4/1/18 CUBS (A Boy Named Q) @ marlins (A few consonants & a couple of vowels) 12:10 CST NBCChicago+

[UMFan83]

We’ll Cincinnati is supposed to get 5-6 inches of snow tonight. Maybe tomorrow’s game will be called and we can have a day off to rest the pen and recoup

 

Lol, what the hell are you looking at? https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/USOH0188:1:US

 

I dunno my inlaws live there and that’s what they told my wife lol

[Derwood]

Looking at the weather in Cincy the next few days and it is very odd temperature wise

MON

APR 2

Partly Cloudy

54°47°

 

TUE

APR 3

Thunderstorms/Wind

73°39°

 

WED

APR 4

Cloudy

44°29°

 

Welcome to Ohio

[Derwood]

This is going great

[Schwarber Fan]

I've seen enough of Caratini. Give me Gimenez.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

This won’t seem so bad when the Marlins make the playoffs.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

[gobigred]

they are hitting the ball pretty solidly

[Schwarber Fan]

LOL now that's a strike? OK

[Sammy Sofa]

I've seen enough of Caratini. Give me Gimenez.

 

[Derwood]

Maybe don't slide head first when you're down 6 in the 8th

[Schwarber Fan]

This is our one "everything goes against us" game of the season, right?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

This is our one "everything goes against us" game of the season, right?

 

“One”

 

Sometimes baseball is unfair, and sometimes is a lot more often than 1 out of 162 times. That’s why they play 162 times.

[bcl412]

You can’t watch baseball for years and not get that, right?

[Cubswin11]

Guys generally hit the ball hard, though not great results the SPs velo seemed mostly good just some bad command/luck, bullpen was exceptional, nobody got hurt, 3-1 would’ve been nice but 2-2 is fine, lots of good things I saw. No reason to think this isn’t a 95 to 100+ win team.

[David]

baseball is dumb

[David]

This is our one "everything goes against us" game of the season, right?

 

“One”

 

Sometimes baseball is unfair, and sometimes is a lot more often than 1 out of 162 times. That’s why they play 162 times.

 

yep...and it's why even the most insanely good team ever still lost 28% of the time and lost a playoff series

 

overreacting to one or two games in football (or playoff baseball) is totally understandable but i really don't get it with regular season baseball

[17 Seconds]

these first 4 games looked exactly like the first half cubs of last season

[Aaron_Kennelly]

these first 4 games looked exactly like the first half cubs of last season

 

Except they were started by actual good pitchers and not John Lackey, Brett Anderson, and Eddie Butler.

 

This team is nothing like last year's.

[UMFan83]

 

We need to invite this dude to the board if he’s not here already. we need more overreactors

[Aaron_Kennelly]

 

We need to invite this dude to the board if he’s not here already. we need more overreactors

 

He already took a horsefeathers in this thread.

[17 Seconds]

these first 4 games looked exactly like the first half cubs of last season

 

Except they were started by actual good pitchers and not John Lackey, Brett Anderson, and Eddie Butler.

 

This team is nothing like last year's.

 

dat's not what I said

[Aaron_Kennelly]

 

dat's not what I said

 

But last year was a specific case of us having an aging and injured rotation with no depth, which didn't allow us to ever pile up wins, until we traded for Quintana and also got healthy. There was also probably some hangover effect going on there, but whatever. We just weren't a very good team with who we were trotting onto the field in the first half.

 

This was just a case of us not playing well and having a bad series. Unless every single bad game is now going to be some similitude of the 2017 first-half Cubs, then I don't see why it's pertinent.

[17 Seconds]

 

dat's not what I said

 

But last year was a specific case of us having an aging and injured rotation with no depth, which didn't allow us to ever pile up wins, until we traded for Quintana and also got healthy. There was also probably some hangover effect going on there, but whatever. We just weren't a very good team with who we were trotting onto the field in the first half.

 

This was just a case of us not playing well and having a bad series. Unless every single bad game is now going to be some similitude of the 2017 first-half Cubs, then I don't see why it's pertinent.

 

i wasn't trying to assign any kind of meaning to it, it was just an annoying/flukey/dumb series in the same ways as early last year. i was bemoaning the cosmos, not the cobs.

[Cubswin11]

Why is tomorrow’s game in Cincy a day game when they’ve already had their opening day?

[UMFan83]

Why is tomorrow’s game in Cincy a day game when they’ve already had their opening day?

 

They tend to have more weekday day games in April, especially in the northern (or in the case of Cincinnati northern ish) cities