Andy
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Bryant hit .308/.400/.523 in the playoffs last year. He hit 3 home runs, one tied a game in the 9th inning, and the other 2 gave the Cubs leads in World Series elimination games. Yeah better than I thought. But his career playoff ops is .793 with 43k in 119ab. So I’ll stick with mediocre. 793 is a perfectly fine OPS and you are being completely ridiculous. We'd all like Bryant to be better. We have 3 entire seasons of evidence that suggest he is very likely to do just that the rest of this postseason. -
Lackey actually looks pretty good tonight. I'm good using him instead of Montgomery in game 3
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My favorite running subplot of that night was how secondary market ticket prices for Game 7 began skyrocketing immediately after that slam. Right then you knew the stadium would be half full of Cubs fans the following night.
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They've gone out of their way NOT to enforce that rule several times including at least once in this series last year I think. It's complete horsefeathering crap
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Oh horsefeathers off you assholes, where the hell else should he field the ball. What horse horsefeathers
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It's the old Daily Double sound from Jeopardy
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I don't know how we're going to win 4 more times with this bullpen.
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2 innings of Jansen coming, good luck guys
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Gonna need some Bryzzo heroics to win tonight I think
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Get those back and stop walking people
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Man oh man is Jose on
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I would love to hear what people killing Joe for bullpen management last night would've done instead. When half the guys he puts in can't find the plate, his options become very limited. Joe has had bad moments (most of Game 7 comes to mind, still love you Joe), but I don't think last night had any of them.
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Do the Cubs put Lackey on the NLCS roster if they're not going to start him this weekend? I'd like to have Rondon back, myself.
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Yeah, a couple of "I have no idea what Joe is doing with the pitching" comments when Hendricks batted for himself were mystifying to me. That being said, I would have pinch hit for Heyward with the bags full in the first inning. I wouldn't have started Heyward against Gio, or at minimum would've batted him 8th; you can put him in for defense later. Didn't get that lineup decision and Joe is probably lucky it didn't end up being as big a factor as it could've been.
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Ranking just on pure thrill-ride - I have to omit NLDS Game 1 last year because I missed most of it due to work and didn't experience it in the moment. 1 - Game 7. Will never be topped because of the historical stakes. If this were ranked purely on between the lines, I think last night would be #1. 2 - 2016 WS Game 5. No one is ever going to remember Chapman's 8-out save as much as they should because he's a garbage human, but in the moment it was unbelievable to watch. Bryant's HR gave me hope we could complete the comeback. The quintessential nail-biter. ("You should stop, it's a bad habit" - Len) 3 - Last night. Just a freaking weird game in all respects. Wade's 7-out save might have actually been crazier than Chapman's 8-out save because of how gassed he was. 4 - 2016 NLCS Game 1. For the most pessimistic of us, we really needed that Montero slam to excise thoughts of the NLCS going as it had in 2015. 5 - 2016 NLDS Game 4. Ranked a little lower just because it was LDS and we had another game, but man was that a comeback. 6 - Game 3 of this series. This really was a nutso series. I just ranked six amazing playoff wins (seven, really, if you added in NLDS Game 1 last year) and none of them even came from the glorious 2015 series against STL, nor our first pennant-clincher in 71 years. What an age we live in, guys.
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UNC has just created the blueprint for all future academic fraud: Just make sure the fake classes are accessible to non-athletes and there's nothing the NCAA can do. The school shouldn't even be accredited because of that and they don't get touched. If it didn't piss me off so much I would marvel at its brilliance.
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Had 'em all the way. Now, after Joe emptied the reserve tanks to get us here, the Cubs return to the NLCS to once again serve as nightmare fuel for Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers: We don't know who we're starting. Maybe it's Quintana after he threw 12 pitches on what I think would normally have been his throw day yesterday. Maybe it's Lackey, who wasn't even used in the NLDS. Who knows. Who cares. We're here. LA wanted no part of us. They're about to be reminded why.
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Shout out to Hendricks for scoreless 3rd and 4th innings after taking big haymakers in the 2nd. There is no way in hell we win this game without him doing that.
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How have we been handily outplayed in this series? Haven't you been counting? The Nationals have had two legitimately good offensive innings in this series. Two!! How are we supposed to compete with that??
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Alright, Nationals, now you've pissed us off. Prepare to face your worst nightmare (again). Enjoy your offseason.
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You got us, Dusty. owenwilsonsandbaggingsonofabitch.gif
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You have to win Game 4 to get to Game 5. To use a Cubs analogy, there's a reason Joe went to Chapman in the 7th inning of Game 5 of the World Series. You empty the clip to keep the series going and worry about what happens next when that day comes.
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If this Strasburg stuff is remotely true it's going to make eliminating them even more hilarious.
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John Ourand of Sports Business Journal said it's false and that the idea of moving the game time was never proposed.
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DeAndre Hopkins and Will Fuller just went for 41.4 points in like a quarter and a half to win my fantasy matchup by 1.8. I think Yahoo had my chances to win at 3% at one point. Never seen anything like it.
