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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I mean, relative to having at least a AAA skillset, there's nothing that wildly hard about hitting the ball hard in a short sample. Hot streaks aren't just bloopers dropping.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Averaged 3.6 runs per game against 2 of the worst pitching staffs in baseball 2016 really had me sold that all these guys would be awesome by now as they hit their prime. I don’t get it. Outside of Baez, David Bote is the most exciting offensive player on this team. Baseball players primes and peaks are so much earlier than people realize in this era
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    The last time I believed in that regular season stuff was 1998 and I was 16
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    It’s funny because both good and bad, this is exactly how his Boston run went.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Losing to the Braves in the WC game would do it
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    97.95% of Quintana’s pitches were shutouts. Don’t let te 5 runs on the two other pitches make you think he wasn’t awesome
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm still convinced we are losing the wild card game. But the moment the Brewers fall to, I dunno, 4 games back, I'm going to go back to giving them absolutely no respect whatsoever and refusing to acknowledge them as any sort of rival.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    God we're really in denial about attrition rates on starting pitchers, aren't we?
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I was watching that the other day and thinking about how amazing that story was that came out right after about the history of "Golden Pitches," pitches that had the ability to win the World Series for either team.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://img.nauticexpo.com/images_ne/photo-g/33505-212695.jpg Live shot of our season being saved.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Good starting pitching and dongs >>>>>>>>> terrible starting pitching and chili-dongs
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Enough to still be the best offense in baseball when excluding pitchers? It's absurd how much you guys complain about the lack of home runs and try to diminish the quality ABs our batsmen bring to the field every day. This offense is awesome and you all should stfu about it. I'd rather have a worse offense and more dongs.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    The worst part of losing the wildcard game will be all the awful “it should be best of three” takes.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    But that’s kinda the point, if the starters suck or get in trouble we have a very good bullpen to go to if they have a short leash with the SP and they can keep us in games and it’s not revolutionary to win that way in the playoffs. The tried and tested playoff method of giving up a [expletive] of runs immediately You can just wait until the three-run homer is in the air and yell "Takebacks!" to bring in your relief ace to re-do the at-bat now. It's a new rule.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Alexa, who would start for the Braves in a wild-card game?
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Season temporarily saved
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm way more fine with this than all the tortured takes about why the rotation isn't actually bad.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    It’s the flailing cherry picking that gets me. Use “looks” for one guy, not-terrible ERA for another, appeal to regression for a third, and the vague “interesting things” for the fourth. You’re not evaluating them, you’re looking for reasons to forgive them. Fine. The pitching is bad and will still bad and the Cubs will stay the best team in the NL. The Dodgers project to be better from here on out, at least according to Fangraphs.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Even using whichever is better for them, the best Cubs starting pitcher has an FIP/xFIP of 3.91. Every pitcher in the Dodgers rotation can beat that.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    It is and has been bad but Hendricks has looked really like his old self for quite a few starts now so idk what to tell you about there but he looks encouraging, Q is solid and has been mostly solid all year and Darvish seems well on his way back, Lester was due for major regression and hopefully that get sorted out soon and he turns it back around and Hamels is doing enough interesting things outside of that stupid park in Texas to think he’s going to be good. It’s the flailing cherry picking that gets me. Use “looks” for one guy, not-terrible ERA for another, appeal to regression for a third, and the vague “interesting things” for the fourth. You’re not evaluating them, you’re looking for reasons to forgive them.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I may be having a little fun going over the top with the doom boner I haven’t been able to break out in years, but the denialism about how bad the starting pitching is gets to be pretty hilarious.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hendricks: 4.09 ERA in his last four games. Is that his “normal self”? Darvish being back isn’t a good thing if he still sucks. Quintana has been vaguely alright but still average at best.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    We are 100% losing the wild card game to some marlon rando team like the Braves or Rockies. It is fated
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    They were 2-14 in their previous 16 games and a very poor offense was a big part of that. The Cubs starting pitching has statistically been one of the 2-3 worst staffs in the NL so it makes sense they get going against us. Psh, they got 2018 Cole Hamels and all of the hopes and prayers of the fanbase that the other guys somehow get better. PROBLEM SOLVED. To be fair, I'm pretty sure 2018 Cole Hamels is our best starter now.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    inb4 Rebuild Part II
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