treebird

Well, yeah, on that end of it, if McKinney is the 3rd piece (not that we know that to be true) then you can be pretty safe in feeling the 4th is a complete nothing. i was pretty sure the second piece would be a complete nothing when i heard the first piece was torres.

totally fine with going crazy and trading everybody to make a big push now that #wearegood, but jesus why does it have to be a reliever with two months left on his contract? and this terrible horsefeathers to boot.

can i petition that we have a separate thread for people to talk about which people accused of rape were only accused because someone wanted to get paid? i'd like to read about chapman rumors and analysis and this is getting kind of vile.

if he doesn't get anybody out and retires after the game his stats will look a lot like he didnt

I heard he also gave her the cancer ugh. OF COURSE he has a nickname for his penis

lackey is fortunate this team has been so good. calling out your teammates in the media is an horsefeathers move and he'd be getting raked over the coals for refusing to take responsibility under different circumstances. it's not like somebody let the ball bounce off his head for a home run or something. also i wouldn't even call it a bad play. baez charged hard, hoped to make a tag, then flipped to second when he saw he couldn't. any hope for a double play was lost when the runner got past him and he had to make the throw. hopefully maddon tells john to stfu before his next start.

god this guy is a piece of horsefeathers

you can tell he looks down on the city of chicago

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get it together david

put all the cubs and theo in the hell picture with the cardinals as punishment for being terrible

fair warning: fatalism thread coming if they lose this one. go cubs.

i'm sure it was a tough choice, but i do suspect that was a good move. good for dexter for doing the smart thing.

i told you.

i say he gets one of those masks like jigsaw uses and inspires everyone to play better or pay the price

take the red line to the stadium, get your tickets in advance on stub hub, and go to the nisei lounge.

there is much to do this season and things could still turn out great, but this is absolutely the reason last year's attitude of "well actually we're a year ahead of schedule so who cares what happens" was so infuriating. we had a chance to win last year and did nothing in the nlcs. that's a disappointing outcome. every chance to win is sacred. Are you talking about fans with this attitude? I don't think the players or management had that attitude. talking about fans. that said, i do have a friend of a friend who works in analytics for the cubs who used basically those exact words ("this is a year ahead of schedule so whatever we get is a bonus") and seemed to imply it was very much the organizational mindset. i'm sure that's just the case for people off the field, though.

if you have drano poisoning and not drano instantaneous blissdeath, you definitely did not follow my instructions correctly

there is much to do this season and things could still turn out great, but this is absolutely the reason last year's attitude of "well actually we're a year ahead of schedule so who cares what happens" was so infuriating. we had a chance to win last year and did nothing in the nlcs. that's a disappointing outcome. every chance to win is sacred.

i was going to request that this thread be locked, but i think it'd be better if we all declared what we will do tonight in an effort to live our lives to the fullest instead of watching the loser cubs. i'll go first. i know a pretty girl and i think she likes me. i'm going to see if she'll go on a walk in the woods with me. dinner at a bar that serves nachos to follow.

welcome to gam thread i am tre- just kidding this team is horsefeathering garbage and doesn't deserve a proper thread. don't watch this game. go do anything else. even if they win, it won't mean anything. you'll still think all the same thoughts and have all the same doubts. we are well beyond a single game recovery. so go do something with your friends and loved ones. eat nachos in the street. play catch with your kid at the park. go for a drive in the country with the windows down at dusk and smell the fresh air. whatever you can think of that you don't spend enough time doing, TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT YOU CAN DO IT. you can check the score of the game when you think it's probably over. if the cubs happen to win, you'll have a bonus moment of happiness. when you (inevitably) see that they have lost, you'll be sad for a second and then happy you did something fun instead of wasting your time on them. you only have so many days left. fewer than you'd probably guess. how many times are you going to get to spend time with your parent/sibling/friend again, really? everyone is so busy, but part of the reason you're so busy is because you waste time on the cubs. don't do that tonight. they aren't worth it right now. hopefully they'll be worth it again soon, and you'll be fully able to carve time out of your schedule (aka the ever dwindling remainder of your life) to watch them then. make them earn your time first, though. you have so very little to waste.

drano

willson looked like a grade school kid running the bases there.

lol at jd's surprise at no one up in the braves' bullpen. they could send freeman out to pitch and we'd get out. i'm sure that jackass from last inning will be fine.

that throw is going to be a fun microcosm for the season