Re: 5/4 Cubs (Marquis) @ Cardinals (Wellemeyer) 7:05pm CDT, ESPN

[Hairyducked Idiot]

It's like the Baseball Gods sat down and said, "How can we screw over Cubs fans this season? What haven't we pulled before?"

 

And they decided on making the manager an idiot, have superior players on the bench for no apparent reason, and make the Cardinals just a bit better for no apparent reason.

 

It's a riff off the 2004 season, one of their favorites.

[Fred Hornkohl]

McCLellan in to pitch for St. Louis

[CubsGM]

DeRosa (Ground out to SS/3B)

Soto (Double)

Fontenot (Single, Soto to 3rd)

Not Cedeno (K)

Soriano (K)

[Flames24Rulz]

What cracks me up is that all this blow up for Theriot being called out but in reality he was safe. If the call was right, would the blow up be on Theriot? Nope. Let's redirect our anger here folks and not use it as an excuse to continue the tirade on Theriot.

 

The throw beat him by a mile. He's not fast and he really hasn't shown that he's a good base-stealer.

[Fred Hornkohl]

DeRosa grounded out to short, 6-3

[BigSlick]

DeRosa (Ground out to SS/3B)

Soto (Double)

Fontenot (Single, Soto to 3rd)

Not Cedeno (K)

Soriano (K)

You got the first part right.

[DivineBovine]

What? Now those are strikes?

[Sammy Sofa]

He was horrible at stealing in the minors, too.

 

wrong again.

 

You have a very interesting perspective on what constitues a good basestealer.

[Magnetic Curses]

What cracks me up is that all this blow up for Theriot being called out but in reality he was safe. If the call was right, would the blow up be on Theriot? Nope. Let's redirect our anger here folks and not use it as an excuse to continue the tirade on Theriot.

 

theriot is dumb to steal. though he's been good this year in most facets except for that one.however, the guy's swing annoys me.

[Butterscup1679666578]

our offense looks awful tonight.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Soto called out on strikes

[bcl412]

So when the ump calls time you can throw at the players head. And that was a foot outside.I hate baseball

[dew1679666265]

OMFG DONT STEAL BASES THERIOT YOU SUCK AT IT

 

he doesn't actually.

83% (or so) for his career (59 attempts) but 7 for 12 this year... He's been pretty good and this year he has been terrible

 

70% in the minors. The evidence is pretty mixed.

 

70% isn't terrible, though. And 83% is pretty good. Therefore, he's not terrible. May not be great, but he's certainly not terrible.

[CubsGM]

DeRosa (Ground out to SS/3B)

Soto (Double)

Fontenot (Single, Soto to 3rd)

Not Cedeno (K)

Soriano (K)

[BigSlick]

Terrible terrible call

 

Not even close to the strike zone

[mhuber92211]

What cracks me up is that all this blow up for Theriot being called out but in reality he was safe. If the call was right, would the blow up be on Theriot? Nope. Let's redirect our anger here folks and not use it as an excuse to continue the tirade on Theriot.

 

The throw beat him by a mile. He's not fast and he really hasn't shown that he's a good base-stealer.

 

Great he was safe though so how are you answering my post again?

[ELCABALLO45]

Honest question: When is A-Ram expected back?

[Jon]

What cracks me up is that all this blow up for Theriot being called out but in reality he was safe. If the call was right, would the blow up be on Theriot? Nope. Let's redirect our anger here folks and not use it as an excuse to continue the tirade on Theriot.

On the replay they showed after the break, it looked like he was out easily. He was tagged up high, but his foot was still a ways away from the bag.

 

It was also a relatively bad throw from an off-balance catcher.

[TruffleShuffle]

What cracks me up is that all this blow up for Theriot being called out but in reality he was safe. If the call was right, would the blow up be on Theriot? Nope. Let's redirect our anger here folks and not use it as an excuse to continue the tirade on Theriot.

 

The throw beat him by a mile. He's not fast and he really hasn't shown that he's a good base-stealer.

 

the reality of it is that he's got slightly above average speed and pretty good instincts on the basepaths. he is an adequate base stealer but neither he nor anyone else on this team should be running on molina.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Fontenot walked

[BigSlick]

Hey cool Reed Johnson why don't you hit a home run you loser

[Careless]

OMFG DONT STEAL BASES THERIOT YOU SUCK AT IT

 

he doesn't actually.

83% (or so) for his career (59 attempts) but 7 for 12 this year... He's been pretty good and this year he has been terrible

 

70% in the minors. The evidence is pretty mixed.

 

70% isn't terrible, though. And 83% is pretty good. Therefore, he's not terrible. May not be great, but he's certainly not terrible.

I wonder, how odd is it to have much higher SB% in the majors when you didn't get real playing time until your late 20s? Should be uncommon/improbable, right?

[inari]

What cracks me up is that all this blow up for Theriot being called out but in reality he was safe. If the call was right, would the blow up be on Theriot? Nope. Let's redirect our anger here folks and not use it as an excuse to continue the tirade on Theriot.

 

The throw beat him by a mile. He's not fast and he really hasn't shown that he's a good base-stealer.

 

Great he was safe though so how are you answering my post again?

 

No he wasn't

[WTFCUBS]

What cracks me up is that all this blow up for Theriot being called out but in reality he was safe. If the call was right, would the blow up be on Theriot? Nope. Let's redirect our anger here folks and not use it as an excuse to continue the tirade on Theriot.

 

The throw beat him by a mile. He's not fast and he really hasn't shown that he's a good base-stealer.

 

Great he was safe though so how are you answering my post again?

 

 

He was out.....

[bcl412]

Honest question: When is A-Ram expected back?

 

People are saying tomorrow

 

Brett Favre>Braun by the way