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Did not realize @Brock Beauchamp was such an elite game thread starter. Keep it going! -
Just think we were 1 out away from starting the road trip 5-0. oh well, I’ll take this. W
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I like this
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I know. I just hate seeing him in the lineup. Seems like a good clubhouse dude that the other players like so that will probably buy him some time.
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Thank you A’s defense
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This game might actually last 3 hours. Not sure why, hasn’t been a ton of offense
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Hosmer 1 for his last 15. It’s time
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Psh. Still want Toronto to lose lol
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Gomes last 5 RBI: -Ground out -Home Run -Home Run - IF single -Ground out
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Yay a run. Put up a crooked number please
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Guess we scored all our runs for the series yesterday
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Salt Lake City wants a team now too apparently. Personally think they should worry about their source of water drying up over the next 5 years leading to airborne arsenic floating through the city, but that’s just me.
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Nothing says you’re a serious baseball team like having Gomes, Hosmer and Torrens hitting 7-8-9 in your lineup
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Contreras has hit his first 2 Cardinals home runs to turn an Arizona comfortable win into a 1 run game
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Do we? I mean please go ahead and get swept in the next year but the Leafs annual first round flameout is too hilarious. Now I know why neutral fans would randomly cheer against the Cubs before we won the World Series
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Stroman has zero command in the 1st
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Has solid start changed your expectations for 2023 Cubs?
UMFan83 replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Well I feel dumb for drinking the kool aid this afternoon 😅. I just did not have a very optimistic outlook on this years team, and I'm seeing some things that I believe are positive and sustainable. But of course the Cubs can just as easily go 2-5 in their next 7 and all the happy vibes go away. Long season with many peaks and valleys to go. -
Crazy that Lampard couldn't keep Chelsea in the Champions League
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Has solid start changed your expectations for 2023 Cubs?
UMFan83 posted a topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
We're kind of at that part of the season where its still super early to draw definitive conclusions, but we are starting to learn more about a team's identity. There have been plenty of teams historically that start off well and still end up losing 90+ games, but at least so far it feels like what the Cubs are doing is fairly sustainable. No, the offense probably isn't going to finish 3rd in the league in runs per game like it is now, but it looks like it will be better than last year. Plus there are guys like Morel and Mervis in Iowa that can provide reinforcements at positions of need (1B and DH). I had them in the 74-78 win range to start the season and maybe I'm just feeling good about the 7-3 stretch here but I'm bumping it up to 80-84 wins while allowing for the possibility that they might actually be playoff caliber. -
I was a bit worried that we were underrating them until I saw the Tony Kemp poster giveaway ad behind home plate. But seriously though its baseball so anything can happen the next 2 games.
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Well at the very least it makes sense that the 4th and 5th spots would be the highest because thats what happens when teams jump you. If one team jumps you and gets into the lottery, you're 4th. If 2 teams jump you, you're 5th. I don't quite understand why the Hawks couldn't fall to 6th. If none of the bottom 3 teams win a lottery spot, shouldn't that make the Hawks 6th after the Blue Jackets at 5 and Ducks at 4? Based on the posted odds it looks like they guarantee the worst team no worse than 3rd (do they just not hold the drawing for the 3rd pick in this situation?)
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The Patrick Wisdom appreciation thread
UMFan83 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I joked last week about the unlikeliness of an age 31 breakout season for Wisdom but umm....maybe? -
Chicago Bears Offseason Thread (the tank must payoff)
UMFan83 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Feel like with 7 rounds and 60+ player rosters including practice squad, they need that long to scout and prepare for the draft? Just a guess. Plus the NFL prefers having FA before the draft which in many cases it affects their draft planning, whereas the NBA is reversed. But the real answer in my mind is that it keeps people talking about the NFL for longer. The NBA literally has the draft 1 week after the Finals have ended, I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult for the NFL to have the draft in mid-March instead of at the end of April. -
10 runs on 20 hits for the Cubs. Felt like a really long game for whatever reason. Nope 2 hours and 48 minutes..which I guess is long now
