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Playing that Bote, Happ, Caratini stack on DK like a boss. (Q, Willson and Javy too) -
General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
JudasIscariotTheBird replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Yeah, but that was just you trying to remem....nevermind. -
Its a lot like pizza and beer, but with wine instead of beer.
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Huh. I had pizza and wine completely on accident tonight. ...on accident isn't the right word, but you get the idea.
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
JudasIscariotTheBird replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Yeah, but you quoted the wrong part of the rule. You meant to quote this part: Now we can all sleep easy! -
General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
JudasIscariotTheBird replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
There are no force outs available in a walk situation, so this can't be right. It seems the rules are murky: http://www.umpire.org/index.php/stories-archive/16-ruleball/229-Walk_Off_Walk -
General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
JudasIscariotTheBird replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
I believe that all of the runners that could be gotten out via force outs need to reach their respective bases, and the winning run needs to touch the plate. -
Its fine to get upset and say that things suck or that AB blew or Joe Maddon's glasses are out of style now or whatever. But when you extrapolate your 2 inning anger to pretending the offense is somehow "a joke" over the course of the season, then you've gone off the rails and deep breaths need to be taken. The Cubs are, in fact, awesome. Our rational minds know this. I think a lot of us have programmed ourselves not to believe our rational minds when it says the Cubs are good, because our rational minds knew our meatball minds were tilting the scales in favor of crappy Cub teams for a long, long time. It is...crazy idea, I know...almost like a bunch of fans following sports. There's a big ol' middle ground between, "I don't even own an emotion about my favorite sports squadron," and, "THIS TERRIBLE GAME MEANS THE CUBS ARE GOING BACK INTO THE CELLAR FOR YEARS TO COME." Completely agree. I made a noise that no human should make when Rizzo lined out to center in the 9th, let alone in the context of a sportball game.
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I mean, when the Cubs were a perennial 85 loss team, every couple inning stretch of suckiness threatened to set me off. But I literally cannot get the least bit worked up for a couple inning stretches of suckiness now, because of context. Its fine to get upset and say that things suck or that AB blew or Joe Maddon's glasses are out of style now or whatever. But when you extrapolate your 2 inning anger to pretending the offense is somehow "a joke" over the course of the season, then you've gone off the rails and deep breaths need to be taken. The Cubs are, in fact, awesome. Our rational minds know this. I think a lot of us have programmed ourselves not to believe our rational minds when it says the Cubs are good, because our rational minds knew our meatball minds were tilting the scales in favor of crappy Cub teams for a long, long time.
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Sure, but its just weirdly reductionist. By the same reasoning you could say that no games matter very much since its just one game. That might be true, but a game against the team you are competing with for a spot is doubly important, no matter the context of the games that came immediately before and after. On a different note, the difference between losing a 3 game set 1-2 and winning a 3 game set 2-1 is a two game swing in the standings. It's only a 1 game swing..... let's say two teams come in tied in a 3 series the team that wins the series leaves 1 game up, the team that loses leaves 1 game down. Nope, two game swing. Consider the outcome if the opposite happens. You go down a game instead. The difference between going up a game and going down a game is two games.
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At least if it's a three-game series. You're only gaining or losing one game. On the whole it can add up. But the potential is there for a serious shift if you get swept. So avoiding a sweep is usually enough for me to not be too upset. Sure, but its just weirdly reductionist. By the same reasoning you could say that no games matter very much since its just one game. That might be true, but a game against the team you are competing with for a spot is doubly important, no matter the context of the games that came immediately before and after. On a different note, the difference between losing a 3 game set 1-2 and winning a 3 game set 2-1 is a two game swing in the standings.
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I do remember Happ pulling a Buckner, but apart from that being literally awesome at 3b.
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http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/gallery/no/john-cleese-no.gif
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The Cubs offense has scored 80 runs over the last 10 games, and leads the league in OBP.. The Royals have scored 67 runs over their past 30 games. Wait until the second half nothing, this is easily the best offense in the NL right now. And in the ten games before the last ten, they scored 29 runs. Not very impressive. Which is why my original post stated that "stats really don’t show how awful the offense can be over the course of several games so often this season." It is almost as of the Cubs are not capable of scoring runs at will, and that their massive amount of runs scored over the course of the season are nearly randomly distributed across all of their games! What a joke offsense, indeed!
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Oscar de la Cruz Suspended 80 Games
JudasIscariotTheBird replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Maybe he got confused, took the masking agent, and forgot to take his cheat juice? -
I got back from a Costco run in time to watch the 8th. Then after the game I come here and see...this. I get that fan is short for fanatic but damn some of you really need to chill and take the long view.
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...off days are brutal.
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Saw this over at Bleecubbieblue. I lol'd.
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I wish Javy was around for the "wordupthome" era, because you just know the Javy character was going to pop up every week...and you wouldn't even have to exaggerate his personality to make him the best character.
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::Looks at American League OF, looks at National League OF, wakes up hours later in an alley behind a dive bar::
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Javy is at .884. Candelario is at .801 Christian Villanueva is at .782
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I've begun to notice that games are more enjoyable when the Cubs play well than when they play poorly. Have any analyitics guys been looking at this phenomenon?
