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9/22 Gary Pressey’s last game
Hairyducked Idiot replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
97, 103, 92, 95 wins. I’d say that’s a pretty damn good run. EDIT: Most wins in the majors in that span. 1 of only 2 teams to win 90+ all four years (Dodgers) and only the Red Sox and Indians won 90+ in 3 of the 4 seasons. where did the cubs win total from 2012-2014 rank? those seasons count too. Not for original conversation, which is "last five years." Jim Hendry was GM for 9 seasons and had 3 playoff appearances. Theo is gonna be 4/8. It'd be funny if they missed again next year and he ended up being exactly one appearance better than Hendry (and that one appearance was a play-in game loss). Sure, Theo got through the playoff crapshoot time, which was super fun but doesn't specifically reflect on him as an executive. -
That's pretty much exactly what the Cardinals have done.
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I would be very careful attributing positive differential between RD and wins to the manager. The whole point of Pythagorean Wins is that they're more predictive than real wins, because there doesn't seem to be anything intrinsic about the team (which the manager is) that makes the difference happen.
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Sub-90 wins clinched. Even 85 isn't a gimme now.
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It's not like they guessed curveball. He threw a couple of navel-high, down-the-middle fastballs.
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Forget this. Let's focus on teams that might actually make the playoffs. My adult novice ice hockey league team plays tonight and tomorrow night to finish out the regular season. Top 4 make the playoffs. We are tied for third with the tiebreaker over team A, and team B is one win behind but has the tiebreaker over us. A and B both have games against the last-place team this weekend, we have to play the 1st and 2nd. I will keep you all updated.
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So how many years will be before the Cubs win their first playoff game since 2017?
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Yes. But did Fray have other songs that would be notable enough for this to be "a Fray song" and just that one song? I honestly don't remember, not just being snarky.
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I’m finding emotional attachment to teams in general to be quite draining. Wish I could just latch onto a story or something here is kyle's favorite story Remember that one Scrubs episode where they tell you that 1 in 3 patients die and introduce you to three really cool patients? Then at the end, all three die because some days the odds don't even help you and Cox has a breakdown.
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That's the worst thing about sports in general. It's hard to really enjoy the misery knowing it means some other turds are happy.
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It always amuses me that in the first draft of the new regime that was supposed to fix our drafting, we got Albert Almora (2.1 career fWAR), the Cardinals got Michael Wacha (10.8 career fWAR) picking 13 spots later.
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Going in to today, the RD implied we’ve played 5 wins under where we should be and the Brewers 9 games over where they should be (A FOURTEEN GAME SWING). It’s horsefeathering unreal. the thing that gets me is that it lets brewers fans think they were right about them being good, even though they weren't. that team sucks ass and they're winning games for no real reasons. now we have to spend the whole offseason knowing we'll have a superior roster to them again next year, but they finished ahead of us twice in a row now, so they have these stupid unearned bragging rights. but really the problem here is that i care about another sports team's fanbase. If it helps, they were right about the Cubs spending money poorly and running into a wall.
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Well, yeah, that comes back to just how nigh-catastrophically bad they've developed pitching talent. Your bullpen is more likely to blow up if you have to rely overwhelmingly on guys you have to bring on because they didn't even manage to develop some legit horsefeathering relievers. It's truly amazing how they've produced absolutely nothing in the draft and IFA, pitching-wise. Just by accident you'd think some random 14th-rounder would hit a growth spurt or develop a new pitch and give you a couple of decent relief seasons. But just stone nothing.
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Impending free agents (too lazy to check if any of them have options): Zobrist, Hamels, Strop, Castellanos, and a few dumb pitchers who don't matter. There won't be any major trades because Epstein will never trade any of the hitters he's developed.
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right next to slightly above
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Nine games left. It's not impossible but I'd set it at less than five percent
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I wonder if all the people who said that just barely missing the playoffs is the worst possible season are gonna stick with it when we do it.
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The only in-game moment I remember from the end of 2004 is losing 2-1 in a game Prior dominated. The rest of mostly just a blur of saying "We just need to go 5-5, there's no way we can miss then."
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10 games to go, scrambling with the Brewers for the very last playoff half-spot. Cardinals 3 games ahead now. Last week was the season equivalent of a fake rally.
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I can 100% buy the last part. I don't have access to the wide-view game tape or anything, but there's no way on all those checkdowns he's not had anyone open. He's just not seeing things.
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This isn't a one game issue. He's missed guys badly a lot. Somebody shared a video showing how awful he is when he has time to think vs other times when he looks great. I'll never forget (nor probably forgive) him missing badly on an easy touchdown in Miami last year, since I was there and everybody in the house knew it was a touchdown until the ball sailed past. He is, way more often than is acceptable, egregiously inaccurate. He used to make 4 good throws for every one weirdly inaccurate one. Now he's making one good throw per game.
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The best QB on the roster for the rest of this season is going to Mitch Trubisky. It sucks that he sucks, but neither professional clipboard lectern Chase Daniel nor some random practice squad fodder are better options. I've got as big a raging doom boner about Trubisky as anyone, but he was regular bad, not Moses Moreno bad.
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You do realize our #4 prospect according to you, Montero, just put up a .552 OPS and K'd in 29.8% of his PA over a full season of AA ball, right? The farm lacks high end upside outside of maybe 3 players. You realize he was injured all year, right? Losing a year of development to injury time is not a point in a player's favor.
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True. A crappy QB and dumb coach is a crappy QB and dumb coach too. I've seen this stupid season so many times and I'm so bored with it. 2001, 2005, 2006, 2012. And those are just the times it mostly worked. Are there any fun teams to root for in the NFL this year?
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It wasn't roughing the passer, either.