7/8 cards (wacha) @ cubs (hammel) 7:05 CSN/ESPN

[Irrelevant Dude]

Playoff atmosphere appears to be back at Wrigley. Oh, how I have missed that.

[ARCubsFan]

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[Guest]

some GRB posters are consoling themselves by talking about how many games they are up in the wild card

[Gilby]

Rondon's been pretty great lately.

[ARCubsFan]

Rondon's been pretty great lately.

He's much better in a middle relief/set-up role and that's not a bad thing.

[Schwarber Fan]

I feel like Rizzo owns Choate.

[rawaction]

The Cubs should get Glanville to do color on radio. I like him.

 

Whatchu mean "color"?

[TruffleShuffle]

randy choate pitches in every game and faces one batter.

[Brian]

Tony is anxious to fire up the disco ball

[Schwarber Fan]

One more run would help me breathe a little easier.

[weis21]

YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY

true story: to this day I'll occasionally come across a biker driving against traffic and I'll say this out loud in the car. sometimes I have a passenger, but it's not really important. it just needs to be said out loud and loud enough to make me feel i nailed the movie line. this has been going on for at least 5 or 10 years now.

 

haha

 

btw does your annoying coworker still ask about the cubs?

never. i've never been mean to the guy but i think he's picked up on the fact that i don't necessarily enjoy talking cubs with him. or maybe he's just weird or thinks i'm weird. doesn't matter i guess.

 

but, funny story (if i can convey it). so after GAME ONE of the season, his email said "I see they are still the same bumbling, stumbling, dumbling cubs of always". to which, i though, is dumbling a word? surely not. but i googled it to make sure. the only thing that came up was urban dictionary:

 

Dumbling

Wearing unintelligent jewelry

i.e. Seriously dude? Wearing a 24 carat gold chain with your hoodie? Stop dumbling...

 

(the guy that sent the email is a 50-something white guy so he obviously just made the word up in his heated frustration over a single loss in a 162 game season)

 

So I forwarded this to another co-worker and it's been an ongoing joke when someone makes a mistake or looks dumb that they are dumbling.

[CubInOK]

Cards announcers are talking about Bryant's RBI/AB.

[PrimeTime]

Bryant has the eye of the tiger <3

[rawaction]

Rondon's been pretty great lately.

 

0 ER since May 22.

[PrimeTime]

Yes Soler!! Ill take a sac fly here!

[ARCubsFan]

<3 Jorge

[Irrelevant Dude]

I missed you good Jorge.

[treebird]

soler just always hits the ball hard. what a great man.

[NotSoSober]

does anyone consistently hit the ball harder than soler?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Damn, he hits the ball hard

[Little Slide Rooter]

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From Tennessee Smokies Tweet. If not the greatest thing ever, certainly in the top 10.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Castro give us that insurance please!!

[Guest]

I know it's a small sample but it seems like every ball Soler's hit since he's been back has been hit hard and he hasn't been swinging and missing nearly as much.

[downsr30]

That's Solers thing - if he's hitting the ball, he's fine. Earlier this year he couldn't make contact. I'd be interested to see his return velocity off the bat. Seems like it's SO loud.

 

 

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[NotSoSober]

man, that might have been fair

 

 

edit nope, it's not

Edited July 9, 2015 by NotSoSober