10/1 GAME 163 Brewers (Chacin) @ Cubs (Q) 12:05p CST ESPN

[TMan92]

Quintana had a good game, Chavez was outstanding, and the rest of the bullpen didn't completely horsefeathers the bed... Once again, the pathetic offense was what cost the Cubs the game. Taking Hader out of the picture, there is no excuse to only come up with 2 hits against the rest of those pitchers.

 

Willson’s awful at bat and Baez missing the fastball was the game

[gflore34]

 

the cubs won 95 games while having a thousand things go wrong you psychopath

 

im actually not meaning to criticize the cubs because 95 wins is like ... what can you even say? I would have taken that with a healthy team. It's just the constant "well here's the thing, the cubs are good and the brewers are actually bad. ok they're not bad but they aren't good. ok they're good now but they're not real good and we're better. ok actually now we got 2 hit at home and lost the division OK NOW THEY"RE BETTER THAN WE ARE SORRY GUYS" that's obnoxious and wrong.

 

i mean a pretty good player became prime barry bonds for the past month

 

what the hell can we do

 

Happens all the time in baseball, mistake is counting on it to happen again, Yelich' a very good baseball player. However, expecting him to keep up this recent pace is far fetched. Maybe he is this good but, there's a better chance he's not.

Edited October 1, 2018 by gflore34

[UMFan83]

 

and while you guys were jerking yourselves off in june about "vaunted run differential" or whatever you totally missed the big picture. on the one hand your self-delusion probably made the games more bearable so there is that

 

the cubs won 95 games while having a thousand things go wrong you psychopath

 

im actually not meaning to criticize the cubs because 95 wins is like ... what can you even say? I would have taken that with a healthy team. It's just the constant "well here's the thing, the cubs are good and the brewers are actually bad. ok they're not bad but they aren't good. ok they're good now but they're not real good and we're better. ok actually now we got 2 hit at home and lost the division OK NOW THEY"RE BETTER THAN WE ARE SORRY GUYS" that's obnoxious and wrong.

 

To be fair I kind of get that. As more data was added, we all changed our opinions on the Brewers. Any whining from me on that is because I used Duke and others to calm me down throughout the year and I feel let down even though it completely isnt their fault

[Perd]

I can put up with a lot. But I will not be shamed for jerking it to vaunted run differential.

[imb]

 

im actually not meaning to criticize the cubs because 95 wins is like ... what can you even say? I would have taken that with a healthy team. It's just the constant "well here's the thing, the cubs are good and the brewers are actually bad. ok they're not bad but they aren't good. ok they're good now but they're not real good and we're better. ok actually now we got 2 hit at home and lost the division OK NOW THEY"RE BETTER THAN WE ARE SORRY GUYS" that's obnoxious and wrong.

 

i mean a pretty good player became prime barry bonds for the past month

 

what the hell can we do

 

Happens all the time in baseball, mistake is counting on it to happen again, Yelich' a very good baseball player. However, expecting to keep up this recent pace is far fetched. Maybe he is this good but, there's a better chance he's not.

 

now do one for the post 2016 cubs

[Hairyducked Idiot]

im actually not meaning to criticize the cubs because 95 wins is like ... what can you even say? I would have taken that with a healthy team. It's just the constant "well here's the thing, the cubs are good and the brewers are actually bad. ok they're not bad but they aren't good. ok they're good now but they're not real good and we're better. ok actually now we got 2 hit at home and lost the division OK NOW THEY"RE BETTER THAN WE ARE SORRY GUYS" that's obnoxious and wrong.

 

Yeah, that sums up the 2018 regular season perfectly. It was frustrating and mind-boggling and the Brewers played much better than anyone would have thought.

 

i tried to warn you idiots but noooo "lol schoop what is stearns thinking lol the brewers are trash lol look at the run differential"

 

anyway all we have to do is beat colorado* (please be colorado) tomorrow and everything is essentially fine. sucks watching the brewers win on your field in a game you didn't even really need to play but whatever, just win one game and our {entering david mode} win probability for the playoffs or whatever is not meaningfully different than it would have been had we won today. Plus lester is going

 

Turns out 5-dimensional chess is a real game

[Cubswin11]

 

im actually not meaning to criticize the cubs because 95 wins is like ... what can you even say? I would have taken that with a healthy team. It's just the constant "well here's the thing, the cubs are good and the brewers are actually bad. ok they're not bad but they aren't good. ok they're good now but they're not real good and we're better. ok actually now we got 2 hit at home and lost the division OK NOW THEY"RE BETTER THAN WE ARE SORRY GUYS" that's obnoxious and wrong.

 

i mean a pretty good player became prime barry bonds for the past month

 

what the hell can we do

 

Yes, that's the only reason we lost the division. Not that we scored 3 or fewer runs in 15 games in September. Not that we gave up 5 or more runs 10 times in September. Not that we stopped hitting home runs. IT'S JUST REALLY ALL CHRISTIAN YELICH GUYS

That really is it though. He went peak Bonds for a month and they went like 27-8 or whatever and we went 16-12

[ConstableRabbit]

I guess that is the danger of making the playoffs a lot but, is there another place that has held more celebrations over the last 4 years than Wrigley

 

'15 wild card birth clinch for Cubs

'15 NLDS Cubs

'15 NLCS Mets

'16 Cubs Division

'16 NLCS Cubs

'17 NLCS Dodgers

'18 Division Brewers

'18 Wild Card whoever

This is a good thing.

[Andy]

 

i mean a pretty good player became prime barry bonds for the past month

 

what the hell can we do

And even after that they needed like a dozen different ridiculous things (STL falling on their ass on the way to a tying run, a 3-run wild pitch, Castellanos literally handing over the winning run) to happen to force this game. It was meant to be for them and that's just the way it happened.

 

yeah, stop being unreasonable about this and look at it logically. the brewers won because GOD wanted them to.

I haven't been King Rational, far from it. It just took a ridiculous run of dumb things for us to lose the division even as shitty as this offense has been. Unfortunately, it won't take a ridiculous run of dumb things for us to lose tomorrow or to Milwaukee in the LDS or whenever it happens, our Chiliball offense will take care of that.

[George Hayduke]

 

im actually not meaning to criticize the cubs because 95 wins is like ... what can you even say? I would have taken that with a healthy team. It's just the constant "well here's the thing, the cubs are good and the brewers are actually bad. ok they're not bad but they aren't good. ok they're good now but they're not real good and we're better. ok actually now we got 2 hit at home and lost the division OK NOW THEY"RE BETTER THAN WE ARE SORRY GUYS" that's obnoxious and wrong.

 

i mean a pretty good player became prime barry bonds for the past month

 

what the hell can we do

And even after that they needed like a dozen different ridiculous things (STL falling on their ass on the way to a tying run, a 3-run wild pitch, Castellanos literally handing over the winning run) to happen to force this game. It was meant to be for them and that's just the way it happened.

Yep, they literally played the final five weeks of the season at a 124 win pace. horsefeathers, I can't even be too mad about that. They earned the division.

[David]

i mean stop acting like the brewers ended 70-0 and yelich hit .874 or something.

 

they played well, the cubs didn't, ergo the brewers caught the cubs. i don't know why it seemingly makes people feel better to say the cubs didn't horsefeathers this up.

 

yelich carried a .500 wOBA for a month

 

and the cubs played well in september. milwaukee went balls out. why is it a bad thing that i'm willing to give more credit to milwaukee than blame to the cubs?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I don't know if I want them to beat Colorado or LA just for the chance to be embarrassed by the Brewers for three more games. Sometimes it's smart to just stay down.

[UMFan83]

I can put up with a lot. But I will not be shamed for jerking it to vaunted run differential.

 

We all were. But then when they were outscored for the 2nd half of the season I was told it doesn't matter because overall it was still good. Which I can get behind to some degree, and sure I'm guilty of putting too much emphasis on recent results, but I also believe others aren't putting enough weight into the most recent 80 game sample. I've never claimed that its the only thing that matters, just that the more recent results should be weighted more.

 

And I also think some people get confused because I have a nerdy obsession with posting "last x games" type of numbers when I'm actually not saying anything meaningful, I just like to observe just how good or bad a player or team has been over a selected sample of games/PAs and post about it. I can't help myself.

Edited October 1, 2018 by UMFan83

[Derwood]

i mean stop acting like the brewers ended 70-0 and yelich hit .874 or something.

 

they played well, the cubs didn't, ergo the brewers caught the cubs. i don't know why it seemingly makes people feel better to say the cubs didn't horsefeathers this up.

 

yelich carried a .500 wOBA for a month

 

and the cubs played well in september. milwaukee went balls out. why is it a bad thing that i'm willing to give more credit to milwaukee than blame to the cubs?

 

Give credit to the Brewers, not just one guy who gets 4 or 5 PA's per game.

[Irrelevant Dude]

Quintana had a good game, Chavez was outstanding, and the rest of the bullpen didn't completely horsefeathers the bed... Once again, the pathetic offense was what cost the Cubs the game. Taking Hader out of the picture, there is no excuse to only come up with 2 hits against the rest of those pitchers.

 

Willson’s awful at bat and Baez missing the fastball was the game

Missing fastballs happens, but Willson's double play was completely predictable and preventable.

[soccer10k]

i mean stop acting like the brewers ended 70-0 and yelich hit .874 or something.

 

they played well, the cubs didn't, ergo the brewers caught the cubs. i don't know why it seemingly makes people feel better to say the cubs didn't horsefeathers this up.

 

yelich carried a .500 wOBA for a month

 

and the cubs played well in september. milwaukee went balls out. why is it a bad thing that i'm willing to give more credit to milwaukee than blame to the cubs?

 

Because the Cubs are a bunch of gutless choking dogs and no rational explanation matters.

 

/abuck

[Ding Dong Johnson]

and maybe, just maybe, it’s not Chili’s fault. maybe some of these guys just aren’t that great?

[David]

holy horsefeathers, yelich down the stretch was more insane than i even realized

 

.500 wOBA for the whole second half

 

.528 for sept/oct

[Billy_Buck]

Not predicting this -- and at this moment it's pretty hard to conceive what would have to happen to get there -- but would be mighty, mighty satisfying to watch the Cubs celebrating a fourth straight LCS berth up in Miller Park next Wednesday.

 

These are the days that put the "die" in diehard. Try it again tomorrow and see what happens. Go Cubs!

[OleMissCub]

 

 

Cubs are lucky to even be in this position.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

I don't know if I want them to beat Colorado or LA just for the chance to be embarrassed by the Brewers for three more games. Sometimes it's smart to just stay down.

 

Plus a loss would mean a higher draft pick.

[imb]

 

the cubs won 95 games while having a thousand things go wrong you psychopath

 

im actually not meaning to criticize the cubs because 95 wins is like ... what can you even say? I would have taken that with a healthy team. It's just the constant "well here's the thing, the cubs are good and the brewers are actually bad. ok they're not bad but they aren't good. ok they're good now but they're not real good and we're better. ok actually now we got 2 hit at home and lost the division OK NOW THEY"RE BETTER THAN WE ARE SORRY GUYS" that's obnoxious and wrong.

 

To be fair I kind of get that. As more data was added, we all changed our opinions on the Brewers. Any whining from me on that is because I used Duke and others to calm me down throughout the year and I feel let down even though it completely isnt their fault

 

everyone being like "well look we all had to change our opinion on the brewers when more information came in!" should go back and look at 99 percent of the posts about the brewers on this board from April until like late August.

 

anyway my real point is that it really doesnt matter because this cubs team is the same team tomorrow having lost today as they would have been had they won today. A 95 win team in the playoffs with a couple hot pitchers is as good a threat to win as anyone.

[David]

i mean stop acting like the brewers ended 70-0 and yelich hit .874 or something.

 

they played well, the cubs didn't, ergo the brewers caught the cubs. i don't know why it seemingly makes people feel better to say the cubs didn't horsefeathers this up.

 

yelich carried a .500 wOBA for a month

 

and the cubs played well in september. milwaukee went balls out. why is it a bad thing that i'm willing to give more credit to milwaukee than blame to the cubs?

 

Give credit to the Brewers, not just one guy who gets 4 or 5 PA's per game.

 

they ended up tied after 162

 

pretty sure that one guy had a lot to do with it

[TMan92]

Quintana had a good game, Chavez was outstanding, and the rest of the bullpen didn't completely horsefeathers the bed... Once again, the pathetic offense was what cost the Cubs the game. Taking Hader out of the picture, there is no excuse to only come up with 2 hits against the rest of those pitchers.

 

Willson’s awful at bat and Baez missing the fastball was the game

Missing fastballs happens, but Willson's double play was completely predictable and preventable.

 

Javy’s was a tough break. The garbage of this season falls on Willson and Schwarber massively shortening this lineup. And Bryant getting hurt. And Russell being a POS.

[Cubswin11]

im actually not meaning to criticize the cubs because 95 wins is like ... what can you even say? I would have taken that with a healthy team. It's just the constant "well here's the thing, the cubs are good and the brewers are actually bad. ok they're not bad but they aren't good. ok they're good now but they're not real good and we're better. ok actually now we got 2 hit at home and lost the division OK NOW THEY"RE BETTER THAN WE ARE SORRY GUYS" that's obnoxious and wrong.

 

Yeah, that sums up the 2018 regular season perfectly. It was frustrating and mind-boggling and the Brewers played much better than anyone would have thought.

 

i tried to warn you idiots but noooo "lol schoop what is stearns thinking lol the brewers are trash lol look at the run differential"

Schoop hit .208/.254/.342 with them. I was right about that being an odd and bad move, horsefeathers he would’ve been our 4th best hitter in Sept with that line. Theo should’ve got in on that.