2016 MLB thread. THE CUBS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE! Chicago Cubs are your 2016 World Series champions

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Cubs fans, what's the problem. Talk to me, combo of stuff or some specific things that can be addressed quickly?
 
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Cubs fans, what's the problem. Talk to me, combo of stuff or some specific things that can be addressed quickly?
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Since Fowler went down they are 5-12. That's part.

No off days for quite a while hasn't helped. And then of course the pen.

Fowler/Soler will be back after the break. Said break will be their first days off in some time. And pen help will come shortly thereafter. (Joe Nathan will get a shot soon, then the trade deadline Theo will add another arm or two)

It's the funk that Theo predicted a couple months ago when things were rolling, and he said they'd run into a bad stretch where everyone would start gripping. He was dead on. :lol:
 
Said comments by Theo, on May 11th


"We're thrilled with the start we've gotten off to, but we're not blinded by it," Epstein said on Tuesday. "We're in a stretch right now when winning seems far easier than it actually is. We know there is going to be a stretch, probably a long stretch this year, when winning even one game seems virtually impossible. That's the nature of baseball. We're not blinded by it.
"There's a saying in the office, 'We're in a tree.' We want to stay up there as long as we can, but we're going to get down at some point."

The Cubs are off to their best start through 30 games since they went 24-6 to begin the 1907 season, which ended with a World Series championship. Epstein knows the prognosticators picked the Cubs to win it all this season, but he's also well aware of the ups and downs in a season.

"We still have vulnerabilities, we still have areas where we need to get better, we still have challenges and more adversity to come," he said. "We're going to suffer injuries, we're going to suffer downturns of performance. We're going to go through stretches of bad luck, we'll go through stretches of bad performance, we're going to run into really hot teams. We want to stay as locked in as we are right now, but the game is very humbling, and we're aware that time is coming when there will be great challenges. We almost look forward to [challenges]. That's when you find out what you're made of."
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This is the 3rd time today Buck Showalter has walked the bases loaded. 

FIrst 2 times he got out with 0 runs given up.

Bottom of the 14th this time, will it work? If so, brass balls man!

edit; It worked. Great managing man
 
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Dodgers couldnt pinch hit for the pitcher with the bases load in the 14th lmao

Utley 6-7 
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