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  1. Dr. Cub
    Watching the Tigers game, and heard Taylors voice and I had to do a double take.
  2. Dr. Cub
    Something's off here. Can't quite put my finger on it, but these last two posts have me pondering..........
  3. Dr. Cub
    I've done this many times.......sans baby.
  4. Dr. Cub
    Go to wrigleyville. Go for all of those who can't. Go and soak it in, and own that experience for the rest of your life. It's my birthday so I'm gonna do cake and horsefeathers with the family and watch the first 3 innings at home. Assuming the worst hasnt happened, i will then drive down to wrigleyville mid-game. I cant NOT be in Wrigleyville if they win, unless I was in cleveland. On that topic, my wife has been suggesting I just drive to cleveland right now and buy a ticket. If I could find one in the $500-600 range I would... Start driving. I'll meet you in Toledo. We'll make it work!!
  5. Dr. Cub
    Go to wrigleyville. Go for all of those who can't. Go and soak it in, and own that experience for the rest of your life.
  6. Dr. Cub
    Been on the site for 13+ years and I've barely posted in that time. However, I could not pass up posting in this game thread. I thoroughly appreciate and enjoy reading these threads as they certainly help my anxiety and neuroses. Good to know I'm not the only one feeling as I do sometimes. Here's to the Cubs bringing a championship trophy home and curing us all!!!!!!! GO CUBS GO!!!!!!
  7. Dr. Cub
    Soler gave up on Wongs fly ball way too soon.
  8. Dr. Cub
    For now........
  9. Dr. Cub
    Exactly. Looked like he flicked his bat at it. Crazy
  10. Dr. Cub
    Still waiting for this "stud" Bryant to hit a HR. Guy can't even hit one measly homer?
  11. Dr. Cub
    Nice call 'Damus
  12. Dr. Cub
    Separated at birth.....
  13. Dr. Cub
    Does anyone even reach base against Aroldis? Odds?
  14. Dr. Cub
    No. He's not swinging at pitches outside the zone. So, as of now, you can't hate him.
  15. Dr. Cub
    Exactly. I'm certainly not suggesting that only the negative of this short season is representative either. However, I see a pretty similar offense as to what we saw last year. While it's only 7 games, it doesn't seem to have changed much, and I guess I feel as though I'm not excited as everyone else seems to be. Cubs in 2014: No. 21 at taking pitches outside the zone Cubs in 2015: No. 1 at taking pitches outside the zone Seems a little different to me. Holy sample size. Let's see what is it in two weeks, or 4, or 10.
  16. Dr. Cub
    If we take above .500 to mean good and below .500 to mean bad, then most of the major projection systems would have said yes to that before the season started. This isn't some new thing. And if you take those projections and average out the differences between is and them were taking about a handful of games. Last time I checked those projections weren't exact. This is not a new thing either.
  17. Dr. Cub
    Exactly. I'm certainly not suggesting that only the negative of this short season is representative either. However, I see a pretty similar offense as to what we saw last year. While it's only 7 games, it doesn't seem to have changed much, and I guess I feel as though I'm not excited as everyone else seems to be.
  18. Dr. Cub
    I'm not stunned. It's baseball. Weird things happen. Baseball Prospectus had them at a 50.6% chance to make the playoffs going into today. Does that make you feel confident? I didn't suggest you were specifically, and it most certainly does not. Quite a few people have commented tonight on the offense with disbelief. Such as "unreal", "Cy Desclafani" and so on. It strikes me as odd, because although its been a small sample size this season, we certainly saw this horrific display all last year. The roster is not THAT different. If you're going to get your panties in a bunch someone uses the "Cy Insert-Pitcher's-name-here," then its going to be a long season and there's no hope for you. If you think that's what's happened, then you need to read and comprehend better.
  19. Dr. Cub
    You misunderstood what they were saying. The "unreal" was referring to the fact that we've, on average, hit balls harder than the Reds all night, but have had trouble finding grass while they had one magic inning where everything got through in a cluster. Well at the moment they posted them we were screwing the pooch on offense. Not hard hit balls but Ks. At least that was at the moment they were posted
  20. Dr. Cub
    They won baseball games. So all it takes is facing Latroy and an idiot Reds manager to give you confidence in this team? Good to know. Good teams beat bad teams, its the way it works. For years the Cubs had dumb managers and LaTroy types. Are you suggesting that the Cubs are good and the Rockies and Reds are bad? Those games were flips of a coin and certainly not representative of any real evaluation of talent.
  21. Dr. Cub
    I'm not stunned. It's baseball. Weird things happen. Baseball Prospectus had them at a 50.6% chance to make the playoffs going into today. Does that make you feel confident? I didn't suggest you were specifically, and it most certainly does not. Quite a few people have commented tonight on the offense with disbelief. Such as "unreal", "Cy Desclafani" and so on. It strikes me as odd, because although its been a small sample size this season, we certainly saw this horrific display all last year. The roster is not THAT different.
  22. Dr. Cub
    Our team ERA is about 12th in the NL out of 15 teams, and our OBP is about 10th last I checked. Not sure I feel that's too impressive. There's more to pitching and hitting than just ERA and OBP No [expletive]. Trying to respond quickly enough before the topic was dead and gone did not allow for more in depth analysis of more important metrics. I'll try harder next time. Thsnks
  23. Dr. Cub
    They won baseball games. So all it takes is facing Latroy and an idiot Reds manager to give you confidence in this team? Good to know. They also won 50% of the games that did not fit that description. "Confidence" in the team is meaningless. It's a stupid, meatball term. I think they're a decent baseball team in a league with very few great baseball teams to worry about. It's a high-variance sport and they could have an awesome record or a terrible one in five months, but I see no reason to like them less than anyone outside of Washington or LA likes their team. The point, as I'm sure you understood, was that after last nights win many were ready to purchase playoff tickets. Then amazingly after familiar offensive ineptitude people were stunned. The act of being confident in your teams ability to play the game of baseball well enough that you believe they will win more than they lose is in no way "meatbally".
  24. Dr. Cub
    They won baseball games. So all it takes is facing Latroy and an idiot Reds manager to give you confidence in this team? Good to know. All good things are to be discounted as externalities and all negative things are harbingers of things to come. That's quite a leap and not even remotely close to what I said and/or suggested
  25. Dr. Cub
    I am not sure I would let you operate on me Uhhhhhh, ok.
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