Sammy Sofa

horsefeathers you, Rockies, for making Drinky Joe's madness look good.

Being professional pitchers with 2000 innings on their arms is a pretty good argument for perpetually looking for reasons to be concerned about them. No, no; you see, the Rockies home runs don't count because it's Coors (which I guess means that the measly 3 home runs the Cubs also have hit here so far in this series don't count, too. Sorry, Baez!).

Yeah, it was a real moral victory or something. I think they just call it a victory when you win. The Cubs starting pitchers are like jazz; you really have to look at what's in between all of the runs they give up in their brief starts to truly get it.

Yeah, it was a real moral victory or something.

#thatsso2018cub

Maddon is a dildo.

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The horsefeathers was Rizzo looking for on the first two pitches.

That's not a serious question, right?

I too look forward to the time in the indeterminate future when big FA signing Yu Darvish is able to pitch beyond the 4th inning.

Good gif themes are too good for these humps.

Shoulda got giant manbaby Verlander instead.

It's kind of a minor miracle they didn't try to get Zobrist to take his AB's blindfolded or some horsefeathers.

Oh, sweet; another established good player they spend a bunch on and then decide they need to "fix."

Really not sure how you're turning, "I enjoy my favorite baseball team more when they're consistently good and would prefer for them to be like that sooner rather than later" into a "narrow window" for enjoying said baseball team. Personally, I think to act like the Cubs didn't play long, LONG stretches of frustrating baseball last year is just flat out denial. Thinking that doesn't somehow negate the end result or even mean someone is saying it was all a disappointment; like, how can anyone disagree with the idea that it would be more enjoyable to see the Cubs play better than they are right now, or for basically the whole first half last year? Relax; we don't need our hands held in explaining why the Cubs are actually a good baseball team who should be playing better; that's why we're sulking in the first place.

Full stop. You guys keep trying to make it sound like everyone who isn't on the same page as you is like that r_mack or whatever the horsefeathers guy and just think they're terrible and destined to fail. Most of us are just annoyed that a team that SHOULD be a lot better keeps finding so many different ways to have these long stretches of not being consistently awesome (or worse). We all know the Cubs easily could and should be better, but some of us would rather vent than acting like it's not frustrating as hell when they rack up too many dumb losses, or things stack up like the starting rotation looking like complete butt. Even amazing MLB teams will lose 2+ months’ worth of games. Many of them will be very dumb and frustrating losses. Baseball is so great because you don’t have to retreat to the angrydome after every frustrating thing that happens because these things largely come out in the wash. The Cubs aren’t even going through a terrible stretch either, assuming no comeback they’ll be 9-9 with only 7 games at home and most of the games played in weather that’s barely football weather. Baseball gives you freedom from fearing doom around every corner, be liberated by it! OK? Again, it's like you and Cubswin act like you have to lecture the rest of us as to how baseball works when we're venting in the game threads over the course of a pretty mundane start to the season. We get it; almost everyone here thinks the Cubs have an awesome team. With that comes elevated hopes and expectations that make starts like this, while obviously likely not disastrous, really horsefeathering annoying. Like 17 pointed out, that everything comes out in the wash doesn't make actually following/watching long stretches of mediocre baseball any more enjoyable.

Full stop. You guys keep trying to make it sound like everyone who isn't on the same page as you is like that r_mack or whatever the horsefeathers guy and just think they're terrible and destined to fail. Most of us are just annoyed that a team that SHOULD be a lot better keeps finding so many different ways to have these long stretches of not being consistently awesome (or worse). We all know the Cubs easily could and should be better, but some of us would rather vent than acting like it's not frustrating as hell when they rack up too many dumb losses, or things stack up like the starting rotation looking like complete butt.

"fairly certainly" just seems very generous to me, especially if you're talking about mid 90s wins. and it's not just the results. the cubs invested a crazy amount of resources into this rotation, and there are valid concerns. I guess my issue is what are the valid concerns you can point to that have you so worried other than bad results? Like what do you think is leading to it that’s concerning because “stuff” wise everyone seems about where they have been for their career and that should give us some certainty they will pitch close to the good to great pitchers they’ve always been over thinking things from some early horsefeathers starts is what they are now (which they’re going to have horsefeathers starts). Dumb things happen in baseball with enough regularity that getting off to a shitty start wouldn't make an ultimately disappointing end result all that much more surprising than how they managed to turn it around last year.

Oh lord.

None of those hits had anything to do with Coors The hits were all legit but Coors seemed to horsefeathers with his pitch selection and effectiveness tonight. He threw a ton of cutters and no curveballs If only they could figure out which stadium DOESN'T horsefeathers with his pitching. And then leave him there.

Phew, Joe really playing the master strategist waiting to try that. What a genius!

OH, FINALLY. Glad you waited until they were down 3, you shoe polish hair-looking dolt.

Huh? Lester has been worth over 12 WAR in his first 3 seasons, including putting up the 3rd best season of his career by WAR here, Lackey for all the hate was a 3 WAR pitcher in 2016, Hammel helped get us Russell and was solid for the 2 years after he signed back, Feldman put up a 2 WAR season the year he was signed and flipped for Jake/Strop, Darvish should be mostly fine. This is an odd take. Lester's done, don't care about the other zilches, Darvish is trash. Your face is an odd take.

Did Duke declare this guy was gonna win the Cy Young or something?