Jake is angry. Jake doesn't like not winning every game. Jake will take out his anger on these losers who are using the douche power of AJ Pierzynski to put a spell on the Cubs. No more. The power of the beard is too strong.
Is there anything about this 41-18 team you feel comfortable with? Is there no downtrend that you're not willing to completely ignore? Yeah it's amazing that they've put together a 41-18 record, but that's because the SP has masked a lot of the glaring problems. I'm actually more worried about the pitching sustaining a strand rate that is higher than what we mocked the Cardinals for last year than I am the offense which has used up all of the fantastic depth they had in March. But in the grand scheme of things my biggest worries are like a 3 on a 1-10 scale. Yes they've gone like 17-12 since their 24-6 start. But 17-12 is still like 96 win pace over the course of a season. And this is a down stretch for this team relatively speaking
Are we just facing better pitching or are the scouting reports basically saying don't nibble, just attack them? Just doesn't seem like we are walking at the rate we were earlier in the year. But we probably walked like 8 times last game and I'm just a moron.
Are we doing individual threads for individual Cubs related trade rumors or just using this one? https://twitter.com/JulieDiCaro/status/741374070898364416
how can one hate a team where Darwin Barney led in WAR (4.6) ? I had no horsefeathering clue Darwin Barney had a 4.6 win season. That is simply beyond the realm of comprehension even if 2/3rds of it was defensive. We should have sold high on him instead of making him 'part of the core' temporarily.
Actually even worse, I looked up the Cubs game on April 23, 2012..... a 3-2 Cubs walkoff win over the St. Louis Cardinals. Yep, we drafted a Cardinals fan.