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I thought this game started at 7:15 damn you game starter. Actually you spared me an annoying 2 innings so thanks

Announce the entire roster including starters Tuesday at I think 6 CT

Half of those games have come in the last 18 days where the Cubs have been in an offensive funk (relative to April and May) punctuated by multiple rookies playing everyday and making adjustments. They will be fine long term

Cubs are 0-15 this series with RISP

Heyward with a .640 season OPS in July. Can we Castro him causing him to tear it up in August and September?

Short term plan is acquire Wade and hope LeBron wants to do his Wade/Paul super team plan in Chicago since Wade is already here

And Moore spurned us for NO

Hammel went from 2.58 ERA to 3.45 ERA tonight. Awesome

Keep in mind the Mets just came off a 4 game losing streak that included a Nats 3 game sweep where the Mets scored a total of 6 runs. But I guess the Nats didn't throw a sh!tstick named Hammel out there

Is our RD in the negatives yet?

Hammel is a freaking dumpster fire

We have the best record in baseball and are going to win over 100 games. I don't find that disheartening. you know exactly what i'm saying. you don't have to pretend like you haven't been disappointed in the team lately. Lately? Sure. To say this is turning into a disappointing season though is strange. You are a good poster not known for overreacting though so I'm gonna assume you just meant this stretch is disappointing.

Nobody in baseball has hit more home runs than Kris Bryant has this year. No one in the National League has hit as many HRs as Kris Bryant this year.

Hey at some point they went from playing out of this world to slumping. Based on record alone this is when the "slump" started record wise. I put slump in parenthesis because we're still 14-12 in that period which is an 87 win pace I think he's talking more about the idea that we can't beat good teams and can only beat bad teams now. Everyone knows we haven't played as well. But there's nothing to this sub-.500 and above-.500 split. It's small sample size nonsense. So this is where I get annoying and everyone hates it but I can't help myself. I know that doesn't say anything about the 2016 Cubs I just like get off on tidbits like that for some reason.

Bryant struggling against good pitching again

Mr. Arbitrary Endpoints strikes again! Yeah, this has not been fun though. Hey at some point they went from playing out of this world to slumping. Based on record alone this is when the "slump" started record wise. I put slump in parenthesis because we're still 14-12 in that period which is an 87 win pace

Since June 3rd Record vs sub .500 teams: 12-3 +53 RD Record vs + .500 teams: 2-9 (not including tonight) -20 RD

I cannot wait until we replace Hammel at the deadline. I don't care if he's fine as a 5th starter I hate him so much irrationally

Remember when we were discussing Cubs starter regression and debating how bad it would be? Granted the starters haven't been horrible at all but there's been a clear downgrade in results the last 3 weeks.

Rondo was in Chicago today and met with the Bulls

Yup just can't seem to beat anyone good lately.

Haha you suck if you gave up a HR to James Loney

Yes it did because we had the MVP (deserved or not he was an elite superstar) and the role players we signed fit around that MVP. If we strike out in 2017 we have Jimmy Butler and marginal role players. what? butler isn't far off from what rose was (aside from age which obviously didn't wind up mattering since he had the knees of a 45 year old)...seems like a combination of rose being overrated and jimmy being underrated. especially once you factor in defense. i have no idea how your differentiating the 2010-11 role players from the theoretical ones signed next offseason. In Rose's MVP season he was worth 13.1 wins, and a VORP of 6. Last year Jimmy was worth 9.1 wins (11.2 year before) and 4.2 VORP. 1) The number were closer than I thought so maybe I am underrating Jimmy a bit, but there's still a clear difference between the value of Rose in his MVP season and Jimmy, more than what you imply IMO. 2) I have no idea how accurate those numbers are at judging value in basketball, but they seem to be pretty relied on in baseball so I'll use them I'm not differentiating the role players in 2010 from next offseason. In fact the players they get next year could be better. I just don't think there is much on the Bulls besides Jimmy that these FAs would be coming to whereas Booz, Brewer, Korver and Watson were joining a team that had Rose, Deng and Noah. Thus they are very unlikely to build a 62 win team from whats left in FA after the top guys spurn the Bulls.