I'm a BIGFAN of sloghtly.

Huge fan.

Like the hugest.

This guy here gets it.

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It's true. Arrieta hasn't been sharp, despite his record. Any objective baseball fan can see that.

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

Ya, I'd take Sale right now.

However come playoff time gimme Arrieta. Sale's demeanor is too fragile to handle high pressure situations like the playoffs. Gets too pissy and shaken for my tastes.

He has been getting it done with his B stuff. That's good to see to be honest.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Uh that's just a wrong thing to say.

It is a great thing to see Arrieta win when he isn't at his best.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

It could mean a number of things:
1. He's off his roids, ruh roh
2. He's getting old and losing his stuff, ruh roh
3. He's on borrowed time, ruh roh
4. He's hurt, RIP Cubs

Or it could mean none of those things. Ruh roh.

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My guess is a combo of 1 and 4.

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

My guess is

5. Maddon is so genius that he had Jake pitch a little bit worse to let the youngsters know that things don't come this easy.*

*Even though they do for this team.

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My guess is; the only difference between you and a sack of shit is the sack.

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

Why would Arrieta use his A++ stuff all season long? Save it for the post-season.

His B stuff is better than 99% of the league.

He'll pitch 45 innings in the postseason and give up 2 ER.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Remember folks, low energy IMU trolling typically begets a fall. Arrieta is all but confirmed for Tommy John surgery in the next month.

You're claiming a guy who is 8-0 with a 1.3 ERA and a no-hitter is due for TJS. If that's true, he has to be the undisputed best pitcher in the history of baseball.

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Wait, you're telling me Cubs fans dont already believe that?

I don't think most Cub fans think he needs Tommy John's, no.

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Forget it, he's trolling.

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

To be fair most Cubs fans are so attached to Jake Arrieta you'd think he crawled out of their snatch.

What does that even mean?

You're in the twilight of a mediocre trolling career.

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

It means Cubs fans, most of whom are grown ass men, are literally in love with another man they have never met simply because he pitches for the Cubs. When someone says something mean about the object of their love they lash out, like a mother lashes out against someone who threatens her offspring.

America is struggling. Five dollars says he won't get better.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

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

Yet, you make up cockamamie theories about the same man you've never met because he pitches for the Cub. When some one says something good about said pitcher, you lash out like they insulted your sainted mother.

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

Hmmm, I wish the Cubs capitalized on this apparent love affair with Arrieta. Cubs fans are all about lining Ricketts pocket per America, y'know.


If only Cubs marketing perhaps created a section in shitty area of the ballpark where Cubs fans could pay a 200% mark-up to get a t-$2 shirt and wave a 8x11 piece of paper whenever Arrieta is on the mound!!!

"Look here Mr. America (if that IS your real name), see this interview with Jake Arrieta? It's the pilates and lean meats responsible for his almost unprecedented jump in velocity that late in his career. He says so himself. Quit saying mean things about him!"

Someone find me some bored, tired beard memes.

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I want to see him get hit by a train.