Sammy Sofa
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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. -
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.
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This is basically like saying an older sibling is automatically the better one just because they showed up first. The Astros were a wild card team in 2015, just like us. So what? All you dumped out there was an arbitrary list of past team accomplishments that the Cubs technically hit first that the Astros are trending like it'll be pretty easy for them to match or surpass.
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This is basically like saying an older sibling is automatically the better one just because they showed up first.
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Meanwhile those dumbass Astros went out got Verlander and Cole like a bunch of suckers. I'll bet those guys are REALLY stinking it up right now.
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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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Duane Underwood to make MLB debut
Sammy Sofa replied to Post Count Padder's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Well, that was an intriguing ball 1 to Zobrist.
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Man, it's too bad Joe was forbidden from using this Randy Rosario guy earlier in the game. Poor Joe. POOR JOE.
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But remember; people are spoiled for wanting the young Cubs to be more like the Astros post-2016. What a bunch of greedy, greedy slobs.
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It's a shame this isn't happening at Wrigley. Come on, Winky! Grand slam to cap it off.
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Hahahahah!
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Uh, is the rest of the bullpen dead or something? Why is Strop still in there?
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Holy horsefeathers; there's still no outs.
