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8/14/18 Cubs(Quintana) vs Brewers(Chacin) 1:20PM NBCS Chicago

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Derwood GOAT

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Get ‘em tomorrow. Again, I keep telling myself that a winning streak should be due. But damn, do we get our ass kicked a lot.

 

That must explain the whole +86 run differential thing.

 

Our RD is -28 since the all star break

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It’s still way more likely than not that there is much better play ahead but there’s a non zero chance that we are in a tailspin masked by success in one run games and a couple of timely homers that might take awhile to get out of

 

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Bryants Disco Ball

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Hopefully, Duker can be making fun of the skeptical people soon. I know some people get annoyed by that, but I love it because it means we are winning again.

 

Also, at least on this day, our offense was clunky. Let's unclunky it tomorrow.

Aaron_Kennelly South Bend Cubs

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Hopefully, Duker can be making fun of the skeptical people soon. I know some people get annoyed by that, but I love it because it means we are winning again.

 

Also, at least on this day, our offense was clunky. Let's unclunky it tomorrow.

 

I’ll make fun of them now...

 

 

Hey skeptical people, you’re all ninnies.

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Bryants Disco Ball

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Hopefully, Duker can be making fun of the skeptical people soon. I know some people get annoyed by that, but I love it because it means we are winning again.

 

Also, at least on this day, our offense was clunky. Let's unclunky it tomorrow.

 

I’ll make fun of them now...

 

 

Hey skeptical people, you’re all ninnies.

 

It's even BETTER when you do it after wins and winning streaks.

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Bryants Disco Ball

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Duker,

 

This is just between you and I. I'd appreciate you never making this public, but I'm starting to calmly wonder about the Cubs. Not in a panic way, but more just in what I see. I'm not great with numbers, so I count on others to show why these takes are wrong.

 

But in watching the Cubs, they seem to be (slowly) fading away as we enter the stretch run. Like, the starting pitching is consistently giving up runs early, and since the All-Star break, our offense hasn't been able to compensate enough. There was that meeting with Chili during the Dodgers series out in LA, and immediately after, the offense started to flourish for a long stretch. Consistently great at-bats. And when our pitchers put us in those early holes, there was that period of time when you knew the offense would actually be able to come back and make up for it.

 

What I'm seeing over the past three weeks, is that our starting pitching still is putting us in holes, but our offense is not able to overcome it with any consistent production. It seems like a bad combination. I'm hoping KB can be back soon and our lineup can be normal again, but I'm getting fatigued seeing our lineup construction recently and how guys with little slugging ability are right in the middle of it.

 

I still believe we will make the playoffs because you are positive of it, which is good enough for me.

 

Thanks for listening.

 

Go Cubs.

Sammy Sofa GOAT

Sammy Sofa

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Duker,

 

This is just between you and I. I'd appreciate you never making this public, but I'm starting to calmly wonder about the Cubs. Not in a panic way, but more just in what I see. I'm not great with numbers, so I count on others to show why these takes are wrong.

 

But in watching the Cubs, they seem to be (slowly) fading away as we enter the stretch run. Like, the starting pitching is consistently giving up runs early, and since the All-Star break, our offense hasn't been able to compensate enough. There was that meeting with Chili during the Dodgers series out in LA, and immediately after, the offense started to flourish for a long stretch. Consistently great at-bats. And when our pitchers put us in those early holes, there was that period of time when you knew the offense would actually be able to come back and make up for it.

 

What I'm seeing over the past three weeks, is that our starting pitching still is putting us in holes, but our offense is not able to overcome it with any consistent production. It seems like a bad combination. I'm hoping KB can be back soon and our lineup can be normal again, but I'm getting fatigued seeing our lineup construction recently and how guys with little slugging ability are right in the middle of it.

 

I still believe we will make the playoffs because you are positive of it, which is good enough for me.

 

Thanks for listening.

 

Go Cubs.

 

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Bryants Disco Ball

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Duker,

 

This is just between you and I. I'd appreciate you never making this public, but I'm starting to calmly wonder about the Cubs. Not in a panic way, but more just in what I see. I'm not great with numbers, so I count on others to show why these takes are wrong.

 

But in watching the Cubs, they seem to be (slowly) fading away as we enter the stretch run. Like, the starting pitching is consistently giving up runs early, and since the All-Star break, our offense hasn't been able to compensate enough. There was that meeting with Chili during the Dodgers series out in LA, and immediately after, the offense started to flourish for a long stretch. Consistently great at-bats. And when our pitchers put us in those early holes, there was that period of time when you knew the offense would actually be able to come back and make up for it.

 

What I'm seeing over the past three weeks, is that our starting pitching still is putting us in holes, but our offense is not able to overcome it with any consistent production. It seems like a bad combination. I'm hoping KB can be back soon and our lineup can be normal again, but I'm getting fatigued seeing our lineup construction recently and how guys with little slugging ability are right in the middle of it.

 

I still believe we will make the playoffs because you are positive of it, which is good enough for me.

 

Thanks for listening.

 

Go Cubs.

 

giphy.gif

 

Wait. You could see that?

Cubswin11 All-Star

Cubswin11

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Duker,

 

This is just between you and I. I'd appreciate you never making this public, but I'm starting to calmly wonder about the Cubs. Not in a panic way, but more just in what I see. I'm not great with numbers, so I count on others to show why these takes are wrong.

 

But in watching the Cubs, they seem to be (slowly) fading away as we enter the stretch run. Like, the starting pitching is consistently giving up runs early, and since the All-Star break, our offense hasn't been able to compensate enough. There was that meeting with Chili during the Dodgers series out in LA, and immediately after, the offense started to flourish for a long stretch. Consistently great at-bats. And when our pitchers put us in those early holes, there was that period of time when you knew the offense would actually be able to come back and make up for it.

 

What I'm seeing over the past three weeks, is that our starting pitching still is putting us in holes, but our offense is not able to overcome it with any consistent production. It seems like a bad combination. I'm hoping KB can be back soon and our lineup can be normal again, but I'm getting fatigued seeing our lineup construction recently and how guys with little slugging ability are right in the middle of it.

 

I still believe we will make the playoffs because you are positive of it, which is good enough for me.

 

Thanks for listening.

 

Go Cubs.

 

giphy.gif

 

Wait. You could see that?

giphy.gif

Cubswin11 All-Star

Cubswin11

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without bryant and darvish, they're just a pretty mediocre team.

 

Two dudes aren't making breaking or breaking this team.

Correct, we’re winning the division without them

Sammy Sofa GOAT

Sammy Sofa

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I'd still be very surprised if they don't, but it's creeping to the point that dumb baseball being dumb baseball-type scenarios start actually making me a little worried.

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