Cubs Masochist

So Jason Marquis usually pitches okay except for one inning, and that one inning typically costs him a win. I’m tiring of Marquis press conferences where he describes what he did wrong, how he’s been working on it, what he needs to do, blah, blah, blah.

He gave up the game tying home run to Khalil Greene and allowed Shawn Estes to score the winning run.

On this night it doesn’t matter that the offense had its chances and didn’t come through.  The offense isn’t going to score 13 runs every night.  The Cubs need to figure out a way to win games when they only score 3 runs.  How about having the starting pitcher give up fewer than three runs?  Would that work?

To be clear, this isn’t overreacting to one loss while on the baseball roller coaster from Hell, living and dying with each pitch and each game.  It has nothing to do with a little four-game winning streak in the middle of May.  It has to do with something that is a problem.  The back end of the rotation is a problem.

Jason Marquis is part of that problem.

The Padres.

The guy lost to the Padres.

Do they even still have uniforms?