Hairyducked Idiot
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Knowing a few Red Sox fans, whether it's this year or not, it'll all be well worth it when it does happen. And if we keep spending like this and making the playoffs on a consistent basis, it will happen. Eventually. the funny thing is...they had 11 straight playoff loses before they finally picked up one of those elusive wins...my best friend is a red sox fan and he said that to me the other night...something i didn't know...THAT MEANS WE WILL HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN NEXT YEAR IF WE GET THAT FAR... plus...our story is slightly worse than the redsox...so...how many consecutive playoff loses does this team need? 12, 15, 20? maybe it is just 8, and we can flip it on its side and go to infinity and beyond! I wouldn't mind it getting to 14 to match 1994. That'd be cool.
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"you should buy a dodgers shirt and pretend to be happy" It's a sick, sick joke that my coolest in-person baseball memory was being able to hang out outside the stadium, listening to the radio, during a World Series clinching game. Could see the jumbotron for replays and could see the ball in the air on fly balls. Even saw a WS homer leave the yard. In St. Louis.
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I didn't watch Game 3 last year. Just monitor it on the internet and flip it on if something good might be happening.
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Even if you don't care for hockey, the announcer's reaction is awesome.
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There's a point where a certain level of underperformance becomes statistically improbable to the point where you have to wonder what is going on. A good team losing is expected. Good teams losing by a combined score of 54-18 over eight games isn't.
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If the Cubs win the division again next year, which seems likely, is there still a mad rush for tickets? They'll surely sell out, of course, but will scalping prices see a downturn? How many years in a row would this happen before they stopped selling out?
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Dodger fans had a World Series to celebrate 20 years ago. Not much help to the 19-year-old Dodger fans who get leukemia, is it? Why do you hate the leukemia kids? Instead of hoping for a Cubs win, you should fly down to LA right now and start taunting a children's hospital's leukemia ward. It's the same thing.
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Dodgers fans get cancer too.
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The last seven playoff games
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Updated for last night: Cubs have lost 8 straight playoff games by a final combined score of 54-18, a perfect 3-1 ratio. None of those losses were by 1 run, and only one was by two runs. This losing streak is now past halfway to matching the epic 0-14 start to the 1994 season. The Cubs have still lost 7 straight potential pennant or WS-clinching games, but they won't get a chance to extend that this season. The Cubs go to L.A. now. On the one hand, they have an obscenely good pitching matchup in Game 3. On the other, that would be pointless, I just want it over. They have never won a playoff game west of Chicago (0-8 all-time). The Cubs are one loss away from being 3-12 all-time in playoff series, and are now 9-22 in playoff games since 1945 (or since 1984, if you prefer). -
They promise us their young talent will carry them through and that we shouldn't worry about the lack of a second-line center. Never heard *that* one before.
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We are now past the halfway point in making our postseason losing streak match the start of the 1994 season.
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Not that I blame him for any of this, other than a few weird decisions, but I kinda wish we'd waited until Piniella won a playoff game before extending his contract.
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You know, I'm not sure why fans of baseball teams everywhere get all excited about this 'making the playoffs' thing. It's not that great.
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Agreed. Shame on you. Believing in the Cubs only causes pain. Whenever you feel yourself starting to believe, go hit your big toe with a hammer. It's about the same, but it's quicker. What I did was spend the last two weeks trying to ignore them, and never once allowing myself to dream what it would be like if they made it to the WS. It worked. I'm about 10% disappointed and 90% amused.
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Agreed. Shame on you.
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Dead cat bounce ftl
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Well, at least the Blackhawks are sucking me in with false hope and promises of how that whole lack of centers thing is no big deal... Oh, crap. :cry:
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I'm a rural wuss who is scared of the city anyways, but I wouldn't really hang around there if I were at the game.
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Yes. All I want now is for this to all be over and done with, so they are certain to not let that happen.
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How can you possibly be capable of getting your hopes up?
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There is a "curse". It is called 100X more pressure than any other team in the postseason. Yeah, cause there was no pressure on the Red Sox to win in 2004. No one said the curse was impossibly to overcome. It just makes things a lot harder.
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So, what kind of organization does this for 100 years? the organization put together a team that won 97 games. this, well, this is not the organization's fault. they've made the playoffs 4 times in the last 10 years, at some point, you have to start wondering. what has to happen to convince people? So what, a curse? what else? do the cubs have to be up by 10 runs in the 4th 5th 6th 7th games of the nlcs only to lose each time to convince you that they're never getting to the world series? Pressure. Some flukey effect that comes from playing day games or in Wrigley Field (which is an unusual park). An organizational tendency to hire a certain type of player whose style does not work in the postseason. I don't know. But the odds of it happening by chance are staggering. These aren't one-run losses, these are Pythagorean humilations.
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I agree they are a great team. That's the point. It's normal for a great team to lose five games in a row once in awhile. Some one-run losses, the occasional flukey bad performance. It's not normal for them to lose them by a combined score of 49-14. That is so statistically improbable that the possibility of an effect should not be dismissed out of hand.
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We'll make a big hairy deal about resigning Dempster, but no real upgrades.
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I don't believe there is a curse. I am beginning to believe there is an organizational effect. Burn the ballpark, eliminate the front office completely and turn it over to a new ownership group, change the uniform colors, everything. I don't care if it makes sense or not, there is clearly an organizational effect at work. (OK, maybe not clearly. But I still don't think it's dismissable offhand).