Steve Stone is the Marty Brennaman of Cubs Baseball

Turns out I'm not the only one who thinks the Cubs are a bunch of over-paid, under-achieving loafers.

Cubs broadcaster Steve Stone told WGN Radio's David Kaplan and Tom Waddle that the Cubs reminded him of a Jack Nicholson line from the film, "A Few Good Men.""You want the truth? You can't handle the truth," Stone said. "Let me tell you something, guys, the truth of this situation is [this is] an extremely talented bunch of guys who want to look at all directions except where they should really look, and kind of make excuses for what happened."At the end of the day, boys, you don't tell me how rough the water is, you bring in the ship. The best eight teams go on, the other teams go home. This team should have won the wild-card by six, seven games. No doubt about it. They have the talent to do that. They're life-and-death right now."

Stone said the "defining moment" of the Cubs' collapse was their 15-7 loss to Houston on Aug. 27 at Wrigley Field when they could have extended their wild-card lead over the Astros to eight games. That game featured a confrontation between Michael Barrett and Roy Oswalt. It also included the press box phone call from Kent Mercker to complain about Stone and Chip Caray and Mercker's taunting of umpire C.B. Bucknor that netted him a suspension.