The Chicago Cubs haven't exactly had a lot to laugh about this season. They've been pretty bad and are seemingly and needing to be in rebuilding mode. Delusional Cubs fans are calling for people's heads. Reality is though, they've got a lot of really bad players (Soriano, Ramirez, Zambrano) that they paying a lot of money for...and they need to get rid of them.
Unfortunately, the management has continued spending money on guys like that and didn't develop the minor league system. That's starting to change though Cub fans don't seem to get it.
One guy worth keeping...we think, pitcher Ryan Dempster. Dempster tried to intro Saturday's game in his best Harry Caray voice. Is if funny? Kind of---what do you think?
Did you know that "Matt Garza" backwards is "Azrag Tamm?"
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Carlos Zambrano to Cubs: We play like Triple A Team
Well, nobody has ever accused Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano of being subtle. And we are pretty sure this will just reinforce that.
The often volatile pitcher went off on about a 90 second rant after his Cubs gave up another last at-bat game on Sunday the St.Louis Cardinals. He was a little angry about Pujols hitting a walk-off homerun, he was more pissed about the preceding at-bat when Cardinals shortstop Ryan Theriot hit a double off closer Carlos Marmol to tie the game.
In the rant partially directed at Marmol, who blew the game for Zambrano, Zambrano started with; "The problem wasn't Pujols" "The problem was (Marmol's slider to Ryan Theriot).
He continued "We should know better than this. We play like a AAA team. This is embarrassing. Embarrasing for the team and the owners. Embarrassing for the fans. Embarrassed, that's the word for this team."
And there was more. "We should know better than what we did on the field. We should know that Ryan Theriot is not a good fastball hitter. We should know that as a team. We should play better here. We stink. That's all I've got to say."
Zambrano wasn't wrong and we think maybe its good he just vented instead of breaking things as he's been wont to do in the past. The Cubs have been awful, and will be awful for awhile. Over the past few years, previous management spent a lot of money on really, really questionable players. Z could easily call out Alfonso Soriano or Aramis Ramirez for not earning their money. He could call out a lot of people.
Here's the audio from the interview from WGN-TV, it appears, nobody got it on video:
The often volatile pitcher went off on about a 90 second rant after his Cubs gave up another last at-bat game on Sunday the St.Louis Cardinals. He was a little angry about Pujols hitting a walk-off homerun, he was more pissed about the preceding at-bat when Cardinals shortstop Ryan Theriot hit a double off closer Carlos Marmol to tie the game.
In the rant partially directed at Marmol, who blew the game for Zambrano, Zambrano started with; "The problem wasn't Pujols" "The problem was (Marmol's slider to Ryan Theriot).
He continued "We should know better than this. We play like a AAA team. This is embarrassing. Embarrasing for the team and the owners. Embarrassing for the fans. Embarrassed, that's the word for this team."
And there was more. "We should know better than what we did on the field. We should know that Ryan Theriot is not a good fastball hitter. We should know that as a team. We should play better here. We stink. That's all I've got to say."
Zambrano wasn't wrong and we think maybe its good he just vented instead of breaking things as he's been wont to do in the past. The Cubs have been awful, and will be awful for awhile. Over the past few years, previous management spent a lot of money on really, really questionable players. Z could easily call out Alfonso Soriano or Aramis Ramirez for not earning their money. He could call out a lot of people.
Here's the audio from the interview from WGN-TV, it appears, nobody got it on video:
Friday, December 3, 2010
Ron Santo Passes At 70
((HT: MyFoxChicago))
The Chicago Cubs, according to long-time play-by-play guy Pat Hughes, lost their biggest fan when Ron Santo passed this morning at the age of 70.
Friends of Santo's family said Santo died Thursday night in Arizona after lapsing into a coma the day before. He died of complications from bladder cancer.
The Wrigley Field marquee was changed to say "Ron Santo, 1940 - 2010"
Here's coverage of the passing from WFLD-TV
Their coverage also included an interview with Sports Director and FOSG Corey McPherrin...
Here's a tribute from CSN Chicago.
Here's a clip from the documentary film This Old Cub that Ron Santo' son Jeff produced back in 2004. (Thanks WGN-TV)
The Chicago Cubs, according to long-time play-by-play guy Pat Hughes, lost their biggest fan when Ron Santo passed this morning at the age of 70.
Friends of Santo's family said Santo died Thursday night in Arizona after lapsing into a coma the day before. He died of complications from bladder cancer.
The Wrigley Field marquee was changed to say "Ron Santo, 1940 - 2010"
Here's coverage of the passing from WFLD-TV
Their coverage also included an interview with Sports Director and FOSG Corey McPherrin...
Here's a tribute from CSN Chicago.
Here's a clip from the documentary film This Old Cub that Ron Santo' son Jeff produced back in 2004. (Thanks WGN-TV)
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