8/26 Cubs (Z!) @ Pirates (Snell) - 6:05 WGN TV

[David]

Wow... wtf

[Brian]

I'd let Demp bunt.

 

should have

[17 Seconds]

Lou's brutal managing continues to cost the Cubs

[UMFan83]

Nice job Ronny, Gaudin could have done that you idiot.

[Mizzou]

Why is Cedeno on this team? What the hell is it that he does well?

[Outshined_One]

Aaaaaaaaaaand we get nothing.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Wow Lou. Bring in a PH to bunt, and that's what he does?

[TMan92]

Cedeno is bad at baseball....What a goof

[Careless]

Just a fantastic plan, lou

[Guest]

Why bunt down the first base line?

[Joe_Cub]

So, how will the Cubs bad karma hurt them if they win this game that they don't deserve to win?

 

that's some complicated mental gymnastics

[bhogg]

poop

[bcl412]

Fuku needs to be good this AB.

[Hall7810]

You can hear the disgust in Bob's voice.

[fromthestretch]

How the hell do you miss a simple pop up? Lou should have pulled him. A play like that shows that Soriano's head is too far up his butt for him to care about what's going on on the field.

 

Yank him, embarrass him, and see if it gets his attention.

 

He didnt dog it on the play, he misplayed a ball.

 

Did he give it max effort? Exactly. There is NO excuse for that to happen multiple times in a season. NONE. He should have been pulled if Lou had any balls.

 

He missed a catch. That's not dogging it.

 

And Soriano shouldn't be pulled because that would be a stupid thing to do.

 

When a major leaguer drops severals routine balls over the course of a season, it's pretty clear that he's half-assing it. It's really not hard to catch fly balls. When you drop one you kind of overlook it, but when it happens all the time something has to be done. That simply cannot happen in the playoffs.

 

 

 

orrrrr he's just kinda bad at it....

 

Don't you realize how easy it is to catch popups? That's like saying someone is bad at blinking. There's no skill involved, you just do it.

 

That's why no one else ever drops them, right? I mean, Soriano is the only outfielder to ever drop multiple fly balls in a single season. Check that, he's the only one to ever drop a fly ball in the history of the game.

 

C'mon, man. No ones making excuses here. He dropped a fly ball that he should have caught, but pulling him from this game when you're down a run accomplishes nothing.

[Outshined_One]

It was dumb to call the bunt with Cedeno in the first place.

[TruffleShuffle]

great managing lou, bring in a guy who's bad against LHP and pretty lousy at fundamentals and have him lay down a bunt. and burn a PH in the meantime.

[Guest]

Horrible call. Horrible execution.

[Mizzou]

Seriously, why would you not let Dempster bunt there? Cedeno clearly isn't good at anything, whereas Dempster is actually a very good bunter. Seems like a no brainer to me.

[Soul]

Why is Cedeno on this team? What the hell is it that he does well?

He's great at everything, you just aren't digging deep enough into the right stats to see it.

[TMan92]

Cue Bartman

[bhogg]

Why bunt down the first base line?

 

 

 

I was wondering about that, too.

 

I was a terrible bunter in HS. So much so that I told the coach that if he ever game me the bunt sign in a game, I was disregarding the sign. He was in total agreement with me.

[cubscausestress]

bunts suck. always. always.

[mlarner]

Looked like Aram got a real slow jump off of second on the bunt

[Ski]

Cubs are so clutch this game. 2 on, no out twice, and we get nothing both times.