4/14 Cubs (Arrieta) vs Reds (DeSclafani) 7:05 CSN

[Tryptamine]

At some point Rizzo is going to get an extra base hit.

[Dr. Cub]

Good pitching. Good hitting approach. Great bullpen.

 

Our team ERA is about 12th in the NL out of 15 teams, and our OBP is about 10th last I checked. Not sure I feel that's too impressive.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

With the exception of a very few decent innings, what has anyone seen that would give them confidence in this team? As much as I loved the last two wins, what I've seen hasn't exactly given me hope. With the exception of Soler, of course.

 

They won baseball games.

[Ram1380]

I'm sure he still calls that 2nd pitch a strike on Soler if it was Votto in the box instead

 

 

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Edited April 15, 2015 by Ram1380

[Dr. Cub]

With the exception of a very few decent innings, what has anyone seen that would give them confidence in this team? As much as I loved the last two wins, what I've seen hasn't exactly given me hope. With the exception of Soler, of course.

 

They won baseball games.

 

So all it takes is facing Latroy and an idiot Reds manager to give you confidence in this team? Good to know.

[UMFan83]

With the exception of a very few decent innings, what has anyone seen that would give them confidence in this team? As much as I loved the last two wins, what I've seen hasn't exactly given me hope. With the exception of Soler, of course.

 

I am not sure I would let you operate on me

[Dr. Cub]

With the exception of a very few decent innings, what has anyone seen that would give them confidence in this team? As much as I loved the last two wins, what I've seen hasn't exactly given me hope. With the exception of Soler, of course.

 

I am not sure I would let you operate on me

 

Uhhhhhh, ok.

[Guest]

With the exception of a very few decent innings, what has anyone seen that would give them confidence in this team? As much as I loved the last two wins, what I've seen hasn't exactly given me hope. With the exception of Soler, of course.

 

They won baseball games.

 

So all it takes is facing Latroy and an idiot Reds manager to give you confidence in this team? Good to know.

 

All good things are to be discounted as externalities and all negative things are harbingers of things to come.

[Ram1380]

Cy DeSclafani

 

:roll:

[itisallpartoftheplan]

I wish they would stop using that camera view behind home plate...

[UMFan83]

Cy DeSclafani

 

:roll:

 

You just gotta tip your cap

[Hairyducked Idiot]

With the exception of a very few decent innings, what has anyone seen that would give them confidence in this team? As much as I loved the last two wins, what I've seen hasn't exactly given me hope. With the exception of Soler, of course.

 

They won baseball games.

 

So all it takes is facing Latroy and an idiot Reds manager to give you confidence in this team? Good to know.

 

They also won 50% of the games that did not fit that description.

 

"Confidence" in the team is meaningless. It's a stupid, meatball term. I think they're a decent baseball team in a league with very few great baseball teams to worry about. It's a high-variance sport and they could have an awesome record or a terrible one in five months, but I see no reason to like them less than anyone outside of Washington or LA likes their team.

[KaiserCesar]

Good pitching. Good hitting approach. Great bullpen.

 

Our team ERA is about 12th in the NL out of 15 teams, and our OBP is about 10th last I checked. Not sure I feel that's too impressive.

 

All that being said, the peripherals have been solid. The Cubs are swinging at balls outside of the strike zone less than any other team and lead the league in FIP. Unfortunately, their opposing BABIP is the highest in the league for the Cubs while the offensive BABIP is near the bottom of the league.

[Dr. Cub]

With the exception of a very few decent innings, what has anyone seen that would give them confidence in this team? As much as I loved the last two wins, what I've seen hasn't exactly given me hope. With the exception of Soler, of course.

 

They won baseball games.

 

So all it takes is facing Latroy and an idiot Reds manager to give you confidence in this team? Good to know.

 

All good things are to be discounted as externalities and all negative things are harbingers of things to come.

That's quite a leap and not even remotely close to what I said and/or suggested

[Clem Fandango]

Good pitching. Good hitting approach. Great bullpen.

 

Our team ERA is about 12th in the NL out of 15 teams, and our OBP is about 10th last I checked. Not sure I feel that's too impressive.

 

There's more to pitching and hitting than just ERA and OBP

[TruffleShuffle]

go away milt pappas

[Hairyducked Idiot]

That's quite a leap and not even remotely close to what I said and/or suggested

 

I'm honestly not sure what you *are* suggesting.

 

Some weird notion about having no confidence as a default and the team can only convince you to change that default setting by doing things that can't be discounted with glib dismissals.

[UMFan83]

Good pitching. Good hitting approach. Great bullpen.

 

Our team ERA is about 12th in the NL out of 15 teams, and our OBP is about 10th last I checked. Not sure I feel that's too impressive.

 

There's more to pitching and hitting than just ERA and OBP

 

Yeah like W/L and RBIs

[treebird]

jd straight trolling pappas

[Sammys Boombox]

Milt Pappas LOL

[Careless]

Yes, Pappas, you can easily see how big a difference conditioning makes by looking at the change steroids made

[Brian]

Marlon would have caught that

[Guest]

With the exception of a very few decent innings, what has anyone seen that would give them confidence in this team? As much as I loved the last two wins, what I've seen hasn't exactly given me hope. With the exception of Soler, of course.

 

They won baseball games.

 

So all it takes is facing Latroy and an idiot Reds manager to give you confidence in this team? Good to know.

 

All good things are to be discounted as externalities and all negative things are harbingers of things to come.

That's quite a leap and not even remotely close to what I said and/or suggested

 

They've played 6 games. There are no inferences to be made about how confident you should be in the team. The fact that they haven't choked on their tongues thus far, like the past few Aprils, is a good sign because it still means the likely outcome is still where they're projected to be, which is a pretty good team.

[Careless]

Good pitching. Good hitting approach. Great bullpen.

 

Our team ERA is about 12th in the NL out of 15 teams, and our OBP is about 10th last I checked. Not sure I feel that's too impressive.

 

There's more to pitching and hitting than just ERA and OBP

 

Yeah like W/L and RBIs

I know you're joking, but RBI?

[George Hayduke]

God Pappas is boring to listen to.