welcome friends to the chicago cubs single-season single team thread. we hope you enjoy your stay until you get fed up and decide to never post ITT again after the 10th 100 post derail about how mike montgomery is the greatest long reliever in MLB history

until then, here are your win totals and odds:

storylines sorted by world series favorites:

cubs: does lester regress without ross? does kendricks keep up his ridiculous run last year? does schwarber hit 90 homers? does lackey cheat on another cancer ridden spouse? (+450)

red sox: 2 years ago sandoval was the worst player in baseball, last year he played 3 games and left forever still managing a -0.2 WAR along the way. year 3 he's way less fat (but still fat) and mashed in the spring. does porcello avoid regression? does price stay alive? (+450)

injuns: does anyone actually want to see cleveland win anything? i mean **** cleveland (+900)

doyers: does kershaw pull off a 12 WAR season? (+900)

nats: hahahahhahahaha you guys think a dusty baker managed team has a chance at winning a world series. hilarious (+1100)

giants: new bullpen, same blown 8th and 9th. good start (+1100)

astros: not sure i get the love for them. their pitching isn't great and half their lineup blows ass. the top of the lineup pretty grate though (+1400)

mets: does harvey return to glory? is gsellman legit? does buff thor end days? (+1400)

jays: this is the year jose bautista breaks a bat over his knee and murders a pitcher with the shards on the mound for throwing behind him (+2200)

crads: lol (+2500)

yankees: between sanchez bird and judge is the potential for 120 homers and 1000 strikeouts between them (+2500)

tigers: hey is greear still alive? (+2800)

rangers: jesus christ i'm not even halfway through the teams yet? **** someone else should have made this OP (+2800)

mariners: underrated as ****. oddly enough they're given a better shot at winning the west than the rangers despite worse odds at WS (+3300)

orioles: does buck overcompensate for by far the worst decision of all of 2016 by having britton throw 200 innings in relief this year? (+3300)

royals: last chance to amount to anything before half their roster gtfo's (+3300)

rockies: gray and anderson really underrated pitchers. playoff darkhorse, 40:1 seems a bit excessive (+4000)

angels: how much longer does trout stay the most wasted talent in american sports? (+4000)

ok that's enough, let us beisbol

LOL Giants

Mets too low

LOL Giants

Good. The other thread was no place for BumGOAT

BumGoat 2017 Win Total: 0

Heyward batting 6th.

BEST LINEUP EVER

It's all part of Theo's master plan to get the other teams overconfident

Lettuce ****ing baseball

Well done OP. Here for the Red Sox ship.

Go Dbacks!!!

Indians/Nats Series, Nats win

Schwarbs 1st. Lolu

Schwarbs live to be a top 5 hitter oat

CarMar is legit

They don't look to be lol

go cardinals

Crads have 80 wins in the bag.

7 hai yai yai

MadBum 2 dingers on opening day, ridiculous

lolSRMs, hard to blow 3 leads in one game.

not as hard as it is to go from 3-1 ahead in the NLCS to watching scutaro stand in a downpour as your tears shower him

Just finished wrapping up my 2017 MLB blog post.

If you don't care to read the whole thing, I'll just say here: Indians over Cubs.

Also have all my 2017 season long wagers posted.

2017 MLB Predictions and Wagers

lol good luck jumping on a different bandwagon in May. BEST LINEUP EVER! Maybe the Blackhawks will make the playoffs.

Shutout