2015: The Back To The Future Season

[Quality Start Machine]

They're doing this shit with Soler not hitting any HRs. Once he starts, this team will reign holy fucking terror upon the world.

[WTB...A RING FFS!!]

So who won the pool after the Cubs got swept and no-hit by the Phils to drop to 5 over that said they'd win 13 of 14 to go to 17 over, including 2 sweeps of Milwaukee and 4-game sweep of the World Champs? Are we having fun yet kiddies?

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

So who won the pool after the Cubs got swept and no-hit by the Phils to drop to 5 over that said they'd win 13 of 14 to go to 17 over, including 2 sweeps of Milwaukee and 4-game sweep of the World Champs? Are we having fun yet kiddies?

18-8 since the All-Star Break, Ogdens.

[Oleg]

So who won the pool after the Cubs got swept and no-hit by the Phils to drop to 5 over that said they'd win 13 of 14 to go to 17 over, including 2 sweeps of Milwaukee and 4-game sweep of the World Champs? Are we having fun yet kiddies?

18-8 since the All-Star Break, Ogdens.

If you take out the games they lost, they're 18-0!

[Saul Goodman]

Intrepid Reader Bob Costas

WHERE ARE THE COPS TO SHOOT THAT SCARY MAN SWINGING HIS FISTS LIKE THAT ON THE MOUND?

[SKO]

8 in a row. Jake tomorrow.  The BP Cup is in reach!

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

17 over .500 is rareified air for this franchise.  Over the last 43 years they're only like the 7th or 8th Cub team to reach these heights*

*I'd be more specific but I'm drunk and had to stop at the 2001 Cubs, who who were one of the few teams whom I began to reseacrh beginning with the 1972 Cubs upward who exceded (> 17 (games over))...our beloved '01 Cubs having reached their high water mark of 18 games over .500 on both August 8th and August 10th.  The 1977 Cubs (high water was 20 over, but it was only late June), '84 and 89 of course, 98 (just barely)...2001 Cubs then drinky.

[SKO]

17 over .500 is rareified air for this franchise.  Over the last 43 years they're only like the 7th or 8th Cub team to reach these heights*

*I'd be more specific but I'm drunk and had to stop at the 2001 Cubs, who who were one of the few teams whom I began to reseacrh beginning with the 1972 Cubs upward who exceded (> 17 (games over))...our beloved '01 Cubs having reached their high water mark of 18 games over .500 on both August 8th and August 10th.  The 1977 Cubs (high water was 20 over, but it was only late June), '84 and 89 of course, 98 (just barely)...2001 Cubs then drinky.

Yeah but now they're 18 over. Crunch them numbers, nerdlinger

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

17 over .500 is rareified air for this franchise.  Over the last 43 years they're only like the 7th or 8th Cub team to reach these heights*

*I'd be more specific but I'm drunk and had to stop at the 2001 Cubs, who who were one of the few teams whom I began to reseacrh beginning with the 1972 Cubs upward who exceded (> 17 (games over))...our beloved '01 Cubs having reached their high water mark of 18 games over .500 on both August 8th and August 10th.  The 1977 Cubs (high water was 20 over, but it was only late June), '84 and 89 of course, 98 (just barely)...2001 Cubs then drinky.

Yeah but now they're 18 over. Crunch them numbers, nerdlinger

*drunkmutleylol*

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

DPD.

Well then STRIKE THE 2001 CUBS OFF THE LIST THEN.

*collapses & passes out*

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

cuacker

[ChuckD]

17 over .500 is rareified air for this franchise.  Over the last 43 years they're only like the 7th or 8th Cub team to reach these heights*

*I'd be more specific but I'm drunk and had to stop at the 2001 Cubs, who who were one of the few teams whom I began to reseacrh beginning with the 1972 Cubs upward who exceded (> 17 (games over))...our beloved '01 Cubs having reached their high water mark of 18 games over .500 on both August 8th and August 10th.  The 1977 Cubs (high water was 20 over, but it was only late June), '84 and 89 of course, 98 (just barely)...2001 Cubs then drinky.

You named 6 teams
1972
1977
1984
1989
1998
2001

Add on:
2004
2007
2008

Once every 4-5 years doesn't seem very "rareified."

On a side note, I forgot how abysmal the 1999 season was. They were 9 games over .500 (32-23) on June 8 and went 34-62 the rest of the way to bring home a 6th place finish -- 7.5 games back of 5th place. Baseball Reference's "Game Results" thing is hilarious:

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

17 over .500 is rareified air for this franchise.  Over the last 43 years they're only like the 7th or 8th Cub team to reach these heights*

*I'd be more specific but I'm drunk and had to stop at the 2001 Cubs, who who were one of the few teams whom I began to reseacrh beginning with the 1972 Cubs upward who exceded (> 17 (games over))...our beloved '01 Cubs having reached their high water mark of 18 games over .500 on both August 8th and August 10th.  The 1977 Cubs (high water was 20 over, but it was only late June), '84 and 89 of course, 98 (just barely)...2001 Cubs then drinky.

You named 6 teams
1972
1977
1984
1989
1998
2001

Add on:
2004
2007
2008

Once every 4-5 years doesn't seem very "rareified."

On a side note, I forgot how abysmal the 1999 season was. They were 9 games over .500 (32-23) on June 8 and went 34-62 the rest of the way to bring home a 6th place finish -- 7.5 games back of 5th place. Baseball Reference's "Game Results" thing is hilarious:

I suppose now'd be a good time to circle back & point out that I was wrong about the 2001 Cubs.  They actually reached a high-water mark of 19 games over .500 on July 31st, after bandying about the 18-over mark three times the previous week (the last week of July).   For comparison's sake, the '01 Cubs were 16 games over .500 on August 14th, 1/2 game up in the NL Central.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Also funny to me that the one team that has come closest to a pennant in the last 70 years never reached 17 games over.

[SKO]

17 over .500 is rareified air for this franchise.  Over the last 43 years they're only like the 7th or 8th Cub team to reach these heights*

*I'd be more specific but I'm drunk and had to stop at the 2001 Cubs, who who were one of the few teams whom I began to reseacrh beginning with the 1972 Cubs upward who exceded (> 17 (games over))...our beloved '01 Cubs having reached their high water mark of 18 games over .500 on both August 8th and August 10th.  The 1977 Cubs (high water was 20 over, but it was only late June), '84 and 89 of course, 98 (just barely)...2001 Cubs then drinky.

You named 6 teams
1972
1977
1984
1989
1998
2001

Add on:
2004
2007
2008

Once every 4-5 years doesn't seem very "rareified."

On a side note, I forgot how abysmal the 1999 season was. They were 9 games over .500 (32-23) on June 8 and went 34-62 the rest of the way to bring home a 6th place finish -- 7.5 games back of 5th place. Baseball Reference's "Game Results" thing is hilarious:

Per Andy on Twitter one night, the 99 Cubs were the first MLB team to lose 40 games in a 50 game stretch. Then they did it again in 2000