Cardinals (Pallante) vs Cubs (Peterson): 7/3/26, 3:05pm

[soccer10k]

This has to be up there for biggest game to game swings in MLB history. We’re currently at a 37 run swing.

[Geographyhater8888]

How the horsefeathers do you follow up a 20 run win with a 17+ run loss? I’d be surprised if this isn’t some kind of record. .

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[JHBulls]

5 minutes ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

How the horsefeathers do you follow up a 20 run win with a 17+ run loss? I’d be surprised if this isn’t some kind of record. Embarrassing.

Give Jed Hoyer full authority to sign and trade for pitchers. 

Edited 14 hours ago by JHBulls

[NorthsideAvenger]

5 minutes ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

How the horsefeathers do you follow up a 20 run win with a 17+ run loss? I’d be surprised if this isn’t some kind of record. .

There was a day off in-between the games. How do you have a performance like this coming off a day off?

Cubs better win the weekend to make up for this crap. 

[JHBulls]

Fake rally. 

[mk49]

Hey, Bregman hit with RISP!

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

2 minutes ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

There was a day off in-between the games. How do you have a performance like this coming off a day off?

All it takes is one pitcher. It's not hard

[NorthsideAvenger]

Just now, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

All it takes is one pitcher. It's not hard

Does not explain why the hitters did not do their job. 

[Jason Ross]

23 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

Probably wasn’t Lake Michigan either.

Twasnt. South Carolina. I don't know what the name is however. It's...warm at least. A fish did bite me though. That was rude. 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

1 minute ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

Does not explain why the hitters did not do their job. 

okay, two pitchers. the guy in red gets paid money too

[Rcal10]

It sucks. Believe me, I was there and left very early. But it is one game. Would it have been better if they lost 5-4 blowing a 9th inning lead. One horrendous game. Turn the page. 

[mk49]

Good to see Pomeranz, and he pitched fine.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

oli marmol using bullets of one of his leverage relievers to preserve the 17-1 nailbiter.

[chopsx9]

Last two games kind of a microcosm of the Cubs season so far.

[NorthsideAvenger]

5 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

It sucks. Believe me, I was there and left very early. But it is one game. Would it have been better if they lost 5-4 blowing a 9th inning lead. One horrendous game. Turn the page. 

Yep. Win tomorrow.

[mk49]

2 minutes ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

Yep. Win tomorrow.

Shota with Miggy!😄

[NorthsideAvenger]

8 minutes ago, mk49 said:

Shota with Miggy!😄

I did not say how, just win.

[chibears55]

Cubs got 23 Wednesday,  the way this offense goes in spurts, they probably wont total 23 these last 10 games to the break 😳 

Now go get 20 tomorrow dammit 

[Wilson A2000]

 

[Geographyhater8888]

8 hours ago, Wilson A2000 said:

 

In other words, the Cubs are the first team in history to win one game by 20+ runs but then lose the next by 15+ runs. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Geographyhater8888

[Backtobanks]

12 hours ago, JHBulls said:

Give Jed Hoyer full authority to sign and trade for pitchers. 

As President of Baseball Operations, he pretty much has the full authority to sign and trade for pitchers.  The budget is miles ahead of every other team in the division, so apparently, he is not good at his job.

[Rcal10]

34 minutes ago, Backtobanks said:

As President of Baseball Operations, he pretty much has the full authority to sign and trade for pitchers.  The budget is miles ahead of every other team in the division, so apparently, he is not good at his job.

Not going to argue he is great at his job, but you leave a lot out with going to “not good”. Since the start of the 2023 season the Cubs have won 307 games. They are 11th in baseball in wins. 1 games out of a tie for 6th. Aside from the Rays, Brewers and Orioles (whose record is really due to one great year) all the teams ahead of them have spent more money. Aside from the Brewers the next best team in the division is 25 wins behind them. While the Cubs can spend more and act like a big market his hands are tied every year to be under the LT(except, finally, this year). While you are correct that he does spend more, the rest of the division gets advantages the Cubs don’t get. Spending more only tries to balance the teams out. But when you don’t take full advantage if your advantage due to ownership, you are actually playing at a disadvantage. If you want to say the Brewers are a much better FO, I agree. Same with the Rays.  But if the bar is the Brewers than every FO with the exception of the Rays and Dodgers is bad. Jed is not the best POBO in the game. Far from it. But he is far from bad and far from the worst. Cubs can do much worse. 

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[Geographyhater8888]

1 hour ago, Backtobanks said:

As President of Baseball Operations, he pretty much has the full authority to sign and trade for pitchers.  The budget is miles ahead of every other team in the division, so apparently, he is not good at his job.

Ask David Stearns if a fringe top 10 payroll (top 2 and over $100 million more than the Cubs in his case) is some GM life hack to building a championship roster after what he ‘built’ in Milwaukee. Jed isn’t perfect but let’s not pretend that he has an unlimited allowance either. The Brewers, Rays and Cleveland are outliers.

His biggest mistake has been neglecting drafting pitching in the later rounds. Hence filling out the pitching staff with middling vets, eating away at the payroll thanks to a lack of reinforcements in the minors. 

Besides, it’s Craig counsels fault anyways.

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[Rcal10]

11 minutes ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

Ask David Stearns if a fringe top 10 payroll (top 2 and over $100 million more than the Cubs in his case) is some GM life hack to building a championship roster after what he ‘built’ in Milwaukee. Jed isn’t perfect but let’s not pretend that he has an unlimited allowance either. The Brewers, Rays and Cleveland are outliers.

His biggest mistake has been neglecting drafting pitching in the later rounds. Hence filling out the pitching staff with middling vets, eating away at the payroll thanks to a lack of reinforcements in the minors. 

Besides, it’s Craig counsels fault anyways.

I was fully on board with you until the last sentence😬. But seriously, I agree about Jed. As I said, he isn’t great, but he isn’t terrible either. I think if he is moved it is more likely we get someone worse than someone better. 

[Geographyhater8888]

14 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

I was fully on board with you until the last sentence😬. But seriously, I agree about Jed. As I said, he isn’t great, but he isn’t terrible either. I think if he is moved it is more likely we get someone worse than someone better. 

I just don’t like using the Brewers as an example. No one knows how they do it and evidently neither does their former GM who’s employed by Steve Cohen. Unless you’re Dave Dombrowski with permission from ownership to spend as much as he wants, which doesn’t always work, you’re stuck meeting half way between playoff contention while keeping an eye on 2028. 
 

Draft more pitching and stop worrying about attrition. Maybe if you had a few quality farm arms instead of blocked positional prospects, that $ spent on Maton, Milner and other number 4 starters could’ve been used on a legitimate top of the rotation pitcher. Easier said than done but it’s not like the team is crippled financially either like the Padres for example. 
 

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