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

[illiniguy]

I mean, I know it has nothing to do with the outcome, but man was it fun listening to the TBS guys begging for a Duda homer today. Congrats guys, you got your wish.

[Liam Neeson]

They've mailed it in. Fans deserve better.

 

Nomination for ironic post of the year

[abuck1220]

if it makes you guys feel better, the hilarious cahill/rodney/richard bullpen would have surely imploded in the WS

[Fred Hornkohl]

                   AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR   TB  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS
CUBS season      5491  689 1340  273   28  171 2182  659  567 1508  0.244  0.321  0.397  0.719
CUBS playoffs     251   29   52    5    2   15  106   29   22   77  0.207  0.276  0.422  0.699

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Guest]

Re-do

[Sammy Sofa]

Look at all these dumb idiots who paid to watch this debacle in person.

 

OH, HEY, DAD.

[squally1313]

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.

 

Yeah but the issue with that is that you can substitute literally any other possible action in the universe for "acquiring a pitcher at the deadline" and the rest of your argument wouldn't change.

[TMan92]

God are the TBS guys complete morons. Can we petition to move to the AL just for the playoff coverage?

[rocket]

God I'm over back to the future for life

[Guest]

have we held a lead at any point in this series?

[Cubswin11]

I wish we had this umps zone for any of the first 3 games

[UMFan83]

It's just so frustrating that the Cubs gave up a 1st inning run in 7/8 NLDS and NLCS games. Hard to win a World Series when you trail in every single game

[chuckywang]

God are the TBS guys complete morons. Can we petition to move to the AL just for the playoff coverage?

 

Do TBS and FOX switch AL and NL every year?

[Hawk4Hall]

#1 priority next season is to get a quality SP. Hammel can't be on this team next season he's been awful for the entire 2nd half.

[Ski]

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.

 

Yeah but the issue with that is that you can substitute literally any other possible action in the universe for "acquiring a pitcher at the deadline" and the rest of your argument wouldn't change.

Well, anything that doesn't directly impact the team probably isn't going to make a difference. I'm not talking 'butterfly flapping its wings in China' level of Chaos Theory.

[Sammy Sofa]

Now I'm at the point of hoping they manage to just lose the series normally. Just get swept like a regular [expletive] team that played terribly for 4 games instead of something stupid and ridiculous happening that the meatballs can glom onto and sob about curses and sorcery and all that other poop.

[UMFan83]

have we held a lead at any point in this series?

 

Nope. But we have finished an inning tied in 4 out of the 28 innings!

[Little Slide Rooter]

There are a million words and phrases that could be used to describe this, but the one I'm going to go with is anticlimactic.

[Clem Fandango]

God I'm over back to the future for life

 

Oh God, now people are gonna say we're cursed by Back to the Future. Ugh.

[MarkMero23]

They've mailed it in. Fans deserve better.

To be fair, teams always look like they're mailing it in when the other team is pitching well against them. Mets rotation is just that good.

[Hawk4Hall]

Hopefully that's the last pitch you ever throw in a Cubs uniform.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

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.

 

Bottom line: I find it funny in a series that we just got dominated in on offense, defense and pitching that people are bitching about not picking up a single starter at the deadline as if that is the glaring issue in this series. Everything has been as issue, including the three starters that would have still pitched in this series.

 

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.

[RunsWthSizzors]

Are the Mets just TONS better or are these kids having trouble handling the pressure? And what happened to Arrieta??

[Fro]

If you're willing to pull him in the 2nd with 1 out, why even start Hammel when you know he has been bad?

[TMan92]

I think it is hilarious that Wood is coming in.