9/11 GAME ONE Cubs (Arrieta) @ Phillies (Morgan) 4:05 PM CST, CSN

[ARCubsFan]

Brewers 2 Pirates 0

[ctcf]

Yay Brewers. They're up 2-0 on the Bucs early.

[sneakypower]

Asche Larry

[CubInOK]

Sweet Starlin is helping us now and helps that trade value. Win/win

You just hope we trade him for Adam Wainwright.

[Sammy Sofa]

Sweet Starlin is helping us now and helps that trade value. Win/win

 

I'm going to count this as you complimenting him.

He's been really good lately. Benching him was the right thing to do, he needed that mental break and Maddon is doing a good job at getting him in favorable spots.

 

Good Lord, what a meatball narrative. I think the benching definitely helped in that it made him realize he needed to change something at the plate, but it's those actual changes that's he been coached on and that he's executing that are making the difference, not a "mental break."

[Guest]

coomer kept calling matt stairs "stairsy" on the radio earlier when i was driving home

 

SERIOUSLY? Stairsy is going too far.

[Guest]

Sweet Starlin is helping us now and helps that trade value. Win/win

 

I'm going to count this as you complimenting him.

He's been really good lately. Benching him was the right thing to do, he needed that mental break and Maddon is doing a good job at getting him in favorable spots.

 

Good Lord, what a meatball narrative. I think the benching definitely helped in that it made him realize he needed to change something at the plate, but it's those actual changes that's he been coached on and that he's executing that are making the difference, not a "mental break."

 

i don't see why the concept of a mental break is necessarily some meatbally notion

[Guest]

what was that awesome thing bogusevic did for us once

[Ski]

Phew.

[Guest]

so a friend of mine is deaf in one ear. i don't know the specifics but he's getting some kind of device drilled into his head and this thing apparently syncs with his bluetooth so he can like listen to stuff from his phone through it

 

what an age we live in

[Guest]

oh btw i want to take a second to make fun of umfan for repeatedly calling for john mallee's firing just because he wanted some kind of symbolic shake up

[weis21]

so a friend of mine is deaf in one ear. i don't know the specifics but he's getting some kind of device drilled into his head and this thing apparently syncs with his bluetooth so he can like listen to stuff from his phone through it

 

what an age we live in

that's equal parts awesome and random.

[Sammy Sofa]

Sweet Starlin is helping us now and helps that trade value. Win/win

 

I'm going to count this as you complimenting him.

He's been really good lately. Benching him was the right thing to do, he needed that mental break and Maddon is doing a good job at getting him in favorable spots.

 

Good Lord, what a meatball narrative. I think the benching definitely helped in that it made him realize he needed to change something at the plate, but it's those actual changes that's he been coached on and that he's executing that are making the difference, not a "mental break."

 

i don't see why the concept of a mental break is necessarily some meatbally notion

 

Because we've just had two posts in short order from people here thinking the benching itself is what fixed him, as opposed to the tangible changes in his approach at the plate that you have actually posted some of the best evidence of.

 

But yeah, I'm sure it's more that he had more time to sit around and think real hard about things.

[ctcf]

so a friend of mine is deaf in one ear. i don't know the specifics but he's getting some kind of device drilled into his head and this thing apparently syncs with his bluetooth so he can like listen to stuff from his phone through it

 

what an age we live in

 

Is that kinda like how you hear?

[Guest]

so a friend of mine is deaf in one ear. i don't know the specifics but he's getting some kind of device drilled into his head and this thing apparently syncs with his bluetooth so he can like listen to stuff from his phone through it

 

what an age we live in

that's equal parts awesome and random.

 

i just found out about it

 

he was talking about how he'll be able to listen to yankees games while he works while noone is the wiser

[ARCubsFan]

I'd rather have the pitcher hit 7th at this point over Ross

[weis21]

so a friend of mine is deaf in one ear. i don't know the specifics but he's getting some kind of device drilled into his head and this thing apparently syncs with his bluetooth so he can like listen to stuff from his phone through it

 

what an age we live in

that's equal parts awesome and random.

is it some variation of the cochlear implant?

[ARCubsFan]

uh why is Arrieta staying in?

[Guest]

I'd rather have the pitcher hit 7th at this point over Ross

 

you are an abomination of a human

[Sammy Sofa]

This is all I can think of every time David Ross plays:

 

[ctcf]

uh why is Arrieta staying in?

 

Because it's a DH?

[ctcf]

Is Hendricks still pitching game 2?

[philosophizer75]

I didn't know if anyone knew anything, and I had seen the phrase rip diamondmind pop up several times. Thanks for replying though banedon.

[Guest]

so a friend of mine is deaf in one ear. i don't know the specifics but he's getting some kind of device drilled into his head and this thing apparently syncs with his bluetooth so he can like listen to stuff from his phone through it

 

what an age we live in

that's equal parts awesome and random.

is it some variation of the cochlear implant?

 

think it's called a bone conduction hearing aid?

[Sammy Sofa]

Arrieta doesn't get to sit until he gets his ERA under 2.