Cubs as WS Champs now less likelier than a Trump Presidency

[batmagadanleadoff]

from 538.com: The Cubs Have A Smaller Chance Of Winning Than Trump Does

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-cubs-have-a-smaller-chance-of-winning-than-trump-does/

[Guest themetfairy]

It's time to drink!

[Frayed Knot]

A funny thing seems to be happening on the way to Theo Epstein's enshrinement.

[Gwreck]

I think it's still pretty clear he's done a very good job of rebuilding that team. I have a tough time seeing getting the team to the World Series for the first time in 70 years as a failure.

[Frayed Knot]

Obviously yes. Just sort of alluding to those who thought it was merely a matter of how the Cubs march to the title would go this season, not if.
Hell, some seemed to assume that this year was to be the first in a string of championships for the North-siders - which still may happen but let's see it happen once first before we starting counting how many.

[batmagadanleadoff]

With the baseball post season being such a crapshoot, the Cubs would be incredibly lucky just to return to the World Series,no matter how good this team continues to be.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: With the baseball post season being such a crapshoot, the Cubs would be incredibly lucky just to return to the World Series,no matter how good this team continues to be.

I'd like to strike that & reverse it.
With the team of talented youngsters they have they'd have to be unlucky not to get back there over the next bunch of years. I say they are in it again inside of 5 years.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I think its too early to write off the Cubs, and Trump, too, for that matter.

It's a tough road for the Cubs, but I can't dismiss that rotation and those bats.

That said, my buddy who lives in Chicago has been saying all year that the Cubs are due for one last heartbreaking collapse before winning it -- in 2017.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: That said, my buddy who lives in Chicago has been saying all year that the Cubs are due for one last heartbreaking collapse before winning it -- in 2017.

I guess after generations of failure, lame-ass hedging is in his dna.

OE: I forgot the :-)

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

d'Kong76 wrote: That said, my buddy who lives in Chicago has been saying all year that the Cubs are due for one last heartbreaking collapse before winning it -- in 2017. I guess after generations of failure, lame-ass hedging is in his dna. OE: I forgot the :-)

He's actually an Ohio native who roots for the Reds, pulls for the White Sox and is rooting for the Indians. Lived in Cleveland for a couple years while researching a book about minor league baseball. Not a fan of the Cubs.

[Guest d'Kong76]

my buddy who lives in Chicago who's actually an Ohio native who roots for the Reds, pulls for the White Sox and is rooting for the Indians and lived in Cleveland for a couple years while researching a book about minor league baseball but not a fan of the Cubs has been saying all year that the Cubs are due for one last heartbreaking collapse before winning it again after 109 years.

Ok, got it!

[MFS62]

They're trying to prove the old baseball saying that good pitching stops. good hitting.

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

This thread title is starting to creep me out a bit.