You know who sucks right now? The Cubs. Who's worse? The Cubs media, apparently.

[cyranojoe]

If what this guy is proposing happens, I'll officially go on the list of Ricketts Haters.

Carlos Zambrano just told the world the earth-shattering news: “We played like a Triple-A team. This is embarrassing, embarrassing for the team, for the owners, for the fans. Embarrassing. That’s the word for this team. We should know better than this, we

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[idol_lies]

a-hah. that ... sucks, for lack of a better word (you filled my head with it) and sports journalism makes me laugh. those people take themselves way too seriously.

atleast if the team knows they are biting it big time, they can change? isnt that how improvement happens? you hafta see a problem before it can be fixed, and i mean, it's only june right. they'll pick it up again.

[cyranojoe]

There's an argument that taking such complaints to the media and airing your team's dirty laundry isn't exactly conducive to healthy teamwork -- guys don't want to work with you if you're going to bag on them for making mistakes, etc -- but I don't think that's what Z was doing, IMO. Sounds like his shot at Carlos Marmol wasn't so kosher, but he apologized and Carlos accepted and, as far as I know, the two are friends, so I don't think it's a problem. *shrug* They then went and beat the Brewers 3 out of 4 games, and the Brewers had the best record in baseball when that started, so something's working... :)