Cubswin11

man half the reason i posted that is because i wanted you to illustrate why it's wrong so i feel better about this team of ass Because we have hundreds of games worth of info about these guys to tell us this isn't who they really are. It's two weeks. It means nothing. And even though the results (wins) haven't been there as much as we want the underlying process of things still says we are doing things pretty well in a lot of areas with room for improvement.

Explain because last year we knew the back of the rotation was killing us, and that it would be taken care of either at the deadline or in the offseason. the rotation we have now is locked in. if darvish and chatwood disappoint, it's a much bigger problem. also russell and schwarber are coming off bad years, so if they struggle again, it would mean they probably just suck. then of course there's been the immediate implosion of happ, which has probably completely tanked his trade value. basically, there are few reasons they should be sucking this year, and less ways to fix it if it continues Unless you think they're hurt "the backend of the rotation" is going to be fine Darvish is going to be fine and put up his usual season, Chatwood is going to at least be a little better than the drivel that was making up the 4/5 spots for the good chunk of last year in the worst case scenario, Russell was hurt all last year pretty much and he's looked pretty decent outside of 1-3 bad games recently, Schwarber was slashing .270/.357/.595 coming in to the game today, Zobrist looks much closer to 2016 Zobrist than last years broken wrist Zobrist, when Rizzo comes back in a few days there's a residual affect that will help keep a lesser bat out of the lineup more often and protect against unfavorable splits in the OF or 2B, Carl/Cishek/Strop/Morrow all look like they are going to be extremely solid, Willy looks to be the real deal with the bat, as a team we're walking at an okay rate (9% and that's mostly without Rizzo) and not striking out that much (22%), we're hitting the ball hard (6th in hard hit%) and over all almost 80% of balls in play are hit either medium or hard, team ERA is in low/mid 3s, it's going to be okay.

You learned nothing after melting down in April last year? an extended slow start by this year's team would be a lot more concerning than last year's Explain, because assuming health this team is a lot better than last years team at this point of the season. The wins will start to come.

Game threads should just go in the teams who won't win the world series thread until they are at least 5 games over .500, that'll show em'!

Happ had a nice day today

*cough* Yeah but then we get to August/September with the division in hand and the playoffs on to horizon like

Carl on back to back days in the lowest of leverage situations?

They are until they aren’t

Nice defense idiots

Maybe we can trade for Sanchez at the deadline as our big acquisition

Tommy may have sealed us a rally with the leadoff hit

Bringing in Strop to face lefties doesn’t seem smart

Heyward’s and Happ’s balls off the bat both looked as good, if not better, than Dickerson’s oppo Dong yesterday

It’s the 5th inning, we’re down 4, we are going to win this game you ninnies

Lol

Jesus horsefeathering Christ, Willy

There was a guy named Beau Borrows in that draft too, lol

Tommy coming up to 3am by Matchbox Twenty, lol

Benintendi was the guy we apparently like the most in that draft and it seemed like he was going to make it to us then the Sox got him 2 picks ahead and we took Happ. Overall that’s been a very solid draft so far. I think 4-6 of the top 15 guys have already made MLB. My dude, I am not seriously slamming the Cubs' draft because I have no horsefeathering clue who they drafted. I'm just venting until the suckage is done. Oh I know, just was letting you know what that draft was all about and seemed relevant with the Dansby Swanson talk

Benintendi was the guy we apparently liked the most in that draft and it seemed like he was going to make it to us then the Sox got him 2 picks ahead and we took Happ. Overall that’s been a very solid draft so far. I think 4-6 of the top 15 guys have already made MLB.

Damn it Willson catch that ball better

Stupid soft contact

Sofa didn’t even know prospects names when prospects were all we had, how can you expect him to know the name of the guy taken 1-1 a few years ago?

This game might have the only 2 2B in the league who can make that play