10/12 Cardinals (Wacha) @ CUBS (ARRIETA), TBS, 5:07 CT

[Guest]

Cusack is a horrible person, but apparently nobody is 100% good or bad.

 

 

I actually don't get the Cusack hate (other than he shows up a lot whenever the Cubs are good), but I don't know much about him outside of his movies and the fact that he went to HS with my sister in law.

 

i also liked high fidelity, grosse pointe blank, and being john malkovich a lot. when i was a kid i used to love better off dead too.

[Guest]

oh by the way, aside from naming soler his daddy, pedro said he'd rather the cubbies (his word, not mine) be his daddy than the yankees anymore

[Brian]

Theo should sign him to the Manny deal (though being talking head is probably more lucrative than being kind of coach)

[Guest]

I cannot :(

 

[expletive] that. If I lived in Chicago, I'd end up broke going to playoff games.

[Guest]

[Guest]

Anyone catch Rizzo saying we don't plan on going back to Busch

[philosophizer75]

Oh my god did he actually say that? That's so gloriously cocky I love it.

[Guest]

Oh my god did he actually say that? That's so gloriously cocky I love it.

 

he didn't really say it in a cocky way...was more like a "that's gotta be our mentality" type of thing.

[Sammys Boombox]

Thought I was going to this game, but it's not going to work. I've got to convince the wife that we need to move to the Chicago area.

[philosophizer75]

Ah I see.

 

So the lineup I predict for monday:

 

1. Fowler CF

2. Schwarber LF

3. Bryant 3B

4. Rizzo 1B

5. Soler RF

6. La Stella 2B

7. Montero C

8. Russell SS

9. Arrieta P

 

I think if they put in a lefty maddon swaps baez in for la stella, but I don't think he pulls schwarber if its close because most of their best relief pitchers are righties (siegrist as the notable exception).

[UMFan83]

Why is Castro not considered?

[doublebubble]

cusack was at the game with the toepick guy (that terrible cutting edge movie) tonight

 

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http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2005/10/12/u3Myyqfy.jpg

 

number one fan indeed.

[rawaction]

Ah I see.

 

So the lineup I predict for monday:

 

1. Fowler CF

2. Schwarber LF

3. Bryant 3B

4. Rizzo 1B

5. Soler RF

6. La Stella 2B

7. Montero C

8. Russell SS

9. Arrieta P

 

I think if they put in a lefty maddon swaps baez in for la stella, but I don't think he pulls schwarber if its close because most of their best relief pitchers are righties (siegrist as the notable exception).

 

No. I already told you the lineup on the 1st page of this thread. Castro is 10-22 with 2 HRs and 2 doubles vs. Wacha. He better be starting over Tommy LaStella.

[CubmanPi]

If Arrieta starts your in trouble

[Guest]

Ah I see.

 

So the lineup I predict for monday:

 

1. Fowler CF

2. Schwarber LF

3. Bryant 3B

4. Rizzo 1B

5. Soler RF

6. La Stella 2B

7. Montero C

8. Russell SS

9. Arrieta P

 

I think if they put in a lefty maddon swaps baez in for la stella, but I don't think he pulls schwarber if its close because most of their best relief pitchers are righties (siegrist as the notable exception).

 

No. I already told you the lineup on the 1st page of this thread. Castro is 10-22 with 2 HRs and 2 doubles vs. Wacha. He better be starting over Tommy LaStella.

 

Yeah, starting LaStella over Castro with those splits is just not a Maddon style move. Thankfully.

[shnsajax]

Of course I'm moving this weekend and Monday is my only day without Directv. Guess I have to pretend to go to work and hit up the sports bar instead.

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 26-8 (.765) when Arrieta starts

Arrietta has 30 QS in 34 GS (.882)

CUBS score 4.24 R/G....... 4.18 R/G when Arrieta starts

CUBS OPS 0.716....... 0.712 when Arrieta starts

CUBS allow 3.73 R/G...... 2.24 when Arrieta starts

 

                  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16    Total

CUBS             10   7  24  11  20  19  22  20   8   0   0   1   0   0   0   0      142
Opponents         6   8   9   7   6  11   6  15   7   1   0   0   0   0   0   0       76

 

                   AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR   TB  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS
CUBS             1151  142  288   49    7   31  444  137  119  340  0.250  0.326  0.386  0.712
Oppt             1104   76  214   49    6   14  317   67   71  312  0.194  0.248  0.287  0.535

 

                     IP    H    R   ER   BB    K   HR  BB/9   K/9  HR/9  WHIP   ERA
CUBS              308.0  214   76   64   71  312   14  2.07  9.12  0.41  0.93  1.87
Oppt              301.0  288  142  128  119  340   31  3.56 10.17  0.93  1.35  3.83

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[BigSlick]

Arrieta has 30 QS in 34 starts? That's insane

[Guest]

You know, when my boss says she'll get us breakfast at work, it's normally a few bagels. Maddon really came through.

[Guest]

Also, Motte threw a simulated game this morning and felt fine afterwards.

[Bobson Dugnutt]

Arrieta has 30 QS in 34 starts? That's insane

 

I also can't believe there were actually 4 times he didn't get a quality start. Seems impossible.

[BigSlick]

I want no part of Motte in these playoffs

[UK1679666180]

With the way Cahill is pitching, Motte serves no purpose.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Cutting Edge was awesome you philistines.

[seanimal]

oh yeah he was in 8 men out too, wasnt he

 

shoeless joe, i think