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10/07 CUBS (ARRIETA) @ PIRATES (COLE), 7:00 PM CDT, TBS

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I think I've made my peace with the one-game-and-out scenario. By telling myself that getting knocked out of the playoffs is the way most of your seasons end when you are a fan of a good baseball team, so hopefully we get used to it.

 

i mean that was probably an easy transition for you since the last two times we were in the playoffs you were like "well if we lose game 1 there's basically no chance we can win the series now"

 

2-for-2.

 

I doubt I actually said that, but I've long since accepted that some weird imaginary version of my posts show up on your screen, so I'll take the free credit for being right twice.

 

i distinctly remember you blathering on about it and me thinking what an idiotic way it was to exist

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i distinctly remember you blathering on about it and me thinking what an idiotic way it was to exist

 

You also remember me blathering on about how terrible the Cubs were going to be this year, which never happened.

 

I'll generally cop to anything I've said, I've got no problems with it. I might hammer home how much a single loss lowers your chances to a degree that annoys everyone, maybe even act like everyone is disagreeing with me when nobody is, but "almost no chance" or whatever doesn't sound like me.

 

 

Maybe I did though. Guess I could go look up the thread.

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i distinctly remember you blathering on about it and me thinking what an idiotic way it was to exist

 

You also remember me blathering on about how terrible the Cubs were going to be this year, which never happened.

 

thats an interesting way to frame it. you know as well as i do that given a potential positive outcome or a potential negative outcome, youll always decide that the negative outcome is inevitable. it makes sense considering how everything else in your life has gone

 

edit: i dont think it was in the game threads, i dont recall ever paying attention to those during the playoff games

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what the hell, pittsburgh

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uZFJ_YkHkV8/TeVbyQGfMKI/AAAAAAAABg8/oNxEw1-ZaVA/s1600/IMG_8040.jpg:small

 

how am i just learning about these?

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It's cute that Pirates fans think they are going to rattle Jake, this is what he is going to be doing until the first pitch.

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thats an interesting way to frame it. you know as well as i do that given a potential positive outcome or a potential negative outcome, youll always decide that the negative outcome is inevitable. it makes sense considering how everything else in your life has gone

 

edit: i dont think it was in the game threads, i dont recall ever paying attention to those during the playoff games

 

That isn't true. I know you think it's true, but it isn't. You've got a narrative in your head for my posts, and while it's not entirely unfair, it also causes you to imagine a lot of posts I didn't make and ignore posts that don't fit that narrative. I don't think it really matters, but being accused of saying things I didn't say always irks me.

 

I'll cop to taking a perverse glee in the bad things happening, to saying doing some incredibly annoying venting after the 2008 series was over, and to becoming obsessed for a few weeks with the idea that there was at least a possibility of some kind of magical unspecified "cause" that was causing the Cubs to underperform in playoffs. But specifically saying there was almost no chance because they lost game 1? I haven't checked every post, but it doesn't sound like me and I haven't seen it in the game threads I've looked at, and given your recent history of refusing to accept that I was one of the most optimistic posters about Cubs in-season chances the last few years, I find it likely I didn't say it.

 

This got boring and stupid, so I'll throw this out there: For this entire season, I've made it a point to read your posts with Pierce Hawthorne's voice in my head, and it's amused me every time.

 

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Here's what I said before game 2 in 2008:

 

posting.php?mode=quote&f=26&p=1983816

 

Screw the odds, we have more than a 7 I Dropped The Soap! percent chance to win the damn series

 

Some of you guys take numbers too seriously

 

I think he was joking about 7%.

 

A generic team would be about 15%, we're not a generic team, we're a darned good one with favorable pitching matchups in 3 of 4 remaining games (game 3 absurdly so).

 

I'd say closer to 25%.

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It's cute that Pirates fans think they are going to rattle Jake, this is what he is going to be doing until the first pitch.

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In sports, Pittsburgh Pirates announcer Bob Prince coined the term "hidden vigorish" to describe an underdog's ability to beat the odds in a given situation.
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Lol who is this dork and why does he think he can Salon.com Jake Arrieta?

 

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For some reason I assumed an NPR host would be less dumb.

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NSIAP, this one has lots of historical clips in it.

 

 

Half of the [expletive] video is old [expletive]. Plus it opens with Harry. That other one is so much better.

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oh and magic number

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Alfonso+Soriano+Anthony+Rizzo+3OjiGy7K4X6m.jpg

 

Even though I watched the games at the time, it seems so [expletive] weird to see Rizzo and Soriano on the same team in that picture. It feels like [expletive] forever since the Soriano days.

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thats an interesting way to frame it. you know as well as i do that given a potential positive outcome or a potential negative outcome, youll always decide that the negative outcome is inevitable. it makes sense considering how everything else in your life has gone

 

edit: i dont think it was in the game threads, i dont recall ever paying attention to those during the playoff games

 

That isn't true. I know you think it's true, but it isn't. You've got a narrative in your head for my posts, and while it's not entirely unfair, it also causes you to imagine a lot of posts I didn't make and ignore posts that don't fit that narrative. I don't think it really matters, but being accused of saying things I didn't say always irks me.

 

I'll cop to taking a perverse glee in the bad things happening, to saying doing some incredibly annoying venting after the 2008 series was over, and to becoming obsessed for a few weeks with the idea that there was at least a possibility of some kind of magical unspecified "cause" that was causing the Cubs to underperform in playoffs. But specifically saying there was almost no chance because they lost game 1? I haven't checked every post, but it doesn't sound like me and I haven't seen it in the game threads I've looked at, and given your recent history of refusing to accept that I was one of the most optimistic posters about Cubs in-season chances the last few years, I find it likely I didn't say it.

 

This got boring and stupid, so I'll throw this out there: For this entire season, I've made it a point to read your posts with Pierce Hawthorne's voice in my head, and it's amused me every time.

 

Edit:

 

Here's what I said before game 2 in 2008:

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/forum/posting.php?mode=quote&f=26&p=1983816

 

Screw the odds, we have more than a 7 I Dropped The Soap! percent chance to win the damn series

 

Some of you guys take numbers too seriously

 

I think he was joking about 7%.

 

A generic team would be about 15%, we're not a generic team, we're a darned good one with favorable pitching matchups in 3 of 4 remaining games (game 3 absurdly so).

 

I'd say closer to 25%.

 

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jake's last appearance here was when the sniper took out polanco at wrigley

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