Cubs' future seems so far away
May, 20, 2012
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By
Melissa Isaacson | ESPNChicago.com
CHICAGO -- It was another typical 2012 Wrigley Field crowd Sunday and a typical Chicago Cubs effort -- decent but with conspicuous bare patches.
While the Chicago White Sox headed south with some momentum following their three-game sweep in the first of two crosstown series, the Cubs had simply notched their sixth straight loss, their fans left with the same gnawing emptiness they are expected to tolerate for the unforeseeable future.
There are no real surprises here that in late-ish May, the Cubs are scraping the bottom of the National League Central with one of the worst records in baseball. We knew it was going to be this way, didn't we? But after being handled as easily as the White Sox made it look this weekend, you get the feeling that Cubs fans, still showing up in respectable if not sellout numbers, did not necessarily think it would feel quite this bad quite this soon.
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While the Chicago White Sox headed south with some momentum following their three-game sweep in the first of two crosstown series, the Cubs had simply notched their sixth straight loss, their fans left with the same gnawing emptiness they are expected to tolerate for the unforeseeable future.
There are no real surprises here that in late-ish May, the Cubs are scraping the bottom of the National League Central with one of the worst records in baseball. We knew it was going to be this way, didn't we? But after being handled as easily as the White Sox made it look this weekend, you get the feeling that Cubs fans, still showing up in respectable if not sellout numbers, did not necessarily think it would feel quite this bad quite this soon.
Read the entire column.
Melissa Isaacson
Columnist, ESPNChicago.comMelissa Isaacson is a sportswriter and author who has covered Chicago sports for the last 22 years of her 29-year career, most recently as an award-winning columnist and feature writer for the Chicago Tribune.
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UPCOMING GAMES
| W-L | HM | AW | STK | L10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHC | 29-40 | 15-21 | 14-19 | W1 | |
| STL | 45-26 | 20-13 | 25-13 | L1 |
| W-L | HM | AW | STK | L10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHC | 29-40 | 15-21 | 14-19 | W1 | |
| STL | 45-26 | 20-13 | 25-13 | L1 |
| W-L | HM | AW | STK | L10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOU | 27-45 | 14-24 | 13-21 | W1 | |
| CHC | 29-40 | 15-21 | 14-19 | W1 |
TEAM LEADERS
| BA LEADER | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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David DeJesus
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| OTHER LEADERS | ||||||||||||
| HR | A. Rizzo | 10 | ||||||||||
| RBI | A. Rizzo | 39 | ||||||||||
| R | A. Rizzo | 34 | ||||||||||
| OPS | A. Rizzo | .771 | ||||||||||
| W | S. Feldman | 6 | ||||||||||
| ERA | T. Wood | 2.74 | ||||||||||
| SO | J. Samardzija | 110 | ||||||||||
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