General Cubs Chit-Chat

[Sammy Sofa]

To hell with all of that flim-flam; the 2017 Cubs were supposed to be the one saving grace in a world of horsefeathers; I wanted an easy season where no matter how crappy the events of the day were, odds were that if I tuned into a Cubs game I'd be able to see them doing something awesome (even if they lost). And hey, maybe they'll end it finally getting their horsefeathers together, but, [expletive], I wanted a relaxing victory lap.

[David]

i'm not gonna bother looking it up, but i wonder if this is one of the better seasons of recent WS participants/winners, given how many i'm thinking of that didn't even make the playoffs

[Sammy Sofa]

i'm not gonna bother looking it up, but i wonder if this is one of the better seasons of recent WS participants/winners, given how many i'm thinking of that didn't even make the playoffs

 

Uh, didn't 538 have a whole thing about how it was (at least at that point) a historically terrible followup season for a WS champion team?

[David]

i'm not gonna bother looking it up, but i wonder if this is one of the better seasons of recent WS participants/winners, given how many i'm thinking of that didn't even make the playoffs

 

Uh, didn't 538 have a whole thing about how it was (at least at that point) a historically terrible followup season for a WS champion team?

 

That was like 6 or 7 weeks of very good baseball ago, when we were like 5 games behind milwaukee (and i think the comparison was against just how insanely good the 2016 team - which their models LOVED - was - but i'm foggy on that).

[Transmogrified Tiger]

The last 5 WS winners won 81, 84, 71, 76, and 88 games the year after their title.

 

Interestingly, the last 5 WS losers fared much better, winning 87, 95, 90, 93, and 93 games, which at least suggests if there's a hangover effect it's not (entirely) related to the duration of the postseason.

[David]

The last 5 WS winners won 81, 84, 71, 76, and 88 games the year after their title.

 

Interestingly, the last 5 WS losers fared much better, winning 87, 95, 90, 93, and 93 games, which at least suggests if there's a hangover effect it's not (entirely) related to the duration of the postseason.

 

too much partying

 

explains KB's risp struggles

[Banedon]

Totally meaningless stat that I just looked up because of guy at work.

 

Cubs are 1-5 this season on the day after scoring 12 runs or more.

[Old Style]

Totally meaningless stat that I just looked up because of guy at work.

 

Cubs are 1-5 this season on the day after scoring 12 runs or more.

How very Fred of you.

[David]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BX8B_jsBG8W/?taken-by=jose_quintana24

 

is it me or is this like if jerry dated the lady jerry?

[David]

FREE DILLON MAPLES

 

he's gonna be up in a couple weeks anyway

[soccer10k]

Grimm to the DL. Season's over, guys. There's no coming back from this one.

[imb]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BX8B_jsBG8W/?taken-by=jose_quintana24

 

is it me or is this like if jerry dated the lady jerry?

 

hahahahahahahahhaha

[davell]

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[We Got The Whole 9]

They just had Adam Greenberg on MLBn

 

How the horsefeathers has it already been almost 5 years since his 2nd AB

 

And how fucked up the dude had to face Dickey in his CY season for that AB lol

[SouthSideRyan]

#OneMoreAB

[David]

Cubs are now 25-12 since the break. .676 or 109 win pace.

[bukie]

Cubs are now 25-12 since the break. .676 or 109 win pace.

Of those 12 losses, only twice did the Cubs not have the potential tying run bat in the 9th:

 

- a 6-2 loss in Arizona where the Cubs scored 2 in the 9th and Zobrist struck out to end the game with runners on first and third.

- a 11-4 loss to the Cards that the Cubs led 3-2 in the 8th

[David]

Cubs are now 25-12 since the break. .676 or 109 win pace.

Of those 12 losses, only twice did the Cubs not have the potential tying run bat in the 9th:

 

- a 6-2 loss in Arizona where the Cubs scored 2 in the 9th and Zobrist struck out to end the game with runners on first and third.

- a 11-4 loss to the Cards that the Cubs led 3-2 in the 8th

 

this horsefeathering game. damn you CJ!

 

edit - meaningless thing i just noticed...we're exactly halfway through the post ASB "second half." so basically if they maintain that pace they go 25-12 again for 93 wins.

[UMFan83]

Cubs are now 25-12 since the break. .676 or 109 win pace.

Of those 12 losses, only twice did the Cubs not have the potential tying run bat in the 9th:

 

- a 6-2 loss in Arizona where the Cubs scored 2 in the 9th and Zobrist struck out to end the game with runners on first and third.

- a 11-4 loss to the Cards that the Cubs led 3-2 in the 8th

 

this horsefeathering game. damn you CJ!

 

edit - meaningless thing i just noticed...we're exactly halfway through the post ASB "second half." so basically if they maintain that pace they go 25-12 again for 93 wins.

 

nice

 

edit: only cool kids will get this

[soccer10k]

Cubs are now 25-12 since the break. .676 or 109 win pace.

Of those 12 losses, only twice did the Cubs not have the potential tying run bat in the 9th:

 

- a 6-2 loss in Arizona where the Cubs scored 2 in the 9th and Zobrist struck out to end the game with runners on first and third.

- a 11-4 loss to the Cards that the Cubs led 3-2 in the 8th

 

I think they did the same thing to start last season where in the first couple months, there were only a couple of games that they got blown out and didn't have a chance to win late.

[UMFan83]

Cubs are now 25-12 since the break. .676 or 109 win pace.

 

And +64 run differential in 37 games. Over a full season, that is +280 RD, which is a 114 win pythag record, just slightly off the Dodgers historic pace this year (on pace for +282 RD). The Cubs run differential last year was +252. Not a bad quarter of a season.

[Brian]

2 years ago today, was the infamous KB walk off with Strop running alongside him from 3rd to home.

 

http://worldseriesdreaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_1059-0.jpg

 

I didn't remember that Lester went 8 2/3 that game and lost the shut out in the 9th to tie it at 1.

 

Also fun fact Coghlan hit 3rd that day

 

Dex

Schwarber

Coghlan

Rizzo

Bryant

Seal boy

Starlin

Ross

Lester

[Sammy Sofa]

Starlin...

 

:bye:

[Brian]

The way they've been tossing around rings they should really send one to Starlin.

[David]

this has prompted me to check in on starlin's season again after his torrid start.

 

1.2 wins in 79 games

 

.307/.344/.472

 

115 wRC+ and .346 wOBA

 

looks like his OPS high water mark was 5/6 against the cubs (went 0 for 8 in the 18 inning game the next day) when he was at 1.006

 

.381/.421/.584 on that day

 

.266/.301/.409 since

 

i'm surprised that slash line is only good for a 2.5ish win pace from a middle infielder...his defense hasn't graded THAT badly