It's Official

[Lou]

We won the 2002 World Series in spite of Joe Maddon. 

[Tank]

hey now, let's leave victor's mom out of this.

[eligrba]

Nice jinx, Lou.

Now, Cubs in 7.

[Adam]

Madden has been dogshit in the last two postseasons

[Angel Oracle]

The least that Theo and Jed can do is to supply Joe with some REAL relief pitching to back up Wade Davis.

Then again, the Indians had one of the deepest pens around, and look where they are now. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

Casinos.

[Broad Street]

Y'all say the dumbest shit sometimes.

[Schildog]

which includes y'all.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

On 10/15/2017 at 8:58 PM, ANAHEIMBOB said:

You should at least wait until  the fat lady sings.

the fat lady sings tonight.

[Blarg]

F'ing Maddon.

[TooCool]

This is why all the other managers are getting canned instead of Scioscia isn't it? =x

[Stradling]

Cubs won last year based on talent.  This year they had the same talent and lost.  I wonder why.  

[Chuck]

Fire Madden!

[Slegnaac]

On 10/19/2017 at 11:23 PM, Stradling said:

Cubs won last year based on talent.  This year they had the same talent and lost.  I wonder why.  

The competition was better?

[Chuck]

27 minutes ago, Slegnaac said:

The competition was better?

Much better..

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, ANAHEIMBOB said:

The Cubs didn't  go 77-85 the year after  they won the World Series.

Yep, but the Cubs were healthy and have talent that is on their way up.  The 2003 team was injured and weren’t really built to win.  

[Stradling]

3 minutes ago, ANAHEIMBOB said:

Lol

Put it this way, our best starter that year had a 4.43 ERA that year.  Lackey who was awful for the Cubs this year had a better ERA this year for the Cubs than he had for the Angels that year.  Eckstein was hurt and played 120 games, Glaus played less than 100 games, Erstad less than 70 games.  Davannon in RF that year.  

Go ahead and laugh, it shows your unbiased knowledge of the past.  

[Inside Pitch]

19 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Yep, but the Cubs were healthy and have talent that is on their way up.  The 2003 team was injured and weren’t really built to win.  

While it's true that Fullmer, Estad missed more than half the season and Glaus only played in like 90 games, the biggest component of that regression was the performance of the rotation..   Washburn, Ortiz, Lackey and Appier all fell off dramatically all went from above to well above ERA+s to below league average and Sele went from bad to horrible.   I guess MS should have been more like Maddon and fired one of the most respected pitching coaches in MLB.  Or maybe he should have blamed the younger players early on in the season when they stumbled out of the gate -- again, like Maddon did this season.  Nothing says great manager like finger pointing.