UMFan83
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Who cares? Just interesting to see a team score 2 runs that were all put on base and scored via walks and no other method -
Holy horsefeathers
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Geez. White Sox score 2 runs in an inning off of 5 walks
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This is strange but I read something today about how a potential reason Bryant's K rate has gone down is that he's focusing on lowering his launch angle, meaning less of an upper cut swing. I wonder if this is a team wide concept they focused on in the spring. I'm not sure if team wide Ks are down but the Cubs offense has been horsefeathering awesome despite being middle of the pack in dongs.
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Addy heating the horsefeathers up
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Things are going so well right now that I'm genuinely shocked when one of our pitchers gives up a HR
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I don't like when people horsefeathers with run differential
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I have no idea why Javy wasn't sent.
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This is odd, even for Dusty: [tweet] [/tweet]
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all the weather reports I've seen suggest the rain stopping sometime between 7-8pm. The Cubs will likely do everything possible to play this one, as they already have 3 home makeups on the schedule.
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He won't be laughing when it costs him millions in arbitration
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Damn. Cubs and Padres have a common off day next Monday with the Padres playing in Milwaukee on Sunday and the Cubs at home. On Tuesday the Cubs would go to Milwaukee and the Padres back to SD. If it was a 1:20 start it would be plenty of time for the Padres to get home and play a 9:00 start the next night. Now we will be off Monday, Thursday and next Monday. 2nd time in 3 weeks that we will have 3 off days in an 8 day span. Thanks Chicago weather
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Forecast took a turn for the worse it looks like. I can't see this one starting. This would be 3 rainouts in the last 10 scheduled home games.
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I had no idea Weeks was still a thing.
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i find the whole over-the-top camo oo-rah thing really distasteful so thats what I marshal when I want to dislike them for something I know this has nothing to do about their fans but I hate the franchise because of 1984 alone even though I was too young. Hate how one of the only successes in their entire franchise history was at our expense. Also they lost playoff series to the Cardinals twice in the 00's including the year their 83 win POS team won the world series
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Not to dwell on the negative, but with the Cubs, you can actually see their six losses easily. But it's only because they stick out on an amazing upward trend. I LOVE THIS TEAM!!! You can also see when they play the Reds
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If Schwarber can bounce like that right now he can just DH for us in AL Parks and pinch hit right now! I know its extremely doubtful but I'd love him somehow to make it on the playoff roster. Wasn't Adrian Peterson playing in the NFL 7 months after his torn ACL and dominating? Yes but the Cubs are not going to risk rushing back a 23 year old, make him play OF (or catcher) 7 months after tearing his ACL and UCL for a team that is likely to win over 100 games without him. Even if he just PH's, it would be completely unlike the Cubs FO to gamble like that. Plus baseball hitters typically need to get ABs and swings in to get their timing back and get in a rhythm. Bringing back a cold Schwarber into a playoff game would be a huge risk.
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Miggy was taking early BP today. He is eligible to come off the DL tomorrow.
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Are the playoffs still a crapshoot when you're THIS good?
UMFan83 replied to Cubbie Swagger's topic in General Baseball Talk
Are you surprised when you flip a coin 10 times and it comes up heads for 8 of them? In the 96-01 Yankees case, its flipping it 15 times and landing on heads 14 times. For the Giants, its flipping 9 times and getting heads 9 times (or 10 in a row if you count the 2014 WC game as a round). Sure its possible in a 50/50 environment, but its improbable (probability of flipping 9 heads in a row is 0.2%, 10 times in a row 0.01%) -
Are the playoffs still a crapshoot when you're THIS good?
UMFan83 replied to Cubbie Swagger's topic in General Baseball Talk
Thread title: Are the playoffs still a crapshoot when you're THIS good? Comment in thread from OP Cubbie Swagger, who you crappin? -
Are the playoffs still a crapshoot when you're THIS good?
UMFan83 replied to Cubbie Swagger's topic in General Baseball Talk
It's a slightly weighted crapshoot IMO. Smart people have been trying to figure out the secret formula for winning in October for years and pretty much every theory has been debunked. Great pitching? Sounds great until you remember the 90's Braves. Great hitting? the 90's Indians are one of many examples of great teams that went cold at the wrong time. 2001 Mariners won 116 games, led the MLB in RS and RA and barely got past the ALDS and lost the ALCS in 5. In 2008 there was a lot of talk of a secret sauce that involved power pitchers, good closer and good defense as being the key to winning in October. I believe the Cubs were well regarded in all 3 areas and got swept out of the NLDS. But every time I am convinced its a 100% crapshoot, the 90's Yankees, 2010-2014 Giants, even the stinking Cardinals of recent years seem to have succeeded more often than you'd expect in a crapshoot while teams like the 2000's Twins and A's have failed more than you'd expect to in a crapshoot. So I think there are small things that give a team a higher probability of winning playoff series, but even then its just a weighted crapshoot. -
Just for fun...through 30 games: 1906 Cubs (116-36) - 21-9 +58 RD 2001 Mariners (116-46) - 23-7 +55 RD 1998 Yankees (114-48) - 23-7 +48 RD 2016 Cubs - 24-6 +102 RD
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That was not a clown move bro
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EDIT: To their credit, the rest of the posters are shooting this guy down, but still. What is the message board? I have a hard time finding a good Pirates forum
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I am willing to bet he will match up favorably to almost every team's #3. But I would like some insurance in case he's hurt/falters. Hammel and Hendricks are fine regular season guys and might even work in the postseason again, but they are already starting to struggle to go 6 IP. Last year in the playoffs Hammel and Hendricks started 4 games and failed to go 5 in any of them, which continued a 2nd half trend of struggling to give innings. I know its splitting hairs to worry about the 4th and 5th starters on a possible 110 win team that is leading the MLB in runs allowed this year, but I want to eliminate as many potential weak spots as possible.
