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https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1008811687670157317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Hope everything is alright for Duensing. There's no announcement or anything about his personal situation I wish him the best.  Time to teach my phone how to spell Zastryzny again.
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Poque posted:Games like that really suck the wind out of the office. Please go tell Ricketts to DFA Wilson, thanks Theo.
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Popete posted:Please go tell Ricketts to DFA Wilson, thanks Theo. Wilson and Bass, hold on to your rear end... I like Joe Maddon, I like his emphasis on rest, I like his American Legion days, from all accounts he’s a very good steward of the clubhouse, but holy hell someone else needs to take the reins of that bullpen. I know it’s a double header, but you have another arm coming up as the 26th man (Wish it was Maples the way he’s throwing) so why is he not keeping back Strop or Cishek as the closer de jour? Did he expect Chatwood to go more than 5 or something? If so, perhaps a ban on wine in the clubhouse is appropriate.
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Sydin posted:https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1008811687670157317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/BrianDuensing52/status/1008842308169674757
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Hi, White Sox lurker here to say start Almora everyday!
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I really hope that the Schwarber we're seeing this season is the baseline for the Schwarber we're going to continue to see going forward. It doesn't feel like his performance so far is luck-based - his babip isn't elevated, he's clearly seeing balls well, his walk rate is sky high, his K-rate has dropped from his previous seasons (and he's been getting rung up on some REALLY bad calls). He's strong as gently caress. His defense has vastly improved. I'm just really impressed that he's become so well-rounded after such a quick trip to the majors and an entire season off due to injury.
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I hope Ian Happ has a similar comeback. Him and Schwarber are having very similar results the first couple of years. Schwarber 2015 .246/.355/.487 2017 .211/.315/.467 2018 .241/.367/.483 Happ 2017 .253/.328/.514 2018 .221/.343/.436 Happ's K rate is 39.7%, which is higher than Schwarber ever had though. His BABIP right now is .354 too, so I'm worried all his numbers could shrink if he can't maintain that. If Happ can draw more walks, then I think he can turn his production around and be like another Schwarber, but with more speed.
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I’ve been lookin at the Cubs walkup/warmup music and there are some great choices. Justin Wilson’s is “I’m a Sucker for Pain,” which is probably how everyone feels when he’s in the game, and Yu Darvish’s is “Soulja Boy” which I think is hilarious.
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Bird in a Blender posted:His BABIP right now is .354 too, so I'm worried all his numbers could shrink if he can't maintain that. Happ has a gigantic loopy swing that I'm unconvinced will play at the major league level long term as evidenced by his abysmal 68.8% Z Contact. He can't catch up to anything high in the zone and is being mulched by sliders down (which if nothing else puts him right at home with basically the entire Cubs lineup) and I think he may ultimately need to sacrifice some of that power to cut his swing down so he can, you know, not strikeout almost 40% of the time. Also to be frank I'd probably like to see him traded if there's a decent deal to be had, since he's got too high of a ceiling to be a TLS-style bench bat but also doesn't really have a long term position. You can't platoon Schwarber and Almora forever.
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Poque posted:(and he's been getting rung up on some REALLY bad calls). It's always at the bottom of the zone, too. https://twitter.com/CubsUmp/status/1009162828887085056 https://twitter.com/CubsUmp/status/1005533927543590912 https://twitter.com/CubsUmp/status/999109541475377152 https://twitter.com/CubsUmp/status/998274809619472384
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:It's always at the bottom of the zone, too. This is where everyone should be pitching Bryant until he fixes the hole in his swing. I swear he's become pathologically incapable, I mean Baez-like, of laying off low and away pitches like that.
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I'm diggin' Poque's new Almora avatar, from the walkoff last night.
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When the moon hits your eye like a walk off line drive
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i mean, you can't possibly keep letting chatwood start when yu gets back right? i mean the whole point of letting the ricketts turn the entirety of wrigleyville into a $10 beer carnival is that they can just write off spending $20-30 million on a dude who would be better off just intentionally walking guys every three batters to save his arm?
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R.D. Mangles posted:i mean, you can't possibly keep letting chatwood start when yu gets back right? i mean the whole point of letting the ricketts turn the entirety of wrigleyville into a $10 beer carnival is that they can just write off spending $20-30 million on a dude who would be better off just intentionally walking guys every three batters to save his arm? Joe hinted that they might go to a six-man rotation when Yu returns. Cubs are kinda between a rock and a hard place at the moment because Montgomery is pitching too well to take out of the rotation, but Chatwood is both a) being paid too much and b) way too wild to go to the pen, so they'd have to come up with an excuse to DL him.
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Miz Kriss posted:When the moon hits your eye like a walk off line drive  that's almoooora
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Miz Kriss posted:When the moon hits your eye like a walk off line drive holy poo poo 
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I like to think I’m witty  Also, Lester tweeted this earlier https://twitter.com/jlester34/status/1009815825006694402?s=21
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With how serious/angry Lester always looks I just figured he took the great defense behind him for granted. It's nice to see he appreciates how fantastic it really is.
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Oh yeah. I think he either has resting bitch face or just doesn’t know how to smile
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Lester is the tough love team leader. There was an Athletic article a few days ago about Montgomery, and Lester summed up his situation as "You feel like you get screwed, but at the same time, yeah, you can go pitch for Baltimore and suck and still have the same ERA and be 2-7, you know what I mean?" 
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"rawr XD" - javy baez
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Poque posted:"rawr XD" - javy baez This makes me uncomfortable. I'm gonna be real bummed out if tonights game gets postponed.
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 Look what Poque scrounged up for me Poque posted:"rawr XD" - javy baez El Meowgo Kevlar v2.0 fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Cubs have no pride. They got their rings, now they are just coasting hoping to not get hurt and have long careers. They won to early, blow it up start over.
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Sydin posted:https://twitter.com/PWSullivan/status/1010978875403325444 Please do good things. I can't handle another day of this.
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Am now very glad to have been away from baseball for the weekend. Was there a rationale given for the Farrell start? Just wanted to push an extra day of rest in for the rotation during a long stretch of games?
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Poque posted:Was there a rationale given for the Farrell start? Just wanted to push an extra day of rest in for the rotation during a long stretch of games? It was a combination of the double header last week loving up the rotation (either Montgomery or Chatwood would have had to pitch on four days rest) and Chatwood being on baby-watch. AFAIK the plan was to have him pitch yesterday and leave him behind for the series with the Dodgers so he could be with his wife, but she went into labor before the game yesterday so they had to put him on paternity leave, have Montgomery start, and bring up Underwood.
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I like that today's game will feature the two teams that have been in the NLCS the past two seasons, but also the two teams that suffered 4-game sweeps at the hands of the Reds this year.
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MOTHERFUCKING JUSTIN loving WILSON
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Popete posted:MOTHERFUCKING JUSTIN loving WILSON Can we dfa him yet
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