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  1. UMFan83
    not good
  2. UMFan83
    Meh, Schwindel has 4-5 more PAs to make up those 2 runs
  3. UMFan83
    at least he didn't say he was hacked:
  4. UMFan83
    Stupid Washington losing last weekend and not giving Michigan a shot at a ranked win.
  5. UMFan83
    Just watch, if Donald kills Dalton, Nagy will run Foles out there and the excuse will be veteran blah blah, experience blah blah. Actually this is a low key interesting question if Foles will even dress most games since the emergency QB rule isn't in effect anymore. I don't think they've had a 3QB room since that rule went into effect. He'd better not dress and take a gameday roster spot from someone else that can contribute
  6. UMFan83
    Depressing FYI about sample size: Bryan LaHair first 33 games of 2012: .361/.453/.722/1.175, 10 HR Frank Schwindel first 33 games with the Cubs through yesterday: .374/.421/.699/1.120, 10 HR LaHair was also 29 and played 1B coming off a somewhat surprising MiLB breakout the season before
  7. UMFan83
    I posted this a couple of days ago but its worth updating as it has changed: 2021 Cubs pre-deadline: .227/.308/.398/.705 2021 Cubs post-deadline: .249/.306/.418/.724
  8. UMFan83
    "We really liked our roster going into the offseason and didn't feel we needed to get our payroll any higher than $75 million. This will give us flexibility to add a player or two around the deadline"
  9. UMFan83
    Why are you saying he's not a full time player? If he continues hitting anywhere near what he has done so far, he certainly would be the full time 1B next year. Sure if he does he would be an excellent full time player. People are rightly wary of someone with ok minor league numbers breaking out at age 29 and don't want to hand out starting spots based on a still small sample size of ~150 PAs. He could be legit but its still early to tell for sure.
  10. UMFan83
    If you simply removed the Cubs 2 longest losing streaks of the season they’d be 64-53
  11. UMFan83
    And then the 6th happened
  12. UMFan83
    Happ 3 run blast
  13. UMFan83
    https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32133086/simulating-2021-nfl-season-projecting-285-games-biggest-storylines-super-bowl-winner Pure fluff here but I’ll share. This is just one of 20,000 simulations that ESPN did on the season but this one is interesting for the Bears. They start out the season 1-6, Dalton is benched after the 4th game. Then they miraculously go 7-3 the rest of the way to finish 8-9 and win the 7th seed where they narrowly lose to the 49ers 20-17. It doesn’t have stats but it implies Fields started out slow but then started playing well leading to the comeback. In this sim the Bills beat the Packers in the SB
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  15. UMFan83
    Well we automatically make it in 2026
  16. UMFan83
    This team is so out of sync. Players look like they have never played together
  17. UMFan83
    We gonna make some subs? Wtf
  18. UMFan83
    horsefeathers And that’s the first time the US has conceded a goal in 6 games
  19. UMFan83
    That’s the first time the US scored a goal between the 2nd minute and 82nd minute in 6 games
  20. UMFan83
    This game has been so tense. Thank god we put one in You could feel it coming
  21. UMFan83
    Not liking the start so far. Aren’t able to get anything going with the ball and have allowed a couple of scary counters What the horsefeathers is Dest doing out there?
  22. UMFan83
    Ages of guys that are playing right now and could be part of the future: Rivas - 24 Happ - 26 Hermosillo - 26 Contreras - 29 Schwindel - just turned 29 Wisdom - just turned 30 Ortega - 30 This is not like 2014 when Javy and Soler were in their early 20s making the Cubs fun again but none of these guys are even 31. I don’t expect any of them to be all star starters but they are young enough to give a few productive seasons. If we found a couple of pieces that can legitimately provide value over the next couple of years that’s great. Would I rather have the 6th pick in the draft then a couple of bench guys? Sure. But I’m not terribly upset that they won’t.
  23. UMFan83
    There's a huge difference between drafting 12th where the Cubs are likely headed now (or even higher) and drafting 6th The Cubs draft spot is a rounding error in their long term trajectory. Nobodies like Schwindel being big parts of the success aren’t ideal, but no one should be at all upset about the team playing well. It means guys like Happ and Willson are hitting, the bullpen looks good, and those types of things mean more for the upcoming years than picking 7th or 10th. That’s kind of my thought. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good if the Cubs sucked and finished with a top 6 pick, but I don’t feel the same way as I did when the Bulls won all those meaningless games late and missed out on Luka or when the Bears 5-1 start hurt any chance of getting Lawrence or Fields
  24. UMFan83
    I just can’t get into tanking for baseball. I feel like it makes sense in basketball because stars are so unbelievably important and it makes sense in football if you need a QB because they are also important. Maybe I should care more because of the extra money for draft spending but I don’t. Sure it’s better if they lost, but I’m also finding joy in watching a team play well completely unexpectedly.
  25. UMFan83
    Lol I give up on trying to figure out why Schwindel is good. Amazing. Go ahead grand slam
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