Don’t forget that even the 2016 Cubs went through a bad stretch around the same time.

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1. Ultimately, they just need to be one of the six best teams and be hot by October. It was always going to be a gauntlet getting through the NL playoffs anyway.

   But, from an entertainment standpoint, it just sucks to suck sometimes.

2. This is just cope imo. Lester, Arrieta, and Hendricks aren’t stepping out of the locker room to shut teams down. This team needs to outscore its opponents and the offense has been dead for a long time. Could’ve got a boost in the arm at the deadline, but Jed decided to take one arm and tie it behind his back and call it a day instead.

3. Thank you. Needed this, bad. 🤣

4. The 2016 Cubs had peak Arrieta, Hendricks and Lester every 5th with a lock down back end of the bullpen. This pitching staff is sorely lacking.

5. We also had a real starting rotation in 2016

6. 2016 Cubs never trailed in the division

7. They also went all in at the deadline and got the best reliever in the league which was a shot in the arm to a flailing team at the perfect time.

8. Don’t forget the 2016 cubs had 5.5 excellent starting pitchers

9. There are ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO GAMES. This is both the best and worst part of baseball, because it means that a good team is definitely going to go through a slump, and the fans will definitely freak out about it. It feels like no one has ever watched a full baseball season every time this happens.

10. 5 game series against Milwaukee in a couple weeks is going to be a de facto playoff series for us at this point.

11. 2016 we had great pitching.

12. Copium

13. Don’t forget that the 2016 Cubs made legitimate trades at the deadline no matter the payroll cost because they were all in for the world series.

14. 2025 cubs are not the 2016 cubs

15. I would to like to win the division though.

16. Does anyone for a minute feel that this lineup compares to 2016?

17. These posts are fucking laughable. Compare that pitching staff to this. “We good” 😂

18. I mean yeah but this team isn’t that team. Tucker contributes next to nothing on offense for the better part of two months now. This bad stretch seems more like who they are now more than just a regular slump

19. Thanks I needed some reassurance. TBH though cubs reliance on home run ball as only way to score is the biggest concern for past 2 months.

20. “Winning cures all ills” 

    The reality is, we’re fans. Hitting baseballs is incredibly hard. Pitching is incredibly hard. It’s the only sport that hitting the ball in play 1/3rd of the time, makes you an all star.

    For as much analytics+statistics plus scientific, engineering strategy goes into the sport, it’s really inherently a religious experience. It’s what makes us baseball fans. There have been millions of baseball games, but you can go to a singular baseball game and see something you have never seen before. 

    All these comments talking about the pitching we had in 2016, or the hitting that we had is revisionist history. We had a feeling, we knew it was going to happen, but each step a long the way there were doubts and a mountain of history against us. We had 108 years of losing, so really who gave a shit? It was a team trying not to suck. 

    This team right now is trying to be great, and we as fans now expect greatness. That’s what 2016 gave us. Now it’s 2025, and we are expecting greatness? What lessons did we learn? What. Da. Fuck. Are. We. Doing?

    Why? Who are we with our glizzies and old styles to expect these dudes to be great? We paid them a bunch of money!?  A know a lot of people who get paid a bunch of money, are they great? Nah, they’re just trying not to suck. Oh. Wait. We didn’t? Who gives a shit.

    So, let’s like stop. The brewers are loose, they’re a bunch of drunks, but they be chugging their millers and sausages and are busting it wide open. They’re out cubbing us. They’ve adopted the Wrigley North Mantra. They be out there just doing magic shit. I’m happy for them, it’s fun out there.

    Quit expecting greatness. Be Cubs fans, just fucking believe man. Y’all in full meltdown mode talking about what we don’t have. Man, da fuck are y’all doing. You have everything. This is the North side, of Chicago. We are the lovable losers, be humble. Pull a Lamar. Don’t try to be like every other fanbase, expecting things because you want to be like them. They ain’t like us.

    Rant over.

21. This gives me comfort. I forgot about that in 2016. 

    Edit: never mind,  after reading other comments, I am still panicking. 

22. What did the 2016 brewers do around this time?

23. It definitely has felt frustrating to watch through this stretch, but honestly besides the Brewers it feels like most of the league is feeling the dog days right now. Dodgers, the Mets, the Tigers, all cooled off. Even with the Cubs poor stretch, we are within a game of having the second best record in baseball.

    I saw a post the other day (towards the beginning of the current Milwaukee win streak) that the Brewers had set a franchise record for wins in something like a 31 game stretch. So literally they are playing the best stretch of baseball in the history of their existence, and that, overlapping with the Cubs cold stretch, is what it took to catch them and start pulling away.

    The Cubs absolutely will make the playoffs and that is when you’d like them to be hot. It still frustrates me when watching them struggle and lose games, but big-picture they will be fine.

24. This is cope but that 12-6 loss to the pirates felt BAD. One of the worst moments of that season that I can recall.

25. This isn’t the 2016 Cubs. That golden era was a long time ago… It’s time to be more realistic

26. I appreciate that post

27. It’s the July heat.