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I've been guilty of this many times in the past, but its crazy to me how many times we can experience the peaks and valleys of a baseball season and still not be able to ride out the bat stretches without being irrational. Maybe this is an 85 Cubs situation and the Cubs just fall apart. But based on the 35+ baseball seasons I've watched, I can tell you its more likely a bad stretch than a team that started 27-12 suddenly turning into a bad team overnight. -
As I said above, there is no doubt they have been the better organization over the past decade, and the past 5 years. The Cubs do a lot well as an organization, but obviously have issues as well and their spending advantage thus far hasn't been enough to erase those issues. Right now? I think the Cubs are very close to the Brewers. It's probably a difficult time to have that discussion when the Brewers are on a 10-2 run while the Cubs are on a 2-8 run and the Brewers just beat the Cubs at Wrigley twice in a row. It's a long season with many more peaks and valleys, we'll see how it plays out.
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Well to be fair any 5 game sample, heck even the 20 game sample between the Cubs and Brewers with each team going 10-10 isn't enough to tell who is conclusively the better team. So yeah in that respect it doesn't tell us much. But those are the only datapoints we had. The Cubs played 170 baseball games last year and went 96-76. The Brewers played 171 baseball games last year and went 100-71. The teams went 10-10 against each other and the Brewers won a playoff series 3 games to 2 with the home team winning all 5 games. I don't think the Brewers are significantly better than the Cubs. As an organization they have been better the last decade, absolutely. It's extremely impressive what they have done and continue to do. But I don't believe the Brewers and Cubs of 2025 and 2026 are separated by much on the field, especially at full strength which the Cubs have never been and never will be.
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The Brewers did in the deciding game in Milwaukee by a 3-1 score. Not like it was a sweep that conclusively showed who was better. The Brewers are probably better given the Cubs pitching injuries that aren’t going to get better anytime soon but trying not to overreact to a bad stretch as every season is a roller coaster
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Cubs will be 12-11 in their last 23 games if they drop this. Treading water in the weirdest way possible. Also with the Cardinals winning, if the scores hold the Cubs will be in 3rd place by percentage points at the end of the night. Good thing it’s still mid May
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Yikes. When is our next off day?
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The two 10 game win streaks really threw me off. I just remembered it's May freaking 18th. No need to get worked up over a bad stretch at this point.
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Game was probably toast anyways and he was probably trying to get more innings out of him tonight since our pen is extremely thin right now. There are holes popping up everywhere right now.
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20-3 run and we might be out of first place 10 games later
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2 straight walks to start the inning, 0 runs. Sigh
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Just saw a replay of the walk off HR and it doesn’t even look like a walk off because the Sox player hit it basically into a sea of Cubs fans lol
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I actually feel better losing this way. Was cool to see them fight back and take the lead again. Oh well
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Our pitching succcccks. Sox fans are going to be insufferable for awhile still 22-9 in our last 31 🤷♂️
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Sucks. 2 outs, no one on. A walk, a dinky single and then a blast.
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Pitching not gonna hold up at this rate. Hopefully that’s the end of Maton
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Ugh that’s an easy sac fly with the wind normal
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Of course the Cubs first inning they don’t get at least 2 baserunners on
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Great idea taking him out now that the lead is blown
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Yep tie game. Good thing we stranded a million runners
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Get him out of here. They’re starting to tee off on him and their 2 big bats are up.
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Yikes
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9 LOB through 5 innings. 2 in every inning except the 1st
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These deep fly balls would have been nice yesterday when the wind was blowing out vs today when it is blowing way in
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Hope none of these runs stuck on 3rd come back to haunt us
