If you haven't seen this play...wow! I'd call it a little league play, but I don't think even a little leaguer would let this happen, let alone a catcher who's supposed to be a defensive specialist. At least I think he's supposed to be a defensive specialist - his OPS is barely over .500, so he must be good on defense, right?
Pathetic, Part 2
If you wonder why Cubs players suffer from brain-lock, maybe they're just following the cue of Cubs management, as seen by this note at the end of today's game recap.
The Cubs called up OF Sam Fuld from Triple A Iowa to take the roster spot of 1b Derrek Lee, who was traded to Atlanta for prospects on Wednesday. The Cubs had told 1b Micah Hoffpauir he was being promoted, but because they just sent him down Monday he isn't eligible to come back up until next week.
I guess it's not too much of a stretch to go from not knowing that John Grabow shouldn't get a multi-year, $7.5 million contract to not knowing how the rules for calling players up from the minor leagues work, leaving Xavier Nady as the only true 1b on the roster. Way to go, front office!
Pathetic, Part 3
The 2006 Cubs, who lost 96 games despite the 3rd highest payroll in the NL (7th highest in MLB), were 53-69 after 122 games.
The 2010 Cubs, who have the highest payroll in the NL (3rd highest in MLB), are 50-72 after 122 games. Yes - this team has a chance to be worse than the team that completely quit on Dusty Baker in his final season as Cubs manager.
And not so pathetic
Everyone says people will come to Wrigley Field to sit in the sun and drink beer, regardless of how bad the product on the field is. Well, apparently there are limits to how many of those people there really are. Check out this "highlight" from Wednesday's game, and how many empty seats there are in the bleachers (on a gorgeous Wednesday afternoon, with school not yet back in session). Today's game had a paid attendance of 30,687 - that's about 10,000 less than capacity. And those attendance numbers don't figure to improve as the team continues to lose and the kids go back to school. The last time there were this many empty seats was the end of the aforementioned 2006 season, which led to Jim Hendry's offseason free agent spending spree (Soriano, Lilly, Marquis, DeRosa). This year, he won't be able to "fix" the team's problems by throwing money around, so I'm going to look at the silver lining at say that the next couple of years I'll have plenty of material to blog about.
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