08/19 Wash (Zimmermann) @ CUBS (Samardzija) 7:05 CDT, CSN TV

[Sammy Sofa]

I'm kinda mad I put off watching that show until about a month ago. It's pretty great.

 

It's amazing. It makes me sad they didn't have cartoons like that when I was a kid.

 

Well, we at least all had the old MGM/Warner Bros./etc. cartoons, but yeah, being a child of the 80's it was a lot of lame half hour toy commercials and not much else.

 

I grew up on Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies

 

 

luh dat ish

 

Well yeah, but that, while very funny, is all mindless slapstick and pratfalls.

 

That's selling a lot of it, especially the Warner 'toons, pretty short. Remember, a ton of those shorts were made with kid and adult audiences in mind like AT since they were being shown in theaters.

[Sammy Sofa]

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8o3vhxlyj1r0ott6o1_500.gif

 

Murphy, seriously, how the [expletive] are you doing this.

[WrigleyField 22]

GIVE NATE A BOBBLEHEAD.

 

I don't know that Theo and Jed foresaw Nate being as good as he has been, but signing him to that deal and protecting him in a platoon has looked like a pretty [expletive] prescient move.

It'd look a lot better if they had found a better other half of the platoon.

[Sammy Sofa]

GIVE NATE A BOBBLEHEAD.

 

I don't know that Theo and Jed foresaw Nate being as good as he has been, but signing him to that deal and protecting him in a platoon has looked like a pretty [expletive] prescient move.

It'd look a lot better if they had found a better other half of the platoon.

 

Hey, no shame in taking a shot at someone like Hairston. If that had worked out the production would have been epic.

[Careless]

Nice pitch

Murphy, seriously, how the [expletive] are you doing this.

Look at his history. He's averaged 18 hr/season power, so this isn't all that weird.

Edited August 20, 2013 by Careless

[WrigleyField 22]

GIVE NATE A BOBBLEHEAD.

 

I don't know that Theo and Jed foresaw Nate being as good as he has been, but signing him to that deal and protecting him in a platoon has looked like a pretty [expletive] prescient move.

It'd look a lot better if they had found a better other half of the platoon.

 

Hey, no shame in taking a shot at someone like Hairston. If that had worked out the production would have been epic.

No, I absolutely agree with the thought behind it, but you can't heap on too much praise, hindsight and all.

[Guest]

Am I ever going to believe that Junior Lake might actually be good?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Am I ever going to believe that Junior Lake might actually be good?

 

I don't know about good, but he's sold me on "acceptable."

 

Between AAA and MLB this year, he's clearly shown a pretty decent leap forward in ability to make contact.

[Careless]

Am I ever going to believe that Junior Lake might actually be good?

I hope so?

[XZero771679666304]

GIVE NATE A BOBBLEHEAD.

 

I don't know that Theo and Jed foresaw Nate being as good as he has been, but signing him to that deal and protecting him in a platoon has looked like a pretty [expletive] prescient move.

It'd look a lot better if they had found a better other half of the platoon.

 

Hey, no shame in taking a shot at someone like Hairston. If that had worked out the production would have been epic.

No, I absolutely agree with the thought behind it, but you can't heap on too much praise, hindsight and all.

 

True, but Nate may be worth 3+ WAR alone by the end of the year.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Like two more games like this and Lake would be worth more fWAR this year than Castro and Rizzo combined.

[Guest]

well, i'm glad the coworker i gave tonight's tickets to is having a good time

[Illini Iceman]

What the hell is going on tonight?

[Careless]

Like two more games like this and Lake would be worth more fWAR this year than Castro and Rizzo combined.

Soriano already topped his Cubs fWAR with the Yanks.

 

Navarro is a monster!

[Andy]

Nice sort-of call, Len.

[XZero771679666304]

Nice sort-of call, Len.

 

I really like Len, but he either hedges his HR calls or is really bad at identifying home runs off the bat.

[Careless]

Navarro's on pace for what, 35 homers as a starting catcher, 40 homers as a starting non-catcher?

[Guest]

Yeah, I like Navarro.

[pitchcs]

GIVE NATE A BOBBLEHEAD.

 

I don't know that Theo and Jed foresaw Nate being as good as he has been, but signing him to that deal and protecting him in a platoon has looked like a pretty [expletive] prescient move.

It'd look a lot better if they had found a better other half of the platoon.

 

Hey, no shame in taking a shot at someone like Hairston. If that had worked out the production would have been epic.

No, I absolutely agree with the thought behind it, but you can't heap on too much praise, hindsight and all.

 

But, he did turn into Pineyro, so there's that.

[Guest]

Lost in all the run scoring is that Shark has been not terrible tonight.

[Andy]

Nice sort-of call, Len.

 

I really like Len, but he either hedges his HR calls or is really bad at identifying home runs off the bat.

Well, I meant that he said "Hit a homer, Dioner" a few pitches beforehand.

 

I can take or leave Len's inability to recognize homers, but I prefer it to Pat Hughes and Chip Caray's inability to recognize when a ball is NOT a homer.

[Sammy Sofa]

What a sexy beast.

[Sammy Sofa]

Meanwhile every Castro PA after Schierholtz is like a sobering slap of reality.

[XZero771679666304]

Meanwhile every Castro PA after Schierholtz is like a sobering slap of reality.

 

I wonder if they'll send him somewhere this fall/winter to work on his mechanical issues.

[Sammy Sofa]

Aw, nicely done for DeJesus.