8/13 Cincinnati (Bailey) @ CUBS (Samardzija) 7:05 CDT, CSN

[Guest]

I'm again wondering if maybe he's wearing out.

 

I was thinking something along those lines. He's approaching his cut off from last year.

[Guest]

I feel like Billy Williams hasn't aged at all since he was the hitting coach when I started watching the Cubs in the mid 90s.

[Sammy Sofa]

While Ernie Banks has turned into an old lady.

[Andy]

I love that while we talk about how tired out Shark is, Dale's sending him up to bat in the 5th with 100+ pitches already banked.

[Guest]

While Ernie Banks has turned into an old lady.

 

Yup

[coldsteel]

I'm again wondering if maybe he's wearing out.

 

That's probably a pretty good theory. A little bit of a dead arm that a skipped start might do wonders for.

 

Absolutely not. Starlin Castro must start every game and lead the majors in plate appearances, and Samardzija must start - now, every 4th day, in a weird personal 4-day rotation scheme. And pinch hit.

[mul21]

RGI for Murphy.

[dfnowak]

Nice inning from Parker

[Careless]

4 homers in 29 PAs?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

3/$12m for Murphy, plz.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Random journeyman from AAA comes up has already almost got to his career HR total. [expletive] Cubs pixie dust.

[Schwarber Fan]

How is Murphy doing this?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Random journeyman from AAA comes up has already almost got to his career HR total. [expletive] Cubs pixie dust.

 

We've had a lot of this pixie dust this year. Our actually good players and the bullpen have been the problem.

[Sammy Sofa]

I really don't want to be looking at Rizzo with hatred-lasers coming out of my eyeballs while the Cuban Miguel Cabrera is annihilating pitches for another team. I really don't.

[Schwarber Fan]

a walkoff win would be kinda nice

[dfnowak]

Castro has been so frustrating this year. Hopefully, he turns it around next year.

[Schwarber Fan]

Izturis can suck it

[Andy]

RGI for Izturis.

 

I can't believe he's 'only' 33.

[Schwarber Fan]

dammit, Lake.

[Careless]

:banghead:

[Sammy Sofa]

Why the [expletive] are they even bunting.

[Sammy Sofa]

GIVE ME ABREU OR GIVE ME DEATH.

[Schwarber Fan]

dammit, Rizzo

[Andy]

I know we're playing for 1, but I kinda wish he'd just swung away there.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Jesus suffering balls. That was one of the most pathetic sequence of events you're going to see in a baseball game.