We were Marmoled once again yesterday at the Friendly Confines of Wrigley Field. What can you say about a pitcher who gives up 2 walks, hits a batter, and doesn't record a single out? The Cubs were leading 4-2, when Marmol strode to the mound in his former inning of glory, the 8th. He then proceded to singlehandedly lose the game for the Cubs with a performance that can only be described as horrific. Now, I admit I am a boo-er, but I reserve my booing for opposing teams, umpires, and lack of effort on behalf of the Cubs. I never saw the point in booing your own player who is obviously not sucking on purpose. We want him to perform well the next time right? What if a bunch of people came to your job and booed you as you tried to organize a spread sheet? What if when you walked to work in the morning, people yelled "You Suck!". I doubt any of us have the capacity to perform well under these circumstances, So why do we expect it from our ballplayers? I'm familiar with the counter argument. "Hey! These guys get paid millions of dollars to play a kids game, they can handle a little booing." I certainly don't know what it's like to be a millionaire, but I do know that having more or less money doesn't make you any less human. So fans, as much as I'd like to boo Marmol, we shouldn't, because unless the Cubs find someone stupid enough to take him, he's our guy. Now Dale Sveum on the other hand should be booed, and booed heartily.
Since taking the helm in Chicago, Mr Sveum has presided over talented players that have performed incredibly poorly. This is a young Cubs team with a relatively young and inexperienced manager in Sveum. Mr. Sveum has had success as a coach for other teams, winning it all with the Red Sox in 2004, and taking the Brewers to the playoffs as interim manager in 2008. However, his only full year as manager was last year, 2012, and the Cubs lost 101 games for one of the worst finishes in team history. The Cubs lost 103 games in 1962 and 1966. So please tell me Wonderboy Epstein, and Mr. "My Family is named after a disease" Ricketts, what sense does it make to have an inexperienced manager, training inexperienced players? Oh yeah, maybe because we have an inexperienced owner, and a one hit wonder from Boston running the show! Theo did win a World Championship for the Red Sox 2 years after taking the helm, but he's not magic! That team was already built for the most part when he took the helm. That Red Sox team was about the right mix of guys and chemistry. The superstars were already there. Pedro Martinez. Manny Ramirez. Johnny Damon. As far as I can tell, David Ortiz was probably Theo's best signing ever, and that was 10 years ago! But Big Papi and Theo didn't win the World Series. The Red Sox did, with a mix of young blood, future Hall of Famers, and wily veterans. Can you name one Chicago Cub today who you imagine will be in the Hall of Fame someday? We can hope for guys like Rizzo and Castro to keep hitting, but they are by no means dominant players at this point in their career. So the Red Sox get Big Papi and who do we get? Scott Fucking Hairston who's batting .108 and pretty much only plays against leftys. What else has the boy genius Epstein done? DeJesus? Edwin 0-4 Jackson? Who?!? Nobody. That's who. The Chicago Cubs have no great players. None. Who do you blame?
How about Tom Ricketts? The typical rich fuck who thinks he can just hire some sniveling, privileged, silver spoon sucking wonderkid, and put together a championship. Did anyone see Spiderman on Broadway? It sucks. U2 Wrote the music, Julie Taymore, a Tony Award winning director, conceived of the script, and It became a case of the Emporer wears no clothes. All these talented, famous people couldn't bring themselves to tell each other that their ideas were not cohesive, and they had no real plot for their characters to live through. They just assumed it was going to work because of their past successes. So the producers threw millions of dollars at the production which was quite spectacular with the Green Goblin and Spiderman performing aerial stunts over the audience. But it was all just bells and whistles. The music sounded like U2's B sides, and was completely untheatrical. While the conceived plot was virtually non existant and difficult to follow. The producers kept throwing good money after bad, until Taymore was finally canned. I see Tommy Ricketts doing the same thing. Throwing money around on scoreboards to advertise at us, and hotels so his family can remain in the top 1 percent of the 1 percent and basically live off the Cubs forever. I agree with most of the changes he's proposed, But when are we going to see a fucking team on the field capable of winning? I for one am frustrated as hell about it. Ricketts is like one of those spiderman producers who just bought a bunch of nothing and keeps trying to sell it to us. Hell. I keep buying it. I've only missed 3 home games this year. But that also gives me the right to complain about it!
So where does the blame lie? Booooooooo! Tom Ricketts! Boooooooooo! Theo Epstein!!! Boooooooooo! Dale Sveum!!!!!
But leave poor Carlos Marmol alone. He can't help that he sucks now.
Well...I gotta go....game time in an hour, and I'll be there....ready to Booooooooooooooo........
