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Look at the pitching match-ups for games 3 & 4 and that should calm any panic. The Cubs do not have the pitching advantage in game 3 give me a blister or give me death

Look at the pitching match-ups for games 3 & 4 and that should calm any panic. where is this horsefeathers coming from? You realize rich hill was better than Jake this year, right? (3.8 WAR, same as arrieta, in 90 FEWER INNINGS.)

Regardless, he's making one more start. And the point is: If he is making that start, I'd rather he be doing it on short rest. And even still, the Dodgers with someone else on the mound don't scare me. What is your deal tonight? TBH it just felt good to vent after a game that played out worst-case imo. here's my deal and then i'll move because i want to send normal-jake some vibes and hope he turns back into god-mode jake. to maintain HFA we needed to beat the best pitcher on the planet. We needed to either A.) score runs B.) hold their offense down C.) some combo of both. We actually got the pitching we needed but we wasted it. And we wasted Kershaw's short-rest start because we only managed to get him to 84 pitches. I'd feel better if we had gotten the pitch count up and gotten him out earlier. As it is the first four innings shouldn't even count against him, he'll throw more pitches than that warming up during game 5 (or 6 whatever.) AND they went to Jansen for a two-inning save, which you'd think would play into our favor for future games considering they taxed his ass in the NLDS and used him up in Game 5 except we only got him to throw like 18 pitches in two innings. After a playoff loss I like to try and take away some silver linings and we got basically none of them (except the pitching, i like that outside of Gonzalez' close your eyes and swing single off chapman in game 1 we've really kept them off the board.) there now im back on board go cobs

plz be good jake http://i.imgur.com/ZCQDDDh.jpg?1

If it was another guy that would make me more confident. Like I said if he goes on short rest I'll feel better going into that game than I did coming into this one, but it's striking seeing people's opinions about him "Oh it's playoff Kershaw we're going to get him." *we don't get him* "Well we almost got him. (Editors note 7 innings of two hit ball on just 84 pitches) "Ok but we'all get him next time because it's gonna be hot outside"

I'm not sure where all this wishful thinking re: Kershaw has come from lately. People were sure all day today and even during the game we were going to get to him and he only needed 84pitches to get through 7 shutout innings. I would be more enthused to face him on three days rest than five days rest but I can't imagine feeling good about it considering what we just saw.

I'm not sure if I should be offended or proud that you confused me and goony somehow

If you didn't care how your posts are treated you wouldn't ask your posts to not be treated in a certain way. Besides, your tea leaves probably had our pre-ASB slump never ending, and ultimately fighting the Brewers for 5th place. But FWIW, Kyle and Fan are not at all alike. Fan represents every reactionary fan with a hair social media trigger who calms down as quickly as he exploded. And whether or not he 'ruins the game thread experience' of his fellow posters, he'd never willfully drag them into his well of despair, which he probabaly vacates following the game. Kyle, on the other hand, enjoys his well, and if it were up to him, he'd suck us all down with him and feast upon our souls. This is really fun because I just realized most of you probably don't realize who I am

I'd buy into this, except if the plane started going down, I know Javy would take the wheel and land it safely. He'd probably do a few cool tricks with it first, though. And then say something adorable that would be recorded by the black box

as long as we make sure theo is on a different plane we'll be ok in the longrun

i feel like bryant got completely screwed over on (at least) 2 at bats tonight. Id really like to have those two at bats over. I know that's what you get when you face a guy like kershaw but he and dex are the two guys i felt most comfortable with against kershaw and getting 25 percent of their at bats messed with by a weird ump is pretty upsetting.

i know this is fun for you, being able to talk nonsense with everyone on your side because im being *that guy* but you are really not doing well at this I'm just shamelessly trying to buy a new pair of shoes. I'LL GIVE YOU +200!!!!! ok cool ILL TAKE IT

luckily for me, real life is going to intervene and my monday and tuesday are horrifically busy. Unfortunately for everyone else, my wed-sunday is pretty wide open. I'll try and tone it down, but i still claim this thread as mine

yeah that's not what i said "let's not go acting like im rondon fan here" -TBS Playoffs Insider i know this is fun for you, being able to talk nonsense with everyone on your side because im being *that guy* but you are really not doing well at this

i dont care how the posts are treated, or i wouldn't be posting them. i dont think the tea leaves read in our favor in the next three games, hopefully im wrong. If you didn't care how your posts are treated you wouldn't ask your posts to not be treated in a certain way. yeah that's not what i said

You said if you were given +200 on the Dodgers winning all three games in LA means you think it's a 1 in 3 chance of happening. That's about a 70% chance of winning each game, which is ridiculous. i said if it was +200 i'd bet it.

Do you honestly believe in home field advantage in baseball? sure why not

If you'd quit acting like Rondon Fan, your posts would stop being treated like his, which is what they are, reactionary nonsense. i dont care how the posts are treated, or i wouldn't be posting them. i dont think the tea leaves read in our favor in the next three games, hopefully im wrong.

let's not go acting like im rondon fan here. Im confident when the team inspires confidence. Saying "id bet money they dont come back to chicago" isnt the same as saying "i dont think they'll come back to chicago." When you go to vegas do you only bet games you think you'll win?

i've never said they didn't count, i've said they've masked how pitiful our offense has been so far. Playoff wide OPS going into tonight was .603. Even if you weirdly say everything good that we've done is just masking all the crap and somehow needs to be removed from the numbers, we'd still fall right about in line with everyone else. Every reasonable thought process says the offense is going to perform better than it has. To write it off after 6 games, where 3 of them were against top 10 pitchers in the league, seems odd. every reasonable thought process said the offense would perform better the first six games too, but we faced good pitching and we hit .193. Guess what, two of the next three games (three of three depending on what you think of Urias) are also against really good pitchers. And we're on the road. And we're in a massive ballpark. optimistically, both offenses have been playing equally this playoffs, and they're both facing struggling pitchers the next two games. Hill was better than Arrieta this year (in a smaller sample bc of the blisters) and Lackey has been uninspiring at best. If we were 1-1 and coming to chicago for three games i'd feel a lot better.

are you pissy because im being negative or are you pissy because you feel the same way you just dont want to be bitched at for admitting it I just hate ernie johnson, and was hoping you'd man up can give me odds of this series coming back to chicago the reality is that it has a high likelihood of coming back to chicago because this team is so good it doesn't often lose three in a row. But considering that I don't like the matchups or the way we've swung the bats the last two weeks, if I was in vegas and it was like +200 or whatever, I'd definitely bet on it

the fact that you're actually posting this from mom and dad's is so perfect Swing and miss, sparky. But that's pretty typical for you in game threads. You should take a break. its also pretty typical for our offense the last six games.

Do you ever leave your parents house and go outside? Sick burn from a 12-year old. Less flattering for a grown man in the middle of an online temper tantrum. the fact that you're actually posting this from mom and dad's is so perfect

Hill has struggled in the playoffs and urias has only thrown a couple of innings. their sample is much smaller than the 202 at bats our offense has faltered through so far. Do those 202 at bats include all the home runs you're saying doesn't count? Just curious. i've never said they didn't count, i've said they've masked how pitiful our offense has been so far.

rich hill walked 1.3/9 as a dodger How many innings did he pitch as a Dodger? his bb/9 is something like 2.3/9 in the 140 innings his pitched since his resurrection. you can pretend he's some mitch williams SP but he's not.