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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Yahoo: Cubs Sweep Pirates

The Cubs are now 33 games over .500. Last time that happened? 1945.

Dag Nabbit apealing [sic] his own check swing Posted: August 27, 2008 at 07:43 PM | 26 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. The Kids Are Enright (1k5v3L)

Posted: August 27, 2008 at 09:34 PM (#2919080)

Poor Pirates. First they get suckered into taking Craig Hansen, then they put Alvarez on restricted list, and now this.

2. Slivers of Maranville (SdeB) Posted: August 27, 2008 at 09:57 PM (#2919103)

Yahoo indeed.

3. Hello Rusty Kuntz, Goodbye Rusty Cars Posted: August 27, 2008 at 10:05 PM (#2919115)

Godwinned in the intro.

4. Misirlou's got a busy day, he's wearing a vest Posted: August 27, 2008 at 10:25 PM (#2919139)

Godwinned in the intro.

Nah. Hitler hadn't been 33 games over .500 since before Stalingrad.

5. Crispix Attacks Posted: August 27, 2008 at 10:31 PM (#2919143)

Can someone make FanGraphs for major wars throughout history? That would be awesome.

I don't know enough about the context of any to take a stab at it.

6. CW hits the pinata for the candy Posted: August 27, 2008 at 10:46 PM (#2919157)

Can and have, Crispix.

7. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: August 27, 2008 at 11:04 PM (#2919169)

When was the last time the Cubs were this many games over .500?

8. Athletic Supporter leads the nation in drifters Posted: August 27, 2008 at 11:06 PM (#2919173)

How is "Cubs sweep Pirates," or, for that matter, anyone sweeps Pirates, news?

I think there should instead be an article posted every time the Pirates avoid a sweep.

9. Slivers of Maranville (SdeB) Posted: August 27, 2008 at 11:34 PM (#2919232)

It's not news, it's an excuse to make a folder where Cubs fans can sit and talk about how we love this team.

10. haven Posted: August 27, 2008 at 11:45 PM (#2919250)

How is "Cubs sweep Pirates," or, for that matter, anyone sweeps Pirates, news?

I think there should instead be an article posted every time the Pirates avoid a sweep.

This is also my take......

11. VoodooR Posted: August 27, 2008 at 11:54 PM (#2919267)

My two cents: I really love this team.

12. Harveys Wallbangers

Posted: August 28, 2008 at 12:02 AM (#2919283)

Walks:

1945.

13. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: August 28, 2008 at 01:04 AM (#2919432)

We get something like this posted after almost every Brewers came and no one's complained about that yet.

14. NTNgod Posted: August 28, 2008 at 02:12 AM (#2919644)

Naw, unless there's something interesting (CC, streaks) or newsworthy I usually don't.
Take a look for yourselves.

15. Gamingboy Posted: August 28, 2008 at 03:01 AM (#2919772)

Last time that happened? 1945.

Bah.

16. Dag Nabbit apealing [sic] his own check swing Posted: August 28, 2008 at 03:33 AM (#2919827)

How is "Cubs sweep Pirates," or, for that matter, anyone sweeps Pirates, news?

The newsworthiness is in the blurb at top - the Cubs haven't been this high above the water since 1945. When something happens that hasn't occurred in 63 years, I find it newsworthy. For comparison, I didn't bother to link to the Cubs' I went with "Cubs Sweep Pirates" as the headline because that's the headline of the story I linked to. Looking it up, the Cubs had nine previous sweeps this year, and I didn't submit any of those as a link.

I noted that they haven't been more than 32 games over .500 in so long a few weeks ago and have been waiting patiently for them to exceeed the 32-game mark just for this post.

Sorry for any confusion, but I find the factoid listed at the top extremely newsworthy.

17. SouthSideRyan Posted: August 28, 2008 at 05:04 AM (#2919865)

Did you type # 14 with a straight face NTN?

18. NTNgod Posted: August 28, 2008 at 05:15 AM (#2919872)

Sure. Did you follow the link in #14? Every Brewers story (that I posted or not) is listed there. Take a look.

I either post a thread after "almost every Brewers [g]ame", as accused, or I don't (only streaks, important series like MIL/CHC or MIL/STL, or something otherwise interesting or noteworthy) :P

19. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: August 28, 2008 at 06:21 AM (#2919892)

After revisiting this thread, I noticed just how stupid my first post was.

20. VoodooR Posted: August 28, 2008 at 07:18 AM (#2919896)

I wondered about that...

21. bunyon Posted: August 28, 2008 at 11:49 AM (#2919910)

i have no dog in this hunt, but it's September. Y'all feel free to post a link to every game from here on out.

22. meatwad Posted: August 28, 2008 at 12:36 PM (#2919929)

this is where it gets intresting for the cubs. 26 of 29 against teams with winning records. this will give us the best measure of how they will do in the playoffs. espically this series against philly with the top 4 starters pitching. pedal to the metal

23. VoodooR Posted: August 28, 2008 at 02:44 PM (#2920078)

I wondered about that...

24. meatwad Posted: August 28, 2008 at 02:55 PM (#2920091)

thats one hell of a double post. over 7 hours apart

25. retro-shiite Posted: August 28, 2008 at 02:57 PM (#2920094)

VoodooRetards double-post more slowly than the rest of us.

26. VoodooR Posted: August 28, 2008 at 07:04 PM (#2920495)

Apparently...

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