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They'll pick 9th, after the White Sox but before the Philles. -
Oakland leads 2-0. St. Louis wins the NL Central as Pittsburgh lost to Cincy. Detroit wins the AL Central by beating Minnesota. Boston trails 9-0 in the 7th, and the White Sox lead the Royals 4-2 in the 5th. If both those scores hold, this Cubs game is meaningless for draft position. So...win!
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The Royals clinched a playoff spot last night for the first time in 29 years, leaving just 3 MLB teams that haven't been to the playoffs in the past 10 years. Any ideas?
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I'd honestly prefer a better player in the draft at this point. I'd honestly prefer to just finish ahead of the White Sox at this point.
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Cubs win! Now tied with the White Sox, one game behind the Phillies, two ahead of Houston and Boston. Draft order: 1. Arizona 63-96 2. Houston (because they failed at drafting in 2014) 3. Texas 66-94 4. Colorado 66-93 5. Minnesota 69-91 6. Houston 70-90 7. Boston 70-90 8. Chicago White Sox 72-88 9. Chicago Cubs 72-88 10. Philadelphia 73-87 11. Cincinnati 74-86 Cubs can get no higher than 7th and no lower than 10th.
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Locally, the media just doesn't get it. They see losing, and they don't see progress.
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That's kind of misconstruing what he said, though. What he said was that margin of victory in a vacuum is useless. His specific example was scoring 30 points against a team that averages giving up 10 is more impressive than scoring 50 points against a team that averages giving up 55. He's looking more at relative scoring margin than margin of victory, and mostly ignores polls (and good on him for it).
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Cubs are the worst team in the majors at BB/K (0.3) and SB% (60% as a team!) EDIT: They do, however, have a chance to lead the NL in ISO (non-Rockies division). They're at .146 and the Brewers are at .147.
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Musial played in 3026 games. Biggio played in 2850 games (and I don't necessarily remember a year long farewell tour with gifts for Biggio).
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Carl Yastrzremski played 3308 career games, all with the Red Sox, and that's #1 overall with one team. Ripken is 3rd at 3001. Cobb played two seasons with the A's. Jones played 2499 total games. Jeter is sitting at 2745, presumably he'll get to 2748.
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Only seven players in baseball history have played their entire careers for one team and played more games than Jeter. Can anyone name them?
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Derek Jeter's contributions in last night's game were worth .610 WPA...a number that happens to be the highest in any game of his career.
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SI's running a contest for best team to never win a title: http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2014/09/26/best-college-basketball-team-no-national-championship-final?noroute=true
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The Twins asked Hughes if he wanted to pitch 1/3 of an inning over the weekend to get the incentive, and Hughes declined.
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The last time an NFL team both won and lost a game by 31 points in a three week span was...the New York Giants in 2009.
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meh, you don't get numbers retired for making crazy faces http://blogs.suburbanchicagonews.com/sportsbeacon/Singletary%20Eyes.jpg
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2-1 finish to avoid losing 90 on the year.
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Yes, despite it being mostly meaningless I'd love the Cubs to finish over .500 at home this year.
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One other thing, San Diego's recent hot streak has now guaranteed the Cubs can finish with no worse than the 11th pick, which is protected.
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Texas has won 9 of their last 10 games to pass Arizona and lose the 1st pick in the draft.
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Bears up to 5th in DVOA this week, behind Cincy, Atlanta, Seattle and Denver.
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Since the Pirates were swept Sept 1-3 in St. Louis to fall to 71-68, 1.5 games behind Atlanta and Milwaukee for the second wildcard, they've gone 15-3. In that time, the Braves have gone 3-14 to fall 10 games out.
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Cubs can still finish with a winning record at home.
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Bears finish the game with 3 rookies and a practice squad guy in the defensive backfield on the last drive.
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Really good challenge, regardless of result. They make it the game's practically over. They miss it, they lose a timeout they aren't using anyway.
