Bryants Disco Ball

Quality at-bat by this Triple A player.

Excellent approach by Willy.

It took until the 4th inning, Duke.

I do not want to put words in your mouth or misrepresent what you just wrote, but are you saying you think the Cubs are an average team? No. I think an average team can win the division. And I think we've been average. I do think we'll get better, though. And if we do, the division will be a breeze. Fair enough, even if I disagree.

The NL Central sucks. The only team ahead of us in the standings is a bad baseball team. I won't concede anything until we are mathematically eliminated, however horribly we play. It isn't so much that I'm confident that we'll magically turn things around as it is that I don't think we really even need to turn things around. I do not want to put words in your mouth or misrepresent what you just wrote, but are you saying you think the Cubs are an average team?

It's not time to worry when ninnies like me tell people this is our team and it ain't going to happen this year. It's time to worry when David, TT, Tim and the Duke concede that. Until that day, keep the faith. They are right more than not.

Oh, Duker, I've had to watch the Brewers come back from 7-1 in the 6th already this season. Wait to bump this. god you really are back to being a sad, sad ninny. This is true.

Yeah, book it. Bump this if I'm wrong, but I won't be. ETA: Would love for this TO get bumped. Bump Oh, Duker, I've had to watch the Brewers come back from 7-1 in the 6th already this season. Wait to bump this.

Duke, any chance we can take two of three with who we are throwing this weekend? Brewers will sweep the Padres so we need to show up against the Pirates. We're already giving the Brewers sweeps? Remember when the 68-win Padres beat the 103-win, World Champion Cubs at Wrigley Field twice in one day last year? Yeah, book it. Bump this if I'm wrong, but I won't be. ETA: Would love for this TO get bumped.

Duke, any chance we can take two of three with who we are throwing this weekend? Brewers will sweep the Padres so we need to show up against the Pirates.

Duker, I want you to be right so much. But I respectfully have to say you are crazy on this one. I'm disappointed and in disbelief that the 2017 Cubs are this mediocre, especially since the division was just telling them to win it. Was giving it to them. But when so many things are below average, it's hard to see everything suddenly clicking. At least in 2015, we had quality starting pitching but just couldn't score. We needed one thing to improve to take off. We need like three major things to improve this time. There is no opportunity to create any real momentum because there is no way this staff is going to get into a groove long enough. And our offense isn't good enough this season to compensate for that. An easy part of the schedule, that doesn't exist for us this season. This is the Jason Heyward situation from last year, where everybody wanted to believe -- it's early, look at his track record, he's too good -- until finally we all just had to concede it wasn't going to happen. The Cubs need their own reset. I still think there is a very real chance that ending such an historic drought and the intensity of those playoffs just took something out of them. (I realize now I've gotten into the crazy part of this post, but I do believe it). Hopefully, these kinds of posts are hilarious to look back on in a few months. I just hope we are talking about mine and not yours. The comparison to Heyward last year isn't great because last year, you were relying on one guy to improve and there was a higher threshold to achieve this goal. This year, you can rely on any host of guys improving from their underachieving starts (some of whom are starting to turn it around) or acquiring another SP just to get the traction needed to win this garbage division. Yeah, that makes sense. I was just comparing that feeling of he's going to turn it around. He's going to be OK. It's all good, until we realized it wasn't going to happen. There are a ton of reasons to hold out hope for this team as a whole because it seems so bizarre that this could actually be our team this season, but I just think that same feeling will eventually hit.

Duker, I want you to be right so much. But I respectfully have to say you are crazy on this one. I'm disappointed and in disbelief that the 2017 Cubs are this mediocre, especially since the division was just telling them to win it. Was giving it to them. But when so many things are below average, it's hard to see everything suddenly clicking. At least in 2015, we had quality starting pitching but just couldn't score. We needed one thing to improve to take off. We need like three major things to improve this time. There is no opportunity to create any real momentum because there is no way this staff is going to get into a groove long enough. And our offense isn't good enough this season to compensate for that. An easy part of the schedule, that doesn't exist for us this season. This is the Jason Heyward situation from last year, where everybody wanted to believe -- it's early, look at his track record, he's too good -- until finally we all just had to concede it wasn't going to happen. The Cubs need their own reset. I still think there is a very real chance that ending such an historic drought and the intensity of those playoffs just took something out of them. (I realize now I've gotten into the crazy part of this post, but I do believe it). Hopefully, these kinds of posts are hilarious to look back on in a few months. I just hope we are talking about mine and not yours.

I'd love to make a huge profit off Davis and just move Carl to closer for the final two months. Although I'm also the only one that thinks the Cubs ain't turning this around, so can't imagine anyone else would agree.

While we dong three times and only have 4 runs to show for it. Yep. Dumb horsefeathering game. Thing is, they've had quite a few dumb games this year. Bad luck tends to get exacerbated when you play a lot of subpar baseball. That's a good quote right there by you.

Duke's down; TT and David will be broken next. NO HOPE LEFT. Nah. Duke ain't out until he concedes the division to the Brewers. And I know Duke ain't that down yet.

Oh, that's all? I think he was joking during that write up. I think.

If the Cubs could do this every inning, we would win the World Series again even with a crappy rotation.

I hope he also mentioned it doesn't matter since we won the World Series.

No worries. The schedule gets really easy now. That is what other fan bases say when they see they're playing the Cubs these days This is very true. I was just joking, though.

No worries. The schedule gets really easy now.

He fits right in with the 2017 Cubs.

Will that be the fewest wins ever by a division winner?

Get us to 117.

It's hilarious the Cubs hit back-to-back dongs and not one new comment as of this posting. ETA: Well, since UMfan.

Huh.