Can we talk about this Cubs team?

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Arrieta is a stud. Hope he can keep it rolling into the playoffs.

Len said last night that he's on schedule to be pitching the 1 game playoff on normal 5 day rest

The young talent + the manager have made this in to a big league team again.
for all the years of being a laughing stock, this club is relevant again.

kudos

 

[Primalzer]

Arrieta is a stud. Hope he can keep it rolling into the playoffs.

Len said last night that he's on schedule to be pitching the 1 game playoff on normal 5 day rest

The young talent + the manager have made this in to a big league team again.
for all the years of being a laughing stock, this club is relevant again.

kudos

Only thing that kind of sucks, is you aren't going to lead or have Arrieta for the first couple of games of the NLDS

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Lester will have to earn his pay check and set the pace for the 1st game.

 

[Primalzer]

Lester has been solid the 2nd half of the year...I could think of much worse to start the series off with

 

[Mike K]

The way I look at it is if you don't get through the one game play-off you don't need to worry about who's going to pitch in the actual series. So send Arrieta out there. It would be nice if we could take a couple from the Pirates this weekend to get the game home. I know the additional wild card teams are supposed to give extra teams a chance (and they do) but geez, talk about a bucket of suck if these guys put together a season like this only to lose it in a single game.

Anything is a bonus honestly. Earlier in the year it was just fun to watch them play and then all of the sudden you start thinking that they maybe could make the playoffs. Now they've done so well that my expectations have been adjusted and I'd be disappointed to not see them play a series.

 

[Primalzer]

I thought the Cubs had already taken the season series from the Pirates?

 

[Mike K]

I thought the Cubs had already taken the season series from the Pirates?

I don't know if they have or haven't but the team with the better record gets home field advantage for the one game playoff. We're 3.5 games behind them right now with 3 games against them this weekend. So we can chip some of that lead away and then we have a lighter schedule for the last week than they do. It's a bit of a longshot.

 

[Primalzer]

I don't know if they have or haven't but the team with the better record gets home field advantage for the one game playoff. We're 3.5 games behind them right now with 3 games against them this weekend. So we can chip some of that lead away and then we have a lighter schedule for the last week than they do. It's a bit of a longshot.

Cubs are 10-6 versus the Pirates this year already, so even if they sweep, we're still carrying home field against them going into the wildcard game

 

[Marko]

I agree with Mike K.

Home field advantage would be great for the one game wildcard playoff game

 

[Marko]

Just saw on the news. Another bomb threat this morning at Wrigley Field. Probably a white sox or pirates fan

 

[MIKES3]

Its going to be tough. I think they need to sweep the Pirates this series for the spot in the playoffs. It can be done


Edit: They need 1. Nevermind

 

[Turk]

I'm just waiting for the Cubs to lose the one game playoff.

 

[jason05gt]

I'm just waiting for the Cubs to lose the one game playoff.

Ah the Cubs hater chimes in.

 

[Turk]

And?

 

[jason05gt]

And?

That's one more playoff game than the Sox this year.

 

[Marko]

The white sox won't be any good for many more years. The Cubs future is a lot brighter with all of the good young players they have

 

[Turk]

That's one more playoff game than the Sox this year.

Did I say it wasn't?

 

[Turk]

The white sox won't be any good for many more years. The Cubs future is a lot brighter with all of the good young players they have

You were probably saying the same thing in 2003. We all know how that turned out.

 

[Mike K]

Cubs are 10-6 versus the Pirates this year already, so even if they sweep, we're still carrying home field against them going into the wildcard game

I did a poor job of explaining myself. The advantage doesn't go to the team with the winning record between just the games those teams played against eachother; it goes to the team with the better overall record which right now is the Pirates. We have a 3.5 game deficit to overcome before the one game playoff would be at Wrigley.

You were probably saying the same thing in 2003. We all know how that turned out.

Stick to your day job. Your trolling is weak.

 

[Primalzer]

I did a poor job of explaining myself. The advantage doesn't go to the team with the winning record between just the games those teams played against eachother; it goes to the team with the better overall record which right now is the Pirates. We have a 3.5 game deficit to overcome before the one game playoff would be at Wrigley.

Just went through an re-looked it up, I had thought I had heard the wildcard homefield was determined by head to head record, and not season record. Wikipedia says otherwise.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

lol

 

[Turk]

I'm not trying to troll, I'm just rooting against the Cubs, and you probably were saying the same thing in 2003 when you jumped on the bandwagon back then too.

 

[Chris01gtp]

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[MIKES3]

Pirates have the pitching this came. Cole is a great pitcher.

 

[Turk]

Pirates have the pitching this came. Cole is a great pitcher.

Arrieta is Cy Young IMO.