Folks, you can't make this shit up.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/writer/jon ... ed-in-last

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Whoa.

That's full of dumb.

People will lap it up, though.

You're testing my patience.

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You best believe Bernstein read this on air with his super serious voice.

WOOOO!!!!!!!!

Good luck douchebag. I've tried.

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YEP I guess ALL those prospects failing at once as YOU predicted is AWFULly HARD to swallow.

#WINNOW

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Berns went hard core on this. Blew up at a texter who said you are what your record is. I thought it was you!

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

What, is it something I said? Are you related to the author?

I fear white sox fans are going to be eating shitburgers for years to come.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

It is possible.

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Elections have consequences.

Nah, once these duds are exposed Theo will be out of bullets because his draft schemes have been put on lockdown and he doesn't have 2 roid head L/R hitters in the middle of the line up. He also left his Commodore 64 back in Boston.

Good luck!

Cubs prospects got SomeGuy running in circles!!!!!!!!!!

Trolling and hyperbole (the extremes) aside, the Cubs do have some real reasons for optimism. I'm sure even the Sox fans will admit that.

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Someone doesn't understand sox fans.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

I do. I'm just seeing if I can get one.

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Is there a store where one can be purchased?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Any liquor store.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Its going to be fun!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Ozzie, "what do you think about the Cubs core 4?"

"Fun is winning and winning is fun!"



What about the south side Ozzie?

"F%^%^%$ S&&^%^% T&*&BLEEP

Since August 1st

"THE PLAN" 14-10 second best record in NL only Washington is better 17-8.
"WIN NOW" 6-16 tied for last in the AL with Blue Jays.

I ain't sayin I'm just sayin

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Yes, it is...

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Go Cubs!!!!

I already did admit that in the Schwarber thread. But this article is ridiculous. I'm sure even you can admit that.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

If many of the team stats are on par with teams that are in playoff contention, why is it a ridiculous article?

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Are you REALLY crowing about the overall success of the prospects at the MLB level at this point in time? You may have your day, but it ain't today.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

This is a serious question and it's not directed at Cub fans or Sox fans, but at all baseball fans. Do you think it's time that baseball abandons the old-fashioned method of rewarding success based upon wins and losses and utilizes a different method or scientific formula to more accurately determine its champions?

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Of course they do. Any team that is this bad for 5 years will have reasons for optimism.

It's not like anyone expects the Cubs to be terrible forever.

Before anyone goes all Cubbierage on me, the Sox are bad too.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

No.

Go Cubs!

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I'd turn that around and say that the biggest flaw or gap in current statistical analysis is the inability to isolate performance/stats from when the game (or even season) is on the line. Should a Cutler TD or INT in the 4th qtr when the Bears are hopelessly losing count as much toward his QBR as a TD or INT early in a tied game? How about a Rizzo homer when the Cubs are 14 games out? A DRose FG in the last minute when the team is up or down 20? All of those things count the same in their stats, but occur in differing circumstances.

Baseball is somewhat different than the other sports since there is no clock, but even so, once games get out of hand there are changes in strategy that influence outcomes (pitchers are more likely to throw strikes when they are way ahead, etc).

So while I understand JORR's point (why not just crown as champ the team with the best run differential over 162 games), the run differential itself was generated under varying circumstances. But then again, if the teams know that run differential is the ultimate goal, then their strategy changes.

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You could go even deeper than Pythagorean records based on run differential. bernstein was pushing this yesterday: http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit ... ans-082714 and he actually pilloried a texter who had the gall to simply say "a team's record is its record". To which danny flipped his lid and said, "NO IT ISN'T! THAT'S WHAT THE ARTICLE IS TELLING YOU! IT'S NOT OPINION!

I assumed the question I asked would be viewed as rather ridiculous, which of course, it is. If looking at things like "expected wins" makes you feel better about a team's chances going forward, that great. But when we start to say that 59-72 teams are better than 65-60 teams, we've really gone down a rabbit hole.

And this is one of my issues with the way these aggregate statistics are used by Joe Fan who reads an article on Fangraphs or Prospectus here and there. It's never about seeking real knowledge or enlightenment. It's about bludgeoning some other fan with something you know and he doesn't.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don