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saying anything other than "the cubs will obviously win 90+ games and the brewers are 100% trash" is seen as freaking out. the "it's only _____" thing just becomes annoying at a certain point, because it has a way of always being pushed back. plus, injuries happen, and we might be seeing with darvish. they need to be winning games and not assuming they'll come later, because it not happening would be far from the weirdest thing to happen in baseball this year. No you’re right keep being overly worried about a team playing at an 88 win pace for the season while statistically looking like a 95+ win team. Yeah the Darvish injury is concerning but let’s not act like you just starting being concerned today. All I’m saying is like maybe enjoy baseball for a little while. the run differential stuff got old a long time ago. we know they're super talented and should be better than they are. and stop pretending like you're enjoying baseball this year. you can admit that it's been a bummer.
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they're finishing up the easiest part of the schedule right now, so i don't know how you can assume this. And they’re playing over .500 on it??? i don't even know what you're arguing here. this argument about whether or not the cubs will be good never ends, party because i can't help myself, and partly because they continue to not be where they should be. the fact that they're on pace for 88 wins does not mean they haven't been disappointing and frustrating to watch for 2 months.
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they're finishing up the easiest part of the schedule right now, so i don't know how you can assume this.
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yeah we all know they're likely to be good and they have a good roster and stuff, but at this point the constant assumption that they'll go on some big run just because it's worked out that way in the past feels like false confidence in the way it's talked about. we all know that what you said is likely to be true, yet it feels lie you're trying to convince yourself of it as much as you're trying to convince me. Not really. The Cubs could end up falling short at the end of the day. But because they’ve been a really really good baseball team for the last 3+ years they deserve the benefit of the doubt. No one needs to freak out before Memorial Day because they are 4.5 games out of first (and only 2 in the loss column) much less 1 game out of a playoff spot. saying anything other than "the cubs will obviously win 90+ games and the brewers are 100% trash" is seen as freaking out. the "it's only _____" thing just becomes annoying at a certain point, because it has a way of always being pushed back. plus, injuries happen, and we might be seeing with darvish. they need to be winning games and not assuming they'll come later, because it not happening would be far from the weirdest thing to happen in baseball this year.
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accept the fact that they're better and it will become easier actually that doesn't make it easier at all. why the horsefeathers is cubs baseball so sad these days God are we going to horsefeathering do this horsefeathers on here 2 years in a row? It’s like I’ve gone back in time to July 2017. It’s horsefeathering May still, slow your damn roll. Maybe it will turn out different but this team has played like a 90 win team in the first halves under Joe and 109 win team in second halves. This happens every horsefeathering year except 2016 and yet many can’t just chill out and enjoy the greatest run of Cubs baseball in pretty much forever. yeah we all know they're likely to be good and they have a good roster and stuff, but at this point the constant assumption that they'll go on some big run just because it's worked out that way in the past feels like false confidence in the way it's talked about. we all know that what you said is likely to be true, yet it feels lie you're trying to convince yourself of it as much as you're trying to convince me.
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maybe it's just time to stop making fun of the team with half our payroll that made the cubs sweat last year while in a full rebuild, and are currently kicking the cubs asses this year while still having completely ignored their rotation.
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this is turning into a legit disaster now
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5/27 giants (blach) at cubs (chatwood) 708 cdt espn
17 Seconds replied to treebird's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
brewers will win, cubs will lose. get the frustration of that inevitability out of the way tonight and do something else with your sunday. -
accept the fact that they're better and it will become easier actually that doesn't make it easier at all. why the horsefeathers is cubs baseball so sad these days Vaunted Brewers suck as much as I've always thought they have. you poor bastard
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accept the fact that they're better and it will become easier actually that doesn't make it easier at all. why the horsefeathers is cubs baseball so sad these days
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this season is horsefeathering rough
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surely he takes fatherhood very seriously, and these kids will get all the emotional support they need
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chris paul dies right when it looks like the warriors might lose the series
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ohtani has been completely insane so far, the angels are relevant, and it still feels like he's already been forgotten
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last season taught me not to expect it to be easy, but i didn't think it would be like this. it could/should change in an instant, but i'm past the point of expecting it to. it's just not worth it to be invested in the team right now. every day should be the day the brewers fall off and the cubs take off, and it just won't happen. it's still early, but its not THAT early. I mean, this literally just happened last year, almost to the letter. Last year the Cubs were 5.5 games out of first and 2 games under .500 at the all star break. They won the division by 6 games and the last week of the season was functionally meaningless. Be as mad or disappointed as you want, but it's real hard to feel like they're remotely in uncharted waters. where did i imply they were in uncharted waters? i'm saying it's really annoying that they're in this position again 2 months into the season, sustainable or not. if you're not frustrated, then more power to you, but there is plenty to be frustrated about so far.
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last season taught me not to expect it to be easy, but i didn't think it would be like this. it could/should change in an instant, but i'm past the point of expecting it to. it's just not worth it to be invested in the team right now. every day should be the day the brewers fall off and the cubs take off, and it just won't happen. it's still early, but its not THAT early. There’s like 115 games left and they’re 3-4 games back. It’s plenty early. well yeah, it's plenty early to come back and win the division (and they're still the favorites), but it's not some tiny chunk of the season either. we're almost 2 months in, they need to start winning, especially because the wild card race is looking like it's going to be really crowded.
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last season taught me not to expect it to be easy, but i didn't think it would be like this. it could/should change in an instant, but i'm past the point of expecting it to. it's just not worth it to be invested in the team right now. every day should be the day the brewers fall off and the cubs take off, and it just won't happen. it's still early, but its not THAT early.
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sorry, i already tried an optimism earlier
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I’d venture to guess the guy running all this is plenty confident. I can’t imagine he’s all that happy about the execution and Javy’s bunt tonight though. Confident, but not calm. No way stuff hasn't been broken. he's probably just telling jed how much the VBs suck
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man 2018 baseball is just frustration week after week, and the fact that things "should" be different just adds to it
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maddon not even trying to win
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how do you do that with 0 outs and needing one run to tie
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they deserve to lose for that
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oh my god