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10/21 Mets (Matz) @ Cubs (Hammel) 7:07 pm TBS

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what will it take for you to believe in curses.

 

Has nothing to do with curses. The top end of the pitching staff is gassed, and you cannot rely on HR to win ballgames.

 

I think.

 

the mets are relying it. say what you will, but this happens whenever we get into the nlcs.

 

Birria will be my dinner opening day next year. Right after I start my first rosary of a 54 day novena. Even if they choke, something good should become of my efforts.

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I have no problem thinking the Cubs can score runs. I have every reason to believe they cannot hold the Mets.

 

Theyve lost all these games because they cant score runs

 

I understand that. I think they still have dongs in them (as Soler and Bryant K).

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CUBS are 74-18 (.804) when they score first in the game.... 27-51 (.346) when they don't

CUBS are 41-13 (.759) when they score in the first inning.... 60-56 (.517) when they don't

 

 

Go CUBS !!

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Just don't even have a baserunner. No one outside of us will ever remember this team unless they go out doing something [expletive] historically awful anyway
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so glad theo didn't get a pitcher at the deadline. worked out great.

 

Yea, because one [expletive] pitcher would have turned this whole series around.

 

It wouldn't have hurt?

 

But that complaint went out the window when every single SP acquired except Happ and Price were not good. We were in talks for Ross but SD wanted the moon for him

 

Right. Maybe having a top-end pitcher last night leads to that top-end pitcher pitching top-end. Maybe not; but that certainly could have changed the series (and obviously then Hammel would not have started).

 

Yeah. That's a lot of maybes. Or maybe we just still get our ass kicked.

 

Yup. That's possible too. Surprisingly, I can't tell the future in this alternate time line. But neither can you. your counter-factual assertion is a "maybe" too--you just couched it as a certainty. It's not.

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I'm being totally serious when I say that us acquiring a pitcher at the deadline would have made the rest of the season and the playoffs unfold differently. Created another timeline, in a sense. You can't say everything would have been the same besides us having a better starter in the playoffs.

 

Welp. I'll admit I'll never be able to win that argument. Of course maybe if we get David Price we somehow miss the playoffs all together. So in that case, great move not getting one.

I mean, sure, maybe that happens. In all likelihood, we still make the playoffs, probably. You can't say that the playoffs would have unfolded the same way, though. Chaos theory is tricky business.

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