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QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 09:12 PM) A blind squirrel. That's all Cueto is. Let's see Cueto do this against the Jays.

Damn it Astros. f***ing Rios.

Almost feels like more casual baseball fans know who Rick Hahn is than Jed Hoyer with how little attention he receives.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 04:43 PM) Never said that. I just find it odd that there are so many things people would usually consider fire able offenses, and for some reason, the GM is getting a pass, he has nothing to do with it, although when it was thought the team was a contender, it was all him. It will be interesting to see if the Sox make a couple of trades, sign a player or 2, and have a young player actually develop, and they make the playoffs next season, if that will then be all of Rick Hahn's doing. I imagine it will. Although the Sox are set up in the same type of dynamic as the Cubs, although KW doesn't have Theo's title, all the good stuff that happens to the Cubs, no one ever mentions Hoyer. Theo gets praised for everything. I wonder why on the Sox, neither are ignored, but KW is responsible for the bad and RH for the good. It really makes no sense. You would think Hoyer doesn't do anything at all if you listen to the media/Cub fans here.

Third time through the order, come on Jays, you're supposed to kill LHP.

QUOTE (shipps @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 04:42 PM) The woooo! is where he reeeeeally lost me on that one. Speaking of wooing, is Ronnie Woo Woo still around?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 04:08 PM) Yankees would be a good spot for him and go back to their former ways of overpaying for average to below average players/pitchers. Do tell what average to below average players the Yankees have overpaid for in the past.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 04:09 PM) probably already discussed, but I now see the Cubs and the Jays "stirring the drink" I thought the Cubs just did the rubbing the helmet thing.

If Stroman gets lit up people are going to be howling about the decision to pitch Price in relief.

Rangers already on the board.

5-3 Astros win, but I also wouldn't be surprised to see Cueto finally get it together for one start.

The interesting thing to note in that article I posted is that projection systems have actually been fairly accurate in predicting individual performance (except for our guys apparently), but trying to predict team performance is where things have fallen apart. "It’s a long-held saying that baseball’s playoffs are a crapshoot, but the unexpectedly great performances of teams like Kansas City this year might indicate the regular season is headed in that direction, too."

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 02:23 PM) Not a huge fan of PECOTA but I think they had them at 78 wins. Also had us scoring 81 more runs than we did, our record might look similar to what they predicted but the path we took to get there was very different, pretty much no one on the offensive end sans Eaton lived up to their projections. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-201...ections-failed/ But according to this article projection systems have been getting steadily worse over the years.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 01:44 PM) Dodgers will maul Cubs. Cubs might beat Mets. Do you have any houses left to bet on it?

QUOTE (shipps @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 01:20 PM) I would rather have Kershaw full steam ahead for 2 starts in the series than have him tired and laboring for three games. Agreed, he just went on three days rest yesterday, asking him to do it three times in the NLCS would be just asking for trouble.

The TBS strike zone was way off for all the games I thought but I still don't like the umps. A 10% mistake rate might be normal but I don't think it's acceptable, considering the huge difference between a 1-2 and 2-1 count then those mistakes could easily swing games. Can't wait for robot umps, as it will also eliminate pitch framing, which I'm not a fan of either. We shouldn't be judging players on how well they fool the umpires, that shouldn't be a part of the game.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 10:25 AM) What other team has cracked their model? No other team is able to market losing nearly as well. Whoever came up with "loveable losers" was a genius.

Cubs have also averaged 85 losses a season over the last 35 years, and despite that were still able to consistently draw fans.

QUOTE (flavum @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 09:43 AM) Just my humble opinion... If the Blue Jays win this game, they win the World Series. If the Rangers win this game, the Cubs win the World Series. But, it's baseball... I'm getting that feeling as well, but we've seen favorites flop too much in baseball for me to feel too confident in any predictions.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 09:06 AM) I bet it has a lot to do with them being the only team that has advanced to the next round. If the remaining teams were all exactly even, the Cubs would be twice as likely to win. Also probably looking at regular season record of all the teams remaining. However, I doubt the Cubs would be the favorite in Vegas in a series against the Blue Jays.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 09:14 AM) I keep telling myself over and over, "Good pitching beats good hitting," especially in October. Overall, both the Mets and LA have better, deeper rotations, so there's that. Past Greinke the Dodgers rotation is very suspect, and their hitting has been non-existent the last few months.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 07:32 AM) Right, but no strategy works when you team is consistently awful. I was born in 1990, the last three years have been awful but from 1990-2012 I would hardly call the White Sox consistently awful. We were at worst consistently mediocre. And the franchises you're praising right now were consistently awful for long stretches of time.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 08:59 AM) Cub attendance took a big hit the past few years remember which led to the drive to bring in Theo, completely gut the franchise and get to where they are today. Their were a lot, ALOT of empty seats being shown on TV at Wrigley Field. Cub fans were getting fed up and pissed off. Columns were written about it in both the Sun-Times and Tribune. Just trying to be accurate. And just last year the Royals manager called out his fan base for not showing up with the Royals winning. Three decades of losing will do that to a fan base who has to be convinced the season isn't a mirage. Sounds a lot like things on the South Side no? (example is 2000 after four losing seasons in five years time...) Mark Even with falling attendance the Cubs were still drawing more than 30,000 fans a game, that allowed them to speed up the rebuild and spend a lot more money than most rebuilding teams are able to do.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 08:10 PM) I think so, pretty sure it happened in 2005. It's Chicago baseball, this might be the 5th postseason series the two teams have won combined in 100 years. It's the 6th if you include 1917.

QUOTE (MIZ-SOX @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 08:04 PM) The franchise is really at a crossroads right now. Our model of plugging in 30 year old position players doesn't work in today's game. I'm going to assume we'll try to make a few signings this offseason so that we can hopefully compete next year, however if we see a repeat of this season, i'm fully expecting us to deal any veterans that have any value, and commit to a youth movement. Luckily we've done a pretty good job of restocking the farm, so I don't think a rebuild would take as long as that of the Cubs/Astros. 30 really isn't that old, the top 3 offenses in the MLB this year (Jays, Yankees, Rangers) were littered with position players 30 or older. The Mets led the NL in runs scored in the second half and their offense is similarly old. Seemed to work just fine for those teams. It's not the age that is the problem.