For Dusty, and the Season, The Fat Lady has already left the building

It took me a long time to come aboard the fire dusty bandwagon, but nowI just hope there's room for me in the front seat. How could things have gone this bad? Well, unfortunately hindsight is 20/20 and that's about all we have right now.

The cubs were just barely keeping their heads above the water when DLee was challenging the triple crown and .400. Now that he's come back to earth, the cubs have sunk to the bottom. (did I mention we're 2.5 games behind the BREWERS??)

We also could and should have known that Neifi's heroics during Nomar's first month out would go away, and they did.

Corey Patterson's demotion was too little too late, as was the addition of Lawton.

Why did we let Mat Clement go again? He and Z were the only two in the rotation who were A. Young and B. Durable. Our whole bullpen situation would have been solidified at the beginning of the year if A. Dempster Doesn't Start, ever, Clement is Still in the Rotation, and Glendon Got to start. We'd still have LaBlow in the 7th or the 8th, Dempster in the 9th. And Wuertz, Ohman, Wellemeyer for Middle relief.

Again, Many of the Above statements have little or nothing to do with Dusty, which is why I think hendry should go too, but when you look around the League, at Atlanta, Oakland, THE WHITE Sox, the Astros and DID I MENTION THE BREWERS. All teams picked to end up Way behind the Cubs, all teams with what some would call "inferior talent" and all teams, (i'm guessing) with a smaller payroll, who are all out-achieving these cubs, but are doing it in SOLID ways. Good Defense, good baserunning, good pitching, timely and patient hitting.

It is time for this relationship between the Team, the Fans and This Manager to end. It was a nice little honeymoon for about a season plus 10 games in '03. But I'm just going to go ahead and chalk that up to two pitchers whose arms have now nearly fallen off, one "Corked up" sammy, and a little majic. In short, a team can overcome bad managing only on rare and special occasions, otherwise, you get the mess of what we are watching every night.

I'm surprised my WGN feed isn't getting scrambled, its just that dirty.