You left out an adverb. Do you know what it was?

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This and your thought that Bryant actually hurts the Cubs chances of winning are causing you to have a tough thread.

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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!

the meaninglessness of it is yet to be determined as the importance of being at home for many other games provides no insight to the importance of being at home for this game

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

Nearly doesn't change the thought much.

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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!

Ummm, that is not a coin flip. 6% is a statistically significant advantage.

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

I only care about the Cubs 6% of the time.

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I hate everyone.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

still waiting to be shown how holding down bryant "made a difference"....

Both road teams are minus 110..home field means very little in most places.

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I stand by that he should have been here on Day 1.

Can't say if it would have made this difference or not but he was the best 3B on the roster on Opening Day and he wasn't here for far-distant financial reasons.

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You know me like that.

You have to understand that this thread was created well before I was sending thoughts and prayers the Cubs way. While it is humorous to look back to see some fans foolishly chasing their tails to prove me wrong, I want the world to know that this does not accurately represent my hopes for Cubs success over the next few weeks. While I may have originally questioned the Theology behind the move to keep him in the minors, I now understand it was a brilliant move by hatched months in advance by management to let the Pirates think they had an advantage by playing at home. Theo plays chess while I play checkers.

Go Cubs. Go Cats.

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

6% isn't "that much."

So I think "nearly" changes it enough.

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that makes two of us.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

Neither of us are statisticians so us debating 6% is just two novices blabbering. It really looks bad when a man of numbers like Kirkwood defends its meaninglessness.

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

that's a lot of words saying nothing.

How would you like it if your home mortgage rate was 6% larger? How about your penis?

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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

Well, lots of people seemed very interested in catching the Pirates to get the game at home. Why didn't you and Kirkwood tell them all that it was nearly meaningless?

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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!

I screamed that at my TV every night. They ushered me to the bedroom after awhile.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

if i had ticket it wouldn't have been meaningless. i could've made nice buck.

If Theo's college of stat nerds were plugging away at their computers and determined that was one area that gave the team a 6% better chance of winning, do you think they would be running to Theo with that information? Would Theo be passing it down to Maddon? Would Maddon be adding it to his game plan? Would us Cubs fan be calling him a genius if they won based in part to the magic 6% advantage their computers identified?

Guys, I am now on the same page as you. You don't have to fight me. The Cubs will still win.

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

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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

the fixation on 6% when no context is known....

Bad^


Every Cub fan I'm aware of has known for 45 plus days its coming down to Cole v Arietta and it doesn't really matter where its played.

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There are so many people who look bad in this thread. You don't have to be one of them.

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

There is a legitimate line of thinking that they are better off on the road

I wanted to see the game at Wrigley because I thought it would be fun to see Wrigley rocking for such a big game.

I don't think it would really give them an advantage in the game. Arrieta pitching gives them more of an advantage than where the game is located.

And as RPB mentioned, being on the road could have advantages as well. They are together and focused on the job at hand, not at home with all the distractions of family, friends, etc

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

Coming from king of the trolls, too funny. The Cubs have the 3rd best record in baseball, made the playoffs, and have an extra year of control with Bryant. It could not have worked out much better relative to any reasonable expectation on their 2015 season. And yet you fools still have things to gripe about with the way the Cubs handled their roster.

It is you and your legion of Cub trolls that looks really bad.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

My fellow north siders, the model was tested and retested. It held up to scrutiny. It was proven to be accurate both in theory and then in practice. We shall chalk it up as a misstep by Theo, albeit a trifling one. The greatness of Theo is that out of this mistake, he became an even better GM, as he showed his evolution on the subject by bringing up Schwarber prematurely to great success. I can only hope that my metrics provided the support needed to make this the championship season I know it will be.

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

At least look at the Cubs section before posting things like this. Present some sort of challenge please.

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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!