8/14 - Road Cubs (Hamels) @ Phillies (Nola) - 6:00 CT NBCSCH/ESPN

[d_money]

Seasons over.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Alright, that’s enough for me. Maybe the little league game on Sunday will be cool.

 

Wait. That's not tonight?

[Derwood]

road cubs is a real thing

[TMan92]

This Phillies team was absolute garbage coming into this series. We are definitely losing 2 of 3 in Pittsburgh too.

[Schwarber Fan]

Tony Kemp should pitch 3 innings tonight.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

I realize it's dangerous, but I'd like to see the Cubs blow this thing up in the offseason. Not rebuild, mind you. Just get a bunch of new players and ship out a lot of the current ones to play under whoever the new manager is.

[UMFan83]

So 12 ER in 5 innings the last 2 start for Hamels? Yikes.

[UMFan83]

I realize it's dangerous, but I'd like to see the Cubs blow this thing up in the offseason. Not rebuild, mind you. Just get a bunch of new players and ship out a lot of the current ones to play under whoever the new manager is.

 

Absolutely...only have 2 seasons left in this window so have to make them count.

[Hawk4Hall]

Any chance we can launch the owners into the sun.

 

I hate those Trump loving [expletive].

[Derwood]

I realize it's dangerous, but I'd like to see the Cubs blow this thing up in the offseason. Not rebuild, mind you. Just get a bunch of new players and ship out a lot of the current ones to play under whoever the new manager is.

 

Absolutely...only have 2 seasons left in this window so have to make them count.

 

Well, it's a two year window if we keep everyone. If you start shipping players off, who knows what the new window looks like

[UMFan83]

I realize it's dangerous, but I'd like to see the Cubs blow this thing up in the offseason. Not rebuild, mind you. Just get a bunch of new players and ship out a lot of the current ones to play under whoever the new manager is.

 

Absolutely...only have 2 seasons left in this window so have to make them count.

 

Well, it's a two year window if we keep everyone. If you start shipping players off, who knows what the new window looks like

 

I’m assuming that if we do a sell off that won’t involve Javy, Rizzo and Bryant who will all be FAs, and Lester

[abohnhoff]

At this rate, whats the contract extension for Rizzo going to look like going into 2022? Obviously he could turn it around this year and be back to his old self in 20/21, but if not is he even extendable? Seems his offense has been steadily declining since 2015.

[Derwood]

 

Absolutely...only have 2 seasons left in this window so have to make them count.

 

Well, it's a two year window if we keep everyone. If you start shipping players off, who knows what the new window looks like

 

I’m assuming that if we do a sell off that won’t involve Javy, Rizzo and Bryant who will all be FAs, and Lester

 

No one will take Heyward's or Darvish's contracts, we probably won't trade Contreras, so the mega shake up is.....trading Almora/Happ/Schwarber for?????

[Bryants Disco Ball]

 

Well, it's a two year window if we keep everyone. If you start shipping players off, who knows what the new window looks like

 

I’m assuming that if we do a sell off that won’t involve Javy, Rizzo and Bryant who will all be FAs, and Lester

 

No one will take Heyward's or Darvish's contracts, we probably won't trade Contreras, so the mega shake up is.....trading Almora/Happ/Schwarber for?????

 

And when I say trade guys, I don't mean a sell off in terms of a current guy for prospect. A current guy for some other good current guy. I want them to be willing to trade even some of the core. To legit listen on anybody and anything.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Also, I got unlazy for a second and checked. This is the third time in the last eight games that we have been down by at least seven runs through three innings. That's really shitty.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

At this rate, whats the contract extension for Rizzo going to look like going into 2022? Obviously he could turn it around this year and be back to his old self in 20/21, but if not is he even extendable? Seems his offense has been steadily declining since 2015.

 

He's for sure a guy I hope they are willing to just let play out the contract. It's hard to think that after two more complete seasons he is going to be a guy we want on even a semi large extension.

[BigSlick]

Hamels going for one of the best pitchers on the team to virtually unplayable is pretty bad, imo

[Omar]

the comeback is happening

[Gmoney08]

Okay, 1 good game, TWO bad games (ugh)

 

the sample size is insurmountable

[Gmoney08]

Speaking of eye tests, it appears the Cubs will never be able to score a decent amount of runs without hitting home runs, and I loathe every second of it.

 

Spot on. No matter how good the pitching is, this offense is completely binary.

 

i feel this is exagerrated for the mere fact we supposedly had a top NL offense until the last 5 weeks of 2018 that was predicated on scoring runs without the dong. Now we are soleh attached to dong?

 

My guesss is we have had a good but not great offense both years but donging likely helps us more.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Speaking of eye tests, it appears the Cubs will never be able to score a decent amount of runs without hitting home runs, and I loathe every second of it.

 

Spot on. No matter how good the pitching is, this offense is completely binary.

 

i feel this is exagerrated for the mere fact we supposedly had a top NL offense until the last 5 weeks of 2018 that was predicated on scoring runs without the dong. Now we are soleh attached to dong?

 

My guesss is we have had a good but not great offense both years but donging likely helps us more.

 

I feel both extremes make it suck. I think we should be one of the maybe two or three teams in baseball that can have a mixture.

 

I don't watch enough ball outside the Cubs. Are all games just decided via home run derby or is it just the one team I watch? I know everyone loves a big dong, but it feels like without multiple dongs in a game, I have to watch our offense get five hits and struggle to get guys home from second with zero outs because they don't know anything but dongs.

 

Thanks for reading my frustrations.

[Gmoney08]

 

Spot on. No matter how good the pitching is, this offense is completely binary.

 

i feel this is exagerrated for the mere fact we supposedly had a top NL offense until the last 5 weeks of 2018 that was predicated on scoring runs without the dong. Now we are soleh attached to dong?

 

My guesss is we have had a good but not great offense both years but donging likely helps us more.

 

I feel both extremes make it suck. I think we should be one of the maybe two or three teams in baseball that can have a mixture.

 

I don't watch enough ball outside the Cubs. Are all games just decided via home run derby or is it just the one team I watch? I know everyone loves a big dong, but it feels like without multiple dongs in a game, I have to watch our offense get five hits and struggle to get guys home from second with zero outs because they don't know anything but dongs.

 

Thanks for reading my frustrations.

 

i just dont think we are on the extreme of either and likely been a good offense most of the last 2 years with a horrendous september of last year.

 

5th straight year looking good for the playoffs, its not doomsville. Agree it would be better if everyone developed and we were winning 105 games per year but hardly realistic.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

 

i feel this is exagerrated for the mere fact we supposedly had a top NL offense until the last 5 weeks of 2018 that was predicated on scoring runs without the dong. Now we are soleh attached to dong?

 

My guesss is we have had a good but not great offense both years but donging likely helps us more.

 

I feel both extremes make it suck. I think we should be one of the maybe two or three teams in baseball that can have a mixture.

 

I don't watch enough ball outside the Cubs. Are all games just decided via home run derby or is it just the one team I watch? I know everyone loves a big dong, but it feels like without multiple dongs in a game, I have to watch our offense get five hits and struggle to get guys home from second with zero outs because they don't know anything but dongs.

 

Thanks for reading my frustrations.

 

i just dont think we are on the extreme of either and likely been a good offense most of the last 2 years with a horrendous september of last year.

 

5th straight year looking good for the playoffs, its not doomsville. Agree it would be better if everyone developed and we were winning 105 games per year but hardly realistic.

 

When it comes to extremes, is there a way to find out what percentage of runs are scored via dong for all teams this season? I would love to see that stat, although not sure it's easily found.

[squally1313]

Just got home...how'd I do?

 

Some of you were worse than Edith in this thread tonight, good god.

 

The Cubs are 8th in OBP. The Cubs are third in OPS with runners on base. Both of those things are good.

[soccer10k]

You guys should really start doing what I do and only pay attention to the home games. It's much more enjoyable that way.

 

I went and played a couple hours of racquetball tonight, checked the score when I got done, saw it was 11-1, and closed the app.