Cubs (Imanaga) @ Brewers (WIlson) :: 5/29/24, 6:40pm, Marquee

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I wonder when we find out what's wrong with shota

[WhyCantWeWin]

2 minutes ago, abuck1220 said:

wild how badly the brewers have just run circles around the cubs since the cubs’ 2021 collapse. cubs even stole their manager and it hasn’t mattered. just a better organization and it’s not very close. 

Jed preparing to give Pat Murphy 80 mil next year to manage the Cubs 

[NorthsideAvenger]

4 minutes ago, abuck1220 said:

wild how badly the brewers have just run circles around the cubs since the cubs’ 2021 collapse. cubs even stole their manager and it hasn’t mattered. just a better organization and it’s not very close. 

And yet the Brewers are no closer to winning a title than the Cubs. 

[abuck1220]

1 minute ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

And yet the Brewers are no closer to winning a title than the Cubs. 

wow that’s super exciting for the cubs. team that lost its two stud SPs and its stud closer and has a payroll 1/2 of the cubs isn’t any closer to winning the WS. check and mate. 

[Wilson A2000]

4 minutes ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

And yet the Brewers are no closer to winning a title than the Cubs. 

At least they are winning divisions and making the playoffs

[ToolDRT]

I think this team might suck. 

[Andy]

19 minutes ago, abuck1220 said:

wild how badly the brewers have just run circles around the cubs since the cubs’ 2021 collapse. cubs even stole their manager and it hasn’t mattered. just a better organization and it’s not very close. 

Honestly they've kicked our ass since the late stages of 2018. Were it not for a crazy collapse in the 2019 wild-card game to the eventual world champs, maybe they'd already have a title out of this run they're on.

[NorthsideAvenger]

Over the past month Counsell seems to make all the wrong moves. That won't last but still very frustrating.

At some point the Brewers will go cold, until then keep them in sight.

 

[UMFan83]

6 minutes ago, Andy said:

Honestly they've kicked our ass since the late stages of 2018. Were it not for a crazy collapse in the 2019 wild-card game to the eventual world champs, maybe they'd already have a title out of this run they're on.

They were also a few innings from the World Series in 2018.
 

Meanwhile if the Cubs don’t make the NLDS this year, they will have their longest gap between NLDS appearances since the round was created in 95. 

95-98 - 3 seasons

99-03 - 4 seasons

04-07 - 3 seasons

09-15 - 6 seasons

18-24 - 7 seasons 

Granted the Cubs have made the playoffs twice in that span and there is now a new round added before the NLDS but kind of crazy to think about what they’ve “accomplished” in recent years  

 

[UMFan83]

The cubs are now 10-16 in May. If they lose their next 2 games they will finish with the exact same record as last May which I don’t think anyone thought was realistic.  Really early in May I said something like “2023 has had a similar feel to 2024” with the hot start in April followed by struggling offense and bullpen causing struggles in May but by no means did I think they were about to go potentially 10-18 in the month, I was thinking it was more like a less extreme similarity to last years team. 

One other “fun fact”, the Cubs have won consecutive games just once since April 27th, way back on May 4th and 5th against the Brewers. The team has gone 11-19 since then. 

[CubinNY]

They are coming out of it. they're on the edge of a hot streak. Mark my words.

[cl smooth]

59 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

They are coming out of it. they're on the edge of a hot streak. Mark my words.

The other shoe is going to fall.

And that shoe is called a hot streak.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Okay, @PackLandVA is up for today's game thread. If there's no thread posted by 10:30am or so, it's a jump ball.