The 2016 Cubs: SPLOOGE SPLOOGE SPLOOGE

[CBStew]

Honestly, why can't the team with the best record have home field advantage in the World Series?

The All Star Game shouldn't matter. Why does it have to matter? All anyone really cares about is the Home Run Derby.

Yeah if you're 12 years old or younger...

So you actually like the exhibition game? I like baseball, so therefore I like the game, but I don't think it's necessary.

My comment was directed at your "all anyone cares about is the Home Run Derby" remark, the HRD being something I care about less than the All-Star Game, which I don't care about at all (though I confess to enjoying KB taking Sling Blade yard).  I'm annoyed that there's no real baseball until Friday and was just pointing that any grown-assed man who cares about the Home Run Derby should go play Pokemon Go until they walk into traffic and get run over.

In the past I've been annoyed about no real baseball for 4 days as well.
But this year it seems like the Cubs could really use the break (as well as some of us).
So I'm okay with it and I'll just drink with the TV on reruns of Star Trek TNG instead.

The All-Star break has some kind of supernatural effect on ballplayers.  How often we see a radical change in the performance of teams before and after the Break.  What happens?  Do they go home and get set upon by their wives or SOs because they under or over performed in the first half?  Do they succumb to the temperature?  Are they just tired?  Bored? 

[Quality Start Machine]

Dex and Jorge both report to Iowa for rehab today.

Magic number is 63.

Just need Jake to scatter the ashes of the Mets' souls tonight and we're golden.

[Yeti]

Dex and Jorge both report to Iowa for rehab today.

Magic number is 63.

Just need Jake to scatter the ashes of the Mets' souls tonight and we're golden.

Why this permeates my dreams, I don't know, but I dreamt that Jake only lasted 4.1 innings. Prove my subconscious wrong, Jake

[ChuckD]

Dex and Jorge both report to Iowa for rehab today.

Magic number is 63.

Just need Jake to scatter the ashes of the Mets' souls tonight and we're golden.

Why this permeates my dreams, I don't know, but I dreamt that Jake only lasted 4.1 innings. Prove my subconscious wrong, Jake

He just made it through 4.1 innings on 38 pitches.

[CubFaninHydePark]

Twice these assholes have had Familia bases loaded, 0 outs and done jack shit.  If they don't win playoff games by 3+, they're fucked in the close ones.

[Canadouche]

Twice these assholes have had Familia bases loaded, 0 outs and done jack shit.  If they don't win playoff games by 3+, they're fucked in the close ones.

You're right. Their failure to overcome the most dominant closer in baseball right now is somehow indicative to their general inability to win close ones.

[Saul Goodman]

Twice these assholes have had Familia bases loaded, 0 outs and done jack shit.  If they don't win playoff games by 3+, they're fucked in the close ones.

You're right. Their failure to overcome the most dominant closer in baseball right now is somehow indicative to their general inability to win close ones.

How many tears, Theo?

[CubFaninHydePark]

Twice these assholes have had Familia bases loaded, 0 outs and done jack shit.  If they don't win playoff games by 3+, they're fucked in the close ones.

You're right. Their failure to overcome the most dominant closer in baseball right now is somehow indicative to their general inability to win close ones.

That'd be the 11-15 record in 1-run games...not helped by these two failures.

[Brownie]

Twice these assholes have had Familia bases loaded, 0 outs and done jack shit.  If they don't win playoff games by 3+, they're fucked in the close ones.

You're right. Their failure to overcome the most dominant closer in baseball right now is somehow indicative to their general inability to win close ones.

That'd be the 11-15 record in 1-run games...not helped by these two failures.

I am not particularly optimisticc about the Cubs right now, but record in 1-run games tends to be a function of luck.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Twice these assholes have had Familia bases loaded, 0 outs and done jack shit.  If they don't win playoff games by 3+, they're fucked in the close ones.

You're right. Their failure to overcome the most dominant closer in baseball right now is somehow indicative to their general inability to win close ones.

That'd be the 11-15 record in 1-run games...not helped by these two failures.

Whoever wrote the code/program that propels whatever Internet Bot creation that you are to somehow seemingly "auto-emote"....sucks and should die immediately.

[SKO]

Twice these assholes have had Familia bases loaded, 0 outs and done jack shit.  If they don't win playoff games by 3+, they're fucked in the close ones.

You're right. Their failure to overcome the most dominant closer in baseball right now is somehow indicative to their general inability to win close ones.

That'd be the 11-15 record in 1-run games...not helped by these two failures.

I am not particularly optimisticc about the Cubs right now, but record in 1-run games tends to be a function of luck.

What's not to be optimistic about? They've won 3/5 to start the second half against the best team in the AL and a solid NL contender and the starters have all looked good again. Bullpen help is at worst two weeks away. Fowler and Soler are rehabbing. I don't get this.

[Brownie]

Twice these assholes have had Familia bases loaded, 0 outs and done jack shit.  If they don't win playoff games by 3+, they're fucked in the close ones.

You're right. Their failure to overcome the most dominant closer in baseball right now is somehow indicative to their general inability to win close ones.

That'd be the 11-15 record in 1-run games...not helped by these two failures.

I am not particularly optimisticc about the Cubs right now, but record in 1-run games tends to be a function of luck.

What's not to be optimistic about? They've won 3/5 to start the second half against the best team in the AL and a solid NL contender and the starters have all looked good again. Bullpen help is at worst two weeks away. Fowler and Soler are rehabbing. I don't get this.

It's probably just a spell. I want Dexter to show me his hamstring is OK and dominant Soler to be back. Then I'll be fine.

[SKO]

Twice these assholes have had Familia bases loaded, 0 outs and done jack shit.  If they don't win playoff games by 3+, they're fucked in the close ones.

You're right. Their failure to overcome the most dominant closer in baseball right now is somehow indicative to their general inability to win close ones.

That'd be the 11-15 record in 1-run games...not helped by these two failures.

I am not particularly optimisticc about the Cubs right now, but record in 1-run games tends to be a function of luck.

What's not to be optimistic about? They've won 3/5 to start the second half against the best team in the AL and a solid NL contender and the starters have all looked good again. Bullpen help is at worst two weeks away. Fowler and Soler are rehabbing. I don't get this.

It's probably just a spell. I want Dexter to show me his hamstring is OK and dominant Soler to be back. Then I'll be fine.

I mean the 5-15 stretch was brutal but they're like a game out of the best record in baseball and have gone 4-2 since, all against winning teams. More importantly Jon and Jake look like themselves again. Frustrating as tonight was my outlook on the team is way better than it was a week ago

[Yeti]

Dex and Jorge both report to Iowa for rehab today.

Magic number is 63.

Just need Jake to scatter the ashes of the Mets' souls tonight and we're golden.

Why this permeates my dreams, I don't know, but I dreamt that Jake only lasted 4.1 innings. Prove my subconscious wrong, Jake

He just made it through 4.1 innings on 38 pitches.

My subconscious is not smart

[Eli]

Twice these assholes have had Familia bases loaded, 0 outs and done jack shit.  If they don't win playoff games by 3+, they're fucked in the close ones.

You're right. Their failure to overcome the most dominant closer in baseball right now is somehow indicative to their general inability to win close ones.

That'd be the 11-15 record in 1-run games...not helped by these two failures.

I am not particularly optimisticc about the Cubs right now, but record in 1-run games tends to be a function of luck.

What's not to be optimistic about? They've won 3/5 to start the second half against the best team in the AL and a solid NL contender and the starters have all looked good again. Bullpen help is at worst two weeks away. Fowler and Soler are rehabbing. I don't get this.

It's probably just a spell. I want Dexter to show me his hamstring is OK and dominant Soler to be back. Then I'll be fine.

He'd need to appear in the first place for that phrasing to work.