Handlebar McSkullet

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People have taken a good understanding of probability and misapplied it. The Brewers' 8 game-streak doesn't tell us much about the quality of the team, because of sample-sizes. That's certainly true. But their underlying ability level is irrelevant. What matters is the results in this season, not the theoretical results of a million Monte Carlo simulation-seasons. And an eight-game streak in THIS season, lucky or not, has a profound influence on their playoff odds and by extension, ours. Losing the number of games in the standings that we have over the last few games is a serious matter. It can't just be shrugged off, because it does seriously change our playoff odds. We are almost sure, at this point, that we are one of the two best teams in the NL. Certainly one of the three best. But being one of the three best does not guarantee that you won't lose 2 games on the Brewers and 4+ games on someone else over two months. And a month ago, this team had every reason to believe it was virtually guaranteed to be in. Who would challenge us for the Wild Card, assuming the Cards do fade away and Milwaukee can't be beat? 85% is still a pretty darn good number. What were our chances last year at this time? All it would take would be 2 good months from the Cardinals, Marlins or Phillies. The odds of one of those three teams playing wildly over their heads for two months aren't that remote. No... but the odds of them playing over their heads while we play wildly UNDER ours is improbable. Not impossible, but Improbable.

God how great was that... My favorite thread.

what is an awful lineup, for 800 Alex

Im so glad I dont care about baseball right now.

I still havent seen harden pitch.. im sure its orgasmic

that makes sense

what a selfless act it is to sacrifice his own dream of winning a superbowl for a virtual feather in his cap. i really hope this new contract assures his continued cooperation with the media and openness with the fans who have helped make him the face of the bears franchise. he's such a thoughtful person, kudos to you, brian, you steaming pile of excrement. i hope age doesn't begin to restrict your amazing ability to shed blocks. I semi agree with this post

whats wrong with lidge

i like tejada i dont like uggla i like cook

Joe Buck makes my ears bleed

man i really used to like uggla

you just gave me a horrible flashback to the poster (named AlfonsoSoriano) who used to make posts like that all the time he only did it because he thought you all thought it was funny, even though everyone was mocking him

96 MPH!!!! TAKE HIM OUT!!! STOP TRYING TO THROW OUT YOUR ARM!!!

First half observation: Dempster has improved so much, going back to starting made him stop overpitching, he hits the strike zone and keeps that back door slider.

this looks disastrous

ARAMAWALK

Just setting it up to let the whole country enjoy AN ARAMABOMB!!!!!!!!

Z is crack dem bats with his 2 seem

yeah yeah

WTF happened. I am stuck in a bar review lecture. Why was Marmol in to begin with. Why was he left in?

This and the Cleveland game from that year still has to be the most unbelievable back to back stretch in NFL history. i still owe my cousin a crap in the pants for that game...i was telling him to change the channel while saying "i'll ish my pants if they come back to win this one." we all know how it played out....kinda fitting that it was a game against the browns. I WAS AT THE BROWNS GAME... TOP MOMENT IN MY LIFE!!! STILL!!! FIRST BEARS GAME AT SOLIDER FIELD.

Nomar by a mile!!!

i love that pic cubbies

Redman can retire anytime