David

i never thought i'd hate tommy pham less than i did

Baseball is not football. There is no such thing as a 4 year rebuild in football. It was really three years (12, 13, & 14), but yeah Theo is just a bad MFer

While 7-9 wouldn't shock me, neither would 10-6 or even 11-5. Such is the NFL. 12 wins would DEFINITELY shock my though.

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Hurdle is at least 5th on the list of people to hate on the Pirates.

Thats like going to Michigan avenue to buy your clothes. If clothes everywhere else are sold out and you still want clothes.

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lol dj moore is apparently in college or something and wearing his own jersey to class [tweet] [/tweet]

let's not take things so literally

I'm quite annoyed that we don't have 90 wins by September 8th

Day off? Nice. Rare that I'll say that but it means I can watch football without feeling guilty.

horsefeathering Mickey mouse parks with short walls and horsefeathers Mainly because it seems like the Cubs never legit steal home runs. I swear it happens to us wayyyyyyy more

OK, now I'm actually mad about this game. I hate that dong robbery bs

Dude... we're 40 games over .500. Enough. How can you continue to make these posts over and over again? He is an idiot.

glad he got himself in the game

this looks promising

“It’s a lot of fun to win,” Garza said. “You go through three years of constantly hoping, you kind of run out of hope. You come to a team like this, where every day we’re going out to win. We’re not going out to hope to win. “We’re going out with the attitude that we’re going to win. It’s a lot different. It brings up a lot more emotion, a lot better emotion than hope. It’s confidence. That’s what we’re playing with a lot right now.” Damn. Sorry, Matt.

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And with him, if there are no dongs, there are no TDs.

Yeah, maybe I will have to eat crow on this, but I think the Forte loss is being hugely overstated by many. He wasn't even THAT special of a running back. Great in the passing game, as everyone knows. And I'm not just saying this now...I wasn't crazy about signing him when he was holding out for the contract too. Just block and hand other guys the ball. I consider Bennett more of a loss, not that I'll miss him off the field. I always appreciated Forte but was never enamored. My point was he was a durable, proven productive RB, and even when they had that they weren't a good offense. Now they don't have that, among other things. I feel like the only way this team squeaks out an 8+ win season is if the defense makes a huge leap and then they play a special kind of keep away ball with the offense. For a while it looked like that was the goal this offseason, signing 7 linebackers and all that. But at the end of the summer those additions look more like minor improvements to me (inside linebackers don't win football games). The pass rush remains in doubt. The secondary remains in doubt. The first round draft pick is a big question. It doesn't look to me to be a talented enough defense to make the leap I was hoping for to make the team a boring defensive led contender. Yeah, I didn't mean to call you out on the Forte thing, but moreso the general sentiment that I keep hearing Forte talked about as a huge loss on offense whose massive production they can never replace.

Why not just make a thread for that? I'm sure it'll go unnoticed by many of said peons in here.

Yeah, maybe I will have to eat crow on this, but I think the Forte loss is being hugely overstated by many. He wasn't even THAT special of a running back. Great in the passing game, as everyone knows. And I'm not just saying this now...I wasn't crazy about signing him when he was holding out for the contract too. Just block and hand other guys the ball. I consider Bennett more of a loss, not that I'll miss him off the field.

Well injuries aren't BABIP. You don't typically suffer a lot early in your career and then get all super healthy later on. It's not about a predisposition to get injured but rather a collection of injuries that take a toll. True, but he managed to play 15 games last year, which to me would at least somewhat suggest that he might be OK on that end. You could also argue that he's got less wear and tear on him as a result of the lost time. I'm not sure exactly what his injuries have been, as most things I can find are pretty vague (i.e. "missed time with a foot injury"). I did see an Achilles one, which is never good. So maybe throw the reduced wear and tear argument out the window, lol.

Mainly this was my thing. Not to mention that Matt Bush is notorious for other things, like almost killing someone, which makes him an odd guy to bring up.

I'm not sure if you noticed, but the Cubs teams from 2010-2014 were quite bad.