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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Pretty much the difference between these teams is that STL can crap out ace starters and relievers whenever needed and we have to desperately sign anyone in sight and pray to God they don't horsefeathering suck. AKA the Cubs suck at drafting pitchers and got WAY too horsefeathering cute thinking they could build a bullpen mostly out of soft-tossing, oft-injured mutants and inexplicably bucking the trend of anchoring it with hard throwers like seemingly EVERYONE ELSE HAS BEEN DOING.
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    Man, I love the PTR meme more than anyone, but I will never believe ever that the FO was suddenly broadsided by out of nowhere financial restrictions by the Ricketts. Yeah, the owners are lame as horsefeathers, but this is largely a repeat of the kind of horsefeathers bad spending Epstein got bogged down by in Boston. I believe he got the rug pulled on him, no way he spent what he did in the offseason going in to 2018 if he knew it would keep us out of last offseasons market entirely. And weren’t the owners in Boston behind some of those big deals? Crawford I think? They hired like a PR firm to dictate targets that would be popular or something. So the take now is that under two different sets of owners Epstein has been ambushed/bamboozled financially? That's some astonishing bad luck. Personally, I think he likes to smell his own farts, figured the team constructed largely as is would be enough, and scared himself off of spending more by his terrible spending from the previous offseason. He knows he's pretty bad at this big FA thing more often than is comfortable.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    I'd say this whole game was, given that this is apparently Joe's managing approach now:
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    Both signing Kimbrel and trading for Castellanos were the type of moves this galaxy-brained FO should have done in their sleep BEFORE THE horsefeathering SEASON STARTED. Like, who could have possibly predicted the terrible bullpen and the terrible OF would be areas of need? GEE, IT'S A REAL PUZZLER. Theo wanted both (obviously). Those are on PTR Man, I love the PTR meme more than anyone, but I will never believe ever that the FO was suddenly broadsided by out of nowhere financial restrictions by the Ricketts. Yeah, the owners are lame as horsefeathers, but this is largely a repeat of the kind of horsefeathers bad spending Epstein got bogged down by in Boston.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Assuming health I think he’ll be fine, not lock down like the past but good enough. He’s still throwing 96+ and has the breaker. Yup. If they had just signed him on a normal horsefeathering schedule he probably would have been fine, even if it was just the version of Kimbrel through most of the 2018 season.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Both signing Kimbrel and trading for Castellanos were the type of moves this galaxy-brained FO should have done in their sleep BEFORE THE horsefeathering SEASON STARTED. Like, who could have possibly predicted the terrible bullpen and the terrible OF would be areas of need? GEE, IT'S A REAL PUZZLER.
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    In the sense that umps are terrible and pretty much every team has been getting screwed over by their terrible calls, yes. If you mean "actively" as in the umps inexplicably have some sort of reason to call the Cubs even worse than usual, then what the hell, dude. That's bonkers.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Cubs' current playoff status:
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Wrigleyville. horsefeathers....I'm still only in Wrigleyville...
  11. Sammy Sofa
    I've settled into this mode with my fandom:
  12. Sammy Sofa
    For anyone curious:
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Cubs' playoff chances current status:
  14. Sammy Sofa
    DOES ANYONE WATCHING THE CUBS REMEMBER LAUGHTER?!?
  15. Sammy Sofa
    It is on Fox, but it starts at 6:15.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    He had a nice road trip but he’s gone ice cold since getting home and he’s a huge liability in the lineup with he’s slumping. Happ will at least take walks and provide a power threat. You're only right about Happ having more power right now; Heyward still has a .385 OBP over the last week, so the whole "he doesn't walk" thing is weird. Odds are both guys give you pretty much the same value with sustained playing time, so I have no problem playing them based on matchups.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    In case soccer10k makes good on his pledge to not show up for the next few games, here's the order of the backup starters: philosophizer75 weis21 Brian707
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    Good news! It's actually your turn to start the game thread!
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Or the Cubs pass up the Cardinals but also get passed up by Milwaukee for the division. Milwaukee is in a really good spot Unless they moved the city recently, that's not true at all.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Division or bust, dammit. I love WC games only when my team isn't playing in one.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I don't know what this means considering how incredibly different these two QBs are, but my god it will be a miracle if Mitchell somehow gets to 24 touchdowns this year. it was meant to mean that Eli was hugely disappointing his first 3 years in the fact that he was just...mediocre. Now, Eli won a couple of Super Bowls-some would eve say despite the fact his team was quarterbacked by Eli Manning. He does have that above Mitchell. But in the end, my only real point is if you think Eli is somehow an improvement over Trubisky at this stage of Mannings career, you're nuts. Or stupid. Or perhaps, full of gumbers pee balls. Magnificent.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    You're a real, "the glass is half-full/pee is stored in the balls"-kind of fella, and it's great.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Trust me, the spelling is the very least of it.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    There is SO MUCH to unpack here.
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