Anything's possible
But probably not this
Teams have come back from being down 2-0 in a best of five series in the baseball playoffs. We know that, because one of the few teams to blow that lead was the Cubs. So when they play game three tomorrow at Wrigley, there's a chance that it will be the start of their 16th three game winning streak of the season.
That seems like a lot, but it's really not, considering they had just five winning streaks of more than three games all year. They had a five game streak at the beginning of April and four sad little four game streaks. That was it.
It takes a special team to win three straight win or go home games. You know, like the last team that did that for the Cubs. You probably remember them.
There's just nothing special about this team. Jed Hoyer wanted to build a solid team that could win enough games to get into the playoffs. He did that. And this is what you get. It's fine. It's not all that great. And when you need something exceptional to keep your season alive, they do not have the ability to generate it.
TBS kept reminding us that the Brewers hadn't won back to back playoff games since 2018. They made it seem like it was a really, really long drought.
Do you know how long it's been since the Cubs won consecutive playoff games? Yeah, 2016, in the World Series.
We can try to convince ourselves that this could happen. It feels like wasted effort. Consider, when the Cubs somehow allowed a second three-run homer to the punchless Brewers to widen a 4-3 deficit to a 7-3 one, did you even think the Cubs would bother to add a fourth run? Of course you didn't. We know our Cubs.
You can gripe about how the Brewers aren't really all that good, and just a bunch of overachieving Johnny Try Hards, and how when you watch the Dodgers and Phillies play it's like watching two teams playing a different sport than whatever the Cubs and Brewers are playing. You'd be right. But if you were doing it to make yourself feel better, it doesn't have the desired effect.
The Dodgers and Phillies are a lot better than either the Brewers and Cubs. But the Brewers have kicked the shit out of the Cubs so far in two games, which says more about what a lacking roster the Cubs have than anything else.
The Cubs botched the pitching matchups when they tried to get by with Matt Boyd on short rest in game one instead of pitching him on extra rest in game two and not only getting Shōta extra rest for game three but also allowing him to pitch at Wrigley.
But the problem, again, is their offense. TBS also had the stat that the Cubs have scored three runs or fewer in an MLB record 12 straight playoff games. The hockey announcer droning his way through this series seemed really impressed by that. But little does he know, that of those 12 games, the Cubs have scored one or no runs EIGHT times.
I don't like the Brewers, unlike the Cardinals, my disgust isn't actually directed at them. I fucking hate the Cardinals. I just loathe them. What pisses me off about the Brewers is that the only reason they ever beat the Cubs is because the Garbage Family That Owns The Team™ refuses to use their financial advantage to just blow the doors off the division and build a team like the Dodgers or Phillies. The Brewers will only win this series because the Rickettses don't give a shit enough to do what it would take to easily beat them.
The Brewers are the mirror that reflects the disdain with which we need to hold the owners of the Cubs.
The Cubs will lament the injury to Cade Horton and how it would "have all been different," but honestly, would it? He would have pitched well and they wouldn't have fucking scored for him and lost the game after he left it, and then the rest would have played out the way it did.
Instead we get to watch the weird rubber faced giraffe for the Brewers who can't throw two pitches in a row for strikes get the Cubs out for three innings because unlike when they handled him both times in the regular season, they just couldn't stop swinging at his overrated shit.
The Garbage Family got what they wanted. Four home playoff games to bilk money out of us. They probably have a spreadsheet that shows they actually somehow make more money if they don't have to staff the ballpark for games beyond the second round.
How fun for them.
Oleg and I RECRAPPED that mess from yesterday.
