Cubs (Boyd) vs Phillies (Wheeler): 6/9/25, 5:45pm

[DYMNO]

Ballgame. This one stings. 

[Jason Ross]

Just...building the drama...right? 

Right?

...right?

[chibears55]

Just lay down another bunt 🤷‍♂️

Edited June 10, 2025 by chibears55

[UMFan83]

Busch blew the game there. Come on man

[Irrelevant Dude]

13 minutes ago, s2obed said:

I hate the ghost runner. One of the worst Manfred changes imo 

As stupid as the rule is, it is equally as stupid that it is referred to as a "ghost runner".  We can clearly see a live runner on second base.  There is nothing about him that is a ghost.

[s2obed]

Get the sure out man and hope for a few K’s…

[Jason Ross]

1 minute ago, DrCub said:

I don’t think either myself or the original poster was suggesting the Cubs are not good.  

Bu you're actively looking for reasons why they'll fail. If you think the Cubs are a good team, you probably wouldn't be actively searching under every 10 game sample size to find the fatal flaw or the reason they'll do bad. 

The Cubs are a good team. That's really what matters. Flawed? Yeah! Every team is flawed. The TDL should hopefully help that.

[UMFan83]

Feel like 70% of the time when the Cubs take the lead in extras in the road they blow the lead and/or lose the game in the bottom half. I know that’s not the case but seems to happen a lot

[chibears55]

How about 3 Ks here

[Derwood]

If Palencia wiggles out of this....

[Transmogrified Tiger]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

Busch blew the game there. Come on man

Honestly bases loaded 0 outs is maybe better than 2nd/3rd 1 out in this situation

[Derwood]

Just now, Derwood said:

If Palencia wiggles out of this....

nevermind

[Jason Ross]

Blah. 

[PeanutPunch33]

absolute joke 

[Hot Sauce]

Well that sucked.

[Geographyhater8888]

Just now, DrCub said:

I don’t think either myself or the original poster was suggesting the Cubs are not good.  

We’re on the same level as the dodgers and Mets and it’s blasphemy to even question that narrative.

[soccer10k]

That was a really annoying inning.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Well so much for Palencia's OBA. 

 

Great job of executing by the Phillies. 

 

The Cubs are not hitting the way they should be as they enter this gauntlet and they could very well lose the lead they've built up by the time they face STL. 

 

 

[SpongeWorthy]

swanson is so bad at the dish man

[squally1313]

Well thankfully there’s no ghost runner in October so no need to include this game in the otherwise normal ‘games since April 23rd against teams over .500’ sample. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Just now, SpongeWorthy said:

swanson is so bad at the dish man

He'll go on a 1-week heater eventually to make his numbers look fairly respectable again, before settling back into his usual below average self.

[Geographyhater8888]

Another chicken sh!t effort by the offense. 2 PCA hits/4 games worth of ABs with RISP.

[Geographyhater8888]

That offensive Fwar counts as half a win in the standings.

[DrCub]

4 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

Bu you're actively looking for reasons why they'll fail. If you think the Cubs are a good team, you probably wouldn't be actively searching under every 10 game sample size to find the fatal flaw or the reason they'll do bad. 

The Cubs are a good team. That's really what matters. Flawed? Yeah! Every team is flawed. The TDL should hopefully help that.

Not quite.  Someone mentioned they’ve been bad against good teams lately.  Really bad.  I agreed.  Does it mean we think they’re awful and will fail? No.  It’s a small sample size but still exists and there’s concern that the offense isn’t quite what we thought.  No one is saying the seasons over (well at least I’m not).   Just that we’ve played very poorly against decent or better teams lately.  

[Irrelevant Dude]

Cliff Floyd breaking down Dansby's approach at the plate, and not sugar coating it.