Another Night Of Blunders

Remember the major league debut of Starlin Castro last week in Cincinnati? Sure you do. It was just last Friday when he went 2/5 with a three run homer and a three run triple. After that game Cubby Nation proclaimed him the second coming and did the proverbial bows to their TV screens. Well funny how just four days can make a difference as on Monday night in his home debut the Cub faithful showered him with boos. And it wasn't that he didn't deserve it as he committed not one, not two but three errors in the game. That gives him four in just four games and maybe worse yet he loafed on the last one allowing the base runner to reach second base. Afterwards through his interpreter, Castro called it a "learning experience". Actually what he should have learned is that Cub fans don't have any patience and nor should they.

Castro committed the only technical errors but the tandem of Ted Lilly and Derrek Lee combined for a boo boo when the Marlins pulled off a double steal. With runners on first and third, the runner on first broke for second drawing a throw but the runner on third was already breaking for home and Lee's throw to the plate was late and the other runner reached second base. It was an embarrassing play for a team that has now lost six of it's last seven games.

Added to the mix is the fact that Lee and Aramis Ramirez continue to be ice cold at the plate. Lee is hitting just .211 and Ramirez is even worse at .163. And you can put this down in stone. No team with it's three and four hitters putting up those numbers has any chance to win. Ironically the rest of the lineup is hitting witness five players over .300 but unless Lee and Ramirez start earning their large paychecks, the Cubs are going no where fast.