Sammy Sofa
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All that's missing are a visitors counter and some links to a web ring.
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Dude who looks like that uncle you dread seeing at family gatherings turns out to be that uncle you dread seeing at family gatherings.
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https://www.clippituser.tv/c/qvkbmy
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He kept calling even after I left 2 messages with my email address expressly saying he could just email me if he preferred. Dude's old timey; just look at that website!
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I'll bet a lot of my meatball-y perception is in having gotten rid of cable since last season. Before I'd usually just have random games on in the background, and that would at least lead to things, like, "oh, I wonder how so and so is doing this year," or, "how does this team usually look in this category." Now more than ever I am just not really paying attention to other teams at all outside of game scores and random things like dongs, so it's really built up that typical "ONLY MY TEAM" response even more than usual. -
I'll put it this way: it wouldn't surprise me at all if after last night they only score 9 more runs total over the next 5 games. It also wouldn't surprise me if they managed to win 3 of those 5 while doing that. It also wouldn't surprise me if they lost all 5 of those games. This is a weird horsefeathering team.
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But like he said, just heaving out W-L stretches, of any sample size, like that is proof that they will of course be good or great is just as flimsy as pointing to a stretch and saying that that's proof that they will collapse (which, again, nobody is actually saying except r_mack). Everyone gets that teams fluctuate between hot and cold streaks; for me, it's worrisome that even when it's on, the team's offense has some bizarre shortcomings that they can't shake off (weirdly incompetent with what should be relatively easy run situations, the strange lack of home run power, etc.). It just seems like it gets immediately dismissed that offensively the Cubs are seemingly more lopsided than a "regular" streaky good team would be. That sounds stupidly generalized and meatball-y, but I really don't know how else to put it; they seem especially prone to feast or famine, but the feast part of it is at a relatively micro level where their offense explodes for 1-2 games and then REALLY scales back for multiple games, even if they do keep winning. Maybe it is all in my head, but it just seems off that a team that IS good has gone SO cold SO many times, even in a game where the best teams have fallow periods. And I am super paranoid about the starting pitching, too.
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Yes and no. It is a color copy of the scorecard, but printed on a regular old sheet of legal paper. Framed seems the way to go, then Yeah, this is a very nice frame, but for the second one I'm just getting a cheap one at Michael's. And though it's not card stock, it does look great under glass.
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So are we further out this year going into the second half? No; the Cubs were in a worse spot going into the ASB last year. Something like 6 back, I think. Though, hey; they've still got time to match that.
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I was definitely bracing myself to hear broken glass sliding around when I picked it up off the floor outside my front door.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but homeboy looks like he might only be slightly better at best than Willson at pitch framing. Woof. What the hell do they think the upside would be for the Cubs? "Hey, this guy is a year older, is a FA sooner and has hit a handful more home runs than the guy you have. And be sure to toss in Happ, too."
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Yeah, honestly, it looks better than what I was expecting. I'm glad I'm getting my own scorecard now.
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MAYBE IT'LL BE TONIGHT:
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Guys, everything is going to be OK. The season is saved:
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Fangraphs wrote about it today https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/jon-lesters-high-wire-act/ Don'tlookathisxFIPDon'tlookathisxFIPDon'tlookathisxFIPDon'tlookathisxFIPDon'tlookathisxFIPDon'tlookathisxFIP *Looks*
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Once we receive our framed and signed Game 7 scorecards, this damned curse will be lifted. Or the Cubs are doomed until Trump is out of office. One of the two.
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2018 Game Thread Starters
Sammy Sofa replied to Sammy Sofa's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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Holy horsefeathers; Colvin is alive and hitting .286 .340 .405 .745 in AA this year.
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He just talked about griping about Bryant's long slump, which most people here have at some point or another (or at least made fun of it/him) vs. some chumps in Cincinnati HATING Joey Votto and preferring baseball freakshow Billy Hamilton instead. Granted, maybe Derwood actually thinks Bryant is a bum and Tyler Colvin is his favorite player....but I doubt it.
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Man, I'm all for a good Derwood moment, but that's more than a bit of a stretch.
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People are going to start asking where Bryant is, and Joe's just gonna go, "Kris Bryant?!? Who's that?!?" and then run out of the room.
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It went a little something....like this:
