I am just going to stick with the bashing of the Cubs current state of affairs. I never have been so ashamed of my teams actions on the field as what happened the last few days. Even when the Cubs were losing every year they never made such fools of themselves as what has happened recently. The sports columnists see it, yet the Cubbie Blue sun glasses fans giggle and clap and cheer when Jim Edmonds was plunked not once but twice! So I bring to you yet another columinsts taking to task the Cubs embarassing behavior.

Cubs players are doing more than losing games; they are making a public spectacle of themselves...

This year, three Cubs pitchers—all key ones, Kerry Wood, Hawkins and Zambrano—have been so unable to control their emotions that they have thrown fits on the field, running the risk of stiff disciplinary action in a season when the injury-riddled Cubs can ill afford to lose a man.

Manager Dusty Baker, backing his players no matter how harmful their actions could prove to the organization, seems to believe the proper response to be: "You never lost your temper?"

I would like to think Andy MacPhail, Jim Hendry and Baker, as authority figures, would call the Cubs together in the clubhouse and beseech them to put a stop to their petty blowups for the greater good, rather than patting them on the backs for showing a fiery and feisty spirit.

Baker said of Hawkins' Wrigley wig-out: "That's not melting down. That's showing passion to win."

No, that was melting down. I have seen melting down, I have seen passion to win and trust me, that was melting down.

The Cubs have more than two full months to repair the damage. But what they are doing at the moment is more than mere losing; it is self-destructing.

Just shut your mouths Cubs players and win ball games. You are looking like fools right now and it is depressing.