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If the Cubs can finish this post ASB 21 game gauntlet playing 500 ball vs MLB heavy weights like the Orioles, Royals, Whitesox and the Cardinals, it’s a win in my book.
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This team just isn’t enjoyable.
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Bullpen can’t hold a deficit. What else is new. Offense wouldn’t have made it up anyways though
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#We’re still good.
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Zero element of surprise either. Theyre just so predictable.
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You doomers need to chill. They’ve been on an 81 win pace since June.
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That Toronto series is going to be butt ugly. .
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Tip your cap to McGreevy, who’s another part of this week long gauntlet of pitchers also consisting of Sugano, Brandon Young and Nick Martinez. When will we catch a break?
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They remind me a lot of the early-mid 2000’s Twins.
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Every team has a geography hater venting after a frustrating loss. I’m not ignoring the first 2 months at all, if I did would’ve dismissed PCA and Busch’s ascension. We also know Swanson, Happ, Suzuki and Nico are already established great complementary pieces. Now swap Bellinger and Tauchman with PCA Tucker and throw Busch into the mix and this is a deeper starting 8/9 than the 2016 team minus the bench and especially if Busch and PCA are the 130-150 wRC+ guys they’ve been and they’ll bounce back from this mini slump like Happ Tucker and Seiya have and ot will break out of, since we have seasons worth of data on to make that assumption. The foundation is great. My concern along with every Cubs fan in existence is the pitching staff. If Boyd and now Horton can handle the increased work load and or the Counsell has a plan in place to keep them fresh for October then they’ll be in good shape. The high leverage bullpen arms have been a very pleasant surprise too. I’m not at all a doomer. A bit reactionary, that’s what being a Chicago sports fan does your head. That’s my positive spin.
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All 899 comments have been pessimistic? Is asking this question also pessimistic?
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2017 dodgers 52-9 stretch in 2017 I can’t imagine any team tops that historically, at least post integration.in a 61 games span. Cubs 49-19 stretch from late July 2015-game 4 of the LCS has to their modern era high mark. The Rockies 30-84 record with a -316 run differential through 114 games is the real history being made.
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Round 2 of a Swanson 3 week tear?
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Has Horton allowed an earned run since the break?
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I really hope Horton can handle the increased workload. He’s the only 4 I have any faith in starting a playoff game.
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You can put Gonzalez at number 1 for botching a double play, Alou’s overreaction throwing off Priors concentration and momentum, Dusty for leaving Prior in too long, all have an argument.
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03 I remember. It was Bartman’s fault that they lost though and had nothing to do with choking.
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Where do you get absurd pessimism from exactly? If that’s the case then people have wasted an entire week complaining about trading for Soroka when they needed much better, which is the biggest flaw on the team with a 113 game sample size to draw from. Kind of important in the playoffs. Playoffs are a crapshoot shoot. The odds are what makes or breaks my confidence. When the offense breaks out their slump, rotation and pen stay afloat and they pass the eye test after this 2 month long stretch of painful mediocrity then all will be well in my mind again. Hopefully the wait won’t be too Much longer. Pointing out flaws isn’t saying the Cubs will miss the playoffs by 5 games in a thread where people are venting over a garbage loss.
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Padres, Phillies, Dodgers and whatever the hell you want to make of Milwaukee. Forget the Mets then. If you’re trying to convince me that the cubs have a chance at winning the World Series I’ll buy it, if you’re telling me the odds are on par with with some of the other teams with majors questions around the pitching staff and whether the offense can get red hot at the right time to offset these potential cracks in the roster then I can’t say I like those odds at the moments.
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All the above teams you listed minus the Tigers and the Yankees who I don’t think are that good have track records of success in the regular season and playoffs over the last 4+ years. The sample size is big enough to give them a pass for regular season hiccups. Because I watch this team naturally I’ll focus on their flaws because I’m aware of them and what the implications of them will have in a best of playoff series. It goes for every fan base. if they were in a heater I’d be focusing more on the positives. That’s human nature. But you’re talking about a rotation with 2 arms in Boyd and Horton who will have the highest work load of their careers and Jameson Taillon as your number 3 starter. Leaving everything else out of the equation that’s my main concern. Who in that bullpen can hold a deficit at the moment?
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It’s frustrating when you have memories of 07, 08, 2018 etc 3 runs is all it took. Not heartbreaking but very annoying.
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Nothing. It’s a sunnier outlook than being the 1/124 06 Cardinals who had a core of players with back to back 100 win seasons the previous 2 years. Whether or not its achievable is the question.
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I understand all of that. If they play 500 ball the rest of way they’ll finish with 88-89 wins which I think will be enough. There’s still just too many question marks regarding the rotation and even the sustainability of PCA and Busch’s production up to this point, Obviously they’re very good with enough of a sample size to make that judgement, with the pitching concerns we’ll need them to be the guys they were all the way to the all star break to shake off the idea of just get in anything can happen mentality that rarely translates to success in the playoffs as our glimmer of hope in a best of series vs those Phillies lefties as just one example. Are they mid to high 800 OPS guys or is there some inevitable regression that’s marginal enough to not offset the other cracks in the team?
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Hot take but game 2 vs Miami in the 2020 playoffs was my most frustrating cubs loss. Not because of the stakes exactly but I not only predicted but knew Darvish would pitch a gem and they’d get shutout. I’m just glad no one there in person to witness that inevitable outcome. The lack of any element of surprise when the bats go cold no matter the manager season decade etc seems very Cubs specific.
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And no one will be optimistic going into the playoff series if they continue to win at this pace and play uninspiring baseball. A 2023 Rangers like playoff run is a best case scenario for this team with how they’re constructed, but I’m not as confident in our bullpen either.
