The Cubs lost again yesterday, and have one chance left to avoid an embarrassing 4-game sweep at the hands of the Brewers. David DeJesus must be wondering why in the hell he signed that two-year contract with this team, but he’s soldiering on. He wants to show the young guys how to be professionals on a losing team. And he has plenty of experience having been a Royal and an A.
“It’s showing guys the professional side of it,” DeJesus said. “I’ve been through a lot of losing in my career so I understand it’s tough and it’s not something you want to be a part of. I understand that tomorrow’s another game, and tomorrow you have to show up and be mentally ready and physically ready to perform.”
(snip)
“It’s not fun coming to the park every day,” DeJesus said of teams in losing seasons. “You have a little more chance to lose than not. You have to understand this is a game of professionals. We’re men, we have to do a job, and we have to put our best foot forward.”
He’s right about the greater chance of losing. The Cubs are now 31 games under .500 and have gone 6-22 in their last 28 games. The Cubs should probably do their best to win today, as a weekend series with the Giants awaits. And the pitching matchups don’t look favorable.
Friday: RHP Chris Volstad (1-9, 6.28) vs. LHP Madison Bumgarner (14-8, 2.93)
Saturday: RHP Justin Germano (2-4, 5.91) vs. RHP Tim Lincecum (7-14, 5.30)
Sunday: LHP Travis Wood (4-11, 4.71) vs. RHP Matt Cain (13-5, 2.82)
Ugh.
Today’s matchup features Shawn Marcum (5-4, 3.19) against Brooks “Boo Radley” Raley (1-2, 6.64). Carrie Muskat tweeted earlier that today will be Boo’s last start of the season, as the Cubs don’t want to wear out his mediocre arm.
Lineup:
DeJesus LF
Valbuena 3B
Castro SS
Rizzo 1B
LaHair RF
Clevenger C
Jackson CF
Barney 2B
Raley P
Game time is 1:20 and it will be broadcast on CSN.
So, it’s Rock T-Shirt Thursday here at my office. I am wearing a jean skirt and a Police t-shirt. People on my train thought I was insane, I believe.
Most of us here can probably vouch for the people on your train.
Yeah, because they’re such a bunch of winners.
Could you say that in your best Charlie Sheen voice please?
That’s because many of the people on those train have never heard of the Police…
Oh yes they have….
But they think their big hit was “Up against the Wall mother….”
It was either the T-shirt or the fact you screamed out “We’re all gonna die!!!!”
And did that t-shirt reference a particular Police album, or just the band?
“Look there’s Sting- looking for his last name in the dip!”
Billy Crystal
As shitty of a year as Tim Lincecum has had, he’d still statistically be one of our best starters.
I can’t stop giggling at this:
“the Cubs don’t want to wear out his mediocre arm”
Really though, one doesn’t need a strong arm to pitch. One just needs to know ‘how’ to pitch. Look at Greg Maddux. Rarely threw in the 90′s(mph,not the years).
The Astros seriously are pissing me off.
I meant to say this yesterday:
Doc, you old soothsayer you, the Cards have moved into one of the wild-card leader spots.
Well, I did say they would win the division. That isn’t looking very likely as they are 8 or 9 games back of Cincy right now.
Probably the crystal ball was a little too smokey, Swami.
The game starts, everyone clears out.
Do you blame them?
Boo gives up 3 hits in the 1st and Brewers don’t score. I know I should feel happy but that is overshadowed by an ominous feeling
No why would you think that?
Holy crab were winning at the moment.
10th Triple for Castro….nice!!!
I’ve never seen a holy crab. It must be from the Vatican or something.
He will most likely become a pedophile.
Crawled out of the Holy See.
A cobra wanted to fight me but I challenged him to a thumb war and he slittered away embarrassed.
Good for you!
I was ready to do some MMA shit. I thought it was a cobra, turns out he was a garter snake trying to act all tuff. I saw him hiding behind some real OG’s, he was trying to get all slithery with the tongue. I told him to keep his tongue in his mouth and come see me when he has a couple of legs to stand on.
It was the Elvis jacket that gave him the cobra look.
He was hangin with Lindsay Lohan so I knew he was up to no good.
Just read on Cubs.com there won’t be many September call-ups…DUH!! Who can you call up when half of your farm system is already playing for the big league team?? GO CUBS GO!!
And just like that Boo gives up the grand slam. Cubs now down 4-3
I can’t believe you didn’t see that coming.
make that 5-3
7-3 fucking Ryan Braun. Julie settle your boy down please.
It was that gingsing tea he and Julie had before the game.
He has something to enhance his performance?
Cubbie Julie
one of my co-workers was just over here bitching about Raley. LOL
9-9 can’t wait to see how we blow it this time.
T Wood hits a homerun 2 games ago and he becomes our pinch-hitter. Uhhhh……What?????
I’m going to go with Doc on this one and stab Darwin Barney in the throat several thousand times until he flips around on the ground like the sword fish I caught last weekend. Nice glove though.
HOLY S*** !!! CUBS WIN!, CUBS WIN!, CUBS WIN!.
Sheesh
Ian Desmond is the anti-Aramis. Where Aramis habitually took every first pitch, I swear to Christ Ian swings at every single first pitch.