.
I’ve been saying this for 2 years now:
I WANT HIS HEAD!
I went to Staples. There was a big red button with “Easy” printed on it. I pushed it. Cubs 5 – Cards 2. All fixed, see? You’re welcome – Jim H.
julie(LYHbytheway) hate hendry, hate the owners, hate the coaches, hate individual players(I do), but don’t hate the TEAM…..(softclearingofthroat)we’ll be all right.
Holliday better get plunked good his next at bat!
Ow snit, mi Spellcheck seams two bee brokken.
I can’t watch this anymore. I was going to go to the game and try and get tickets at the park. Darn glad I didn’t go.
Is there any way to get a feed from Iowa?
Disgusting.