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  1. BigSlick
    Wasting good starting pitching is the most painful thing to see in baseball because the nature of pitching greatness is so ephemeral - you never know when you get lightning in a bottle and when it's going to end. Watching a team unable to score runs for tremendous pitching is a crime, a sin, against baseball. And they are being punished for their wanton, wicked ways by the baseball gods.
  2. BigSlick
    Chris Morel wrenching his OPS back over .700
  3. BigSlick
    sometimes there comes a point in a baseball season where the team you root for is so infuriating, so disappointing, you begin to hate them. I'm not quite there yet. But the hate is rising.
  4. BigSlick
    I don't think so good, I'm a stupid person. But part of me can't help but think one element of the Cubs offensive woes is that... there is really no dude on the team you can imagine, at max potential, reaching a .900 OPS. There are dudes you can see with an .800, even .850 OPS, but nobody that is just a horsefeathers baller star who just crunches the baseballs. There are Good hitters but no Great hitters on this team. Does that matter for run production? I have no idea. Probably not. It's probably my stupid brain making stupid conclusions. Also, it's really annoying that a .700 OPS is roughly a 100 OPS+. That sucks. MLB needs to do something about that, maybe juice the baseball again or something. Despite all the rules finagling to try to help offense (which I hated in principle, other than the pitchclock which is an unalloyed good), offense is worse than ever. Annoying!
  5. BigSlick
    I would be upset with anything less than a sweep EDIT: Oh i thought we were playing 3 games with them, its only two. Ok. Well they still need to sweep them.
  6. BigSlick
    This year I found a $26 ticket on Spirit (lol) from Chi to NO during Jazz Fest. It can be done. You just have to be willing to fly Spirit.
  7. BigSlick
    Damn. helluva at-bat there Happ.
  8. BigSlick
    it would be cool if this team could score some goddamn runs
  9. BigSlick
    there's literally nothing worse as a baseball fan than watching a team that can't hit
  10. BigSlick
    IMO, doesn't make sense to lump all those guys in with the one dude who had the best rookie season by a QB maybe ever
  11. BigSlick
    Do you think so? I look at it and I think "damn thats pretty soft" and that its nice they don't have to play divisional games (which are, this year, gonna be tough games) until the very end of the season. I look at TEN, IND and CAR in the first 5 games and I'm like - those are games you gotta take care of business, and then you still have WASH, NE and AZ still hanging around the schedule. If they slay some bums and go .500 with everyone else they have a winning/playoff season.
  12. BigSlick
    its significantly harder to do a radio call than a tv call, so I get it. But, to me, Len was the voice of the Cubs at their best, and it doesn't feel right to not have his voice there.
  13. BigSlick
    listen just tell me how we can get Len Kasper back calling Cubs games ok
  14. BigSlick
    Thank god Imanaga is pitching like prime era Pedro Martinez during this stretch when every other player is on the IL. The fact they're still winning games while they're so decimated kinda makes me feel like there's good karma going around on this team
  15. BigSlick
    I was gonna say - there's a distinct chance that DJ gets fewer balls thrown his way this year than last, especially if Keenan Allen is at full speed and Odunze is everything he's cracked up to be. He doesn't seem to be upset about it at all. (There's also the chance that the sheer volume of pass attempts goes up that it doesn't matter) Which I love.
  16. BigSlick
    One thing about punters in the modern NFL is also.... field position has never mattered less. Its not just the hope that we wont have to punt that much, its also the fact that it doesn't matter where you give someone the ball anymore. They'll still just march down the field. The difference between giving them the ball on the 20 and pinning them inside the 5 is not nearly as important as it once was.
  17. BigSlick
    It truly is #KingPoles coming out party. Following him for the last 2+ years, I appreciate that everything he does has a strategic logic to it. I grew up in the Angelo era, and Jerry was always scrambling to patch up holes and throw things together. There wasn't a long arc of strategic thinking - and none of the GMs that followed him had one either. Everything Poles does makes sense. Not all of it works out (look at Claypool and Velus Jones) but that will always be the case. The method is sound. This could all fail - QB prospects are notoriously fickle and can fail. Unforeseen injuries could torpedo the team. Things one could never predict could emerge. But I've seen enough to anoint #KingPoles.
  18. BigSlick
    Punters aren't a big deal but the punting game for the Bears has never recovered after losing Brad Maynard, and it was absolutely a problem last year. Anyway, I hope (and expect) Caleb is right that it wont matter too much next year
  19. BigSlick
    I have to always temper my expectations because, they are the Bears, and there does appear to be some sort of metaphysical barrier between them and a modern, average passing offense. But it would be goddamn hilarious if Caleb Williams comes out and immediately shatters the Bears QB season records, like, for example, PASSING FOR 4,000 YARDS IN A SEASON
  20. BigSlick
    horsefeathers defense, go offense i'm tired of the bears caring so much about defense. its a ****** brand that has been counterproductive for several generations now. light up the scoreboard baby
  21. BigSlick
    i couldn't be more pleased with what the Vikings did
  22. BigSlick
    I think this also speaks to how much the league has transformed into being an offensive league Defense is important but completely secondary to a good offense - you have to be able to put up 25+ a week if you want to be a playoff team
  23. BigSlick
    #KingPoles
  24. BigSlick
    i'm so pumped for the bears yall
  25. BigSlick
    DON'T OVERTHINK IT AND JUST GET ODUNZE
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