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  1. UMFan83
    Not concerned about that. The Packers could be bad but there's no way they are worse than the Cardinals and possibly Texans.
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    ^^^ Hell yeah. Tweet:
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    Depends on how Love plays TBH. For my sanity, Love has to turn out to be a bust, or at least not a HOF level QB
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    I kind of hate how this is the first game of the season. This will be framed as a referendum on Love vs. Fields fair or not as its the first game of a "new Packers era" and the first game in the "Justin Fields breakout season" that we all hope is happening. While the one game probably doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, Bears fans have been waiting 15+ years to gain some sort of foothold in the rivalry and it would be disheartening to see them outplay us and beat us yet again in Chicago. On the flip side, winning would be a huge confidence boost and put doubt and worry in the hearts of Packers fans which I want so badly.
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    For tonight I'm really worried about Taillon. The Brewers have several lefthanded (or SH) bats that can crush pitching and several of them are hitting well right now. We all know Taillon's struggles against lefites. Taillon was the one Cubs starter that missed the 4 gamer in Milwaukee in July, but pitched against them way back in the opening series of the season back in April and gave up 3 runs on 7 hits in just 4 IP. Also, I went over to the BrewerFan site that I've been creeping on for 16 years to see what they were saying expecting to pull out some gems of disrespect but to my surprise they were largely respectful of the Cubs. I'm more nervous about the series in more of a "the Brewers have annoyed their way into being my 2nd least favorite team" standpoint and I'd love to quiet them down, but I'm not terribly concerned about the division. I want to win it of course, but if we lose I'll be more worried about who we might be losing ground to in the WC race than I will be lamenting falling another game behind Milwaukee. Others may feel different, I just see the division as cool bragging rights and an extra playoff spot to go after but not something that changes the Cubs odds of advancing much in October.
  6. UMFan83
    One less former Bear at Soldier Field in 2 weeks as the Packers cut Pat O'Donnell
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    I get that there's something weird about this situation and my mind wandered there too but I'm not sure how refusing to play or slow playing an injury benefits him at all. Unless you are suggesting that he went up to the press box to talk to reporters simply to control the message about his injury because he's upset at the Cubs org for not engaging with him on an extension.
  8. UMFan83
    Pretty much a non-update update but Jed still talking as if there's a chance Stro pitches again this year
  9. UMFan83
    Speaking of Webster
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    And Pettis is out for the season. Not that we were counting on Pettis for much this year but additional WR depth issues. Webster did look pretty good in the preseason, albeit against opponents 3rd teams, but they seemed to have some plays in place to specifically take advantage of his speed. So we're looking at Moore - Claypool - Scott - ESB - Velus - Webster One stud, one oft-injured question mark, 1 4th round rookie, 1 journeymn, 1 2nd year guy who fumbles all the time and 1 journeyman with speed. Seems suboptimal, especially how thin we look if/when Claypool misses time.
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    I'm not ready to say we have stability in all 5 positions yet. For one, Wicks has had 1 start and is going to be limited to a 4-5 inning starter at most it seems like for a variety of reasons. He has the stuff and the pedigree to be a mainstay but need to see more than 1 start. Assad has been a revelation but also has a FIP 3 runs higher than his ERA as a starter (note: its possible that FIP is not very reliable in small sample sizes). The stuff looks good on paper but a small part of me is bracing for regression. But unless he completely flops for 3-4 starts in a row, he's pretty locked into this rotation at this point so in that respect there is some stability 1-4 at least. Hopefully Wicks can make us feel comfortable about the 5th spot too after 1-2 more starts.
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    I posted this in the camp thread but since its Week 1 time, Bears cut PJ Walker and Leatherwood so far
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    PJ Walker cut too Looks like we know who QB2 is
  14. UMFan83
    Well so much for that experiment
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    Yeah kind of crazy, 20 of our last 32 are against teams we're currently competing against for playoff spots. Schedule is broken down like this: Competing against for playoff spots (20 games): vs. MIL, @ MIL @ CIN vs. SF vs. ARI, @ ARI Bad teams (9 games): @ COL, vs. COL vs. PIT Great teams (3 games): @ ATL
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    So what are the biggest roster decisions the Bears have to make this week? I was expecting raw to have a full write up already. Come on man you’re slacking 😂
  17. UMFan83
    Looks like Arizona is gonna win today. Up 5-2 in the 8th. If so, we’ll be 2 games clear of the playoff cutline and 0.5 ahead of Arizona for WC2
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    In reality we’ll likely either be 3 back or 5 back. I can handle winning 2 of 3 and stopping their winning streak.
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    Anyways, I know you shouldn't expect a team to go 8-4 regardless of who they are playing, but that's kind of what I was targeting for the Cubs going into this stretch. I'd call 8-4 "getting the job done". And we did it without playing our best baseball Next cool benchmark would be to hit 10 games over .500 as it would be the 8th time in 9 seasons that we were able to do that at some point (2021 is a cheapie I know)
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    Holy horsefeathers, I thought they were only 2 back. Geez, guess I was wrong. So best case scenario we're either 1.5 games ahead of WC2 or 2 games clear of a playoff spot (CIN) and 3 games clear of the Giants
  21. UMFan83
    Brewers have tied it up and have the bases loaded and 1 out. Gonna have an 8 game winning streak going into Chicago it looks like
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    Belli with 5 RBI and a HR short of the cycle edit: guess they are calling it a double and advancing on the throw, nvm
  23. UMFan83
    Marlins win, will stay 2 GB the Cubs assuming they finish this off
  24. UMFan83
    Seiya literally just stole a run with his baserunning took the extra base on his hit, tagged up on gomes flyout, scored on a dribbler to the pitcher and had a perfect slide to avoid the tag
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    Doubles machine Seiya Suzuki
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