squally1313
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We were so impressed by Miles M last night that we decided to give him a start today, apparently. And yes, Canario (and PCA) are both sitting, but I don't think the two are related. Tauch Nico Happ Belli (1B) Dansby Suzuki Morel (DH) Gomes Miles (3B)
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Bears week 3 @ KC, Sunday 3:25 on FOX
squally1313 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
I did a simple twitter search for his name and the number of different stories I saw being 'rumored' was wild. Pictures on his computer, the bad kind, that he was throwing NFL games, that he was at 1/6. (Feel free to delete/tell me to delete this depending on how this plays out....absolutely no support to any of this) -
These guys needed this game a lot
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I think it’s time. Must Win Game
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Couple things 1. ‘most’ people don’t think that. Thats kinda the whole motivating factor of me originally doing this. It’s rampant negativity in here, pretty regardless of what’s going on in the actual game. 2. after this stretch of gross baseball, we’re on an 85 win pace. That’s in line or ahead of most people’s predictions, the analytic predictions, etc. It’s certainly not the 100 win pace team that we saw for like 6 weeks (which is kinda when everyone started paying attention again), but then again, it never really was that team. 3. Won’t disagree on your big picture complaints. But kinda seems more like a general discussion frustration than, like, a ‘what a bunch of horsefeathers losers’ conversation when we go down 3-1 in the fourth inning. Also worth pointing out that, this year especially, we are not unique in this problem (Sox and Yankees back 20 games of Tampa and Baltimore, Mets and braves)
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Well that sucked a lot. Take something from the last 10 minutes. Quickly.
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Nice horsefeathers call
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The ultimate fake rally
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Happy for you that the cubs royally sucked tonight so you could post your little ‘gotcha’ tonight
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I don’t know how you define ‘plummet’ but being ahead of those three teams and there being two spots available still, mathematically, puts you in a pretty good spot.
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Why not
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Couldn’t figure out how ‘live’ it was. Could be right. Rockies won at least.
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I’ll stay on brand and say that it’s going to be incredibly tough to wake up in the morning with like a 75% chance to make the playoffs, but hopefully we all can struggle through. At this particular moment though, the lack of any fight whatsoever, coming off a day off, is pretty bleak.
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Well this is a disaster.
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There’s too many teams in the race for me to deep dive their bullpen dorks, so I have no idea what we’re going to see the rest of the way here. Just, you know, do that thing where you either sequence hits correctly or, even better, hit balls over the fence. (Steele settling back into his dominant self is a small silver lining because him going belly up is actually the end of all of this)
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Also, get your horsefeathers together offense please and thank you
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Incredible pull
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Your commitment to playing out various scenarios is truly impressive. I'm too old, there are too many teams, etc. Let me try a different way, not even to prove a point...I'm just more used to this phrasing: Let's say the Cubs go 6-9 (nice) to finish the year. Short of a complete collapse, kinda worst case scenario. Without considering head to head, and using UMFan's tiebreaker notes above, us missing the playoffs would require three of the following: Phillies to go 5-11 or better Diamondbacks to go 8-6 Reds to go 8-6 Giants to go 9-5 Marlins to go 9-6 Ignoring the Phillies, who by most basic metrics are Good and have a very low bar to cross, missing the playoffs after finishing 6-9 would require two of the four teams above, all with worse records than us, all with a negative run differential, to play .570 ball or better the rest of the year. Certainly possible in this very pessimistic situation. Change the Cubs record to 7-8 and suddenly you're looking at 9-5 x2, 10-4, 10-5. Basically: close to .500 and we're fine.
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Worth noting that the Braves will most likely have home field through the WS essentially wrapped by the time we get to that series. That's not to say they're going to roll out a AAA team for a week, and they're so good that they've been on auto pilot for three months and are still dominating. But it's going to be a team with nothing to play for.
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****** series! Our two best pitchers didn’t pitch and we either stranded or lost to dumb decisions like 30 baserunners. Certainly can’t repeat this going forward unless you want to go home in a couple weeks. Hopefully that was sufficiently negative. going 16-12 in the last calendar month and going from out of a playoff spot to a playoff spot with a cushion is not playing bad. I get that it came on the heels of an unsustainable hot streak, both for the true talent level of the team and also just how baseball in general works. But it’s still pretty decent?
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You don't really have to make these decisions until the end of the Arizona series right? Have your top 3 starters going on an extra days rest already, and then another day off on Monday to figure out what you want to do from there.
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12 runs in a series in Colorado is pretty bad, against this Rockies team is even worse, even if the underlying metrics (batting slash lines, exit velos, etc) are going to come out a lot better. Stop making dumb mistakes on the basepaths, figure out a way to convert on your opportunities. Much needed day off for everyone.
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I mean, they're 16-11 starting on August 14th, if we're going to go with 'about a month'. 14 of those games against Milwaukee, Cincinnati, SF, and Arizona (8-6 in those games, so 8-5 against lesser competition). The same group that was ripping on people talking up the run differential in the first half when it outpaced results is now just like, mentally blocking out a very convincing sweep of a WC contender a whole week ago and just basically saying the vibes are bad.
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Score more runs idiots
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Caught up through the thread, guessed a score of like, 1-1.
