Chicago Cubs 2026

#726      
bdutts
Illiniaaron said:
Alcantara called up, Lopez DFA’d. Today’s lineup shakeup is PCA leading off then Bregman, Busch, Hoerner, Conforto, Suzuki, Ballesteros, Amaya, and Swanson.
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Why bring these guys up just to sit them? PH for both Ramirez and Alcantera? Might as well see if they can do better than the veterans who’ve been sucking for the last three weeks. Some have sucked the entire year (Swanson, I’m looking at you).
 
#730      
Second place is 1st loser
Mr. Roberts said:
They have hit bottom and started digging.
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Almost impossible to believe that this team had TWO ten game winning streaks.

With proven players, the only thing that fixes this complete lack of confidence is finding some sort of success. As bad as the offense has been, not falling being 2-0, 3-0, etc in the first three innings would be ideal. Have the had a lead in any of the games since the Sox extra innings loss?

Sports phycology presenting itself with the Cubs.

Losing, is a disease, as contagious as polio, but ah....curable.

What movie???
 
#731      
Grandpa
When does football start?

Man, I have tickets for 2 Cub games in Miami. They will be in dead last by then, something like 29-110. I wonder who all they will sell at the trade deadline, (or sooner). I'll probably be watching an almost entirely new team.

I'm ice skating with my daughter while we are there, that will probably be the highlight instead of the Cubs.
 
#733      
Warren Carter Fanclub
Second place is 1st loser said:
Losing, is a disease, as contagious as polio, but ah....curable.

What movie???
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#742      
EyeoftheIllini
I’m going to take PCA’s three walks and a sac fly out of the leadoff spot as a good omen and say Cubs are going to beak out of this hell.
 
#744      
KBLEE
So - we've had the June swoon in May. Wonder what June will actually bring...
 
#747      
Second place is 1st loser
Warren Carter Fanclub said:
Obviuosly their success wasn't dependent on their ex-manager.
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Their success is their within their scouting department that finds pitcher, after pitcher, after pitcher, etc....and they develope them properly. They're never forced to overpay. They never even thought twice about re-signing Peralta. No problem. Plug n play. When you can save an insane amount of money there, the positional options are endless.

The Cubs can't draft and develop pitching whatsoever. That's been an issue going back 20 years.
 
#748      
Illiniaaron
Second place is 1st loser said:
Their success is their within their scouting department that finds pitcher, after pitcher, after pitcher, etc....and they develope them properly. They're never forced to overpay. They never even thought twice about re-signing Peralta. No problem. Plug n play. When you can save an insane amount of money there, the positional options are endless.

The Cubs can't draft and develop pitching whatsoever. That's been an issue going back 20 years.
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It doesn’t seem like they are very good at developing young players period.
 
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