Reason the Cubs Suck Number...well...it's at least in the thousands...
Cubs sign good college pitcher to in-fucking-sane amount of money. Link here.
White boy? Good looking? Awesome hair? Golden Domer? Sign his ass up! Seven Million Damn Dollars?? Who cares? We...I mean the Cubs (I sure ain't a fan) suck, and you know the old saying: "Good pitching beats good hitting." So a guy considered an average prospect to make an impact in MLB DESERVES as much as three solid veteran relievers make in a year (which the Cubbies sure could use cuz they, as I said, SUCK this year).
What a joke of a team. If not for the misplay by ol' what's his name back in 2003, the Cubs might have actually won the World Series. They don't deserve it. And they didn't deserve it then; they just had three great starters who were actually healthy at the same time. And haven't been healthy together since, due in some part to Dusty having them throw 300 or 400 pitches each and every start in the stretch run of '03. Way to go, Dusty!
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Bill James a few decades back decided to stop rooting for his hometown team, the Kansas City Royals. Must have been painful.
All you youngin's won't remember the greatness of Amos Otis, Dan Quisenberry, Frank White, etc. You probably do remember George Brett, if only for his crazy man routine when the Yankees bush-leagued him out of a home run back in the 80's (must have been Billy as Y's manager, but I'm not sure). Gets rerun around the holidays in a lot of "Don't drink or do drugs cuz this is what will most definately happen to you!" ads.
The born and bred Kansan James, along with a large number of Midwesterners, were passionate followers of a Royals team that made multiple trips to the ALCS in the late '70s and early to mid '80s. The Royals, of course, won the WS behind the pitching of Bret Saberhagen in, I believe, '85. They were a proud franchise, unlike the Cubs, who haved sucked for, like, forever (literally since the beginning of the 20th Century).
But once salaries got out of hand, the Royals began to sink. Their market was just about the smallest in MLB and unlike their brethren Chiefs of the NFL, MLB has no revenue sharing. Steinbrenner would no more give away his TV and radio dollars than slice off a limb.
James, though, grew tired of the gross mismanagement of the Royals, not the fact that they couldn't sign every Tom, Dick and Jose Offerman. Their owner at the time of James decision was one of the richest men in the league (much like the multi billionaire who now owns the Twins and who would have gladly accepted hundreds of millions from MLB to fold his team just a few years back. But the Twins became winners, and Selig knew it would look awful to retract a division winner) but was a man who would not spend money on players.
And as the A's have shown, a small market team can compete in today's MLB consistenly ONLY with superior management. The Royals don't have that. And the Chicago Cubs have certainly never ever had that in the past 100 years.
How anyone can root for the Cubs that doesn't live within 100 miles of Wrigley...well....I just don't understand. They suck. They have sucked for almost one hundred years. And they will obviously continue to suck long after Jeff Eye-Chart has spent his $7.25 billion (sorry...meant to type million) dollars.
For Chicagoans, at least the Notre Dame football season is only months away. Charlie Weis? Now there is somebody who knows how to win. The Cubs should hire Weis as president or g.m right now. The fact that he never played baseball or knows anything about running a baseball team shouldn't be held against the man: the Cubs suck/sucked/will suck. Bring in a winner. End of case.
White boy? Good looking? Awesome hair? Golden Domer? Sign his ass up! Seven Million Damn Dollars?? Who cares? We...I mean the Cubs (I sure ain't a fan) suck, and you know the old saying: "Good pitching beats good hitting." So a guy considered an average prospect to make an impact in MLB DESERVES as much as three solid veteran relievers make in a year (which the Cubbies sure could use cuz they, as I said, SUCK this year).
What a joke of a team. If not for the misplay by ol' what's his name back in 2003, the Cubs might have actually won the World Series. They don't deserve it. And they didn't deserve it then; they just had three great starters who were actually healthy at the same time. And haven't been healthy together since, due in some part to Dusty having them throw 300 or 400 pitches each and every start in the stretch run of '03. Way to go, Dusty!
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Bill James a few decades back decided to stop rooting for his hometown team, the Kansas City Royals. Must have been painful.
All you youngin's won't remember the greatness of Amos Otis, Dan Quisenberry, Frank White, etc. You probably do remember George Brett, if only for his crazy man routine when the Yankees bush-leagued him out of a home run back in the 80's (must have been Billy as Y's manager, but I'm not sure). Gets rerun around the holidays in a lot of "Don't drink or do drugs cuz this is what will most definately happen to you!" ads.
The born and bred Kansan James, along with a large number of Midwesterners, were passionate followers of a Royals team that made multiple trips to the ALCS in the late '70s and early to mid '80s. The Royals, of course, won the WS behind the pitching of Bret Saberhagen in, I believe, '85. They were a proud franchise, unlike the Cubs, who haved sucked for, like, forever (literally since the beginning of the 20th Century).
But once salaries got out of hand, the Royals began to sink. Their market was just about the smallest in MLB and unlike their brethren Chiefs of the NFL, MLB has no revenue sharing. Steinbrenner would no more give away his TV and radio dollars than slice off a limb.
James, though, grew tired of the gross mismanagement of the Royals, not the fact that they couldn't sign every Tom, Dick and Jose Offerman. Their owner at the time of James decision was one of the richest men in the league (much like the multi billionaire who now owns the Twins and who would have gladly accepted hundreds of millions from MLB to fold his team just a few years back. But the Twins became winners, and Selig knew it would look awful to retract a division winner) but was a man who would not spend money on players.
And as the A's have shown, a small market team can compete in today's MLB consistenly ONLY with superior management. The Royals don't have that. And the Chicago Cubs have certainly never ever had that in the past 100 years.
How anyone can root for the Cubs that doesn't live within 100 miles of Wrigley...well....I just don't understand. They suck. They have sucked for almost one hundred years. And they will obviously continue to suck long after Jeff Eye-Chart has spent his $7.25 billion (sorry...meant to type million) dollars.
For Chicagoans, at least the Notre Dame football season is only months away. Charlie Weis? Now there is somebody who knows how to win. The Cubs should hire Weis as president or g.m right now. The fact that he never played baseball or knows anything about running a baseball team shouldn't be held against the man: the Cubs suck/sucked/will suck. Bring in a winner. End of case.
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