8/16 Cubs (Haren) @ white sox (Sale) - 1:10 PM WGN/CSN

[Butterscup1679666578]

Sale is 10-7 with a 3.47 ERA with 193 K/30 BB.

 

Haren is 8-7 with a 3.55 ERA with 97 K/28 BB.

 

Beat Sale, get the sweep, get to 20 over.

[Guest]

if anybody but butters starts a playoff thread i will flip my [expletive]

[Andy]

20 over holy [expletive] would it be sweet

 

RIDE THAT MOTHER [expletive] BUTTERS WAVE

[ARCubsFan]

Ride the Butters wave

[Schwarber Fan]

20 over and in 3rd place??

[Andy]

20 over and in 3rd place??

2nd. I believe

[Sammys Boombox]

Fun. That's what I'm currently having.

[Gilby]

Dan Haren in this ballpark vs Chris Sale is such a bad matchup. But [expletive] it, I'm still expecting us to win.

[ARCubsFan]

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[rawaction]

The Cubs were 51-46 three weeks ago.

 

It's crazy because I knew the rookies would be good, I just didn't think they'd be this good, this fast. And when none of them were hitting, I figured they would all eventually hit, but I was as skeptical as anyone. Everything has gone pretty well so far. If you'd told me that Castro would be terrible, Baez would not even see the majors, and Soler had only 5 HRs....I'd thought this season was a disaster. But the offensive slump coincided with the starting pitching being lights out. Arrieta is still da Gawd, but the Cubs have more than survived lackluster starts from Hammel, Hendricks, Hammel, Richard, and Beeler, now that the offense has turned it up.

[Schwarber Fan]

20 over and in 3rd place??

2nd. I believe

 

Nope. Pirates lead in the 13th. 14th.

[Fred Hornkohl]

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[Guest]

This is it, this is the game. I don't want to make too much of it, but if they win their 10th straight with Haren beating Sale on the road, then the Cubs will probably never lose again for the rest of our lives.

[CubInOK]

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[NOLA]

This is it, this is the game. I don't want to make too much of it, but if they win their 10th straight with Haren beating Sale on the road, then the Cubs will probably never lose again for the rest of our lives.

Was thinking the exact same thing. If effing Haren beats Sale tomorrow...holy god I wish I could be at Wrigley next week.

[DiamondMind]

This is it, this is the game. I don't want to make too much of it, but if they win their 10th straight with Haren beating Sale on the road, then the Cubs will probably never lose again for the rest of our lives.

 

If they win this game we're never losing again.

 

if anybody but butters starts a playoff thread i will flip my [expletive]

 

I don't think anyone on this forum will argue against that.

[UMFan83]

1.5 behind the Pirates for 3rd best record in baseball

2.5 behind the Royals for 2nd best record in baseball

7.5 behind the Cardinals for best record in baseball

[Sammy Sofa]

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[sontensei]

The Cubs were 51-46 three weeks ago.

 

It's crazy because I knew the rookies would be good, I just didn't think they'd be this good, this fast. And when none of them were hitting, I figured they would all eventually hit, but I was as skeptical as anyone. Everything has gone pretty well so far. If you'd told me that Castro would be terrible, Baez would not even see the majors, and Soler had only 5 HRs....I'd thought this season was a disaster. But the offensive slump coincided with the starting pitching being lights out. Arrieta is still da Gawd, but the Cubs have more than survived lackluster starts from Hammel, Hendricks, Hammel, Richard, and Beeler, now that the offense has turned it up.

 

Rawaction this is the reason i was so pessimistic about this year (be sellers,etc.) i assumed due to the learning curve we would be good but not good enough.... but these past couple weeks... we can see how good this team can be. One thing that blew me away is the Score had Cal Ripken on and he said he hasn't seen a team like this since the Big Red Machine... THE FKN Big red machine! His reasoning was because of the home grown talent that will be around for a long time... but who is our Pete Rose?

[sontensei]

This is it, this is the game. I don't want to make too much of it, but if they win their 10th straight with Haren beating Sale on the road, then the Cubs will probably never lose again for the rest of our lives.

 

If they win this game we're never losing again.

 

if anybody but butters starts a playoff thread i will flip my [expletive]

 

I don't think anyone on this forum will argue against that.

 

If they win this game I will be totally invested in the Cubs.

[ctcf]

If they win this game I will be totally invested in the Cubs.

 

You're not already?

[Gingerballs Lives]

Butt. Ers.

[Guest]

If they win this game I will be totally invested in the Cubs.

 

You're not already?

Thank god we have Haren going because I really don't want to know what that would entail

[rocket]

haren and sale are basically equals according to the best pitching stat available, so this should be pretty easy

[Sammy Sofa]

9 in a row, 15 out of 16 and 19 over .500 are just pedestrian; sontensei will only be REALLY invested if they beat this one dude.