Cubs showing life

Its just a matter of time cubs will find ways to lose on a regular basis. They are not exactly the 27 yankees with a 31-35 record. As long as Cubs still have dumb baseball players like Barrett & Jones they'll find ways to lose.

one thing we should do is raise some awareness and make it a priority to have a fence built up in the areas where drunk knucklehead fans can't ruin the Cubs chances AGAIN. it happened TWICE in the last game, and if we haven't figured it out by now.....WE'RE HURTING OUR TEAM WHEN WE DO THAT...HELLLLLOOOOOO!!! the cubs are on a roll and i'd hate to see another idiot like bartman screw it up again because he's too stupid to understand the consequences. some of these fools are not even cubs fans and they're just doing it to be funny and brag about it to their friends. let me know what i can do to help encourage that fence being built and i'm doing it.

Jim Hendry spent $300,000,000 last winter and it's June 16th and the Cubs are not clinically dead. Rigor mortis has not set in. Best proof of this? Paychecks are still being cashed.

The Cubs are lucky they are in the NL Central.
If they were in a tougher division they would be buried by now.
As far as them playing better, you could argue that the addition of some of the younger guys like Pie and Fontenot has sparked the team to life. All the young guys seem to be playing well.
Lou is playing the guys that can get the job done.
Although, it is quite a coincidence that they are playing better since that "lost weekend".
Let's keep it going, there is no doubt we can can still win the division.

Jim Hendry spent $300,000,000 last winter and it's June 16th and the Cubs are not clinically dead. Rigor mortis has not set in. Best proof of this? Paychecks are still being cashed.

Now George is blaming Mr. Bartman for the 2003 debacle. I always thought that the Cubs lost the game he is referring to because the shortstop muffed an easy roller,and because after that play the pitchers allowed the Marlin hitters to whack the stars out of them. Besides, the Cubs had the opportunity to win the next game, which they failed to do.

Futility is the name of the game. Do not put the blame on the Billy Goat curse or on a fan for alleged interference. Leave Mr. Bartman alone . . . he is a decent sort.

Roman responds: Good post. And I thought Moises Alou was a moron for acting like that after Bartman's incident. It wasn't fan interference. The Cubs lost that game because of Mark Prior and Alex Gonzalez not handling a tailor-made double-play ball.

A 2003 game 6 was the day the music died. It was the first time I couldn't believe I was a Cubs fan. Right now they are playing some good ball. They need to keep up taking 2 of 3 in a series and getting a sweep once in awhile. Most of all they have to beat the crew. Get rid of Jones, maybe Barrett if you can. I don't think you can get rid of Barrett right now though with Lee going to get sometime off. It should help with Ramy coming back too. First order of business next year is get rid of Wood and Prior and sign a good catcher.

Matt has it right. Get rid of Jones and possibly Barrett for someone who will help us or some players to be named later and win series throughout the rest of the year.

Ramirez is hurt because of his own laziness. I realize that he may have slightly injured himself the day before but did anybody watch the replay on when he tweeked his knee? He jog-trotted toward first base as his lazy arse always does, then realized he had a chance to beat out the throw so began running hard the rest of the way. He hit the bag and then his knee tweeked. It was his own fault he's hurt. He still cannot put in some hustle on every play. We should call him the "Charlie Anti-hustle." I will never nominate him for an all-star position ever again. He's a lazy bum.

Lifelong Cub Fan and a 1969 Bleacher Bum with some input on above Posts

Bartman was in the first row when he reached into play and did interfere with the ball- the only reason it looked like Alou Reached into the stands was because his momentum and leap were moving in that direction - you can not be in the first row along that wall without reaching into play - the curse part about the Bartman ball is not that he touched it but that the umps did not call it fair and hence interferance and an out. And incidentally, momentum is everything in baseball and that play did rightly or wrongly effect the rest of that game 6. Now which team had the momentum going into game 7?