8/13 Brewers (Cravy) @ Cubs (Lester) - 1:20 PM CT ABC

[Guest]

i hate you babip

[Guest]

Lineouts continue to be annoying.

 

you'll solve baseball one of these days

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are seeing 4.46 P/PA through 3 innings.

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Schwarber Fan]

Coghlan has to be #1 in the league in "line outs to LF."

[DiamondMind]

http://i.imgur.com/RjT7RCC.gif

[sontensei]

A sick part of me would like to see just how far this rabbit hole goes. Like have a team do nothing but bunt right at him and take leads half way down first.

 

Lets be Honest, last time we went against the Pirates Ross saved the cubs ass* on those pickoffs (for the game that didn't count). But they are a pretty speedy team overall. I'm going to be terrified if Lester pitches that game.

[DiamondMind]

Lets be Honest, last time we went against the Pirates Ross saved the cubs ass* on those pickoffs (for the game that didn't count). But they are a pretty speedy team overall. I'm going to be terrified if Lester pitches that game.

 

Me too. We got a good look at how horrifying it really could be.

Edited August 13, 2015 by DiamondMind

[Fred Hornkohl]

The last time a opposing starter didn't give up at least 2 runs to the CUBS......

 

Gm#    Date       Opponent         Score  Starter         Opp Starter
101  Thu 07/30  @ Milwaukee     N   5- 2  Arrieta         Nelson

 

..... we still won !!!

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[DiamondMind]

If you erase that half inning from your brain, Lesters pitching a really good game today still

[Careless]

Coghlan has to be #1 in the league in "line outs to LF."

I'm betting heavily against a left handed batter leading the league in that.

[DiamondMind]

Good rebound Jon

[jersey cubs fan]

Let's be honest, most people here will be terrified by any game situation that occurs in October.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Brewers seeing 3.53 P/PA through 4 innings.

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Banedon]

Let's be honest, most people here will be terrified by any game situation that occurs in October.

 

Good lord, these game threads will be just ridiculous.

[Guest]

Let's be honest, most people here will be terrified by any game situation that occurs in October.

 

yup

 

i will be good and lubed up for that one game playoff...whether i'm at it or i'm having a pizza party at home

[Fred Hornkohl]

Let's be honest, most people here will be terrified by any game situation that occurs in October.

 

Good lord, these game threads will be just ridiculous.

 

Ya think ??

[Guest]

in the playoffs i'm basically rondon fan if i'm not inebriated Edited August 13, 2015 by David

[Sammy Sofa]

My idea of what the game is just reading the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the thread: Cubs losing 5-0 and Lester has been chased.

 

The reality when I check: 1-1 and Lester has 6 strikeouts.

 

So silly.

[Guest]

I hope we feast on Samardzija

[sontensei]

Lester cannot be starting the WC game for this reason alone. I know Arrieta is the obvious choice to all of us, I just hope Maddon doesn't do something stupid.

 

I said this before and got bashed but I will say it again lester gets teh bump.

 

Okay so people don't listen to 670 much but just today Bruce Levine was on there interviewed and was asked about this. He replied "Everything I have heard is if the cubs make the wildcard playoff, Lester will get the start because Arrieta has never pitched more than 157 innings and in the playoffs" ..

 

he also said some really funny comments about how Castro is basically never going to be traded from Chicago because of his 200 hit season in 2011 and the fact is that the guy is way better than his performance..

 

Bruce Levine is an idiot, but still thats what HE heard. (re: the 1 game playoff)

 

for the record, I want arrieta on the bump for that game!

 

The last time you brought this up you said it was because he makes too much money to not pitch big games.

 

What bruce says makes a little sense. Even if you include the minors hes only pitched at most ~180 innings in a season. He's on pace for like 220+ innings right now. But regardless, whats the difference between him pitching a 1 game playoff and him pitching in the LDS?

 

Ideally, the Cubs can continue to stretch their lead and can allow Jake to get more rest in between starts.

 

I totally agree, once the rosters expand I could see a richard spot start with some guys like edwards eating a couple innings.

I did say that but it was only Salary I said Salary and Experience. Look, Im with everyone else I want to see Arrieta pitch that 1 game playoff.

Just saying Levine was saying exact same thing about Lester (not salary part but experience part) on the radio today.

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 26-17 (.605) in in one run games .... 10-5 (.667) in two runs games

 

 

Hey... that's more than half of our games !!

 

Go CUBS !!

[Andy]

It's really hard to believe that Haren's ERA is just 0.08 worse than Sale's.

[Guest]

I totally agree, once the rosters expand I could see a richard spot start with some guys like edwards eating a couple innings.

I did say that but it was only Salary I said Salary and Experience. Look, Im with everyone else I want to see Arrieta pitch that 1 game playoff.

Just saying Levine was saying exact same thing about Lester (not salary part but experience part) on the radio today.

 

Most of those guys are wrong about everything anyway

 

hell, just two days ago, i heard both kasper and rogers say they were pretty sure castro would go to SS and russell to 2b if he came into a game

 

2 hours later maddon was on the radio saying castro was taking grounders at 2b

[sontensei]

It's really hard to believe that Haren's ERA is just 0.08 worse than Sale's.

 

lol..

 

that was random

[UMFan83]

Shocker, more lineouts directly to OFs