8/9 Rays (Odorizzi) @ Cubs (Jackson) 3:05 WGN

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I had a long, not-that-funny post comparing all of our top prospects to players from the original Mighty Ducks movie, but I accidentally closed the tab and now it's gone and not worth the effort to reproduce.

 

So anyway, Javier Baez struck out four times in a row, the Cubs blew the game yesterday and now Edwin Jackson is starting.

 

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[BrockLanders]

Bryant has to be Banks, right?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Bryant has to be Banks, right?

 

Russell. Uber-all-around talent but also a late addition to the team.

[SouthSideRyan]

Hopefully Jaxon is the Hall brother that disappeared by D2

[BrockLanders]

So bored at work right now waiting for these late games to finish.

 

Russell - Banks

Bryant - Conway

Baez - Jesse Hall

Soler - Fulton

Schwarber - Goldberg

Almora - Guy Germaine

[Guest]

unless i'm going to be in attendance, i hate these saturday 3pm games

 

let me get the damn game out of the way early

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

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[SouthSideRyan]

Bryant - Conway

 

How [expletive] dare you?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Baez is completely Fulton. On that one there can be no doubt.

[DiamondMind]

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[Hairyducked Idiot]

Pitcher batting 8th for the Rays

[Guest]

Len and JD ‏@lenandjd 2m

Here is #Cubs lineup @WGNTV 3p: Coghlan7/Baez4/Rizzo3/Starling6/Valbuena5/Alcantara8/Ruggiano9/ Castillo2/Jackson1

 

HOW COULD U DO THIS LEN

[muntjack]

Joe Madden is a man after my own heart.

 

"Totally National League, Oh my God, what a different baseball game. For the group that doesn't sometimes get it when you talk about the game being boring, I think maybe sometimes American League fans need to watch a National League game. Seriously, because there's so much more going on.

"When you manage a game like that, you actually feel as though you've played when it's over. I'm really becoming more of a fan of it. There are so many moving parts."

[Gilby]

Ok, Joe, you are the one managing, not the fans. We still have to watch pitchers bat. I'll take the DH, please.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I thought he was being sarcastic at first, now I'm not sure.

[Vinestal]

Joe Madden is a man after my own heart.

 

"Totally National League, Oh my God, what a different baseball game. For the group that doesn't sometimes get it when you talk about the game being boring, I think maybe sometimes American League fans need to watch a National League game. Seriously, because there's so much more going on.

"When you manage a game like that, you actually feel as though you've played when it's over. I'm really becoming more of a fan of it. There are so many moving parts."

Yup believe it or not there are a lot of people that love the NL style of play. The DH is a joke, the game is suppose to be 9 players fielding and the same 9 fielders batting. AL baseball is an abomination.

[Guest]

having o deal with pitchers hitting may be more fun for managing. it is not more fun for watching.

[muntjack]

I personally love it. That said, over the next few years the Cubs would likely benefit from the DH.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Joe Madden is a man after my own heart.

 

"Totally National League, Oh my God, what a different baseball game. For the group that doesn't sometimes get it when you talk about the game being boring, I think maybe sometimes American League fans need to watch a National League game. Seriously, because there's so much more going on.

"When you manage a game like that, you actually feel as though you've played when it's over. I'm really becoming more of a fan of it. There are so many moving parts."

Yup believe it or not there are a lot of people that love the NL style of play. The DH is a joke, the game is suppose to be 9 players fielding and the same 9 fielders batting. AL baseball is an abomination.

 

Then explain to me pinch hitting, relief pitching changes and double switching -- the three main things that make the NL different from the AL, other than having to watch shitty hitters hit when the 9-spot comes around.

Edited August 9, 2014 by Duke Silver

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The idea that the NL game has a meaningfully different "style" is ridiculous wankery.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

The idea that the NL game has a meaningfully different "style" is ridiculous wankery.

 

Well, there is. During the latter innings of games, NL managers go out of their way to limit the inefficiencies presented to them by having pitchers in the batting order. We spend the last three innings trying to undo what could permanently be undone by installing the DH.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The idea that the NL game has a meaningfully different "style" is ridiculous wankery.

 

Well, there is. During the latter innings of games, NL managers go out of their way to limit the inefficiencies presented to them by having pitchers in the batting order. We spend the last three innings trying to undo what could permanently be undone by installing the DH.

 

They either pinch-hit or they spend six seconds implementing a double-switch. Not exactly chess.

[Guest]

having o deal with pitchers hitting may be more fun for managing. it is not more fun for watching.

 

In the NL, Pitchers take about 1 in every 19 plate appearances. It's an extremely small sacrifice for the huge increase in strategy that comes with it.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

having o deal with pitchers hitting may be more fun for managing. it is not more fun for watching.

 

In the NL, Pitchers take about 1 in every 19 plate appearances. It's an extremely small sacrifice for the huge increase in strategy that comes with it.

 

The actual impact of said strategy is essentially nil. "OMG, who am I going to use as a pinch-hitter here? Probably the best guy on the bench who isn't a catcher who hits opposite-handed to the pitcher. Doesn't really matter though, because 90% of the PAs are going to end the same away anyway."

[George Hayduke]

I used to be staunchly of the puritan mindset that pitchers need to bat because "that's the way the game was meant to be played." But over the past few years I've come to realize that there's little value in sending guys with a .100 BA to the plate, for the team or for the fans. The game is meant to be fun and pitchers batting is not fun. DH needs to come to the NL, IMO.