The Cubs are bad and you should feel bad. Top Play (WPA): Are you ready for this? Chris Coghlan walked leading off the fourth inning (.043). The end. This game was miserable cacophony, a metaphorical gnashing of teeth. While the first two games in the series were close, and in fact one swing at the […]
Day: June 22, 2016
An Old Idea as New: Let’s Turn This Thing Down to Eleven
Baseball is a beautiful game but also a cruel one. Often it can be both at the same time. That might lead one to call baseball a crueltiful game. On second thought, don’t call it that. That would be weird. Perhaps no better example of the sport’s essential duality has been the recent injury bug […]
The Cubs’ Luck So Far This Season: It’s Complicated
At the end of the 2015 season, I decided to take a crack at quantifying how lucky the 2015 Cubs had been. The season had been a pleasantly unexpected surprise, and I had a hunch that luck had played a role. After all, the team had so many close, thrilling games that ended in their […]