The CUBS BLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
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My Dad played for the Cubs farm system back in the early 1960's in the Southwest. He told me that they had a player on the AAA team in New Mexico when he played that the Cubs thought was just too old (29) and they were just stringing him along until the end of his contract. Several years later when the Mets beat out the Cubs for the division title, guess who was one of the starters for the Mets!\n\nHe also said, whenever the Cubs found a really good player they would always trade him for two bums. Some things never change.
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I can't believe it either!  Wood's mechanics are terrible and always have been.  The guy never learned how to pitch correctly.  Prior has the same problem.  They will never pitch an entire season without breaking down.  The Cubs will never do anything until they address this issue.  The other problem is hiring Sweet Lou!  This guy is a bomb ready to go off.  With a sub par team and a short fuse all the Cubs fans will get is Lou's side show and another 90 plus loss season.  It's too bad because the Cubs fans deserve much more.  And why isn't Ron Santo in the hall of fame????
62715
Yes. Like the BoSox and White Sox. The Cubs are due! I say defy all logic. The Cubs will win in 2006.
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White Sox are better and were better\nThe memory I have of the cubs is that they are probably the most pitiful baseball team of the past 100 years.  They can't win anything, they can't even win their division.  The last time they won a world series (1908) hardly anyone was alive to remember it.  The cubs owner knows that the cubs suck, therefore continues to let them lose.  The cubs will never win a championship, they should maybe be demoted to a AAA team and then maybe they could beat somebody.  The cubs suck so bad.  Thats what they get for disrespecting the goat.  There is no need to build a new stadium in chi town, because it will go another 100 years without seeing a winner come through there.  The cubs should go away, and all of chicago should cheer for the White Sox, or if they are really smart, The CARDINALS.  Now thats a baseball team.  The cardinals are the most successful NL team in history and the cubs choke on all their championship banners.
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Just enough time for the Cubs to post another losing season, nunber 100 if I'm not mistaken...\n\nBWAHAHAHAHAH!!! LOL\n\nGo White Sox!!!!
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they let the bullpen go.  they cant hold leads late in the game.  they have also forgot how to play defence.  they are commiting way too many errors and giving teams second and third chances.
323952
Cubs win.\n\nwhite sox lose.\n\nThat would be better.
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of course they will! The astros? haven't they lost 6 straight??? they've been slumping like my beloved Cubs, but the Cubs have a better team, and can still make Wild Card! Go Cubs!
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Chi Cubs 6, Cincinnati 5\n\n Greg Maddux threw fewer pitches than usual, and got another milestone win. Ryan Dempster threw a lot more than usual, and got a heart-pounding save.\n\nIt takes a lot of the unusual to beat the Cincinnati Reds these days.\n\nMaddux beat baseball's hottest team for the third time this season, and Dempster survived a scare while closing out the Chicago Cubs' 6-5 victory Friday night, ending the Reds' eight-game winning streak.\n\n"Ain't never easy," Cubs manager Dusty Baker said. "Dang, it was a tough one. We needed this one badly. We were due to win one of these."\n\nThe Cubs emerged from a three-game losing streak with Henry Blanco's three RBIs and a short but solid performance by Maddux (7-5), who has beaten the Reds three times this season. He gave up four hits, including solo homers by Adam Dunn and Scott Hatteberg, in 5 1-3 innings.\n\nADVERTISEMENT\nMaddux's 325th career win broke a tie with Nolan Ryan and Don Sutton for 13th on the career list. Eddie Plank is next on the list, one victory ahead.\n\nMaddux took a grounder off his lower right leg in the third, and Baker didn't hesitate to go to his bullpen early when the Reds threatened in the sixth. He lifted Maddux after only 66 pitches.\n\n"I didn't like the way he was throwing in that one inning," Baker said. "He was getting everything up."\n\nMaddux didn't second-guess the decision.\n\n"That's just trying to win," Maddux said. "Our bullpen's done a great job all year. I didn't see a problem with it."\n\nThe problems came when Dempster got into the game in the ninth with a 6-4 lead. Dempster, who had blown three of his last five save chances, loaded the bases with no outs, then walked Ryan Freel to force in a run.\n\n"Early on, I wasn't fully committed. I don't know why," Dempster said. "I just wasn't there. It took me walking in a run to finally calm down and get it done. It was definitely exciting. My heart's still going."\n\nCincinnati Reds right fielder Austin Kearns misses a double hit by Chicago Cubs' Aramis Ramirez in the seventh inning of a baseball game Friday, June 9, 2006, in Cincinnati. Kearns left the game with a hamstring injury on the play. Chicago won 6-5.\nAP - Jun 9, 10:37 pm EDT\nMore Photos\nDempster struck out Felipe Lopez, got Brandon Phillips to line out, then retired Ken Griffey Jr. on a routine grounder to end it for his 10th save in 13 chances. He threw 35 pitches in that one dramatic one inning.\n\nThe Reds were stunned after their first loss in June.\n\n"We knew we were going to win, but things happen," Phillips said. "When Freel got on base, I said, 'It's over."'\n\nThe Reds got back into the NL Central race with their longest winning streak since 1999. On Friday, they drew their first capacity crowd since an opening-day loss to the Cubs.\n\nThe 41,064 fans cheered loudly for Griffey, back in the lineup after missing two games with a sore thigh. The All-Century outfielder was a .417 career hitter off the four-time Cy Young winner, but grounded out and flied out in their two head-to-head match ups.\n\nBlanco had a two-run double and a sacrifice fly off Elizardo Ramirez (2-5), driving in one run more than the Cubs had managed in their last three games combined. Blanco, one of the NL's top defensive catchers, also threw out Lopez as he tried to steal second base in the sixth inning, undercutting a rally.\n\nMaddux is having a season of extremes. He opened 5-0 for the first time in his career, winning all of his April starts and turning 40 years old along the way.\n\nOnce the calendar turned, so did his fortunes. Maddux went into a 1-5 slump -- the only victory was over Cincinnati -- with a 7.75 ERA in his next seven starts. He was back in form on Friday, which started with more bad news for the Cubs.\n\nRight-hander Kerry Wood went ba
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No I think the Cubs will do better this coming year, not TOO much better though.  I really doubt the Cardinals can repeat.
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You Chicago fans make me puke. "They suck!" "Grossman should be yanked!" "The coaching staff are awful!" "They have no offence!"\n\nBlah, blah, whine, natter, blah, blah, blah..... They are 9-2 you morons. A couple of years down the road when they are 2-9 again, the same whiners of today will be willing to cut off their right arms just to see the Bears have a season like this again...
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Im a Cards fan, Im glad Bartman did it, Cubs will always be a mediocre team. Cards will always be better than them!
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I'm a huge Mets fan. This is there year baby! And the Braves are in last. Stinks for them.
571959
I'm going to go against the grain and say the Cubs.  But hear me out.  They are in the NL Central... which, I believe, is the toughest division in the MLB.  With the dominance of the Cardinals and the Astros, the Cubs are always picked to at least contend for the Wild Card.  Meanwhile... their Pitching staff.. which is supposed to be their strong suit... is horrible.  Remember, Carlos Zambrano and Greg Maddux are supposed to be their number three and four starters.  Kerry Wood is definitely the most over rated player in baseball, with Mark Prior a close second or third.  Add the resurgence of the Sox, and you have the most overrated team in the MLB.
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I think the cubbies will be down to their last out, leading by one run in the bottom of the ninth.  Hell will freeze over, the end of the earth will occur and they will go down as the team that could never put it together.
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nope.  They aren't even one of the two best teams in their division (much less baseball), so eventually they will fade.  Their pitching is sucpect big-time.
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ME ME ME ME ME ME Im dying over here GOOOOO GIANTS!! BEAT LA !! BEAT LA!! BEAT LA!! GO GIANTS I WANT OPPING DAY TICKETS PICTER AND CATCHERS REPORT THIS MONTH!!!!! BASBALLL!!!!!! THE DIRT,THE GRASS, THE PLAYERS, AND THE FOOD!!! BASEBALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!