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Of course I'm bias but, does it sound as if the ESPN staff is creaming in their pants for the Rockies?

that's not how regression to the mean works I’ll allow it.gif Perhaps, saying the hitters who got collectivey hot will go collectively cold is a bit much, I agree. By the way how does regression to the mean work?

Should the Cubs manage to win perhaps, playing the Brewers again isn't the worst outcome. Yelich' hitting .400, .536, .880, 1.416 over the last 28 games, .370, .508, .804, 1.313, maybe he's that good however, its more probable there's going to be a large regression to the mean. Case in point, Daniel Murphy, 2015, NLCS, hottest hitter in history goes 3 - 20 in the WS. Haven't looked it up because Yelich really stands out but, I suspect there's other Brewer hitters due for a regression to the mean as well. It's going to happen at some point. Given the Cubs on again, off again offense there's also a chance it'll click for a series of course, that means it'll probably go back into the tank for the NLCS.

Keeping up with the theme of 2018 season I expect a 11-2 Cubs win or a = 2> - 1 Cubs loss with Bote getting their first hit in the 6th.

im actually not meaning to criticize the cubs because 95 wins is like ... what can you even say? I would have taken that with a healthy team. It's just the constant "well here's the thing, the cubs are good and the brewers are actually bad. ok they're not bad but they aren't good. ok they're good now but they're not real good and we're better. ok actually now we got 2 hit at home and lost the division OK NOW THEY"RE BETTER THAN WE ARE SORRY GUYS" that's obnoxious and wrong. i mean a pretty good player became prime barry bonds for the past month what the hell can we do Happens all the time in baseball, mistake is counting on it to happen again, Yelich' a very good baseball player. However, expecting him to keep up this recent pace is far fetched. Maybe he is this good but, there's a better chance he's not.

that's super good looking at 2019, especially if they sign harper or machado. unfortunately it does us no good right now despite the fact that everyone said the same horsefeathers last year (oh we'll just sign a starter and a bullpen guy and then we'll get heyward fixed and we're all good.) Bryant didn't need any fixing ala Heyward, he was also on his way to a damn good season until he got hit in the head.

For one Kris Bryant has been a shadow of himself, still playing hurt, that alone made a big difference. As Brewer fan you want to count on that happening again along with Cain and Aguilar playing out of their minds next season? Both will regress next season.

it's pretty clear the brewers are never losing again They’re going on a 2007 Rockies run. And like Colorado they'll get stomped in the WS.

it's pretty clear the brewers are never losing again Let have their fun, should they make the WS don't think they'll have much of a chance against the AL.

Don't have a chance in hell tomorrow Dodgers' pitching >>>>>>> Brewers pitching along with the Cubs going in their patented offensive slide.

Have we not seen this trend all season - come off a series scoring quite a few run only to go into an offensive funk?

For certain, ball game over.

Looks like the Brewers are getting the weak, feeble, make a little league pitcher look like Clayton Kershaw (regular season version) Cubs offense today. Lucky them.

What night was it that they took the lead in the 8th owhen Norris tried to pick Moose off of first and a run scored from 3rd after the throw hit Moose? That was Monday. Thames was on third after the Martinez horsefeathers up. The VBs have a [expletive] horse show up their ass this week. For whatever reason, call it karma, that horsefeathers has a nasty way of evening out over the course of season. Seems to usually catch up to a team in the playoffs.

Although I'm not expecting much in the playoffs, given this fucked up season, I wouldn't be surprised if that happened. We've seen good teams struggle through the regular season only to put it together in the post season.

Don't the Cubs have some kind of reverse polarity with the opponent' aces? They'll crush the ace but, make mediocre to bad pitchers look like aces?

This season some things went right but, a whole horsefeathers-ton of things went wrong, I'm not expecting much of them in the playoffs. But, when you consider the whole lot of things that went wrong and the Cubs may still end up with the best record in the NL it's remarkable. Let's remove the Brewers' best player, number 1 or 2 starter, along with their closer and see how they fare.

Hell, I can't wait for next year; I'm tired of this broken down mess of a season, and I'm thinking it's gonna get a bug up the FO's butt to go nuts in this offseason. No screwing around with cutesy project players or wack-ass platoons. Me too, this under-performance, bad luck, injury bs seems cyclic to me, it's going to be fun watching the Cubs blow away the NL Central while the Brewers deal with bad luck, injuries, under-performing players and elevated expectations.

Shouldn't we see some sustained good play from him? That's the disappointing part, all we've seen is below average to bad, nothing improving from game to game.

Kreutz is a GD brain dead goon. Every QB "hangs their head" after an incompletion. It is the universal pose of a QB listening to the next play call on his headset. Body language nonsense is not the issue here. I don't give a horsefeathers what it is, they had a chance to bury both these teams and it didn't happen because of Trubisky' ineptitude.

Adding to the frustration is we've seen noteworthy or big things from some of the QB's taken after Mitch namely, Mahomes and Watson, while seeing the continued poor play of Mitch. I remember writing about the Packers holding on all of their TD passes to which someone replied those types of excuses are made by fans of loser teams. Giving Mitch a pass because of a new HC, scheme, etc. is along the same lines, upon seeing some of the highlights, he missed plenty of easy throws - any QB should hit those regardless of scheme, etc. Yeah this is what bothered me. OK he's learning a scheme, he's not making all the right reads, maybe he's trying to force some throws into coverage because of that. I guess that is ok (for now), but when he's underthrowing WRs on deep balls, throwing a dump off pass to his RB that sails 3 feet over his head, underthrowing the ball into double coverage, etc its concerning. By complete chance I happened to end up watching this game sitting next to a former Bear from the early 2000's, would rather not mention who, but he was picking apart Trubisky pretty harshly, even on throws he made. Not saying he's the definitive expert on QB play watching a TV broadcast, but he certainly knows more than I do about this stuff and he confirmed a lot of the things I thought I was seeing. I'm not "giving up" on Trubisky at all and the inexperience excuse still holds a little bit but we need to see improvements pretty quickly. Kreutz didn't pull any punches on the Score, saying he's seen some of the same troublesome things out of Trubisky that he saw of Cutler. Hanging his head after an incompletion, letting it effect his play. Sports is great in that one can atone for their errors almost immediately. I tell the kids I coach - flush it, there's next play to make good on.

The part that annoyed me about this throw is that he saw it, then shuffled his feet, and then threw it with bad footwork. He didn't pull the trigger right away. He's too tentative. I'd rather he be aggressive, playing tentative almost always results in something bad. Errors will happen, if they do occur, a coach would ok with those of commission not omission.

If this team isn't good enough to beat the second-best team in the division or to blow out a completely brutal team like the Raiders, then it isn't ready to compete for more than a thin shot at a wild-card and a one-and-out. And if it's not ready to do that now, then it probably won't ever be, because more first-round picks aren't walking through that door. They are in win-now mode and need to show more, quickly. Adding to the frustration is we've seen noteworthy or big things from some of the QB's taken after Mitch namely, Mahomes and Watson, while seeing the continued poor play of Mitch. I remember writing about the Packers holding on all of their TD passes to which someone replied those types of excuses are made by fans of loser teams. Giving Mitch a pass because of a new HC, scheme, etc. is along the same lines, upon seeing some of the highlights, he missed plenty of easy throws - any QB should hit those regardless of scheme, etc.

Caught the later half of the third quarter and all of the fourth quarter on the drive home from my Monday night lax game, heard Roquan Smith' name quite a few times on defense. I knew he was the correct pick for the Bears, he's going to be a monster, him Mack, Hicks, Floyd, the Bears defense is going to be scary. Offense? Bueller? Bueller?

Depends on what time you're planning to get to Soldier. With parts of Lake Shore under construction, combining potential Bears and rush hour traffic, I'd imagine it would be a nightmare to ride in an uber as opposed to taking the El to Roosevelt and walking from there. Yep, right now I'm leaning toward taking the yellow line in skokie to the red line and taking that to roosevelt. Hope to be ready to leave around 5:30. Then maybe an uber home Soldier Field Express may be an option - https://www.transitchicago.com/bus/128/