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  1. BigSlick
    On my bornday, Greg Maddux lost to his *brother* Mike Maddux on the Phillies, giving up 6 runs (all on singles, damn BABIP)
  2. BigSlick
    Oh my god, I'm listening to yesterday's Spiegel & Goff show and the callers and Spiegel are basically killing Goff. There is a caller asking about "super star egos" and Spiegel is prospect hugging so hard that its ridiculous. Spiegel wouldn't do it for just Baez, Soler, Schwarber and Contreras, which is BANANAS. Jesus, it makes me very grateful for this place.
  3. BigSlick
    Yeah sending 6 cost controlled players for one player with a huge salary is definitely something to figure in, especially since my dreams of the Cubs having unlimited payroll by now or in the near future are not to be
  4. BigSlick
    I'm almost, *almost* at the point where I'm not sure it makes sense to trade for Trout if the asking price includes our best 4-5 minor leaguers and one of Russell or Bryant, etc. The reason for it isn't value, you probably still make out on the positive side comparing collective WARs, but the diminishing returns on adding to a team that is already so absurdly good. Like we've gone over in the General Baseball forum, adding additional wins to a 100 win team team doesn't really influence its ability to win in the playoffs *that* much. Maybe I'm thinking about this poorly though, I dunno. If it does guarantee the Cubs winning the division for the next 5 or so years then, well maybe it does make sense. It was useful for B&B to go over some of the rare superstar in their prime trades (many of them were in or leaving their primes) and how lopsided those trades were though. Like the Miguel Cabrera trade, jeez. It is virtually a guarantee the team getting the young superstar wins, and the team getting the prospects loses. So if it was just gutting our farm system, I would do it, no question, that would be easy. To get a slight net return on wins while passing some of our regulars? I'd probably still do it, but I'm not sure its all that valuable in terms of *winning* the World Series. (at least for the 2016 Cubs, hard to project forward beyond that because we don't know what our pitching will look like)
  5. BigSlick
    Well if you believe in regression to the mean, I'd rather read that the Cardinals are hovering around .500 despite still getting average or above average luck. Well they'll likely get slightly better luck with runners on (for both batters and pitchers) but they're also 8 games back and are an inferior team. Or maybe they wont, its kind of gambler's fallacy to think just because they've been unlucky they'll be *more* lucky, most likely they'll just get average luck from here on out, which still means the past 38 games have damaged their team, which is good.
  6. BigSlick
    This is the feel good article of the year: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-cardinals-missing-magic/ Short version: the Cardinals magic hasn't just ran out, but its going in the opposite direction to start off this season.
  7. BigSlick
    NOMAR! #NeverForget I wish I could forget
  8. BigSlick
    I was born on July 31st so every trade deadline means I hope the Cubs get me a birthday present and usually they don't
  9. BigSlick
    Hahah i can't believe how bad the Brewers numbers against Hendricks are, a .314 OPS in like 70 at bats. I expect he'll continue to baffle them (because they're bad, and he's good) EDIT: Huh, looking at their stats they're actually a pretty good hitting team. Their pitching is a huge dumpster fire. Anyway, they should give us Jonathon Lucroy and should go back to the hole from whence they emerged.
  10. BigSlick
    C'est la vie
  11. BigSlick
    I remember the losses because there are so few of them, there are like 15 games we won 9-2 that I have no recollection of I rule
  12. BigSlick
    Oh, I guess it's that Rockies game again Ah well, gotta lose one to the Pirates eventually. Woulda been nice to ge 10 games up and 20 games over 500
  13. BigSlick
    Alright, pound these fools Thanks
  14. BigSlick
    Adam Warren, strikes are your friend
  15. BigSlick
    Oh man that sucks for Lester so much. He has the opportunity to lose a second game he only gave us 1 run, with this offense. Bad luck for him.
  16. BigSlick
    Jeez we could have had Marte twice there
  17. BigSlick
    Alright well get out of the inning and that's fine I'm more concerned that Gerrit Cole may have 2 more innings in him bleh
  18. BigSlick
    Lester handled that groundball very impressively
  19. BigSlick
    Stop making outs, in my humble opinion
  20. BigSlick
    I made this exact post when Lester was a hard luck loser vs the Rockies and like 3 people yelled at me It's totally random but it keeps happening to him
  21. BigSlick
    That wasn't a strike on Fowler but he probably has to swing at that given the zone today Jesus Cole is only at 74 pitches? What a disaster
  22. BigSlick
    Hit some dongers pleas
  23. BigSlick
    even if he's still no hitting them I hope they don't go crazy with his pitch count
  24. BigSlick
    I'm gonna take a shower and when I'm done there better be some got damn runs
  25. BigSlick
    Lester is rolling baby
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