8/20 Cubs (Jackson) vs. Giants (Peavy) WCIU 7:05

[ScrubMD]

Hell, I'd rather throw Lake out there and see what happens.

[TruffleShuffle]

Man [expletive] Jaxon

[Sammy Sofa]

Hooray for Baez!

[chuckywang]

Boy that line drive base hit by Baez sure would have looked good with the bases loaded.

[imb]

Man Baez makes some loud contact

[Guest]

Can't imagine Jackson will be staying in the rotation, especially with Turner nicely lined up to take over since he's "starting" the suspended game tomorrow.

[Careless]

what is going on with this site tonight? This is painful.

[Careless]

what is going on with this site tonight? This is painful.

[Guest]

Does WICU have student interns working the cameras tonight?

[UMFan83]

Jaxon ERA up to 6.09 for the season. Impressive.

[Guest]

what the hell is an automated tarp

[coldsteel]

Two more years of Jaxon? No way. What are they going to do?

[UMFan83]

Two more years of Jaxon? No way. What are they going to do?

 

What they are going to do is pray that he can start the season with some level of competence and hope they can jettison him while eating 75% of the last 1.5 years on his contract.

 

If not, then he becomes a long reliever that pitches once every 2 weeks. Then by June of 2016 he is DFAd

[PrimeTime]

Contra is going through some really rough times..Seems he's missing a lot of hittable pitches or striking out looking every time I see him up.

[Guest]

i [expletive] hate chris chelios

 

 

[expletive] dumb ass meatball jay cutler hater

[TruffleShuffle]

Al Contra = big time sad face lately

[MWV]

Contra is going through some really rough times..Seems he's missing a lot of hittable pitches or striking out looking every time I see him up.

You must have missed his first AB, when he struck out swinging.

[DiamondMind]

Can someone give me some realistic options for what to do with Jackson? Do we just let him keep pitching? DFA and eat it? Soriano deal if even possible? More concerned about his taking up a spot next year than this one obviously but man....there has to be a better option (Turner). How is Edwards doing in Iowa? Beeler?

[Guest]

Can someone give me some realistic options for what to do with Jackson? Do we just let him keep pitching? DFA and eat it? Soriano deal if even possible? More concerned about his taking up a spot next year than this one obviously but man....there has to be a better option (Turner). How is Edwards doing in Iowa? Beeler?

Mop up

[DiamondMind]

What happens if he says no/causes a big stink about it?

[Aaron_Kennelly]

What happens if he says no/causes a big stink about it?

 

Tell him tough [expletive]: You have an ERA over 6. Or DFA. It doesn't make sense to DFA him right now, with us not in contention and rosters soon to expand. You would rather not. But, at this point, who cares? It's a sunk cost.

[Guest]

Can someone give me some realistic options for what to do with Jackson? Do we just let him keep pitching? DFA and eat it? Soriano deal if even possible? More concerned about his taking up a spot next year than this one obviously but man....there has to be a better option (Turner). How is Edwards doing in Iowa? Beeler?

 

Edwards is at Tennessee.

 

Turner, Straily, Doubront (one more rehab start) and Beeler are all better, more likely options.

[MWV]

What happens if he says no/causes a big stink about it?

[expletive] him.

I've had as much patience with Jackson as anyone, but the ability to groove dick-high fastballs is not highly sought after. I think he's ridden that 8 BB no-hitter about as far as he can.

[Guest]

What happens if he says no/causes a big stink about it?

 

He's not going to. He's been very honest and blunt to the media about his poor performance all season (he actually sounds like a really good guy, FYI). This was tonight:

 

@CSNMooney: E-Jax says “no one wants to be moved" to bullpen "but if it happens the only thing you can do if you don’t like it (is) pitch your way out."

[Aaron_Kennelly]

What happens if he says no/causes a big stink about it?

 

He's not going to. He's been very honest and blunt to the media about his poor performance all season (he actually sounds like a really good guy, FYI). This was tonight:

 

@CSNMooney: E-Jax says “no one wants to be moved" to bullpen "but if it happens the only thing you can do if you don’t like it (is) pitch your way out."

 

Well, that's good to see. If in the same position, I would probably have a defeatist attitude. It's got to be tough on him to be going through this; it's not like he wants to suck.