The Cardinals

[PackLandVA]

I will stress over each team the Cubs are paired against in the playoffs.

[Banedon]

Worried about them how?

 

They're obviously not gonna catch us, but losing to them would be easily the worst of losing to any of the other playoff teams.

 

At this point, I honestly don't care; losing in the playoffs will be losing in the playoffs, regardless of who it happens to. I'm just annoyed by the sentiment that the Cardinals are especially dangerous because my both my dad and brother seem to put the caveat of "yeah, but the Cardinals are probably going to make the playoffs..." after nearly any talk of how good the Cubs are, like the Cards are destined to win it all if they make the playoffs. [expletive] that [expletive].

 

My wife is terrified of the Cardinals as well. People has just been conditioned too well to expect miracle [expletive] from the Cardinals.

[BigSlick]

Upside to facing the Cardinals again: imagine how good it'll feel for us and how bad it'll feel for them if we beat them again. That's the beginnings of narrative making and crude sports stories about "playoff domination" (that, while, has no basis in reality, is very fun for rooting interests)

[David]

Upside to facing the Cardinals again: imagine how good it'll feel for us and how bad it'll feel for them if we beat them again. That's the beginnings of narrative making and crude sports stories about "playoff domination" (that, while, has no basis in reality, is very fun for rooting interests)

 

nah. we have much more to lose than they do. they'd come in with low expectations if they got there. house money.

 

we're very probably going to lose in the playoffs. i just hope it isn't in the first round and not to them because horsefeathers them. i don't want to see kolten wong having anything to celebrate. him and neck tattoo. horsefeathers em.

[BigSlick]

Don't get me wrong: I don't want to face the cardinals again - I don't want to give them the ~40% possibility of fluking a win on us - but if that is the case I'm just saying there are positives to it

[David]

Don't get me wrong: I don't want to face the cardinals again - I don't want to give them the ~40% possibility of fluking a win on us - but if that is the case I'm just saying there are positives to it

 

fair enough but last year's beating was so epic and perfectly beautiful from every standpoint that it can't possibly be topped. i guess if it turned into a 90's bulls/knicks thing, that could be fun, though.

[Brian707]

 

Annoying I'm sure, but he's just one of millions of fans who have been let down too many times. They can't let go and just enjoy this year for what it is

cubs fans haven't been let down too many times. they have lacked opportunities to be let down

 

Let down as in are rarely worth watching until recently. Decades-long fans have had the hope beat out of them

 

 

I was let down in 1984 and again in 2003. But to get worried about those years or any other year is foolish. The past has nothing to do with what will happen this year. If they don't win it this year, it won't because of the past or black cats or Leon Durham or whatever other pixie dust people want to come up with. That's what I tell some Cub fans and Cub haters alike who keep bringing this sort of nonsense up.

 

The reality is, they have just plain sucked for years upon years and haven't had too many opportunities to win it all, as others here have said

[BigSlick]

The astonishing thing about the Cubs drought isn't a legacy of playoff futility so much as a legacy of them making the playoffs merely 7 times in 70 years

[David]

The astonishing thing about the Cubs drought isn't a legacy of playoff futility so much as a legacy of them making the playoffs merely 7 times in 70 years

 

all of which happened since 1984

[jersey cubs fan]

The astonishing thing about the Cubs drought isn't a legacy of playoff futility so much as a legacy of them making the playoffs merely 7 times in 70 years

 

all of which happened since 1984

there's very little astonishing about not making the playoffs for roughly the first half of that 70, when making the playoffs was really hard.

[David]

The astonishing thing about the Cubs drought isn't a legacy of playoff futility so much as a legacy of them making the playoffs merely 7 times in 70 years

 

all of which happened since 1984

there's very little astonishing about not making the playoffs for roughly the first half of that 70, when making the playoffs was really hard.

 

i mean it's pretty awful for a chicago team not to do it once in like 40 years, 15 or so of which included divisional play. plenty of other franchises had runs of extended success in those eras. the cubs couldn't even manage one season, and it's not like it was bad luck. it was due to neglectful and incompetent ownership.

[jersey cubs fan]

 

all of which happened since 1984

there's very little astonishing about not making the playoffs for roughly the first half of that 70, when making the playoffs was really hard.

 

i mean it's pretty awful for a chicago team not to do it once in like 40 years, 15 or so of which included divisional play. plenty of other franchises had runs of extended success in those eras. the cubs couldn't even manage one season, and it's not like it was bad luck. it was due to neglectful and incompetent ownership.

 

But you needed to be best in the league through '69 to make the "playoffs" and the late 60's early 70's Cubs were relatively good.

[David]

there's very little astonishing about not making the playoffs for roughly the first half of that 70, when making the playoffs was really hard.

 

i mean it's pretty awful for a chicago team not to do it once in like 40 years, 15 or so of which included divisional play. plenty of other franchises had runs of extended success in those eras. the cubs couldn't even manage one season, and it's not like it was bad luck. it was due to neglectful and incompetent ownership.

 

But you needed to be best in the league through '69 to make the "playoffs" and the late 60's early 70's Cubs were relatively good.

 

true but still only like half as many teams through the first several years of that and they were awful through most of it.

[Clem Fandango]

we're very probably going to lose in the playoffs.

 

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[Ding Dong Johnson]

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[Banedon]

we're very probably going to lose in the playoffs.

 

http://gfycat.com/IllustriousMammothAngwantibo

[mul21]

After the way this season has gone, I'm going to be incredibly depressed if we lose to anyone in the playoffs (which statistically has about an 80% chance of happening, YAY BASEBALL). I'm not going to be sitting there watching the Nationals celebrating thinking 'thank god it wasn't the Cardinals'. If they somehow define all odds and end up winning it all, it'll just be a little salt in a gaping wound.

 

I'm hoping they make the playoffs because I'm confident they're the second worst team still in contention (besides the Marlins), and I'm hoping for any small advantage to up our odds. They team suck, and we're better in pretty much every aspect of the game (and we even hold our own in neck tattoos).

 

Edit: It was like the 9th best dong of our October, but I'll forever have a soft spot for Wainwright's washed up fake-hardass shell coming into the game in relief and having Soler immediately put one out at like 140 MPH.

 

Wasn't that Javy? I thought I remembered giving Cards fans down here a bunch of crap because our backup SS hit a mammoth dong off their amazing greatest hero pitcher ever.

[UMFan83]

After the way this season has gone, I'm going to be incredibly depressed if we lose to anyone in the playoffs (which statistically has about an 80% chance of happening, YAY BASEBALL). I'm not going to be sitting there watching the Nationals celebrating thinking 'thank god it wasn't the Cardinals'. If they somehow define all odds and end up winning it all, it'll just be a little salt in a gaping wound.

 

I'm hoping they make the playoffs because I'm confident they're the second worst team still in contention (besides the Marlins), and I'm hoping for any small advantage to up our odds. They team suck, and we're better in pretty much every aspect of the game (and we even hold our own in neck tattoos).

 

Edit: It was like the 9th best dong of our October, but I'll forever have a soft spot for Wainwright's washed up fake-hardass shell coming into the game in relief and having Soler immediately put one out at like 140 MPH.

 

Wasn't that Javy? I thought I remembered giving Cards fans down here a bunch of crap because our backup SS hit a mammoth dong off their amazing greatest hero pitcher ever.

 

Nope definitely Soler. Javy only had 1 HR in the postseason and we all remember it.

 

If fact I'm pretty sure Addy started that game, but I'm not sure if he had injured himself by that point in the game or not.

[David]

After the way this season has gone, I'm going to be incredibly depressed if we lose to anyone in the playoffs (which statistically has about an 80% chance of happening, YAY BASEBALL). I'm not going to be sitting there watching the Nationals celebrating thinking 'thank god it wasn't the Cardinals'. If they somehow define all odds and end up winning it all, it'll just be a little salt in a gaping wound.

 

I'm hoping they make the playoffs because I'm confident they're the second worst team still in contention (besides the Marlins), and I'm hoping for any small advantage to up our odds. They team suck, and we're better in pretty much every aspect of the game (and we even hold our own in neck tattoos).

 

Edit: It was like the 9th best dong of our October, but I'll forever have a soft spot for Wainwright's washed up fake-hardass shell coming into the game in relief and having Soler immediately put one out at like 140 MPH.

 

Wasn't that Javy? I thought I remembered giving Cards fans down here a bunch of crap because our backup SS hit a mammoth dong off their amazing greatest hero pitcher ever.

 

Nope definitely Soler. Javy only had 1 HR in the postseason and we all remember it.

 

If fact I'm pretty sure Addy started that game, but I'm not sure if he had injured himself by that point in the game or not.

 

yup.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

On the first pitch Wainwright threw, no less. At 2:03 since embeds don't respect URL timestamps.

 

[Thed Hoyerstein]

I was looking at the Cardinals box score from the other night and realized that Grichuk has been hitting pretty well of late, much on the back of improved play since his second return from the minors. In thee second half, he has 86 AB's with 5.5% BB and 40.7% K

 

Of course his OPS is somehow .925 with an ISO of .372

[Cubswin11]

I was looking at the Cardinals box score from the other night and realized that Grichuk has been hitting pretty well of late, much on the back of improved play since his second return from the minors. In thee second half, he has 86 AB's with 5.5% BB and 40.7% K

 

Of course his OPS is somehow .925 with an ISO of .372

That's a Javy like unsustainable hot streak

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

we're very probably going to lose in the playoffs.

 

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I would have liked this, were it not for the fact that the Peaches lose in painful fashion.

[Clem Fandango]

we're very probably going to lose in the playoffs.

 

http://37.media.tumblr.com/2cabd4dac014fb06e44ca84d5357eb2e/tumblr_moeo97AEIV1ryx23wo2_400.gif

I would have liked this, were it not for the fact that the Peaches lose in painful fashion.

 

I don't think Willson is gonna throw the World Series to make his sister happy, especially since they can't collide at the plate anymore.

[illiniguy]

On the first pitch Wainwright threw, no less. At 2:03 since embeds don't respect URL timestamps.

 

We are all still waiting for IMB's dong that we were promised.