6/17 Cubs (Wada) @ Indians (Marcum) 6:10 CST CSN+ (Happy Schwarber Day)

[Guest]

Schwarby

[BCVM22]

And 3 nicknames for Schwarber crept into my timeline that have potential....

 

Schwario

 

[Guest]

i was picturing wario when i read it

[Guest]

that was quick as [expletive] though

[ctcf]

I am still team SCHWARMACHINE

[Sammy Sofa]

I call the big one Bitey.

[RammyFanny]

"It" or The Thing.

[Guest]

so someone tweeted that maddon needs a stache because of q, ditka, and phil, and maddon's son tweeted this out

[tweet]https://twitter.com/JosephMaddon/status/611382519825457153[/tweet]

[Guest]

oh btw the cards lost

 

Were they playing one of our wild card rivals? That'd suck.

 

All interleague Mon-Thu so no. They are playing Minnesota. So hopefully Minnesota has to use all of it's pitchers in a win over the Cardinals tomorrow.

[Guest]

Don't answer his troll attempts

[Guest]

The Cubs are 2 games clear of a wild card spot, 4 games in the loss column.

[Guest]

The Cubs are 2 games clear of a wild card spot, 4 games in the loss column.

 

Good day all around outside of Pittsburgh winning. Mets, Nats, Giants and Cards all lost.

[Gilby]

Nationals wouldn't be in the playoffs if the season ended today. Before the season, I thought they were the best team assembled within the past ~5 years.

[ScrubMD]

The Cubs are 2 games clear of a wild card spot, 4 games in the loss column.

 

That's all great, but there's no avoiding the fact that the Cubs never get hot when they need to. The Pirates have won 20 of 25 and the Cubs haven't. That's not the sign of a team built for the playoffs.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Don't answer his troll attempts

 

I can respect how things are playing out exactly the way I said they would yet you act smug.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The Cubs are 2 games clear of a wild card spot, 4 games in the loss column.

 

That's all great, but there's no avoiding the fact that the Cubs never get hot when they need to. The Pirates have won 20 of 25 and the Cubs haven't. That's not the sign of a team built for the playoffs.

 

I'm convinced that a large swath of baseball fans have some kind of Platonic ideal of a playoff team that not even actually qualifying for the playoffs is enough to meet the criteria.

[SABR Gamer]

The Cubs are 2 games clear of a wild card spot, 4 games in the loss column.

 

That's all great, but there's no avoiding the fact that the Cubs never get hot when they need to. The Pirates have won 20 of 25 and the Cubs haven't. That's not the sign of a team built for the playoffs.

 

Hoping this is a joke?

[ScrubMD]

The Cubs are 2 games clear of a wild card spot, 4 games in the loss column.

 

That's all great, but there's no avoiding the fact that the Cubs never get hot when they need to. The Pirates have won 20 of 25 and the Cubs haven't. That's not the sign of a team built for the playoffs.

 

Hoping this is a joke?

 

Rondon Fan's arguments convinced me.

[UMFan83]

The Cubs are 2 games clear of a wild card spot, 4 games in the loss column.

 

That's all great, but there's no avoiding the fact that the Cubs never get hot when they need to. The Pirates have won 20 of 25 and the Cubs haven't. That's not the sign of a team built for the playoffs.

 

Hoping this is a joke?

 

Rondon Fan's arguments convinced me.

 

Hah. I was going to say that you are much too respectable of a poster to be posting that garbage

[Little Slide Rooter]

The Cubs are 2 games clear of a wild card spot, 4 games in the loss column.

 

That's all great, but there's no avoiding the fact that the Cubs never get hot when they need to. The Pirates have won 20 of 25 and the Cubs haven't. That's not the sign of a team built for the playoffs.

 

Hoping this is a joke?

 

Baseball emo.

 

It's more a win than 2-1, but fun to watch. And that should be worth something. If nothing else, they made the pythag theorem their bitch.

[treebird]

like how bad would he have to be behind the plate to not be worth 3+ wins if he hits like .280/.370/.470-.500ish

 

do you not believe in catcher framing anymore?

[Guest]

like how bad would he have to be behind the plate to not be worth 3+ wins if he hits like .280/.370/.470-.500ish

 

do you not believe in catcher framing anymore?

 

Reports on that have been optimistic.

[treebird]

like how bad would he have to be behind the plate to not be worth 3+ wins if he hits like .280/.370/.470-.500ish

 

do you not believe in catcher framing anymore?

 

Reports on that have been optimistic.

 

ONE from outside the cubs?

TWO i trust catcher framing scouting even less than i trust catcher framing statistics

[Fro]

As a hilarious postscript, Indians just DFAed Marcum

[Guest]

like how bad would he have to be behind the plate to not be worth 3+ wins if he hits like .280/.370/.470-.500ish

 

do you not believe in catcher framing anymore?

 

Reports on that have been optimistic.

 

ONE from outside the cubs?

TWO i trust catcher framing scouting even less than i trust catcher framing statistics

 

either way, i believe in it, but i also don't believe it's anywhere near certain that he's automatically so bad that it would make a good LF bat at C not be a very valuable player.