5/19 Ny mets (Gee) @ Cubs (T Wood) 1:20 CDT, WGN TV

[Little Slide Rooter]

#%$@#%$@# hell Sveum. You cannot use Marmol here.

 

Even I don't get this POV.

 

Marmol is a terrible relief pitcher. This is a one-run game late. Don't use terrible relievers in one-run situations.

 

It was a bad call despite working.

 

Maybe I'm forgetting a few, but ever since losing the closer role, Marmol's been fairly decent with the exception of that game vs. Cincy a few weeks back.

[Guest]

this one hurt badly

[Andy]

Meanwhile, the Cardinals just don't lose games. It's brutal.

They're going to win the division and we're not a playoff team. Probably best to not worry about their latest collection of superstars until it comes time to root against them in October.

[Andy]

OK, so by my math, in the last 20 seasons going back to 1994, the Cubs are -38 on pythagorean variance.

 

In that time, they've had +4 or better variance in one season (1998) and -4 or worse six times.

 

This is a pointless thing to point out that means nothing, tells us nothing remotely predictive, and only serves to fuel the "only the Cubs" stupidity.

It's a fact. It's not like he's cherry-picking stats to fuel discontent

[Sammy Sofa]

What's a "fact?"

[Sammy Sofa]

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[Little Slide Rooter]

Meanwhile, the Cardinals just don't lose games. It's brutal.

They're going to win the division and we're not a playoff team. Probably best to not worry about their latest collection of superstars until it comes time to root against them in October.

 

A lot of those superstars will still be around by then, along with Oscar Tavares, Shelby Miller, Carlos Martinez, and a bunch of guys we don't even know exist yet.