Cubs Not Fun When They Lose

Ok.  Who's to blame on the Cubs for losing 2 of 3 to the lowly Mets at home?  Friday was probably the most boring game of the season in a 3-2 loser fest, where the Cubs couldn't get anything cooking after the first inning.  Saturday was awesome!  With the Bleachers full of Met fans, the Cubbies explode for 8 runs, and it would have been a shutout too if our bullpen wasn't so damn shaky.  Dolis gave up a 2 run shot in the 9th to tarnish the day a bit.  And then Sunday, the Cubs can't get anything going except for a 2 run homer from the pitcher, Travis Wood, and a solo shot from the new guy, Sweeney, and once again, the bullpen gets the loss.

Who's to blame?  Well, lets take Sundays game for example.  4 doubles by the Cubs.  All of them hit with nobody out, and only one of the runs scores, and that was because the pitcher hit a homerun.  This has been the problem the entire year!  And the main culprits of failure?  There are 3, Starlin Castro 0-4, Anthony Rizzo 0-4, and Darwin Barney 0-3, with a total of 7 left on base.  And unfortunately, they are who we are building our team around.  I'm a broken record here!!! The Cubs as a team had just gotten over .200, and out of the cellar, with runners in scoring position, and then they pull 1-10 garbage on Sunday.  Castro also went 0-5 in Saturday's slugfest,  and committed an error.  Actually, Castro booted 3 balls this weekend, and incredulously, only one was called an error.  Maybe the scorer is the same guy that got him off that sexual assault charge last year.  It was hilarious, however, when a guy wearing a Castro jersey in Terrace Reserved dropped a foul ball, and some guy yelled, that's your third error today Castro!  Yes.  Hilarious.  If it didn't suck so bad.  And Darwin Barney?  Listen, the guys a great fielder, but he just can't hit.  In fact, he's a worse hitter than just about any player on the team.  It's like we have 2 pitchers at the bottom of the order!

Currently the Cubs have only one hitter batting above .300,  Ryan Sweeney, who only has 18 AB's this season.  Fine, we have great starting pitching, 5th in ERA in the whole Major Leagues!  But we have no relief. We can't hit in pressure situations, and we continue to commit errors, throw wild pitches, and lose.

I looked into going to the Cubs/Sox series next week. On Stub hub, and from the Sox, it's 50$ to go.  If you think anybody gives a rats ass about 2 crappy teams going at it for bragging rights to the best in chicago of the two worst teams in the majors?  You have another thing coming Reinsdorf/Ricketts.  Sorry, there is no such thing as a premium game when you can't even beat the Mets.  With the starters the Cubs and Sox both have, we should be .500 teams.  Neither are.  It's embarrassing.

Finally.  I did not go to the game Sunday, or watch it til this morning, because I went to the Schaumburg Boomers game and they won 2-1!  But the hot dogs sucked, the pop was out of syrup, and how do I put this?...  There was a group at the ballpark from a home for the mentally challenged, and I couldn't tell who were the fans and who were the staff.  In positive news, I got my first foul ball ever!  Unfortunately, I got it because it ricochetted off a wall and into my nieces chest, and almost brained my mother who was at a drinking fountain at the time.  They took my niece to the first aid with her grandma, but she was fine.   I was sitting there with my buddy Chris thinking... the Boomers were gonna give us free tickets, t-shirts, food...etc....but you know what she got?  Nothing but An ice bag for her chest.  At least it resulted in an hilarious new nickname, "the cooler".  Get it?  Ice Chest?  Cooler?  Anyway, I told her if anything like that happens again, to turn on the water works and cry loudly, so we can get some free crap.  Hey, uncles are put on this earth to teach you the important things in life that the kids parents can't say without feeling like they suck at parenting.  I do not have that concern.  I'm a professional Druncle.

So what's on tap?  Pittsburgh and Cincy!  Hoping to catch some of these games on the road, but the Check Engine light is on in my car, so it might not be the most astute move.  But we shall see....

Oh...and Garzas back tomorrow night.  Not sure if I should be happy about this or not.  I guess we shall see....

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A Tale of Two Cubs Games

So, I've been drinking beer at Wrigley Field the last two evenings, and have now witnessed a well played 5-3 Win and last nights laugher loss 13-7.  Of course it was more fun to be at the game on Monday because we won, and I sat in the bleachers where the fans are a bit more sociable, than a loss viewed from row 17 of Terrace reserved,  but either way, wherever you sit at Wrigley, provided it's not directly behind a pole, it's a good ole time.  However, I find there to be changes a brewing among the fan base.

For example, on Monday, in the bleachers, our group including The lovable Lou Sears, participated in the age old bleacher tradition of razzing the right fielder.  Chris Denorfia and Kyle Blanks got an earful from us about how his father is a lousy drunk, and his wife is cheating on him.  None of it informed, and most likely not true, but it's nice to know they can hear you.  I once yelled to Donald Trump that he sucked at a Mets game.  He was only about 20 feet away, and he didn't react, but I know he heard me, and that was satisfaction enough to know that he knew someone in the stands that day thought he sucked.  The same is true of opposing players.  they should know they suck too.  I love booing their every move.  It's my right as a ticket holder, and I learned to do it as an impressional 13 year old in the Left Field Bleachers.  I learned how to swear, how to jeer, and unfortunately about how drunk guys can tend to be homophobic pricks.   Yet, in our current cultural climate,  lets say, Generation Y, raised with time outs instead of spankings, participation trophies where everyone's a winner, and a general hipster nerd chic, is not as interested in the negativity spewed from those in Generation X through the boomers and beyond.  These idiots even tried to do the damned "Wave" on Monday night, while me and a few old timers yelled back, "No Wave!"  Later on, Lou, my friend Antonio and I tried to get a little "Left Field Sucks"  going.  But these, "free to be you and me hipster geeks" weren't the slightest bit interested, so I yelled out, "Fine!  Lets do the wave, ya pansies!" Basically, Lou Sears and I have become those jerk offs who taught my 13 year old former self how to be a loud brash asshole at a ball game.  Except for the homophobia.  We've had parents yell at us for our language and volume, and Lou Sears says something like, "Family Sections over there folks!".  Basically, we are total pricks and I hope we are influencing some young pre teen to carry on Wrigley Field's brash Bleacher tradition.  Furthermore , Monday was the anniversary of the Lee Elia tirade.  Check it out here...

It seems, especially relevant on an important date in Cubs history such as the Lee Elia Tirade, that we could at least honor Lee with some vitriolic slander of the opposing outfielders personal life.  It's only right.  Bleacher Bums!  Get it together.  We are meaner than this.  Find your inner hate, and spew it!

Now, I said this is a tale of two Cubs games.  I sat in terrace reserved on Tuesday and watched the Cubs get blown the hell out. 13-7.  A game plagued with errors, lack of clutch hitting, and for the first time this season, pretty horrific starting pitching from Edwin Jackson.  Also, It must have been gay athlete appreciation night, because there were a ton of gay people there.  Which is great!  Considering the recent coming out of Jayson Collins, and the fact that the ballpark is pretty much situated in boys town. I don't know if they would ever do this, but they should have gay pride night, just like they'll do Irish appreciation, or German October fest.  I would be at that game in a heartbeat. Win or Lose, the game would be fun as shit.  Because Gays are awesome.  Period.  End of Story.  If you've never been to a gay pride parade, you don't know what your missing.  It's like Carnivale in freakin Rio!  Imagine that kind of atmosphere at Wrigley!  They kind of have it too "Out at Wrigley" is August 3rd...check this article out here.... but I wish they associated it with Actual Chicago Gay Pride which spans the last two weekends in June.  The Cubs are in Seattle during the pride parade, but can you imagine if they had the floats do a circle around the stadium?  It would be incredible!  Also, if the Cubs were to come out strongly in support of Gays, what would that do to our fan base?   A.  Grow it exponentially.  B.  We'd have a return of the hilarious vitriol that I so miss in the Bleachers.  (If you're unfamiliar, gays are often times incredible at snapping on people)  Quick witted and sharp because of all the pain they've  endured from homophobic neanderthals.  I know there will be people that hate the idea, but just like I'm right that there shouldn't be a new ad spewing video screen, there should be hilarious, drunk, gay fans yelling obscenities at opposing players outfielders.  Oh Snap!

Well, I'll be back again tonight.  Where we'll have the tale of two beards.  Chinstrap Feldman vs.  Andrew "beard of bees" Cashner.  Don't have a lot of hope for this one, but you never know.  At least there may be some hilarious gay people around me.  That would make the game more tolerable.

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