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  1. CubmanPi
    Rick Ankiel hits a HR. Ball bounces off the top of the slide and lands in the field of play. Corey Hart picks it up and throws home, but the homerun stands. Ned Yost argues and gets ejected. 14-3 Brewers, but the momentum has shifted.
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    :roll: I'm sure there are plenty of boards who have made arguments out of less. Gimme a break.
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    Ricky Weeks drove in three runs with his glove. 13-0 Brewers, top 2nd.
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    Marquis hasn't been anywhere near bad enough to qualify for the possibility of an Estes game. Who was the last Cub to pitch a complete game shutout?
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    Yep.
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    http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/1908_sched.shtml The 1908 Cubs were 59-46 after August 18 of that year. They finished 99-55. That's correct, they went 40-9 to end the year and didn't have a single 2 game losing streak in that time. That context makes the Merkle play that much more ridiculous. What a finish.
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    Much better than Fred Merkle did, anyway. :D What a Boner.
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    The Cubs won the division in 1908 with both NY and Pitt finishing only a game behind them. I haven't been able to find the schedule, but I'm sure they performed well in crunch time.
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    b&
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    Frank "Juan Pierre" Chance OPS'd .701 in 1908.
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    So we'll talk 05 tomorrow and 06 on Friday, then. Excellent. Friday should be fun. I'll spare us the trouble and say everything there is to be said about 06: Barrett hit a game-winning grand slam against the Cardinals in April, and the Cubs lost every single game after that for the rest of the season. 07: Cubs win 10 of 13 going into the last give games, have two game division lead, learn to finally beat the Marlins, face Reds who are without Dunn and Griffey.
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    Unless there's some kind of scenario I'm completely unaware of, the magic number could only go to 2 after tonight. That scenario would be that the Cubs and their awesomeness are awarded two wins, just for being awesome. Brewers in turn forfeit in the midst of their own tears, despite having a 13-1 lead in the fifth inning against the Cardinals. In that case, the magic number would be 1. Otherwise you're right.
  13. CubmanPi
    Agreed. The talk over here about Brewer fans making excuses is the result of about two posts in the last week in their other games threads, and both from the same poster. There was a big long one from Friday or so that was quoted in its entirety over here and got a lot of responses from us. I went over there and found that post, and here are the three posts which followed: The only other post in the thread was expressing the hatred for Aramis Ramirez that all Brewers fans are supposed to have. In perusing more Other Games threads from the last week (I didn't check the one from last night because I have no interest in their excitement over the Cubs losing), all I found were game updates and people pissed about the Cubs winning and hitting so many HR. These two quotes were the only other ones I found worth pointing out: Our reaction to one poster and generalizing him as the viewpoint of all Brewer fans on that board has inspired one of ours to go trolling over there, yet the rest of the community seems to have their heads on straight. I'm not sure why people are so eager to paint brewerfan.net as a bunch of sore losers spouting sour grapes all over the place, but as a whole, that group seems to get it. Pointless thread.
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    I don't get where you're going with that... :-$
  15. CubmanPi
    I had a terrible feeling yesterday morning about the Cubs, and now I have a great feeling this morning. Good sign. I don't really remember what I dreamt about, but I spent the first half hour of consciousness this morning being convinced that it was Thursday and the Cubs had already lost the first two games of the season, so I'm in the opposite boat.
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    Whether or not it actually exists, the discussion of momentum in baseball is usually a Joe Morganism resorted to by commentators when they need to fill time and don't have anything better with which to fill it. Discussion of momentum ranks up there with confidence, consistency, heart, gamer, grit, and desire to win. These are all things which may or may not exist, but that are discussed by people who wish to analyze the game under terms and conditions with which they have experience, and they tend to get blown way out of proportion as a result.
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    I really hate being this nervous for a game. You jerks really need to win.
  18. CubmanPi
    Yes.
  19. CubmanPi
    They've already won like twice this month. They're spent, give them a break.
  20. CubmanPi
    I hope Don Young doesn't choke down the stretch again. No wait that was 35 years ago, and he may very well be dead. The plight of the last 99 years has nothing to do with the current team. There aren't even many players left from the team that collapsed in '04, and most importantly there are no coaches or MANAGER left from that team. To play devil's advocate, the first thing anyone (Lou, Dusty, McDonough, Hendry, Soriano, etc etc) talks about when they accept a prominent position within the organization is how it's time to end the drought. I can guarantee you that the weight of 95 years was squarely on the shoulders of every uniformed Cub on 10-14-03, and I think that made them much more uptight than most teams/players would have otherwise been in that position.
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    Indeed, but I still think the Cubs have a better chance of taking two from the Marlins than the Brewers have of taking three from the Padres.
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    Anyone but the Marlins.
  23. CubmanPi
    Cubs scored 30 runs in 3 games coming into tonight, all against lefties. Tonight, a lefty with a 1.60 WHIP and a 9-15 record despite excellent run support holds them to 2 hits in 8 innings. Braves deliver three consecutive crushing losses to Milwaukee, who immediately springs to life when the worthless Cardinals get to town. Momentum my arse. Case closed.
  24. CubmanPi
    No, I'm just trying to stifle the sentiment that Lou cost us the game. It wasn't a smart move, but the team's piss poor performance for 8.2 innings back him into a corner.
  25. CubmanPi
    It's still a poor decision that might have overcome a lackluster effort from the offense. Murton was part of the problem for the first eight innings, not the answer. There was no hot hand for Lou to play, so he took the option that hadn't already come up empty three times tonight. It wasn't the best idea, but trying to manage this team into runs tonight had to feel like bobbing for apples in a tub full of feces. Thats ridiculous thinking. Murton was 0-3 that happens quite a bit in baseball. To think Floyd can come in off the bench against a lefty gives you a better chance than Murton because hes 0-3 tonight is irrational. It's no more irrational than blaming tonight's loss on a single decision by Lou. Blame it on a bad strike zone by an umpire which robbed us of 2 potential baserunners, blame it on all those bullcrap bloop hits in the second inning, blame it on Lilly getting hammered by Hermeda, blame it on the field being in poor condition after being rained on all day, blame the offense that couldn't handle a 1.6 WHIP from the opposing pitcher and insisted on GIDP immediately after their only two walks of the first eight innings. Lou's decision in the ninth was at most 3 percent accountable for this loss.
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