Bradley, Fontenot, Soto, Miles -- a fearsome foursome that have opposing pitchers quaking in...laughter? Good God. Add Lee to the mix and the Cubs 4 through 9 hitters, counting whoever is pitching, are awful.
Milkit Badly goes 0-fer again and watches his average drop back to .188. Just for grins, what do you think Adam Dunn would be hitting on this team? He's at what? .290 with 11 hrs and 30+ rbi's on the worst team in baseball with no protection.
Fontenot. I saw all I needed in the first inning tonight when he didn't cover third on a steal. And Brenly tried to cover for him and say that "the infield had decided not to go out of position on a steal attempt." Right. Wouldn't want to be covering your base on a steal, Mikey. Just in case of contact. In fact, we should never move on a steal attempt because someone might swing and connect. Brilliant.
Remember Koyie Hill? He used to be hitting really good. Then Soto came back and now he just sits there. Meanwhile Geo languishes.
Aaron Miles. Okay, I give up. Why is he a Cub? Just curious -- why didn't Scales play tonight?
Note to Mojo -- they had the Leiny's on tap so I had a dozen or so. Wisconsin is not so bad if you know where to look.
Where's the King Coffee franchise in Eau Claire? Anyone? Anyone?
That was the weakest Cardinal team we'll ever see. 7 no names and Pujols. And they whipped up on us. Shameful. And the Blackhawks choked in OT. Fuck it. I'm going back to the bar. More later. Or not.
Sherm
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I've got to believe it should take Jo-el Pineiro more than 94 pitches over a complete game to dispatch the Cubs. I saw most of the game, and I saw A LOT of swings early in the count at bad pitches. Some of this HAS to fall on Gerald Perry. The whole team's approach to hitting is to hack away early in the count. 94 pitches? Jo-el Pineiro? Really? I suppose you have to tip your cap to a guy who is an ace-type pitcher, but Pineiro is not that guy. Poor at-bats up and down the lineup...and you are correct, against a team of AAA players and Pujols. Big league batting coaches should be doing very little to tinker with swings, and an awful lot of film study and preaching a proper approach and strategy for every at-bat. Pitch selection should be stressed, and I am not seeing very good pitch selection. Didn't really dig the Fonz getting picked off by Molina in the 1st...even though it was a lousy call.
Enjoy the beer...its pretty much all they got in Wisconsin.
Last Cub I can think of that truly knew what pitch selection was? Likely Mark Grace. Before that? Billy Williams?
It's like a team epidemic. Like swine flu; but called swing flu.
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Sorry, my keyboard has Tourette's. It wasn't me.
Check this out:
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Kerry Wood's line tonight. Came in with a 4-2 lead in the bottom of the ninth and managed to give up four runs. Nice.
Meanwhile, Trevor Hoffman saved his 10th for the Brewers.
Why didn't we get Hoffman? Oh, yeah, we have Kevin Gagg.
You know why they call the position closer? On the Cubs it stands for See Loser.
We need a cwinner.
Why is Hoffa and Scales not in the line up? Does Lou really think Dlee is magically going to start hitting like it is 2005 or whatever steroid year he had. AAron Miles shouldn't even be in the big leagues, if he was at Randy's camp you would hit him last which is 14th. Milkit, he is stealing money at this point.
I was listening to the Cardinals radio broadcast on XM and they were talking about how half of the Cubs line up is at the Mendoza line or worse on the interstate. A big change from last year inwhich opposing broadcasters commented on how solid the Cubs line up was, how difficult it was to pitch to them. My how things have changed.
I just watched some of the cubs game and had to check to see if it wasn't cubs classic, like 2006.
Remember when Todd Walker was our firstbaseman and clean up hitter after Dlee went down? The Fontenot/Freel 3b combo for Aram is eerily similar.
Hello Sherm
I can't recall a more anemic week of Cubs offense, I would think this is a good situation for a rant. Unless you are just sitting in the corner mumbling 'why not Adam Dunn' over and over to yourself.
I wish I was a Cub. I hate Washington.
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