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Quote from: Oleg on November 02, 2017, 03:02:37 PM
Crazy Rumor Guys predict Darvish to the Cubs and the bullpen getting Reed and McGee.  I wouldn't hate that, assuming they can add another controllable starter.

And, Arrieta to the Brewers.

I'd rather have Jake at 4/100 than Darvish at 6/165.

Quote from: Saul Goodman on October 29, 2016, 03:04:53 PM
Joe Sheehan:

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(The final batter of the night was Javier Baez, who was worked into the ground by Allen in a five-pitch at-bat in which Allen got swinging strikes on consecutive pitches low and outside and high and inside. It was an awful match-up for Baez, but the Cubs were out of left-handed batters, in part because one of them was standing on third base. Using Coghlan to run for Rizzo gained maybe fractions of a run, while costing the Cubs much more by forcing Baez to hit off Allen, rather than Coghlan. I keep coming back to this: Maddon is a good manager on the whole, but he's not a particularly good tactical manager. Burning Coghlan as a pinch-runner rather than saving him to hit for Baez was the biggest managerial mistake of the Series so far.)

Unsaid in this is that if Chris Coghlan is the best option, the game is already over.

Quote from: Brownie on September 02, 2016, 08:31:40 PM

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Quote from: Canadouche on September 02, 2016, 04:16:07 PM
40 games over .500, for the first time in our lifetimes.

And I'm guessing this even includes Stew!

Nope. Finished 1945 98-56.

Ah. For some reason, I assumed they had a fairly mediocre record that year despite the pennant because every team sucked.

Back in the 80s, there was a computer game called Micro League Baseball that I was a bit obsessed with. It was a predecessor to OOTP and a successor to the old Strat-a-matic games. Anyway, the main disk had 26 teams to sample the game: the 27 Yanks, 55 Dodgers, 61 Yanks, 80 Phillies, 75 Reds, and so on. One of the teams was the 45 Cubs and I was stunned how mediocre they were. In reality, they weren't bad. Andy Pafko had a pedestrian year compared to what he became. Cavarretta had a good year -- extra base power and a .355 average. Smiling Stan Hack was pretty good. After that, it was a bunch of garbage.

Except for their pitching: Hank Borowy and Claude Passeau could hold their own.

Anyway, I found the 1945 Cubs so boring, I filled out the mail order and got the 1984 season disk and the general manager's disk so I could beat the shit out of the 27 Yankees and the 82 Cardinals with Sutcliffe every fucking single day, and then I would load the current Cubs up to date with the general manager's disk. So yeah, I preferred going up against the Big Red Machine with the 1986 Cubs than the team that actually played in the World Series.

You just described the vast majority of my 1985-1988 except for the part where I dutifully recorded the play by play, full box score, and season stats in a very large stack of notebooks. I miss those days.

Yost is gone. The Brewers still have a chance.

Please never speak of that 1985 debacle again.  Thank you.