For perhaps the first time all season, the Chicago Cubs find themselves in real trouble. After Chicago lost 6-0 to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the NLCS on Tuesday night, FiveThirtyEight’s Elo predictions dropped the Cubs’ chances of winning the series to 40 percent, thus giving them a mere 25 percent probability […]
For perhaps the first time all season, the Chicago Cubs find themselves in real trouble. After Chicago lost 6-0 to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the NLCS on Tuesday night, FiveThirtyEight’s Elo predictions dropped the Cubs’ chances of winning the series to 40 percent, thus giving them a mere 25 percent probability […]
The Chicago Cubs were in the process of doing something very Cubs-ian Tuesday night. They went down 5-2 in the fifth inning of Game 4 of their National League Division Series matchup against the San Francisco Giants, a day after losing Game 3 in 13 gut-wrenching innings. It looked like they could be primed for […]
The Chicago Cubs were in the process of doing something very Cubs-ian Tuesday night. They went down 5-2 in the fifth inning of Game 4 of their National League Division Series matchup against the San Francisco Giants, a day after losing Game 3 in 13 gut-wrenching innings. It looked like they could be primed for […]
OK, we’ve been a little fixated on the Chicago Cubs this year. We trolled them when they dominated the hot stove (sorry!); wondered what might possibly keep them from being baseball’s best team (how silly was that?); marveled at their hot start to the season, then compared them with the 1927 Yankees and then compared […]
