Kevin Gregg is officially the least-popular man in Chicago. Not even Lou Piniella can defend him after another dick-kicking blown save in the ninth inning of last night’s Padres game. According to Lou, Gregg is no longer the closer. I sure hope Lou means it this time. Lou has a penchant for saying he’s going to do things, and then not doing them at all.
I’ll say one thing for Gregg. At least he steps up and confesses how badly he sucks. I’ll say another thing for him, too. He sucks.
While all the focus this morning is deservedly on Gregg, what more can we say about this limp-dick Cub offense? Three hits against Kevin Correia. One run against a pitching staff with a 4.70 ERA. Is anyone going to bother staying up late to watch this crap tonight?
He sucks on ice. What an overpaid worthless ragtag group of players. See you Jim Hendry…2009 is a massive failure, thanks.
Let’s see here… Jeff Baker is our hottest hitter recently and we are going to start FonteNOT? (I guess he only left 4 – FUCKING FOUR – runners in scoring position…) And Miles? What the fuck…
In such a winnable division, the Cubs really have no excuse. Hendry took a 97 win team and fucked it up by adding Gregg and Milton Bradley. To get Bradley, he got rid of DeRosa, who is now playing solid ball for our number one rival. To make room for Gregg, he jettisoned Kerry Wood, who while not as effective in Cleveland, would still look better at this point than Goggles. Hendry also traded away Michael Wuertz for nothing and essentially replaced him with Aaron “Fucking” Heilman. More to the point, you don’t lose two of your clubhouse leaders without messing with the chemistry of the team. Fontenot is NOT an everyday player and never was. Don’t even get me started about AAron Miles. Soriano has had a bad year, which coupled with the Ramirez injury, has been a big thorn in the Cubs’ side. This season sucks because they’re wasting a solid year from DLee and Randy Wells has done a great job in the rotation. Grabow and Gorzelanny have been nice additions, but this team is still not going anywhere. Between the injuries and the bipolar nature of the offense, I think we’re finally fucked.
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@Arcturus – He didn’t get rid of Wood so he could acquire Gregg. He got rid of Wood so he had money to re-sign Dempster. And it’s not like Wood has been any good this year. But, yeah, this team is toast.
After following the game last night, I agree that this one was the death rattle of the 2009 Cubs. There might be a teasing win streak or two left, but really, the Cards have solidified their team, and the wild card will go to a real contender.
I hate this team! Can they even be called a “team”? Besides Lee, Lilly, Wells, and (when he’s healthy) Ramirez does anyone even show up for the games? No, I’m not staying up to watch this. I turned it off when I saw the lineup last night. Any games Miles starts is not worth watching.
BK, very true. I totally forgot about the Dempster contract. While Wood has been terrible for the Indians, I’d still rather see him in the 9th than Kevin Gregg. I know chemistry is overrated, but you can’t tell me that this team doesn’t miss Wood’s leadership in the clubhouse. (Or DeRosa’s for that matter). For better or worse, DLee is the only real leader left on this team. I know it’s silly to play “what if” as the Cubs still would have had a mess of injuries to deal with, but I think Hendry compromised the core of this team with some of the moves he made, creating a very dysfunctional group without any heart. Those same moves also weakened the Cubs’ bench, which had been a huge strength for them in 07 and 08. I hope he loses his job after this, because there’s no reason this team shouldn’t have been able to win a third NL Central title as it was. Worry about the playoffs IF you get there.
Come on!! They are only 4 games out in the loss column!!!
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How can you expect this jag to focus on pitching when he’s got a Christmas tree farm to run? Do you have ANY IDEA how lucrative of a business selling trees for 2.5 weeks out of the year is? Is it possible to hang a person from a Blue Spruce?
Why do Fontenot and Miles start so damn many games? Usually when middle infielders can’t hit, they can field really well. Where’s Neife Perez when you need him?
I know the throbbing cocklove for Nobel Prize Winning Mark DeRosa–who has to date, saved 64 people from burning buildings and put millions of Americans back to work during this painful recession–can cloud people’s judgement, but is it asking too much for you to look up some stats to back up such an idiotic and flat-out wrong assertion?
These are the DeRo HeRo’s numbers since joining St. Louis.
.228 BA
.282 OBP
.465 SLG
He’s struck out 31 times while reaching base via walk 7 times. This in 124 trips to the dish. Sure he’s got 8 dingers but, besides that, what about those numbers is solid? Unless you mean solidly mediocre?
The Cardinals may be going to the playoffs, but it’s certainly not because of anything this fuckjob has been doing for them.
@Arcturus –
How much did that “chemistry” and “heart” help the team in last year’s playoffs?
Give me a break. Hendry’s move may have backfired but the longing for players from a team that won as many playoff games in the last two seasons as the teams from the previous 3 years combined is retarded, especially when this longing is buttressed by such nebulous qualifiers like “chemistry” and “heart”. Chemistry and heart has nothing to do with this. This team was just not very good at baseball. Period.
Heart? Chemistry? You should work for the Score.
56 innings of 4.70 ERA and your RF OPS’ing 60-70 points lower than what we all reasonably expected are minor when you compare them to the much larger issues on this team.
Soriano and Soto, who OPS’ed over .860 for the 97 win Cubs, are putting in campaigns where they are OPS’ing in the low .700′s. Also, the guy in the middle of the order who routinely puts up an OPS in the high 800′s-low 900′s has batted only 187 times this season. Take 1650 at bats from great hitters last year and turn them into 1650 at bats from well below average hitters and you’re going to lose some baseball games.
According to AAron Miles via the Muskrat…”Cubs hunger needs to kick in.”
Can someone please tell me why they are interviewing this worthless asshole?
@eamuscatuli1557 – No one else wants to talk to Muskat.
And did anyone foresee Chad Fox spending almost the full year on the DL? I think Jim Hendry has been snakebitten all year. Poor snake.
Dear Mike D.:
Thank you. Finally someone else willing to admit that DeRosa has sucked ass for the Cardinals. So much ass, in fact, that they called up a career .230 hitter, Mr. Khalil “Stuck in Eternal Puberty” Greene to split playing time with him. He is that bad.
as shitty as DeRosa is, he’s still better than Miles.
Of course the rotting corpse of Steve Macko is probably better than Aaron Miles
way i see it, maybe this shitting the bed this year helps us wise the hell up for next year. ramirez should be healthy again, Lee will be back, wells and lilly will be back, hopefully zambrano and soto work out in the offseason, etc etc etc etc wait til next year uggggggggggh
Cubs = fucked
Fan’s that booed D. Lee or even M. Bradley = dumb
HJE = awesome
I agree…the hell with this team. How did Lou think that starting Miles and Fontenot was a good fucking idea? Are we going to hear him start saying, “Well, I can’t turn my back on Fonty”?
At least we have Bears season soon…hey, how did that preseason game go, anyway? I’m sure that no matter what happened, no one’s overreacting about one preseason game, right?
This may help some of you guys who are wallowing in the DOOOOMMMM: my strategy has been to pretend it’s June, and the Cubs are smoked. It reminds me of my childhood. Lemonade, tree-climbing, and all that.
Related observation you don’t care about: BK and the rest of the gloomers are correct. With 6 weeks to go, and too many problems to un-fuck, I think last night was the KO shot from the old cluebat. This team continually fails to execute in every phase of the game (usually just one at a time, and just enough to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory), and for that, they deserve their place in the standings.
Regarding Mark Derosa and his invaluable heart: there’s heart….and there’s results. Derosa brought one of those to the playoffs. The other he left under the bed he shat.
Granted, this team doesn’t have either this year. Maybe Gregg sucking will light a fire under them. And maybe Lou will kill the next person to not give a crap out there.
Really, Marmol got the closing gig, really, WTF. If that’s not the nail in the coffin, what is? He can’t throw strikes, it’s just that simple, how can you close games down when you don’t throw strikes. Is this just because he doesn’t give up HR’s? Of course not, the ball is bouncing around the backstop or drilling batter’s in the face. He can’t throw in the 8th so put him in the ninth, since the Cub’s anaemic offense should have no problem giving him the 7 run lead he’ll need to hold it together. This has to be one of the most all around disappointing seasons in recent memory, from the injuries, to poor coaching, to missed talent expectations, just fucking awful. Where the fuck do us fans go from here with this roster full of cocksmokers? I’m so tired of financing this monstrosity. OK, I’m better now, thanks for listening.
If all they need is to be hungry, can someone tell ME why they don’t re-sign Daryl Ward and let him have first dibs on the daily clubhouse buffet?
Given that the Ricketts Empire is supposedly in pretty dire straits from the pesky financial meltdown, is there much cause for optimism this off-season? All Hendry had to work with last off-season was a handful of magic beans and the ability to say “Yes, I WOULD like to supersize that” in 17 languages. It seems pretty likely that this winter he’ll have even less cash and will have to rely even more on the ol’ Hendry charm. Am I wrong about this? I’d like to be wrong the same way I was flat out holy-shit-please-kick-me-in-the-nuts wrong when I said D. Lee was going to have a crappy year.
I see that the 3 “G”s in Gregg stand for “Going…Going…GONE!” As in: “Your ninth-inning lead is Going…Going…GONE!” or “Your team’s chance at the playoffs in ’09 is Going…Going…GONE!” or “Your role as a closer is Going…Going…GONE!” or “Your career with the Cubs is Going…Going…GONE!”, etc. ad nauseam.
Someone should tell Gregg that BP takes place two hours BEFORE the game starts, not in the middle of the ninth inning.
The funniest part of that whole inning was that I saw something that I have NEVER, EVER seen in all my years of watching this Bartman-forsaken excuse of a professional sporting franchise. The occurance I am speaking of is Lou’s about-face after the game-tying double by Headley, when he (Sweet Lou) realized that nobody was warming up in the bullpen. The look on his face said it all: “No F*@KING way this S*@T would’ve EVER happen with the YANKEES!”
I laughed until I stopped. In hind-sight, Lou could’ve probably brought in ANYBODY from the pen stone cold, Les Strode included, and gotten a better result than Gregg’s meatball.
What the F*@K was Gregg thinking with that F*@KING pitch anyway?!? Here Gregg had a six inning front-F*@KING-row seat watching Blanks flail away at ANYTHING Lilly threw with a wrinkle in it, and he decides to go with the belt-high flat fastball over the outer 2/3rds? Hey Gregg, here’s an idea…wear your F*@KING swim goggles while you’re sitting in the bullpen so you can SEE WTF is going on before you go in!!!
That pitch was so F*@KING bad that Rick Aguilera, sitting alone in his dark basement 25 minutes away in Rancho Santa Fe with his “I SUCKED WITH THE CUBS” t-shirt in tatters and a pair of sweat-stained 2XXL Twins sweatpants around his ankles, stopped mid-drink and said “Whoa, bad F*@KING pitch dude!”
So long, Kev. Too bad we knew ye.
Somewhere warm, Mel Rojas is laughing his ass off.