2015 Cubs Positivity Thread

[Guest]

Meet the Mets

Beat the Mets

The Cubs are going to defeat the Mets.

[BigSlick]

Hello Positivity Thread. I feel positive the Cubs still have a chance in this thing. Stuff happens! Baseball is weird, and a fickle, capricious beast.

 

:beg: :flythew:

[UMFan83]

Mets will choke like the gutless chokers they are. And if they don't, well their fans still have to live in [expletive] queens and pretend they don't live in a giant lower middle class shithole

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I actually think I prefer Cardinals fans to Mets fans. Don't even get me started on how dumb orange looks on grownups.

[Guest]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TrOeRtfo24g/TxVvJdrN2uI/AAAAAAAAABI/R6C_-rxPfHE/s1600/PDVD_030.BMP

[Guest]

It's only 167 days until Opening Day 2016.

[wvcbxl]

This [expletive] ain't over - get ready for a Cubs comeback.

[Lenny]

Meet the Mets

Beat the Mets

The Cubs are going to defeat the Mets.

 

Meet the Mets

 

Greet the Mets

 

Step right up, and play golf with the Mets

[Geech]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TrOeRtfo24g/TxVvJdrN2uI/AAAAAAAAABI/R6C_-rxPfHE/s1600/PDVD_030.BMP

 

Ban this man, please.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Cubs all-time leader in post-season home runs in a career? Kyle Schwarber.

[SouthSideRyan]

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/17/even_by_their_standards_this_is_a_new_low/

 

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/17/red_sox_on_brink_of_elimination_as_yanks_pound_them_19_8/?page=full

[Guest]

you can't come back from 3-0 without going down 3-0

 

this is just the way a dream season has to go

[SouthSideRyan]

It's too bad all the Chicago sportswriters have done face turns lately, because the best thing about those articles is that they're from Shaugnhessy and Ryan

[biittner77]

you can't come back from 3-0 without going down 3-0

 

this is just the way a dream season has to go

 

damn right.

[Backtobanks]

you can't come back from 3-0 without going down 3-0

 

this is just the way a dream season has to go

 

They've done the easy part, now comes the hard part.

[USSoccer]

Okay so just win today and you have Lester and Arrieta in games 5 & 6.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Let me tell you a little story. It was 1994, and I was ice climbing when I fell into a crevasse and hurt my leg. There was only one way out, so fighting every natural instinct I have, I did the thing I hated the most. I climbed down into the darkness. And when I came back to camp, I went to the person who cut my line and said, "Connie Chung, you saved my life."

[Banedon]

Thank you, Cubs, for making this season a whole helluva lot of fun. I was truly concerned that I was falling out of love with the sport, but it turned out that wasn't the case at all, I just was tired of losing. But even beyond the results, this team just made watching baseball enjoyable every day.

 

It didn't end how we all wanted, but I don't think even the most optimistic of us pictured a 97 win season with an NLDS over the Cards, and a trip to the NLCS.

 

This is going to be the longest baseball offseason in a very, very long time for me.

[biittner77]

This was a missed opportunity and nothing is guaranteed but I take a lot of satisfaction in having eliminated the Cards.

[BigSlick]

This season was amazing. Thanks for getting me back into baseball, 2015 Cubs, and thanks for beating the Cardinals in the NLDS, which has provided me with the most gratifying playoff baseball moment in my life.

 

Keep spinning that wheel of fortune boys!

[abuck1220]

sorry to bring negativity to the positivity thread, but i'm getting sick of seeing, "don't worry, this will be the WORST cub team of the next 5-7 years."

 

no it won't.

[jersey cubs fan]

sorry to bring negativity to the positivity thread, but i'm getting sick of seeing, "don't worry, this will be the WORST cub team of the next 5-7 years."

 

no it won't.

 

Where are you seeing that? I agree, there's no way this will be the worst. It may end up being the best, but the best versions of teams don't necessarily get the best results. They should remain competitive for the next 5-7 years. That would be nice.

[Guest]

sorry to bring negativity to the positivity thread, but i'm getting sick of seeing, "don't worry, this will be the WORST cub team of the next 5-7 years."

 

no it won't.

Yea, we've unfortunately set a pretty ambitious high water mark.

[Andy]

Thank you, Cubs, for making this season a whole helluva lot of fun. I was truly concerned that I was falling out of love with the sport, but it turned out that wasn't the case at all, I just was tired of losing. But even beyond the results, this team just made watching baseball enjoyable every day.

 

It didn't end how we all wanted, but I don't think even the most optimistic of us pictured a 97 win season with an NLDS over the Cards, and a trip to the NLCS.

 

This is going to be the longest baseball offseason in a very, very long time for me.

Bingo to the bolded. The 2008 team was better, the 2003 team got closer, but this team was the most fun, bar none.

[BigSlick]

Even whatever musing I had about power pitching arms and high contact guys maybe giving a tiny slight edges in the playoffs, its still fundamentally a crapshoot and the main goal is getting in, so if they can field a team that can get in the playoffs repeatedly over the next 5-10 years, that's the best they can do to give themselves a shot.

 

It's possible they'll go all Atlanta Braves on you, but I don't really see a chance for this team to drop out of the playoff race given how much talent and how good the management has been.

 

So if they drop from 97 wins to 93 wins or whatever, who cares.