08/25 CUBS (Dempster) @ Washington (Marquis) 6:05 CDT, CSNTV

[Old Style]

THIS TEAM IS ON FIRE!

[wekim81]

QUADE FOR NL MANAGER OF THE YEAR

[UMFan83]

I saw on one of those projection sites that if the Cubs finished the year 34-0 they would have a 13.7% chance of making the playoffs. Yay.

[Cubs Fan Dan]

I saw on one of those projection sites that if the Cubs finished the year 34-0 they would have a 13.7% chance of making the playoffs. Yay.

 

Therefore they will finish 33-1 and lose a playoff game vs. the Reds on a walkoff grandslam by Drew Stubbs.

[NCCubFan]

Nah, it will be former Cub Miguel Cairo in a pinch-hitting role. It will be off of Marmol, right after he strikes out the first two batters but then walks the bases loaded on 12 pitches.

[erik316wttn]

QUADE FOR NL MANAGER OF THE YEAR

 

Jim Essian won the first 5 games he ever managed, too. I think. I at least know they rattled off 5 in a row shortly after his hire.

[JonJayCutler]

Aramis Ramirez OPS on:

 

July 5th: .539

August 25th: .753

 

He'll still finish under his career OPS, but I think you could argue that his season has been salvaged.

[XZero771679666304]

We're not going to get our top 5 pick if the Cubs keep up this nonsense. Need to get back to winning at a .200 clip.

[NCCubFan]

QUADE FOR NL MANAGER OF THE YEAR

 

Jim Essian won the first 5 games he ever managed, too. I think. I at least know they rattled off 5 in a row shortly after his hire.

And Bruce Kimm won 7 of his first 10 games, including 4 in a row, in 2002.

[jersey cubs fan]

Aramis Ramirez OPS on:

 

July 5th: .539

August 25th: .753

 

He'll still finish under his career OPS, but I think you could argue that his season has been salvaged.

 

Not really. He rebounded, but he did not salvage his season. The season still stinks.

[JonJayCutler]

Aramis Ramirez OPS on:

 

July 5th: .539

August 25th: .753

 

He'll still finish under his career OPS, but I think you could argue that his season has been salvaged.

 

Not really. He rebounded, but he did not salvage his season. The season still stinks.

 

I said you could argue that he salvaged his season. And it really depends on what your definition of "salvage" is. For a guy to improve his OPS from what it was to over 200 points in less than two months during this time of year is commendable to say the least. Don't forget how bad he was early on.

[jersey cubs fan]

Aramis Ramirez OPS on:

 

July 5th: .539

August 25th: .753

 

He'll still finish under his career OPS, but I think you could argue that his season has been salvaged.

 

Not really. He rebounded, but he did not salvage his season. The season still stinks.

 

I said you could argue that he salvaged his season. And it really depends on what your definition of "salvage" is. For a guy to improve his OPS from what it was to over 200 points in less than two months during this time of year is commendable to say the least. Don't forget how bad he was early on.

 

And a 200 point jump should salvage most seasons, but since he was so bad early on (early and often actually), 200 points leaves him in significant disappointment territory.

[Sammy Sofa]

How can we rate this astronomically?

[UMFan83]

Interesting to see that 54 games ago, Aramis was at at .485 OPS. 54 games is 1/3rd of the season and is actually where he started picking it up.

 

So project his stats in the last 1/3 of the season over an entire season and we get:

 

.320/.367/.615/.982, 48 HR 135 RBI 27 2B 108 R