Jump to content
North Side Baseball

UMFan83

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    94,552

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    67

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by UMFan83

  1. UMFan83
    Philly is an extreme tanking example, but who knows they have a ton of young talent and assets because of it. Noel, Embiid, Okafor, Simmons, Saric, Kings pick swap in 2017, Lakers 2017 pick (top 3 protected or else unprotected in 2018), Kings 2019 pick (unprotected) All very nice assets to varying degrees and they are way under the cap still. A decent front office could have that team into a legit contender in 2 years IMO. That said was it worth almost destroying the franchise and turning into a laughing stock for 4 years? I don't know we will see. a legit contender to lose to the cavs at best (unless lebron bolts) We will see, in 2 years and change LeBron will be 34 and will have played about 4,000 less minutes than Kobe did. If Ben Simmons becomes a superstar and they make smart moves with their assets and cap space to build a team around him, they are going to be scary. Still a lot of work to be done but the most painful part, the accumulation of assets, is nearly done.
  2. UMFan83
    Philly is an extreme tanking example, but who knows they have a ton of young talent and assets because of it. Noel, Embiid, Okafor, Simmons, Saric, Kings pick swap in 2017, Lakers 2017 pick (top 3 protected or else unprotected in 2018), Kings 2019 pick (unprotected) All very nice assets to varying degrees and they are way under the cap still. A decent front office could have that team into a legit contender in 2 years IMO. That said was it worth almost destroying the franchise and turning into a laughing stock for 4 years? I don't know we will see.
  3. UMFan83
    Rain expected tonight. Day off would not be the worst thing ever.
  4. UMFan83
    Jimmy shot 31% from 3 last year. The league average from 3 was 35.4%. He did shoot 37% the year before though so I'd say "average" is a better term that "good"
  5. UMFan83
  6. UMFan83
    Woj is saying Bulks might need to give up picks to get teams to take their contracts. If that's the case I go from "horsefeathers it just do it I guess" to "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
  7. UMFan83
    https://twitter.com/noslliw19/status/750803396077035520 Miggy DFA soon? He's even taking over his twitter cheerleader job.
  8. UMFan83
    Yes its just extremely frustrating to be talking about a 5-12 stretch when like 2 weeks ago we were still talking about winning 116 games. Sick of losing and want to feel cocky again. But its all in perspective.
  9. UMFan83
    Pretty sure Hammel is pitching tomorrow Arrieta, Lester, Hendricks going against Pittsburgh.
  10. UMFan83
    27-26 since the 25-6 start. It's ok to be concerned and frustrated, which I am both. But panic? No way. There are teams that win 95 games that play .500 baseball for a large chunk of the season. I post the above 27-26 stat, but that's so misleading because that is broken down into 22-14 followed by 5-12. Your stat about 16-17 is really 11-5 followed by 5-12. They are playing terrible, in fact much worse than I expected the team to play at any point in this season (this 5-12 stretch is worse than any 17 game stretch the Cubs had last year by 2 full games), but there is nothing to panic about. It's not like this was a team playing over their heads and getting lucky and running out to a big lead. They played like a great team that was so good they were actually getting unlucky with their record. Their start was among the best in baseball history. That doesn't happen on accident.
  11. UMFan83
    Unfortunately it comes after a series against the Pirates who are suddenly playing well and can really cut into our division lead with a sweep. Normally a sweep would be the farthest thing from my mind but with the way we've been playing lately...
  12. UMFan83
    5-12 in our last 17, is this rock bottom?
  13. UMFan83
    Really needed more than a popup there Heyward
  14. UMFan83
    - Russell getting fixed - Bryzzo going on monster tears - Carl's Jr coming up and suddenly not walking guys - Warren coming up and giving five solid - etc. It's actually pretty interesting how a whole lot is going great for this team: all of those things plus Addisson being a monster at the plate, Zobrist showing power again, and yet in the last two weeks they've lost a whole bunch of games because everyone in the starting rotation except Hendricks has had bad starts and the bullpen has been a revolving door of blown saves I enjoyed it when it seemed like a lot was going wrong but we were winning, like last year when we scored like 4 runs in sweeping the mets.
  15. UMFan83
    post-June Hammel says hi!
  16. UMFan83
    It's tough. You get used to the nice pick me up from a Cubs win on more days than not, and then all the sudden for almost 3 weeks you've only gotten that bump a couple of times.
  17. UMFan83
    Thanks Seal Boy you [expletive]
  18. UMFan83
    This is just going great
  19. UMFan83
    Maybe we can have a walkoff win in the 9th to turn this funk around in a hurry.
  20. UMFan83
    Montero makes one of our last 9 outs on the next pitch
  21. UMFan83
  22. UMFan83
    Or not
  23. UMFan83
    Since June 1st we've only won 1 game while scoring less than 5 runs. Ideally we tack on 6-7 more runs and win handily, but if the offense can't do much more it would be really nice to win a low scoring game for the first time in awhile.
  24. UMFan83
    I have a lot more confidence in Cahill than the other Cubs middle relievers these days, but I think that's because he hasn't pitched all that much meaning not as many opportunities to f up since that Nationals game
  25. UMFan83
    Bravo Warren. I hope Hammel Time plays well in middle relief.
×
×
  • Create New...