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Hey guys, remember when that nimrod Dews spouted off this masterpiece? Wonder how tight he's holding his Paul Konerko shersey to his chest at night? Must help him fall asleep easier knowing that Jose Abreu couldn't hold Anthony Rizzo's jockstrap without causing a hernia.
you probably dont need either I mean Arrieta is clearly a top of the rotation guy. you can build around soon to be cy young arrieta.
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Lol Good to see you Jos, I thought you got lost in a vagina.
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Nah -- work, buddy. Lots of it. Got a project car I've been working on, was on vacation this past week. Still watching plenty of Cubs, just hard to squeeze in time to come on here. The forums are blocked at work (fucking firewall can munch my dick) and I absolutely detest browsing the forums on Tapatalk.
Either way, what a fuckin' year so far, huh? As optimistic as most of us were in March and April, I don't think any of us would've imagined things turning out the way they have. Hands-down the most fun I've had watching a Cubs team in my 29 years on this planet.
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Chug the kook aid gulper...bottom line I was the most accurate
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Cubs are 6th best in ERA in the entire league. The White Sox are 19th.
They are 7th in starter ERA. The White Sox are 16th
They are 12th in bullpen ERA. The White Sox are 14th.
The Cubs pitching has been a strength more then the offense this year. Now, the offense has gotten going and this team has gotten scary.
They are 7th in starter ERA. The White Sox are 16th
They are 12th in bullpen ERA. The White Sox are 14th.
The Cubs pitching has been a strength more then the offense this year. Now, the offense has gotten going and this team has gotten scary.
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Great comparisons. Save your "facts" for the Cubs Sox hate it thread.
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With all due respect how were you the most accurate? Your win totals were low when you picked them, I saw no one else here or elsewhere pick them to regress from last year, and considering that their pitching carried them most of the first half belies your pitching prediction. You were also wrong on the draft but that's of little consequence. You were right on Arrieta when most wanted to see a whole season before calling him an ace. You were right on Bryant but he was as close to a can't miss prospect as we've seen since Mike Trout (no, I'm not saying he's in that class so simma down as my Boston friends would say) so I didn't find that one particularly prescient and I'm also not sure anyone thought that Soler wouldn't be a solid MLB player either. Back to the pitching for a second, againyou were very right on the depth of pitching but as I said above they overcame it, especially in the first half, to make themselves legit contenders. Your 70 wins showed that you misread what this team was going to be, at 86 wins I think I misread them badly as well which discredits some of my list. If they go 20-20 the rest of the way they'll win 91 games, if they continue on their season clip they would have 94 wins and if they continue on their .650 clip in the second half unlikely of course, they would finish with 97 wins. I don't see this team collapsing and going less than .500 and I don't think they're going to match or improve on their .650 2nd half winning percentage so far so that would make your 70 win prediction somewhere between 21 and 27 games off. Honestly, and again I'm want to be respectful here, that makes the ones that you got right kind of window dressing. You saw a team that was backsliding when almost everyone else saw that they would be markedly improved anywhere from 10-15 games better than last year and even those of us making those predictions were wrong. I wouldn't be arguing "Yes, but the play was outstanding Mrs. Lincoln" if I were you. Just sayin'.
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TC in Mississippi;2235869[B said:]With all due respect how were the most accurate? [/B]Your win totals were low when you picked them, I saw no one else here elsewhere pick them to regress from last year, and considering that their pitching carried them most of the first half belies your pitching prediction. You were also wrong on the draft but that's of little consequence. You were right on Arrieta when most wanted to see a whole season before calling him an ace. You were right on Bryant but he was as close to a can't miss prospect as we've seen since Mike Trout (no, I'm not saying he's in that class so simma down as my Boston friends would say) so I didn't find that one particularly prescient and I'm also not sure anyone thought that Soler wouldn't be a solid MLB player either. Back to the pitching for a second, againyou were very right on the depth of pitching but as I said above they overcame it, especially in the first half, to make themselves legit contenders. Your 70 wins showed that you misread what this team was going to be, at 86 wins I think I misread them badly as well which discredits some of my list. If they go 20-20 the rest of the way they'll win 91 games, if they continue on their season clip they would have 94 wins and if they continue on their .650 clip in the second half unlikely of course, they would finish with 97 wins. I don't see this team collapsing and going less than .500 and I don't think they're going to match or improve on their .650 2nd half winning percentage so far so that would make your 70 win prediction somewhere between 21 and 27 games off. Honestly, and again I'm want to be respectful here, that makes the ones that you got right kind of window dressing. You saw a team that was backsliding when almost everyone else saw that they would be markedly improved anywhere from 10-15 games better than last year and even those of us making those predictions were wrong. I wouldn't be arguing "Yes, but the play was outstanding Mrs. Lincoln" if I were you. Just sayin'.
I made 8 predictions and I have a shot at only having two of them wrong. That's most accurate by any means.
I was wrong on the wins, but explained how 70 wins wouldn't be a bad season as they would get the knowledge the desperately needed about the youth.
Trout was never seen as a can't miss prospect and there were doubts about Bryant playing the field. There was no line saying that Soler would be the guy this year, just a feeling he'd get there.
No one complained about the picks when I made them, so you can't go retro active on that saying we all said that, they weren't more specific, etc, etc.
You are the only one trying to be fair to me with this. And I appreciate that. Many cannot check their bias at the door.
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**The Cubs will finish with 85 wins, putting them second in the NL Central behind..... the Cardinals (wheeze) - lowball wins, highball place
**The Cubs will win the second wild card spot and play the defending World Series champion Giants in the Wild Card play-in game - 1 right, 1 not
**Jake Arrieta will lead the team in wins and ERA - yep
**Anthony Rizzo, Jorge Soler and Kris Bryant will all finish with over 25 home runs - Jorge ruined it
**The Cubs will acquire another frontline starting pitcher at some point during the season - Dan Haren
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The Cubs have exceeded my win total, but I had them getting 2nd place behind the Cards. They still have a shot at that. Who could have predicted the NL Central would have the three best records in baseball right now? That is really incredible.
