Well, actually the Cubs played rather well against the Yanks until the 9th inning of the second game, when they just fell apart. Poor Samardzija, no luck at all. Seven shutout innings and the team blows another one that was in the bag.
Maybe there is a curse, not so much on the Cubs as on certain players. I mean, Barney, the most reliable of all the Cubs infielders, makes the error. How likely is that? But when you are in a funk, strange things happen.
Of course, after that there were four or five innings of utter futility until the Cubs searched the bullpen to summon Veras to put the game away.
There is a long piece by Jon Heyman at CBSSports. com all about how the Cubs have got to take advantage of Samardzija's run of success and get rid of him now. Somehow I don't get this kind of reasoning. You spend five or six years developing an exciting talent and then you are supposed to trade him off because he is ahead of your schedule and he might not be so good as he is today when your current "prospects" arrive even though that date recedes farther and farther into the future.
In return you are likely to get the guys other teams think of as future stars in the making. You know, guys like Samardzija was three years ago, I suppose. If fans and management alike thought of these deals in terms of time and effort instead of the balance sheet, I wonder if they would sing a different tune. Also, lets start referring to the returns not as prospects, but as projects, which they really are.
A side note about Jose Veras. I thought he had regained his composure after the rehab stint. Guess not. Veras is the new Camp.
Lastly, I suppose all Cubs fans received the latest Ricketts video. What a crock! I have nothing against going ahead with these plans for whatever they are worth, but calling it "Building a Winner Can't Wait"? Huh? "Building a Winner Must Wait" is the real deal here, isn't it? The whole point of the Ricketts spiel is we cannot spend money on the team until we spend all our cash on infrastructure so we can make outrageous profits and then we'll think about the team because that's what Chicago deserves. OK?
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