16-1 in the 6th? My poor Cubbies - UPDATE: final 18-3

[MIButterfly]

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Too bad there's no mercy rule in the majors. Tom Hanks was wrong when he said there's no crying in baseball. I'm crying now.

I'm going to go out on limb here and say they probably won't come from behind in the ninth in this one.

Let's get this one over with, behind us and move on!

[SheltieLover]

1. Good gawd! Who are they playing?

[MIButterfly]

2. Giants

[SheltieLover]

5. I hope the Cubs score some runs!

[rsdsharp]

3. The Giants. They look like hammered shit.

I’ve never seen a team like this. They won 10 in a row — twice. Then they lost 10 in a row. They had a 13 game winning streak at Wrigley, and then lost 8 in a row at Wrigley. It would have been 9 (10 after this game), but they scored 4 in the bottom of the 9th last night to come back and win.

[MIButterfly]

4. I've been a Cubs fan a long time and believe me, I've seen worse

Years of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory; years of the worst record in baseball, years of no defense and no offense; years when the opposing team would score one run in the top of the first and the game was over because the Cubs didn't score any runs, etc.

I loved them then and I love them now.

[SheltieLover]

7. My dad was a die hard Cubs fan, too...

[rsdsharp]

20. I didn't say I don't love them. I've been watching them since 1982.

My wife has been a fan since she was 2. That said, this team sucks, and Craig Counsel is the most overrated (not to mention overpaid) manager in baseball.

[SheltieLover]

24. Didn't he used to play for Bobby Cox on the Braves?

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41. No, most of his career was in Arizona and Milwaukee.

He also played for Colorado, the Dodgers, and the Marlins, but never the Braves.

[SheltieLover]

48. Thx!

Who am I thinking of? 🤔

[SheltieLover]

26. Gotta love the Cubbies!

I used to walk to games with my daughter when she lived in the north side.

Got tickets to the Cubs game in 2008 at Brewers stadium & saw Zambrano throw a no hitter. Then, of course, got more tickets to their 1st home game when they honored him.

Good times, long ago.

[MIButterfly]

30. Zambrano! OMG!

They kept sending him to anger management until they finally paid the Marlins to take him off their hands. He was a good pitcher in his prime though. Somewhere in my house is a box with a Zambrano T-shirt in it!

[SheltieLover]

32. Funny, we were so taken with the shops at Brewer's park, we didn't realize for a while it was a no hitter!

We sat our asses down quickly & stayed put to watch.

Yeah, he was a hot head for sure. Steroids maybe? No clue.

Glad they dumped him.

[MIButterfly]

35. My mother and I went to then-named Miller Park once

The entire parking lot was filled with tailgating Cubs fans. We didn't see a single person with a Brewers shirt or hat on until we got inside the stadium. We really liked the stadium a lot but getting out of the parking lot after the game was a nightmare. It took about an hour and a half to inch our way out. They have all kinds of people directing you into the parking lot and absolutely none directing you out. It was a mess.

A few years ago, I was wearing a Cubs shirt while I was walking into a shop on Princess Cays, Princess cruise line's private island. There was a young man sitting on the steps and as I passed him, I thought he said "Brewers" under his breath so I turned around and said "Did you just say Brewers to me?" He admitted he had and we had quite a fun conversation each defending our team!

[SheltieLover]

37. I don't recall a nightmare getting out of the park

But it's likely daughter was driving & it's been almost 20 yrs ago now...

Too funny about the guy on the island. Lol

[SheltieLover]

6. Wth?

Who was pitching today that gave up 16 runs?

[marble falls]

9. A couple of little leagers they have in development.

[SheltieLover]

11. Cripes

The perpetual farm team.

[MIButterfly]

10. So far there have been five pitchers for the Cubs

Cabrera was the starter but he was taken out early. They all contributed to giving up the 16 runs.

[SheltieLover]

12. Does their whole starting lineup suck, or what?

[marble falls]

8. We are speaking of the Cubs here. Many years ago, the Cubs Spring Trained in Mesa. The sportswriter had a ...

... great column, The Monday Morning Quarterback. Mesans just loved the Cubs and their on-air announcers, Harry and Steve Stone, so when one year the Cubs lost their opener, his headline was "Cubs Lose Opener, Statistically Out of the Running for the Pennant". Did he get grief!

Just like the regular season, the Cubs sold out all the spring training tickets every day.

I lived in Chicago for three years and never scored a Cubs ticket. Now the White Socks? You could go to Circle K and buy a Pepsi in a can and get a free ticket to the Sox. And the Stadium was never, ever half full.

[MIButterfly]

13. My dad used to say White Sox ain't nothing but dirty laundry

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15. White Sox fan?

[MIButterfly]

17. Not at all

Cubs fan!

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27. Rate Field is a beautiful but way oversized park.

[SheltieLover]

14. Well, you know what they say...

If you want ambiance, go to a Cubs game. If you want damned good baseball, go to the South side.

[MIButterfly]

16. Never heard that expression

All I can say is GO CUBS!!!!!

[SheltieLover]

18. I lived in the burbs for 55 years

Dad was a Cubs fan & mom was a Sox fan. I've heard it all.

For opening day each year, I'd get them each their respective team's bag of peanuts from Jewel. Lol

And when I couldn't make it in person, I'd call my dad to tease him by saying, "Just give it up. Decide to wait until next year now & save yourself a season of anguish."

Sadly, he died in 2008, long before they won the big one.

[marble falls]

25. Peanuts! I used to manage our peojects downtown and would drive in from offices on Riverside. I'd get on the highway ..

... and then exitoff about halfway there and buy a bag of peanuts from a guy at the exit who roasted them on an old 30 gal drum, and packaged them in a bag that was printed up as a generic circus peanut bag. I'd toss the empty sack into the backseat.

Once my wife was driving my car for some reason and the girls sitting in the backseat found a crumpled bag, flattened it and read it.

"Mom! We're mad at DAD!"
"WHY?"
"He went to the circus and didn't take us!!"

[SheltieLover]

28. Hahaha!

Poor kiddos. Did you enlighten them as to where the peanut bag came from?

[marble falls]

31. Took them with me a couple of times. Don't feel too sorry for them, they were going to Circus School in ...

... Evanston and we were driving them from Hinsdale. They went to a residential two week riding school, they went to at least one camp every summer.

All the effort paid off. One graduated Summa Cum Laude from Texas A&M and the other Summa Cum Laude from St Edwards in Austin.

The one thing I am really proud of is I was a very good dad.

[SheltieLover]

33. Good for you, MF!

I hear you. I used to drive my daughter from St. Charles to Tinley Park for batting & team practice.

What, your kiddos didn't run away to clown school?

[marble falls]

38. One became a teacher and then changed into a hospital IT head. The other is an archeologist. She used to hand ...

... feed the sharks at A&M Corpus Christi's aquarium. Their sharks would not tolerate males feeding them so she got her scuba certification and my little 5'4", 100# daughter fed them instead. My kids are brave. They love a good challenge.

[SheltieLover]

39. Congrats! You reared them well!

Oooh she must be very brave to feed the sharks! Good for her!

[marble falls]

40. She was a fast softball league catcher, too. My son graduated with an MA from George Washington University ...

... St Louis. He became the editor of Hallmarks Christmas Catalogue. He had an amazing benefit: he got to go to the big toy show in Chicago and got the most amazing gimmee bags. Security is so tight i couldn't get in. I got into the Arms Show in Las Vegas without credentials. I tried for two days to skive into the toy show and came this close to being arrested.

When he got around 45 he decided he needed a change. His hobby was honey bees which he used to set the blossoms of his apple orchard, so he got into the bee business. At 55 he sold the business and he carves wood sculpture these days.

https://www.blueskybeesupply.com/pages/about-us

It looks like Jamie has kept the business.

[rsdsharp]

21. They lost a record 121 games in 2024. The 1962 Mets only lost 120.

[SheltieLover]

23. Good gawd

Had they done a fire sale on excellent players to earn that dubious distinction?

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22. The White Sox always gave a good game, even when they were losing. The crowd was pretty wild, too. ...

... Albert Belle was their LF (he'd been in Cleveland for eight years and did good, but was traded to the Sox '89 or '90 where he spent just two years. I had a friend from Canada who loved the White Sox, so I broke down and got two seats about five or six rows behind the Sox dugout.

Albert Belle had just been released for drunkenly beating on his wife just days before. Albert had also just been announced as a trade to Baltimore and was not making any effort. He wasn't chasing grounders or running out hits. When he was at bat he was just standing in. After a full count a guy a few seats from us yelled out, "Hey Albert, pretend the balls your wife!"

Sox down, 5-1. Albert went down hitless. And with several fielding errors.

[SheltieLover]

29. Good gawd

[MIButterfly]

36. I still remember the "Winning Ugly" year

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42. '83. I was back in Akron, watching the Indians have another just plain ugly year.

[MIButterfly]

43. Yes, 1983! Tony LaRussa was the manager back then

Talk about a blast from the past!

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44. Tony LaRussa struck me as one of the few manager that didn't seem a degenrate drunk. I could have ...

... missed his bad behavior, but I don't remember any.

[bluedigger]

19. Mercy.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

34. What a nightmare game...

… and they obviously stopped even pretending they had a chance by the 9th. I thought I was hallucinating from the horror of it all when I realized they had Carson Kelly PITCHING to end the debacle.

Seriously, they spent all that money to extend contracts and get some pitching, and it really has gone to hell, hasn’t it? *sigh*

And yeah, if this doesn’t end Craig Counsel, I think there’s going to be an outcry. Juggling the batting order hasn’t done shit to fix hitting, and neither is pulling up minor leaguers to pitch whilst the A team languishes on the IL.

[chicoescuela]

45. My Giants are terrible but have scored a combined 30 runs in the last two games

I bet they don’t score again the rest of the weekend.
So friggin painful to watch them

[MIButterfly]

46. Betcha liked today's game though, didn't you?

[chicoescuela]

47. Of course but five or six runs would've been plenty

Save the rest for tomorrow