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I'm gonna need video of the wrigley crowd chanting "gently caress JOE WEST" as asap as possible
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Poque posted:I'm gonna need video of the wrigley crowd chanting "gently caress JOE WEST" as asap as possible your avatar  Also, somewhat agreed, gently caress Joe West, unless he's loving the Cubs.
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May 8, 2017 15:01
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I'm still fine because world series win last season, but god drat this Cubs season is a gross pile.
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May 8, 2017 15:43
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So what exactly changed for the Cubs? I don't really follow other team's offseason movements.
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May 8, 2017 15:47
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iospace posted:So what exactly changed for the Cubs? I don't really follow other team's offseason movements. Slumping bats mostly.
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May 8, 2017 15:54
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iospace posted:So what exactly changed for the Cubs? I don't really follow other team's offseason movements. In terms of personnel, not much. The biggest loss was Dexter "You go, we go" Fowler. Last year the starting pitching was stellar while the bullpen was dogshit and now they've reversed for the most part. It seems like a load of sophomore slumps and regression being a bitch right now. Still plenty of time to flip back into a top tier team, of course.
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May 8, 2017 15:56
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Starting pitching has also been worse, even though the only change was replacing Hammel with Anderson. I think every starter is underperforming from last year. Personnel wise, there weren't any huge changes, except for losing Fowler.
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iospace posted:So what exactly changed for the Cubs? I don't really follow other team's offseason movements. They're just underperforming and it's April They could use an actual fifth starter though. Maybe Butler or mike Montgomery step up
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May 8, 2017 15:59
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We've also played less than 20% of the season so maybe not time to freak out just yet. (says the Braves fan)
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ZenVulgarity posted:They're just underperforming and it's April No it isn't
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iospace posted:So what exactly changed for the Cubs? I don't really follow other team's offseason movements. Last year, the Cubs' starters had an ERA of 2.94. This year it's 4.64.
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May 8, 2017 16:02
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exploded mummy posted:No it isn't And a week in may They're still ok since most of the NL is terrible
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May 8, 2017 16:07
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beejay posted:I'm still fine because world series win last season, but god drat this Cubs season is a gross pile. Cubs fans gonna cubs fan.
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May 8, 2017 16:09
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Cubs SP last year was improbably good. Now they're regressing a bit and also they got even older than they already were. Didn't they also have incredibly good injury luck last year, aside from Schwarber? Also, what in the world is going on with Ryan Zimmerman this year? He is hitting the poo poo out of the ball
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Mike_V posted:Cubs SP last year was improbably good. Now they're regressing a bit and also they got even older than they already were. Didn't they also have incredibly good injury luck last year, aside from Schwarber? It is great to see though I expect him to break sometime soon
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Mike_V posted:Cubs SP last year was improbably good. Now they're regressing a bit and also they got even older than they already were. Didn't they also have incredibly good injury luck last year, aside from Schwarber? Yeah, our injury luck is still pretty good right now since Brett Anderson on the DL is probably addition by subtraction and nobody else has died I can't wait to see our starting lineup today, guessing Rizz and Baez are both out since they were both ended up gimpy from that game.
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Cubs SP last year: 2.96 ERA Cubs SP this year (so far): 4.64 ERA The offense is slightly down compared to last season. In other news, Matt Carpenter is hitting the poo poo out of the ball again after getting off to a slow start for the first week and a half or so. Wainwright has a 15H/9 to go along with his .460 BABIP  He has only made it to the 6th inning once 
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Poque posted:Yeah, our injury luck is still pretty good right now since Brett Anderson on the DL is probably addition by subtraction and nobody else has died Brett Anderson on the DL is also his natural state
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May 8, 2017 16:41
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iospace posted:So what exactly changed for the Cubs? I don't really follow other team's offseason movements. The team is more or less the same as it was last year, but its failed to fire on all cylinders since the beginning of the season. The starting pitching came out of the gate with much diminished velocity and while that's slowly self corrected they're still having issues with early runs and high pitch counts, which means they put the team in the hole early and can't go deep enough to ease off on the pen. The bullpen has been mostly good outside of a few stinkers like Grimm, but it's been too overtaxed of late. Meanwhile on offense more than half the regular lineup are in hefty slumps (Schwarber, Rizzo, Russell, Contreras, Zobrist), and Heyward is injured after looking like he might have finally taken a step forward offensively. The result is incredibly dumb nonsense like you saw last night, where the Yankees pen combined to throw 9 shutout innings in relief to eventually pick up the win. It's certainly not the worst offensive performance in the NL right now (thanks Giants!) but it's pretty bad. Also at least early in the season the defense hasn't been there. Infielders seem to be regularly making throwing errors on incredibly routine plays and depending on how Joe configures the OF it bounces between "Two legit gold glove candidates and the Beefy Lad that Could" or "We cloned Matt Adams and had him play the entire OF, let's see what happens" on defense.
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May 8, 2017 17:48
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Also in the Cubs defense with regards to this weekend, the Yankees are good, or at the very least are real hot right now, so it's not like they just got buried by the Dads or something.
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Inspector_666 posted:But yes, good times. Kevlar v2.0 posted:Just wanted to say I had a great time hanging out with Inspector_666, Pancakes, and RD Mangles this afternoon. Let's do it again sometime. That was super fun and you guys are all good people, both for tolerating my request for a vegetarian-friendly pizza and for not breaking my legs for wearing a Cardinals hat. Tom Gorman posted:I was there too! Just in case you were missing out on the audio, when I put my hat on indoors it was to lend gravity to my categorical denouncement of St. Louis style pizza. Yes, we had pizzachat in person. Life is just a rehash of the N/V thread sometimes. Oddly, only Kevlar had heard of this abomination beforehand . Ice Fist posted:It was fun meeting you guys. The game was fun although holy poo poo I was freezing the whole game, it wasn't unberable temperature-wise, but it was super drafty in the 200s which made it sort of miserable unless you're a bear of a human being like our friend from NY. Aren't you from Wisconsin? Saturday was t-shirt weather. Also, welcome to the baseball thread. Stay a while, you've got god on your side this year.
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seiferguy posted:Kyle Seager's go ahead HR hit the cock and balls of the one lone Ranger fan in Safeco: Kyle Seager is a noted Ranger killer, and sometimes that is almost literal. If I didn't know better I'd say that was intentional. Here's another view. https://gfycat.com/infamousickyasiaticwildass
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Inspector_666 posted:Also in the Cubs defense with regards to this weekend, the Yankees are good, or at the very least are real hot right now, so it's not like they just got buried by the Dads or something. I'm really only still salty about game one. Hendricks put together another strong (if brief) start, the bullpen was phenomenal even shorthanded as it was, and all the Cubs needed was for Rondon to remember how to close for one miserable inning. So of course he blows it in the most heartbreaking way possible.  At least today's game has a ~90% chance of being rained out. Cubs could really use a break after yesterday.
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Pancakes posted:Aren't you from Wisconsin? Saturday was t-shirt weather. Also, welcome to the baseball thread. Stay a while, you've got god on your side this year. I actually have this thread bookmarked for now. I'm spending too much of my expendable income this year on baseball not to at least follow some threads. I'll be in NY to watch God fight the Yankees in early July. If the Yankees sweep the Brewers then it will be definitive proof that the Yankees are literally the devil.
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Inspector_666 posted:Also in the Cubs defense with regards to this weekend, the Yankees are good, or at the very least are real hot right now, so it's not like they just got buried by the Dads or something. And two of the three games were basically coin flips, both of which ended in the Yankees' favor. It's been frustrating as hell because the Cubs aren't straight-up murdering teams like last season, but they've been able to make just about every game competitive at the very least. The NL Central is full of dogshit teams, so I imagine the Cubs will be able to rise to the top by the time the season is over. Then in the postseason, anything can happen. Pancakes posted:That was super fun and you guys are all good people, both for tolerating my request for a vegetarian-friendly pizza and for not breaking my legs for wearing a Cardinals hat. Hot pizza take: I thought the ricotta/mushroom/garlic pizza was better than the pepperoni/sausage one. It might also be because I love mushrooms and Poque hates them so I rarely ever get a chance to eat a pizza with them.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Hot pizza take: I thought the ricotta/mushroom/garlic pizza was better than the pepperoni/sausage one. It might also be because I love mushrooms and Poque hates them so I rarely ever get a chance to eat a pizza with them. It's sad that he's such a downer when it comes to pizza. He's usually such a fungi.
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Ice Fist posted:I actually have this thread bookmarked for now. I'm spending too much of my expendable income this year on baseball not to at least follow some threads. I'll be in NY to watch God fight the Yankees in early July. If the Yankees sweep the Brewers then it will be definitive proof that the Yankees are literally the devil. I was in Boston a couple years back for the series where the Brewers swept the Sox in their home opener. It was hilarious watching locals make excuses about the 40 degree whether being "too cold" and leaving in the 6th inning. Hopefully you will feel the same joy I did.
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Pancakes posted:It's sad that he's such a downer when it comes to pizza. He's usually such a fungi. Die. (I laughed)
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cis autodrag posted:I was in Boston a couple years back for the series where the Brewers swept the Sox in their home opener. It was hilarious watching locals make excuses about the 40 degree whether being "too cold" and leaving in the 6th inning. Hopefully you will feel the same joy I did. I don't know about the rest of Yankees fans, but it would be enough to watch Inspector get progressively more angry as the week goes on. That'd be the real joy I'd feel.
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If you're not cheering for the Yankees do not sit in the bleachers that's about all the advice I have for being a visitor at Yankee Stadium. It's a literal cess pool. Rest of the park seems a lot nicer.
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I sat in the bleachers once just for the experience. I wouldn't do it again. Mainly due to having to sit on a bench without a seat back. That destroyed my back.
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Carlos Martinez belongs in Miami in the 1980s:format(webp)/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/54674127/miami_trip.0.jpg)
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the cubs' 'problem' is that it is may loving 8th. seriously, we've got a long way to go. there's nothing wrong that a few minor adjustments, ousting anderson, and time won't fix.
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May 8, 2017 18:53
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does davecrazy still post here, he must be thrilled with the Harvey news
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Just stopping by to say that Yonder Alonso is cool and very good at baseball these days
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I'm going to my first Phillies game in forever. What massively overpriced foodstuff should I buy?
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:I'm going to my first Phillies game in forever. What massively overpriced foodstuff should I buy? get a good old fashioned hot dog sandwhich with its only topping; mustard
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May 8, 2017 20:42
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Obviously a cheese steak.
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Pancakes posted:It's sad that he's such a downer when it comes to pizza. He's usually such a fungi. I didn't know Paul Rudd was a baseball player.
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The Jays have added Russell Martin to the 10 day DL with a shoulder injury. I forgot how lucky they had been with injuries the last few years, I guess this is it all just evening out. Sucks for it to happen all at once though, especially when they've been struggling for wins
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