2015 NLCS Thread: Chicago Cubs vs. New York Mets

[CT III]

Lester certainly failed tonight. But it would've been nice to see some timely hits.

Might as well save the hits for a night your starter isn't giving up 4 earnies over 6.2.

Yes, this is how hits work.

[Quality Start Machine]

Lester certainly failed tonight. But it would've been nice to see some timely hits.

Might as well save the hits for a night your starter isn't giving up 4 earnies over 6.2.

Yes, this is how hits work.

The Mets should be just about out by now then.

[Yeti]

I have now developed a hatred for the Mets. This is fun

[Wheezer]

Lester certainly failed tonight. But it would've been nice to see some timely hits.

Might as well save the hits for a night your starter isn't giving up 4 earnies over 6.2.

I'm either going to have to have the predictive ZORP subgroup analysis or change my plan to shape the ground beef into hamburgers for dinner.

I'm really drunk, but I don't get it.

Despite your clever wordplay, the irony is duly noted.

[Canadouche]

...now what?

[CubFaninHydePark]

...now what?

Pull Jake, and hope there's a Game 5 for him to start.

[Quality Start Machine]

...now what?

My advice is to drink heavily.

[Saul Goodman]

Don't worry, guys, Kyle Hendricks will get them back on track.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I tried talking myself up in 2008 after they pissed away the first 2 games vs. the Dodgers so I can do it here.  For starters, this team is better.  For another this is a best of 7, not 5.  As bleak as it looks that our only 2 reliable pitchers lost the team's first 2 games, compare it to how rosy it looked prior to this series.  Most objective observers would've expected the Cubs to come home with at least a split.  Okay, guess what--baseball's funny--we've already known this.  So it shoots our plan to shit of the Cubs winning in 5, and Arrieta starting Game 1 of the World Series. It doesn't mean anything's fucked.  

Not that we have a choice, but I'm hanging my cat on the fact that nobody expects to see the Cubs win the next 2 games with Preperation H starting and so weird shit is going to have to continue to happen, is all.  (an aside--I actually feel better, now, about Hammel starting than Haren, though at the beginning of the series I'd have preferred Haren.  I envisioned Haren on the hill with the Cubs up 2-1 or 3-0 and felt good about it; now, I'd rather not see Haren if the Cubs were clinging to life or just down 2-1.  Not that Hammel's much better of course)

We've got at least 18 innings of baseball left to watch this team.  I'm going to try like hell to enjoy it, and not act surprised when they rip off the next 4*



* realizes this is blustery bullshit and I'll be a piddling mess in 36 hours

[Canadouche]

I still like your outlook, Huey.

While I've been living with a sick-to-my-stomach feeling for the last couple of days, I don't feel crushed yet. The Cubs still haven't played STUPID, they've just failed to produce. If they get outplayed and lose, oh well. If they play well enough to elevate my hope, only to THEN lose, that would be a different story.

[Quality Start Machine]

I still like your outlook, Huey.

While I've been living with a sick-to-my-stomach feeling for the last couple of days, I don't feel crushed yet. The Cubs still haven't played STUPID, they've just failed to produce. If they get outplayed and lose, oh well. If they play well enough to elevate my hope, only to THEN lose, that would be a different story.

If Coughlan hit the ball a foot higher none of us might feel the way we feel this morning. And there have been plenty of opportunities to give up on the Cubs before - this is hardly the time to start.

[Tony]

A series doesn't really start until a home team loses.... but when you've used your two best pitchers that does change things. Yesterday wasn't a must win, but it felt like it. So maybe it was. They just need to score first on Tuesday and then I think everyone can relax a little.

[R-V]

Highs in the 70s tomorrow and Wednesday, so plenty warm enough to thaw Jorge from his carbonite slumber, and I know it doesn't work this way but I'm going to keep telling myself that luck is going to turn around for this offense. I just refuse to believe that group of slapdick Mets led by Dickbeard Murphy (h/t: Slaky) is going to the World Series.

[Eli]

A series doesn't really start until a home team loses.... but when you've used your two best pitchers that does change things. Yesterday wasn't a must win, but it felt like it. So maybe it was. They just need to score first on Tuesday and then I think everyone can relax a little.

They just need to win tomorrow. That guarantees them two more games. Win tomorrow and Hammel can go out on Wednesday and spray diarrhea all over the mound for a few innings and they'd still get another crack at the Lester/Arrieta part of the rotation. Long odds, for sure, but they can right the ship tomorrow.

[SKO]

A series doesn't really start until a home team loses.... but when you've used your two best pitchers that does change things. Yesterday wasn't a must win, but it felt like it. So maybe it was. They just need to score first on Tuesday and then I think everyone can relax a little.

They just need to win tomorrow. That guarantees them two more games. Win tomorrow and Hammel can go out on Wednesday and spray diarrhea all over the mound for a few innings and they'd still get another crack at the Lester/Arrieta part of the rotation. Long odds, for sure, but they can right the ship tomorrow.

It would make a pretty epic story if Hammels and Hendricks picked up Arrieta and Lester to make up for all of the fucking times those two had to right the ship after either of the H's laid an egg.