Ladies and gentlemen, please meet your newest starting pitcher for the 2008 Chicago Cubs ... Sean Gallagher! 

I can understand some of the beating that Lieber has taken.  Votto and Dunn are talented hitters.  But Gabor Bako and Jerry Hairston Jr.?  Are you kidding me?  

Pick your favorite cliche.  Lieber got beaten like a drum.  He got lit up like a Christmas tree.  He got roughed up like a hooker who came up short with her pimp.  He got ... well ... that last one wasn't really a cliche.  I'll leave it at that. 

Maybe Lieber is best suited for the bullpen.  Maybe he's been pitching with smoke and mirrors all season long, and his sucktitude has just now has been exposed.  Maybe the Cubs are in a bit more trouble than some of us have acknowledged ...

Maybe the Cubs really should have gone out and gotten a stronger #2 guy in the off season.  This game is just ugly.  So, so ugly.