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everyone in the organization sould be embarrassed just like last year

this is actually pretty amazing

3 and he physically starts mailing it in, rather than just mentally He sure will be the fall guy but there is blame for this mess at all levels. Ricketts and Theo are responsible for allowing the Brewers and Cardinals to narrow the gap Maddon and the players are responsible for allowing the Brewers and Cardinals to pass them

haha after the game maddon said their focus was still on the cardinals. you'd think at some point he would pay attention to the fact that the brewers blew by them again.

did they at least get booed?

that game was so perfect

the thing that gets me is that it lets brewers fans think they were right about them being good, even though they weren't. that team sucks ass and they're winning games for no real reasons. now we have to spend the whole offseason knowing we'll have a superior roster to them again next year, but they finished ahead of us twice in a row now, so they have these stupid unearned bragging rights. but really the problem here is that i care about another sports team's fanbase. If it helps, they were right about the Cubs spending money poorly and running into a wall. but the cubs should still be winning 90 games this season even with those screw ups. and also their contention was never with the players the cubs were choosing to sign. they just thought that the cubs spending money at all meant their window would close sooner, even if they weren't bad signings. their argument never made sense.

Going in to today, the RD implied we’ve played 5 wins under where we should be and the Brewers 9 games over where they should be (A FOURTEEN GAME SWING). It’s horsefeathering unreal. the thing that gets me is that it lets brewers fans think they were right about them being good, even though they weren't. that team sucks ass and they're winning games for no real reasons. now we have to spend the whole offseason knowing we'll have a superior roster to them again next year, but they finished ahead of us twice in a row now, so they have these stupid unearned bragging rights. but really the problem here is that i care about another sports team's fanbase.

seeing the brewers -21 in the standings right next to the cubs +114 might be the most infuriating thing i've ever experienced in sports

Hey, TWO division rivals are doing it to them this time! 2 is more than 1, and all for basically the same payroll! Progress, baby! the cardinals are whatever. they're at least a decent team. the brewers are legitimately bad. yeah theo is a mess lately, but it's insane that the cubs roster allowed this brewers team to pass them this year. they should not be relevant to the cubs, let alone in front of them. and it happened the same way! they cubs had them dead going into those last 2 series, and failed both times. again.

i seriously can't believe they're letting the brewers do this to them again

so glad we saved hendricks for that instead of using him against the team that was chasing us down (again)

behind the scenes footage of theo and jed trying to figure this out

the point is that they will have blown it to the brewers without yelich. baez/rizzo is a bigger combined loss, but I dont want to hear about injuries if the brewers come back on us again without their superhuman player. Well you’re going to hear it because it is partially the reason for falling short. Javy missed the final 6 vs the Brewers (we won 1 of them and they had Yelich for all them). Now no Rizzo too. The injuries I mentioned to all above are a factor, they aren’t the main factor but it’s going to be rightfully brought up. i'm not saying it didn't play a role. i'm saying I dont want it brought up by the organization as an excuse when a)the brewers lost their mvp and b)the cubs should have put the brewers away long before September. we got lucky in the sense that it's going to take less than 90 wins to get a wild card spot this season, and they fugged it up long before the injuries.

That will definitely be brought up, probably by everyone. The injuries to Hamels, Baez, Rizzo, Bryant, Willy and Kimbrel certainly played a big role in likely falling 2-5 games short here. It’s hard to argue they didn’t, I also think turnover is coming and Theo knows he has to do better. the point is that they will have blown it to the brewers without yelich. baez/rizzo is a bigger combined loss, but I dont want to hear about injuries if the brewers come back on us again without their superhuman player.

in a couple of weeks,which of theo/ptr will be the first one to point out that they were in a playoff spot before baez and rizzo got hurt?

every single person in the stadium knew the cubs were going to lose

such a classic darvish game

has there ever been a player in mlb that was known to be a pedophile at the time he was playing? i'd be surprised if he plays again.

Really? They had one catcher, no Darvish, Russell and Almora starting full time, Chatwood in the rotation, an insane schedule, Heyward was worse, Bryant was hurt... we had like a 4-5 game lead on the brewers approaching the end of the season. that team sucks ass but they're probably going to find a way to get in again, because they're the brewers.

To be fair, you think the Brewers will end the year by winning their next 14 games. The problem for the Brewers is the only way they win the division is by finishing something like 12-2 because of the 7 H2H games between the Cards and Cubs. They're currently 4% on FG and 6% on 538. BP hasn't updated yet but they jumped 1.4% on FG today and doing that would put them at 3.5% on BP. So they're between 1 in 20 and 1 in 30 to win the division. If they go 10-4, the Cards would have to go 6-8. Well, half of those games are against the Cubs. So unless something crazy happens like the Cards get destroyed by the Nats and DBacks but crush the Cubs, the Cubs are probably winning 4 of those games. So 5-2 against Pittsburgh and Cincy and we end up tied. If they go 9-5, the Cards would have to go 5-9. Now you're looking at the Cubs probably going 5-2 against St. Louis which means 4-3 in those other games gives the Cubs the division. I'm not going to say it's impossible, because they were around 1 in 20 last year at the end of August and they got super hot and tied the Cubs. They were also a much better team last year, that had Yelich, plus a healthy and producing Cain and a lights out bullpen. They don't have those things this year. So sure, if they go nuts the next two weeks, win 11 or 12 of 14 and win the division, I'll tip my cap to them. But they've got no margin for error. i remember all this stuff looking even more promising last year

we all know the brewers will beat out the cubs for the last spot

you will regret this

blowing the wild card to the brewers without yelich is going to be epic

or maybe you could figure it out without him being forced to come to you