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  1. squally1313
    I want them to do whatever needs to be done to make St Louis and Milwaukee have a game 163 on Monday (so win at least one of the three in St Louis). That would make them travel more and play an extra game. Would also make the Cardinals use Flaherty which means he’d either be unavailable for the WC game if they lose or unavailable until Game 3 of the NLDS if they win. Cards cost us the division last year by getting swept by Milwaukee at home and then winning one against us in the last week. The least we can do is repay the favor. I agree but also just because one game playoffs are incredible when you aren't a fan of either team.
  2. squally1313
    My White Sox fan buddy asked me what draft position we'd end up in if we lost out, which was incredibly sobering. I refuse to look.
  3. squally1313
    None of this really means anything to me, and if anything it's a negative, not a positive. Not that our press is full of intelligent writers who expect analytic based decisions, but I don't really need the David Ross love fest to actually impact the day to day decisions/coverage. You think the generally positive view of David Ross as a person will impact how Gordo or Sullivan covers the team or how the team operates on a day to day basis? The second part, probably not. Given Ross and Theo's close relationship, I assume if Ross came on it would be with a clear directive to follow the analytics, especially given his lack of managerial experience. Overall, that's probably a good thing. But I got pretty tired of how long Maddon was given 'smartest person in the room' status because he gave a good three minute sound bite after the game. People have access to the numbers that can usually show what was a good decision and what was a bad decision. I want that more than the Maddon treatment.
  4. squally1313
    None of this really means anything to me, and if anything it's a negative, not a positive. Not that our press is full of intelligent writers who expect analytic based decisions, but I don't really need the David Ross love fest to actually impact the day to day decisions/coverage.
  5. squally1313
    Good comment.
  6. squally1313
    That's one of those stats that is designed to support the final point, but without any sort of context/comparison, is essentially worthless. Edit: Let's try it out. Astros have scored 893 runs. 1/3 of that is 294. In their top 23 scoring games, they scored 299 runs. Can you imagine how inconsistent their offense must be???
  7. squally1313
    Even Heyward had a pretty good year outside of the leadoff/Joe stuff. Meh. 2018: Offensive value: 3.7 wRC+: 99 WAR: 2.0 2019: Offensive value: 3.7 wRC+: 102 WAR: 1.9 He's still mediocre. He needs to be platooned, and ideally the platoon is still in right field (though the latter part is pretty unlikely at this point). .838 OPS against RHP, 116 wRC+ .558 OPS against LHP, 46 wRC+
  8. squally1313
    Well hopefully you'll be watching the Nats offense, as the Cubs don't play until tomorrow.
  9. 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.
  10. squally1313
    The cubs pooped in the refrigerator and are wrapping up the last bits of an entire wheel of cheese.
  11. squally1313
    Joe wake the horsefeathers up
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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
  16. squally1313
    Come the horsefeathers on with this game.
  17. 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.
  18. squally1313
    I guess Caratini and Contreras are just splitting time now huh? Other than that, not much to complain about.
  19. squally1313
    Weird that this is coming up in multiple threads, but Jim is definitely the right answer here.
  20. 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)
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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?
  25. 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?
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