That's the problem. You're not taking their record as what it is. You're cherry picking smaller samples and saying they are playing poorly now thus they are an inferior team than the team that's played the other 3 months of the season. My point in showing the 4 one run games is that you can easily look like a worse team than you are just by losing close games. If the cubs win those games instead we're not even having this conversation.... ok knowing how downer some on here are we'd probably be having this same conversation if the cubs were on a 115 win pace but i digress.
What frustrates me is as mentioned the lack of perspective. 2 weeks ago all this same talk was oh the cubs are never going to fend of MIL playing the way they are. Since the start of August they are 7-11. Now all the talk is oh how are they going to fend off the cardinals. The same cardinal team that prior to August 1st was 54-53. Sure they are hot going 16-4 in August but the point here is they aren't going to continue to win at that rate. No team ever does. Neither of those two teams added an MVP caliber player. they are just playing well/poorly comparable to their season record. But as I've said seemingly thousands of times now that's baseball. There is no team that is consistently great. The M's that set the win record didn't even make it to the world series because they started playing bad baseball at the wrong time. The 2016 cubs were terrible before the all star break....etc.
We can just disagree here..
Not sure how it cherry picking..
You cant use April May and June as a barometer for how they're playing the 3rd week of August and for the last 15 to 30 games..
Theyve been playing mediocre ball since the break..
We've seen teams look really bad the first couple months and turn it around the 2nd half to make the playoffs, were they considered bad in September because of how they played in the beginning? No
Im not saying the Cubs are a bad team, their far from it..
They just haven't been able to click on all cylinders the last 30+ games..
Can they turn it around absolutely
All im saying is back on July 15th they were 17 games over 500, 31 games later their 18 games over 500..
That tells us they haven't been playing good baseball and winning more then they were expected..
So, they need to play much better then the 500 baseball theyve played over the last 30 games over the final 40, otherwise the teams that got closer over the last 30 games are or could pass them up..
Do i think it will happen .. probably not because i think their a better team then theyve been , but i would like to start seeing more of a pulse in them sooner rather then later
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