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I’d prefer they not win the World Series but overall I’m fine with it. Them talking trash about having the more recent championship is the worst thing that can happen out of all of this. Whatever, it would have bothered me a LOT more pre-2016. These days it’s just a minor annoyance. -
Did Grandal forget how to catch or something
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Brewers about to break this wide open
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Looking into the Cubs batted ball numbers between 2017 and 2018 is interesting GB% 2017 - 45.5% (10th highest) 2018 - 46.0% (3rd highest) OK so they hit more ground balls but only 5 more grounders per 1000 batted balls, pretty close to the same LD% 2017 - 19.6% (22nd) 2018 - 21.4% (16th) Here they actually increased over 2018 fairly significantly but are still sitting middle of the league Hard Hit% 2017 - 31.2% (18th) 2018 - 31.7% (28th) They actually had a higher percentage of hard hit balls (though only by 0.5%) but despite that plummeted to the bottom of the league. This probably has something to do with the league wide focus on line drives, launch angle, exit velocity, etc. BABIP 2017 - .302 (15th) 2018 - .313 (2nd) What does this tell us? I don't know just thought they were interesting as I would have expected a large increase in GB% and drops in LD% and Hard Hit%. I guess this is where the Chili-led focus on putting it in play instead of focusing on hitting it hard with a good launch angle might show up. Also BABIP is interesting because some people credited Chili ball with the Cubs being at the top of the league in BA, and some of that might be true if they are hitting it harder but keeping it in the park.
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I’m old and out of touch. I only know who three of those people are, and I’m clearly meant to be impressed by that lineup. I dunno, I think they meant to capture a large mix of different types of sports fans. I don't think you are necessarily out of touch if you can't recognize a surfer, skateboarder or motocross rider.
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https://theathletic.com/584702/2018/10/11/what-firing-chili-davis-says-about-the-myth-of-the-cubs-way/ Holy crap what an awful take
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It’s saad
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Painful loss giving up the tying goal with 27 secs left then losing in OT. What a weird start to the season, giving up like 700 goals but all 4 games have gone into OT
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Maybe Bryce’s and Kris’ dads can be co-hitting coaches
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rmack your thread won but please rename this “the Chili has gone bad” because that was a sweet title
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Thank God. Sorry Chili you seemed like a nice guy but you needed to go
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Lets be insanely cocky all offseason up until the first thing that goes wrong and we can do a complete 180
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2003 - Marlins 2004 - Red Sox 2005 - White Sox 2006- horsefeathering 83 horsefeathering win horsefeathering Cardinals 2007 - Red Sox AGAIN I was pretty convinced that some kind of higher power did actually hate the Cubs. It felt like weird sweet relief when the Phillies won in 2008. Seriously this was the worst. First coming so close and watching the team that beat us in heartbreaking fashion win it, then watching the only 2 other teams within 40 years of our WS drought winning it all including our "rivals" in the city (watching brand new Sox fans take over), and then our arch rivals win with the shittiest WS season ever, followed by 2 straight years of getting swept out of the playoffs and then a 7 year rebuild. Thank God that is over with and now the most pissed we can get is when we have the best record in the league (through 162 games) and don't play in the NLDS.
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“This is gonna be a tough play....Nunez...The Red Sox...win the ALDS!”
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Yeah, I'll be rooting for the AL regardless in the WS. My order is Astros Red Sox Yankees Dodgers Brewers I get the Astros hate but for some reason I don't really have it. They've been in the AL for 6 years and were mediocre at best their last 7 years in the NL (08 at 86-75 was their only solid year). And they generally go out there and hit a lot of dongs. Any Astros haters here are just jealous fat babies. My Astros hate instantly vanished when they joined the AL. I treat them like an expansion team or something. It helps that they were in the middle of a rebuild when it happened though, if this was still the Berkman/Pence Astros I'd still hate them.
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Wards save percentage through 3 games: .843 (14 GA in 89 shots). Again defense has a lot to do with that but he looks really damn slow and often not in good position to make a save. How much longer until we can get Crawford in there?
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The defense sucks but Cam Ward kind of blows Awesome finish though. For those that didn’t watch, Kane tied it with 90 seconds left, then 20 seconds later the Leafs took the lead. Finally Kane scored again with 29 secs left to send to OT. leafs then scored about 10 seconds into OT
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Another Toews goal. Maybe he is back from the dead
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The Brewers will be 31-10 with a +85 RD in their last 41 games. That means that for over a quarter of a season, they have been playing at a 123 win pace.
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Bears have a 1.5 game lead in the NFC north, that’s crazy. Also... season point differential: Bears +46 Packers +1 Lions -12 Vikings (with a min left in their game): -18
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This is going to be a very vaunted NLCS Of course the Rockies score 2 whole runs in the series. I think even the Cubs could have gotten 3
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Do explain
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The 2016 Giants and 2015 Cardinals were both pretty weak. The 2015 Cardinals won 100 games. They weren’t weak. I’m aware of that. Despite all that i didn’t feel like they had any truly elite hitters or pitchers. They were good like any playoff team is but they seemed weak and ripe for beating
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The 2016 Giants and 2015 Cardinals were both pretty weak.
