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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    And go up 20 games
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    when you have 8 K's in 6 innings and dudes keep swinging and missing, it's gonna be hard to be all that efficient K's don't increase pitch counts.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Consider? Yes, but still probably don't. Hendricks is better at home and I'm not pushing Lester back.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Any playoff series is close enough you can probably call it a "toss up." The 2015 Cubs were undoubtedly a better team than the 2015 Mets.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Either the Dodgers lost 7 percentage points on their pennant chances last night in a win or Fangraphs fixed the but that had them ahead of us.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Every time I've visited that board, there's been one or two people trying to explain it to them and it never, ever seems to penetrate. It's been like that for several years. And you would think the fanbase of Isringhausen/Pulsipher/Wilson or whatever it was would remember.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    From Nate Silver, October 2, 2007: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=6781
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    wait what To be fair to the Diamonbacks they had to play the 90 win Rockies and 89 win Padres 19 times each. Meanwhile the Cubs played in the NL Central. I wouldnt say that the Cubs were "on paper" better than Arizona. It is debatable who was better on paper. The only team the Cubs were far and away better than "on paper" of the last 4 playoff losses was the 2008 Dodgers. I mean, it's debatable in the sense that anything is debatable, but there's a correct opinion here. Baseball Prospectus even did a big pre-series piece on how lopsided the matchup was and had the Cubs at like 2:1 to win.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    And then several other posts saying "the Cubs are scared of us" I've never found a pocket of reasonable Mets fans like you do with other fanbases. If there's a GRB of Mets fandom, I haven't come across it. They are all aggressively bad and dumb.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    The only one I'll accept as debatable is 2003 Marlins.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    At the time last year idk if the Mets were worse on paper. But I agree about the rest of the eliminations. At the time last year the Cubs were in god mode and had been for half a season.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Probably Giants. I don't really think matchups or quality matters enough to make a meaningful difference in a short series. So it comes down to who I want to lose to the least. Having to put up with another "Hurr durr even year magic" run would suck, but not as bad as letting the Cardinals even out last year or the Mets double down on it. Still rooting for Miami to make an improbable run.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Random musing: The last four Cubs playoff eliminations were at the hands of teams that were on paper worse imo. The only way this team avoids making it five is to win it all.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    That is a half Kyle at best until you get the thread to jump 8 pages in an afternoon.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm gonna say that has to be one of their occasional data entry errors. They aren't 5 percentage points less likely than us to make it to the NLCS but more likely to win it despite that.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm gonna go ahead and say it: slightly less good Cubs teams are more fun. This is spring training
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not if you're trading him to someone out there in the vast desolation of the Great QB Wilderness. Even then. Those teams aren't going to give you a pick for the privilege of being the worst team not technically in the wilderness.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because people are used to him with the Bears. Trade him and it starts all over again. "Why did you bring in this bad attitude loser who can't win? Do you feel like every single thing that goes wrong from here on out can be attributed to that, and thus to you? How much do all his teammates hate him already. Is it sooooo much? I'm just gonna put down that you said soooooo much." If you are trading Jay Cutler you are asking someone to take him off your hands, not making demands.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    To save wear and tear on his arm. Probably a dumb theory though.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Non pitching arm? Kevin Tapani says deal with it and make awesome playoff starts anyway
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    No one is giving you meaningful trade value for the privilege of welcoming the Jay Cutler media show into their team. Fair or not he is a coach killer
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't know what difference it makes whether you "blow it up" or not, this team isn't close. They lack impact talent at key positions. The fantasy is that they can plug holes fast enough to become average everywhere and leverage that into like a 10-6 season or something, but that is a crappy plan that every bad team puts together. They need tackles, they need another WR, they need a secondary, they need at least one elite playmaker somewhere on defense. They need to stop sucking on special teams. And when we are that far away anyway, we might as well be looking for a long-term QB solution because Cutler isn't bad but he isn't it either.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    like decatur? The Bears are starting to emanate a smell very reminiscent of driving by Staley's
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's almost like they were a bad team going in to the season. But wait until next year when we add some free agents who have been good but already used up their prime years and our injured recent draft picks who haven't shown anything are healthy.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Now we are effusively praising Wentz for saying the name of the play in the huddle.
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