UMFan83

I’m convinced Hurdle just wants his team to get blown out of games so he can order his pitchers to start hitting people.

OMG I never thought I’d see that. LMAO pirates

You can thank me

I know it’s only the 3rd inning but with expanded rosters there has to be a better PH option with 2 runners on than Tony Kemp

4 starts ago Q shut out the Brewers for 5.2 innings and lowered his ERA to 3.90 I thought that I was actually starting to trust him. Since then 13 ER in 10.1 IP over 3 starts

Awful day for the Big Ten: -Illinois loses at home to Eastern Michigan -Temple defeats newly ranked Maryland -Michigan State loses at home to Arizona St -Pittsburgh was about 25 yards short of taking PSU Ari OT -Minnesota needed a TD with 13 seconds left to avoid losing to Georgia Southern at home -Purdue down 2 TDs at home to TCU -Iowa is up 1 on Iowa State with 4 mins left Guess Northwestern, Nebraska and Ohio state looked good but none of them were against quality opponents

Caratini becomes the 10th Cubs player to hit double digit HRs this year. The only other person that has a shot is the douchebag infielder who has 9

Nico has 6 HRs in 375 minor league PAs. Crazy what he’s doing. 2 weeks ago his season was essentially over. Now he’s hitting dongs in a major league playoff race

Sick of this horsefeathers Clint

All time Cubs legend if he goes yard here to get to 20

7-19, 3 BB, 2 XBH, 8 RBIs. Not a bad first 5 games

Cubs have scored exactly 17 runs on 4 occasions during the Maddon years. Last time they scored more than 17 in a game was 2008 when they scored 19. Last time they scored 20+ was in 2001

Is this going to be the 20 run game that we’ve been waiting 5 years for?

Best leadoff hitter ever

Poor guy just wanted to come to a playoff team and instead he got traded to the Cubs

I'm interested in analyzing some of the World Series winners with crappy regular seasons and understanding what made them get hot in October. Specifically the 2000 Yankees and the 2006 Cardinals. The 2000 Yankees were coming off back to back WS wins and were 25 games over .500 on September 13th (9 games up in the division) before finishing the season 3-15. Not sure what happened there but it seems more like a team knowing they were going to play an extra month for the 3rd year in a row taking their foot off the gas with the playoffs inevitable. But whatever the reason was, they ended up going 11-5 in the postseason and winning their 3rd title in a row. The 2006 Cardinals had come off 100 and 105 win seasons, making the World Series one year and getting 2 games away from the World Series the next year. The 06 team scuffled throughout, alternating long hot streaks with equally cold ones. This team feels like like a parallel to this years Cubs, as it looks like they are turning the corner only to fall flat on its face. At the end of the season they almost blew the division but did just enough to get in, beating a rather garbage Padres team and then the top seeded Mets in the NLCS. Looking at their roster, they looked like they had some top end talent (Pujols, Edmonds, Rolen, Carpenter, Isringhausen) and then a lot of holes particularly the back end of their rotation and most of the rest of the starting lineup. They got a major boost late in the season with the emergence of Wainwright who came up big in the playoffs I believe. Really no conclusions here...I'm just trying to find some way to look for hope.

Oh man blowing this game would be hilarious

I'd gripe about Miami not showing up for the series but it wouldn't matter if the Cubs did better than winning 2 out of 7 games against Milwaukee the last 2 weeks.

If there's one thing the Royals love its former Cubs. Soler, Monty, Hammel, Travis Wood, Cahill, now Rosario

Idk, gonna have to let it play out and see what the numbers bear out. Dunno why but this made me want to look this up: OPS by spot in the order this year .651 .903 .858 .870 .962 .728 .718 .770 .506 Geez....we can argue the merits of proper lineup construction all day but I have to believe that this has had a bad effect on the offense this season. Anyways, OPS by player as a leadoff hitter: Rizzo - 1.413 (9 PA before today) Schwarber - .825 (253 PA) Happ - .708 (9 PA) Zobrist - .687 (92 PA) Descalso - .576 (51 PA) Heyward - .554 (147 PA) Baez - .542 (8 PA) Almora - .504 (68 PA) Garcia - .125 (16 PA) Russell/Contreras/Bote/Kemp/Caratini and a plethora of pitchers who hit 1st due to double switches - .000 OPS in 23 PA

The Bears are horsefeathering weird, instructing Mitch to not answer questions about the Packers game Also - not sure how much of this is speculation and how much is actual reporting but you don't like to see these things from Bears beat guys

The 2 shutouts against Milwaukee a couple weeks ago really sapped my emotional investment in this team. I want them to do well and think they can make the playoffs etc but I realized that this team is just not that good and wasn't worth getting frustrated over. Really the only thing I'm truly looking forward to is what changes happen in the offseason. But I'm afraid I'm expecting too much and we'll just see 1-2 medium sized trades and FA signings to fill the gaps. Who knows..

I was disappointed to find out that the Cubs probably don't have a shot at the most walk off losses in a season. They have 10 this year, the record is 16. With only 8 road games to go its going to be tough but I'm sure they are capable of it!