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The Bears are the only team that knows how to tank right. The Bulls went through a complete tear down rebuild and picked 7th 3 years in a row. The Cubs traded all their players away but built 71-75 win teams.
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Of course the Hawks tie it with 2 mins left and are going to get at least a point. hawks will officially not have the best odds at bedard Edit I'm an idiot, I forgot the Jackets still have a game left
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Ducks up 1-0
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Still need the Ducks to get a point tonight otherwise tonight’s results only increase their odds by 1%
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Correct. Then we get our pick next year but lose it again in 2025 in the DeMar S&T deal with San Antonio
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The most tenured Chicago athlete after today is Kyle Hendricks, who debuted in July 2014. Crazy
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So what is the site traffic like now?
UMFan83 replied to Sammy Sofa's topic in North Side Baseball Issues & Suggestions
Agreed, its felt rather dead lately. I've been surprised to visit after 4-5 hours and seeing maybe 1-2 new posts. I have to admit that even as a "power user" I still feel uncomfortable with the new layout and it doesn't "feel" like home. I was hoping it would by now and I'm sure it will eventually, but maybe this is causing regulars to not visit as much even if its not intentional. -
Losing last night doesnt change our chances of Wemba. If you lose in the play-in you go back into the lottery based on your regular season record. So the Raptors would still have worse odds than us if the Bulls lose tomorrow. Winning tomorrow does of course change our odds from something to nothing. At the end of the day, I get that this play-in is completely meaningless in the long run, but we're in it so I'm rooting them on. Our odds are 1.7% chance of getting Wemba and 8.1% chance of keeping our pick...not consequential enough for me to actively root for losing at this point. If our odds were something like 10% chance of landing Wemba if we lost, I'd definitely be rooting for a loss. But something that comes up 17 times out of 1000...not worth it to me.
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Ian Happ extension? Update: 3 years, $61M
UMFan83 replied to Rex Buckingham's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
And then for some reason he decided to take his anger out on the Cubs the rest of his career. -
Hey you bought us and told us we could be ourselves 😂
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The loser of the 7/8 game is 1-3 so far in games against the 9/10 winner. Ridiculously small sample size to take much from it but it kind of makes sense that that team would struggle knowing they had 2 chances to win 1 game and now their down to 1, while the 9/10 winner is coming off a win and has the mentality all along that they needed to win 2 games.
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OK I was a little excited watching that. Good horsefeathers for Zach to singlehandedly bring the team back. So we either make the playoffs or we have a 1.5% chance of Wemba, I'll take that lol
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Even more depressing when you realize the Bulls are not at all up and coming and were built to win now
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Is anyone actually going to watch this game tonight and if so is there any excitement for it? Normally with a loser goes home type of game I'd be sad about the possibility of the season being over, but I really don't think I'll care much if we never see this Bulls team after tonight lol
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I'll take the series win. This next stretch is going to be tough Next 3 stretches of the season: - Just started a stretch of 13 of 16 games against 2022 playoff teams (SEA, @ LAD, LAD, SD, with 3 @ Oak sandwiched in there) -10 of 10 games against bad teams (@ MIA, @ WAS, vs MIA) -22 of 25 games against 2022 playoff teams (STL, @ MIN, @ HOU, @ PHI, NYM, TB, @ SD with a series against the Reds sandwiched in there)
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There are some articles I just looked up for longest HRs hit at Wrigley. There is a rumored HR by Roberto Clemente that actually left the stadium having been hit just left of the scoreboard. Estimated 535 feet. Of course there's no video of it so hard to verify. There was also Kingman's HR that went approximately 520 ft and landed on Kenmore about 3 houses beyond the Waveland/Kenmore intersection.
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Gotta be one of the longest HRs hit at Wrigley in a long time. I can only think of 1-2 other HRs that landed in the CF bleachers and this one was several rows up.
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Geez, just getting mowed down quickly today. How was that 3 outs already?
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Clearly the scouting report is to swing early against Gilbert, but he's going to end up with a CG because of it.
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First 2 Cubs hitters reached...since then, 12 straight retired. Is this the part where I make the corny "should have saved some runs from last night for today" joke or wait a couple more innings?
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Ugh took 15 innings but Stroman finally gives up a run and is on pace to put up a crooked number
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Glad Bellinger got the ball in the air. I never expect good outcomes when he's up lol
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Ian Happ extension? Update: 3 years, $61M
UMFan83 replied to Rex Buckingham's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
What would his contract have looked like on the open market? It seems like he's happy here and wanted to stay. Going into the FA market at 32 is not awful if he can keep playing like he has in recent years. Edit: Quick google search saw some speculation that a Happ contract would probably be somewhere between Andrew Bennitendi's 5/$75m deal ($15m AAV) and Castellanos' 5/$100m ($20m AAV). Seems like the Cubs probably wanted less years and were willing to go to just over $20m AAV to get the deal done.
