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  1. squally1313
    So the culture of the last five years is gone, replaced by a 5 game stretch? This is miserable/morbidly entertaining, but get the horsefeathers out of here with this big picture meatball stuff.
  2. squally1313
    The cubs pooped in the refrigerator and are wrapping up the last bits of an entire wheel of cheese.
  3. squally1313
    Joe wake the horsefeathers up
  4. squally1313
    I was ready to just be mildly frustrated by a Lester blow up. At this point in this career, hard to get too upset. This horsefeathering lineup throwing up 3 hits in 10 innings.
  5. squally1313
    Clinching the division in St. Louis, and pimping the horsefeathers out of the celebration, would outweigh literally any bad playoff scenario I can think of. By a lot.
  6. squally1313
    Hahaha Sofa, who clearly hates this team and appears at various points to hate pretty much the rest of us, doing god's work in keeping things running for 5.5 months, getting called out for minor statistical inaccuracies.
  7. squally1313
    Get a guy on, get him over and bring him in. Wish we did that more consistently. Cubs are third in the NL in Productive Outs. Cardinals are 11th. Cubs are seventh in the NL in baserunners scored. Cardinals are ninth. Cubs are tenth in the NL in scoring a baserunner from third with less than two outs. Cardinals are 14th. Cubs are third in the NL in scoring a baserunner from second with no outs. Cardinals are seventh. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/2019-situational-batting.shtml
  8. squally1313
    Come the horsefeathers on with this game.
  9. squally1313
    I would not be surprised if the Cubs went 6-1 or 1-6 vs the Cardinals. Who the hell knows? We haven't really had a meaningful multi game comeback since the 2016 World Series, so, making lemons out of lemonade, it would be kinda fun to go into those games and see if we can make them collapse.
  10. squally1313
    I guess Caratini and Contreras are just splitting time now huh? Other than that, not much to complain about.
  11. squally1313
    Weird that this is coming up in multiple threads, but Jim is definitely the right answer here.
  12. squally1313
    Because most of the people here have spent the last 4 months turning the whole board into this thread. (Don't worry, I'm basically at that point now)
  13. squally1313
    The Cubs are definitely Jim once you watch the show enough. Likable and pathetic in the early seasons, peaked in like season 3, and then slowly revealed himself to be the huge horsefeathers that, looking back, he kinda always was. Right now they're in "bought his parents house for them to live in without even consulting his wife"...excited for the "taking a dumb job in Philadelphia without telling his wife" era.
  14. squally1313
    If they lose tonight I can definitely give it a shot tomorrow, but if there’s a win or CL wants to go, I might ask to get pushed back a few days...heading to Nashville for a bachelor party, and I’ve found my last few weekends much better just ignoring the cubs.
  15. squally1313
    Oh I think that’s very likely and I was thinking of an offseason today where that’s the case that I’d still like and think this is it.... move Willy to RF full time, sign Grandal, trade for Manuel Margot (platoon in CF with Heyward) and send Almora out, Happ, Bote, Nico and Kemp are the “bench bats” but Nico plays plenty, add one of those many SP for the 5 spot who won’t cost a lot and one decent bullpen arm. Yeah if you want to go hard on the Ricketts being extremely cheap and just wanting to pump out money in Wrigley theory, blaming a manager making like $5m a year for all of the issues and then hiring a cheaper one and calling it the solution is about as good as they can do.
  16. squally1313
    Someone get this new game thread up ASAP so I can scream about Joe Maddon, professional MLB manager getting paid millions of dollars a year, doing the thing I did in video games when a player got hurt/needed a day off and I was too lazy to switch the rest of the line up around. What the horsefeathers are we doing here?
  17. squally1313
    The Cubs having a relatively poor season this year and being poorly run more recently than the Dodgers doesn't make the fact they were a half step better over a very long time horizon. Defining 'long term' in a conversation with you is likely to be the 8th circle of hell but 4 consecutive years qualifies to me given that I've long thought that any roster planning beyond 2-3 years is basically absurd. You can spin this however you want, but if you get to set the starting point *and* still have to cut out some of the data, you know you’re stretching What data point did he cut out? You picked a starting point of 7 years (coincidentally, the year the Dodgers started their division streak), he picked the last four years. Should the Cubs get less credit because the Brewers won 95/96 games last year, a total the Dodgers have only reached once in their streak until this year, and a total not a single other team in the NL West has hit in the last 7 years?
  18. squally1313
    Even more annoying than the actual loss is this dumpster fire if a post. The Cubs CAME BACK ON THE ROAD. But they also lost, so Schwarber Fan can pat himself on the back Nope, I’ll take the win and eat crow every time over back-patting. But its obvious that this team doesn’t have that “we never quit” spirit. Most of the time when they get down, they don’t come back. And in a close game late, especially on the road, it’s like everyone is waiting for the shoe to drop. You just get the impression the players feel the same way. Please back this up with a single piece of actual evidence. If not, at least admit that this is just a pure meatball take.
  19. squally1313
    Kinda shocked we aren't seeing Yates again.
  20. squally1313
    I don't think I've ever seen so many unhittable strikes than Yates half inning there. And man is Hedges smooth back there.
  21. squally1313
    Bed before midnight at least.
  22. squally1313
    If one of these next few guys want to tie this up, I'd really rather not rely on beating Yates.
  23. squally1313
    Well on June 1st the Cubs were a half game back of the Brewers, so what does that say about a team that again, just lost a top three player in baseball. And again over a 18 game span its perfectly feasible that the Cubs could be outplayed by the Yelich-less Brewers by 1 game. When you get down to that few games you open up the possibility of a lot of randomness. Especially when those 18 games for Milwaukee include 15 games against the Marlins, Padres, Pirates, Reds and Rockies (other 3 vs STL). If there were 60 games left, yeah of course the Yelich injury would basically be the end of the road for Milwaukee. Definitely fair, was more responding to your ' Cubs have basically been a 500 team' comment. Neither of these teams have been impressive for a while, but the Cubs have been better, and that was about the worst thing that could happen to Milwaukee. But also, more importantly, what abuck said.
  24. squally1313
    you realize their only good player is now out for the year right? When you are talking about an 17 game sample it’s feasible for the Brewers without Yelich to outplay the Cubs by 1 game, especially since the Cubs have basically been a .500 team since early May. Well on June 1st the Cubs were a half game back of the Brewers, so what does that say about a team that again, just lost a top three player in baseball.
  25. squally1313
    Cubs are 8th in OPS in total. Cubs are 11th in OPS when trailing. Cubs are 7th in OPS when they are within 4 runs. Cubs are 9th in OPS when they are within 3 runs.
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