The Chicago Cubs are a Circus, and Mike Quade is Driving the Little Car
Once again, the Chicago Cubs show why their arguably the worst team in professional sports right now. Yeah. I said it. Again. After watching the first two games of the Phillies series, and then reading about the train wreck that was yesterday’s game- I have come to the conclusion that going to Wrigley Field is a lot like going to the circus. You really never know what your going to see, but you’ll probably be able to laugh quite a bit about what’s happening on the field.
In the first inning, Castro lost the ball in the sun. Whatever. Part of the game right? It happens to the best of us. It’ s hard to single out Starlin Castro and Darwin Barney for this catastrophe of a team right? Not for the clown that is Mike Quade.
What a great concept. Let’s call out the two main reasons why anyone watches this team play. Let’s call out a guy in Castro that you can build the entire organization around at 21, and then call out his running mate, Darwin Barney, a guy who plays the game hard, and the right way. Let’s continue to ignore the lack of hustle by Alfonso Soriano, the failure to hit with runners in scoring position in Carlos Pena, and the multiple things Carlos Zambrano has done that would warrant some public scolding. Let’s not call out Ryan Dempster for being incredibly bad for the better part of the year, and let’s not talk a little bit about how Randy Wells can’t get anyone out anymore. I mean give me a freaking break Mike Quade. You think that game set the tone? Why don’t you ask your starting pitcher to be more efficient? Maybe a little more sharp? Maybe attack the zone a little bit more? Nope- let’s throw the best player on the team, a 21 year old kid still learning this game under the bus in the media.
” The veterans are doing a heck of a job I think.”- Mike Quade
Mr. Quade. There’s a reason why you’ve been a career minor league manager. Who are you trying to kid at this point? You have zero idea how to manage a team from a personality standpoint. You don’t have the balls to call out your “great” veterans. You have even less clue how to manage a pitching staff. You sir are a complete joke, and a complete embarrassment to history of Cubs management.
The Cubs? Are a circus. And I don’t even know how to fix them at this point. I have no idea. All I know is that it’ll take 2-5 years to get rid of Quade, Hendry, Soriano, Zambrano, and Dempster- and start completely over.
I mean…can we all just sit back and laugh hysterically at this point?
Starlin Castro- We love you. Pay no attention to your manager that doesn’t have the slightest of clues of how to manage. We the fans believe in your ability and look forward to watching you play the game for the next 10 plus years at Wrigley. Hopefully our owners figure out a way to get you some help, without calling you out in the media for a mistake that didn’t cost anyone the game.
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yes the cubs are a train wreck.fire quade & hire sandberg,fire hendry,hire a real man to run the baseball operations,a new gm. mr. rickets please save the cubs from this mess before(almost there)before the cubs are destoryed.if you are a baseball man you should see this,if not sale them to someone that cares.
The above remarks by ADMIN are right on except you need to add…Ramirez and Fukadomia to the list. Ramirez has really never been a clutch hitter..putting up the majority of his numbers when it doesn’t really effect the game and Fukadomia plays the first 2 months of the season and than disappears. It also appears that we don’t have a hitting coach assigned to the team and I’m not sure where they came up with this Pitching coach…but they do go hand to hand with Manager Quade. My last comment would be on Hendry…A General Manager he isn’t…Given the money he has had to work with…anyone could go out a sign players…A GM needs to have a keen eye for talent and beable to negotiate contract that allows the team to manueve year to year.
I understand Hendry has made some bad moves in the past. But seriously, look at the contracts he signed Ramirez, Zambrano, and Dempster to. Ramirez, is a clutch hitter, and if he wasn’t traded for in 2003, I doubt we make the playoffs that season. Ramirez has been one of the Cubs steadiest clutch hitters the last eight seasons. Not to mention when his contract was up the Cubs thought and all of baseball thought that Ramirez was going to be a star.
If you looked at his stats at the all-star break this season, he should have been the starting 3rd baseman in the NL. Yes he had a sub-par April, but he always does. There has been no hotter player in the NL for the last 30 games than Ramirez, 14 homers in his last 26 games. Not to bad, he is about to move into the top 10 for BA, RBI’s and homers. You may be confusing Ramirez, with the Sun Flower seed spitting right fielder we used to have named Sammy Sosa. Now there was a guy that was not clutch. Ever the team player when we would need base runners there was Sammy always swinging for the fences late it games when they were down.
If the Cubs failed to sign Zambrano, Ramirez, and Dempster to their current contracts, there would have been a lynch mob screaming for Hendrys head. The contracts at the time were deserved, and actually pretty good deals at the time they were signed. Soriano was not signed by Hendry to that ridiculous contract, we can thank current Blackhawks President John McDonough for that. Everyone was all for the Cubs getting the best hitting prospect from Japan in Fukudome. And we were up there with the big boys bidding on him, the Red Sox were also interested in him. So he couldn’t have been that bad of a signing. The only contract left from the free agent spree in the winter of 2006 that is left is Soriano, and again that wasn’t Hendrys contract.
Dont forget, Hendry was also the one that traded for Derrick Lee, Matt Clement, Nomar, and at the time was heralded as a shrewd GM for being the mastermind of that 4 team trade to land him. Hendry isn’t an idiot. He is a good baseball man, if he didn’t make some of the moves that he did than yes we could call him an idiot. Yes the Milton Bradley move was a bad move, but at the time again it was the move everyone was saying the Cubs needed to make.He is still the only GM we have had that has built 3 division winning teams in a 6 year span on either side of town.
When I start hearing the idiot on the other side of town getting blasted for some of the bad moves he has made, and they far out number Hendry’s bad moves. Than I will complain about Hendry. After all at least Hendry hasn’t traded for the same player twice like Kenny Williams has.
My dad used to tell me that if you buy cheap materials, you will build a shoddy product. The Ricketts have taken financial shortcuts ever since they bought this team. Quade is the perfect example. I am sure this clown, who you would think would be a smarter baseball man given his long tenure in the minors, was the cheap alternative to hiring a real manager. He tries so hard to be a friend to the players that he has lost control of this team. This team is going nowhere and yet he coddles Soriano and Ramirez when they don’t hustle. Can’t have the veterans be mad at him. The Ricketts claim they want the Cubs to succeed, but so far all I see is the Ricketts trying to figure out how to squeeze every dime out of their investment. His vote of confidence to Jim Hendry just shows how little these owners know about what is bringing down their own team. Their hiring of an unknown pitching coach is another cost-saver. A word of warning to the Ricketts…the fans have had enough of this BS. It is reflected in the diminishing attendance and if you look at the people that are there, the opposing team’s fans are occupying all the good seats. You have lost the goodwill of the Cub fans and it will only get worse unless you grow a pair and start making everyone connected with this team responsible for their actions. If that means firing and releasing some people, so be it. But you better hurry before these clowns are playing in front of 10,000 fans every game.
Bill,
Those are all strong points. However, I have less issues with Hendry than I do with Quade and management.
No GM is ever going to perfect, although…I don’t know if Hendry is going to be able to dig himself out of the hole, but that won’t be up to me. All I know is that Mike Quade is awful field manager.
Aramis when healthy has been good. And I have no issues with signing Zambrano and Dempster when he did. I had issues with Soriano, but as you pointed out- that wasn’t hendry’s contract (thankfully someone else knows that so thank you!). I don’t have the issues others with fukduome…sometimes you take shots…and you miss. I’ve stated multiple times that I respect the job HEndry has done. However, Mike Quade needs to go…period. I’d like a team president that actually knows baseball..unlike Crane Kenney. But this is NOT a good baseball team and needs to be blown up.