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i just think you go too far the other way in not trying to be a meatball. yes it's baseball, which means that even a team that should be great could suck. the fact that they went on a huge run in the last 2 months of last season doesn't mean that the 4 months of being mediocre couldn't have continued. yeah, overreacting is annoying, but so is the "actually they are good, and you're an idiot if you think it's not a lock" also gets annoying. you don't know that. they suck to start the season again, and it wouldn't even be the weirdest thing to happen in baseball this year to see them finish the year at .500. does 3 weeks of mediocrity make that significantly more likely? no. but the rotation has some questions, and we can't count of the cardinals and the brewers being mediocre. Fair enough. I think there’s enough underlying indicators and data points to think and know fairly certainly this team is in fact good and will win mid 90s games and the reaction to results and baseball being baseball shouldn’t have people overly worried. If we could point to real things causing the suckage I’d be worried or other teams in the division being anything better than mediocre but that’s really not the case and over time this team should rise to the top. "fairly certainly" just seems very generous to me, especially if you're talking about mid 90s wins. and it's not just the results. the cubs invested a crazy amount of resources into this rotation, and there are valid concerns.

Yeah it’s frustrating but the expectations are warranted and they’ve lived up to them. It’s just mostly people being idiots and not understanding baseball. Even in the most successful seasons there’s going to be 55+ losses. Losing sucks, I get that but it’s gonna happen. i just think you go too far the other way in not trying to be a meatball. yes it's baseball, which means that even a team that should be great could suck. the fact that they went on a huge run in the last 2 months of last season doesn't mean that the 4 months of being mediocre couldn't have continued. yeah, overreacting is annoying, but so is the "actually they are good, and you're an idiot if you think it's not a lock" also gets annoying. you don't know that. they suck to start the season again, and it wouldn't even be the weirdest thing to happen in baseball this year to see them finish the year at .500. does 3 weeks of mediocrity make that significantly more likely? no. but the rotation has some questions, and we can't count of the cardinals and the brewers being mediocre.

go write another post about how, actually, russell looks great Well, that’s not what I wrote and I believe I specifically mentioned he hasn’t looked good. No need to be a prick. Why do you even follow the Cubs if you are going to freak out every time something doesn’t go our way and act like the team is doomed? i was being obnoxious but i don't think i was the first one to be a prick in this exchange

We will be fine overall but this is super frustrating to watch "we will be fine" is like the slogan of the post ws cubs

Lol go write another post about how, actually, russell looks great

we have a bunch of hitters playing out of their minds and we still can't win games. it is not promising.

the good news is that the rotation isn't supposed to be bad and we have them all for years

glad we paid 50 mil for this guy over jake

i'm texting my dad and he is adamant that the 2 outs at third were hit and runs called by maddon, despite there not being a runner at first either time

we should have so many runs

almora is a goddess

you can say that again

1 tootblan per base hit

rondon is talking ish about the cubs?

imagine baez and schwarber being real then adding harper

javy thinks kris bryant has brown eyes

everyone loses an arm in a star war

javy somehow makes headphone gestures look cool as horsefeathers

how do you miss that

Same. I recently upgraded my internet, so maybe that's your problem, Derwood. I think it's the PS4 app that sucks. I never have issues on my laptop, but the PS4 app bites ass it freezes constantly for me on ps4 but works mostly fine everywhere else

a prequel gif just might be what this team needs

watching happ has made it much easier to give almora credit for hits like that

man the rotation sucks