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10/09 CUBS (LESTER) @ CARDINALS (LACKEY), 5:30 PM CT, TBS

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How's everyone feeling today? Nervous like Wednesday or relaxed?

 

I feel so much more relaxed than before the Pirates game.

 

 

Yep, no matter what there's more after today, so not nearly the nerves of the WC game. Today is really big though, if the Cubs win they're in tremendous shape to win the series in 3 or 4.

 

Definitely. I just feel THAT much more confident; it really feels like they knocked out the tougher team to face in this series in the WC game.

 

Plus I just "need" them to win one of these games; come back to Chicago for game 3 with Arrieta and unleash the backbreaker.

 

Also while I'm no where near satisfied, its a good feeling to have "accomplished" something already. It takes a little of the nerves off for the players I'm sure as well.

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How's everyone feeling today? Nervous like Wednesday or relaxed?

 

I feel so much more relaxed than before the Pirates game.

 

 

Yep, no matter what there's more after today, so not nearly the nerves of the WC game. Today is really big though, if the Cubs win they're in tremendous shape to win the series in 3 or 4.

 

Yeah, my nervousness is pretty high considering it's not the one-game situation like Wednesday. Like you said, a win puts the Cubs in great position to win the series in three or four games; but, on the flip side, a loss tonight puts the Cubs squarely behind the eight-ball (I'm not sure how much faith I have in Hendricks tomorrow--perhaps I'm wrong--and I'd prefer not to have him pitching on the road looking into the face of a 2-0 deficit). I guess this is my way of saying that, gut feeling, winner of tonight's game wins the series.

 

oh god thanks a lot, now my blood pressure just skyrocketed

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I know win/loss means little but I think Lester's W/L and the Cubs offense when Lester pitches is more indicative of David Ross than anything. He and Lester are both black holes on offense and it's hard to overcome.

 

                   AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR   TB  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS
CUBS w/Lester    1104  121  272   56    5   30  428  115  108  312  0.246  0.319  0.388  0.707
CUBS w/o Lester  4419  572 1075  217   23  143 1767  548  461 1206  0.243  0.321  0.400  0.721

 

CUBS are 16-16 (.500) when Lester starts

CUBS are 82-49 (.626) when he doesn't

 

A difference of 0.014 in OPS does not constitute a black hole in my estimation, and the team W/L records demonstrate that the difference is not at all hard to overcome.

 

But hey, let's don't let the facts get in the way of a good argument, eh?

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No nerves here. Just waiting for a dominant Lester performance and looking forward to seeing misery porn from the douches.
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Switching them made so much sense (LHP pitching to mostly righties, put your better outfielder in LF) that I almost retroactively wonder why Joe originally had Schwarber in LF. No harm done, though.

 

Of course, Coghlan probably isn't a ton better than Schwarber (do the defensive metrics still rate Coghlan super high for whatever reason?), so it doesn't make much difference.

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Schwarber in RF, Coghlan in LF. Switch just announced.

 

CUBS are 25-11 (.694) when Schwarber starts at lf

CUBS are 12-8 (.600) when Coghlan starts at rf

 

CUBS are 3-0 (1.000) when Schwarber starts at rf

CUBS are 50-37 (.575) when Coghlan starts at lf

 

Seems like we might be giving up a little in the switch.

 

 

Go CUBS !!

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I know win/loss means little but I think Lester's W/L and the Cubs offense when Lester pitches is more indicative of David Ross than anything. He and Lester are both black holes on offense and it's hard to overcome.

 

The the most ridiculous thing you've posted, and that's saying something.

 

It isn't even more ridiculous than the thing he posted last night about EJM/Almora, but it is very, very ridiculous.

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I'm just not sure we can hit Lackey.
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Does Grichuk still have to toss the ball to another player to get it to the infield?

 

We are REALY hoping he doesn't.

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I'm just not sure we can hit Lackey.

 

We hit Cole and he's a lot better pitcher than Lackey.

 

Ok, "a lot" might be overselling it.

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I'm just not sure we can hit Lackey.

 

We hit Cole and he's a lot better pitcher than Lackey.

 

Ok, "a lot" might be overselling it.

ok, Cole is a much better pitcher.

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I'm just not sure we can hit Lackey.

 

We hit Cole and he's a lot better pitcher than Lackey.

 

Ok, "a lot" might be overselling it.

ok, Cole is a much better pitcher.

Lackey is Cy Young good at Busch Stadium this year

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I'm just not sure we can hit Lackey.

 

We hit Cole and he's a lot better pitcher than Lackey.

 

Ok, "a lot" might be overselling it.

 

Has more to do with repertoire. We haven't had any success against him this year, but, again, that was before our offense got good.

 

Plus Cole seemed amped up and was missing with his FB.

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Lackey is Cy Young good at Busch Stadium this year

 

Yeah, that doesn't matter very much. And only if you look at ERA.

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I'm just not sure we can hit Lackey.

 

We hit Cole and he's a lot better pitcher than Lackey.

 

Ok, "a lot" might be overselling it.

ok, Cole is a much better pitcher.

Lackey is Cy Young good at Busch Stadium this year

I know you REALLY like him, but that's just not true. He's better at Busch, but doesn't even begin to compare to the Greinke/Arrieta/Kershaw level even if you just look at his home stats. Now, if you wanted to say he's near-ace level against righties, then you'd have something.

 

 

But, overall, he's mainly been a good to very good pitcher who has gotten really lucky this year.

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I'm just not sure we can hit Lackey.

 

We hit Cole and he's a lot better pitcher than Lackey.

 

Ok, "a lot" might be overselling it.

 

Has more to do with repertoire. We haven't had any success against him this year, but, again, that was before our offense got good.

 

Plus Cole seemed amped up and was missing with his FB.

If you want to feel better, look at Lackey's splits versus lefties and expect good things from Rizzo, Schwarber, Coghlan & Dexter.

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