Cubs 2017. The Experienced Optimist Version

[Armchair_QB]

I don't think there's any way the Cubs beat Cueto on Thursday now...

[Canadouche]

I don't think there's any way the Cubs beat Cueto on Thursday now...

Dammit, TJ wins again!

[Quality Start Machine]

Well done, TJBC.

[Brownie]

And after you delete your account, jump in front of a bus.

This.

FYTJ!

What an asshole!

[Brownie]

The way the Cubs have fucking owned the shit out of TJ both times he's declared them done makes my cockles tingle

Me too. But 1984 has done this to me.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

The way the Cubs have fucking owned the shit out of TJ both times he's declared them done makes my cockles tingle

Me too. But 1984 has done this to me.

Oh for fuck's sake, snap out of it.  You're not the only one who experienced '84.  And '03 was identical, blah blah fucking blah.  But in '03, they not only finally won a series but also won the Game 3 in Florida that everybody at the time was convinced they would lose; you'll recall the game ended on defensive miscue that was immediately erased by a Florida baserunning gaffe.  They beat Pittsburgh last year, and they absolutely destroyed St. Louis.  There's enough out there to show the fates favor nobody; it's just that, as our Head Moran pointed out a couple weeks ago, when you rarely make the postseason, the times you fall short are magnified.  Those past horrors--which again, have NOTHING to do with today and everything to do with your own neuroses-- are evening out in any event.  I'm not denying I'm scarred by it; but I'm also not going to irrationally impose those events on this fucking awesome group of players that should never fucking be doubted because FUCK YOU.

Knock off your own personal melodrama and get over it.  Repeat after me--the past has NOTHING to do with this team.  If they get bounced in the next round, it'll be because they didn't play well and/or played a hotter team.  It happened last year and you survived.  Enough with the fatalistic bullshit.

And hang with your goddamn team for crissakes.  

[Bort]

The way the Cubs have fucking owned the shit out of TJ both times he's declared them done makes my cockles tingle

Me too. But 1984 has done this to me.

Oh for fuck's sake, snap out of it.  You're not the only one who experienced '84.  And '03 was identical, blah blah fucking blah.  But in '03, they not only finally won a series but also won the Game 3 in Florida that everybody at the time was convinced they would lose; you'll recall the game ended on defensive miscue that was immediately erased by a Florida baserunning gaffe.  They beat Pittsburgh last year, they absolutely destroyed St. Louis.  There's enough out there to show the fates favor nobody; it's just that, as our Head Moran pointed out a couple weeks ago, when you rarely make the postseason, the times you fall short are magnified.  Those past horrors--which again, have NOTHING to do with today and everything to do with your own neuroses-- are evening out in any event.  I'm not denying I'm not scarred by it; but I'm also not going to irrationally impose those events on this fucking awesome group of players that should never fucking be doubted because FUCK YOU.

Knock off your own personal melodrama and get over it.  Repeat after me--the past has NOTHING to do with this team.  If they get bounced in the next round, it'll be because they didn't play well and/or played a hotter team.  It happened last year and you survived.  Enough with the fatalistic bullshit.

And hang with your goddamn team for crissakes.  

It's not really part of my Internet persona, but I'm going to stand and salute that.

[Yeti]

The way the Cubs have fucking owned the shit out of TJ both times he's declared them done makes my cockles tingle

Me too. But 1984 has done this to me.

Oh for fuck's sake, snap out of it.  You're not the only one who experienced '84.  And '03 was identical, blah blah fucking blah.  But in '03, they not only finally won a series but also won the Game 3 in Florida that everybody at the time was convinced they would lose; you'll recall the game ended on defensive miscue that was immediately erased by a Florida baserunning gaffe.  They beat Pittsburgh last year, they absolutely destroyed St. Louis.  There's enough out there to show the fates favor nobody; it's just that, as our Head Moran pointed out a couple weeks ago, when you rarely make the postseason, the times you fall short are magnified.  Those past horrors--which again, have NOTHING to do with today and everything to do with your own neuroses-- are evening out in any event.  I'm not denying I'm not scarred by it; but I'm also not going to irrationally impose those events on this fucking awesome group of players that should never fucking be doubted because FUCK YOU.

Knock off your own personal melodrama and get over it.  Repeat after me--the past has NOTHING to do with this team.  If they get bounced in the next round, it'll be because they didn't play well and/or played a hotter team.  It happened last year and you survived.  Enough with the fatalistic bullshit.

And hang with your goddamn team for crissakes.  

LSA +1

[Oleg]

WE'RE THROUGH THE LOOKINGGLASS PEOPLE!

[SKO]

The way the Cubs have fucking owned the shit out of TJ both times he's declared them done makes my cockles tingle

Me too. But 1984 has done this to me.

Oh for fuck's sake, snap out of it.  You're not the only one who experienced '84.  And '03 was identical, blah blah fucking blah.  But in '03, they not only finally won a series but also won the Game 3 in Florida that everybody at the time was convinced they would lose; you'll recall the game ended on defensive miscue that was immediately erased by a Florida baserunning gaffe.  They beat Pittsburgh last year, they absolutely destroyed St. Louis.  There's enough out there to show the fates favor nobody; it's just that, as our Head Moran pointed out a couple weeks ago, when you rarely make the postseason, the times you fall short are magnified.  Those past horrors--which again, have NOTHING to do with today and everything to do with your own neuroses-- are evening out in any event.  I'm not denying I'm not scarred by it; but I'm also not going to irrationally impose those events on this fucking awesome group of players that should never fucking be doubted because FUCK YOU.

Knock off your own personal melodrama and get over it.  Repeat after me--the past has NOTHING to do with this team.  If they get bounced in the next round, it'll be because they didn't play well and/or played a hotter team.  It happened last year and you survived.  Enough with the fatalistic bullshit.

And hang with your goddamn team for crissakes.  

I can't really THIS this because lord knows I do more than my fair share of panicky dipshit bitching, but the only thing that would possibly be against them in this postseason is that short-series baseball is a fickle asshole. The Cardinals lost an NLCS on a walkoff homer from Travis fucking Ishikawa. They got blanked in two different world series by a previously "cursed" team. They probably have more playoff heartbreaks than the Cubs simply because they've been there more often. If they lose god knows I'm going to go down swearing but I'VE SEEN IT TOO MANY TIMES is not one of those complaints. This team has as much to do with the 2003 Cubs as it does the 1942 St. Louis Browns. The beauty of this team is I haven't seen most of the shit they are doing before.

[morpheus]

The way the Cubs have fucking owned the shit out of TJ both times he's declared them done makes my cockles tingle

Me too. But 1984 has done this to me.

Oh for fuck's sake, snap out of it.  You're not the only one who experienced '84.  And '03 was identical, blah blah fucking blah.  But in '03, they not only finally won a series but also won the Game 3 in Florida that everybody at the time was convinced they would lose; you'll recall the game ended on defensive miscue that was immediately erased by a Florida baserunning gaffe.  They beat Pittsburgh last year, they absolutely destroyed St. Louis.  There's enough out there to show the fates favor nobody; it's just that, as our Head Moran pointed out a couple weeks ago, when you rarely make the postseason, the times you fall short are magnified.  Those past horrors--which again, have NOTHING to do with today and everything to do with your own neuroses-- are evening out in any event.  I'm not denying I'm not scarred by it; but I'm also not going to irrationally impose those events on this fucking awesome group of players that should never fucking be doubted because FUCK YOU.

Knock off your own personal melodrama and get over it.  Repeat after me--the past has NOTHING to do with this team.  If they get bounced in the next round, it'll be because they didn't play well and/or played a hotter team.  It happened last year and you survived.  Enough with the fatalistic bullshit.

And hang with your goddamn team for crissakes.  

I can THIS this, but just barely.  I was on the ledge last night.

[flannj]

The way the Cubs have fucking owned the shit out of TJ both times he's declared them done makes my cockles tingle

Me too. But 1984 has done this to me.

Oh for fuck's sake, snap out of it.  You're not the only one who experienced '84.  And '03 was identical, blah blah fucking blah.  But in '03, they not only finally won a series but also won the Game 3 in Florida that everybody at the time was convinced they would lose; you'll recall the game ended on defensive miscue that was immediately erased by a Florida baserunning gaffe.  They beat Pittsburgh last year, they absolutely destroyed St. Louis.  There's enough out there to show the fates favor nobody; it's just that, as our Head Moran pointed out a couple weeks ago, when you rarely make the postseason, the times you fall short are magnified.  Those past horrors--which again, have NOTHING to do with today and everything to do with your own neuroses-- are evening out in any event.  I'm not denying I'm not scarred by it; but I'm also not going to irrationally impose those events on this fucking awesome group of players that should never fucking be doubted because FUCK YOU.

Knock off your own personal melodrama and get over it.  Repeat after me--the past has NOTHING to do with this team.  If they get bounced in the next round, it'll be because they didn't play well and/or played a hotter team.  It happened last year and you survived.  Enough with the fatalistic bullshit.

And hang with your goddamn team for crissakes.  

Thank you Huey. Kris Bryant was 11 in 2003 for Pete's sake.

[air2300]

The way the Cubs have fucking owned the shit out of TJ both times he's declared them done makes my cockles tingle

Me too. But 1984 has done this to me.

Oh for fuck's sake, snap out of it.  You're not the only one who experienced '84.  And '03 was identical, blah blah fucking blah.  But in '03, they not only finally won a series but also won the Game 3 in Florida that everybody at the time was convinced they would lose; you'll recall the game ended on defensive miscue that was immediately erased by a Florida baserunning gaffe.  They beat Pittsburgh last year, they absolutely destroyed St. Louis.  There's enough out there to show the fates favor nobody; it's just that, as our Head Moran pointed out a couple weeks ago, when you rarely make the postseason, the times you fall short are magnified.  Those past horrors--which again, have NOTHING to do with today and everything to do with your own neuroses-- are evening out in any event.  I'm not denying I'm not scarred by it; but I'm also not going to irrationally impose those events on this fucking awesome group of players that should never fucking be doubted because FUCK YOU.

Knock off your own personal melodrama and get over it.  Repeat after me--the past has NOTHING to do with this team.  If they get bounced in the next round, it'll be because they didn't play well and/or played a hotter team.  It happened last year and you survived.  Enough with the fatalistic bullshit.

And hang with your goddamn team for crissakes.  

I can't really THIS this because lord knows I do more than my fair share of panicky dipshit bitching, but the only thing that would possibly be against them in this postseason is that short-series baseball is a fickle asshole. The Cardinals lost an NLCS on a walkoff homer from Travis fucking Ishikawa. They got blanked in two different world series by a previously "cursed" team. They probably have more playoff heartbreaks than the Cubs simply because they've been there more often. If they lose god knows I'm going to go down swearing but I'VE SEEN IT TOO MANY TIMES is not one of those complaints. This team has as much to do with the 2003 Cubs as it does the 1942 St. Louis Browns. The beauty of this team is I haven't seen most of the shit they are doing before.

Maybe this goes to I admit it thread, but I have to say, non game-day SKO is rational.  During the games, reading your panicky tweets makes me want to throw my phone through the wall. 

[SKO]

The way the Cubs have fucking owned the shit out of TJ both times he's declared them done makes my cockles tingle

Me too. But 1984 has done this to me.

Oh for fuck's sake, snap out of it.  You're not the only one who experienced '84.  And '03 was identical, blah blah fucking blah.  But in '03, they not only finally won a series but also won the Game 3 in Florida that everybody at the time was convinced they would lose; you'll recall the game ended on defensive miscue that was immediately erased by a Florida baserunning gaffe.  They beat Pittsburgh last year, they absolutely destroyed St. Louis.  There's enough out there to show the fates favor nobody; it's just that, as our Head Moran pointed out a couple weeks ago, when you rarely make the postseason, the times you fall short are magnified.  Those past horrors--which again, have NOTHING to do with today and everything to do with your own neuroses-- are evening out in any event.  I'm not denying I'm not scarred by it; but I'm also not going to irrationally impose those events on this fucking awesome group of players that should never fucking be doubted because FUCK YOU.

Knock off your own personal melodrama and get over it.  Repeat after me--the past has NOTHING to do with this team.  If they get bounced in the next round, it'll be because they didn't play well and/or played a hotter team.  It happened last year and you survived.  Enough with the fatalistic bullshit.

And hang with your goddamn team for crissakes.  

I can't really THIS this because lord knows I do more than my fair share of panicky dipshit bitching, but the only thing that would possibly be against them in this postseason is that short-series baseball is a fickle asshole. The Cardinals lost an NLCS on a walkoff homer from Travis fucking Ishikawa. They got blanked in two different world series by a previously "cursed" team. They probably have more playoff heartbreaks than the Cubs simply because they've been there more often. If they lose god knows I'm going to go down swearing but I'VE SEEN IT TOO MANY TIMES is not one of those complaints. This team has as much to do with the 2003 Cubs as it does the 1942 St. Louis Browns. The beauty of this team is I haven't seen most of the shit they are doing before.

Maybe this goes to I admit it thread, but I have to say, non game-day SKO is rational.  During the games, reading your panicky tweets makes me want to throw my phone through the wall.  

I've said many times before that I usually wake up after most games in shredded purple shorts, looking at the destruction around me and screaming in horror "oh god what did I tweet". If they actually make the World Series my wife is on standing orders to just take away my phone.

[Oleg]

Maybe this goes to I admit it thread, but I have to say, non game-day SKO is rational.  During the games, reading your panicky tweets makes me want to throw my phone through the wall.  

I've said many times before that I usually wake up after most games in shredded purple shorts, looking at the destruction around me and screaming in horror "oh god what did I tweet". If they actually make the World Series my wife is on standing orders to just take away my phone.

*If*?  You fucking fatalistic douche.