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I feel like they've set this team up well for a second-half even better than the first. Deadline additions, call ups, and the pitching staff spreading the work around well should all pay off.

 

yup

 

and one long ass home stand

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I feel like they've set this team up well for a second-half even better than the first. Deadline additions, call ups, and the pitching staff spreading the work around well should all pay off.

 

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This is the fourth year of the baseball regime headed by Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer. It figures to be the first with this group where the Cubs are buyers between now and the July 31 trading deadline and not sellers, as they were from 2012-14.

 

"You can't take any opportunity to win for granted," Epstein said. "You have to seize the moment, but at the same time, we're cognizant of the fact that one of the primary reasons we have a team that's in contention now is because a healthy organization has been built. So you want to maintain that."

 

Epstein said the Cubs would have the financial wherewithal to add players, if needed, through trades. The Cubs also are closer to getting some injured players back, such as reliever Neil Ramirez and outfielder Jorge Soler.

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I have positive feelings about the 2015 Cubs. They are good, I think.

 

It would be nicer if the Cardinals weren't winning every game that's ever been scheduled. In fact the 2015 Cardinals have gone back in time and retroactively won some games from the last few years. But its nice to see something that doesn't make me roar with rage on the inside. I like this team, I claim.

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In fact the 2015 Cardinals have gone back in time and retroactively won some games from the last few years.

 

 

 

Not so hard to believe with the cyber terrorism that the Cardinals organization wages.

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I have positive feelings about the 2015 Cubs. They are good, I think.

 

It would be nicer if the Cardinals weren't winning every game that's ever been scheduled. In fact the 2015 Cardinals have gone back in time and retroactively won some games from the last few years. But its nice to see something that doesn't make me roar with rage on the inside. I like this team, I claim.

 

Stop that. They are.

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Just imagine how fun it will be to face the 122-win Cardinals in the NLDS and take game 5 in St. Louis.

I'd prefer edging them by a game for the division and watching them lose the wild-card game at home with the second-best record in the NL.

 

I mean, what I'd really like is for them to stop playing over their heads for once and miss the playoffs entirely, but I have to be at least vaguely realistic.

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i fantasized all year about knocking out the cardinals in the 04 NLCS. especially once we got nomar.

 

i'm not doing that again. [expletive] that. let's sweep them this weekend and get back in the division race plz.

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Is anybody else seeing a parallel of sorts between what we have and the Brewers of the mid '00s? They had tremendous crop of PP prospects funneling through; 2 incredible cornerstones in Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun anchoring a foundation featuring Ricky Weeks, JJ Hardy, and Corey Hart. And they still had guys like Gamel, LaPorta, and Escobar in the wings.

 

We have two incredible cornerstones in Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant anchoring a foundation featuring Starlin Castro, Addison Russell, and Jorge Soler. And we still have guys like Kyle Schwarber, Javy Baez, and Billy McKinney in the wings.

 

Even as they experienced some immediate success, some struggled more than others. Braun and Fielder essentially took off running and never looked back. Weeks and Hardy were less consistant. And while they were on tbe fringe of contention in '07, it wasn't until 2008 that they hit their stride; and even then, they were streaky. We all remember them as a 90 game wild card who was at our heels for much of the season, but they were also 83-67 in early-mid September when they fired Ned Yost.

 

They've been very up and down since. Braun's all that's left of that crop (unless you count Gomez, who they got for Hardy.) They've swapped out prospects for veterans and not had much luck with the prospects they kept. And they haven't done a very good job keeping up their farm system since, focusing more on desperately attempting to keep that window open, and are now dangerously close to ending up like the villain from "Ghost" because of it.

 

What's my point? I don't know. I guess it's something about even if you have an amazing young core, most of which pans out, it still takes time to make things happen. And even then, the team needs to continuously build and evolve.

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Is anybody else seeing a parallel of sorts between what we have and the Brewers of the mid '00s? They had tremendous crop of PP prospects funneling through; 2 incredible cornerstones in Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun anchoring a foundation featuring Ricky Weeks, JJ Hardy, and Corey Hart. And they still had guys like Gamel, LaPorta, and Escobar in the wings.

 

We have two incredible cornerstones in Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant anchoring a foundation featuring Starlin Castro, Addison Russell, and Jorge Soler. And we still have guys like Kyle Schwarber, Javy Baez, and Billy McKinney in the wings.

 

Even as they experienced some immediate success, some struggled more than others. Braun and Fielder essentially took off running and never looked back. Weeks and Hardy were less consistant. And while they were on tbe fringe of contention in '07, it wasn't until 2008 that they hit their stride; and even then, they were streaky. We all remember them as a 90 game wild card who was at our heels for much of the season, but they were also 83-67 in early-mid September when they fired Ned Yost.

 

They've been very up and down since. Braun's all that's left of that crop (unless you count Gomez, who they got for Hardy.) They've swapped out prospects for veterans and not had much luck with the prospects they kept. And they haven't done a very good job keeping up their farm system since, focusing more on desperately attempting to keep that window open, and are now dangerously close to ending up like the villain from "Ghost" because of it.

 

What's my point? I don't know. I guess it's something about even if you have an amazing young core, most of which pans out, it still takes time to make things happen. And even then, the team needs to continuously build and evolve.

 

Up and down, yes, but that up and down also included a NLCS in 2011 and they didn't really invest the $$$ in free agents like the Cubs should be able to do.

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I'm having that Cardinals NLDS fantasy again. Something in a walk-off to end the series in 3 or 4 at Wrigley.

If we could get a great start each out of Lester and Arrieta, that hypothetical series would be crazy winnable.

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currently the 6th best winning percentage in baseball.

 

i sure wish we didn't have to play in the same division as the stupid cardinals

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currently the 6th best winning percentage in baseball.

 

i sure wish we didn't have to play in the same division as the stupid cardinals

 

or the same planet

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