For fights between teammates in the dugout, dumping talented players and bookending manager Lou Piniella’s season
with 16-5 losses against the Braves, the Chicago Cubs have earned our Bitch-Slap-of-the-Week.
The Cubbies who entered the 2010 season expected to be division contenders are currently sitting near the basement of their division with a 51-74 record and 21.5 games behind the NL Central leading Reds.
So again, expectations have simmered in the Windy City. With a 28-38 record at Wrigley and the faces of the franchise gone; the future for Da Boys in Blue looks grim.
Derrek Lee is in Atlanta, Carlos Zambrano is in anger management and to show their love for Lou, the Cubbies got slaughtered 16-5 in his last game as manager on Sunday, all signs of a team in self-implosion mode.
The good news is Cubs fans should be used to losing by now. After all, they don’t call ‘em The Loveable Losers because they win championships. The bad news is they are heading towards adding another year to their record-setting World Series drought (Google 1908).
Unless the Reds, Phillies, Cardinals, Giants, Rockies, Marlins, Dodgers, Mets, Brewers, Astros, and Nationals all stop playing baseball, there is no way that the Cubs will make it to the post-season this year.
The Cubs need a Tim Allen type of Christmas miracle for all of that to come true but unfortunately this isn’t the set of The Santa Clause.
Although many miracles have been performed in downtown Chicago, how I got home that one night, I will never know, the season looks over for the Cubbies.
So, sorry Cubs, but for fights in your dugout, dumping your talented players and bookending Piniella’s season with 16-5 losses against the Braves, you’ve earned the Bitch-Slap-of-the-Week, now go back into hibernation.
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Logan Rhoades is a Los Angeles-based writer and contributor to Sports Climax. With an extensive knowledge of ESPN topics and celebrity gossip, he is known for mixing sports and pop culture to entertain his readers. Follow him on Twitter @loganrhoades.
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