Irrelevant Dude
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Well, that is one way to spin it, but tickets were still selling largely under face value on the secondary market. I don't think many people are making money on regular season tickets, especially after StubHub fees are accounted for.
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After seeing may of the Cubs bats go cold in the playoffs, I started wondering whether there are any statistics that measure consistency in performance. It sure seems that players like Rizzo and Bryant have had huge up and down swings throughout the season. I would imagine that most players follow a similar pattern, but are there any stats that would measure the variance in a player's performance over the course of seasons? In other words, can we identify a guy whose rate stats were very stable over the entire season versus someone who fluctuated up and down to arrive at the same result? I don't know how much value, if any, there would be in such a measurement, since there are many other factors like the park, pitcher, weather, etc. that could impact results. I am really just curious whether anything exists, or has been attempted, to measure hitter consistency.
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10/21 Mets (Matz) @ Cubs (Hammel) 7:07 pm TBS
Irrelevant Dude replied to soccer10k's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Nice outing Hammel.you better not be back on this team next year. -
This is just playoff baseball I guess. The Cubs could sign all the David Price's in the world and have the best starting staff in baseball and could lose again in the same way next year. There isn't anything that can be said like "If we just had Player X, then things would be different." It is a crap shoot in the playoffs and it just so happens that the Cubs are suddenly playing very poor baseball after an extended period of great baseball. Whatever happens tomorrow and the rest of this series... As long as this team can consistently get to the postseason, chances are they will eventually break through.
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If the end result is the same, I'm not sure it really matters. In many ways, I could accept a 4 game sweep where everything went wrong more easily than I could a heartbreaking Game 7 loss.
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Which may be in the wee hours of the morning if the forecast for rain holds true.
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In a very small sample size, Matz's splits are nearly identical vs. Right/Left. Does Schwarber start tomorrow?
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Never fear guys, if we get 2 runners on... LaStella!
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The Cubs' problems have been well beyond the strike zone, but the strike zone has contributed to them. That isn't an excuse and it is on them to make adjustments, but the zone has been bad nonetheless.
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Does Maddon have it in him to go off on the umpiring in the postgame conference? It won't accomplish anything, but it sure seems like his frustration has been growing throughout the series. It definitely has become clear that any extension of the zone, consistent or not, is a big disadvantage for the Cubs hitters and their patient approach.
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You are forgetting the inevitable double switch where he replaces Baez in the field.
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Gotta give the crowd credit. They had every reason to go silent there, but they are still making some noise.
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This is getting embarrassing
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I went back and watched the Wright double and slide into 2B n slow motion. I couldn't tell for sure whether the tag got him before his spikes hit the bag, but that's still a play that needs to be challenged.
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Especially with the extra challenge in the postseason.
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He sure looked out on that last shot.
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How was that a close play at 2nd?
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I think if I could just have Schwarber lead off every inning with 2 outs and nobody on, I would take that right now.
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Another quick 1-2-3 through the middle of the order.
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How many of those pitches do you expect him to block? One was bound to get past eventually.
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Ridiculous
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The Cubs defensive positioning had been awful.
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Alright Javy. How about a leadoff baserunner?
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We survived the Clayton Richard inning. That has to count for something.
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Too early for the secret weapon.
