Dennis Lamp was a past cub who could not get anyone out

 Dennis Lamp was a ad pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. He won some and lost some and was hardly spectacular. His career was pretty short with the ubs. When he left Chicago he too suddenly found out how to get people out. He had a sucessful run as a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays and had Cub fans thinking why he couldn’t do that for them. He would get many saves for a few years while the Cubs bullpen struggled to find quality arms leading up to Lee Smith. Dennis Lamp is another pitcher who left Chicago to find more sucess and fame.

Lou Brock would of been a great past Cub

Lou Brock was traded with Jack Spring and Paul Toth. It is perhaps the worse trade in baseball history. All they got return for giving this hall of famer that stole all these bases was some bums named Ernie Broglio, Bobby Shantz, and Doug Clemens.The Cardinals’ beating out an infield hit off pitcher Dennis Lamp, Lou  became the 14th player to record his 3,000th hit in 1979 when he beat out a groud ball off the past Cub Dennis Lamp. It comes against the Cubs, the team he broke in with in 1961 as a 22-year-old. He would be traded to St. Louis in 1964 and at age 40 would crack the 3,000 mark on August 13, 1979 in the final season of his 19 years as a major leaguer and finish his career with 3,023 hits. Brock finished with a batting average of .293, reached base 35% of the time and once he got there he made things happen. He led the National League eight years in steals and was league leader in runs scored twice. His career ended with 938 stolen bases with a success ratio of 75%, while scoring 1,610 runs with seven seasons in which he scored more than 100. Brock was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1985 in his first year of eligibility. 

   The Chicago Cubs missed years of production from this great player because of the stupidity of people in their management. The scouts and others dropped the ball on this player. It is because of trades like this to why the Chicago Cubs have like no World Series rings in a hundred years.

Rick Monday was a patriotic past cub

Rick Monday was a memorable former Chicago Cub. In 1976 he had his career year with the Cubs and in April he saved the U S flag from being burned in Dodger stadium. That made the dodgers want to add this man and in the next year he was traded to the Dodgers where he wound up his career. Rick Monday was a member of the Cub in the early and mid seventieds and was a centerfielder and lead off batter. He provided the Cubs with a few bright spots after the legends of the sixties started disappearing from Wrigley Field. He was with oakland in the memorable 1969 season and maybe if the chicago cubs had acquired him earlier they may have won it all in that year. Rick Monday is the flag saving past cub we all should remember.

Rick Sutcliffe cost the Chicago Cubs Joe Carter

The Chicago Cubs gave plenty for trying to win it all in 1984. Rick Sutcliffe was a struggling pitcher with the Cleveland Indians and he was about an average pitcher when the Cubs acquired him in the summer. He had an incredible season as he went 16-1 and won the Cy Yong award. However, the one game of the year that really counted in October he was not able to deliver the victory. the fact that the Chicago cubs did not even make the World series shows what a wasted trade that was. What we got returned to us for giving up on a player who produced four hundred home runs was not worth it. Rick Sutcliffe would suffer many injuries and never came close to giving the Cubs another season like he did in 84. never mind that we also traded Mel hall, who was a rookie of the year runner up and produced some big numbers as well after leaving Chicago. I will always hate this trade and the “red baron” for costing the Cubs organization so much just for one disappoiting postseason experience. I will have more on Joe Carter next time. I just wish Sutcliffe had kept on the Indian uniform.

Charlie Root gave too many home runs to Babe Ruth

Charlie Root was a greatest Cubs pitcher for the Cubs in the thirties. He pitched against many cub rivals and was the winningest pitcher for them in that decade.  Charlie was in three world series for the Chicago Cubs in that decade. In 1928, 1932,  and 1935. He never kept his best stuff for the World Series unfortunately. He seemed always to get hammered in the Fall classic and is one of the reasons the Chicago Cubs have gone a century without a championship.

   If this guy had pitched anything like he did in the regular season just maybe the Cubs would have won one of these titles. He blew many games letting Babe Ruth among others just have his way. Ruth could put the ball anywhere in the stands he wanted and  that is just how pathetic Root was in these series. Chicago Cub fans need to look back at some of these past series and see why they rarely won the championship. Charlie Root was a major disappointment when the past Chicago Cubs needed him most to perform.

Chicago Cubs have had some free agent problems in recent years

Milton bradly and Latroy Hawkins nothing but a pain in the ass

To umpires and Cub fans. I wonder who it will be this year for Chicago Cub fans and working umpires to have to endure. It seems every year that the Chicago Cubs have to sign some asshole black free agent who complains about the fans racism and under performs. Last year it was Milton Bradly and then before that it was Latroy Hawkins as these players stunked up the ball yard with their horrific play. They got huge contracts to stink and play as any A ball minor league player can do. The Chicago Cub management loves to raise ticket prices and then sign these disgusting ignorant rude baseball players. So look very soon for the Chicago Cubs to give some negro veteran some huge multi million contract to play and agitate the fanbase with their animalistic behavioral and lousy play.

Latroy Hawkins was the worse free agent signing

The momment he came to Chicago Latroy Hawkins was nothing but trouble. He agitated the management,the fans,teammates, and umpires in his thankfully short stint as a reliver for the Chicago Cubs. He blamed Wrigley Field fans for being racist when they booed his poor performances blowing leads and so forth.

    The fact that an asshole like him could get paid so much money for doing little is reason why baseball is a bad sport these days. Latroy should of been forced to pay back millions to the cubs organization for his effort. He should of been given a hundred thousand and let go in June of that year he was here for his miserable performance as a past Cub.

Chicago Cubs signed some pretty bad relief pitchers over the years.

Keven Gregg is just another in a long line of crappy relief pitchers the Cubs signed hoping to improve their bullpen. From Rich Gossage to a Dave Smith To so many other pitchers, the Chicago Cubs are clearly unable to know when a oitcher has lost it.  They should realize that the old team of these free agents saw something during the year to why they didn’t want to re sign that player. Good baseball organizations have studious scouts who know when a player is washed up. The Cubs have taken many of a washed up player from other teams over the years. This fact accounts for more than anything the current state of the one hundred year no championship run they have been stuck on. I will discuss perhaps the worst free agent relief pitcher the Cubs have signed in my lifetime next time.

Ryne Sandberg’s huge glove is what lead him to be so great

Ryne Sandberg was a great player and perhaps the best fielder of his time. The guys glove was so automatic I wonder if it was doctored with and made special. We are so quick to look for cheating when it comes to batters and the possible cork tampering some players have done in the past. Ryne Sandberg was so good with the glove I wonder if there wasn’t something fishy. The groundskeepers were accused at times of keeping the grass extra tall to help slow down ground balls in the infield. Sandberg likely didn’t need to much help in that respect, but I wonder if he was over rated in the fact that second basemen don’t get the same sharp line drives as much as third basemen and shortstop do. He started his career at the third base line and was moved to the other side of the field. If he was that great fielder people claim, then wouldn’t he had been better off being put at third base?  That is the place where teams usually put their best fielder. Shortstop is another position that demands alot of more concentration and finese. i am sure Ryne Sandberg could play those positions, but could he have played it at the same level?

Ronie Woo Woo is a publicity stunt seeking moron nobody

There is this old gangly stringy black man who hangs around Wrigley Field. He wears a Cub uniform and more than one fan has mistaken him for Ernie Banks. Why the hell this man walks around with a Cub uniform and yells woo woo all the time is anybody guess.  He must need the attention. The guy walks around with a full uniform like he a former Chicago Cub ball player. I can’t stand the man. I saw him once when I was downtown and he looks ridiculous. Somebody needs to crack him on the head with one of Ernie Banks hall of fame baseball bats. This man should  be banished from within 500 yards of the Wrigley Field. If they can ban street vendors and bucket boys then they should not allow Ronnie “Woo Woo” near the ball park too. This guy is a shame and an annoyance to the people who spend the money to watch a ball game. The last thing they need to see is a homeless man looking for sympathy.

Jerome Walton ignored at event and signs two autographs in two hours

Jerome Walton was rookie of the year in 1989. Cub fans thought they realyl had a gem and we will look past at the twentieth anniversery of Jerome Walton’s rookie of the year award. He had a real long hitting streak of some thirty three games I believe. He also stole many bases and played strong defense. Something happened the next few years as he was horrible and never came close to performing at his rookie level. I will never know what happened. I heard he was at a autograph secession at the Hilton and nobody wanted his autograph. It might be worth fifty cents if you had a ball signed by him in 1989. This guy really was a waste in baseball and is perhaps the worst rookie of the year winner in the history of the sport. Jerome Walton was a bad past Cub.

Pirates help the Cubs finish above .500

There was a time when the Pittsburgh Pirates gave the Chicago Cubs a hard time. In the seventies and the sixties the Chicago Cubs didn’t have a chance against the black and the gold. The would take a beating from the likes of Dave parker,Willie Stargel, and Roberto Clemente. These Pirate teams were strong and baseball did not get bad about free agency. Many of the top players for teams in small markets wilol jump ship nowdays. In the past great players were usually stuck with a team unless the team traded them. The Pittsburgh Pirates were able to afford their best players and not have to get rid of them. The sorry excuse of a team in Pittsburgh and Cincinatti can’t compete with the Chicago Cubs big bankroll today. The Cubs beating up on these teams is the primary reason they have been good inn recent years. The Pirates and the Reds lose so many games to the Chicago Cubs these days it is sickening. It seems like they don’t even try. The Cubs can win 85 to 90 games a year annually now as they have about thirty five games with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cincinatti Reds. These are not your fathers Pittsburgh Pirates anymore.

Ernie banks should of bashed little Chet Coppock’s head in

Chet Coppock is that annoying man who is always around Chicago sports channals for some reason. We have his father for blaming to getting little Chet so into sports and annoying the Chicago sports fan with his presence. Little Chet was able to get to meet some of these Chicago Cubs. I suppose Chet’s father had some money and influence. Here is a picture of the great Ernie Banks with Chet Coppock. You know this was the era of civil rights and that Ernie must of wanted to bash little Coppocks head in with his little smirk attitude. The Chicago Cubs had more important things on their mind in the sixties than entertaining some little snot nosed kids like little Chester Coppock. I could think of a hundred ways Ernie could put that bat to better use in this picture.

Did leaon Durham and Lee Smith throw the 1984 playoffs

Lee Smith and leon Durham were very good friends on the Chicago Cubs. They were usually roommates and hung around together ignoring their White teammates. They discussed current events and were horrified to see how things were like in Chicago in the early eighties. Harold Washington had got elected in Chicago and the city was very racially polarized.  They had good years in 1984, but when the playoffs came it was another story. Lee Smith got hammered in his appearances and gave up the winning home run in game four to Steve Garvey. leon Durham would let a ground ball go through his legs as the San Diego Padres defeated the much stronger Chicago Cubs to go into the World Series.  I often wondered if these two let these things happen as a punishment for the racism they experienced in Chicago. Was it their way of getting back at the fans? The way they played in the National league Championship series that year makes me wonder.

Why did the Chicago cubs waste money on Dave Smith

 

Dave Smith career with the Cubs fortunely was short. The Chicago Cubs signed him big bucks. they were expecting him to be their closer for several years as he was sucessful in Houston. Cub fans like me were still pissed off at the loss of another man named Smith in the bullpen a few years previously. Lee Smith had gone on to division rival St Louis and had some huge seasons. So instead the Cubs went out and got this bum Smith who was finished.

  dave Smith gave up runs,games, and walks. This guy couldn’t get anybody out and his performance was one of the worse I have ever seen. I can’t believe how much just changing teams can mess with a players physice. I am sure he would of done good in 1992 had he stayed with the Astros. For some reason he got hammered all the time especially in Wrigley Field. The Cubs ended his misery and cut him soon and Mr Dave Smith was out of baseball.

Geeky Cardinal fans stick it to the Cubs when they visit Wrigley Field

  A group of St Louis Cardinaln fans visited Wrigley Field the last time the Cardials were in town. For some reason these passionate fans of the redbirds always make a trip into hostile territory to watch their team crush the Cubs. This is the only time I have seen Wrigley Field have a sizable contingent of fans rooting for the other team. I don’t have any idea what percentage of the fans are Carcinal fans, but I would be willing to guess it is pretty high and maybe almost half. It is really something to see so many root against the Chicago Cubs in the friendly confines. These five were really a bunch of dorks including the one with the missing leg. They don’t need to push the fact at how few pennants we have won compared to their beloved sucessful franchise. It is enough to make Cub fans red like their team with anger.

Mark Grace was a slick hitter and fielder for the Cubs

mark grace did not strike out alot. He had one of the best swings in the game and I was sure he was destined for the hall of fame and three thousand hits. He had almost two thousand in just the nineties. The ball flew off his bat when he swung though it rarely left the park.  Mark often hit .300 for the Chicago Cubs and won gold gloves on the field. He is surely one of the most memorable and popular Cubs from that time period.  A contract dispute caused him to leave the ball club and he retired shortly after leaving the Cubs. The good thing was he was able to win a World Series ring, something he could never have doen had he played his entire career in Chicago

Fergie Jenkins was the best Cubs pitcher

 

 

  This man could pitch. In an era before relief pitchers aloowed many pichers less of a work load, pitchers like Jenkins routinely threww three hundred innings. Fergie would go on to win twenty or more games for six years with the Chicago Cubs. He was one of the more dominating pitchers in the sixties. The Cubs brought him back to Wrigley Field in the early Eighties where he struck out his three thousand batter with the Cubs. The Cubs made a huge mistake letting this man pitch for other teams.

The World Series where Goose Gossage nailed Ron Cey in the head

It was October 1981 and two future Cubs were squaring off. It was another Yankees and Dodgers world series and Goose Gossage was pitching to Ron Cey. Both players were in their prime and were at the top of their game. I don’t recall the situation, but this battle horrified me. I was still a young kid and this was the first time I saw a ball player get hurt. The Goose delivered a fastball and it plucked Ron Cey hard on the head. I couldn’t believe that this strong baseball player of a man went down as quickly as he did. It seemed to be that the ball was traveling in access to ninty five miles per hour. Mr Cey was down for a long time. He would eventually recover and go on to finish the Series. I am just glad these two were not Chicago Cubs at the same time as I am sure Ron would of held grievences against the Goose and they would of came to blows over this scary incident. A ball player was killed over a beaning in 1920 I believe.

The day I remember when the Goose was cooked

Goose Gossage is a hall of famer. He was over the hill when the Cubs aquired him in the ninties. I will always remember the day I knew the Goose was cooked. The Chicago Cubs were playing the Houston Astros and had a comfortable lead. They had come from behind and taken the lead late in the game and Goose was called in for the save. It was early in his Chicago Cubs career, but the Goose had some rough outings. Well, Gossage blew another save and gave a huge home run. I will always remember the Gooses face looking at the bleachers and hearing Harry Carry’s disturbed voice calling the blown lead. He was through and I couild tell from the look of Goose Gossage’s face he was wondering what had happened to his stuff. The Chicago Cubs would go on a long strech of getting bad relief pitchers which I will discuss later.