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  1. UMFan83
    4-6 to start the 25 game stretch against sub .500 teams with all 4 of the wins coming by 1 or 2 runs
  2. UMFan83
    This is on the offense. Unbelievably poor showing. Yet another game that was right there for the Cubs to win but they couldn’t help but blow it with poor relief pitching, terrible situational hitting and inexplicable unforced errors like Amayas kicked ball. I’m sorry but you can’t consistently shoot yourself in the foot for 2 months and call it a cold spell. Maybe I’m wrong and there’s a 2023 like hot stretch in there but I think this is just the 2024 Cubs identity
  3. UMFan83
    The existence of the 2024 Chicago Cubs is so pointless ”Hey you know the guy that literally cannot stop putting runners on base every single time he’s in? Let’s make him the closer!”
  4. UMFan83
    Thank God Seiya didn’t drop that one
  5. UMFan83
    Don’t make me add to my list of Cubs leads/ties that were immediately blown in the first inning the bullpen pitches
  6. UMFan83
    What the horsefeathers was that? Unbelievable
  7. UMFan83
    To add to this, I just realized that one of those 4 wins was in 10 innings when the Cubs randomly put up a 5 spot (and gave 2 back). So only 3 relatively unstressful Cubs wins over their last 40 games. To compare, in the Cubs first 26 games they had 9 wins by 3+ runs
  8. UMFan83
    Lots of baserunners, not lots of runs. These are the types of games that are unnecessarily stressful with our crappy pen looming 2 runs on 9 hits and a walk tonight. In our last 40 games, only 4 have resulted in a Cubs win by more than 2 runs
  9. UMFan83
    Bote showing these guys how it’s done.
  10. UMFan83
    Happ is 1 for his last 17. “Hot” streak over? At least the one hit was a 3 run double in a rare Cubs win
  11. UMFan83
    I know every fanbase complains about not getting runners home from 3rd with less than 2 outs but dammit Tauchman
  12. UMFan83
    Have to say that while I haven’t watched the Cubs a lot lately, when I have it looks like Amaya is hitting the ball with more authority.
  13. UMFan83
    You are right in that the Cubs are in a group of 8 teams that are all within 2 games of each other and fighting for 2 playoff spots. You are right that we were in a worse situation last year and managed to barely avoid being sellers by ripping off a 50-28 stretch (essentially playing like a 104 win team for 2.5 months). So as of right now they shouldn't sell. If they are in a similar position at the deadline they should buy. But chances are, out of those 8 teams, 2-3 of them are likely to go on a run (and the Cubs could absolutely be one of those 2-3 teams that get hot.). And most of those 8 teams will also possibly buy. I'm not even sure what my point is other than the fact we're going to likely have to play quite a bit better over the next 6 weeks to remain in similar playoff positioning. Last year we dug ourselves such a big hole that we had to play like world beaters for almost half the season. This season the hole isn't as big but we're probably not going to be able to play .500 baseball and expect to buy when we get to late July and teams are starting to sell off.
  14. UMFan83
    Haha yeah, but my kids didn't care. He had a couple of good touches within the first few minutes of entering the match and created a chance or two but seemed like Argentina went into a bit of a shell afterwards. Had one free kick everyone was holding their breath for that sailed over the net too. Either way my kids lit up seeing him warming up and then getting into the game. Also my last name is DeMaria and my kids believed for at least a year that Di Maria was related to us despite me insisting otherwise. But they still love him and were thrilled to see him score. All in all worth the cost of going. Edit: Also, apparently my kids were on TV for a good 5 seconds just before the match started so I had people texting me pictures and videos of it 😂
  15. UMFan83
    4 times in the last 6 innings the Cubs have had a RISP and haven’t scored. They did score in the 2nd but still had 2nd and 3rd with 1 out and didn’t score again.
  16. UMFan83
    I see we are having one of those games where we nurse a medium size lead, consistently get RISP but don’t score them leaving us in a position for the pen to blow it
  17. UMFan83
    Awful ab for morel with 2 RISP and 1 out. When the reds come back and make this close, I’ll remember that ab
  18. UMFan83
    Who the horsefeathers cares 😂
  19. UMFan83
    On the plus side my kids finally nagged me enough to agree to spend a ridiculous amount of money to see Messi at Soldier Field tomorrow. Watch him not play.
  20. UMFan83
    Technically when Derwood said that they were in last place as the Cardinals had not lost yet.
  21. UMFan83
    Pretty disappointing performance. The number of blunders we made to directly put Colombia in position for great chances is alarming. They could have easily had 5 goals today. But whatever, we've looked bad in the build up to big tournaments in the past, we'll see how things look when the games are real. But sobering for sure. Edit: LMAO, I turned it off after the 3rd goal in ~78thish minute. I didn't realize Colombia actually did get 5 goals. OK then, could have had 7 goals today.
  22. UMFan83
    Well Seiya is on the shelf too but not on the IL, so 24 man roster!
  23. UMFan83
    The 2 teams from mighty big market Chicago are collectively looking up at 8 small market teams in their respective divisions. Unreal
  24. UMFan83
    God we suck. It just keeps getting worse.
  25. UMFan83
    Why didn’t Wilson throw like this with us?
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