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Harlock posted:Enjoy your favorite team's playoff hopes dwindling. I enjoy my team's most important days being the trade deadline and september call-ups. See you when Baez fails to hit in the majors in a month, fuckers.
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Explosionface posted:Colvin get cool points for getting stabbed in the chest with a baseball bat and continuing to play baseball, if nothing else. I saw Colvin play at Round Rock and a bunch of Cub fans were clamoring for his autographs as if he was destined for superstardom because these misguided souls did not realize he was being called up by the Chicago Cubs.
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It's old and I may have missed discussion on it, but has anyone read the Pat Jordan article on Johnny Damon in retirement?
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Aug 2, 2014 14:04
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Jeff Bridges was rolling on the Shabbos: http://m.mlb.com/lad/video/v35005181/jeff-bridges-bowls-the-first-pitch-at-dodger-stadium/?cid=as_mlb_20140802_28978296 
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If anyone hasn't listened to Jonah Keri's podcast with Pedro and has an hour to spare, it's pretty great. Pedro owns.
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Aug 2, 2014 21:33
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The Cubs are determined to inflict more terrible baseball on a horrified nation by refusing to finish their games in nine cringe-inducing innings. Anyone know what the record is for most total innings played by a team over the course of a season? I'm sure they're nowhere close to that pace, but I got curious and am having trouble figuring out how to look that up and now I want to see if a team has played the equivalent of 166-7 games through extras, resumed games after rain delays, etc.
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OctoberBlues posted:I believe that the Diamondbacks broke the record last year for most extra innings played in a season, and they played 81 extra innings. That doesn't completely cover your question, but it doesn't look like they had any games shortened by rain or cancelled, so they played at least 81 extra... Cool, thanks. So they played basically 171 baseball games. No wonder they're so ornery.
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Chris Coghlan kind of owns. Only 225 PAs and probably getting a BABIP boost, but he's hitting .286/.359/.452 and is dangerously approaching competence. The biggest mystery is why literally any outfielder in the system isn't getting a chance over Junior Lake who has yet to show he can hit in the majors.
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Aug 4, 2014 01:53
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Kirk Gibson is going to hit Clint Hurdle with a chair in the players' parking lot.
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Aug 4, 2014 02:40
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N: The Chicago Cubs have won two (2) series in a row after trading many of their remaining functioning major league baseball players. V: Viva terrible baseball
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Hurdle is going to find Kirk Gibson's hook hand hanging off his car door.
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Aug 4, 2014 03:28
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I hate every team in baseball equally but especially the cardinals but especially especially the cubs
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Aug 4, 2014 04:20
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MourningView posted:If I were a bigger cards fan I think I'd be really pissed about that amazing 04 team becoming a footnote to the Red Sox breaking ~*The Curse*~ The White Sox had a longer drought of not winning the World Series than Boston, one of the greatest collective pitching performances in postseason history, a batshit lunatic manager, and they ACTUALLY WON THE loving WORLD SERIES, and no one outside of South Siders and baseball nerds seems to give an iota of a poo poo about them.
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Ken Burns's History of 21st Century Baseball: 2003, the heartbreaking year when the long-suffering Boston Red Sox, who didn't win the World Series all of those times they made it giving them the cruel and impossible [3rd] longest championship drought in baseball didn't get a chance to lose another World Series, and long-suffering Cubs fans, whose lovely team never makes the World Series, saw their lovely team fail to make the World Series and beat up some nerd. 2004: The Red Sox gloriously win the World Series against the hated Yankees in the greatest playoff series of all time that didn't involve Jackie Robinson or Yankees games with Mickey Mantle attended by Billy Crystal. The world rejoiced as the [3rd] longest world series drought in baseball came to an end. 2005: Some bullshit happened, I guess? 2006- WE'RE NOT FINISHED TALKING ABOUT ROIDS R.D. Mangles fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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What on earth is going on with the White Sox?
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Baez dingered today.
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Aug 6, 2014 05:46
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peep this flip, people https://vine.co/v/M9QAgM1OJju
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Aug 6, 2014 06:07
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Every image of Joba is so arresting. Good grief, he must train in the offseason by fighting railroad bulls.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:17
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Cubs DFA'd Schierholtz and activated Fujikawa because Schierholtz is no longer capable of playing major league baseball. Junior Lake, however, still roams amongst us.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Aww but Schierholtz was hella cool. Only on the Cubs would a guy hitting .192/.240/.300 amass 341 plate appearances.
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Aug 7, 2014 01:57
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If anyone was going to be hired to manage a baseball team with no experience, it should have been the late James Gammon.
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This is a pretty out there opinion, but I think this Baez kid is kind of cool.
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Aug 8, 2014 02:16
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You're getting one of those sweet Sutcliffe First Night Game bobbleheads? The only thing that would make me more jealous would be if you were going on Classic '80s Rock Night and getting Cubs zubaz.
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Wrigley Field Straight Cash Homey Report 1. 3 people sitting together in Marmol shirtseys 2. A Nomar jersey 3. Javy Baez jerseys 4. Josh Vitters shirtsey (I didn't know you could even buy those!) 5. The greatest of them all: A #29 shirtsey with "Crime Dog" on the back, which I want to own immediately
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Aug 10, 2014 01:43
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I can't find a picture yet, but it's Lou Piniella Mariners Hall of Fame Night and they have a giant LOU sculpted into the infield dirt. Lou owns.
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Aug 10, 2014 03:52
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Groucho Marxist posted:That's a fine deal for the Royals good job Dayton you made a good trade Jamie Moyer pitched underhanded.
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Aug 12, 2014 00:37
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Old Maddux was awesome, he was built like a feed salesman and hit a dinger once.
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Pretty excited that the Cubs are going to start winning because of a magical statistic called FIP, according to Rany. They are just going to FIP the poo poo out of other teams, gonna FIP their way to the promised land. xFIP
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The only Chicago baseball team worth following in August is Jackie Robinson West.
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Paul Zuvella posted:EXCUSE me. It's REVVED up like a DEUCE. cut loose
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Harlock posted:Shin Soo Choo's OBP has taken a massive nosedive. Is he still letting himself get battered by baseballs to get on base? Because that's what Dorn would do.
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The Cubs finally traded Future Superstar Brett Jackson to Arizona for Blake Cooper. Jackson appears to have the heart, grit, and complete lack of baseball skill desired by the DBacks organization. Jackson reacted to the news the only way he knew how: by striking out furiously. The trade will be official after Jackson passes a Diamondbacks test where he stands in a batting cage and gets hit with baseballs. Josh Vitters's whereabouts are currently unknown.
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Dayton Moore was Right.
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if you don't think Taveras is going to be better than every single one of the Cubs' hotshot prospects because that is just How Baseball Works.
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Theo Epstein literally offered a job in the Cubs' front office to Rany.
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Offering that dude a job has eroded a lot of my faith in the Cubs brain-trust.
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Pumpkin McPastry posted:The Cubs hype is getting out of control. Javier Baez is currently on a trajectory to be Mark Reynolds 2.0 and even if there's a 75+% success rate on their ballyhooed hitting prospects I'm not exactly thrilled with a plan for half of the game i.e. run prevention being "TBD." If they miss on Scherzer what...they get James Shields aging into his mid 30s? Maybe Lester? What if Arrieta turns back into a pumpkin? Man, it's all we've got.
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