I love the Cubs. I very much dislike this iteration of the Cubs. And I can’t stand our owner running a 5 billion dollar organization like we are the Rays. All of the issues we are facing now have been fixable all year and they’ve ignored them. They’ve ignored them because they won’t part with prospects because they are cheap labor in future years. It all comes back to Tom being cheap.
Shouldn’t be legal honestly, respect the game and keep the ball in the ballpark.
We are getting what we paid for. Doing nothing at the trade deadline was unacceptable.
The fact they are more or less burning Rea in this game is negligence. He could have started either of these first two and at least given us some length, but stubbornness won out.
That’s the thing - honestly nitpicking on some of the pitching decisions just doesn’t make sense. I’m sure better strings could have been pulled, but this series was unfortunately just three games of bonus baseball in my mind. The Cubs offense is Nico Hoerner and Michael Busch at this point. Occasionally Suzuki or PCA will give you a good at-bat. But where is that going to get you in the playoffs? Throw in losing your best pitcher…only pitcher really. It’s kind of a miracle the Cubs beat the Padres honestly.
Allowing 16 runs in 2 playoff baseball games is not great. Scoring 12 runs in 5 playoff baseball games also not great.
I don’t think anyone really expected this team to make any serious run after the all star break, but definitely haven’t looked great. Honestly didn’t look good against the Padres, but somehow they were worse. I’ll take getting to the NLDS this season pretty well… but I really hope some big time serious moves are made for pitching come offseason. I really don’t care if we let Tucker walk. I don’t think he’s worth 500m over 10 years. I think Caissie will and would come into his own eventually.
