Official 2023 Chicago Cubs Season Thread Vol: (17-17)

[Lake Shore Drive]

Jake had a solid outing, can't help but scratch our heads now.

 

[CP1708]

Lookin forward to next year when Schwarber is back and Contreras is another year more experienced.

Heyward CF
Bryant RF
Rizzo 1B
Zobrist 2B
Schwarber LF
Contreras C
Baez 3B
Russell SS

Or

Russell SS
Schwarber LF
Bryant RF
Rizzo 1B
Zobrist 2B
Contreras C
Heyward CF
Baez 3B

2nd one has so much R/L balance.

This is if Fowler doesn't come back, of course.

God, I miss Schwarber.

 

[sportsjunkie]

The Rubber match is tonight.

 

[JLD1523]

Headed to the game tonight. Excited to see King Felix pitch unfortunately it has to come against the Cubs.

 

[arstyle27]

Soooooo, we start a journeyman Bum no name pitcher in the rubber game on SNB just for the hell of it????? What the hell....what the bloody hell....

 

[arstyle27]

CP, explain to me why we chose to give a game away??? What the hell is going on??????????

 

[arstyle27]

I wanna punch this guy's face....random white guy pitching for the Cubs on Sunday night baseball

 

[CP1708]

I'm not going to explain July games vs AL teams to you man. Pretty easy to understand. Really is.

 

[Lake Shore Drive]

Geeez this cat Matusz is out there lobbying meatballs

 

[arstyle27]

I'm not going to explain July games vs AL teams to you man. Pretty easy to understand. Really is.

Nahhhhh, I'm not down with playing not to win. I'm cool with giving our rotation another day, but not this way. We still aren't playing well. We're lucky St. Louis hasn't caught fire.

 

[CP1708]

No, dude.

I'm not gonna explain it to you. Just keep griping, that's what you're gonna do anyways.

 

[arstyle27]

No, dude.

I'm not gonna explain it to you. Just keep griping, that's what you're gonna do anyways.

I'm griping because we are not playing as well as we should be. That **** is gonna catch up to us. You're all about getting to October, but lemme tell you something....these bad habits and lack of urgency will bite us in the ***.

 

[Lake Shore Drive]

Even on a Sunday AR & CP won't stop.
I'm about to head home and pound a six pack, got this screener copy of Hardcore Henry I've been dying to watch.

 

[CP1708]

"We're not playing well"


Reality, best record in MLB.
Reality, haven't lost series in 3 weeks. (til tonight)
Reality, FAR better than where we were last year.

"We're not playing well....."


Baseball is more than one game. Tonight is about more than one game.
A franchise works on more than one game, or series (or season ) at a time.

That's what tonight was.

Think. Bigger. Picture.

Stop crying over single games.

 

[CP1708]

So I can just end this for you.

Tonight is meaningless AL game.
Saves Hendricks for more important Miami series. (NL, possible playoff team)
It gives EVERY pitcher extra day off
It also helps line us up better for upcoming STL series.
It also gives Theo chance to flip him IF he pitched well (see, Wade Miley) but he didn't.

There's more to a team than ONE game. Stop. Gripping.

You freak out after every loss, despite the knowledge that EVERY team will lose 60+ times, EVERY year.

Get a clue man. Stop overreacting over every bad inning, game, series, week, month.

One. Sixty. Two.

 

[eentegra]

nice play by wood tho....

 

[CP1708]

Another fly out to the wall. Volume 200,000.

 

[CP1708]

Oh, hey.

 

[Lake Shore Drive]

Holy cow!

I'm sitting here drinking watching this flick and I see the notification that the Cubbies tied the game in the bottom of the 9th!!
If they pull this off

 

[CP1708]

W. 63-41

4 series wins after the break and 1 split.

 

[Lake Shore Drive]

BOOM!!!

They did it!

 

[jm9312]

If you missed this game I feel sorry for you

 

[rook]

This team is something else man

 

[CP1708]

No, dude.

I'm not gonna explain it to you. Just keep griping, that's what you're gonna do anyways.

I'm griping because we are not playing as well as we should be. That **** is gonna catch up to us. You're all about getting to October, but lemme tell you something....these bad habits and lack of urgency will bite us in the ***.

K.

 

[sickickz23]

wow