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

[Sammy Sofa]

Next time stick around, but start hurling rotten fruit and eggs when the players come back out and howl "I CARE TOO MUCH" and tear your shirt off Hulkamania-style as Roast hauls you away.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Next time stick around, but start hurling rotten fruit and eggs when the players come back out and howl "I CARE TOO MUCH" and tear your shirt off Hulkamania-style as Roast hauls you away.

 

As Roast flying-karate-kicks him to Cicero.

[KatJ]

What am I supposed to do the next few months? I want to get next year started right now.

Watch the World Series. It's baseball. It's still the greatest sport.

 

[expletive] that noise.

 

It could be worse: it could be the White Sox vs. the Cardinals.

 

 

Like a mere decade ago.

 

Not sure what's up with you, but the White Sox played the Astros and the Cardinals played the Tigers the following season.

 

Damn drugs.

[Proven Veteran]

Next time stick around, but start hurling rotten fruit and eggs when the players come back out and howl "I CARE TOO MUCH" and tear your shirt off Hulkamania-style as Roast hauls you away.

 

It's still real to him.

[ScrubMD]

another weakness exposed: hitting line drives right to fielders.

 

Be really hot when you play us and put your fielders where all the line drives are going to go. The book is out, we're toast.

[Guest]

Never said they didn't try. Said they sucked in the most important games of their lives to this point. And said that pissed me off because I care too much and envied those who don't feel like me.

 

You said they didn't show up. That implies that they didn't try.

[Sammys Boombox]

Never said they didn't try. Said they sucked in the most important games of their lives to this point. And said that pissed me off because I care too much and envied those who don't feel like me.

 

You said they didn't show up. That implies that they didn't try.

 

If other people use that to imply they didn't try, ok. But that's not what I meant.

 

Even in my most irrational heat of the moment I still laughed at the Cardinals fans who were talking about 1908. One of the things this team gave me this year is that I really do not care at all what Cardinals fans think about anything anymore. And I know this season really hurt them.

 

I also want to point out that I never booed them. Would never do that.

[Schwarber Fan]

It really hit me tonight as I sat down and watched all the great highlights from the season... What a season it was. More great moments in a single summer that I can ever recall in my time following the Cubs. The worst part of the initial sadness is thinking about the lon grind it's going to take next year to get back to the NLCS and to this point. But I suppose by the time spring training rolls around we'll just be hungry for Cubs baseball period. The window is just opening.

[Sammy Sofa]

Why would the season be a long grind instead of just another enjoyable season? My dad was at the game and I called him today and all he kept going on about was the "long haul of the regular season," like only this season could be fun and the rest will just be a slog until they win it all.

[Butterscup1679666578]

I actually can't believe how fast this season went. Like, it doesn't seem like Bryant, Russell and Schwarber all came up this year because they felt like such part of the team. It's hard to believe that a little over 6 months ago Bryant made his debut after all the crap about keeping him down for a week. The season flew by to me because it was so fun and I was so excited to tune in every game.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Gm#    Date       Opponent         Score  Starter         Opp Starter
168  Sat 10/17  @ New York      N   2- 4  Lester          Harvey        
169  Sun 10/18  @ New York      N   1- 4  Arrieta         Syndergaard   
170  Tue 10/20    New York      N   2- 5  Hendricks       deGrom        
171  Wed 10/21    New York      N   3- 8  Hammel          Matz

 

                  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16    Total

CUBS              1   0   0   2   1   1   0   3   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0       8
Opponents         9   2   2   0   1   2   3   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0      21

 

10/17 - 10/21      AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR   TB  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS
CUBS              128    8   21    4    0    4   37    8    9   37  0.164  0.225  0.289  0.514
Oppt              130   21   35    7    1    7   65   20   11   37  0.269  0.333  0.500  0.833

 

10/17 - 10/21        IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
CUBS               34.0   35   21   21   11   37    7  2.91  9.79  1.85  1.35  5.56
Oppt               36.0   21    8    8    9   37    4  2.25  9.25  1.00  0.83  2.00

 

 

 

See ya in the spring !!

[SouthSideRyan]

Next time stick around, but start hurling rotten fruit and eggs when the players come back out and howl "I CARE TOO MUCH" and tear your shirt off Hulkamania-style as Roast hauls you away.

 

It's still real to him.

 

Roast being capable of hauling him away is easily the most embarrassing part of that story.

[SouthSideRyan]

At least we beat them in K/9

[wvcbxl]

you're depressing

 

I feel sorry for his wife.

[Sammys Boombox]

you're depressing

 

I feel sorry for his wife.

 

My short term negativity to a series performance like this is pretty much my only major character flaw. And at least I recognize that I'm ridiculous. She did alright.

[badger1679666666]

That last post was completely unnecessary Fred.

[Sammys Boombox]

Also, I tried everything to get myself up for the game. Don't know how you can control your feelings towards something. If anybody knows how to do that let me know. I didn't make the choice to be miserable.

[Sammy Sofa]

Also, I tried everything to get myself up for the game. Don't know how you can control your feelings towards something. If anybody knows how to do that let me know. I didn't make the choice to be miserable.

 

To be fair, there is a Chicago precedent for this type of condition:

 

[spoil]http://media1.fdncms.com/chicago/imager/the-lipstick-killers-message/u/original/1227467/lipstickmessagemagnum.jpg[/spoil]

[Fred Hornkohl]

That last post was completely unnecessary Fred.

 

The logical extrapolation of that thought is that the last series was completely unnecessary.

[badger1679666666]

agreed. so you're saying we skipped right into the WS right? digging this fantasyland.

[Derwood]

Why has this damnable thread not been locked and shot into the sun?

[Guest]

Why would the season be a long grind instead of just another enjoyable season? My dad was at the game and I called him today and all he kept going on about was the "long haul of the regular season," like only this season could be fun and the rest will just be a slog until they win it all.

 

Probably because right now all we want is to get back into that position.

 

By the time February rolls around, I'll be crazy excited to see the first pictures of Heyward and Price on Boys of Spring.

[Guest]

I actually can't believe how fast this season went. Like, it doesn't seem like Bryant, Russell and Schwarber all came up this year because they felt like such part of the team. It's hard to believe that a little over 6 months ago Bryant made his debut after all the crap about keeping him down for a week. The season flew by to me because it was so fun and I was so excited to tune in every game.

 

yeah i mean our opening day lineup was something like

 

lester

ross

rizzo

lastella

castro

olt

coghlan

fowler

soler

 

or did alcantara start?

[Thed Hoyerstein]

I actually can't believe how fast this season went. Like, it doesn't seem like Bryant, Russell and Schwarber all came up this year because they felt like such part of the team. It's hard to believe that a little over 6 months ago Bryant made his debut after all the crap about keeping him down for a week. The season flew by to me because it was so fun and I was so excited to tune in every game.

 

yeah i mean our opening day lineup was something like

 

lester

ross

rizzo

lastella

castro

olt

coghlan

fowler

soler

 

or did alcantara start?

 

you're correct, think it was

 

fowler

soler

rizzo

castro

coghlan

olt

ross

lester

rat boy

 

or maybe soler and castro were switched

[Derwood]

It was

 

CF Fowler

RF Soler

1B Rizzo

SS Castro

LF Coghlan

3B Olt

C Ross

P Lester

2B LaStella