Chicago Cubs baseball!!!

Gtilley8

bflynn1 said:

Glad that's over. I would've hated to watch this selfish offense get swept by the Brewers.

That's a great way of putting it.  Offensively, this was a very selfish team.  And Baez had a good year in spite of that.  Sadly, year 4 into this run, and I don't think they're going to get it.  

HesCalledDyer

Ben Zobrist has now played in both the AL & NL Wild Card, AL & NL Division Series, AL & NL Championship Series, and is a World Series Champion for both leagues.

He has appeared in 8 of the last 11 Postseasons.

bbiggs

Well, it’s been fun fellas. See y’all back here next Spring. 

2-feign-reluctance

Wobbie

HesCalledDyer said:

Welp. Tough battle on both sides. 2 runs and 9 hits in 22 innings isn’t gonna win many games. Congrats Wobbie, the Big Bad Cubs are going home. At least we don’t have to listen to you freakin cry about it the rest of the year.

I was very good about staying out of your thread. with your guy's talent I can't for the life of me figure why the offense is so pathetic.

brewers are the best team left. go brew crew!

HesCalledDyer

Wobbie said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Welp. Tough battle on both sides. 2 runs and 9 hits in 22 innings isn’t gonna win many games. Congrats Wobbie, the Big Bad Cubs are going home. At least we don’t have to listen to you freakin cry about it the rest of the year.

I was very good about staying out of your thread. with your guy's talent I can't for the life of me figure why the offense is so pathetic.

brewers are the best team left. go brew crew!

Trust me, we don’t understand it either. 

HesCalledDyer

2-feign-reluctance said:

Yeah that’s what the Cardinals we’re doing Friday. How’d their last playoff appearance go?

HesCalledDyer

Russell suspended 40 games without pay, retroactive to Sept. 21 so will sit out the first 29 games of next season. 
I say buy out his contract and cut him altogether. Send a message. We don’t need the headache in the media or the clubhouse. 

bbiggs

HesCalledDyer said:

Russell suspended 40 games without pay, retroactive to Sept. 21 so will sit out the first 29 games of next season. 
I say buy out his contract and cut him altogether. Send a message. We don’t need the headache in the media or the clubhouse. 

Yep. Adios. 

Gtilley8

HesCalledDyer said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

Yeah that’s what the Cardinals we’re doing Friday. How’d their last playoff appearance 

darwinstheory

Ahhh...the days when Schwarber had trade value.

The last time I saw the Cardinals play in person, the Cubs hit 6 HR's against them. It was phenomenal!

SPEEDY MCCREADY

So which was the bigger choke job? The 1969 Cubs? Or this years nonsense? I'm going with this year!

Lose 3 of their last 4 games at home, including a division tie-breaker and the wild card.

Score 1 run in each of those 3 losses.

Blow a 5 game lead in September.

AN EPIC CHOKE! Even by Chicago standards.

FUCKING NITWITS!

bootlegger10

Baseball playoffs are absurd.  You play 162 games and then ONE game is sufficient for a wild card?  You need 162 games to determine who the best team in a division is but ONE game is sufficient to determine a playoff series. 

SPEEDY MCCREADY

bootlegger10 said:

Baseball playoffs are absurd.  You play 162 games and then ONE game is sufficient for a wild card?  You need 162 games to determine who the best team in a division is but ONE game is sufficient to determine a playoff series. 

BUT

Those teams in the wild card wouldn't be in the playoffs period, if it NOT for the wild card. Over the years many a team has finished 1 game out, after 162 games, and they miss the playoffs completely. This wild card now gives them a 1 game chance. I guess. But yeah, I can also see going to a 3 game series too.

lolobugg

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

So which was the bigger choke job? The 1969 Cubs? Or this years nonsense? I'm going with this year!

Lose 3 of their last 4 games at home, including a division tie-breaker and the wild card.

Score 1 run in each of those 3 losses.

Blow a 5 game lead in September.

AN EPIC CHOKE! Even by Chicago standards.

FUCKING NITWITS!

no black cats to blame either, Speedy!!!!!

SPEEDY MCCREADY

lolobugg said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

So which was the bigger choke job? The 1969 Cubs? Or this years nonsense? I'm going with this year!

Lose 3 of their last 4 games at home, including a division tie-breaker and the wild card.

Score 1 run in each of those 3 losses.

Blow a 5 game lead in September.

AN EPIC CHOKE! Even by Chicago standards.

FUCKING NITWITS!

no black cats to blame either, Speedy!!!!!

I blame Trump.

Its always that guys fault.

No black cats

No 81 games of day baseball at home

No Ron Santo kicking his heels, and pissing off the opposing teams.

cutz

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

bootlegger10 said:

Baseball playoffs are absurd.  You play 162 games and then ONE game is sufficient for a wild card?  You need 162 games to determine who the best team in a division is but ONE game is sufficient to determine a playoff series. 

BUT

Those teams in the wild card wouldn't be in the playoffs period, if it NOT for the wild card. Over the years many a team has finished 1 game out, after 162 games, and they miss the playoffs completely. This wild card now gives them a 1 game chance. I guess. But yeah, I can also see going to a 3 game series too.

Divisional Winners already have too many days off, so i can't see them going to 3 games. Plus, teams don't deserve best of 3 if they can't win the Division.

HesCalledDyer

I wasn't alive for the '69 Cubs but I'd have to go with that as the more epic choke job.  Tied or led the division from Opening Day to Sept. 10th.  9 games up on Aug 16, finished 8 games back.  How the fuck do you drop 17 games in the last 6 weeks of the season??  The 69 team also didn't have to play 42 games in 43 days to close out the year.

Chili Davis needs to go.  Boston's bats improved this year without hiim, ours got worse with him. Much worse.  How in holy fucking hell do you have as many games scoring 0 or 1 runs in a season as a team who had (by far) not only the worst record in the majors this year, but the worst in their franchise history with 115 losses?  In 162 games, the Orioles had 40 games scoring just a single run or getting shut out. In 164 games (WC included), so did the Cubs.

They did choke away the division but it was also a season long problem that seemingly had no answer.  I think Joe's constant tinkering with the lineup, his stubborn refusal to start Almora over Happ from April to mid-August, his stubborn refusal to accept the pitcher batting 8th produces fewer runs, the guys just never got in any sort of rhythm.  One guy gets hot, then suddenly he's riding pine for the next 3 days. Rizzo batting 3rd, then 5th, then leadoff, then cleanup, then 6th, then back to 3rd.  Etc, etc...

Well, up to right now, they've played more games than anyone in baseball the last 4 seasons. They deserve some rest.

Wobbie

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

bootlegger10 said:

Baseball playoffs are absurd.  You play 162 games and then ONE game is sufficient for a wild card?  You need 162 games to determine who the best team in a division is but ONE game is sufficient to determine a playoff series. 

BUT

Those teams in the wild card wouldn't be in the playoffs period, if it NOT for the wild card. Over the years many a team has finished 1 game out, after 162 games, and they miss the playoffs completely. This wild card now gives them a 1 game chance. I guess. But yeah, I can also see going to a 3 game series too.

1993 Giants won 103 games and didn’t even have a WC game. thanks, rockies....0fer v. the braves.

Gtilley8

Wobbie said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

bootlegger10 said:

Baseball playoffs are absurd.  You play 162 games and then ONE game is sufficient for a wild card?  You need 162 games to determine who the best team in a division is but ONE game is sufficient to determine a playoff series. 

BUT

Those teams in the wild card wouldn't be in the playoffs period, if it NOT for the wild card. Over the years many a team has finished 1 game out, after 162 games, and they miss the playoffs completely. This wild card now gives them a 1 game chance. I guess. But yeah, I can also see going to a 3 game series too.

1993 Giants won 103 games and didn’t even have a WC game. thanks, rockies....0fer v. the braves.

Because it sucks to have been in the world series just 4 years prior to that.