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  1. BigSlick
    Even whatever musing I had about power pitching arms and high contact guys maybe giving a tiny slight edges in the playoffs, its still fundamentally a crapshoot and the main goal is getting in, so if they can field a team that can get in the playoffs repeatedly over the next 5-10 years, that's the best they can do to give themselves a shot. It's possible they'll go all Atlanta Braves on you, but I don't really see a chance for this team to drop out of the playoff race given how much talent and how good the management has been. So if they drop from 97 wins to 93 wins or whatever, who cares.
  2. BigSlick
    This season was amazing. Thanks for getting me back into baseball, 2015 Cubs, and thanks for beating the Cardinals in the NLDS, which has provided me with the most gratifying playoff baseball moment in my life. Keep spinning that wheel of fortune boys!
  3. BigSlick
    Get me 2 starting pitchers and a good defensive centerfielder that can hit (easier said then done)
  4. BigSlick
    Lol I can't believe Hammel melted the [expletive] down even worse than I jokingly said he would [expletive] surreal that we've given up runs in the first inning of every game this series and have never once gotten a lead. What a shellacking
  5. BigSlick
    Given Bryant's play at 3rd all series, La Stella has a role on this roster
  6. BigSlick
    I sure do look forward to watching Alex Rios hit bloopers off some jackass with long hair Royals - Mets is a game with no rooting interest
  7. BigSlick
    I like how you're pounding this "THEY'RE NOT EVEN TRYING!!!" idea you have so damn hard. I know this isn't true it, but damnit, I wish there was a better explanation for our collapse than 'playoff beisbol.' Was spitballing with some folks on twitter about how the "Moneyball doesn't work in the playoffs" might actually have some truth and not just rhetoric behind it. I mean its possible, I'm not sure its entirely true, that high-contact guys and power pitching gives you a slight edge over three-true-outcome guys that have contact problems like so much of our lineup has. It would explain why the Royals are enjoying playoff success with a team that doesn't have much power but *does* have the ability to put the ball in play. It could also be, merely statistical noise in a tiny sample size that can't be helped.
  8. BigSlick
    Cubs are at a shockingly high (to me) 7.9% chance to win this series according to Fangraphs http://www.fangraphs.com/coolstandings.aspx
  9. BigSlick
    I get the feeling some of you would have been happier if this team lost in the play in game They beat the Pirates, donged the Cardinals to death and gave us the most exciting season in 13 years. And this train ain't stopping for a long time.
  10. BigSlick
    lol I just remember Hammel is starting tomorrow - there's a 100.0% chance he gives up first inning runs
  11. BigSlick
    we need to deploy the secret weapon of : butters
  12. BigSlick
    We actually have only had 5 hits in every game in this series so far lol What the actual [expletive]
  13. BigSlick
    We have 5 hits. Five hits. You can't expect to win with this.
  14. BigSlick
    Well there was the Pirates game...and the Cardinals series...
  15. BigSlick
    Hello darkness my old friend
  16. BigSlick
    I was really hoping to have at least competitive series that was exciting But this has been dull and just a slow march to death
  17. BigSlick
    I don't believe in "power pitching beats power hitting" as like some repeated fact, but our particular hitters are vulnerable to a type of pitcher, and, most of our hitters entered a slump right as the playoffs started
  18. BigSlick
    If this team can't score more than 2 runs in a game, then they aren't gonna be able to move on. It's just that simple. You can point at defensive miscues and some pitching hiccups, and they're real, but at the end of the day you can't win with this run production.
  19. BigSlick
    Bryant has been spotty on defense this whole postseason, it's been real unfortunate
  20. BigSlick
    bad umpiring and bad luck. mets offense has been middling. Mets hitting has been mediocre but their pitching has been extremely good, umpiring aside, and they're the exact kind of pitchers we are vulnerable to
  21. BigSlick
    Hey, how about you shits don't go down in order every inning aside from some [expletive] dongs here and there Christ almighty
  22. BigSlick
    This is the most dong-errific lineup so bring on the dongs
  23. BigSlick
    I hope they win because theres nothing more depressing than a 3-0 series and you're just waiting for the losing team to just give in and lose So at the very least, give me some entertainment
  24. BigSlick
    What the Cubs need right now is more thinly veiled homoerotic memes I think
  25. BigSlick
    Thank god the Jays won this and show some life, a Mets - Royals world series would be such a snorefest to me
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