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Sorry for being off by a run, guys. Although two would have scored on that play. Last time I believe anything you say Totally understandable. I can only hope I do better next time.

Sorry for being off by a run, guys. Although two would have scored on that play.

JAVY

Nope. Definitely not.

Cubs win this 4-2.

Nice job Kintzler.

Rizzo going to dong here and it won’t matter.

This is right squally, at least for me. I'm not just doing a good enough job articulating it. I live in Brewers Country, and it sucks. And if I'm having a discussion among a bunch of their fans today, I can't come at them with "You guys blow. If my team spent more money we'd be way ahead of you right now." I need a better argument. What’s your favorite Brewers championship team? That should end the discussion. Or tell them the Cubs have made the playoffs more in the last 4 years than the Brewers have in the last 35.

The Cubs have played over their heads? Here's a list of players who posted a full season OPS higher than 1.172 since 2000: Barry Bonds 4 times and Sammy Sosa once. Go back a couple more years and you can add a couple McGwire seasons. Yelich has obviously improved significantly over the last year or so but if you think he's turned into steroid era Bonds/Sosa/McGwire, you're crazy. That doesn't mean he's bad, but he'll probably settle closer to his overall numbers from last year rather than what he's at now. We can both play the overperforming/underperforming game here. If we're talking Cubs regression... KB is at .937. He was .939 and .946 in 2016 and 2017 and was above that last year before getting hurt. And that's with a .280 BABIP when he's been at least .330 in his first four years. He's also got a career low K rate and a career high BB rate. Rizzo's at a .910 OPS. He's been between .846 to .928 the last five years. I'd say he's right in line. He's still only at a .226 BABIP. K's and BB's right in line with the last four years also. Javy has gone .737 to .796 to .881 and is at .953 this year. I'll buy some regression there considering his BABIP is at .407, as it's been an average of .340 the last three years. Which leaves Willy, and he'll almost certainly regress a decent amount. He had a .850 OPS his first two years and he's at 1.053 now. But that still means out of our top-4, I'd call one who has been "absolutely absurd" as you say. That leaves one who has slightly underperformed, one right in line and one slightly overperformed. And for pitching, if we're doing quick and dirty, Hendricks and Q have ERA's which are right in line with their FIP, Darvish is slightly under (before today, don't know how that affected it), while Hamels and Lester have overperformed (0.86 for Hamels and 0.89 for Lester). So two of our starters have overperformed but not nearly to the extent that two of the Brewers starters have. Brewer's rotation? Zach Davies has a 1.54 ERA despite a 3.74 FIP and a 1.18 WHIP. Gio has a 1.69 ERA despite a 3.00 FIP and 1.08 WHIP I could do more digging but it's late and I have to work in the morning.

Look at the still above. He went. *shrug* was that a still that the umpire got to see before making his call? Did he have that angle on it? That’s not the point. Schwarber Fan said he went around, you said he didn’t. The ump missed the call. Just admit you were wrong and move on.

No he didn't Look at the still above. He went.

horsefeathers off Kyle Ryan.

Game should be over had the got the McCutchen check swing right.

I just don’t see it in either series, hope I’m wrong and we get two 6-7 game series. But just think the Warriors and Bucks are on another level than the two teams they’re playing. Lillard And Kawhi will both probably have a game they carry their team but don’t think either the Raptors or Blazers have the talent or fire power to make it interesting. So, maybe you were right about that. I thought the Warriors would handle the Blazers pretty easily. I did buy in to Toronto being nearly as good as Milwaukee and that being a good series though (still might be but I think Milwaukee wins in 5).Toronto was only a couple games worse than Milwaukee and that was with Kawhi missing 1/4 of the year.

He says this horsefeathers every time he calls a Cub game because he's a CFer and CFers are speedy. I normally don't mind him on the MLBN but when I hear him call a game I wish he'd go back to doing the play by play of Toughman Contests Pretty sure he has one of the highest sprint speeds on the team.

Cool.

Nice throw Albert.

I’ll take it.

Could have used a couple of those last inning.

That’s pretty disappointing.

Hellickson looking like 2018 Chatwood out there.

Would be quite nice to put up a crooked number right off the bat here.

He meant that all of their starters are equally mediocre that any one of the 5 could be their No 1. It is pretty impressive that all 5 of their starters have ERA’s between 4.34 and 4.93.

Freeman just hit a walkoff dong off Hader.

Bote!