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

[Guest]

get your [expletive] together jon

[JonJayCutler]

I'm completely appalled that a pitcher of Lester's caliber struggles with the things that every pitcher at the MLB level should have long mastered.

 

[expletive] ridiculous.

[UMFan83]

Lester not making it easy on himself by insisting on a second pitcher, unable to throw to first and not covering first.

 

The first one possibly killed a big inning, the second and third allowed a harmless hit to come around and score to tie the game.

[DiamondMind]

what the hell is he doing lol

[Schwarber Fan]

Why would you pitch to Braun here

 

it's the second inning and braun is nothing special anymore

 

As opposed to the rest of this lineup?

[DiamondMind]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[Guest]

I am truly curious, does Lester not practice making throws in practice? And if so, are there balls flying every which way on every throw? Or does he not have the issue in practice? How can this be fixed?

 

have you ever heard of the yips?

[jersey cubs fan]

I'm completely appalled that a pitcher of Lester's caliber struggles with the things that every pitcher at the MLB level should have long mastered.

 

[expletive] ridiculous.

I'm completely amused by your silliness.

[kujay]

This is some little league [expletive].

[Ski]

For [expletive]'s sake, knock it off with the scrappy Royals [expletive], Brewers.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Not sure why anyone would even pitch to Braun with this ghost of a shell of a Brew Crew. But to each his own.

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 4-8 (.333) when the opponent steals 3 or more bases.... 60-40 (.600) when they don't

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[DiamondMind]

this is kind of hilarious

[UMFan83]

I'm completely appalled that a pitcher of Lester's caliber struggles with the things that every pitcher at the MLB level should have long mastered.

 

[expletive] ridiculous.

 

I forgot where but I read someone say that the only actual baseball skill Lester has is pitching (which obviously is a great skill to have and has made him a lot of money), but everything else a baseball player should do he is terrible at, fielding, throwing to other bases, hitting, bunting, probably base running if he ever got on base, etc.

[Guest]

I'm completely appalled that a pitcher of Lester's caliber struggles with the things that every pitcher at the MLB level should have long mastered.

 

[expletive] ridiculous.

 

here's another guy who doesn't understand the yips

[Schwarber Fan]

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.

[sontensei]

48 P in the 3rd? vs. AAA brew crew?

[Andy]

I felt like Lester wouldn't have gotten to first in time anyway on that Braun hit.

[apete6]

So...unless Lester throws no-hit ball, he's guaranteed to give up at least 1 stupid run per game? Good to know. Arrietta for important games, please.

[Guest]

i'm pretty sure that when lester was making 70-90 pickoff throws a year, he wasn't launching balls into the outfield on 80% of them

 

sooo maybe it's not about practicing or mastering anything and maybe it's the yips

Edited August 13, 2015 by David

[UMFan83]

For [expletive]'s sake, knock it off with the scrappy Royals [expletive], Brewers.

 

Why would they stop when its clearly working and clearly effecting Lester?

[Tryptamine]

This is going to bite the Cubs in the ass so hard should they make the playoffs. This headcase nonsense needs to get fixed.

[Andy]

Hopefully Bosio is just telling him to get a [expletive] out and quit worrying about baserunners.

[Ski]

[expletive] finally.

[kujay]

Jesus what a disaster for only having given up one.