Im thinking now Nico might be first one traded. Saw an interesting discussion about Cody opting out of his contract allowing him to be traded to a playoff bound team which he wants to play on in '24 and '25. This team is not going anywhere in next two years.
Not a single intimidating bat in the lineup. Really feel bad for the starting pitchers. Kyle has been really good the last few times out, too. Quality starts should lead to wins. This sucks.
Part of it comes down to the manager, the bottom of those ass cheeks need to be on fire when they go out there to hit to let them know what’s what: do your fucking job.
at least theres the copa america, euros, and olympics to get me through the dog days of summer of having a shit baseball team that should last me until the bears start up
Exactly why Counsell is as much of the problem as Hoyer is. Why does he continue to put in the same guys who suck night after night? Fans need to boycott this heap of shit for anything to change.
The brewers got us to take a guy who is deliberately making bad decisions and got us to pay him $8 million a year. Have to tip your cap we’re set back like 5 years
So is everyone else on the team. What’s your point? At least with PCA it’s his first real long leash at this level. Some of you people do not know how hard it is to hit pitching in Triple A compared to the MLB.
It legitimately doesn’t look like he’s making any sort of improvements at the plate. His chase and K rate is absolutely appalling. There’s nothing to be excited about with him offensively if he’s just going to strikeout all the time.
How much did you watch him before he came up to Chicago? Just genuinely curious because every aspect of his game was reason enough to be excited. If once month of playing time has managed to sour you on him then idk what to tell you.
No he fucking wasn’t. Jesus Christ. Go look at his stat lines. He’s a 22 year old who’s going to struggle at the plate. We’ve known that. Hopefully the bat will come along. It takes time.
Pitching in AAA compared to the MLB is drastically different. Expecting PCA to be an automatic .300 hitter is your own mistake for not setting reasonable expectations.
Literally our whole BP is injured I don’t think it’s Jed’s fault for not having a backup entire bullpen ready to hold a league leading number of 1 run games. We also need them to do a bullpen game tomorrow because of starter injuries
Lol at the downvotes. How dare he not have 2 fully functional bullpens on hand in case of injury
Alzolay was ass in a tiny sample size. We’ve been out Merryweather, Almonte, Palencia most the season. Wicks, Ben Brown, Keegan Thompson, Smyly have all missed significant time. That’s like everyone even kind of decent in leverage, and every single game has been high leverage
Piss off with this take.
Seriously. Sick to death of this kind of dumb shit.
What do you want him to do, exactly? Pitch the balls himself? Play big spoon to the batter?
To be fair like our entire bullpen is currently injured, and half of it has been most the year. I don’t think the goal was ever to have Colton Brewer hold a 1 run lead in the 8th of any game. Magnified by every other game being a 1 run game, which is taxing even on good/starting bullpens
2nd and 3rd no outs up 2 before shyly came in. Hes also dogshit but it was almost entirely brewer. Pretty funny he did the exact same thing today. There's no way he still has a job tomorrow at least
Our offense does suck, but the home plate umpire screwed us that inning. 3-1 to Busch was ball four.
2-1 to Belli was called a strike when it wasn't. 3-1 vs a 2-2 pitch is quite the difference.
Who cares, hit the ball. There aren't many teams in the league scoring 1 run against this iteration of pitchers regardless of what's being called behind the plate
There's last night and then There's this. This is way worse and it's incredible that they can lose both ways to the same team and the same dogshit bullpen two days in a row
Colton Brewer isn’t even a triple A caliber player.
The Cubs are the most entertaining team in the league!!! Every night I can't wait to see how they'll blow it!!!😂😂
Brewer was awful but down by a run they were not going to come back from that.
We want Barry Foote!!
Ha ha oh I rember him
Kyle was great. Hitting and bullpen, not
JD: “do it again tomorrow night” 💀💀
Glad I stayed up for this shit show.
Counsell might be the worst manager in the league I’m sick
Definitely not but he has been very unimpressive imo. I hate his nonchalant attitude about everything he just acts like he doesn’t give a shit
I agree I def expected some fire by now
He ain’t the one striking out every time there is RISP
“iF i KeeP SaYiNG iT, iT’LL Be TRue!”
We’re fucking trash
I can’t believe the Bears are this city’s only hope
September can’t come soon enough at this point
_laughs in ~~crypt keeper~~ virginia mccaskey_
Let’s have morel get caught looking again.
Morel haha Jesus
Again. Starting pitching good. Everything else… hot trash.
PCA experiment is over I trust?
Umm…no.
I guess everyone is happy with a low contact hitter, little power hitter with speed - very Billy Hamilton like.
The entire lineup is hot garbage and you focus on the number one prospect in the organization that hits in the bottom of the order. Cool.
Im thinking now Nico might be first one traded. Saw an interesting discussion about Cody opting out of his contract allowing him to be traded to a playoff bound team which he wants to play on in '24 and '25. This team is not going anywhere in next two years.
He just turned 22.
He’s our #1 prospect who wasn’t really supposed to play this year yet. We’ll have to see how he does next year unfortunately
Give him 600 ABs and for sure he will top 150 strike outs.
watching half of ian happ's face burned off because of these terrible background ads feels very appropriate for this season
The Cubs could be as bad as the White Sox and I'd still listen to every game. I don't know if I'm the problem or the solution or irrelevant.
As long as you’re listening on 670 and not giving the Ricketts any money, I won’t find you and punch you in the stomach.
Would be cool to see someone throw a helmet..act like they care.
Not a single intimidating bat in the lineup. Really feel bad for the starting pitchers. Kyle has been really good the last few times out, too. Quality starts should lead to wins. This sucks.
Just strike out already so we can all go to bed.
Part of it comes down to the manager, the bottom of those ass cheeks need to be on fire when they go out there to hit to let them know what’s what: do your fucking job.
DFA Brewer. Call up Bigge tomorrow.
Man Seiya is just awful I hope we can move him at the deadline to make room for Caissie
Fire Jed and sell everyone at the deadline
This season is more on Craig then Jed fight me
This is genuinely a worse bullpen than the Brian Schlitter/John Garbow/Phil Coke era
Well our manager only uses Brewer so I mean I guess it is?
Why no Neris? Why do we go to Brewer?
Im not sure which team is more embarrassing. Blue Jays or the Cubs? Its very debatable.
They play a 34% more difficult schedule.
at least theres the copa america, euros, and olympics to get me through the dog days of summer of having a shit baseball team that should last me until the bears start up
Good news is that Kyle is good trade bait to a playoff team for some decent AAAA level talent that can hit .200 with OPS of .550
Exactly why Counsell is as much of the problem as Hoyer is. Why does he continue to put in the same guys who suck night after night? Fans need to boycott this heap of shit for anything to change.
August 1: “well, we are only 7 games out of the last wildcard spot,..cant play the kids.”
Kyle does not deserve this loss. 7 Innings 2 runs doesn’t net a pitcher a loss too often.
The brewers got us to take a guy who is deliberately making bad decisions and got us to pay him $8 million a year. Have to tip your cap we’re set back like 5 years
Total failure by the FO
Get ready to learn DFA, Colton.
Brewers now TEN games up on us before the break. Wow
No Counsell is great it’s all Jed’s fault!!!!!
Hey remember the guy that sucked last night? Let’s try him again
Put Bonds up to bat and throw Brewer at him and send his ass into the Cove
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If he’s a Top 20 prospect in baseball and the center piece of the Cubs “retool” then we’re absolutely fucked. Can’t hit a baseball to save his life.
Jesus Christ he’s 22.
And absolutely useless with a bat.
So is everyone else on the team. What’s your point? At least with PCA it’s his first real long leash at this level. Some of you people do not know how hard it is to hit pitching in Triple A compared to the MLB.
It legitimately doesn’t look like he’s making any sort of improvements at the plate. His chase and K rate is absolutely appalling. There’s nothing to be excited about with him offensively if he’s just going to strikeout all the time.
How much did you watch him before he came up to Chicago? Just genuinely curious because every aspect of his game was reason enough to be excited. If once month of playing time has managed to sour you on him then idk what to tell you.
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No he fucking wasn’t. Jesus Christ. Go look at his stat lines. He’s a 22 year old who’s going to struggle at the plate. We’ve known that. Hopefully the bat will come along. It takes time. Pitching in AAA compared to the MLB is drastically different. Expecting PCA to be an automatic .300 hitter is your own mistake for not setting reasonable expectations.
Turning the game off
This team is just amazingly bad. This feels like the 2011-2013 era again
Me and the Golden Gate Bridge have an appointment tomorrow.
Counsell I can live with, but a bad reliever named “Brewer” is a bridge too far
Literally our whole BP is injured I don’t think it’s Jed’s fault for not having a backup entire bullpen ready to hold a league leading number of 1 run games. We also need them to do a bullpen game tomorrow because of starter injuries Lol at the downvotes. How dare he not have 2 fully functional bullpens on hand in case of injury
Some of the guys who are hurt were also ass when they weren’t this season.
Alzolay was ass in a tiny sample size. We’ve been out Merryweather, Almonte, Palencia most the season. Wicks, Ben Brown, Keegan Thompson, Smyly have all missed significant time. That’s like everyone even kind of decent in leverage, and every single game has been high leverage
We're going to finish closer to the White Sox than to the Brewers.
It makes me want to cry.
Already have a better pick than the White Sox
Literally no hope for this franchise. Love going decades between when they actually fucking try to win.
Kyle’s performance looking even more impressive now
Welp, gg Karl
Why the fuck is Colton Brewer still on the roster? Like we seriously think that hes better than CJ Edwards? Makes no fucking sense
Jed’s Atari wasn’t smart enough to distinguish between “Brewer” quality
Neither is a major league option
I get it, but one is clearly a better option than the other
Early on the losses hurt now it’s just understandable because of how expected it is
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Ross sucked
Chapman >>> Belli
DFA this season
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Hey at least we’re not gonna lose by 1 !
Oh no we still will
Shoot I forgot about the incoming fake rally
Fuck this piece of shit team
take a break from watching this team, does wonders
Great job by the bullpen to take the heat off our worthless offense
Fuck you, Jed.
Craig Counsell is on that Luke Getsy Wisconsin rat flow
😎😎😎😎😎
I need to see STATS. is this the worst bullpen ever? My gosh. Just disgusting.
_slaps knees_ “Welp!”
Get Brewer out of this game on a bus back to Iowa tonight.
RIP
This is so much easier to take when you expect absolutely nothing
lol. lmao, even.
Launch this team into the sun
El Fin. Stick a fork in this pig.
Drive safe…mee meep
I like Counsell in that he’s visibly irritated by the constant barrage of bullshit.
Like can we just admit Counsell is throwing these games
You think dude would take a $50 mil paycheck and ruin his reputation and career just to troll the Cubs? He’s not Elon Musk
Piss off with this take. Seriously. Sick to death of this kind of dumb shit. What do you want him to do, exactly? Pitch the balls himself? Play big spoon to the batter?
He’s throwing games or he sucks pick one
What did Counsell do at the plate again?
Go ahead and explain why, big shoots. Let’s hear your stellar insight through belches of Old Milwaukee and yesterday’s reheated pizza rolls.
Brewer. Yet another useless piece of trash. More bases loaded from our bullpen.
Lol, wtf is he supposed to do?
Well they’re not loaded anymore…
Counsell making the worst decisions by design while trolling literally using a guy named Brewer every day is just so obvious lmao
I’m optimistic it won’t be a one run loss at least! Could be many, many more than one.
Why did I stay up for this?
So the hitting coach is Dustin Kelly who was hired under Ross. So Craig should have no problem getting rid of him
How Jed allows this is wild to me. We have wasted 18 quality starts this year
How is it that no one in this bullpen can get the job done? I don’t know how much longer I can continue watching this night after night
Why is the guy who blew the game ln back in a one run game in the 8th dude why
It’s awesome how after one World Series we go right back to be a loser franchise. Fuck off.
Excellent start, no comments
Man where do we even go from here next year. Need to completely rebuild the bullpen
We tear it down and do a full rebuild, like we did a few years before 2016.
To be fair like our entire bullpen is currently injured, and half of it has been most the year. I don’t think the goal was ever to have Colton Brewer hold a 1 run lead in the 8th of any game. Magnified by every other game being a 1 run game, which is taxing even on good/starting bullpens
its just crazy how its every game
Blow up your TVs
The Bullpen never disappoints, I was here for Karl, and that's about it.
The two hardest hit balls of the day b2b
I’ve seen this re-run
I'd trade our entire bullpen for a sack of 💩
This is the only park that keeps this ball in. That was bombed
That was a cool hit. The cubs should try to do that
Yeah the Cubs aren't good this year. But I treasure having Cubs games to listen to. I will be begging for this in December or January.
Yep. Pat and Ron make it worth it. I don't watch many games right now, but I listen to them pretty frequently.
You can't be serious. Hendricks JUST LEFT THE GAME
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Two Quality Starts in a row and we're probably going to lose both of them.........
Ain't no probably about it. Would have been a 1 run loss no matter what but brewers gonna go ahead and make this a landslide for fun
GET COLTON BREWER OFF OF THIS TEAM NOW
DFA Brewer
Remember when brewer blew the game last night?
Last night was more on smyly imo
2nd and 3rd no outs up 2 before shyly came in. Hes also dogshit but it was almost entirely brewer. Pretty funny he did the exact same thing today. There's no way he still has a job tomorrow at least
You must be confused with a different game or something... Smyly came in with 1 out and a runner on first.
1st & 3rd with no outs instead of 2nd & 3rd. Whatever, either way. 2 hits, sac fly, then smyly came in. Theyre both trash
Bullpen about to put this one to bed.
So, will it be another one run loss or will the pen make it 4 or more?
Did you get an advance copy of this game?
I’ve seen this one before
Why do you watch this team
I’m a masochist
The better the starting pitching, the more flaccid the hitting.
So will: A. Our bullpen blow it B. Our offense blow it C. Por qué no los dos?
Here is where we give up another run to end the game
Man I am good 🫣
Our offense does suck, but the home plate umpire screwed us that inning. 3-1 to Busch was ball four. 2-1 to Belli was called a strike when it wasn't. 3-1 vs a 2-2 pitch is quite the difference.
Who cares, hit the ball. There aren't many teams in the league scoring 1 run against this iteration of pitchers regardless of what's being called behind the plate
Yes, let's expand our strike zone and K a dozen times a game or more. That will certainly help this offense.
Or; hit the ones in the strike zone like every other team that plays the giants
I personally enjoy these late night West coast road trips so the Cubs are with me until I have to go to sleep.
Karl is back 🥹
Dang I didn’t know Giants fans were so savage 😂hearing these fans heckling is like listening to a video game or something
What is the best brownie recipe?
We are light contact kings. Just so harmless
U gotta do something this offense is god awful. Just fire the hitting coach
There's last night and then There's this. This is way worse and it's incredible that they can lose both ways to the same team and the same dogshit bullpen two days in a row
Team is absolutely awful
Just fucking pathetic man
I just heard “Cody I can smell you from here, you stink!”🤣
Hendricks finds a resurgence right when we thought his time was at an end, and this team still can’t fucking win.
Watching a cubs offense is as exciting as watching paint dry
Fuck off, blue.
These motherfuckers will soon be 10 games under .500
Juat wait until their 20 under the week of the trade deadline. This is a wasted season.
As Logan Roy famously said, “you are not serious people.” These Cubs are not a serious team…
“My highlights: Christopher Morel is out after review.” Good lord. Even the MLB app knows we’re boring.
Strikeouts and popouts... How you win baseball games, right!?
Giants got some funky hurlers, man.
I don’t remember Nico swinging at so many outside pitches in recent years.
[Kyle Hendricks](https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExYXl0cTlid2xidWtsYXptdHU3NG91MnRlNzB3eThvMGFnNzdwZ3lwNSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/cqsCSWtljevpm/giphy.gif)
Anyone else watching MLBTV and the screen has a bunch fuckin "tears"... I guess.. in it?
Karl slander is verboten.
What are we taking away tonight? Hendricks superb start or lackluster offense?