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Bears 2018 Offseason: Matt Nagy Hired as Head Coach
David replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
Oh I'm thinking Miller is most definitely going to play and play a lot. -
i think the emotional stress and highs/lows of the 2016 playoffs have made me kind of bored with regular season baseball, or maybe more appropriately, numb to it...maybe that's why i'm all "who cares" when regular season struggles happen. idk. i just can't get all that worked up in the regular season unless/until things get really bad as far as the postseason outlook. i started to get there around last year's all star break, but as long as we're a near lock to be in the playoffs (and in a good position to have home field throughout) it's hard for me to feel a lot of angst, even if/when some things are going bad. like, either bryant and darvish will come back (and at least one of the struggling starters will figure horsefeathers out) and everything will be fine and we'll get our spin at the october wheel, or it won't. right now we're just trying to macgyver it.
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Every ball hit would have gone out in a hurricane. It was blowing right to left, I believe Provided Lester's record-scratch run of terribleness levels off somewhat, I think I'd have Q 4th behind Hendricks, Hamels and Lester, and Montgomery's closing in on him. Lester kinda sucked even when he was good, though. I'd have the hopes and dreams of Darvish's return also not being a massive disaster ahead of Lester and Q (and behind Hamels and Hendricks).
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#firechili
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and he's only like 10% more insane than a few of the regulars here IS IT OK FOR ME TO POST THIS WHILE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THE CUBS HAVE *ACTUALLY* NOT BEEN PLAYING WELL FOR A FEW WEEKS?
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Running sample size into the ground and through the horsefeathering planet to the point that it becomes some sort of meaningless baseball crypto-nihilism long stopped meaning dick a long time ago. i knew exactly who liked this post before i looked at it, lol if you guys want to pretend there's anything to predicting the playoffs or that matchups actually somehow matter when they clearly don't, go nuts, i guess. it's not crypto-nihilism. it's reality. an extreme behemoth like the red sox has like a ~5% better chance at it than whatever crappy wild card team manages to get past the one game gauntlet in the NL. so, yeah, like i said, even if the cubs look like a paper tiger after 162, i won't be pointing at that as why they're "vulnerable in the playoffs," which was the reason for this dumb tangent.
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is the wind blowing out like crazy or anything? not that braun's second dong sounded like it needed any help
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this would not be what i'd say once they hit the playoffs come on now because nothing actually matters once they hit the playoffs
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yep i still hate ryan braun as much as i've hated pretty much any baseball player
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well now it's even a little higher
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Dude loves shoveling out cumulative rankings and pretending like it's somehow guaranteeing which version of the 2018 Cubs is going to stagger across the finish line. right on cue lol i mean, it was a direct response so
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literally didn't say one word about the overall team performance. only the offense. the pitching has sucked.
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23 game run differential - somehow more important than 120 game run differential
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Bears 2018 Offseason: Matt Nagy Hired as Head Coach
David replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
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sometimes clunky offense? 4th in mlb in weighted on base average. 1st in the NL. if sometimes clunky means sometimes have bad games, i guess that fits pretty much every offense in baseball. also, "have to hope" they'll battle back is a weird way to characterize it given the way this year has gone.
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fwar is 4.9 vs 4.1, bwar is 5.1 vs 4.7 fWAR considers them near equals in terms of defensive value, which would seem laughable to a neutral observer; as i think i've said before pretty sure Baez also isn't getting credit for tags & relay throws yeah, sullivan was on the score recently and basically admitted that fg is undervaluing javy's defensive contributions by a decent amount, in part bc he's making a difference in really weird places
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Their WAR difference is .4 - that is pretty meaningless. while i wouldn't say half a win is meaningless, it's actually a difference of .8
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They led 2-0 in the 6th and lost by a run, I'd be more surprised if they didn't feel that one got away. That said, the Nationals as a franchise are getting really good at coulda, woulda, shoulda-ing against the Cubs, going back to the 4 gamer in 2016 when they blew a lead in like every game, and of course last year. mold, man
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the salsa is probably bland as horsefeathers too
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holy crap it's somehow even lamer now that's cardinal
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of course with that team it had to be as boring as the condiment instead of something fun like the dancing
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i too am unaware of what the hell they're talking about
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That's because it's based on the projection models. If you go by season to date stats, they have the Red Sox at 22.2%, which is the highest of any team. Astros second at 19.9%. On principle alone, I think anything much higher than 15% is too high.
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Not sure I'd even put it that high.
