Chicago Cubs lose the division AGAIN

The Brewers punched their ticket to the postseason with a Cubs loss to the A’s. We breakdown the gap between the Cubs and the NL Central title. Plus: Cubs/A’s recap and Cubs/Nationals preview.

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  1. Trade Hoerner. Busch to 2nd. Get Soto or Satander to play right field. Bellinger to 1st or if he opts out of his contract, Busch stays at 1st and Matt Shaw to second and or 3rd base.

  7. River Cats stadium is a great AAA stadium!
    Saw a couple of games there when I lived in Sacramento.
    Walking distance to downtown and the train station.
    The only thing is that you have to be ready to fight the droves of homeless that live down there.
    But the park itself is really nice.

  8. I'll be 60 in December , went to my 1st game when I was 7 , lost to the Mets 9-8 , been hooked ever since , I'm like you guys I take losses personally , especially bad losses , I'm living with type 2 diabetes and it's getting worse as I get older . I would like 1 more championship before I leave this planet , after all I've put in this team emotionally I figure that's the least they can do , so I will be looking forward and focusing on 2025 and what they have to do to get to 90 + wins !

  11. this is why I keep saying the closer is the bigger issue than having a star bat……you just cant blow TWENTY FIVE games that your pool of merely good not great players tries to get for you. Its literally what the Brewers do.

  12. Happ is vastly overrated. He doesn’t hit in the clutch and during the 22-39 stretch, he was invisible. His defense is even overrated. Put a guy with better instincts out there and many of these “great” defensive plays are routine. He doesn’t seem to get a jump on many balls.

  15. 1. "The bullpen has been great since June 1st". That means that they weren't assembled correctly to start the season, and Jed had to spend months dumpster-diving other teams' DFAs and tradeaways to figure it out. The problem is, all those games in April and May and part of June count in the standings. You can't lose games for two months while trying to put a bullpen together.

    2. The "great bullpen" of the second half of the season will almost certainly not be next season. Remember these names: Brandon Hughes, Erich Uelmen, Michael Rucker, Julian Merryweather, Adbert Alzolay? Those were all guys who looked great in the second half bullpen of either 2022 or 2023, and were counted on to be important pieces the next season. What we're getting now out of Tyson Miller/Porter Hodge/Ethan Roberts/Nate Pearson, we may or may not get in 2025. Don't fall in love with any of them.

    3. The "back of the baseball card" full-season numbers for many position players are misleading. PCA, Bellinger, Swanson, Hoerner and Amaya spent most of late spring through mid-summer stinking up the joint. Their August offensive binge brought all their numbers back up to respectability, but the first 110 games of the season were pretty bad. and the same team that we look at in September and say "hey, we have seven above-average starters" was also the team that "needed major changes" in July. A month or 40 games where the team thrashes bad pitching for an unsustainable 10 runs per game every other day doesn't change the inherent questions and fallibility of this team.

  17. Sam nailed it with the Marquee rant. I'm tired of the spin on there trying to Jedi mind-trick the audience into thinking this company line of "they fell into bad luck & injuries", it's clearly Ricketts' directing Hoyer at this point to be a more spend-heavy Bob Nutting, but the result is the same. Taylor, J.D., Cliff & Cole have all tried to crack that wall and tell some truths, but you can feel there's a directive from the old man. Sadly, if they'd just book the team correctly and still spend $225M-$275M, not only would they be fine, but Marquee would be gaining subs.

  18. Hey Sam!! Your rant is absolutely warranted, like "Pat The Designer" did about the Bears loss against the Texans!! Like I said, he should be offered a spot on the Bears' coaching staff, you, and Matt, should be offered a spot on the Cubs' bench in the dugout!!😉👍🏾🎓

  21. White Sox fan here: Welcome to the club. We have good players. But we don't have training or management. Still the Cubs are a hundred steps higher than us. 😊

  30. Too many issues to overcome this season with injuries, bullpen problems, or a killer attitude, etc. It seemed all season that this team could never develop an identity like 2015-2016. No real leaders on the team that could keep the fire burning. You never knew which team was going to show up on any given day and they could NOT sustain a winning streak to save their soul. I’m exhausted trying to figure this team out and looking forward to just walking away into the sunset. See you in 2025.

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