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I liked the part where the Cubs won
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Mar 28, 2025 13:58
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I'll be honest I liked the idea of the balanced schedule on paper because I was sick of playing the loving Cardinals 19 times a year but now that we actually have it I feel like it's kinda lame.
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Mar 28, 2025 15:43
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The A's and Rays are minor league teams now, really they should just play each other.
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Mar 28, 2025 16:28
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And yet the Cubs have won 2-of-3, get hosed Suarez go terrorize some other team already.
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Mar 30, 2025 08:21
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So is Bednar just cooked? He was pretty bad last year too, looks like.
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Mar 30, 2025 21:41
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https://x.com/Brooks_Gate/status/1906017292384690465 lol and, dare I say it, lmao. 
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Mar 31, 2025 16:50
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Where the Cubs are is absolutely inexcusable: third in overall revenue but just 26th-of-30 in Payroll/Revenue percentage. And this is by the way all the while Ricketts keeps coming out to the media and crying poor over and over and insisting every last dollar of baseball revenue gets put back into the team. That's just estimated baseball revenue too: it's not accounting for poo poo like Ricketts owning 9/10ths of the businesses in Wrigleyville so every time they have a home game he also gets tens of thousands turning out onto the streets to flood into his bars/restaurants/hotels. A lot of Jed's weird moves make sense when you view them from the perspective of him having a mandate to build a team that is at all times at least good enough to threaten a postseason run if they get hot at some point, but to otherwise never make a serious big market financial commitment. Dansby's 7/177 was in all likelihood approaching the upper bound of what Ricketts will ever sign off on.
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Mar 31, 2025 17:15
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Pressly hasn't blown a save yet but he's looked terrible, velo is down yet again and he's got no control. A competent team would probably punt him out of the closing spot pretty soon for Hodge, but my guess is because he's a Gutsy Veteran™ with Closing Experience™ he'll get to stink it up for months before eating a phantom IL stint and working somebody else in.
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Mar 31, 2025 17:29
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The torpedo bat controversy is extremely funny and it's gonna be even funnier when one series propels half the league to adopt the things and it turns out no they're not actually magical silver bullets that turn every hitter into Aaron Judge: they're situationally useful if you're good at getting the sweet spot of the barrel to the ball consistently. Also the Brewers might have just pitched like poo poo, actually not even "might" they did pitch like poo poo. Trust me I've been watching some games with some really bad pitching in them: I know.
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Mar 31, 2025 19:40
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I wonder what percentage of the opening day crowd in Sacramento will be Cubs fans. If I still lived in the area I absolutely would have booked it up there to watch even if the drive from SJ to Sacramento is dogshit garbage.
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Mar 31, 2025 20:12
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It's dumb too because it's not even some closely guarded Yankees trade secret. Tons of players had heard about them, guys on other teams are using them too, etc etc. Just seems like the Yankees happen to have been the most bought in to start with.
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Mar 31, 2025 20:43
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https://twitter.com/Alden_Gonzalez/status/1906831659728797936 Profar's statement, the usual "I have no idea how I could have taken a PED but I accept the decision" line. I guess he didn't at least try to blame it on ringworm cream or whatever.
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Mar 31, 2025 23:52
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Wow imagine extending the really good player you just traded for: madness. What kind of team would do something like that???
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Apr 1, 2025 02:48
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bawfuls posted:known Great Guys Johnathan Lucroy and Josh Reddick went after Roki on twitter over that recently, calling him soft and saying he will never amount to anything if he doesn't learn to man up Probably doesn't need to be said but I'm gonna say it anyway: they would not be saying this publicly about a white, USA-born player making his debut and similarly struggling.
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Apr 1, 2025 22:28
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I love hoschat because every time it comes up it just reaffirms to me yet again that I am and always have been 100% right about him.
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Apr 1, 2025 22:59
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfBLSRdtHGU Trevor May with a pretty good breakdown of what the torpedo bat actually is, what it actually does, and why some guys would want (or not want) to use it.
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Apr 2, 2025 07:25
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https://twitter.com/nut_history/status/1907815159600427306 The Rockies one is actually kind of neat. Also apparently the White Sox are just the Bulls now? Tracks honestly.
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Apr 3, 2025 21:47
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Yeah you could nitpick the order of the top handful of parks but ultimately a) in a city, b) in or near a commercial district with shops/bars/restaurants, and c) next to public transportation access are ultimately the three keys for a really nice fan experience.
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Apr 4, 2025 17:48
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Ironically the A's probably have better walkability now than they did at O.Co.
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Apr 4, 2025 18:04
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  (that run diff advantage is entirely because of the little league-rear end Athletics series, lol)
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Apr 4, 2025 22:27
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R.D. Mangles posted:Ryan Stressly "Please put anybody but Heart Attack Hector in as closer." *monkey's paw curls*
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Apr 4, 2025 23:06
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Rivalries make fans insane. I've talked about it before here but one time I was at a Cubs/Giants game at
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Apr 5, 2025 01:34
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FlamingLiberal posted:Thanks Cubs 
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Apr 6, 2025 02:48
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Intruder posted:my favorite thing about pat venditte was the "amphibious pitcher" headline Which iirc caused the umps to have to get together and decide who has to declare their handedness first and decided it had to be the pitcher, lol.
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Apr 6, 2025 18:15
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Always love to see a loss pinned on the insane Qanon loser
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Apr 6, 2025 21:50
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Wait you can just... extend? Your good hitters??? Instead of letting them walk in free agency???????? Is Jed Hoyer aware of this?
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Apr 7, 2025 05:37
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Intruder posted:in other news, bregman and tucker are both slashing better than any astro lol Tucker's first in fWAR in the NL right now, between him playing out of his mind and the Vlad extension now making him far and away the tippy top of the market come the offseason any glimmer of hope he'd be a Cub long term is loving toast, lol. Somebody's gonna pay him >$600M and it ain't gonna be Tommy Nickels.
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Apr 7, 2025 19:33
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https://twitter.com/Britt_Ghiroli/status/1909322610443198619 hmm maybe try not sending unsolicited dick pics to your female staff for... nine years?!
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Apr 7, 2025 22:15
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Wait what? Like he was on the field doing long tosses while batting practice was happening and got hit in the hand by one??? Why was he not further back in the OF or better yet not on the field at all and potentially in the way of being hit by baseballs?
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Apr 8, 2025 03:01
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davecrazy posted:Zach Hample interfered with a fly ball in Tampa last night. lol. Did they kick him out?
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Apr 9, 2025 13:41
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Intruder posted:they should do that the second he says his name is zach hample Yeah but on the other hand the Angels won (?!?!?!) on the back of five scoreless from cool Kyle 
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Apr 9, 2025 14:29
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zoux posted:He also bat flipped on a double and got ejected when he got struck out later on "Bat flipped on a double" is really underselling it, lol https://twitter.com/RipInWisconsin/status/1909795246893936880
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Apr 9, 2025 15:07
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resident posted:Holy poo poo Zack Hample is 47 loving years old?! I thought he was still like an early 20s Logan Paul-esque influencer born out of Vine that was on his last gasp of teenage goodwill. zoux posted:
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Apr 9, 2025 15:41
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gently caress  https://twitter.com/MLBBruceLevine/status/1909989066742833215
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Apr 9, 2025 16:29
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The "good" news is that because of the weird road trip schedule the Cubs only really have to cover one Steele start next week and then can otherwise "skip" him and live with a four man rotation courtesy of all the off days. The bad news is it's still gonna be 2-4 starts minimum where one of our best two pitchers is unavailable. Come on down Collin Rea I guess, no way in hell Wicks or god forbid Horton get an actual chance with a key starter out.
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Apr 9, 2025 17:36
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You do have to be in the field of play when the catch is made, IIRC during the Rizzo tarp catch that was just posted there was a brief umpire review on the field to determine if the top of the tarp was considered as legally in play territory (they decided it was). Like theoretically if an OF started their positioning close enough to a low OF wall that they could jump it, run into the bleachers and "catch" a HR ball it would still be counted as a HR.
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Apr 10, 2025 03:25
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Bandire posted:
More surprised he can do it at 29. In my teens/early 20's I could drink like 2-3 pots of coffee a day and still sleep like a baby, but these days if I have one cup past ~3PM I'm going to be up until dawn.
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Apr 10, 2025 19:03
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Hey I'm a coffee nerd myself but jesus christ how does this dude ever sleep.
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I read the article and from what I understand they've had to "refresh" the bricks a couple times already because of normal wear and tear. Which is kind of a poo poo excuse because plenty of similarly styled installations are kept around for a lot longer via active maintenance efforts but w/e. All the team had to do was put out a press release before the renovation explaining what would happen and extend an offer to anybody who owned a brick to be able to have it cut out and given to them. This is bare minimum stuff. But I guess it would have cost a billionaire a couple extra bucks and obviously we can't have that.
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