Chicago Cubs baseball!!!

bflynn1

Always nice to sweep STL. Guess it's just gonna be sweeps all year... hopefully in our favor. 

darwinstheory

Definitely a good weekend there!

HesCalledDyer

HesCalledDyer said:

With yesterday’s win, the Cubs take a commanding 1,094-1,093 lead in the all-time series!

So apparently this stat I saw Friday was only partially correct.  Going into this weekend's series, the teams were tied at 1093 wins apiece since the beginning of the 1906 season.  The all-time series is actually at 1,236-1,174 (.513) in the Cubs' favor.  But both teams have the advantage at their respective home stadiums.  Cubs are 689-524 (.568) at home vs Cards, and Cards are 650-547 (.543) at home vs Cubs.

bbiggs

My friend Darvish is up to his old tricks. Cubs score 4 in the top half. He gives up 4 in the bottom half. Such a loser. 

darwinstheory

No fucking bueno 

HesCalledDyer

Fuckin Darvish.  God damn waste of fucking money.

HesCalledDyer

Cubs still can't score unless its a homer.

bbiggs

HesCalledDyer said:

Fuckin Darvish.  God damn waste of fucking money.

He will never come close to earning that contract. Huge miss by Cubs front office. 

HesCalledDyer

Not making the playoffs this year.  You can take that one to Vegas.

darwinstheory

HesCalledDyer said:

Not making the playoffs this year.  You can take that one to Vegas.

Yes they are.

HesCalledDyer

darwinstheory said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Not making the playoffs this year.  You can take that one to Vegas.

Yes they are.

Aside from 3 weeks in April, they've been rather pathetic.  If they can play the rest of the season that well, they will.  But 9 out of 12 weeks playing mediocre baseball isn't playoff caliber. 

mca47

HesCalledDyer said:

Not making the playoffs this year.  You can take that one to Vegas.

They will take the Central or the wild card.  They won't get far.
This team is the definition of inconsistent.  

HesCalledDyer

mca47 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Not making the playoffs this year.  You can take that one to Vegas.

They will take the Central or the wild card.  They won't get far.
This team is the definition of inconsistent.  

They're gonna have to take the Central if they want in, and I don't see it happening.  WC is coming from East/West this year.  Hate to say it but the Central goes thru Milwaukee now.  Used to go thru St. Louis, it travelled up I-55 and went thru us for a couple years, now it's gone up I-94 to those fucksticks.

bbiggs

Inconsistent is the key word.  Jekyll and Hyde type of a team. 

HesCalledDyer

And now Cishek goes down.  God damn it.

DewieCox

I’d take Jecky and Hyde over Heckyl and Jeckyl

mca47

HesCalledDyer said:

And now Cishek goes down.  God damn it.

Gets hurt playing catch. :fp:

HesCalledDyer

mca47 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

And now Cishek goes down.  God damn it.

Gets hurt playing catch. :fp:

At least it wasn't from taking off his pants.

darwinstheory

I'm sure hoping Kimbrel can hit Dodger pitching! 

HesCalledDyer

Cubs suck.  As that loudmouth prick Richard Sherman once said about the 49ers, the Cubs are "ME-DI-OC-RE."  Team might win 85 games if they're lucky.  All I keep hearing about from EVERYONE is "there's too much talent on this team for them to not get it together."  They have regressed as a team every year since winning the World Series.  Where is this fucking talent I always hear about but never shows up?  Aside from Baez & Rizzo, I'm not sure any position player on the team has enough talent to bring it to the stadium on a daily basis and compete.  Look at all of the other good teams of the past 4 years.  They keep getting better, we keep getting worse.  The pure and simple fact is that the Cubs have done NOTHING to keep up with the Dodgers, Red Sox, Yankees, Astros, Brewers.  Even the Braves & Phillies have more exciting teams with more consistent all-star caliber players than the Cubs.  Those teams are all so far ahead of us, forget the fucking postseason.  Even if - and that's a small if - we make the playoffs, it will be one and done again.  It's almost like they won it all then got cocky and just expected the Commissioner's Trophy to be handed to them every year.  I'd be ok if this is Maddon's last season.  If there is all of this untapped talent in the dugout, it's the manager's job to get them to play to that level on a daily basis. I'm convinced Maddon is more concerned with what quirky lineup moves and puzzling in-game decisions he can make than actually winning games.  It's like he goes to the stadium with no game plan other than "How can I be fucking weird today?"