If Julie was Rican n lost 85 lbs.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

My first thought was the secretary from the Drew Carrey Show...had gained a hundred pounds.

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oh look at that a Happ triple. Keep him on the bench Maddon, you stupid fuck.

5-0! wtf. man i'm getting tired of this team.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

WTF...i switched over to the hockey game and the Cubs go crazy...let's come all the way back boys!

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Damn. Really thought we were gonna take the lead that inning once it was 6-4

i just caught up. seems like 4 is all they're going to score tonight.

ive pretty much come to the conclusion this is a .500 team or a team that will just be around .500. 2 months in, the issue is still the starting pitching. I dont think that is going to be changing much.

The thing is, does the 85 games they're going to win get them into the postseason crapshoot? Well, at least you caught lightning in a bottle last year. 2016!

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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

Jelly.

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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

Of what? A .500 team. There are a whole lot of those.

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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

It is funny how the narrative changes. The last couple years it was the cubs have zero (0) percent chance to do it.

Now that they have won it, it is has flipped to well they caught lightning in a bottle and they cant do that again, as if that de-legitimizes the championship in some way.

Every team that wins the World Series catches lightning in a bottle

Will they win the WS again? Who knows. But I think all of us Cub fans will take our chances with the group they have assembled and the leaders who have assembled them.

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

Very jelly.
Balance that shit out with some peanut butter man.

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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

Glad to hear you admit that since "lightning in a bottle" has been a meme used by CFMB Cub fans to bash the Great 2005 White Sox. But it would be difficult to deny now that Kyle Schwarber's picture accompanies the definition of "lightning in a bottle".

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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

lightning in a bottle for the cubs, the jury is still out since they have some years to repeat or get back. when you look back at the 05 Sox, it was more like everything right that year. but everything has to go right to win the WS.

The 2005 Sox team was a great team that caught lightning in a bottle. The 2016 Cubs were a great team that caught lightning in a bottle. No asshat fans from the other side of town can take either of those away. And both fan bases pray daily that their team will catch lightning in a bottle again and again and again.

Schwarber may very well be the poster child for it...but who knows. Dude is still young. He has show the ability to mash and he has show the ability to suck. Which one is the real guy? Only time will tell. I will still gladly take my chances with him. And if he flames out and is never a good player again, he will still be forever remembered for an amazing series and a place in baseball history

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

Schwarber is already a Cubs Fan legend. If his career ended tomorrow, the Cubs would hire him as the color guy on tv so quick that Jim Dehaises would be the Kyle Schwarber of radio broadcasters.

Also wouldn't it be more appropriate to say that Schwarber is the picture for Lightning in plexiglass?

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

Overpriced, old pitching and bad defensive players are as much the fruit of the plan as anything you saw happen last year. It is the flip side of drafting the best college bat available irrespective of any other conditions.

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

Lightning in a bottle is another way of saying all the pieces clicked. Many had career years, great defense, good offense, good pitching window amounts of injuries. These conditions describe pretty much any championship team. You can't really win if these thjjngs don't happen.

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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

The only bad defensive player on the Cubs is Schwarber. The rest are above average to gold glove caliber. For whatever reason, they have played quite poorly this season.

or this year may be a more correct indication

Happ is a bad defender as well despite all the excitement over him "playing five positions"

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

What are you basing this on?

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

2016 > 2005 FOREVER!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Lester, Hendricks, and three piles of shit is not going to get it done in October.

Especially if Lester has to pitch to get them into the 2nd wild card, and then Hendricks has to start the WC game. That would mean piles of shit pitching games 1, 2, and 5 of an NLDS, which is sort of what happened to Cleveland in the World Series.

If Seattle continues to underperform, when Felix Hernandez comes off the DL, do you make a play for him and dangle Eloy and a couple of infielders out there?

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

They ain't gonna sniff October with Lester Hendricks and 3 piles of shit. Everyone keeps saying the Cubs are on the precipice of a 15-3 type run but there's no way that can happen when 3/5 of your rotation can't be relied on. You can't outhit a bad rotation , even if they do actually start hitting

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I think they are targeting younger pitchers who are under team control for a considerable time (Quintana, Archer, etc.)

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

He's talking out of his ass, as usual. Happ is just fine on defense.

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