Our Baseball Teams were, of course abject failures this year--Chicago is a great Sports town--arguably one of the best--in all major professional Sports.
There is no excuse for what has happened this season to the Cubs and Sox, None whatsoever. I cannot really see reasons why Sox have failed as I pay not so much attention to them--My Bad !!
But the Flubs ?? I accept no "rebuilding reasons" They are just excuses--purely and simply. The biggest reason that Cubs failed was on three players. And these three were supposedly the core--Castro, Rizzo, and Barney--The Cubs COULD NOT HIT--simple as that. None of them is even batting .250--none of them. The rest of the team at least got on base occasionally --These clowns did not.
The Pitching and Defense were both adequate. The Pitchers went deep into games with little or no support. If we had built up early leads, our hurlers would have been even better. OH. we hit a ton of Home Runs--mostly with no one on base--Why because Castro and company did not get on base--and when they did--especially in key situations, Rizzo looked like what he is --a minor leaguer.( The Padres knew this , for sure)
An established Major league hitter would have helped but the owner is too cheap to invest--BUT still charged full price at the gate. These guys looked like a Pre-season team--all year long.
Our plusses--The two Catchers, Staring pitchers, Junior(so far) Sweeney , Schierholts, Bagasovic (sp) and a reliever or two--BUT thats it.
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