5/24 Cubs (Hammel) @ D-backs (Hellickson), 3:10pm, WGN

[d_money]

That was tattooed

[Sammy Sofa]

Damn you, goldenrod.

[Derwood]

Ugh

[Ski]

Whelp.

 

This is why I don't get excited when we face shitty pitching anymore.

[UMFan83]

This is like the opposite of the Mets series where everyone looked at the pitching matchups and figured we were in for a tough series. In this series we had our 3 best guys going against their garbage. Still plenty of time today though.

[Schwarber Fan]

Just one of those series, boys.

[Guest]

What? Why isn't the neighborhood play reviewable? You have to be touching the base with the ball in your glove to get the out. That's just the rules.

 

I believe the logic is that the behavior that leads to the neighborhood play is done so to avoid hard contact, so they don't want to incent collisions with the rules. Problem is that people like Ahmed are abusing it when there's zero chance of the runner breaking up the DP and they get the ball to 1st a half step faster.

I've heard umpires say that the neighborhood play is an invention of sportswriters and announcers. Major league middle infielders have to be quick and nimble to play their position, and they typically barely drag their toe across bag when making the turn, but it's hard to tell unless you're right on top of the play, like an umpire. Basically, they're rarely 'phantom touching' the bag - it's just too quick to notice in real time on the broadcast.

 

So, if they generally are touching the bag when turning double plays, if umpires are to be taken at their word, then it should be reviewable, at least in flagrant cases. Any competent shortstop or second basemen should be able to scrape their foot over the bag, avoid the slide, and throw the ball to first.

 

That's part of the logic behind not having it reviewable too if I remember, that many neighborhood plays are just fielders being really fast/nimble, so by having it be unreviewable you're promoting safety while not making a huge swath of plays unreviewable. They are able to review if the throw pulls the runner off the base, but they make a distinction between the fielder moving away from the base to avoid a sliding runner v. moving away from the base so he can catch the throw. The whole thing is silly.

[Sammys Boombox]

This inning sums up this series. Minus the Rizzo to the rescue of last night.

[DiamondMind]

lot of really hard contact :\

[Guest]

Goldschmidt is one of those uber-terminators from the new movie, isn't he

[ScrubMD]

Hopefully we can just beat up on a shitty team at some point this year.

[Ski]

I said we should bean Goldschmidt in the opener so we wouldn't have to face him again.

 

WHY DOES NO ONE LISTEN

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 14-12 (.538) when the opponent hits at least 1 HR.... 10-6 (.625) when they don't

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[ScrubMD]

Going from this series to the Nationals series feels the same as it did going into the Mets series....So hopefully that happens again.

[Guest]

Auburn baseball announcers showing the appropriate amount of surprise at David Ross hitting a HR

[sneakypower]

our lineup is sneaky bad right now

 

- Castro is basically Ruben Tejada at the moment

- Soler is GB/K guarantee

- Coghlan is permanently accursed

 

- Lester starts add two total zeroes to the lineup

[Sammy Sofa]

our lineup is sneaky bad right now

 

- Castro is basically Ruben Tejada at the moment

- Soler is GB/K guarantee

- Coghlan is permanently accursed

 

- Lester starts add two total zeroes to the lineup

 

Sneaky bad? Everyone's been talking about about how it usually half-sucks to varying degrees.

[Guest]

Soler is kinda fixed

[Butterscup1679666578]

why are the cubs throwing the bat so much this year?

[Derwood]

For the umpteenth time this weekend: [expletive] this ballpark

[Guest]

our lineup is sneaky bad right now

 

- Castro is basically Ruben Tejada at the moment

- Soler is GB/K guarantee

- Coghlan is permanently accursed

 

- Lester starts add two total zeroes to the lineup

 

Yeah those 3 did not hold up their end of the bargain this month. Some promising recent signs from Soler though, 8 for his last 20 with 4 doubles.

[Sammy Sofa]

Soler is kinda fixed

 

No.

[Guest]

Coghlan!

[Guest]

sneaky can you talk badly about some other players

[Fred Hornkohl]

our lineup is sneaky bad right now

 

- Castro is basically Ruben Tejada at the moment

- Soler is GB/K guarantee

- Coghlan is permanently accursed

 

- Lester starts add two total zeroes to the lineup

 

Boy, you're really having a tough day, eh?