The New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs 8-3 to win the 2015 NLCS at Wrigley Field Wednesday night. The Mets beat the Cubs in every facet of the game during the series and utterly humiliated the Cubs.
Cub manager Joe Maddon's rah rah antics of pajama parties and magic shows didn't amount to a hill of beans in this series. Maddon was out managed by Terry Collins in every game. Maddon often looked like a deer in the headlights in the dugout (looking blankly at his SABR cheat sheet and wondering why all his moves were blowing up in his face.)
Of course, Maddon did his usual Mary Poppins spin-job in the post-game press conference. Nobody wants to hear about the Cubs getting into the playoffs (as a third place team.) The Cubs have more talent than the Mets but the Mets are a team, the Cubs are a SABR Metrics fantasy team.
The Cubs did what they have always done in my 47 years of watching them, the wilted under pressure. All the hype around the genius Joe Maddon is just that, HYPE!
Maddon was no better than Jim Frey, Dusty Baker or Lou Piniella in his first post-season trip with the Cubs. All his goody-goody antics weren't worth a mound of cow chips.
Theo Epstein also deserves to take a major hit (because I'm not sure Jed Hoyer actually exists.) First of all, Epstein back stabbed 2014 Cub manager Rick Renteria (who did a fine job with very little in 2014.) Maddon also deserves to take a hit here for taking a job under such sleazy circumstances.
Signing headcase Jon Lester was a terrible move as was bringing in his personal caddy David Ross. Epstein put together a one dimensional team that were dismal defensively and had no concept how to score without home runs.
As for the Cubs bright future, I'm not sure they have one. Instead of staying the course and building a team like the Cardinals. Epstein made a knee-jerk move by hiring another supposed "superstar" manager (who has never won anything but second place) to be the white knight and it failed miserably.
If Cub fans fall for all this hype about their bright future, you can expect more of what you got in the 2015 NLCS. The team is just incapable of winning. Who are they gonna blame this year, Bartman wasn't even in the building!
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
at Wrigley Field (aka graveyard), Chicago, IL
New York Mets (4-0) 8
at Chicago Cubs (0-4) 3
WP-New York: Bartolo Colon (1-0)
LP-CUBS: Jason Hammel (0-1)
Home Runs: CUBS: Kris Bryant (2)
New York: Lucas Duda (1), Travis D'Arnaud (2), Daniel Murphy (1)
Attendance (42,227)
Time (eternity)
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