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    The minimal effort is greatly appreciated.
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    RIP this dude's pro football career.
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    The Cubs' FO trying to make their Monster Teams work every year:
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    Basically 85% of any given population is the projected ideal percentage to be able to hit, with some degree of confidence, a version of herd immunity thanks to vaccination. So be that business, school, town, state, county, country, etc., etc.; just think that 85% is the ideal. Though anything above 70% is pretty great, and once you get above 75% you're likely going to be set. 85% is the ballpark "magic number" to feel really good about things being about as close as you can get to totally under control without actually hitting 100%.
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    Doesn't bother me. I feel like it's kind of the ultimate kick to the dick to Theo and co.'s terrible offensive approach, which is what I yearn for at all times now as I slowly and uselessly creep towards death.
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    The shift is fine, and only seems terrible because the Cubs are the biggest mark-ass shift suckers around.
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    I thought we were applauding the "bats bats bats" drafting strategy since pitchers are hard to develop and are always hurt? Yeah, in terms of wasting resources to try and develop a bunch of homegrown starting pitchers; that was, rightly, very "horsefeathers pitchers." But their intention was never to essentially develop NO pitchers, starters or relievers, which is just barely what didn't happen.
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    Almost forgot how the Cubs managed to develop almost no pitchers of note for the better part of a decade. That sure kicked the legs out of everything.
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    Sure. As with the good stuff, it's a combo. There's plenty of bad luck, but there's also been plenty of bad decisions, too.
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    What happens if the Astros draft Bryant instead of Appel. The fact that the brain geniuses down in Houston passed on him is further evidence that this stuff is hard, no? Or, again, that so much of it comes down to luck. And that's not inherently a bad thing in and of itself. But it makes the, "these guys are fuggin' baseball GENIUSES," hype all the more hollow and frustrating when things go downhill so fast after years of sucking. Personally, I think it's more accurate to say it was a smart enough FO who got really lucky.
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    What happens if the Astros draft Bryant instead of Appel. No World Series...but I'm probably, bizarrely, still a big fan of baseball. Life is horsefeathering weird and dumb.
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    I kinda like that theory, though I'd apply the same critical eye to the FO and the coaching, too. I think everyone got really fat and happy and complacent after the WS win. We joked about the hangover talk, but that horsefeathers clearly lasted way too long in a lot of different ways.
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    They got more lucky than anything else trying a brute force method of team building and player development that, yes, gave us that vaunted WS...but sandwiched it with a bunch of bull horsefeathers*. It's almost kind of beautiful. I get to see the Cubs win a WS, but my interest in the team, and baseball as a whole, has almost been annihilated by everything that comes since (and, honestly, the years leading up to it, too). Stupid moneky's paw. *Except for 2015. 2015 was a ton of fun. But my memories of 2017 and 2018 are more frustration than anything else. They just felt like paper tigers way too often.
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    Would they be better currently? Yes. Would they have played better? Also probably yes. Would they all have Covid? Maybe. Well, at least then they'd have an actual excuse. The way you can tell things are REALLY bad is the Cubs are run by a GM who wasn't smart enough to jump ship like his bro did.
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    [expletive]. I Cubbed this so hard already.
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    I have a hot take on this: It's not they're free-swingers, it's that they're free-swingers trying not to swing and ending up swinging at the wrong pitches. Going into this game they were tied with the Padres with the lowest swing percent at 42.7. They were also the 4th lowest contact percentage. Seems like they aren't swinging and when they do swing, it's terrible. Working the count is great and taking pitches and making pitchers work is great in theory, but I don't think this team has the talent to do it and needs to actually be a little more free-swinging, and that this has been a part of the issue for the past few years. Exactly. Schwarber was kind of the personification of that for me; this team hasn't had an issue with finding or developing guys to be willing to take plenty of pitches...but that patience too often translated to absolutely garbage contact over the last few years.
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    I love to say it!
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