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I'm sure they'll roll over for us too this week right?
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College Football - "Week Zero" and Week 1 (Aug. 26-Sept. 3)
UMFan83 replied to Andy's topic in Other Sports
horsefeathers Peacock. I'm currently arguing with Comcast that I should be a Platinum rewards member and not a Gold rewards member due to my cable service at my old house because Platinum members get Peacock for free. -
I hear ya. I guess there's just not enough to talk about. He threw 3 passes, one of them was a bit off the mark. I think the discourse is stupid, we should be hyped up about Fields' playmakers breaking off 2 long TD runs, or how well the defense looked after the first drive, or nothing at all because its a completely meaningless preseason game. I think the fan base is excited and nervous about Fields knowing that if he's going to be the elite QB we all think/hope he can be, its going to happen this year or never. If you are on twitter enough you have seen thousands of potshots at Fields for being "just a running back" over the last 6+ months. Fans are itching to see Fields prove them wrong, so everything he does is going to be amplified until he does prove them wrong. Then when he does that, other team's fans will find some reason that Fields can't be a top 5 QB, and Bears fans will go nuts over that, and the process will continue until he's as successful as Patrick Mahomes.
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Reds win game 2, Giants also won their game So we lost ground on the Brewers, Giants, Marlins and Reds (0.5 game) We stayed even with the Phillies Not a great day to lose!
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That 4 wins in a row consisted of playing 2 teams that are on average 26 games under .500. They won the first one by 1 in the 10th inning, the second one by 1 in the 10th inning, the third one by 1 run before finally winning a game by a decent margin (4 runs) today. I don't think the Brewers are playing all that well right now. Of course, they way they are built (bad offense, good pitching) they will naturally play many more close games, and to their credit they won the games when they easily could have gone 2-2 or 1-3 in that stretch. As it stands, the gap between the Cubs and Brewers SOS has only widened over the last week or two. Based on pure record, the average remaining Brewers opponent is roughly 5 wins better than the average Cubs opponent (82-80 team vs. 77-85 team), and if you go by Fangraphs remaining SOS, the gap is even larger at 7 games (83-79 team vs. 76-86 team). I think that difference in schedule is enough to cover the 3.5 game gap and the division will come down to the 6 H2H games. This isn't really responding to anything specific in this argument, just general thoughts on Cubs vs. Brewers.
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Yes that's exactly whats happening here. You nailed it.
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So Brewers win Reds lose game 1 Phillies lose Giants are winning 1-0 Looking like 3.5 behind in Central, 0.5 behind Marlins in WC, either tied or 1 game ahead of the Reds and either 1.5 or 2.5 behind the Giants
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Guess Kilian still isn’t ready to pitch in the majors lol 2 HBP, 2 singles, 1 double, 3 runs allowed in his inning of work
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Wisdom does the one good thing he can do
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Seems like a bad thing that every single member of the rotation is on a poor run right now. Steele is still pitching decent with a 3.54 ERA since the start of July, but also gotten a bit fortunate with 8 (!) different unearned runs during that period, 5 of them coming off one error. His ERA is over 5 during that stretch with less generous scorers calls. You can't ignore those errors but the fact that he allowed 5 runs to score after the error doesn't help prove that he's pitching well lately. Stroman's ERA is over 9 over the past 7 weeks, but hopefully the time off gets him right Smyly (who is expected to return to the rotation 'soon' according to Ross) has an ERA close to 10 over the last 2 months Hendricks has an ERA of 5.59 over the last 6 weeks Taillon was pitching well but got lit up today and his season ERA is 5.71 And yet during this stretch the Cubs are playing their best stretch of winning baseball this season. Offense + bullpen + defense > bad starting pitching
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I do appreciate the Cubs offense going cold only on days when they're getting blown out.
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Hope they play well against the scrubs and the Brewers struggle against good teams. It often feels like when you get these stretches it doesn’t end up being as easy as it seems
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Ross loves punting on games for some reason
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Well you see they are on this really tough stretch and only have 2 off days in the next 4 days
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Brewers winning, Marlins losing, Reds scoreless in game 1
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I think the other 2 were fine. I know he’s struggled in the past but we’re putting a lot of weight on one pass attempt. If he’s been working on mechanics all offseason to improve we’ll hopefully see it as he gets more game action.
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If the Cubs lose this they will fall to 3-9 when attempting to complete a sweep
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And a 3 run HR, Cubs trail error (called a hit), HBP and HR
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Taillon has no command today
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What is it you say you do here Wisdom?
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Legit impressive hustle from Vlad. Thought that was a sure DP even with the slow bounce
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Seems like Seiya has gone back to being too passive early in counts. Granted those were some good pitches by Ryu and one was a borderline strike but I’ve noticed him taking first pitch strikes again the last 2 days
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The Cubs are 50-50 in their last 100 games, they are thoroughly mediocre
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Good horsefeathers Dansby
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For as good as the Cubs have been lately, they have not swept a 3+ game series since mid-June against the Pirates. Their 3 sweeps this year have been at Pirates, vs Pirates and at Oakland. Seems like every time they have a chance to sweep they drop the final game. Hopefully that changes today!
