Cubswin11

What a horrible hold

Good work ya sucks

The defense has forced him to throw quite a few more pitches

Klutch Kris

Awful footwork and and attempt at that by Kipnis too. Come off the bag or have your right foot on the base if you’re gonna reach for it.

Probably to keep a team from playing in a home stadium and make it as neutral as possible

I wouldn’t mind playing them at all. They aren’t that good and they will have played all these games here leading in to it. They likely have to be playing and trying hard through the final series too so it’s possible their rotation/bullpen can’t be entirely lined up and rested. I think I’d rank preferred opponents in round 1 as: 1. Giants 2. Cardinals 3. Rockies 4. Marlins 5. Mets 6. Phillies 7. Brewers (I don’t want to have to deal with their nonsense, despite them being the worst team listed here). 8. Reds (Bauer, Gray, Castillo in a 3 game series wouldn’t be fun). Yeah this looks right. Maybe quibble a bit with the exact order, but I think in a three game series those first four teams and those second four teams are very different levels of scary. Regular season the Cards are maybe the best of those 8 teams, but they have less top tier talent to leverage in a short series and will be at the end of their death march. They are clearly in the less scary tier IMO. The Marlins are surprisingly relevant in that first round. They suck, but Lopez and Sanchez is actually a pretty good 1-2 punch. Yeah there’s a clear top and bottom 4. Maybe even just a top 3 preferred and bottom 5 not preferred depending on your feelings on the Marlins. The Mets and Phillies seem about the same to me so order them whatever way. Mets have the best pitcher and better pen, Phillies have a deeper rotation and worse pen. Offenses feel about the same with maybe a slight Mets edge (no idea what the numbers say).

Cohen is a POS but MLB thumbing their nose at an uber billionaire who can literally write a check for the team in favor of another ownership group that will be leveraged up the ass seems like smart policy for long term growth.

How do we feel about facing the Cardinals, rivarly bragging rights aside? For some reason Flaherty, Hudson, Wainwright looks great on paper but doesn't really terrify me, especially if we can neutralize one of them with Darvish. The only hitter that truly scares me is Goldschmidt. They have other solid hitters but not ones that scare me. Of course they are probably saying the same thing about our lineup... I wouldn’t mind playing them at all. They aren’t that good and they will have played all these games here leading in to it. They likely have to be playing and trying hard through the final series too so it’s possible their rotation/bullpen can’t be entirely lined up and rested. I think I’d rank preferred opponents in round 1 as: 1. Giants 2. Cardinals 3. Rockies 4. Marlins 5. Mets 6. Phillies 7. Brewers (I don’t want to have to deal with their nonsense, despite them being the worst team listed here). 8. Reds (Bauer, Gray, Castillo in a 3 game series wouldn’t be fun).

It would be nice for that White Sox series not to matter the final weekend outside of 2/3 overall seed in NL so we can rest and align SPs, give rest to position guys and maybe try out a bullpen guy or three (Brailyn, Chafin, Strop, etc). I think if we can go 5-4 vs the Indians, Twins and Pirates over the next 9 that is quite likely. 4-5 could even be enough if the Cardinals play .500 or worse over their 10 games this week (they have 3 double headers this week, lol) and early next.

Looks like the Indians pushed Bieber back from his start vs us Wednesday per ESPN probables. He was scheduled to go Wednesday earlier this week. Civale is listed now.

We have the largest division lead in the NL and second largest in all of MLB

Lol, THE BREWERS STINK

This is fun, actually stomping on necks and coming through beating shitty teams that are worse than us.

Javy looking a ton better last two games. More contact and harder contact today (though GBs)

https://twitter.com/mlbrostermoves/status/1305194574948827142?s=21

Only Cobs bullpen sucks

Why are you even here? You clearly don’t like the team. They do nothing but annoy you. If you’re just going to come here after they lose and do your usual “the Cubs are blowing it again” schtick, just go away. I promise I wont post after a single loss the rest of the year if the cubs win a single game this weekend.

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