Castro

[bukie]

I guess there are few downsides to standing on top of the plate, aside from exposing yourself to more injury and I guess, at a tertiary level, pissing off the other team.

 

More HBP and more plate coverage is good. Thanks Rizzo.

If you can't turn on the inside pitch, you'll get busted over the inside part of the plate a lot if you stand too close.

 

when they try that, you'll get hit a lot and also standing over the plate might infuence umpires on those calls (as i think has been talked about by len and jd with rizzo)

Also true, but there is a downside, which is the point I was making.

Also, since umpires are calling more low strikes and outside strikes, standing closer to the plate is about the only recourse hitters have to try to gain a competitive advantage.

[UMFan83]

So umm...Jake Arrieta just tweeted this a minute ago:

 

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I have a hard time believing that hes referring to anyone else but Starlin

[Guest]

like castro isn't in the lineup and was throwing a fit about it or something?

[Sammy Sofa]

Whut.

[UMFan83]

like castro isn't in the lineup and was throwing a fit about it or something?

 

I'm guessing. Why else would Jake call out one of his teammates (assuming that's what's happening here)?

[Guest]

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[Guest]

like castro isn't in the lineup and was throwing a fit about it or something?

 

I'm guessing. Why else would Jake call out one of his teammates (assuming that's what's happening here)?

 

yeah at first i was trying to figure out if it was a quote out of some baseball movie or something but google yielded nothing.

[Sammy Sofa]

Man, you guys are weird.

[Guest]

Man, you guys are weird.

 

what are you not understanding now?

[Sammy Sofa]

Man, you guys are weird.

 

what are you not understanding now?

 

Hey, I get it; there's a thousand turgid little micro-doom boners quivering towards the sky right now.

[Guest]

Man, you guys are weird.

 

what are you not understanding now?

 

Hey, I get it; there's a thousand turgid little micro-doom boners quivering towards the sky right now.

 

what's the doom boner about?

 

i actually kinda want that to be about starlin. that's how much i hate him now. suckiest suck that ever sucked.

[Guest]

(that's half kidding. i'm not that much of a jerk. it'd be cool if he were good again some day obviously.)

[Guest]

Castro has an OPS over .800 since getting benched, but I quit last night's game after 1 run so I didn't see what else might have caused people to rage against him.

 

If Arrieta is talking about anyone on the current roster, I have to think it's Castro or Baez. Since Baez is in today's lineup...

 

EDIT: Although I guess there's a slim chance it could be LaStella?

[ARCubsFan]

So umm...Jake Arrieta just tweeted this a minute ago:

 

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I have a hard time believing that hes referring to anyone else but Starlin

http://i.imgur.com/mZmuT43.gif

[Guest]

Castro has an OPS over .800 since getting benched, but I quit last night's game after 1 run so I didn't see what else might have caused people to rage against him.

 

If Arrieta is talking about anyone on the current roster, I have to think it's Castro or Baez. Since Baez is in today's lineup...

 

i was at the game and a bit inebriated, but didn't he have 3 errors or something?

[Guest]

Castro has an OPS over .800 since getting benched, but I quit last night's game after 1 run so I didn't see what else might have caused people to rage against him.

 

If Arrieta is talking about anyone on the current roster, I have to think it's Castro or Baez. Since Baez is in today's lineup...

 

i was at the game and a bit inebriated, but didn't he have 3 errors or something?

 

He had one in the 9th, and the game thread leads me to believe there was another, but I wasn't watching at that point.

[UMFan83]

Castro has an OPS over .800 since getting benched, but I quit last night's game after 1 run so I didn't see what else might have caused people to rage against him.

 

If Arrieta is talking about anyone on the current roster, I have to think it's Castro or Baez. Since Baez is in today's lineup...

 

i was at the game and a bit inebriated, but didn't he have 3 errors or something?

 

Yeah, 2 came in that 6 run inning. Both would have ended the inning and I believe both were on easy flips from Russell at 2B

Edited September 1, 2015 by UMFan83

[ARCubsFan]

Castro has an OPS over .800 since getting benched, but I quit last night's game after 1 run so I didn't see what else might have caused people to rage against him.

 

If Arrieta is talking about anyone on the current roster, I have to think it's Castro or Baez. Since Baez is in today's lineup...

 

i was at the game and a bit inebriated, but didn't he have 3 errors or something?

 

He had one in the 9th, and the game thread leads me to believe there was another, but I wasn't watching at that point.

Drop one at 2nd from Russell who double clutched his throw on a force play, was an easy catch and he just dropped it.

[treebird]

OH BOY I AM EXCITED FOR THIS TO BECOME A MAJOR STORY

 

the timing is too perfect, whether it's arrieta seeing baez's name on the lineup card and being happy castro is sitting or castro expressing displeasure with returning to the bench.

[Sammy Sofa]

My guess/hope is that it's not someone on the Cubs since that's pretty shitty and I'd like to think he's smarter than that (and that Maddon and co. would have laid down the law on social media stupidity), plus there's seemingly nobody on the roster who deserves it.

 

Plus it's not like he's been getting any kind of regular playing time; why would he be expecting to automatically get the start, especially after having a turd of a game? All we've heard is how cool he's been with being benched and working with people to try and improve.

[ConstableRabbit]

You guys know that I'm a pretty huge Castro fan, but that seems like something pretty counter to everything we've heard about him as a clubhouse guy. I guess we'll see...

[Guest]

i just keep thinking back to sunday night and the celebration pirouette and i get sad

[UMFan83]

LMAO

 

Jake told Jesse Rogers that he was supposed to be replying to a fan that said to him that the error should have been a hit.

 

Was not directed at Castro. Jesse says that Jake and Castro have had a really good relationship, so he doesn't believe there's any way he was calling out Castro.

 

Controversy over.

Edited September 1, 2015 by UMFan83

[Sammy Sofa]

Dramatic recreation of the meatballs as soon as the speculation began:

 

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--zW53iqOQ--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/q1llgiysbtn7mfbqes5v.gif

Edited September 1, 2015 by Sammy Sofa

[treebird]

jesse rogers says arrieta told him it was supposed to be an @ reply to a dodgers fan who said castro's error in the no-hitter should have been a hit