Cubs (Boyd) vs Padres (King): Wild Card Game 1, 9:00pm CST

[ILMindState]

2 minutes ago, Stratos said:

All we have are Boyd clones lol.

It's a rotation full of #3 starters. It's really just a coin flip on who will be good or not on any given day.

[cl smooth]

Just now, ILMindState said:

2008 vs Dodgers and 2018 vs Rockies were the most pathetic off the top of my head but this has potential to be worse than 2018. 2008 the expectations were so high so it will be tough to beat that.

2018 Rockies game was the ultimate blue balls cubs playoff game. Just tease after tease. 
 

[UMFan83]

6 minutes ago, mk49 said:

Yeah, Peterson or Shota, but Shota pitched 1 inning on Sunday, so I want Peterson.  

If there’s no marine layer tomorrow I want nothing to do with Shota. I’d be ok with Peterson but despite his recent issues Holmes has the highest ceiling to give us a 6IP, 0 ER performance

[SparkMark1]

While I want the Cubs to win as badly as anyone, I'm surprisingly not as pissed off as I'd normally be.   Maybe because what has happened thus far isn't surprising given the last month of the season.

[ILMindState]

1 minute ago, cl smooth said:

2018 Rockies game was the ultimate blue balls cubs playoff game. Just tease after tease. 
 

I was at that game and remember being furious that Gore didn't try to sell being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. 

[UMFan83]

Going to be hilarious when they stretch out King too far to try to get a no hitter and then he doesn’t have his best stuff and gets lit up by the Brewers. Double whammy

[javy knows my name]

1 minute ago, cl smooth said:

2018 Rockies game was the ultimate blue balls cubs playoff game. Just tease after tease. 
 

I went to the Brewers 163 and then that game back to back. Absolutely brutal time to be a fan

[ILMindState]

3 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Don’t the Padres want their most reliable starter to be fresh for the NLDS?

That's what I'm saying. A no hitter would be sexy and all but isn't going to help you get past Milwaukee. They should take him out after this inning and keep him fresh.

[UMFan83]

You can cancel the postgame show 

[Brian707]

2 minutes ago, ILMindState said:

That's what I'm saying. A no hitter would be sexy and all but isn't going to help you get past Milwaukee. They should take him out after this inning and keep him fresh.

King can pitch game 2 and 5 on normal rest. 

[cl smooth]

2 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

You can cancel the postgame show 

 

[We Got The Whole 9]

1 minute ago, cl smooth said:

2018 Rockies game was the ultimate blue balls cubs playoff game. Just tease after tease. 
 

98 vs the Braves we scored 4 runs in 3 games after missing the playoffs for a decade. That was brutal. 07 and 08 were littered with them. 15 and 17 NLCS had some disappearing acts. 2020 vs Marlins we scored once in 2 games. 

 

These games are the worst. 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

2 minutes ago, cl smooth said:

 

i cannot imagine the individual who would go out of their way to listen to that

[cl smooth]

Nico has at least one hit in all of his playoff game appearances (9). One shy of Sandberg’s 10. 

[gflore34]

King won’t have near this stuff against the Brewers. He’ll, of course, get smoked.

[UMFan83]

When Carson Kelly is losing challenges you know it’s not your night 

[Stratos]

Carson you're not having your best game.

[mk49]

Carson sucks at throwing to 2B, pretty much all year.

[javy knows my name]

Nice effort

[ILMindState]

This series is about to make a bad all timer list

[UMFan83]

“if Tatis hit like he did in the second half all year he’d be in the MVP consideration”

Tatis vs PCA

[Gjfificifjdej]

People will rightfully be upset but its not Boyd or anyone else on the mound tonight’s fault that their agent convinced an MLB team to give them a contract. 

[Stratos]

Counsell seems to be in a bad mood

[Gjfificifjdej]

22 minutes ago, ILMindState said:

It's a rotation full of #3 starters. It's really just a coin flip on who will be good or not on any given day.

#3 in the PCL maybe lol. 

[UMFan83]

This is the 60th Cubs playoff game I’ve watched in my life (dont really remember 89 so 98 is when I started). I think this is the worst of them all