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Woodruff pulled after 4 innings and only 65 pitches. Anyone know why?
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Agree. This kind of confirms the saying “fish gets rotten from the head down”. Ownership being the head this is a perfect example of that saying.
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I agree with you, but have to also add, to date the. Brewers have not dominated the Cubs this season. They are 4-4. So Cubs could win the season series and still probably lose the division. A playoff series against them would be fun.
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I think they built the team with 90 wins in mind. But I don’t disagree with you that they should have done more. I think they backed themselves into a corner by not getting another quality starter at the start of the season. Pivetta, as an example, would look good on this team. I would feel ok resting Horton a bit had they had Pivetta. A top 3 in a series of Imanaga, Boyd and Pivetta would have looked good. I know people love to rip Jed for what we currently have, but IMO his off season was a result of what TR wanted, period. He spent what he could. I don’t blame him for not trading what he had to trade to make up for the mistake of not spending enough in the off season. How happy would people be with Gore if we had to lose Horton and Shaw? I imagine Ryan came with a crazy price too. And would it even matter? Brewers would still be where they are. Most other years we would be happy to have the record we have. And we would probably be in first by 3 to 5 games. Jed can’t do anything about the Brewers, except beat them when they play them. And, tbh, if we get them in the playoffs I think we have a good chance.
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so they can get hot. But the Cubs can’t?
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I agree. Reds have a brutal schedule to finish the season. I doubt they win more than 83 games.
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So great to see Shaw becoming an offensive force. It is especially nice to stop seeing all the Cam Smith love and the criticizing the Cubs for trading him and keeping Shaw. Right about now it appears they made the right choice. Which is why we don’t hear about Smith any longer. 100 less AB with 2 more homers, a higher OPS+ and his BABIP is only .255. If/ when that comes up, like it should, he will be even better. Look forward to him at 3rd for a good while. Happy the Cubs FO realized his talent. Along with his bat coming alive, he has also proved to be a solid 3rd baseman.
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But it kind of is. Reality is the Cubs have a 95% chance to make the playoffs. I think we all would have been happy with that before the season started. We have some suggesting they will be lucky to get in and be stomped out immediately. Others suggesting this is an 83-86 win team. Again, that’s just negative commenting. Once the playoffs start the best team probably has a 15% chance of winning it all. The worst team maybe a 6% chance. Bottom line is, now and has always been, get in and hope to get lucky. Because even the best teams need to get lucky to be playing well when they get in.
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For all the gloom and doom about the Cubs getting caught and missing the playoffs, I have to ask, who is charging after them? Maybe SD can pass them for first wild card team. But who else? The Mets who are 1-9 in their last ten? The charging (5-5 in their last 10) Reds? There is really no other threat unless people honestly think the Cardinals or Giants can catch the Cubs. Cubs are the same 5-5 in their last 10 that the Reds are. News flash…. The Reds aren’t charging. I am not happy with the way the Cubs are playing, but the truth is even continuing this aggravating pace of .500 through the rest of the season will get the Cubs securely in the playoffs. Where I am pretty sure, at some point they will lose so everyone can say “I told you so”. Being negative is just an easy and lazy narrative to take. Considering only 1 team wins the WS, being negative all the time will eventually allow you to say “I told you so”. The only time that doesn’t happen is if they win it all. Which 29/30 teams do not do.
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There is no horsefeathers way the call on the field should have been out. He called him out because he thought the tag got him before touching the base. That obviously didn’t happen. But since they couldn’t be sure Berry’s hand stayed in the base they let the call stand. By that logic, had he made the right call based on Berti beating the throw, and they couldn’t be sure if the hand came off the bag or not (they said the call stood, not confirmed) they wouldn’t have changed the call. Just a terrible call.
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Maybe the Cubs need to play an AL East team. 6-3 against Red Sox, Yankees and Orioles. And 4-4 against the Brewers.
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Cardinals 2 for 2 with men on base against Shoto. That really sucks. He pitched so well.
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No. He was out
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Where was PCA going? He isn’t going to steal 3rd with Happ up. He score on a single. How does he get picked off 2nd? Love the guy, but that was a boneheaded play.
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First pitch at 7 central.
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Honestly I don’t even care about the brewers any longer. I will worry about them when the Cubs play them. Until then I couldn’t care less what they do. If they are going to win 97-103 games this year the only thing the Cubs could do it try beating them when they play them. First in the regular season and then in the playoffs. If the Cubs get right and win 92 95 games and are playing well going into the playoffs I will be happy with the season and believe they have a chance to go far.
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Gray is no comparison to Wainright. He is only 35. Wainright pitches until he was 41. Using Wainright as a guide Gray has a lot of time left. Plus he has only been in the Cardinals for 2 years.
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Cubs (Rea) vs Cardinals (Pallante): 8/9/25, 6:15pm
Rcal10 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Well, they won too. Way more comments on games the Cubs lose than ones they win. People like being negative way more than being positive. Even this one with a low amount of posts, the majority of them are on the announcers. Again, negative posts. -
Cubs (Rea) vs Cardinals (Pallante): 8/9/25, 6:15pm
Rcal10 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Seems an odd time to post this analysis on Shaw. He has been doing great since the break and homered and tripled yesterday. The concern you have at this moment doesn’t track with his actual results lately? -
Cubs (Rea) vs Cardinals (Pallante): 8/9/25, 6:15pm
Rcal10 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
In calling it now. From now through 8/24 Cubs will go 11 and 5 and cut Brewers lead to 2 games and own the tiebreaker. I reserve the right to delete this post at any time!!!!! Tired of all the negativity about a team that has been a top 5 team in baseball all year. -
Cubs (Rea) vs Cardinals (Pallante): 8/9/25, 6:15pm
Rcal10 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Is this the same line up? Doesn’t look like it to me. What is he supposed to do? Do you want Berti and Turner in the line up or is this just venting just to vent? -
Especially playing .500 ball. Not like the Cubs went 15-27 during that stretch. When the Cubs were 45-28 ( 17 games over .500, a little more than 7 weeks ago), they had a 6.5 game lead. They have gone 21-21 and lost 11.5 games in the standings. Losing that many games in the standing without actually going into a long losing streak or a long period of sub .500 ball is crazy.
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Yep, playing .500 ball the last 7 weeks they have lost 11.5 games in the standing because the Brewers have played 23 games over .500 in that time. If they close out at .500 ball the rest of the year they will be fine. Won’t win the division, but they will be in the playoffs. Nothing they can do about the Brewers winning so often except beat them when they play them.
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I have to think if Taillon has a solid rehab start in Iowa they will want to minipulate the rotation to have Taillon face the Brewers over Rea. But I agree with the others. I also think after that series the Cubs will decide how to go forward with Horton the rest of the season. I am pretty sure the Cubs will see Peralta, Miz, Woodruff. Maybe even Henderson.
