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Ahh at least its the Japanese, they will understand being a baseball fanatic. Make sure you lie to them and tell them Wada was the winning pitcher tonight and our staff ace. but make sure this japanese partner understands that this is america's game and if he wants to earn AMERICAN dollars he better stop with the bat flips

lets do this [expletive] again http://i.imgur.com/kq1vWWL.jpg

wait what

poison her

hahahah my boss things im getting work done today lol what a noob

that was such low hanging fruit that it was a near impossibility that one of their writers wouldn't jump on it for the clicks

That isn't true. I know you think it's true, but it isn't. You've got a narrative in your head for my posts, and while it's not entirely unfair, it also causes you to imagine a lot of posts I didn't make and ignore posts that don't fit that narrative. I don't think it really matters, but being accused of saying things I didn't say always irks me. I'll cop to taking a perverse glee in the bad things happening, to saying doing some incredibly annoying venting after the 2008 series was over, and to becoming obsessed for a few weeks with the idea that there was at least a possibility of some kind of magical unspecified "cause" that was causing the Cubs to underperform in playoffs. But specifically saying there was almost no chance because they lost game 1? I haven't checked every post, but it doesn't sound like me and I haven't seen it in the game threads I've looked at, and given your recent history of refusing to accept that I was one of the most optimistic posters about Cubs in-season chances the last few years, I find it likely I didn't say it. This got boring and stupid, so I'll throw this out there: For this entire season, I've made it a point to read your posts with Pierce Hawthorne's voice in my head, and it's amused me every time. Edit: Here's what I said before game 2 in 2008: http://www.northsidebaseball.com/forum/posting.php?mode=quote&f=26&p=1983816 I think he was joking about 7%. A generic team would be about 15%, we're not a generic team, we're a darned good one with favorable pitching matchups in 3 of 4 remaining games (game 3 absurdly so). I'd say closer to 25%. tl;dr

You also remember me blathering on about how terrible the Cubs were going to be this year, which never happened. thats an interesting way to frame it. you know as well as i do that given a potential positive outcome or a potential negative outcome, youll always decide that the negative outcome is inevitable. it makes sense considering how everything else in your life has gone edit: i dont think it was in the game threads, i dont recall ever paying attention to those during the playoff games

i mean that was probably an easy transition for you since the last two times we were in the playoffs you were like "well if we lose game 1 there's basically no chance we can win the series now" 2-for-2. I doubt I actually said that, but I've long since accepted that some weird imaginary version of my posts show up on your screen, so I'll take the free credit for being right twice. i distinctly remember you blathering on about it and me thinking what an idiotic way it was to exist

i mean that was probably an easy transition for you since the last two times we were in the playoffs you were like "well if we lose game 1 there's basically no chance we can win the series now"

This is my own dumbass fault, but in the last week of this fantasy league im in (It was a work league, and I'd won football and basketball, so I was going for the triple crown) I tanked my last matchup of the year. Even though it was going to drop me down a seed, I felt like the team I would matchup with in the playoffs as a result would be a better fit for my roster. It worked! I made it all the way to the finals and drew a 5-5 tie ... and lost because the team I tied was the same team I tanked against and the tiebreaker was head-to-head. Guess I need to read the fine print next year.

come on now, he left 5 starts on the table, but i won by like 140. thats true, and with my shitty pitchers, i was destined to have a negative-30 blowup start anyway.

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i think im just gonna start the playoff thread [expletive] your rotations

lmao these are so bad

im going back and forth on being mad that i didnt check my team this week and thinking it's funnier because i beat tim on a miracle day and then wasted that miracle

legit thought it was a one week finals lmao

FWIW I just gave him a heart. Also, totally forgot about A New Era. Aesthetically speaking, his sig may be the worst thing in the history of the world. 2015 draftee lol

hahahhahaa

lol i thought that banner thing was just some shady ad. I donated

Jake has nearly 2 WAR on Greinke and his historic, unparalleled second half has coincided with the cubs making a huge push, getting national attention and he's going to be credited (rightfully so) with propelling their second half run. I think he's going to win it.

that ... doesnt sound like complaining at all

jesus christ what in the actual [expletive]

he's been protected so much in the lineup and with matchups that there's basically no point in really debating it now, because you can just see what you want to see. Fangraphs seems to think he's been a good fielder so far and I know the cubs think he's a great baserunner, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens.