07/10 white sox (Rodon) @ CUBS (Hendricks) 3:05 CDT, CSN TV

[profisme]

That bonifacio sb is the game right now

[treebird]

how many strikes would soler need that at bat to draw a walk or get a hit? 20?

[Guest]

LOL.

[Butterscup1679666578]

baseball is so stupid

[Sammy Sofa]

Welp, that was sure something. Time for dinner.

[treebird]

sick lineouts and dp's today.

[sontensei]

GG, lets go into the break with a 46-41 record!

[Sammy Sofa]

sick lineouts and dp's today.

 

New from Elegant Angel.

[Andy]

[expletive] joke.

[Tryptamine]

3 hits and the FO will continue to sit on their hands.

[TruffleShuffle]

I know nobody will agree, but for a team that is seven games above .500, the Cubs haven't been very fun to watch for a while now. Quite frankly, they are boring.

Our record isn't worth the frustration of worrying if we're going to score one measly run each game. The offense is beyond pathetic and isn't worth anyone's time.

 

it seems to be worth your time, considering that you're in just about every game thread overreacting and whining about the same things.

[Schwarber Fan]

That bonifacio sb is the game right now

 

Sox get one leadoff man all game and he scores the games lone run. We had him on, what? 4-5 times?

[Little Slide Rooter]

Soler...Soriano

 

That would be pretty [expletive] awesome.

[UMFan83]

GG, lets go into the break with a 46-41 record!

 

Maybe you should take another 6 years off

[Sammys Boombox]

Question? Do most fans feel like their team outplays their opponents and loses all the time, or does it actually happen to us more often? Do we easily forget when we win games we were outplayed?

 

Also: why do umpires suck?

[Little Slide Rooter]

I know nobody will agree, but for a team that is seven games above .500, the Cubs haven't been very fun to watch for a while now. Quite frankly, they are boring.

 

Haven't they been in more 1-run games than any other team in the league? How is that boring?

 

I think for me because a lot of times when they win 2-1, I feel so mentally fatigued watching their offense fail time and time again that by the end it wasn't exciting but just taxing.

 

At least we know what it feels like to have been an A's fan for tbe past 15-20 years.

[TruffleShuffle]

3 hits and the FO will continue to sit on their hands.

 

part of the problem is that there aren't really that many holes to fill. the 1b and 3b have obviously been fine. soler is supposed to be a cornerstone at RF but he hasn't been great, but you're obviously not going to pull the plug on him. russell hasn't been that bad at 2b, although he's been bad the last month. montero isn't going anywhere; fowler was supposed to be a reliable .750 ops in cf but has disappointed. castro is supposed to be good and is signed to a long term contract. so really the only position that's not occupied by a young player or a supposedly-reliable veteran is left field, and coghlan and denorfia really aren't bad out there.

 

the most likely trades are either to dump castro - but how likely is it to find a 2b/ss with a big bat - or to give up on fowler and acquire a cf who isn't playing terribly. neither of these solutions are that easy, especially with a lot of teams out there waiting until the deadline to determine if they're buying or selling.

 

btw the cubs are still a couple of games clear in the wild card and just finished off a solid month against a tough schedule. let's not act like they're in total collapse here.

[Ski]

Question? Do most fans feel like their team outplays their opponents and loses all the time, or does it actually happen to us more often? Do we easily forget when we win games we were outplayed?

 

Also: why do umpires suck?

It's hard to quantify your team getting screwed over by fluky nonsense all the time, so when it happens, selection bias kicks in and we assume it happens all the time.

 

I will admit that the amount bad luck this team endures is vastly overstated.

[treebird]

3 hits and the FO will continue to sit on their hands.

 

it's hard to figure out what they can do. 1b and 3b are set and good. rf is set and mediocre. lf is not set but has been good. 2b has been bad but we're not replacing russell. c has been okay (if trending downward) and montero is set there.

 

i really don't think we're going to replace castro via trade midseason but i guess you could. that leaves cf, where fowler has been awful for a while now. you could try to find a platoon partner for him, but is this really the move that's going to shake things up and fix everything? i sure don't think so.

 

all we can do is hope our guys start hitting. we'll probably add a pitcher (which is very necessary), but there's a pretty legit concern that our offense keeps struggling and the starting pitching stops being so unsustainably dominant.

 

i think this team probably has a little more downside than upside going forward. we'll see.

[treebird]

lololol truffle and i just made the exact same post

[TruffleShuffle]

if the brewers were selling, carlos gomez would be a good target, with the added benefit that he's under contract for 2016.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I'm glad you guys did. I started typing all that and got bored so I quit.

[OleMissCub]

lololol truffle and i just made the exact same post

 

Whoa...

 

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[Sammy Sofa]

My irrational take on the season is how this doesn't "feel" like a team that has been able to hover 6-10 games above .500. That really doesn't make any sense, but ultimately I really have no fondness for the type of winning in any sport where a team has to really grind it out most of the time. Obviously teams like that can still be very good, but I'm lazy; I want my teams to beat the holy piss out of other team more often than not not even have to think about it. This season has just felt like they've had to fight a lot more to win than they should.

 

None of that really makes any sense upon re-reading, but that's the only thing that "really" bugs me. I don't just want good; I want easy good. Hopefully it's a growing pains kinda situation and we're just building up to seeing easy good.

Edited July 10, 2015 by Sammy Sofa

[Ski]

On the point of a couple people (myself, admittedly included) saying the Cubs aren't fun to watch, it's because this team doesn't hit many home runs, doesn't hit with runners in scoring position, and doesn't blowout other teams. Every game we're hanging on by the skin of our teeth. That isn't fun for me.