10/10 CUBS (HENDRICKS) @ CARDS (GARCIA,) 4:30 P.M. CT, TBS

[Banedon]

My goodness that was fun. And we really needed that freaking game.

[Banedon]

http://i.imgur.com/fMK3RjQ.gifv

 

Fun fact. You can post .gifv files by just posting the URL without an img tag. Just did that on accident.

 

It was one of the addons Tim recently added....in the last week or so. You can do it with twitter, images, etc, now.

[UMFan83]

Testing

 

[UMFan83]

Oh that is awesome

[Sammy Sofa]

Man, I really wish Soler hadn't turned out to be such a catastrophe defensively.

 

Careful not to read too much into one (limited) season's worth of extreme (good or bad) defensive numbers. I don't think that's necessarily what he is.

 

Also, I think his presence alone at least has some impact on the chances teams will take on the bases, which isn't really taken into account.

 

I'm say that's what he is right now. It'll be great if next season he's not terrible, but right now he's a liability defensively.

[ConstableRabbit]

The crowd in my section acted like they were at a funeral after the squeezes. It was incredible. How could the team not field the right way? Go Cubs.

[PackLandVA]

Once again, a little late to the party with this, but....

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/HBarV9g.jpg

[UK1679666180]

The crowd in my section acted like they were at a funeral after the squeezes. It was incredible. How could the team not field the right way? Go Cubs.

 

I did have the pleasure of sitting next to someone who asked me if it was true that Maddon had a small penis as well as another Cards fan asking who was singing the 7th inning stretch (Jack Buck when he was at Wrigley).

 

Most around me were pretty good though.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

I want everyone to know that it is possible to "heart" your own posts...

[jumbo]

I'll try not to romanticize the significance of it too much, since it was only one game. But, how great was that game from Jorge Soler? I remember how excited I was about him last year. I'm thinking of that bomb he hit in Busch last year and how easy it was to fantasize about him doing something similar in a game with more implications. At the time, it was like, yeah, be ready for a steady dose of this in the future, Redbirds. And then he pumpkin'd on us this year. But, then today, he sorta reintroduced himself, as if to say, don't forget about me, guys. It's not that the one game magically changes anything with him or anything like that. He could go back to pumpkin status tomorrow and stay that way until the end of time. It was just fun, in the sense of: Oh yeah, we have this dongsmith, as well.

 

I commented to someone that yesterday's game seemed like the first time Soler had a fair strike zone in a long time. Probably hyperbolic, but yesterday's zone was pretty good (or at least less poor) than what I've become used to. Anyway, I almost had myself convinced that Soler never quit having an advanced eye and good contact skills when he doesn't get a shitty strike zone.