July 22, 2021: What is Worse

Being a die hard fan isn’t easy… It’s so much easier to let’s just say, head to Milwaukee for Game 6, throw on a Milwaukee Bucks hoodie, and go crazy waving a towel, supporting a team that is winning; you did see Bulls “fan” Chance The Whacker at that game, right? Anyways… whatever floats your boat man… that just seems so foreign to me. I didn’t have anything against the Bucks, and was fine with them winning, other than Packers fans being happy, and was very happy for Giannis and the anti-super team win… bravo! But I’m not going to act like I’m a Bucks fan… sheesh… But that’s not what today is about… the Bucks that is… you know where I’m at right now. Completely locked in on the Cubs; feeling completely like crap about the current state. As Tuesday night provided a much needed shot in the arm, Wednesday night brought us back down to the grim reality.

What is worse? Getting shut down by old man Wainwright, watching Rizzo flounder on the basepaths, or seeing Molina get the game winning hit; can I say all of the above? How the F can we not hit Wainwright? Seriously. But I guess I ask that question a lot. Why can’t the Cubs hit against bum pitchers? I understand getting shut down by your top notch pitchers; that’s not fun either, but I get it. But only being able to muster 1 run against this guy? And then to see some bum win it all in the bottom of the 10th, after we tied it up with 2 outs in the top of the 9th… sickening, absolutely sickening. Speaking about bums… I’m not going to call Rizzo one; I’m not going to call any of the Cubs bums… well, OK, that’s not completely true. I have my feelings about certain guys whose last names begin with H, but look, as long as they have the Cubs uniform on, I’m rooting for them. It’s just not easy…

I mentioned this, oh, I don’t know, probably about a month ago… maybe longer. If there is one guy who seems the most effected by all this “break up the team” shit, it’s Rizzo… hands down. Yet, I’m not going to say it’s only him. You think the lack of focus Baez has from time to time has anything to do with this? You think KB is not feeling it? How about not being brought in as a pinch hitter last night? This one may be more on Ross, and even Hoyer, but why the hell don’t you let KB pinch hit in this fricking game??? It’s really a horrible decision. I know he has “hamstring fatigue”, but you might as well classify it as “protecting our biggest trade asset”…. bullshit man. If I can see how this is effecting guys, then you don’t think the guys in the locker room see it, aka Willson Contreras. One guy who probably will not be moved, along with Kyle Hendricks, who pitched another great game on Wednesday, should be Cubs for a while… shit, but who knows? Anyways, Willson called it out, and then got reprimanded for it… how’s that Rossy? Why don’t you grow a set of balls and tell the truth? I can only imagine what is being fed to you by Hoyer, but stand up man. Use it all as motivation for this team instead of toeing the company line. But what else can a manager with absolutely zero experience do??? I don’t know… just how I see it I guess.

After the game, Rizzo felt bad about his miscue; he can’t help that he’s slow as shit, but not running on the grounder in the 10th… oh yeah, what about his groundout in the 9th with the bases loaded… Yes, it was a bad night, and he should feel bad; I feel bad. I feel bad about this whole damn thing. I want to blame somebody for it; don’t we always look to do that when things aren’t going well? There is plenty to go around, no doubt. The players, the manager, the front office… I want to pick what is worse… And I think I’ve got it. By leaving the guys that were on THE team that brought us the holy grail hanging out there, flailing in the wind, as all this team does is make the playoffs year in year out, giving us the best era of Cubs baseball in all of our lives… that was a huge misstep. Don’t they always say the biggest part of the game is mental? Well, these guys are certainly mentally messed up, and that will be proven when they go elsewhere and kill it. Who knows what would have happened if they had some certainty in their future in a Cubs uniform??? Shit man…