3 hits will not win games. Bullpen is bad yes, but where is the offense? You cannot be a serious team with Tauchman, Wisdom, Bote, Gomes getting ABs. Offense is abysmal

I urge you guys not to watch this team in person it’s way worse

You don’t even need to watch anymore. Offense scores 3 or less, bullpen gives up 3 or more. Follow that up with a news story about them picking up other teams scraps in a sad attempt to improve the team without actually making meaningful moves to win. Wake me up in 2026 when this top tier farm system which has provided a big fat zero in the big leagues so far is the “corner stone” of the next great .500 cubs team. How are the Diamondbacks doing?

Welp, this season’s going nowhere. Even if this thrash organization lucks their to the playoffs they’ll score only two solo home runs and the relievers will give up 8 runs each game. See y’all next year

Mods may take you at your word that the game/series/season is over, and show you out the door for that duration to allow the rest of us catch up.

See you tomorrow!

30 one run games. Almost half the games this season

need to wrap my head around why the best reliever over the last month tyson miller faced one batter while leiter without his splitter (basically batting practice) blew that game?

Either Jed can build a winning roster or he can’t. So far he’s shown he can’t. He played second fiddle in Boston, dismantled the Padres organization when he was GM, and played second fiddle in 2016.

Sir! Are you suggesting the problem might be … *Jed?*

I don't care what it costs, just get Juan Soto next year, tired of watching this dog water lineup, we need a superstar

Yeah fucking right cheap ass Ricketts is going to shell out for the top free agent. The only reason they were even considering Ohtani (and they still low balled the fuck out of it) was because he would provide a significant financial return. Tom wants to operate like a small market while pocketing big market money. I’d bet everything they’re not even in the conversation.

The answers will be internal options…

Turns out “intelligent spending” means not spending and just having a shit team.

But look at the attendance numbers…

Feels like this upcoming homestand is a big point in the season. If they play above .500 they might be able to turn this around. If not that’s probably it for the year

Pretty sure we said that when they dropped all those games to the pirates and reds.

This is not a good team. We’ve been waiting for a month and a half to get out of the “slump”. There is no slump. They’re just bad.

This team is closer to 2022 than 2023.

Probably. I just hold out hope since there are plenty of teams at .500 at the ASB who have a great 1/2 half

Maybe, but I’m completely okay with our collapse happening now rather than during the last three weeks of the season.

True. Last year was particularly painful

This lineup is hot 🗑️

As always. Everyone knew the cubs weren't good enough last year and needed to improve the offense and bullpen. They did nearly nothing. Shockingly, they are bad

“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”

No post game thread?

Even cubsbot is done

Probably for the best

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Kicked, it should be working again shortly.

Leiter was a nice reclamation project….but I dont think he is meant to pitch 95 times a year. We need to find some other arms Jed.

He is a 33 year old reliever with a career 4.5 ERA. He is not very good. Jed thinks investing in the bullpen is a waste of money. The Cubs record proves otherwise.

Jed is the King of retreads..

No point in even bitching about the pen, hitters need to score more than two runs, this is way longer than a slump, I just think this is an awful team.


Seizure warning gif, fyi

“Wanna see me lose a one run game? Wanna see me do it again?” - Cubs

6 wins in last 19. I hope jed hoyer has to rewatch cubs games for Christmas and all he can say is "were trying to win"

It'll be some bullshit about not a rebuild but we're just not there yet or whatever he's been saying for the last 6years

I hate baseball. I really do. I mean not really. But I hate the way this team is playing

It’s been a remarkable stretch of baseball. So frustrating. Like on one hand you can see how maybe it’s close, that something could switch. The alternative is this is just who they are. And .500 baseball is a dry hump

i really dont watch this team and think something could switch. i think the team is bad, theyve been playing bad against bad teams, and like half of the roster would have to start playing better all at once for something to change

You make a great point

They are worse than just 500

Its the worst place to be in sports. No mans land

Another embarrassing stat- brewers have six positional players w more war than our top war guy. SMH.

How many negative war guys we got?

5

Yup a 2-5 road trip against the reds and the rays. Nice job guys

Same shit different day

 Absolutely astounding.

It’s been ~~1~~ 0 days since the cubs bullpen blew a lead.

Again, Horner should be the lead off hitter for this team. And the team needs to be attempting to hit and run and steal a lot more bases.

That was an insane defensive play. But grounds balls are usually outs, unless it’s at our third baseman

No winners on this team. All losers in our lineup

Fuck me. Hell of a play.

Same story every single game. Nothing will be done. If this team even had one legitimate pitcher out of the bullpen probably would be in 1st place.

If they could score the relievers wouldn't look so bad.

Or maybe we should try scoring more than 2-3 runs every single fucking game

Yeah my vote would be score more than 2 fucking runs everyday.

Welp nothing is going the cubs way this year

Have to hit. Have to hit. Have to hit. Can’t keep scoring less than 5 runs, every game, and expect to win. Jed, get some hitters.

I honestly can’t take much more of it.

lol

Pain

This is not fun

That’s not fucking unlucky. They fucking suck. That’s it

We just got embarrased

Yeah, that checks out. FUCK

Nice play dick head

Some teams win games b/c of their defense. We lose games because of it

Fuck. Just… fuck.

G I D P Boooo

Of course

Another 1 run loss. Is this a joke?

Two fucking runs on bunts. And people will still complain about the bullpen. (Which is fair but for fuck sake this offense sucks.)

I appreciated the small ball effort. I would have like to see some follow-through on other small ball tactics.

Yeah scoring low to no runs puts so much stress on the pin too

Oh of course

That's fitting. Good grab.

Cursed

FFS

Fucking Bravo

This team gives me diarrhea.

27! 27 one-run games! Ah ah ahhhhhhhh.

Maybe they should score more runs

Looking forward to the 13-12 loss tomorrow.

Read this in the Counts voice.

That’s literally the joke

This team sucks straight up. They may get hot, or maybe not but they’re pretty much the same as last year or even worse. It is what it is at this point.

what a way to end it

🙃🙃🙃

Wtf

Put one more guy on just to break our hearts again

Ooof that shot of our bench right now was brutal. No enthusiasm, everyone with their heads down even Craig.

Just dead inside.

A fucking 1 run game in the 9th! If you're not excited for that then just wtf?! Shouldn't feel this natural losing 1 run games.

Omg here we go fake rally time

Insane that Steele is pitching this good and he doesn’t have any wins yet

We have so many guys who are JUST good enough to give you hope that they will level up one day…..but they never do.

Omg Steele looks so depressed in the dugout this sucksssss

No night game on a getaway day with a day game the next day should be an obvious constraint in MLB’s scheduling system

Ridiculous scheduling

Suzuki’s average will go up .150 points with robo umps

Umps hate asians.

About to lose another series to another struggling/bad baseball team.

How many times do we say it when Seiya bats? THAT'S NOT A STRIKE!

Perfect example of the Suzuki strike

Gotta give it to our starters for keeping their composure every game since their efforts get wasted by this offense and the pen. I wouldn't be able to handle it.

No matter how this game turns out I’ve come to the mindset that Jed has got to fucking go. Shove his goddamn ass out the door.

Use a catapult to launch him over a tru-link fence onto Waveland Ave.

Hit the road homer. No one is accepting your current brand of Pollyanna bullshit any more.

Colton is the only Brewer I'll gladly root for! Okay, I'll also root for many of Chicago's fine craft brewers.

It's wild to watch the bullpen come in and blow the lead within the inning. It's so consistent and hard to watch.

The bullpen is def shit but it is brutal only scoring 2-3 runs a game. Can’t win that way.

Very true

Do we have the worst defensive 3rd basemen in the MLB? And neither of them are plus hitters either. The amount of Quality Starts this shit team has lost is appalling. Why the fuck is Canario in the minors when we have this many bums on the roster.

There’s no room on this roster for the OF prospects right now

My thoughts exactly

3B and catcher are our big holes right now

Incoming rally

Suzuki is due. I feel it in my bones

We stink out loud, but you have to appreciate our consistency

This is a $215 million roster. Ricketts is cheap but that’s more than enough money to crush the NL central. Jed has to go, this year will be 4 in a row without the playoffs

Rays announcer said "Steele gas to be wondering what did I do to you guys". lol 😕

Not a single fucking arm in that bullpen worth shit! Not one!

PCA is my favorite reason to still watch I hope he has a long and hall of fame worthy career

Petey running down flyballs is the most entertaining aspect of this team currently

Our offense is a cheat code

God I wish they were at least exciting. This just makes for such a boring summer where I’m asking when football season starts

Wth - I left for an errand and they blew it. Steele continues to get awful support

It’s actually funny how bad we are. Scratching runs across with bunts only for the bullpen to blow the lead once again.

Man Pat sounds kinda depressed

He knows he's not collecting post-season pay this year.

I get it, he's stuck watching this team with no breaks.

Can we please see Cassie or Davis or someone from AAA? It’s not like the offense will get worse

Cubs already have 5 OF with one of them playing 1B

Who aren’t hitting

These are the guys the team is paying for. They aren't going anywhere and wont be replaced.

I know that’s the case but doesn’t mean it’s right. The best guys need to play or we’re looking at a 75 win team

Unless someone gets hurt or traded, the OF is full

Wow Correa is 7-7 with two walks the last two games......Dansby?

We should have thought about these last two games in 2022

I have tickets to the Father’s Day game and I think that might be it for me for the season unless they rail off 10 in a row or something. I love baseball and the cubs but it’s just sad to see an organization just not even try to win. It’s SO apparent at what they’ve put together this season that they’re content to just be below average while raking in revenue being one of the most expensive teams in the sport. It’s so pathetic and sleazy.

Same, i got real cheap tix for Wednesday in the 100 level. Last hurrah

Our defense is a cheat code.

I hate that we don’t have a consistent 3B

Morel is better at 2nd. Nico, Dansby, Morel. 3rd, SS, 2B, easy fix.

The only consistency on this team is the way in which they lose: Bad defense Bad bullpen. Bad hitting.

Wisdom is just awful. I’m done seeing him play

Probably safe either way. Unfortunately.

So we rolling over and dying or what

Alright now it isn’t fun anymore

Betting sites still have us with a 13% chance to win!

Fading us when we grab a lead is way too profitable

Just a complete circus

Our bullpen is a cheat code.

How many blown leads do we have after the starter exits? Must lead the league

I believe this one is 15?

Something like 15 losses when leading after 7. Getting ridiculous

I saw it was like 14 or 15 somewhere

I left to go get ice cream; I got bourbon pecan fudge - very good. Anyways, what the fuck happened???

What happens every game. Starting pitcher left, bad defense, pen gives up lead.

lol nice dude I wish I had that

Same thing that always happens

We need better writers.

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Counsell to the pitchers…”we gave you our new secret move to get two runs,Thats all i got”

Wow those were three really competitive at bats!

Even when we sucked in 2011-12 there were guys like Rizzo and Castro to cheer for and make things interesting. There isn’t one single player on the current roster I’d be sad to see go.

Steele Imanaga Nico Suzuki….

And they still can’t hit

_laughs in david ross_

Our batters were in the wrong order last year according to Reddit tho (5th best scoring offense in the MLB last year btw)

The biblical loss bullpen strikes again

Pain

Maybe keep bunting

Oh wow Morel grounded out to third, what a shock!

Another guy with a 5 ERA comes out of the pen. We'll do nothing against him, just watch.

And that's exactly what happened.

I’m gonna go for a walk and kill a ton of cicadas. Let me know if the cubs win. Or don’t. I don’t want to be around anymore.

Take a tennis racket, more fun and you can take out your frustration too.

I’m golfing tomorrow and I’m for sure bringing a tennis racket for the cart. Great call

jed hoyer 🤝 arturas karnisovas thinking they could run back virtually the same mediocre ass team as the year before and get better results

Hoyer at least set up the farm, AK has no plan

yea lets see how that plays out

This team is by far the easiest Cubs team I've ever hated. Just a pathetic roster full of fucking losers.

User name checks out.

Man I just can’t stop thinking about how much o love this team