Cubs Infield Not Fond Of “Carlos Zambrano Day”
Not much you can say about last night’s game. It’s clear where they’re at. Here’s hoping we’re still talking baseball Monday and that’ll depend on what happens at Dodger Stadium this weekend.
I can only muster two things to hang my hat on.
In October 2004 I was in Washington D.C. for work. On Saturday, when I got back to my hotel room, I flipped on my TV and saw that the Red Sox were losing something like 27-3 to the Yankees. The loss put them down 3-0 in a best-of-seven series. At the time, no team in such a situation had even forced a Game 7, let alone come all the way back.
And we all know how that ended.
The second thing I hang my hat on is the Cubs are simply fucking due to pull this sort of bullshit comeback on someone else. It happens. Teams do it. Hell, it’s happened to us—TWICE, in fact, when you consider that in both ’84 and ’03 the Cubs lost three straight games when they only needed one for the pennant.
So that’s what I’m going with. A freakish precedent and karmic retribution. Harden? Lilly? Sure, why not? There are plenty of reasons to make the case for the Cubs on paper. But there were plenty of reasons to make the case for Dempster and Zambrano, too, and frankly, I’m sick of looking at the players on this team right now for any hope. So it time to get some rosary beads and pray for a miracle.
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JackB The only positive I can take away is that the offense seems to have broken out of their coma. While we only scored three and left guys on in the 9th, hopefully it’s a sign of things to come in LA. If Harden can pitch well and get us to Lilly, I think Ted is itching to atone for last year. He’s looked really damn good in his past couple of starts and I sure as shit hope he gets his chance this year. It sucks being down 0-2, but I’m not crying DOOM just yet.
Springtime We have to win this. We’re going to win this. My grandpa died 2 weeks ago and all he wanted to see was the Cubs win the World Series. I know they are going to win it.
Ron Santo If these sum bitches can pull their shit together and play like they’re supposed to, Then we can make L.A. squeal like pigs!!
Booze, broads, and bullshit Rosary beads are for pussies. I’ve already sacrificed 17 virgins and that’s only since last night’s “game”. Beat the shit out of the dodgers and go out and win 3……
Fuck 3 - Go win 11 straight
Irish Yeti As much as I really hate this team right now and am saying fuck them, I still am coming back to this fact in my mind. It’s possible. Highly unlikely but at least it’s possible
Vance_the_cubs_fan Fuck, at this point I would be satisfied with one fucking win. It’s damn fucking embarrassing to be a Cub fan right now.
Joepa Hey, worse teams have come back from two down. If the 84 Padres can do it the Cubbies are certainly capable!! Lou will get ‘em off the deck to win the next three one at a time!!
I just threw up in my mouth…
Mark Plenty of reasons to make the case for the Cubs on paper… too bad they play on grass.
JayBandit I don’t think it matters if we even throw marquis or Marshall up there…WE HAVE TO SCORE RUNS TO WIN!
If you take away the 5 errors our INFIELD committed (I’m giving Theriot an ERRAH for that bullshit bare-handed play where he had time to use his fucking glove and get an out), Z pitched a game in which he really only allowed 1 run (a solo homerun). Taking that into account, he wasted about 25 pitches on those errors, meaning that with his awesome stuff last night, he would have at least made it through the 8th inning no problem…not to mention they probably would have pulled him after 7 anyway and gone with marmol & woody, who would have pitched fine in the pressure situations that they were used to all season.
Even Dempster’s crappy outing didn’t really kill us. The middle relief was shitty, but we still only scored 2 runs on a homer in the 2nd inning.
you aren’t going to win ballgames when you can’t get guys in scoring position, and even when you do, strand them there.
Steve Buechele's Blond Mullet Maybe it’s the beer talking Cubs fans, but I don’t think this team is dead. They’ve got these big chewy pretzels here that are [unintelligible]…
Steve Buechele's Blond Mullet Maybe it’s the beer talking Cubs fans, but I don’t think this team is dead… Yet. They’ve got these big chewy pretzels here that are fhdfhsdjkfhdjhrgsfd…
Jaden The more you analyze what happened last night, the more astronomically impossible it all seems. I never thought in a million years I’d see what I saw last night. And that’s after all the bullshit that’s happened to the Cubs in the past.
Watching Derrek Lee commit an errah is so improbable by itself, but to boot one after the two IF’s next to you just did (I agree, Theriot deserved an errah) is mind-boggling.
When’s the last time you saw errahs around the horn? Ever? Has anyone seen that happen in a little league game?
russ There is no Karma. There is no retribution. All existence is absurd. Fuck the Redsox. We’re going to be swept again. We seriously need to stop caring. We’re all a bunch of morans.
Mendoza Is it time for the Jason Giambi slump buster? Maybe someone should deliver a case of gold thongs to Dodger Stadium… Or all Cubs nation sports one on their behalf.
Bad Kermit @Mendoza - Incidentally, all ladies willing to participate can send thong pictures to badkermit at hirejimessian dot com. I will be sure they get into the right hands.
SC_Cubbie *sigh*
We all know how this show ends, though…. I mean, they’ve made so neurotic over the years to think that my even looking up the score to games leads to defeat. Case in point, no cable this year so no WGN and really, no baseball at all, 97 wins later…. at work this week I checked the score of Game 1, 2-0 good guys at that point. Checked back shortly after 5-2 Dodgers. Last night, people forced me to go to the bar for the game from the first pitch on, I left at 10-0. Jesus H. Cary, I feel like Bill effin Simmons. XD
djwoody Bill Simmons has seen a title winner multiple times with his Red Sox and the fucking cheating Patriots. It’s our turn! Who’s with me?!
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And in ‘03, two of the games the Cubs lost were at home, and they’re going to have to do the same to the Dodgers (in slightly different order). I’ve gotta think this is due to happen to someone else at some point.
The ‘01 Yankees also came back from down 0-2 in an LDS after losing the first two at home. They’re the only team to do it, but hey, the LDS isn’t that old.