National (Alvarez) vs Cubs (Pomeranz): 9/7/25, 1:20pm

[Geographyhater8888]

26 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

8-7 against this soft part of the schedule. I guess it’s whatever but there are just so many flaws here. Just make the playoffs so we can say we made it and hope for the best

That includes the soft Giants, the only capable team during this stretch that outscored them by 13 runs in a 3 game sweep. 

Edited September 7, 2025 by Geographyhater8888

[UMFan83]

And the second worst team in the NL takes a series at Wrigley against the Cubs

[JHBulls]

This club haven’t won a proper 162 game division title in 8 years. Have a revenue stream that monsters that of their division rivals. Play in a huge market. Led this years division by 5+ games a couple of months ago and are likely going to lose it by 10 games when it’s all finished. 
And how are Cubs fans rewarded for their loyalty? By extending the man responsible for all of it. 

Edited September 7, 2025 by JHBulls

[squally1313]

The cubs have gone

• 5-3 on the brewers series home stand
• 5-4 on the road trip
• 5-4 on the latest home stand 

take any combination of those numbers, turn them into a winning percentage, multiply that winning percentage by 162, or look what all the other teams that we’re going to play in October and what they’ve done over that stretch, and maybe, just maybe, it’s going to be ok  

 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Did Palencia really blow his arm out?

[chibears55]

1 minute ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Did Palencia really blow his arm out?

Theyre saying tightness, Counsell just said it happened to him a couple months ago and he was fine after a couple days.

Guess we'll see but he's likely out til the weekend at least 

[We Got The Whole 9]

35 minutes ago, abuck1220 said:

I just can’t decide if sending him to AAA is enough or if he should just be released in conjunction with a strongly worded statement about how much he sucks. 

horsefeathers off with this post. Dude has a 2 week slump and you post this stupid horsefeathers. You should be released.

[cl smooth]

...i thought we liked palencia? 

[Tryptamine]

I just don't see a world in which this team does absolutely anything in the playoffs. They've been far too mediocre for far too long.

Edited September 7, 2025 by Tryptamine

[squally1313]

2 minutes ago, cl smooth said:

...i thought we liked palencia? 

I think he’s sweet but he’s absolutely flawed, pitching wise. Team is like 4 pitchers short 

[chibears55]

Counsell just said Tucker wont be in lineup tomorrow, so once again the guy is hurt enough to miss a weeks worth of games but they choose to keep him active or just shutting him down for 10 days on IL and adding another bat.

Funny how on Friday he said he could play over the weekend 🤣 

[soccer10k]

9 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

The cubs have gone

• 5-3 on the brewers series home stand
• 5-4 on the road trip
• 5-4 on the latest home stand 

take any combination of those numbers, turn them into a winning percentage, multiply that winning percentage by 162, or look what all the other teams that we’re going to play in October and what they’ve done over that stretch, and maybe, just maybe, it’s going to be ok  

 

It was a 3-3 home stand against two of the worst 6 teams in the league. I mean, I know baseball gonna baseball sometimes, but that’s nothing to be remotely content with.

Stop with this uber positive horsefeathers all the time. It’s as annoying as the uber negative horsefeathers. I know you know about small sample sizes so you can cut that out too. This team has been 3 games over .500 over the last 3 months. I don’t particularly care what they did over a 9 game sample that you’ve cherry picked because oh cool they played at a 92 win pace or whatever over those 9 games. For 3 months they’ve played like a 84 win team.

[Illiterate Scholar]

(They've also played at a 92 win pace going back to opening day)

 

Also saying it's going to be OK for a team with basically a 100% of making the playoffs is not on the same scale as saying this team is garbage or whatever with the 3rd best RD in baseball. That's my opinion though. 

Edited September 7, 2025 by Illiterate Scholar

[squally1313]

11 minutes ago, soccer10k said:

It was a 3-3 home stand against two of the worst 6 teams in the league. I mean, I know baseball gonna baseball sometimes, but that’s nothing to be remotely content with.

Stop with this uber positive horsefeathers all the time. It’s as annoying as the uber negative horsefeathers. I know you know about small sample sizes so you can cut that out too. This team has been 3 games over .500 over the last 3 months. I don’t particularly care what they did over a 9 game sample that you’ve cherry picked because oh cool they played at a 92 win pace or whatever over those 9 games. For 3 months they’ve played like a 84 win team.

Good call on the home stand, not sure what I was thinking on that. 
 

calling me out for sample size issues, big or small, and then cherry picking a sample size in bad faith in the same argument is a bad look. Also all these other teams suck too. 

[abuck1220]

20 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

horsefeathers off with this post. Dude has a 2 week slump and you post this stupid horsefeathers. You should be released.

I thought it was obvious I was being sarcastic 

[Andy]

38 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Counsell just said Tucker wont be in lineup tomorrow, so once again the guy is hurt enough to miss a weeks worth of games but they choose to keep him active or just shutting him down for 10 days on IL and adding another bat.

Funny how on Friday he said he could play over the weekend 🤣 

TBF in September, anyone in a position to help the team is already on the roster, so it's whatever.

[soccer10k]

37 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

Good call on the home stand, not sure what I was thinking on that. 
 

calling me out for sample size issues, big or small, and then cherry picking a sample size in bad faith in the same argument is a bad look. Also all these other teams suck too. 

Sorry, but a 3 month sample is much more relevant than a 9 game sample so what I’m doing isn’t remotely similar to what you’re doing. If I was you, I’d say the Cubs are a horsefeathers team because they’re 5-7 in the last 12, which is a 67.5 win pace, while playing 9 of those games against 3 of the worst 6 teams in the league. But because I’m not you, I’m not making a BS argument based on a 9 or 12 game sample 

And frankly, I don’t care about how all of these other teams are doing. This is a Cubs forum and a Cubs game thread. I mean it’s great that the Cubs likely have the 1st WC spot locked up because everyone else sucks and we aren’t stressing in any way about making the playoffs. But that’s not what we’re discussing here.

And the overall point is we don’t need you to come in here being Captain Fucking Positive after every loss telling us how things are going to be okay because we’re 5-4 in our last 9.

[Gjfificifjdej]

1 hour ago, cl smooth said:

...i thought we liked palencia? 

I like pitchers who get batters out

[We Got The Whole 9]

50 minutes ago, abuck1220 said:

I thought it was obvious I was being sarcastic 

Seriously my apologies then 

[Hankchifan]

1 hour ago, UMFan83 said:

And the second worst team in the NL takes a series at Wrigley against the Cubs

Tucker, Walsh and PCA all out at the same time, leaves too big a hole in the lineup.  We need to start hitting Walsh and PCA against lefties, as their replacements are worse.

13 minutes ago, Gjfificifjdej said:

I like pitchers who get batters out

Particularly closers,

[Soul]

To me it’s just accepting that the early season Cubs were streaking.  Maybe they aren’t THIS mediocre, or maybe they are.  But they are not going to play like they did in say May, unless we are talking about another big streak.  But at this point we are dealing with tired / banged up players.  So it is what it is.  Probably .500 the rest of the way, then see about the playoffs “where anything can happen.”

[squally1313]

27 minutes ago, soccer10k said:

Sorry, but a 3 month sample is much more relevant than a 9 game sample so what I’m doing isn’t remotely similar to what you’re doing. If I was you, I’d say the Cubs are a horsefeathers team because they’re 5-7 in the last 12, which is a 67.5 win pace, while playing 9 of those games against 3 of the worst 6 teams in the league. But because I’m not you, I’m not making a BS argument based on a 9 or 12 game sample 

And frankly, I don’t care about how all of these other teams are doing. This is a Cubs forum and a Cubs game thread. I mean it’s great that the Cubs likely have the 1st WC spot locked up because everyone else sucks and we aren’t stressing in any way about making the playoffs. But that’s not what we’re discussing here.

And the overall point is we don’t need you to come in here being Captain Fucking Positive after every loss telling us how things are going to be okay because we’re 5-4 in our last 9.

Look man, I made one post today about how the 81-62 that is 10 games clear of a playoff spot is not a terrible team. There are dozens of negative posts from the same people (typically people that have showed up in the last two years) every time we give up a run. The guy who has like 100% negative posts and has called out Palencia for being mentally weak and Ben brown for ‘not putting in the work’ or whatever the ****** comment was, both totally baselessly, in particular set me off. 
 

the other teams absolutely matter because for the cubs to lose like so many people here are clearly waiting for with baited breath, other teams have to beat them. 90% of the complaints rehashed here can be applied to all the other playoff teams, and ultimately someone has to win here. 
 

the team absolutely has flaws, the trade deadline and the end of the offseason were botched in very critical ways, and the lack of pitching depth is probably going to die them in when we turn the ball over to Ryan brasier or whatever in the fifth inning of game 2. Losing 2/3 to the nationals while Tucker and PCA are pretty voluntarily out in a spot in the season where the leadership has clearly prioritized rest and health (because we’re more than comfortably in a playoff spot) is absolutely not an indictment of anything meaningful, and it certainly doesn’t mean the team is garbage and awful and has no chance of doing anything in the playoffs. 3 months is more relevant than 9 games, and 5 months is more relevant than 3 months. 

[Derwood]

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: you only need to be one game over .500 in each playoff series to win it all. 

[Derwood]

Not gonna lie, a small part of me thought Palencia might have faked the injury because he knew he didn't have it today and saw no end to the inning

[LBiittner]

1 hour ago, Hankchifan said:

Tucker, Walsh and PCA all out at the same time, leaves too big a hole in the lineup.  We need to start hitting Walsh and PCA against lefties, as their replacements are worse.

Particularly closers,

I think Walsh has been missing this entire cubs season???