Fire Ryan Poles | Fire Ben Johnson

This is for Yeti…and anybody else who feels the need to defend any grossly overpaid underachievers… BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

Once again, our good friend chucky hits it out of the park…his following comment is from the previous thread, but fits well here.

chucky Says:

September 2, 2012 at 4:24 pm

I FUCKING HATE YOU CARLOS MARMOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Take your fucking dumbo ears and get the fucking goddamned hell out of here you useless fucking sack of shit!!!!!! And goddamnit Sveum, what the fuck are you doing putting that motherfucking shitstain out there to begin with? Then you leave him out there to get fucking shelled and lose the fucking game. Jesus fucking Christ! There is so goddamn much clean up work to do there. This is fucking BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks again to Jimmy D. …it is not easy to give a shit! All thoughts on Cubs are welcomed here.

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Hey All, Just an observation…but, why can’t we (the Cubs) develop some pitching (or some discipline at the plate)? 9th inning, Rafael Betancourt gets us 3 up, 3 down on 7 pitches (6 strikes, 1 ball). Earlier, Rex Brothers records 4 outs on 9 pitches (no double plays); I didn’t see the game live, so I can’t say whether or not one of those outs was on a caught stealing, but c’mon…let the reliever try to work himself into a bit of a jam for crying out loud. That doesn’t happen when you go up the plate “free swinging”….especially when you don’t have a real threat on offense. I don’t know why I give a shit anymore, but I still would like to see strides in the right direction. Shit, is that asking too much? – Jimmy D.

Special Thanks to jimmyd for the heads up…so now Prior and Wood, once considered  “the future of the Cubs” — was it so long ago (?) — are done.

ALL thoughts on this are welcome…BATTER UP!

jimmyd Says:

August 18, 2012 at 4:50 pm

Hi All,

How is it possible that I’m the one “breaking” this story; I figured there would have been a thread started last night for this topic. Anyway, here goes (no surprise here):

Mark Prior’s bid to return to the major leagues with the Red Sox has come to an end.
The former Chicago Cubs star was given his release by Triple-A Pawtucket to make room for Pedro Beato, the right-handed pitcher the Sox acquired from the New York Mets in the Kelly Shoppach deal.
Prior, 31, made 19 appearances for the PawSox this season, going 1-0 with a 3.96 ERA. But he walked 23 batters in 25 innings, compared to 38 strikeouts.

Later,
Jimmy D.

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/8271423/chicago-cubs-fire-vice-president-player-personnel-oneri-fleita

The housecleaning continues…it’s about time.

…news from Wrigley Stadium:

Samardzija struck out a career high-tying 11 in seven innings, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Houston Astros 7-1 on Monday night.

Chicago won for just the second time in 13 games. The Astros have lost 25 of their past 27 road games.

The crowd of 31,452 was the smallest of the season at Wrigley Field.

Gentlemen. And the rest of us.

Your thoughts?

Thoughts?

What will it take for Cubs management and ownership to dump this guy?

Is it not obvious? Marmol is NOT a CLOSER!

Enough is enough.

Who is impressed with Dale Sveum as manager? Somebody? Anybody?

a. Jim Hendry

b. Alfonso Soriano’s contract

(The Soriano drawing appears at Cubbie-Blue, Chicago artist Tim Souers’ blog about what it feels like to be a Cub’s fan) 

Just saw this:  http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1239460-new-york-mets-five-hitters-they-should-consider-trading-for-by-july-31/page/4

Soriano to the Mets? I vote YES.