Bryants Disco Ball

The World Series game-clinching one.

This swag will be even better once we are actually ahead of the vaunted Brewers in the standings. This might be the last day this season you'll be able to say that. Possibly the last day this decade. Out of all the things you have ever been right about, this is the one I would enjoy the most. Make it happen, please.

Damn it, Duke. The last two times you said something like this they immediately started losing again.

3-5 in their last 8, against the bottom-feeding Padres, Pirates, and Braves. Sad! This swag will be even better once we are actually ahead of the vaunted Brewers in the standings.

Coghlan playing 2b? Wasn't the weirdo "sontensei" or something? His breaking point was when he made homophobic slurs in a late August game thread against the Giants when the Cubs had already all but locked up a playoff spot but lost some random game against MadBum. Now that I do remember.

Some of you people have incredible memories that borders on disturbing in a good way. How the hell do you remember some rando talking about starting Coghlan at 2B in 2015?

To be fair, only Schwarber fan was being a ninny, becoming the second person in the club for 2017 along with me. It's been an interesting year. There probably would be more ninnies if we were playing in either of the other two divisions and were six to nine games out right now. As Jed Hoyer has said, it's really about where you are in relation to .500 than where you are in the division when evaluating your ball club and its chances. We are extremely lucky to be in the division we are in for 2017. I'm intrigued by these next eight games against the Marlins and Nationals on the road. Miami seems like a dreadful stadium to have to play, and it seems like it's never easy there (I just TOTALLY wrote that without even looking it up, we might be awesome there), and the Nationals are on another level than us so far this season. Let's see what happens. Go Cubs, and thanks for the World Series title in 2016. That will make whatever happens in 2017 OK by me. Where did Jed say that last part? I've heard him multiple times in the last week talk about evaluating the team in terms of performance, not in relation to their divisional competition, which is absolutely how it should always be. Regardless of how high up they are in the standings, that doesn't excuse them playing .500 ball with this much talent. Just like when the team won 97 games in 2015, you don't look down on them for finishing third place. It doesn't change how *your* team is playing, and how you should evaluate your own ballclub. But their chances are nearly the same as they were entering the year, because of how how awful the division's been. Their World Series chances are significantly higher than the currently dominant Rockies and Diamondbacks, because if they can just beat out these NL Central teams, they automatically get a playoff series. Theo and Jed know this. So, unless the Cubs somehow play even worse the rest of the way and/or the Brewers/Cardinals/Pirates play much better, they should be attacking the trade deadline the same way as a 95-win-paced team should. You get in the tournament and you have a 7-20% shot just like everyone else does. Good call. I shouldn't have added the chances part as he just talked about evaluation by record.

To be fair, only Schwarber fan was being a ninny, becoming the second person in the club for 2017 along with me. It's been an interesting year. There probably would be more ninnies if we were playing in either of the other two divisions and were six to nine games out right now. As Jed Hoyer has said, it's really about where you are in relation to .500 than where you are in the division when evaluating your ball club and its chances. We are extremely lucky to be in the division we are in for 2017. I'm intrigued by these next eight games against the Marlins and Nationals on the road. Miami seems like a dreadful stadium to have to play, and it seems like it's never easy there (I just TOTALLY wrote that without even looking it up, we might be awesome there), and the Nationals are on another level than us so far this season. Let's see what happens. Go Cubs, and thanks for the World Series title in 2016. That will make whatever happens in 2017 OK by me.

Details, please.

Not even considering the World Series or anything else..........is Mike Montgomery's single start tonight worth more than what Dan Vogalbach will ever give the Mariners?

Seager, now Bellinger. Dodgers are enjoying another rookie run like back in the Piazza/Mondesi/Karros years Don't forget Nomo and Hollandsworth!

I know the ball is juiced this season, but who would have guessed in April that Ian Happ would be on pace to hit like 20 plus dongs at the MLB level in 2017?

Also I have changed my mind. I don't want to trade Eloy.

I doubt the Brewers will be trading with us. I think they'd have little problem trading us Peralta, though. That dude sucks.

When Davis needs to get it done, he gets it done.

I'd do it just because it seems less risky to spend big money on an offensive player in free agency than a pitcher who might break down soon after signing a seven-year, $200 million contract. Trade Eloy and sign Harper to take his place.

At least it was a solo one.

Hurt his hand trying to make a sliding catch in foul territory earlier. He stayed in the game and even took an AB being being removed so guessing it's not too bad. Just to add context, he appears to have scraped his hand more than injured it.

When thinking back on the World Series title, do you think about the epic seventh game and sometimes forget about how we were down 3-1 in the series?

Making contact in that situation is good. Nice work, Jon.

Make them pay, Willy.

Look at Lackey go.

Yeah, this is for sure going to be the preception moving forward, even though they are my most despised team in baseball. They are the Cardinals to many here. It's already getting to the point where people keep thinking I said the Brewers were a powerhouse. I keep repeating that I don't think they are that good, just better than anybody else in this crappy division this year. But, I'll play the villain on this one.

Because they are basically the same horsefeathers team they were last year. (Also, they are just edging Javy in K% this year.) Glad to see they K a lot. Now if we can just do better than them in runs, batting average, slugging and OPS we maybe really can beat them by 10 games.

Because they are basically the same horsefeathers team they were last year. (Also, they are just edging Javy in K% this year.) This time last year, they didn't have their first baseman (Thames), shortstop (Arcia), third baseman (Shaw), either catcher (Pina, Bandy) and two of their three outfielders were either in the minors or not playing every day (Santana and Broxton). But, yes, other than that, they are the same team as the one that started 2016.