General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[UMFan83]

Saw this tibdit on Reddit:

 

Bruce Bochy has managed the Padres and the Giants from 1995-2019. His regular season record over that time is 1995-2019

[Little Slide Rooter]

Wow, just learned that Yelich’s out for the season. A team with a -27 run differential shouldn’t even be above .500, let alone in contention. Take away 7.1 WAR player, and they’re pretty much sunk.

 

I guess that essentially takes on one contender in our quest for an extra game.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Dodgers clinch 7th straight NL West title. Remember when we thought we were on their level long-term?

[Brian]

Astros are the team to be jealous of.

 

I'll take our last 7 years over the Dodgers last 7 100 out of 100 times.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Astros are the team to be jealous of.

 

I'll take our last 7 years over the Dodgers last 7 100 out of 100 times.

 

I'm old enough to remember when we collectively agreed that playoff results were a crapshoot and sustained success is what matters.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Heading into this season the Cubs had won 8 more games, one more World Series, and made the same number of LCS over the last 4 years.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Astros are the team to be jealous of.

 

I'll take our last 7 years over the Dodgers last 7 100 out of 100 times.

 

I'm old enough to remember when we collectively agreed that playoff results were a crapshoot and sustained success is what matters.

 

until you win a WS, sure

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Heading into this season the Cubs had won 8 more games, one more World Series, and made the same number of LCS over the last 4 years.

 

why stop there? Surely you can slice it down a little further to squeeze more of an advantage out for the Cubs

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Heading into this season the Cubs had won 8 more games, one more World Series, and made the same number of LCS over the last 4 years.

 

why stop there? Surely you can slice it down a little further to squeeze more of an advantage out for the Cubs

 

The Cubs having a relatively poor season this year and being poorly run more recently than the Dodgers doesn't change the fact they were a half step better over a very long time horizon. Defining 'long term' in a conversation with you is likely to be the 8th circle of hell but 4 consecutive years qualifies to me given that I've long thought that any roster planning beyond 2-3 years is basically absurd.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Heading into this season the Cubs had won 8 more games, one more World Series, and made the same number of LCS over the last 4 years.

 

why stop there? Surely you can slice it down a little further to squeeze more of an advantage out for the Cubs

 

The Cubs having a relatively poor season this year and being poorly run more recently than the Dodgers doesn't make the fact they were a half step better over a very long time horizon. Defining 'long term' in a conversation with you is likely to be the 8th circle of hell but 4 consecutive years qualifies to me given that I've long thought that any roster planning beyond 2-3 years is basically absurd.

 

You can spin this however you want, but if you get to set the starting point *and* still have to cut out some of the data, you know you’re stretching

[Transmogrified Tiger]

 

why stop there? Surely you can slice it down a little further to squeeze more of an advantage out for the Cubs

 

The Cubs having a relatively poor season this year and being poorly run more recently than the Dodgers doesn't make the fact they were a half step better over a very long time horizon. Defining 'long term' in a conversation with you is likely to be the 8th circle of hell but 4 consecutive years qualifies to me given that I've long thought that any roster planning beyond 2-3 years is basically absurd.

 

You can spin this however you want, but if you get to set the starting point *and* still have to cut out some of the data, you know you’re stretching

 

Include this year if you really want, if the Cubs having more postseason success and winning 9 fewer games over a 5 year span isn't 'on their level', who's the one stretching?

[squally1313]

 

why stop there? Surely you can slice it down a little further to squeeze more of an advantage out for the Cubs

 

The Cubs having a relatively poor season this year and being poorly run more recently than the Dodgers doesn't make the fact they were a half step better over a very long time horizon. Defining 'long term' in a conversation with you is likely to be the 8th circle of hell but 4 consecutive years qualifies to me given that I've long thought that any roster planning beyond 2-3 years is basically absurd.

 

You can spin this however you want, but if you get to set the starting point *and* still have to cut out some of the data, you know you’re stretching

What data point did he cut out? You picked a starting point of 7 years (coincidentally, the year the Dodgers started their division streak), he picked the last four years. Should the Cubs get less credit because the Brewers won 95/96 games last year, a total the Dodgers have only reached once in their streak until this year, and a total not a single other team in the NL West has hit in the last 7 years?

[javy knows my name]

I want this. FIGHT FIGHT FI-oh

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I can pick endpoints to help me, too.

 

The Dodgers have won 26 more games than the Cubs the last three seasons. We haven’t been on their level since 2016

[Banedon]

I can pick endpoints to help me, too.

 

The Dodgers have won 26 more games than the Cubs the last three seasons. We haven’t been on their level since 2016

 

We've won just as many WS during that time.

 

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[ConstableRabbit]

I can pick endpoints to help me, too.

 

The Dodgers have won 26 more games than the Cubs the last three seasons. We haven’t been on their level since 2016

Oh no, they've won 9% more games than us in the 3 seasons after we ran through them en route to winning a WS.

 

Kyle, are... are you actually Clayton Kershaw?

[Derwood]

The greater point is that LA seems built to keep this run up much longer than the Cubs are

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The greater point is that LA seems built to keep this run up much longer than the Cubs are

 

Nah, the greater point is just revelling in manufactured misery.

[soccer10k]

I can pick endpoints to help me, too.

 

The Dodgers have won 26 more games than the Cubs the last three seasons. We haven’t been on their level since 2016

 

We won games than they did literally last year. And in a tougher division also.

[Little Slide Rooter]

A brain-horsefeathers to follow up on an earlier brain-fart of mine:

 

The NL Central as Characters from The Office:

 

Cardinals: Michael Scott. Despite less than conventional methods, they often leave the rest of us wondering did they do that on purpose or was it just dumb luck?

 

Cubs: Ryan Howard. Likeable loser who quickly rises to the top only to come crashing down.

 

Brewers: Dwight Schrute. Capable of great things in small doses, but desperation to rise to the top makes them their own worst enemy.

 

Pirates: Andy Bernard. Bless their heart for trying.

 

Reds: Stanley Hudson. Off in the corner, waiting for it to all be over.

[Derwood]

No one likes Ryan Howard.

[squally1313]

The Cubs are definitely Jim once you watch the show enough. Likable and pathetic in the early seasons, peaked in like season 3, and then slowly revealed himself to be the huge horsefeathers that, looking back, he kinda always was. Right now they're in "bought his parents house for them to live in without even consulting his wife"...excited for the "taking a dumb job in Philadelphia without telling his wife" era.

[Sammy Sofa]

The Cubs are definitely Jim once you watch the show enough. Likable and pathetic in the early seasons, peaked in like season 3, and then slowly revealed himself to be the huge horsefeathers that, looking back, he kinda always was. Right now they're in "bought his parents house for them to live in without even consulting his wife"...excited for the "taking a dumb job in Philadelphia without telling his wife" era.

 

Definitely. Also, both the Cubs and Jim took a huge a heel turn in trying to shamelessly woo the MAGA crowd.

[javy knows my name]

The Cubs are definitely Jim once you watch the show enough. Likable and pathetic in the early seasons, peaked in like season 3, and then slowly revealed himself to be the huge horsefeathers that, looking back, he kinda always was. Right now they're in "bought his parents house for them to live in without even consulting his wife"...excited for the "taking a dumb job in Philadelphia without telling his wife" era.

 

Definitely. Also, both the Cubs and Jim took a huge a heel turn in trying to shamelessly woo the MAGA crowd.

 

Annnnd WSR continues to be wrong about everything. At least some things stay the same

[The_Achiever]

The Cubs are definitely Jim once you watch the show enough. Likable and pathetic in the early seasons, peaked in like season 3, and then slowly revealed himself to be the huge horsefeathers that, looking back, he kinda always was. Right now they're in "bought his parents house for them to live in without even consulting his wife"...excited for the "taking a dumb job in Philadelphia without telling his wife" era.

 

Definitely. Also, both the Cubs and Jim took a huge a heel turn in trying to shamelessly woo the MAGA crowd.

 

How has Jim tried to woo the MAGA crowd? By adding 13 pounds of muscle and playing Jack Ryan?