ASSUMING a brewers sweep to close out the season is a level of doom bonering I’ve never seen before. I’m oppressively pessimistic and masochistic, and even I can’t do that In other news, glad to see the cubs put some god damn runs on the board
that wouldn't be crushing enough, they'll win just enough games to not win the division anyway, in real talk, if they win tonight and the pirates lose, we're like, totally ok. as frustrated as i am *during* the games, i'm pretty serene right now
This kind of offensive production is fuckin shameful Do the Pirates have some sort of fuckin knowledge on the Cubs? Like, this is almost inexplicable how bad the Cubs hitters are
its mostly the injuries and disappointing progress from young players I think. Almost nobody is playing *better* than they have in recent years, with the extremely notable exception of Javy. (You could argue Schwarber I suppose, but he's smack dab in the middle of what reasonable projections are for him) Also the games are miserable because they give up runs in the first inning in 80% of games
the 2018 Javier Baez season has been one in which I've learned to throw all my closely held Moneyballish biases away and firmly believe in a dude who just hacks at everything, hits for enormous power and has All The Intangibles needed to win the MVP I mean, seriously, more than anything else this dude has put this sorry team on his back and has willed them to 90+ wins