9/13 Cubs (Lester) vs. Pirates (Brault) 3:05 NBCSC

[Ding Dong Johnson]

[PackLandVA]

[Brian707]

16 games to go, I don't think this team can go on a 13-3 run to overtake St Louis

 

[TMan92]

16 games to go, I don't think this team can go on a 13-3 run to overtake St Louis

 

 

This team is annoying enough to do it!

[Hairyducked Idiot]

16 games to go, I don't think this team can go on a 13-3 run to overtake St Louis

 

 

I'm rooting for a multi-way tie for the last WC spot. Imagine we let the Mets and Phillies back into it too and we can have a four-way play-in just to get to the play-in.

[ConstableRabbit]

16 games to go, I don't think this team can go on a 13-3 run to overtake St Louis

 

 

I'm rooting for a multi-way tie for the last WC spot. Imagine we let the Mets and Phillies back into it too and we can have a four-way play-in just to get to the play-in.

We know.

[soccer10k]

16 games to go, I don't think this team can go on a 13-3 run to overtake St Louis

 

 

Realistically, 11-5 probably does it, maybe 12-4. The only way we catch the Cards is to go 5-2 against them which knocks out 3 of the 4 games. Going 6-3 in the other 9 probably gets it done with the Cards schedule (Wash, Mil, Ari). Cards do have to face Strasburg, Corbin and Scherzer in that series.

 

Even if we go 4-3 against St Louis, 8-1 in the other games might be enough to win the division outright but would probably get at least a tie.

 

That being said, I’m not sure if 11-5 or 12-4 would happen either.

[UMFan83]

I'm interested in analyzing some of the World Series winners with crappy regular seasons and understanding what made them get hot in October. Specifically the 2000 Yankees and the 2006 Cardinals.

 

The 2000 Yankees were coming off back to back WS wins and were 25 games over .500 on September 13th (9 games up in the division) before finishing the season 3-15. Not sure what happened there but it seems more like a team knowing they were going to play an extra month for the 3rd year in a row taking their foot off the gas with the playoffs inevitable. But whatever the reason was, they ended up going 11-5 in the postseason and winning their 3rd title in a row.

 

The 2006 Cardinals had come off 100 and 105 win seasons, making the World Series one year and getting 2 games away from the World Series the next year. The 06 team scuffled throughout, alternating long hot streaks with equally cold ones. This team feels like like a parallel to this years Cubs, as it looks like they are turning the corner only to fall flat on its face. At the end of the season they almost blew the division but did just enough to get in, beating a rather garbage Padres team and then the top seeded Mets in the NLCS. Looking at their roster, they looked like they had some top end talent (Pujols, Edmonds, Rolen, Carpenter, Isringhausen) and then a lot of holes particularly the back end of their rotation and most of the rest of the starting lineup. They got a major boost late in the season with the emergence of Wainwright who came up big in the playoffs I believe.

 

Really no conclusions here...I'm just trying to find some way to look for hope.

[Soul]

Cards face a tough schedule (assuming we've still got something left to win some of those games). But look at the lineup of crud the Brewers have for the rest of the year. Even without Yelich they'll almost surely breeze to the finish line.

[Sammy Sofa]

Really no conclusions here...I'm just trying to find some way to look for hope.

 

[Brian]

Our schedule is all Pirates and Reds who the Cubs can't beat for some reason and the Cardinals who stopped losing. It's over.

 

And also I find it hard to get excited over either playoff scenario - win the division and here's reigning king Cub killer Ozzie Albies to hit .800 with 6 HR over 3 games or here's 1 game to get ass kicked by the Nationals again.

[Brian]

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[badger]

[expletive], why is Almora still a thing.

[Derwood]

[expletive], why is Almora still a thing.

 

He's hitting .500 against this pitcher

[badger]

I don't care.

[Derwood]

I don't care.

 

I mean, me neither, but Joe is the SSS King

[Brian707]

Our schedule is all Pirates and Reds who the Cubs can't beat for some reason and the Cardinals who stopped losing. It's over.

 

And also I find it hard to get excited over either playoff scenario - win the division and here's reigning king Cub killer Ozzie Albies to hit .800 with 6 HR over 3 games or here's 1 game to get ass kicked by the Nationals again.

 

 

[Brian]

this sentence started so promising

 

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[badger]

Our schedule is all Pirates and Reds who the Cubs can't beat for some reason and the Cardinals who stopped losing. It's over.

 

And also I find it hard to get excited over either playoff scenario - win the division and here's reigning king Cub killer Ozzie Albies to hit .800 with 6 HR over 3 games or here's 1 game to get ass kicked by the Nationals again.

 

 

 

 

It's always sunny did a Seinfeld spoof?

[Brian]

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they did a fake clip show

 

side by side

 

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[Ding Dong Johnson]

I pity the fool who missed dual Jerry.

[soccer10k]

[expletive], why is Almora still a thing.

 

He's hitting .500 against this pitcher

 

And also the alternative is Heyward.

[Brian]

[expletive], why is Almora still a thing.

 

He's hitting .500 against this pitcher

 

And also the alternative is Heyward.

 

.391/.500/.870 last 7 games

[badger]

[expletive], why is Almora still a thing.

 

He's hitting .500 against this pitcher

 

And also the alternative is Heyward.

 

He’s actually been hitting relatively well lately

[Sammy Sofa]

Plus Heyward has at least shown he can have stretches of being decent at any time. Almora, outside of a single month where his OPS was technically salvaged by an absurd slugging total on the back of 6 fluke juiced ball dongs, has essentially been hot butt (the bad kind) for about 9 straight months of baseball.