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  1. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    I love to say it!
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  8. Sammy Sofa
    More like Schlock Pederass. Wait, he did what? Eh....I stand by it.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    It's kind of awesomely insane and terrifying they managed to squeak out a crazy comedback WS win despite this only slightly changing pack of miscreants.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    So the Cubs have apparently won some games, but in the two I've watched they've had a total of, like, 2 hits, so fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    How is the thread title not something, like, "For once the Devil DIDN'T go down to Georgia."
  12. Sammy Sofa
    I'm gonna watch tomorrow, so they will lose horrendously.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    horsefeathering losers played well because it was a beautiful Saturday and they knew nobody was wasting their time watching.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    So you're saying we should expect more sac flies The wind added by the Cubs' routine torrent of swinging strikeouts might pump that horsefeathers up to hurricane force.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Based on the sample size of the few times I have payed attention to the Cubs facing their bullpen over the last 3+-ish years, I can safely say the Pirates manage to trot out a collection of tricky pitchers and dominant fireballers season after season.
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    [expletive], I am so far not regretting not watching a second of the Cubs at all last year. This horsefeathering sucks.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Coincidentally, it's also tinyface with the fly sac.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Willson's got a sweet haircut this year.
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    Yeah, I know 2020 was a sham season, but Baez still played 59 games, and that line of his they just showed kinda made me gasp/snort. Jesus.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, he didn't. They thought he did? I'm confused.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    I completely forgot he had COVID.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Well, alright then. Withdrawn!
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