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  1. squally1313
    Thank god. I posted a reply on the cubs reddit. Like a guy who’s weed dealer goes on vacation so he goes off and buys meth.
  2. squally1313
    Trying to figure out if there’s a site issue or if this just got blocked at work. Seems to be working mostly fine on my phone, though looks like a slow day, but when I try to go to the ‘Active Topics’ (most frequent starting point, so it autocompletes on chrome), I get redirected to ‘ww1.northsidebaseball.com’ which isn’t much of anything. Anyone else having this issue or is this something on my/my company’s end?
  3. squally1313
    Confirmed that any tweet about Javy doing anything still makes me smile like an idiot. So for as much as the rest of the sport might suck right now....still got that going for it.
  4. squally1313
    Yes to 'it's a start', no to pretty much the rest of it, especially the next sentence. If you travel for work, the company you work for covers a vast majority of your expenses. You don't get your salary reduced because of it.
  5. squally1313
    Imagine getting drafted to the highest level of anything and being told you will start off making the same amount as someone who makes $10/hour.
  6. squally1313
    How is $400 a week anywhere near approaching adequate?
  7. squally1313
    My wife shot a video of me pacing around the house in the bottom of the ninth. She showed it to me a couple months back, it sounded like i was speaking in tongues. I could not believe the Cubs got out of it, let alone a 1-2-3 inning. I knew then they were winning the game after that. I had closed out our tab in the top of the 8th expecting a mad rush and wanting to get out on the streets, not before asking if they sold champagne like a jinxing idiot that I am (I was also the 14 year old that started the '5 outs left' chant in my section right before Bartman). Said I would cover the bill and realized they were charging $9/Old Style tall boy, so that was a cool $350 or so. Between the 9th and the rain delay...that was a dark half hour.
  8. squally1313
    It's tempered a little bit by the fact that Javy and Willy basically hit 17 hoppers that barely reached the center fielder, and this was after Matt horsefeathering Moore essentially shut us down for 8 innings. But yeah, that Zobrist double was definitely...the second coolest double he had. I think that's what made it awesome to me. So many times in the playoffs we would be a victim of bad fortune or would go down with a whimper. But this time the breaks went our way. Plus at that time I think most of us were worried that Javy wouldnt even put the ball in play in a situation where it was critical for him to. Even if he hits it a little to the left or right, it definitely scores the run and probably advances the tying run to 3rd base with 1 out. Putting the ball in play in a situation where the opponent is doing everything possible to avoid it, especially when the count is 0-2, is worthy of being considered swag to me. I think you might be confusing a couple of the ABs...Contreras came up with 2nd and 3rd after the Zobrist double and hit through a partially drawn in infield. Then you had the Heyward failed bunt, which now when I think of that I picture Javy doing that in the top of the 9th of game 7 with a guy on third, which ended with him at second, and then Javy came up and singled to take the lead. It was definitely nice to get the breaks, but it was a real frustrating game until the very end.
  9. squally1313
    My favorite thing (other than the obvious WS stuff) to watch from that run is the comeback in SF. I LOVE the comeback against SF. Javy, Zo, and Willy were so swaggy. It's tempered a little bit by the fact that Javy and Willy basically hit 17 hoppers that barely reached the center fielder, and this was after Matt horsefeathering Moore essentially shut us down for 8 innings. But yeah, that Zobrist double was definitely...the second coolest double he had.
  10. squally1313
    Honestly, if you give me 10 minutes to go back and watch highlights...give me Game 6 against the Dodgers every day. Outside of the fact that it ended with Chapman on the mound, it's pretty much perfect.
  11. squally1313
    I think leaving Chapman in was where my loathing of Maddon was cemented for life. Christ, what an insanely lucky maniac; that article is like a slow motion panic attack. Yep, especially coupled with bringing him in for game 6 in the 7th horsefeathering inning with a 7-2 lead because there were two on with two out AND THEN sending him back out for the 8th inning. Just a slow motion train wreck that Schwarber, Zobrist, etc bailed out.
  12. squally1313
    https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-inning-the-cubs-stole/
  13. squally1313
    Theo finally found out about the deleted alternate ending of Major League and decided to go ALL IN on that strategy.
  14. squally1313
    I think about that swing (and that gift of a pitch) probably once a week.
  15. squally1313
    Yeah all he has do is prove he's better than Descalso and this is a solid move. If he can show some signs of life and work his way into a Kipnis/Bote platoon at second, even better, though Bote also decided to pull an Almora and abruptly start sucking against LHPs in 2019, so who knows.
  16. squally1313
    The Barstool Chicago guys are saying something similar, for whatever that's worth. I do know that he lives in Chicago (my buddy sees him at East Bank most mornings), so might be a friend of a friend thing here.
  17. squally1313
    It's not a need, it's a reward. You want to incentivize trying, which is a problem in baseball right now. The difference between being the #2 seed and the # 5 seed can literally be the division you play in. How does a 1 game lead incentivize trying in that scenario, which happens nearly every year? Well in the first round, the team with the best record plays the wild card winner, so they would definitely have a better record than whoever they are playing, and then of the other two division winners, the team with the better record would get the advantage. In my head this only applied to round one. It creates level of incentives around having the best regular season possible and winning your division.
  18. squally1313
    that's why you make the WC a one game play-in, to really give the top teams an incentive to be great and not settle for just getting in. Wild cards team get the opportunity, but they have to go an extra step to make up for sneaking in on the cheap. Yeah I'm a big fan of making the WC teams play their way in, though I'd prefer a three game series (more baseball, wear out your pitching staff). Anything that rewards winning the division/having the best record. The proposed format, with only one team getting the advantage, I think is too small of a target for teams to go for. I'd be open to the weirder ideas that give advantages to the top teams. Give the higher seed full time home field advantage would be cool but never happen for ticket sales reasons. Hell, make the first round a best of seven, but give the higher seed a 1-0 lead. You're only really adding one game to that round then, and make it a lot harder for the worse team to sneak out of there.
  19. squally1313
    The argument for this kind of playoff expanding move, that it will reduce tanking by giving more teams a shot, is more than offset by the fact that the new target for wins will be like 85, and you'll see pretty much all the big market teams doing the same treading water horsefeathers that the Cubs have been doing for the last two offseasons.
  20. squally1313
    Definitely agree that the Red Sox were a little taken aback by the public reaction to the trade (not that that ultimately stopped them), but they went from picking up someone who was at least a major league reliever that could help the team on day one to a prospect named after Derek Jeter. Weird sequence of events, for sure.
  21. squally1313
    I was ready to hate this, but with the right specifics I think there are some things to like. In particular, since all the wild card games are at the higher seed, you could do the 3 game series with a double header one day and a Game 3 the next day/day after. That'd help preserve some of the current wild card's stakes, and optimize scheduling. It also paves the way for an 8 division setup if they decide to expand to 32, and preserves the importance of division winners gunning for the best record they can. The issue with the DH header idea is that the only way anyone would agree to that would be if it fell on the weekend, and then you'd have an round of playoffs going up against football, and there's no way anyone would agree to that.
  22. squally1313
    I totally get the motivations behind the ideas (and the article does a good job of spelling them out)...more playoff teams, more clinching games, etc. I really don't know how you solve the main problem, which is that ultimately the 'fairest' way to award a champion is pretty much the opposite of the 'most exciting' way. 7 teams from each league making the playoffs is pretty much a dealbreaker for me, as much as I may like some of the other nuances. But on the other hand, the best idea I can come up with, on the spot, involves 6 teams per league, so...who knows. That idea is pretty close to the NFL set up, but also lets the teams with the better records pick their opponents. Three division winners, three wildcards, two best division winners get a bye and the third winner/three wildcard teams play two best of 3s (division winner picks their opponent), and then of those winners, the best record gets to pick their opponent. I'd also consider reducing the number of off days in the playoffs in order to add more games, assuming we can't get the season to end earlier. Edit: I thought about this more, and just leave it as is. As much as I like the 'pick your opponents' thing, baseball is pretty clearly the worst sport to try it in.
  23. squally1313
    https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/mlb-plotting-playoff-expansion-with-reality-tv-twist/ This is getting trashed by Baseball Twitter, and I definitely agree in terms of the new format/bracket. Have always thought that picking your own opponent would be a fun way to ramp up the intensity though, so that part I'm very intrigued by.
  24. squally1313
    Why would teams ask about Maatta?
  25. squally1313
    I had to look up who McNeil even was, and I for one am shocked that this Ryan Ludwick esque loser isn't on the Cardinals.
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