2004.

I thought about this too. Unless Arrieta/Rizzo/Bryant get hurt too I think they'll be fine. Plenty of pieces to make trades with. The window for that team was small.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

the narrative is too close to that year for comfort. including coming off a surprising year where they went to the NLCS. it's chilling.

i hope i'm wrong...but i'm already concerned.

You were expecting to run the table or something? Cubs are fine.

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

They could lose two more Babe Ruths and still cakewalk to the division title.

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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

i wasn't expecting anything. i was hoping to not have to see one of the big players go down for the year, you know, in the first week of the season.

I already called 2004 after the Heyward trade, let the rekerd shaw...

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Why is so much importance put on Schwarber?

He opened his career extremely strongly, but was relatively unimportant during the Cubs' best stretch of the season last year (September)

He was good in the playoffs but not even the best player on the team in the playoffs.

He was being asked to play a position he isn't well suited for and there was going to be games he would cost the team defensively.

As someone else said yesterday...he was MAYBE the eighth most important piece on the team.

He is a good player. But he isn't Rizzo, Arrieta, Bryant, Russell, Lester, Fowler, Heyward or Montero.

He won't be a conversation piece by May. He will miss the team more than the team will miss him.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Because its a cubbie occurrence. That's all I got.

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Because it's an opportunity to shit on the Cubs.

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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

it was really cold at the sox game on Friday but from the looks of this thread and sports radio it is 180 degrees on the north side

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

IMU and I agree on most things Cubs related but his disrespect of Babe Schwarber is where we part ways. The Cubs will definitely miss him. He was going to take a leap forward this year. Fowler and Lackey should be murdered.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Schwarber hit home runs at a pace surpassed by only one person in the nl last year. The Cubs scored two more runs per game over almost half a season with him. Neither Baez, soler or Almoravid has even hinted at the kind of production Schwarber has shown.

It is disingenuous or ignorant to dismiss the impact of this injury

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

Completely agree

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

The Cubs scored 29 runs in Schwarber's 3 games this year.

He had 0 hits.


2016

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You know me like that.

Well, I'm convinced

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

Schwarber carried the team when it mattered.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Shouldn't you be dancing some sort of southside Polish jig in honor of this season ending Cub injury?

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

When did it matter?

Did they make a World Series that I missed?

1994

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You know me like that.

I'm not from the south side and I'm not celebrating a person being hurt. I'm simply confounded by statements I have heard today by fans and the "unbiased" media

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

This disrespect of Schwarber really bothers me.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

I love Schwarber. I'll follow his whole career...wherever it is.

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You know me like that.

You're making even less sense than usual.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

It's about time you come out of the closet.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Were you waiting?

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You know me like that.

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Yep, behind the green door.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

The 2016 Cub have dolphin running in circles.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

This kind of stuff is going to make this season a lot of fun for Cubs fans.

You're making this so much more awesome.



Thank you.

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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 heard from some that Schwarber would lead the nl in home runs this year. I have now heard that he is the most replaceable member of this cub team...but I'm the guy running in circles

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