The Cubs didn’t complete the sweep, but at least have a tie at the top of the wild card standings with tiebreakers against all the relevant teams for now. It is nice to have the season series against a division foe for once, and if the Cubs can continue to figure out their pitching while finding some extra offense, they might be able to take the season series against the Reds too. We shall see!
I saw at least one Yelich Brewers jersey (why) and a few Atlanta Dale Murphy jerseys since the Barves are coming into town soon (after blowing it against the Phillies, boo), but there was a good amount of Pirates fans amongst the sea of Cubs fans at home. I chose this game at the beginning of the season because I can usually only afford one game a year and got the cheapest seats possible to get into the park and grab the Sammy Sosa bobblehead, because that was the game with the best gate giveaway in my opinion (Sammy remains my favorite Cub of all time). The game was entertaining even if the Cubs lost, and it was nice to see Daniel Palencia have a good inning, though I had to pee in between him walking Oneil Cruz and striking out Bryan Reynolds (got back for the payoff pitch).
Anyway, here’s bobble Sammy in all his glory. Missed opportunity to have Sammy in the house to throw the first pitch or sing the stretch, but I think Roy Wood Jr did fine.
Coincidentally, I discovered there was a Vikings bar south of Wrigley and I think the fans there were very happy
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Heck yeah the Tyler Colvin bobblehead
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berselius,
He doesn’t have a blemish where that shard of bat caught him once, but the Kyuji bobblehead does have what appears to be a TJS elbow scar
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also hell yeah Gattaca
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Last year my single bobblehead game was the Maddux, hope there’s a good one for 2027 (also an actual 2027 season would be good)
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Good luck Dansbert
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I was checking the stolen base numbers and was surprised that Pete (while not surprising he isn’t leading the majors or the league or anything with the current 36) isn’t that far away from the current lead of 46, which suggests that teams worked pretty quickly to restrict the running game not long after they increased their sizes for 2023…
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Carson Kelly all but sacrificed his life to show off those wheels (dying laughing)
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Pete –> 100 RsBI
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andcounting,
Pete probably buys him dinner now for that 100 (dying laughing)
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Rice Cube,
The new school of shifting the target further off the base probably has something to do with it too. I think the league has objectively gotten more efficient at tagging out runners.
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andcounting,
It does make sense to adjust the intercept point, good job nerds
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Seiya plays with his bobblehead haha –> https://youtube.com/shorts/9uhjHdcvJI4?si=Apn7b5Y2CXLeKeQr
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Cubs already digging into Barves bullpen after they got burned out against the Phillies
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Three steals to go. Pete simply hast to get 40/40 during this series. The sheer improbability of 40/40 celebratory retribution is karmic.
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andcounting,
Maybe one of these days he’ll just steal his way all the way home
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Well they lost but this was fun
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Peterson —> QS
When Cubs pitchers are on, they’re really on, but when they’re off, it’s infuriating (dying laughing)
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Good god, Pete.
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Pete!
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PCA *handshake emoji* Billy Williams
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MVPete!
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So Pete today so far…
42nd HR (tied Billy Williams for most by a lefty Cub all-time)
37th SB (3 away from 40-40 season)
100th RBI (for the nice round number crowd)
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Kelly needs to tootblan so Pete can have a base open to steal (dying laughing)
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How is PCA supposed to steal with Carson Kelly clogging the bases?
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berselius,
Double steal sacrifice
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andcounting,
I did look up the rule, if Kelly got thrown out at 3B Pete wouldn’t get the SB credit going to 2B, he’d have to steal third himself afterwards (dying laughing)
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Oh I see what you guys were saying, but I haven’t seen a fun steal of 3B in a while so I’ll stay with my idea
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Cubs bullpen remains the best at what they do
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JESUS CHRIST
never a doubt
*exhale*
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never a doubt!
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Never a doubt
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berselius,
They look like they’re dancing (dying laughing)
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Could be a baseball Heated Rivalry cover (dying laughing) (dying laughing)
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(dying laughing), which game was this
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berselius,
ope, nvm, I my half asleep brain thought that was Dansby SDER
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Snakes alive, no jersey update tonight
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berselius,
I’m sure there are even more hilarious clips from Nico hug-lifting Kelly, but this looked like a proposal. (dying laughing)
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Heh
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Cubs broke a pitcher
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/09/braves-likely-to-place-reynaldo-lopez-on-injured-list.html
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Aaaaah Kimbrel
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Oh cool, a run
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(dying laughing) BarvEs
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If the Cubs manage to hold on to this lead, I’m curious if Craig uses Cabrera in the 9th.
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andcounting,
Only if the Cubs have a 19-run lead
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Arglebargle
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Webb appears to have lost his mojo.
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Well dang, Ed could have done that
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The Phillies did lose
Unfortunately the Padres are playing the Rockies
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Damn, that doesn’t look good
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Hopefully just had the wind knocked out of him
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These Cygames ads are really putting me in the mood for some 90s anime (dying laughing)
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This bullpen is dumb as hell
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They did shut down Shelby Miller and Steele is probably running out of time too so this is the bullpen the Cubs will have to use if they can make it in sigh
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At least the Rockies are taking advantage of Coors tonight
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Yay
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Sounds like Dansby Swanson is back in town, probably just does drills today and on track to be activated against the Reds
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Cleveland –> AL Central lead
White Sox –> not
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Rice Cube,
Sounds like Friday after all
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RBI with the requisite TOOTBLAN (dying laughing)
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Don’t think he’s gonna catch Schwarber but what a year for Pete
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Bregman cycle watch?
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MVPete
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Steal home!
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Pete’s so fun to watch
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It me, complaining about Pete getting a homer and a triple because I wanted to see him get 40-40 in this series
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Pete & Bregman –> dueling cycle watches
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berselius,
at least 9 outs remain for the dream to come to fruition
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Nats only giving up three runs in a bullpen game feels like a moral victory, give the Phillies a 3-0 loss (dying laughing)
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My god
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Pete good
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(dying laughing) Pete
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Pete has entered the Secretariat at the Belmont Stakes portion of the MVP race. (dying laughing)
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That’s got to put PCA at about 10.5 fWAR. Is that 2nd all time by a Cubs player?
Edit: 10.4 fWAR
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dmick89,
Who would be higher? Maybe Sammy, Hack Wilson, Rogers Hornsby?
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Hoping he can pass Judge’s 11.2 war from 2024
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Rice Cube,
Pretty sure Hornsby had an 11 fWAR season. Might be a 10.5 season by someone. Pete’s got a shot to get to 11.
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Sammy’s best was 9.9 I think
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berselius,
A 3 homer, 2 double game will probably get him there.
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teammates clogging the bases, smh
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Here we go, let’s see if Pete can push it to 11.
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Live numbers have Pete at 10.4 fWAR, pending this PA
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Mets won the trade, SMH.
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This was before today’s game. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&month=0&ind=1&team=17&rost=0&startdate=&enddate=&season1=1871&season=2026
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https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&ind=1&team=17&rost=0&startdate=&enddate=&season1=1871&season=2026&month=0
A couple pre-1900 pitchers better than Pete
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Why though
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Bullpen trying to give Bregman another chance at the cycle.
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Dubón is the luckiest piece of shit mother fucker I’ve ever seen play baseball.
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There we go.
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Good trade
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sing the stupid song
or don’t
I can’t tell you what to do
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New stuff –> https://www.obstructedview.net/final-stretch-scoreboard-watching/
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