Jurr
07-29-2004, 10:06 AM
Damn, I can't believe the mess I made out of my living room yesterday after that game. Things flew for 30 minutes. But, after the tirade and after a few cold beverages, I thought about how we've been down this road before this season.
Remember the Cubs sweep that we endured??? Oh, God, it's over now. We're done. We can't play and we won't win another game this year. Yeah...it sucked terribly. I think it's pretty easy to get caught up in that. Here are some very objective views on the subject, though.
1. Two of the three games we lost were against hot pitchers. Yes, we did supposedly send our studs out there as well, but we just didn't have the horses to get the job done. We ran into some good pitching that was a little better than ours for THOSE TWO DAYS. The fact that they beat Buehrle and Garcia on back to back days does not imply that they are better or will win the next time they play.
2. Scheduling. Okay. It kinda sucks being 3.5 games down at the moment, but I clearly remember the fact that we have a much easier stretch than Minny does to finish the season. If we gained 1 game a week for the rest of the season on these clowns, we're up by a LOT of games at the end of the season. And, if that's not enough, remember...we could be a game or so down to the Twins going into the last few games.....where we have KC and they have the good old Yankees.
3. Help! We need a little help in the hitting department, and I doubt KW is going to let us go through the motions without some hitting help. Yeah, I would love to see us get Kendall or Beltran, but I'm kinda doubting those guys are going to be coming to Chicago this year after the heavy prices we've paid already for additions. I think a guy like Jerry Hariston or Cattalanatto, guys that can just add a couple HITS (not homers) to the lineup every day would go a long way towards curing our solo shot misery.
4. Yes, we did s*** the bed pretty well yesterday, but we did get some timely hitting, and that may very well carry over to the next little stretch. If we can just keep our heads up and just keep plugging away, I think this season is still very winnable.
5. The cavalry. I talked to a friend of mine, an orthopaedic surgeon about the Magglio injury, and he said that you can get over bone inflammation in a month or so, depending on the severity of the swelling. When the diagnosis on Maggs' injury came out, I was pretty shocked, because that's a freakish thing, but I still have enough information to think that he could definitely be back this year for the stretch run. Frank is an even stronger candidate for a return. Now, will they be terribly rusty and not that much help?? I guess we'll have to wait and see. But, I have a feeling that we haven't seen the end of them this season.
So, that's something to sink your teeth into before you're about to jump off the Sears Tower. It's a LOOONNG season, and we just lost three games in a row. Nothing would be nicer right now than to cure what ails us by smoking the Tigers and the Royals and getting a couple of games back quickly. Then this whole thing will feel like a bad dream.
Remember the Cubs sweep that we endured??? Oh, God, it's over now. We're done. We can't play and we won't win another game this year. Yeah...it sucked terribly. I think it's pretty easy to get caught up in that. Here are some very objective views on the subject, though.
1. Two of the three games we lost were against hot pitchers. Yes, we did supposedly send our studs out there as well, but we just didn't have the horses to get the job done. We ran into some good pitching that was a little better than ours for THOSE TWO DAYS. The fact that they beat Buehrle and Garcia on back to back days does not imply that they are better or will win the next time they play.
2. Scheduling. Okay. It kinda sucks being 3.5 games down at the moment, but I clearly remember the fact that we have a much easier stretch than Minny does to finish the season. If we gained 1 game a week for the rest of the season on these clowns, we're up by a LOT of games at the end of the season. And, if that's not enough, remember...we could be a game or so down to the Twins going into the last few games.....where we have KC and they have the good old Yankees.
3. Help! We need a little help in the hitting department, and I doubt KW is going to let us go through the motions without some hitting help. Yeah, I would love to see us get Kendall or Beltran, but I'm kinda doubting those guys are going to be coming to Chicago this year after the heavy prices we've paid already for additions. I think a guy like Jerry Hariston or Cattalanatto, guys that can just add a couple HITS (not homers) to the lineup every day would go a long way towards curing our solo shot misery.
4. Yes, we did s*** the bed pretty well yesterday, but we did get some timely hitting, and that may very well carry over to the next little stretch. If we can just keep our heads up and just keep plugging away, I think this season is still very winnable.
5. The cavalry. I talked to a friend of mine, an orthopaedic surgeon about the Magglio injury, and he said that you can get over bone inflammation in a month or so, depending on the severity of the swelling. When the diagnosis on Maggs' injury came out, I was pretty shocked, because that's a freakish thing, but I still have enough information to think that he could definitely be back this year for the stretch run. Frank is an even stronger candidate for a return. Now, will they be terribly rusty and not that much help?? I guess we'll have to wait and see. But, I have a feeling that we haven't seen the end of them this season.
So, that's something to sink your teeth into before you're about to jump off the Sears Tower. It's a LOOONNG season, and we just lost three games in a row. Nothing would be nicer right now than to cure what ails us by smoking the Tigers and the Royals and getting a couple of games back quickly. Then this whole thing will feel like a bad dream.