DJMoore_is_fat
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I've been a Cubs fan for 33 years and I can almost count on one hand how many playoff teams I've seen. Since 1980 we've had six seasons where we made the playoffs ('84, '89, '98, '03, '07, and '08). When the Tribune explored selling the Cubs and we boosted payroll, we finally had two seasons ('07 and '08) where we appeared destined to be a perennial playoff team.
After the Cubs were sold and the Rickets family took control, they hired Theo Epstein. The ensuing two years have become the darkest days in Chicago Cubs history. So dark and future-less, that the Cubs franchise is now officially Dead forever. The product on the field is the worst in baseball, yet the ticket prices are among the highest in baseball. The Front Office is concerned only with Wrigley Field, adding advertisement, and increasing revenue. Meanwhile, the franchise cares little as to who actually is playing on the field.
The course Epstein is embarking on is the same the Houston Astro's have been on for years. Stock-piling high pick after pick and allegedly stocking the farm system. But yet the Astro's haven't gotten better -- and it's been YEARS. Or take the Pittsburgh Pirates, who, for decades, tried this method. For literally decades they were a bottom-feeder, despite an endless supply of top picks to boost the farm system.
Unfortunately Theo has gone about rebuilding the Cubs in a manner that typically results in Failure. And what he and Jed have done in Wrigleyville has been a failure of catastrophic proportions. A failure on a level so enormous, that is just may result in a permanent death blow to the organization. Never again do we have hope of going to the Friendly Confines and watching a playoff team. Never again can we imagine what it might be like to watch a Parade in East Lakeview. Never again is it possible that our major league club will rule the division. It's Over.
We've seen long term contract extensions to Rizzo and Castro, two never-will-be's. Mental errors, shattered confidence, and hundreds of losses have destroyed their productivity. Fear not, we've been told, our farm system is among the best in baseball. But yet, we have no pitching prospects. To win a World Series you need pitching -- and we have none in the pipe line. But yet Theo and Jed tout our prospects, chief among them the unstable Soler, as the future.
After two full years and 200 losses, all we have between our minor league teams and the player personnel in the big's is Almora and Bryant. That's it. Two freaking players. And neither of them are pitchers. We have no present hope and, worse, we have no future hope. In two years from now when Bryant and Almora are batting .300 and a pitching staff giving up 5 runs a game, how many games are we going to win?
Theo Epstein won two World Series championships in Boston but his legacy will be giving the Chicago Cubs a Death Sentence -- effectively ending an historic, charter franchise's existence. Ten years from now, will we even have a team? Good Night, baseball, it's been fun.
After the Cubs were sold and the Rickets family took control, they hired Theo Epstein. The ensuing two years have become the darkest days in Chicago Cubs history. So dark and future-less, that the Cubs franchise is now officially Dead forever. The product on the field is the worst in baseball, yet the ticket prices are among the highest in baseball. The Front Office is concerned only with Wrigley Field, adding advertisement, and increasing revenue. Meanwhile, the franchise cares little as to who actually is playing on the field.
The course Epstein is embarking on is the same the Houston Astro's have been on for years. Stock-piling high pick after pick and allegedly stocking the farm system. But yet the Astro's haven't gotten better -- and it's been YEARS. Or take the Pittsburgh Pirates, who, for decades, tried this method. For literally decades they were a bottom-feeder, despite an endless supply of top picks to boost the farm system.
Unfortunately Theo has gone about rebuilding the Cubs in a manner that typically results in Failure. And what he and Jed have done in Wrigleyville has been a failure of catastrophic proportions. A failure on a level so enormous, that is just may result in a permanent death blow to the organization. Never again do we have hope of going to the Friendly Confines and watching a playoff team. Never again can we imagine what it might be like to watch a Parade in East Lakeview. Never again is it possible that our major league club will rule the division. It's Over.
We've seen long term contract extensions to Rizzo and Castro, two never-will-be's. Mental errors, shattered confidence, and hundreds of losses have destroyed their productivity. Fear not, we've been told, our farm system is among the best in baseball. But yet, we have no pitching prospects. To win a World Series you need pitching -- and we have none in the pipe line. But yet Theo and Jed tout our prospects, chief among them the unstable Soler, as the future.
After two full years and 200 losses, all we have between our minor league teams and the player personnel in the big's is Almora and Bryant. That's it. Two freaking players. And neither of them are pitchers. We have no present hope and, worse, we have no future hope. In two years from now when Bryant and Almora are batting .300 and a pitching staff giving up 5 runs a game, how many games are we going to win?
Theo Epstein won two World Series championships in Boston but his legacy will be giving the Chicago Cubs a Death Sentence -- effectively ending an historic, charter franchise's existence. Ten years from now, will we even have a team? Good Night, baseball, it's been fun.
