5/21 Cubs (Gallagher) @ Astros (Chacon) 7:05CT CSN

[erik316wttn]

GET MORE RUNS...CHACON IS NOT A GOOD PITCHER

 

Remember what team you root for? The team that can make a guy who could get lit up by a college team look like Sandy soapdropping Koufax in his prime.

 

boy if the team that has scored the most runs in baseball is this bad on offense, imagine how other teams must feel.

 

I just find it funny (and by funny I mean "infuriating") that we can beat guys like Haren and Peavy, and yet look so bad against guys like Estes, Sampson, and Chacon.

[CubsGM]

Michael Bourn is owning us!!!!!!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Hall7810]

Keep hanging 'em.

[C.C.]

Sean have a nice trip back to Iowa.

[Schwarber Fan]

Just strand the pest

[Andy]

Enough Gallagher. He's getting killed.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Michael Bourn had a .539 OPS going into today. .539

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Fortunately for Kosuke, three wrong turns can turn into a right one.

[17 Seconds]

Wow, Sean looks terrible.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Lot's of over-reaction in this thread tonight. Must be that time of the month.

[SABR Gamer]

Cubs now stop hitting

 

predictable game

 

We're down to 4 (really 3) starters again

 

 

Wow, the kid gives up one home run so let's give up on him. I am not that angry, people have to adjust to the major leagues, Christ, can we cut him a little slack? He made a young mistake on an 0-2 pitch. If this were Marquis this mistake would be unacceptable and he would deserve the criticism, but this is a young kid learning how to pitch in the bigs, so seriously chill out. We will never get the full potential of our guys if we quit on them after a couple mistakes (anybody remember that Felix Pie kid, what a joke, Edmonds? Really? Wow), let the kid flippin pitch through them.

 

Also, if you want to send him down, who the hell do you say we should let have the spot? None of the alternatives are going to be any better in the immediate future, and down the line Sean will benefit from the experience and be miles better from going through this. If we can have Gallagher pitching like he could by the stretch run, it will be worth it. Think about it, Dempster is probably not going to keep this up and if he starts getting tagged (which could happen because everything usually averages out in the end) we will be able to have a rotation like this:

 

Zambrano

Lilly

Gallagher

Hill

Marshall

 

 

Maybe you guys don't agree, but to me that seems like the 5 best starting pitchers in the organization, and then we could add another stud at the deadline and have:

 

Zambrano

Stud Guy

Lilly

Hill

Gallagher/Marshall

 

It's sure better than flippin (below), which would be the solution Lou would likely go with.

 

Zambrano

Lilly

Dempster

Marquis

Lieber/Marshall/Hart

[Schwarber Fan]

Lot's of over-reaction in this thread tonight. Must be that time of the month.

 

Yea, that time between April-October

[C.C.]

I hate when we score early then quit.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

what toolbox is whistling during every pitch? This isn't the carnival, although I can see why you'd make that mistake with the location

[Careless]

Chacon is from Alaska? I would not have guessed that

There are black people in Alaska, you know.

 

And Gallagher continues the suckage.

If you're a mixed race, partially black guy in MLB with a Spanish surname, there's a 90something% chance you come from the Caribbean. Alaska is a particularly white state that produces very few (Even for its population) baseball players. Chacon seems to be an extreme statistical anomoly.

[CubsGM]

Good swing Mark

[apete6]

DeRosa looked like garbage in that at bat.

[erik316wttn]

Ugh.

 

DeRo K's, 1 down. Sean will be the 2nd out, and then Riot will ground out somewhere.

[C.C.]

DONT SWING THE BAT!

[Schwarber Fan]

I thought Roy Oswalt was white

[Outshined_One]

Pence thinks he's a duck.

 

Wrong vowel

 

Wrong consonant, imo.

[17 Seconds]

Lot's of over-reaction in this thread tonight. Must be that time of the month.

 

Can you blame them? This game is looking identical to last night. Chacon should not have gotten settled in like this. He's a bad pitcher.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Lot's of over-reaction in this thread tonight. Must be that time of the month.

 

Can you blame them? This game is looking identical to last night. Chacon should not have gotten settled in like this. He's a bad pitcher.

 

It reminds me a lot of the gamethread in the 19-5 game, to be honest.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Lot's of over-reaction in this thread tonight. Must be that time of the month.

 

Can you blame them? This game is looking identical to last night. Chacon should not have gotten settled in like this. He's a bad pitcher.

 

It's the top of the 5th.

[AlwaysaCub]

At least Sean is seeing some pitches.