Sammy Sofa
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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* -
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:
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Pat call! He called me while I was home for lunch today and said all the framed ones were sent out last week, so apparently if you haven't received one yet it should be showing up this week. WE'LL SEE. Though he at least is sending me an unframed personalized scorecard to make up for the delay, so good on you, Pat.
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BR's pythag has them 4 games up on where they are right now, so I don't think me largely spitballing 5-6 games better is some kind of crazy, unrealistic fantasy. And there has to be a middle ground between "clutch means nothing" and "this team is now bizarrely consistently terrible at relatively gimme situations to score a run for 3 of the last 4 seasons, while somehow also being one of the best offensive teams in baseball." That's hardly expecting them to become historically great; it's wishing they could just be realistically a bit better instead of having such prolonged stretches of dreck where it's absurd that a team this good looks so hapless for way too many innings over multiple games.
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Yes, great, we're THAT much closer to being on same page on the bafflingly controversial opinion of, "I really wish this good team I like was more consistently playing as good as we know they can be." We're ultimately realistically talking, what, 5-6 more wins at the very most than where they're at right now?
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As it has been made abundantly clear time and time again, it's a matter of people wanting the Cubs to be better and thinking they should be better. Almost nobody thinks they actually suck, but the flipside of that is that almost nobody, even with baseball being baseball, has gone into the last two seasons thinking we'd see a team this talent (with basically the same roster) struggle for so long to figure out its horsefeathering offense for way too much of the season. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2018&month=0&season1=2018&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=&age=&filter=&players=0 Third in offensive fWAR this year. Fifth last year. You're way better than most of the doomboners that show up in the game threads, but this is getting pretty close to 'maybe baseball isn't the sport for you'. Again, "THEY SHOULD BE BETTER" IS NOT "THESE GUYS SUCK." The pearl-clutching that gets unleashed over the pearl-clutching every time this team goes through a prolonged period of suck ass offense (which is a lot) is just a human centipede of wankery.
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As it has been made abundantly clear time and time again, it's a matter of people wanting the Cubs to be better and thinking they should be better. Almost nobody thinks they actually suck, but the flipside of that is that almost nobody, even with baseball being baseball, has gone into the last two seasons thinking we'd see a team this talented (with basically the same roster) struggle for so long to figure out its horsefeathering offense for way too much of the season. It's frustrating.
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Really? Predicting playoff outcomes based on how a team is playing in June? Since we still have a better record than the Dodgers and Nationals, I suppose they will bounce out even faster this year. Yes, predicting playoff outcomes is literally all we can do at this point, and crazily I'm more concerned about the Cubs' current ongoing issues with their offense and their starting pitching impacting potential playoff series later this year as opposed to how many times they've won the division in seasons past. MADNESS, I KNOW.
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Another way of looking at it is that they looked like horsefeathers against the Nats and eked out that series win, and then got handily bounced out in short order by the Dodgers, and aren't really shaping up to do much better this year.
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Nobody's talking about the Astros like they inexplicably have some kind of impact on the Cubs right now; it's very obviously wishing that the Cubs, both this year and last (with a young and largely returning team), played and saw more results like the Astros have been in the season after their WS win. There's not a person here who doesn't actually think the Cubs could and should be better.
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Careful; wouldn't want to get spoiled.
