8/7 Cubs (Hendricks) @ A's (Manaea) 3:05 CST WGN

[davell]

Good God, there was a lot of horsefeathering doom and gloom in this [expletive] for a team that's 28 over and 11.5 up. horsefeathers, we're even on a 7 game win streak.

[OleMissCub]

From my cheap seats of Ichiro

 

 

 

The Japanese fans were on point. Two behind me were in tears. It was awesome.

 

[UMFan83]

Good God, there was a lot of [expletive] doom and gloom in this [expletive] for a team that's 28 over and 11.5 up. [expletive], we're even on a 7 game win streak.

 

Other than the usual suspects I didn't get this impression at all

[Cubswin11]

Good God, there was a lot of [expletive] doom and gloom in this [expletive] for a team that's 28 over and 11.5 up. [expletive], we're even on a 7 game win streak.

 

Other than the usual suspects I didn't get this impression at all

Yeah other than 1 guy talking about the hypothetical where we lose all our games this week and the Cardinals win all theirs and are 6.5 back or whatever I didn't see much doom and gloom.

[davell]

Good God, there was a lot of [expletive] doom and gloom in this [expletive] for a team that's 28 over and 11.5 up. [expletive], we're even on a 7 game win streak.

 

Other than the usual suspects I didn't get this impression at all

 

It was directed AT them.

[jersey cubs fan]

I hope Kyle pitches well, because I am still planning on a Kyle Hendricks article. But I've been busy and it got delayed. I've worked on it a little and it will be a mega two-part article. And, well, I don't want to have egg on my face from releasing it following a bad outing.

 

It's not like it's possible for this guy to have a bad outing, though, so what am I even talking about?

still waiting on my content

[Omar]

I hope Kyle pitches well, because I am still planning on a Kyle Hendricks article. But I've been busy and it got delayed. I've worked on it a little and it will be a mega two-part article. And, well, I don't want to have egg on my face from releasing it following a bad outing.

 

It's not like it's possible for this guy to have a bad outing, though, so what am I even talking about?

still waiting on my content

summarize his first Kyle Hendricks article without looking it up.

[Tim]

I hope Kyle pitches well, because I am still planning on a Kyle Hendricks article. But I've been busy and it got delayed. I've worked on it a little and it will be a mega two-part article. And, well, I don't want to have egg on my face from releasing it following a bad outing.

 

It's not like it's possible for this guy to have a bad outing, though, so what am I even talking about?

still waiting on my content

summarize his first Kyle Hendricks article without looking it up.

Kyle Hendricks: Surprisingly good.

[Tim]

You're still seemingly saying that being swept by the Cardinals lead to prolonged struggling. It's not like 3 weeks later after that series that's what they kept thinking about and it made them play poorly; it's just a coincidence that it was THAT series that was played at that point. And being 6.5 up on August 7th is HUGELY different than being 6.5 up a month prior. It's really not a series with any real consequence for the Cubs short of failing to take efforts to crush the Cardinals' playoff hopes as a WC team.

 

No, I am saying that losing 40 percent of your division lead in four games is meaningful.

To give a good idea on what it would mean if we got swept by the Cards...

 

Right now, we have an 11.5 game lead on the cards and Fangraphs has our playoff odds at 100.0% and our division odds at 99.5%.

Washington has a 7 game lead on Miami (and 9 on the mets) and their playoff odds are at 99.7% and their division odds are at 97.1%.

 

It wouldn't feel good to get swept. But it wouldn't change our postseason odds very much at all.