8/27 Cubs (Turner) @ Reds (Latos) 6:10 pm CT CSN

[hawkeyecub]

Carrie Muskat @CarrieMuskat · 17m

 

#Cubs Renteria on Castro in 8th: "He feels bad. He knows. He's apologizing to everybody about not getting over there. ...

 

Carrie Muskat @CarrieMuskat · 16m

 

"... He's got a lot of things on his mind, and he's out there doing the best he can" more Renteria on Castro in 8th. #Cubs

[bukie]

Renteria gets it. Kaplan does not.

[weis21]

Not making excuses but Starlin is probably not all there mentally right now. What he went through takes far more than a few days to get over, let alone keep focused on a diamond.

 

Wow, Kaplan is such an asshat:

 

‏@thekapman 45m

 

Quit making excuses. Wow! RT @jefe24dq: @thekapman guy just got off the bereavement list. Has had a great season, relax.

That's incredibly insensitive and callous. WTF. I hope this doesn't get unnoticed, overall.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

"That's a is very disappointing quote."

That's Kaplan's response to Renteria's quote.

 

There is so much stupid in here:

https://twitter.com/thekapman/with_replies

[jersey cubs fan]

So today was interesting.

 

I will bet you Kap backtracks within the next 12 hours. Either on Twitter or on his radio show. There's gonna be pressure from above.

 

What Castro did tonight given what he's been through doesn't bother me. Didn't change the endgame.

He lives for this type of thing. I can't see a backdown.

[PrimeTime]

Retweeted by David Kaplan

Len Kasper @LenKasper · 41s

Look I like Starlin. His terrible habit has to change. But he's played for Lou/Quade/Sveum/Renteria. At some pt it's just on the player no?

[Guest]

len and jd have been coming off more and more meatbally

[d_money]

I wish CSN had never hired him. Until then, I had only heard of him as that guy on that show on WGN that I never listened to.

 

When was that? 2010?

 

2008

 

I don't remember him from then. Just remember Plesac, Gail Fisher, and Otto doing all things Cubs. Was his role more limited?

I used to think Gail Fischer was hot, then outta nowhere - she put on 30 lbs. I was disappointed.

[chuckywang]

I missed the game. Anybody got the link to a video of the play in question that has everybody going full meatball?

[treebird]

len and jd have been coming off more and more meatbally

 

my theory is that brenly was so over-the-top meatball that he and len just played off of each other and were opposites. jd is mostly very smart and just quietly sneaks the meatball in there and it's successfully infecting len's brain.

[Guest]

I actually broke down and tweeted to both Len and baldy.

[dcvalpo]

Len is a smart guy and has seen more Castro ABs than any of us. Could he possibly be right and our narrative be a bit off?

[Guest]

suddenly i hate wittenmyer a lot less and am also not as keen on mannelly as i was a few hours ago

 

Patrick Mannelly ‏@PatrickMannelly 1m

@LenKasper 100%

[Guest]

Len is a smart guy and has seen more Castro ABs than any of us. Could he possibly be right and our narrative be a bit off?

 

No, he's not right

 

 

Piling on a guy (who has shown plenty of improvement, mind you) for focus/concentration a week after losing a cousin and some friends in a car wreck for some inconsequential and reflexive mistake is totally not cool.

[ctcf]

suddenly i hate wittenmyer a lot less and am also not as keen on mannelly as i was a few hours ago

 

Patrick Mannelly ‏@PatrickMannelly 1m

@LenKasper 100%

 

Bad News: Wittenmyer is still a massive [expletive].

[treebird]

I actually broke down and tweeted to both Len and baldy.

 

hahaha, i broke down and tweeted at len too. i felt like a dork doing it but whatever.

 

i didn't give kaplan the satisfaction.

[dcvalpo]

Do you guys really believe he watched the ball tonight because of the events of last week? I agree that some grace can be extended in terms of piling on, but I don't really give him a pass on the mental mistake.

 

Kaplan is an ass, but I don't find much fault in what Len said and I think he has the credibility to say it...he's never struck me as a meatball.

[dcvalpo]

suddenly i hate wittenmyer a lot less and am also not as keen on mannelly as i was a few hours ago

 

Patrick Mannelly ‏@PatrickMannelly 1m

@LenKasper 100%

 

Bad News: Wittenmyer is still a massive [expletive].

 

Ya Wittenmyer sucks. He's better than Kap though

[Guest]

Do you guys really believe he watched the ball tonight because of the events of last week? I agree that some grace can be extended in terms of piling on, but I don't really give him a pass on the mental mistake.

 

Kaplan is an ass, but I don't find much fault in what Len said and I think he has the credibility to say it...he's never struck me as a meatball.

Len is not a meatball at all. And it is fine to call out Castro for making a mistake if the coverage is the same for all players making repeated mental errors.

 

That's the problem.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Len is a smart guy and has seen more Castro ABs than any of us. Could he possibly be right and our narrative be a bit off?

 

I mean, the other narrative is completely over the top. I think the narrative here is that the media needs to tone it down and quit equating every mistake as some catastrophic injustice toward the game of baseball. Everyone in this thread was upset about what happened tonight.

[jersey cubs fan]

Len is a smart guy and has seen more Castro ABs than any of us. Could he possibly be right and our narrative be a bit off?

Well he backed off hard after realizing what he said.

[dcvalpo]

Do you guys really believe he watched the ball tonight because of the events of last week? I agree that some grace can be extended in terms of piling on, but I don't really give him a pass on the mental mistake.

 

Kaplan is an ass, but I don't find much fault in what Len said and I think he has the credibility to say it...he's never struck me as a meatball.

Len is not a meatball at all. And it is fine to call out Castro for making a mistake if the coverage is the same for all players making repeated mental errors.

 

That's the problem.

 

Len and JD have called out other mental errors. Len is saying Starlin has them more frequently and if anyone would know, I think it would be Len.

 

Again, Kaplan's reaction is overboard but he is an idiot so we can disregard what he says. Len is not an idiot so I'm inclined to listen.

[jersey cubs fan]

WE COULD HAVE LOST BY ONE RUN!!!!

[dcvalpo]

Len is a smart guy and has seen more Castro ABs than any of us. Could he possibly be right and our narrative be a bit off?

Well he backed off hard after realizing what he said.

 

Did I miss a tweet? Last thing he posted is that Starlin plays hard but the mental gaffes are a problem. That's not backing off hard IMO.

[Guest]

Len is a smart guy and has seen more Castro ABs than any of us. Could he possibly be right and our narrative be a bit off?

Well he backed off hard after realizing what he said.

 

Did I miss a tweet? Last thing he posted is that Starlin plays hard but the mental gaffes are a problem. That's not backing off hard IMO.

 

You don't think that's backing off given his earlier Tweets?