Let me tell you a little something about myself. I'm an addict. And one of the main substances I'm addicted to is Cubs Baseball. But me and the boys in blue need a day off. After this last 4 game series with the Padres, I feel like a junkie coming off a bender. Got high with a win Monday night, came down hard with a blow out loss on Tuesday with a little whiskey chaser. Wednesday, woke up feeling surprisingly strong, because at least Tuesday's whiskey helped me sleep, and won the game handily with sheer force of adrenaline. But Thursday afternoon, I was out of gas, and just needed two days of laying on the couch, and came up short in a sloppy loss where I never got it quite together. Yes, this was the roller coaster week of your 2013 Chicago Cubs. A team that's always a brick short of a load, and a dollar short of a dream. A team that is like an old 1983 Chevy Malibu, where 2 spark plugs have been replaced, but the 4 others are misfiring. When we have great pitching, we can't hit or field. When we hit, the bullpen blows it late.
This Chevy is gonna get a new paint job with a renovated stadium, but the interior is full of cigarette burns, and you can't roll down the back window because it's taped up with duck tape. The damn thing has an 8 track player too, but unfortunately Saturday Night Fever is stuck in there, and if you hear one more falsetto voice singing, you might just drive the damn car off the bridge. It's definitely time for a new car. Not a new stadium mind you, but a new attitude from the fans. We can't sit here and take last place lying down. Management has to get off their luxury boxed asses, and put a team on the field we can always be proud of. On the Cubs off years. they should finish no lower than 3rd place. Period. End of Story. It's frustrating to hear all these plans of a scoreboard, hotel, and revenue generating advertising, yet no talk of "WE ARE IN LAST PLACE!" Are you going to buy the best team in the majors with the new money? Or will you be content to have Cubs Fans come to Wrigley just enjoy the largest bar in Chicago and forget about the baseball team. Granted, Wrigley needs help, just to preserve the place for future generations. But how about the team?
Yesterday's passed ball by Wellington Castillo that tied the game was made worse by a severe lack of hustle. He said he felt like he lost us the game. Well. He did. I agree. The Cubs have missers. Not Catchers. We lead the league in Wild Pitches, and are 2nd in passed balls. Some of those wild pitches should have been handled by our Misser. We must have lost at least 2 games on these extra outs and bases taken. Other costly errors by Castro must have cost us at least 2 more games. This is a .500, 3rd place ballcub. But they don't play the game right, and it's killing us. That to me says management is the problem. If Castillo isn't benched today for lack of hustle, I don't know what a benchable offense is. I don't care if he's hitting over .300. His job is catcher. His job is to catch the damn ball, and if he misses it, to at least run after it as quickly as possible.
So management! Are you listening? There are gonna be about 4000 people at rain soaked Wrigley this afternoon because the team sucks and it's crappy outside. I can't even get a Stub Hub ticket for a 1:20 start after 7:20 in the morning, because your greedy asses opted out of Stub Hub and now need a 6 hour window to buy cheap last minute tix for this last place team. I would have maybe gone too and drank your crappy 8$ beers, but instead, I'll just stay home. Because the Cubs and I, we need a day away from each other. It's a long season, and just like any addiction, some days it's just about maintenance at the methadone clinic, and other days, we get the real shit and take the great with the awful. See you tomorrow Cubbies. Me and Lou Sears got free box seats!
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