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Let's All Freak Out About Jorge Soler, You Guys
Hairyducked Idiot replied to ctcf's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
That I think he's really, really overrated because of how he looks. Who the [expletive] thinks soler is good, god we're three days into the offseason and you're already an insufferable idiot again You're really losing the fastball. -
Forgot about 'Dry
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Let's All Freak Out About Jorge Soler, You Guys
Hairyducked Idiot replied to ctcf's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
That I think he's really, really overrated because of how he looks. -
Let's All Freak Out About Jorge Soler, You Guys
Hairyducked Idiot replied to ctcf's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Maybe he'll make me eat these words and it'll be Jake Arrieta or Jeff Samardzija all over again, but Soler looks like one of the most overrated Cubs assets I've seen in a long time. He's a total tire fire defensively, he's going to be 24 next Opening Day, and he's coming off a 0.1 fWAR in 404 PA season, and he needed an unsustainable BABIP to get there. Throw in the playoffs and he's at maybe 0.3 fWAR. He looks really pretty standing in the batter's box, I guess. -
As Roast flying-karate-kicks him to Cicero.
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I have the weirdest boner.
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And getting our pitches near the dirt golfed 328 feet down the line for multi-run HRs.
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I'd seriously shop Schwarber. The kid has six years of control left and just hit home runs at a 40/year pace for half a season, something I"m not convinced he can actually do long-term. Maybe nobody beats the asking price, but it's a helluva sell high opportunity. Plan for the offseason: Sign pitching, trade for pitching, try to pick up waiver-wire pitching. Our pitching was great this year, but we lived in a Magical Christmas Land where Jake Arrieta became Bob Gibson, Neil Ramirez was our biggest pitching injury, and every time we picked up the phone for an emergency guy we found ourselves getting serious value out of a Richard or a Cahill. That's not going to happen ever year. Our pitching is old and thin, and I don't want to waste a prime year of all these guys we have up now on another 1985.
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Well, we got 2/3rds of the way through the boring month between the end of the regular season and the start of the offseason. I'll take it. Bears aren't even any good at a sport that is basically watching people debilitate themselves for our entertainment, trying to cheer for the Hawks is ruined by Patrick Kane, and basketball is dumb.
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I'm out unless they take like a 6-run lead or something
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Sure they can.
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Well, part of the God Mode was that he was being fortunate for a long time that nothing like that happened to him. It happens to everyone sometimes, and it's not like he was striking out 15 per 9 or something to justify his 0.XX ERA.
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0%. Also Arrieta's arm falls off due to the innings he's logged this year. We spend the entire offseason going betting everything on a Heyward chase only for him to decide to take less money to go back to St. Louis, after which anyone else worth spending money on is already gone. Castro has yet another prolonged slump in the first half in 2016, Baez sucks as the starting 3b (Bryant in CF), we go -4 against pythagorean in the first half, and we limp to a 79-83 finish.
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That's what I counted. I don't think there's any correlation between people getting mad at the TV and the calls being bad, but this time they actually were bad. I feel like House when it turned out to be lupus.
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OK, this time there actually was a wolf. http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB/cache/location.php-pitchSel=592789&game=gid_2015_10_18_chnmlb_nynmlb_1&batterX=&innings=yyyyyyyyy&sp_type=1&s_type=&league=mlb&pnf=&zlpo=&cache=1.gif http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB/cache/location.php-pitchSel=453562&game=gid_2015_10_18_chnmlb_nynmlb_1&batterX=&innings=yyyyyyyyy&sp_type=1&s_type=&league=mlb&pnf=&zlpo=&cache=1.gif
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It happens like a thousand times a year. And it happens to literally 90% of the playoff teams each year.
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Becoming a fan in 2009 is really unfortunate timing.
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They held serve at home, so now we have to too. The series doesn't start until a team loses at home. Here's an anecdote about a time another team came back from a similar situation to win. Something about my feelings and the team's feelings and a vague implication that they are intertwined and guiding fate's hand.
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Need to see the exit velocity to know if it's bad or not.
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maybe saved by the bell is just what we need Mojo will just screw it up with New Class and we'll get swept because of it.
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Everyone was hysterical after the first Cardinals game, and the Pitch F/X data showed that the zone was consistent and barely more than a couple of inches wide. This one is probably worse, but it won't look as bad as the complaints would imply when the real data is posted.
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What in the...? Like in a movie where you establish a character's toughness early on so the guy who beats him up later looks awesome.
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The baseball gods let us have the Cardinals so we could make the Mets look even better.
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David, that was the first time you've heard a Jay Carrieta joke?