As a Cub fan, I've put up with a lot of shit over the years. DustyBall, Juan Pierre, towel drills, Antonio Alfonseca, Mel fucking Rojas, watching Greg Maddux walk away, watching Mark Grace (Ron Coomer? Fucking seriously?) walk away, Jim Hendry, Neifi Perez, Sosa and his expanding . . . ego (not to mention his corked bats), Moises Alou temper tantrums, Andy McFail, the Tribune ownership, Neal Cotts, LaTroy Hawkins, Larry Rothschild keeping a job through three managers, the decline of Steve Stone into dickishness, the Chip Caray years, the Milton Bradley Experiment, Todd Hundley, 2003, 1998, 2007, 2008, dumbasses blowing up the Bartman ball, Aaron Heilman, all the fucking goat jokes I'll ever need, Dawson going in the Hall as an Expo, Santo not even going into the Hall, the canonization of The Riot and Sam Fuld, Furcal breaking DLee's wrist, the Patterson/Pie/Bowie/Prior/Hill/Dubois/Choi/Kelton hype, the 14 game losing streak that opened 1997, Zambrano to the bullpen, the cast of misfits whom manned third until Aramis's arrival in 2003, Kyle Farnsworthless, watching Nomar tear his groin off the bone, Chad Fox and his cavalcade of injuries, Chads & Trixies, letting Kerry Wood walk away (even though he hasn't been good for Cleveland, it still irks me), Horry Kow T-shirts, the "It's Gonna Happen" asshat, Felix Heridia, but what in the name of Jim Riggleman's sunglasses is going on with this goddamn team?

The Cubs lost last night to the Athletics 9-5. The Cubs tallied 4 errors in the game, 2 in one inning by former Gold Glover Derrek Lee and 2 from usually defensively sound Tyler Colvin. There were also other mental gaffes involving the cutoff man. This team just keeps getting worse and worse as the year rolls on. There are beer softball teams who have better fundamentals than these guys do. Even in the truly stinky years, I always looked forward to watching the Cubs. This is the first year that being a Cub fan has felt like a damn job. I'm just glad I had the Stanley Cup playoffs to watch and right now, the World Cup is going on. Shit, I even watched the frickin' Tony Awards with the wife on Sunday rather than watch this collection of stiffs.

Saturday's game against the White Sox illustrated just how bad the Cubs have been for most of the season with runners on base. Last night's game was a microcosm of how bad the defense has been. The Cubs have gotten good starting pitching (aside from Wells), but that won't last if the team can't field their positions. Zambrano and Silva both pitched well enough to win their last starts. Ted Lilly was lucky to get the one run he did on Sunday and luckier that nobody behind him fucked up the way they did last night. I'm beginning to lean more and more toward blowing this team up. Our minor leaguers may not play any better, but at least they might be fun to watch while they suck it up. The current team is a multi-million dollar trainwreck that only seems to play decent baseball two days out of the week, if that.