9/1 Reds (DeScalfani) @ Cubs (Haren) 7:05, WGN

[Sammy Sofa]

Just heard on the score that Joey Votto has a .577 OBP since the All Star break

 

.393/.577/.711/1.288 since the ASB, good Lord.

 

It moved.

[Sammy Sofa]

I also want to time travel to the playoffs to not have to witness Schwarber's adjustment period.

[Careless]

crap

[UMFan83]

Schwarber is going to be a stud, but while he is looking awful and figuring things out, Id like to see him hit lower in the order.

[Fro]

Coghlan needed to not hit that towards dead center.

[Schwarber Fan]

How was that not a homer? Whatever.

[Guest]

votto already has 115 walks

[ScrubMD]

I know he wasn't as good as his ERA in AA, but I wish they'd give Johnson a couple starts, just because we don't have any good options right now.

[Sammy Sofa]

Good job, fartbag. NOW GIMME THOSE DONGS.

[Sammy Sofa]

NOT A DONG.

[Sammy Sofa]

NOT A DONG.

[Gilby]

Bryant entered play right at 5.0 fWAR.

 

#heisgood

[Sammy Sofa]

Redemption time, Baez. David insists you weren't demoted, but well know it's true, because you were catastrophically bad. Now...UNLEASH.

[UMFan83]

Well he fits right in I guess

[Sammy Sofa]

Bah.

[rocket]

still a bum

[Fro]

Well he fits right in I guess

 

At least he got the count to 2-2 instead of just fouling off a million pitches that were balls.

[weis21]

I'll do something crazy and give him more than one PA back up. He clearly swung out of his shoes on a couple of those but it could be jitters.

[Cubbie Swagger]

I don't understand.

 

First pitch is a breaking ball on the outside bottom corner. He takes it. I'm sitting here going, "Okay, Javy, now they are going to throw you the same pitch, except off the plate. Everyone knows it. You SHOULD know it. Please don't swing." The next pitch is exactly as expected, and he whiffs at it miserably.

 

Don't AAA pitchers know how to do that? Can't Javy just...... learn?

[weis21]

Or. You know, it's one time to the plate in the MLB since last year and he could just take a bit to settle in. Sure, maybe he strikes out 41% of the time again, but I'm going to give just a touch higher sample size. He clearly has made some adjustments and was getting much better results in AAA

[ARCubsFan]

Can we please stop freaking out over one at-bat

[Sammy Sofa]

Nobody freaked out, you goon.

[weis21]

Can we please stop freaking out over one at-bat

this is when you all should know you were very wrong to freak out over one at-bat

[weis21]

Nobody freaked out, you goon.

eh. "why can't he learn", "he fits right in", and "he's still a bum" are bad enough IMO. Not to mention it's not like everyone else is lighting up DeScalfani.

[Sammy Sofa]

6 whole posts. One said "bah," the other (clearly tongue in cheek) called him a bum; one sarcastically said he fit in because, hey, this team, strikes out a LOT, another bemoaned him swinging at a terrible pitch, one talked about wanting to give him more PA's before judging and the other glad he got the count to 2-3 instead of just doing nothing but hacking.

 

OH MY GOD, SO MUCH FREAKING OUT. Nobody actually said he was toast or hopeless or anything. We thrive on sarcasm here; one would think it would be more readily recognized by regulars.