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Hey guys, Yelich just made an out. First one since Sept 23.
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You can be honest. You don’t really think they’re winning today and you probably can’t wait to gloat when we don’t win the division. Whoa. What's this all about? You’ve been on the “Cubs are blowing this” train for a while. You don’t get to switch now.
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Good job out there, Zo.
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You can be honest. You don’t really think they’re winning today and you probably can’t wait to gloat when we don’t win the division.
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I mean the Brewers will go 24-10 to finish the season. Sure the Cubs could have played that well but it’s a valid excuse as is the Cubs never having an off day while I believe the Brewers had 5 the brewers had a red hot finish because they played a bunch of horsefeathers, non-trying teams as half of baseball is actively trying to lose. cubs played many of those same horsefeathers, non-trying teams. also the brewers whipped the cubs’ ass head to head. brewers played out of their minds for a month but if you end the season losing 4/7 at home to pirates and cardinals, it’s partially on you. Yes, part of it is on the Cubs. The problem is you, 17 Seconds and a couple others are acting like it’s some massive choke job. It’s not. They didn’t go 7-20 in September like the 2011 Red Sox or 9-18 in September like the 2011 Braves. They’ll go either 15-13 or 16-12. That’s not great but it’s not bad either. I don’t think anyone here is saying none of this is the Cubs fault. But by saying the Brewers got hot, we’re saying it’s not all the Cubs fault.
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At least we’ll have an off day tomorrow.
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The Brewers did get horsefeathering hot. It’s not an excuse. It’s a horsefeathering fact.
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Sigh. If this is how it’s going to be, just let the Brewers put up 10 and have the Cards hammer us so we can take everyone out early and let Chatwood and Duensing go 5 innings.
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Great start, Monty.
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Two hard hit outs for Detroit already. So par for the course for Milwaukee.
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Didn’t realize Yelich has a chance at the Triple Crown. Big lead in BA, tied in HRs with Carpenter and 2 back of Baez in RBI.
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To be fair, no one who said that envisioned Christian Yelich turning into horsefeathering steroid era Barry Bonds for an entire month. Because I was curious: Yelich in September: .361/.500/.826 Yelich since Aug 28: .391/.508/.886 (this includes a 2 HR game on Aug 28 and his 6-6 game) Bonds average 2001-04: .349/.559/.809 Yelich's September (1.326 OPS) would be Bonds's 4th best season and his September plus a couple days (1.394 OPS) would be just behind Bonds's 2004 (1.422 OPS) when he walked 232 times and had a .609 OBP. Related note, there have been 14 seasons since then. Bonds's 120 IBB's that year would have led the league in BB's in 6 of those 14 seasons.
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The way too early, but I'm bored, Off-season Options Thread
soccer10k replied to davell's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Haven’t they jacked up ticket prices the last couple seasons? I feel like that could be just as big of a reason the attendance dropped as the play on the field. -
In other last day fun... Khris Davis is hitting .247 this year. In 2017, he hit .247. In 2016 he also hit .247. In 2015? Yep, you guessed it. Also .247. The last year he didn't hit .247 was 2014 when he hit .244. He needs to go 0-1, 0-2, 1-4 or 1-5 tomorrow (or not play) to remain at .247 for the year.
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So deGrom ended the year with 24 straight quality starts, which matches what Jake did between 15 and 16. Jake pitched better than deGrom (more innings, fewer hits, same number of walks, ERA of 0.86 vs. 1.67) but it's not like deGrom pitched poorly. Jake went 20-1 during his run. deGrom went 7-9. Good job Mets offense.
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So earlier in the week the Nats said they’d start Scherzer on Sunday if the game mattered. Apparently that only means if it determines if the Rockies are in the playoffs or not. Since they and the Dodgers are both in, he won’t pitch tomorrow.
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Maybe they should have called a timeout to get a better play in. Oh wait, they called two timeouts, the second of which also prevented them from having a chance to get the ball back with 20-30 seconds left.
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But we’re playing in Chicago not St Louis.
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I'll never forgive the Cubs for losing both of their last two series against the Brewers. right. i'm sick of this forming narrative that this blown division is just because the brewers got hot and the poor cubs didn't have enough off days. I mean, a big chunk of it is the Brewers getting hot. How much the no off days think hurt the Cubs? Who knows. But I think we can agree it was advantageous for the Brewers to have off days in September and not have to take random, one day trips to Atlanta (I know that was late August) and D.C. The Cubs are 15-12 in September which is a 90 win pace. That’s fine. It’s not great, but that’s not what I would call blowing it. The Brewers have played great down the stretch. Hat tip to them.
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At this point I’m just hoping Detroit keeps it close again tomorrow so Milwaukee uses Hader and Jeffress again.
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I’ll never forgive the Cards for not winning one game in that series.
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So the Tigers are definitely scoring 1 run here so Yelich can walk it off, right?
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Sounds like Scherzer will be pitching tomorrow so that’s good for the Dodgers.
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Really sucks we’re going to be tied because Castellanos’s ball couldn’t go another couple feet.
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God I’m horsefeathering tired of Yelich.