.5 game up on the Giants...asshole is starting to pucker up

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Copper coaches on the southside

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

Lay off the Sour Patch Kids and you'll be fine.

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Kenny Williams fell for the banana in the tailpipe

Calling IMU tell me how metrically good the Cubs are?????

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Lost to best pitcher and worst pitcher.

#1 in sucking right now!

Credit to Hamels for some masterfull shit...and as Joe stated this morning, the guy was cranking 94 MPH in the 9th...and even a few 96's....

Still no excuse....

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“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.’”

How was the playoff rotation...Arrieta.....Lester......Lester....Arrieta. That is a tough one

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

I have nothing much to say. The Cubs are a "good" team, and good teams can get swept by even the worst teams. I'm disappointed...specifically frustrated in the offense. The three pitchers you mentioned have been lights out for 2-3 months. I'm not going to get upset with two quality starts by Lester and Arrieta (amazing how a quality start for those two is considered terrible now) and a clunker by Hammel. It was unfortunate...this sweep came at a terrible time.

But...move forward. Three games does not make a season.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

They do this every time they play a bottom feeder. Good teams clean this shit up. Cardinals for example.

This year is about experience and growth. They are not ready to contend yet this year. Sure, they could still get in the playoffs, but they are not ready to contend for a title. I hope they gain a wild card berth and win the play-in game, so the young players get the valuable experience that would provide. But lets relax a bit.

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Go Cubs!!!!

MLB teams only get chances to win championships every so often. Not saying they are even ready for that yet but they are in the mix now. Time to grow up now. Next year can be a disaster from start to finish who knows? Relax my ass.

Do you think they will get the level of pitching next year that they have gotten this year?

You have to strike while the iron is hot.

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And men have lost their reason.

Why wouldnt the pitching be near the same? Or better, since the Cubs are likely to obtain another top pitcher in the next 6 months.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Likely? That's a bit presumptuous.

The team has gotten the best Hammel has to give professionally in two half seasons. I wouldn't pencil it in for him to match production in future years.

I'm not as bullish on Hendricks as I'm sure you are.

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Hendricks has been the exact same pitcher since he got here last year. Hammel has been the exact same pitcher since he got here last year. Same with Arrieta. And Lester is pitching at career norms. I expect any fluctuation, up or down, would be minor.

And the Cubs are very likely to obtain another top starter by the start of next season. It has been The Plan all along. Theo and Hoyer have talked about the pitching available in 2015-2016 free agency for years.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

This is the IMU we have all grown to love.

No Cubs player will ever regress, ever.

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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!

Or improve, apparently.

But I was certainly correct about the Jose Abreu regression.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

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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!

Everyone could see that from 10 miles away. He's just a guy.

Keep lashing out.

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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!

They targeted Sanchez and Tanaka only to come up short in consecutive years, so you see how "very likely" would be an overstatement.

Hamel had a great half year last year. He had a great first half this year. Both of these are outliers in his career. Maybe the uniform transforms him into superman.

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

No need to be pissy IMU, I and other people know what we're talking about. We already have gd melting all over this board.

It's ok. I'm operating under the policy that there is no difference between winning 84 games and 60 games and that the worst thing you can do is barely miss the playoffs!

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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!

There is a plethora of starting pitching available this offseason. This wasn't so in the last few years.

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And the Cubs don't need a bullpen like the Royals have, because they have Rizzo. Never mind that the Tigers have had Miguel Cabrera (better than Rizzo) and a shitty pen, and have won exactly nothing.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Wait...what have the Royals won?

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They didn't go to the playoffs several years in a row, only to come up short, like the Tigers.

I'll take my chances with a lockdown bullpen.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Yeah...you just lost all steam on that one. #thinkbeforeyouclickSubmit

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

I wouldn't say " they lost out " on Tanaka or Sanchez...they offered both fair contracts ..The Yankees foolishly overpaid. Sanchez ..I'm not sure what happened... I think he took one extra year with Detroit . which is dumb , The A.L. is tougher and Detroit is a shithole.



K.C. has got a great pen ..they still need better starting pitching ..they are lucky to be in the weak ass A.L. central

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Remember the days of that argument?

It's good to have you back Rick. You remember foibles for much longer than I do.

2005, my friend, 2005.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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