fatalism thread

[Guest]

so the White Sox, who by all advanced and even traditional measures, have a chance to be one of the worst teams in all of baseball history, just won two straight against the Cardinals

 

Baseball is just weird

 

there's 162 games and this is a sport where the better team wins only slightly over half the time. it's not that weird.

 

it's shitty for us though.

[treebird]

regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

[Sammy Sofa]

Why did I get these [expletive] season tickets.

[Ski]

You have to figure that even if we only had a .450 chance to win any given Cardinals game, we'd still be expected to win between four and five games of any given ten game stretch. We've won two out of ten games against the Cardinals this year.

 

Even if that .45 winning percentage was true (it's not, it's probably slightly below .50, because in all honesty, our rosters are very evenly matched on paper - and our offense is slightly better, performance with RISP aside), the Cubs would only have a ten percent chance of winning two or fewer of ten games against the Cardinals.

 

If our true winning percentage against the Cardinals was .40, there's still only a 16 percent chance we'd win two or fewer games in a ten game stretch.

 

Baseball is [expletive] sometimes.

[rocket]

so assume the cubs are competent against all the teams not named the cardinals and make the wildcard game. is it ok to root for the cubs to lose the wildcard game based on the probability of a playoff series with the cardinals killing me?

[OleMissCub]

We've won two out of ten games against the Cardinals this year.

 

I had forgotten that we had beaten them at all this year.

[Sammys Boombox]

so assume the cubs are competent against all the teams not named the cardinals and make the wildcard game. is it ok to root for the cubs to lose the wildcard game based on the probability of a playoff series with the cardinals killing me?

 

What if the wild card game is against the Cardinals?

[jersey cubs fan]

so assume the cubs are competent against all the teams not named the cardinals and make the wildcard game. is it ok to root for the cubs to lose the wildcard game based on the probability of a playoff series with the cardinals killing me?

Is a life where it is impossible for the Cubs to beat the Cardinals worth living?

[SouthSideRyan]

so assume the cubs are competent against all the teams not named the cardinals and make the wildcard game. is it ok to root for the cubs to lose the wildcard game based on the probability of a playoff series with the cardinals killing me?

 

No, you take your death with honor.

[seanimal]

i think we just need to learn to be satisfied that in some other iteration of this reality, this situation is reversed. ahhhhhhhhhhhh feels goooooooooooood

[treebird]

the highs exist only to put the lows in proper relief. the sooner we can let go of our ambitions and embrace full-on execration, not of others but of ourselves, the sooner we will find peace. a morbid and wholly unhappy peace, but a peace nonetheless.

 

never get too high. always get too low.

[Sammy Sofa]

I BLAME CHUCK LORRE.

[BigSlick]

a split with the st louis cardinals is like a minor miracle and i'm very happy with their performance

 

i didn't watch game 4 though so it probably colors my optimism

[Banedon]

a split with the st louis cardinals is like a minor miracle and i'm very happy with their performance

 

i didn't watch game 4 though so it probably colors my optimism

 

It could be argued the Cubs had a strong chance of sweeping that series and couldn't get it done, with a no-hitter late in the first game, and down to the last strike in the last game. That's why it's disappointing.

[apete6]

Here's some fatalism for you: White Sox sweep the Cubs on their way of getting back into the Wild Card race and send the Cubs into a tailspin. Pirates, Mets, and Giants all sweep this weekend's series and Cubs are in a dogfight the rest of the way. HOW'S THAT FOR FATALISM, MOTHERFUCKERS?!

[jumbo]

I hate to bring this thread back, but I had a dream last night that Rizzo killed himself. In my dream I thought, no way, this can't be true, and woke myself up, pulled out my phone to verify it was just a dream but it was true. I tried to go back to sleep in my dream by thinking of if they'd call up Vogelbach, and if they did, if they would compare his body to Schwarber, then thought the would move Schwarber to first, Coghlan back to LF, and call up Baez. All the while I thought it would end their season and was trying to figure out why he would do it when the team was ready to go to the playoffs. I got back to sleep in my dream and when I actually woke up I had to look it up to make sure Rizzo was ok, but it made me think that it was karma for all the comments about the drunk driving Cardinals.

[Sammy Sofa]

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[Aaron_Kennelly]

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[BrockLanders]

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[davell]

When I saw this bumped, I figured it was about Russell. It took a different turn though, it appears.

[snoodmonger]

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[hawkeyecub]

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[Derwood]

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[Banedon]

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[treebird]

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