i would like to no whats up with the cubs and y they r so bad at what they do?

yeah... I think if anyone had that answer they could fix the problem...

It all boils down to a complete inability to evaluate talent, and to use that talent in a proper and productive manner.

A really good example would be the Mark Grace situation. Here's a guy playing first base for the Cubs, for years and years, hitting .300 pretty much every season, always hitting third behind decent hitters (one of whom was usually Sandberg), and Grace would pretty consistently drive in 70 runs a year. Given that same set of parameters, my grandmother would have driven in 90, and a real major league hitter would have had 110.

Grace might have been the worst hitter with men on base I've ever seen. I watched almost every Cubs game one year, and I could literally count on two fingers the number of meaningful runs the guy drove in. He was a star in those 12-1 games, but if the score was even close, he might as well have gone up there with a broom handle.

This is nothing new. Bill Buckner was exactly the same kind of hitter as a Cub. Useless when it meant anything.

How far back do you want to go? The trade of Bill Madlock, who was young, and had just won 2 consecutive batting titles, to the Giants for a washed up Bobby Murcer....

Or how about hiring a manager whose agenda seems to be to make his staring pitchers' arms fall off? At least they had the (eventual) common sense to get rid of that guy....but after how many years?

I like Piniella, he's a smart guy, and he knows the game. I don't think the rest of the management team cares too much, though, as long as Wrigley is full every game and the TV money keeps flowing in. And I liked the signing of Soriano, but, let's face it, he's an outfielder like I'm a 16th century harpsichord builder.

I love all the analyzations for the threads these days. Seriously... it's nice to read more than just one or 2 sentences...

Alas the Cubs will only add to my current depression So I won't talk about them here.

Just let me crawl back into my little hole and let me know when it's over....

I would like to know why you guys drive like maniacs after a cubs game. Seriusly I have seen better traffic flow @ 5 pm on a weekend friday with a holiday monday, then after a cubs game

I Don't have a license... I don't drive!

thats because all the guys are flirting in traffic,ha ha...the cubs suck.

I hate hate hate baseball but...

Cubs are born losers and therein lies their charm

Timorek...

one man's junk is another man's treasure.

Not everyone can be a winner ALL of the time....

and for the record... you complain too damn much about Chicago. Gosh, you don;t even like the weather here...

WHy don't you move to Figi? I hear they have lovely nude beaches.

Someone told me that the name stands for Complletely Useless By September --- so I guess they did better than they should! However, I'm a Brewers fan, so...... :(

Ahhh driving through Chicago @ 4:30 this morning was nice. No morons, idiots, maniacs, and no BOOM BOOM either. Thats the only real time you can get through Chicago going 70 or so

I was watching the Cleveland-Boston game last night, and they announced that Dusty Baker is the new manager of the Cincinnati Reds. I'll tell you, if I was a Reds pitcher, I would be demanding a trade right now! How many Kerry Wood/Mark Prior-type "arms-fall-off" injuries will end pitching careers in Cincinnati??

Anybody ever read "The Peter Priciple"? Baker is a perfect example. Good player rewarded by being elevated to his level of incompetence as a manager....