The Official 2007 Chicago Cubs Thread

[illini43]

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If the Cubs end up holding on it will only be because the Brewers are even more inept at winning baseball games

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yeah, but who cares?

making the playoffs is what counts

look at the number of wildcard and 3rd best division champ WS winners and participants of late

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QFT

It's completely cliche and corny to say, but every team starts with a 0-0 record in October. The most important part is making sure you are one of the 8 teams that gets to keep playing.

2006: 3rd best division team beat AL wild card
2005: Best AL division team beat NL wild card
2004: AL Wild card beats 1st NL divsion team
2003: NL wild card beats 1st AL division team
2002: AL wild card beats NL wild card
2001: 2nd NL division beat 2nd AL division

Just get in, then anything can happen.

At least Dempster is pitching himself out of the closer role.

[DrunkIrish05]

Amazingly, BP now gives the Cubs the best chance at making the playoffs of any NL team

Cubs 92.9%
DBacks 82.9%
Padres 65.6%
Phils 59.1%
Mets 58.5%
Rockies 33.9%

[slothinator]

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At least Dempster is pitching himself out of the closer role.

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If Lou was going to pull him, he would have done it by now. Dempster has given him plenty of reasons and opportunities. I just hope he is not closing next year, at least not for the Cubs. I mean, he would be an improvement over Borowski in Cleveland.

[TonyDanza]

We will clinch today. Zambrano needs to come up big and Maddux needs to come up a lot bigger than he did for us in 89. He has owned the brewers over his career though.

[Troll_Inc]

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I am 37 years old and the Cubs have won exactly two division championships while I have been alive. This is a big deal to me.

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Did your mom throw away your baseball card collection including your Paul Reuschel rookie card?

I don't want to hear about your pain.

[TonyDanza]

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I am 37 years old and the Cubs have won exactly two division championships while I have been alive. This is a big deal to me.

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Did your mom throw away your baseball card collection including your Paul Reuschel rookie card?

I don't want to hear about your pain.

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That's weird. I'm 30 and the Cubs have won 3 division championships while I have been alive.

Edited to add: I'm not counting this year yet. I'm just counting 2003 in addition to 1984 and 1989.

[uclabruinz]

You are right, it is three. Not sure why I did not count 2003. Probably because my mind is trying to subconsciously block all memory of that year.

[TonyDanza]

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You are right, it is three. Not sure why I did not count 2003. Probably because my mind is trying to subconsciously block all memory of that year.

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2003 was a great ride right up until the 8th inning of game 6. I try to block everything out after that, but up until then WOW. I loved '84 because that was the first year I was really a baseball fan, but I was 26 and living in the city in 2003, so I enjoyed the ride a lot more that year.

[slothinator]

It's not bad enough that Lou insists on playing Kendall over Blanco (better D) and Soto (better hitter). No, he compounds the problem by batting him 2nd. Because having Kendall hit a grounder to the right side with a runner on 2nd is much more important than having someone in that spot who can actually drive the ball out of the infield. Or God forbid draw a walk. Lou says [censored] that noise; he wants to maximize the AB's of the worst (at least bottom 5) hitter in MLB.

Edit - Floyd 4th, Ramirez 5th. [censored] it, just kill me now and get it over with.

[pepper123]

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It's not bad enough that Lou insists on playing Kendall over Blanco (better D) and Soto (better hitter). No, he compounds the problem by batting him 2nd. Because having Kendall hit a grounder to the right side with a runner on 2nd is much more important than having someone in that spot who can actually drive the ball out of the infield. Or God forbid draw a walk. Lou says [censored] that noise; he wants to maximize the AB's of the worst (at least bottom 5) hitter in MLB.

Edit - Floyd 4th, Ramirez 5th. [censored] it, just kill me now and get it over with.

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if you're going to bitch about stupid managers you should probably know that batting order doesn't matter statistically.