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57 minutes ago, imb said:

and they have 13 bombs in 20 innings so far this year ... 

15 minutes later they got another one

Either those bats are going to get banned or other teams are going to steal the idea.

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man sunday night baseball still brings back the memories. wish it was still miller and morgan but ravech is cool too

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6 hours ago, Bertz said:

I think the issues are Brewers pitching and Aaron Judge's awesomeness than a new bat type.

 

Yankees also put together an offense that is highly proficient at getting the ball in the air. They probably haven't gotten enough credit for the Chisholm pickup. 

 

The OPS up and down that lineup right now are ridiculous.

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Surely I am not the only masochist on here that can’t wait to watch the Cubs bullpen vs Aaron Judge and the Yankees. 

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The next time Jed and Theo get together to catch up:

JED:

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I work in a baseball front office because I always had a thing for beating up on bad bullpens.  
2015, 2016, it got wild.  We were coming back on bad bullpens every night.  Always different ones… young pitchers, old pitchers.  Sometimes multiple pitchers a night.  


I was out of control.  I became insatiable.  And you know, after a few seasons of that, I started to lose it.  Why do I feel this need to beat up on bad bullpens?  What is desire?  Why does this form of a bad bullpen pitcher have this grip on me?  


I realized that I could see the Cubs come back on a million bad bullpens and I would never be satisfied.  Maybe, maybe what I really want is for the Cubs to have one of these bad bullpens.  

THEO:

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Really?  Not Really?

JED: No really.  So one year, I signed some bullpen pitchers…

and instead of our offense playing f the closer… Our closer started f-ing us… and it was kindof magical.  

And I got it in my head that I wanted our bullpen to be one of these terrible bullpens… getting horsefeathered by the other teams, and to feel that.  


THEO:

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Uh huh


JED: So one year, I put out an ad for a former closer with falling velocity who could come over and blow games for us.  Found some guys that could do the job.  
Then I put on a jockstrap and a jersey, made myself look like one of these pitchers.  I thought I looked pretty hot.   Then Brad Boxberger would come into the game and rail the horsefeathers out of us.   
Then I got addicted to that.  Some games, three… four guys would come into the game and rail the horsefeathers out of us.  All of them I even had to pay.  And at the same time, I hired Craig Counsell… To just sit there, and watch the whole thing.  I’d look in his eyes while Eli Morgan is giving up 6 runs in 2/3 of an inning and think… I am him.  And I’m horsefeathering me.  


THEO:

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Um hum...

JED: Hey, we all have our Achilles heel you know.   Where does it come from?  Why are some of us attracted to the opposite form you know?  Baseball is a poetic game.  It’s a metaphor.  A metaphor for what?  Am I a middle aged president of baseball ops on the inside too?  Or inside, could I be Caleb Thielbar?  
 

THEO: Right… I don’t know.  


JED:

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Guess I am trying to blow games on my way to the answer.  

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Aaron Judge Destroys Pitchers, So Don't Be A Pitcher And You'll Be Fine | Defector

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More specifically, Aaron Judge had delivered the necessary conditions by his lonesome and his teammates just kicked into the pot. Judge homered three times in the first four innings—including one of the instablasts off Cortes—plus a grand slam in the third and a two-run dinger in the fourth off Connor Thomas. He also doubled in New York's 18th run off Elvis Peguero and would almost certainly have one more at-bat to give him a shot at becoming the 19th player in major league history to hit four home runs in a game, and the second since the utterly godlike Scooter Gennett.

Like any semi-aware manager, Milwaukee's Pat Murphy saw this looming possibility for epochal humiliation and inserted Bauers into the game as the first baseman in the top of the eighth, during which he doubled in the Brewers' seventh run and cut the Yankee lead to a paltry 13. But sensing that Bauers might not get another at-bat and, even if he did, the Brewers were unlikely to bat around three times in the ninth, Murphy sent Bauers to the mound for the eighth so that Joel Payamps could be fully rested for Sunday's scheduled calamity. Bauers would thus face the heart of the Yankee order—Cody Bellinger, You Know Who His Bad Self, and Jazz Chisholm Jr., who had combined on their own to go 9-for-13 with nine runs scored and 13 RBIs already.

This was supposed to be the moment when Judge would make that history we discussed earlier, but Murphy had done his homework. Bauers had faced the Yankees last year and escaped without lasting damage (he loaded the bases but allowed no runs) in what was eventually a 15-5 Yankee victory. It was Bauers' first game as a big league pitcher, and he maintained a steady velocity in the mid- to high-50s, including a 38-mph lollipop to Anthony Volpe. Gotta keep 'em on their heels, after all.

He pitched three more times last year, getting roughed up only once, against the Giants in September. Bauers had gotten his velocity up to the mid-to-high 60s by then, but the Giants came first-pitch swinging and doubled three times off him in a 13-2 loss in September. So while Bauers had a book on Saturday's Yankees (well, Volpe, anyway), the Yankees had a book on him as well. Thus, the eighth inning was fraught with high tension—with a possibility of low comedy on the side.

Bauers navigated his way around Bellinger, then faced Judge with most of the 46,683 people at Yankee Stadium roaring for the fourth home run from their SUV-sized idol. And Bauers had a limited number of choices, as he had cracked 80 mph just twice and 70 five times in his then-78-pitch career. He hadn't dared dip below 40 since that Volpe at-bat. But he knew well enough not to try to go dead red in this embarrassment-charged situation. All he had going for him was a disarming cheap laugh, really, so he pointed to his ribs as if to say, "I'd rather hit you than you hit me." Then he juiced up his most agonizing 55-mph curve ball (which the MLB computer called an eephus even though it was just extremely time-delayed), the third slowest pitch of his career.

"I gave him the best curveball I have," Bauers said. "He still hit it pretty good, but I think he top-spun it, so I knew it was going to stay in.”

And so it, a line drive to left that ... wait for it ... died a mere 357 feet from home plate and in the glove of left fielder Isaac Collins. History had been dope-slapped, glory had been denied, and Bauers went back to the hotel able to say he was the best Brewer pitcher on a day they hit nine homers and scored 20 runs.

Judge, for his part, went home knowing that he still isn't as good a power hitter as Scooter Gennett. Baseball is known as a game of failure even on a day of almost unprecedented success, so who knows when he will get another chance. Well, today's game starts at 1:35 p.m. ET if that's any help, and Bauers has never pitched with less than 30 days' rest, so he might not be available to remind Judge just who his pitching daddy is.

Ray Ratto rules.

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3 hours ago, Sammy Sofa said:

Ray Ratto rules.

Every so often I go back to his article on the guys that attacked the Royals first base coach at a White Sox game: https://www.espn.com/mlb/columns/ratto_ray/1434400.html

 

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Put another way, if you really need to lead your kid to jail and you can't come up with a more lucrative idea than beating up a guy on a ballfield WHO ISN'T EVEN CARRYING A WALLET, YOU DUMB ASSES, doesn't professional pride dictate that you make a run at pitcher Kris Wilson, who is 6-4, 225? Or at least that you do it before the Royals released Blake Stein, who was 6-7, 240?

I mean, where's your dignity, fellas? Where's your pride in the mugger's craft?

At least when that bond trader jumped Randy Myers that day at Wrigley Field, he was not only picking on a player, but a player who could and would twist a man's head off just to see the expression on his face. That guy did his time and paid his fine and had the satisfaction of telling his boys on the assembly line, "One time, I got so stupid on beer that I tried to beat up a guy who could kill me, skin me, gut me and serve me up with potatoes, two veg and an inexpensive but perky merlot. And THAT'S why I keep going to the meetings.''

 

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Randy Myers was attacked after he, a relief pitcher, gave up a home run. Now just imagine how long a Chicago Cubs game would last these days if that happened every single game. You’d have to clear the field of idiots every single inning, maybe twice an inning. 

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Dodgers spend billions of dollars on putting the best team together, win the World Series, favourites to win the World Series again, spend even more horsefeathers you money and because baseball is an unpredictable sport from day to day and today the Dodgers aren’t having a particularly good day, the starter gets booed. 
 

Tell me the Dodgers fan base doesn’t deserve their owners without telling me. 

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Lately the league has carried a 240-245 BA and a 290ish BABIP

 

This year so far they are hitting 230 with a 273 BABIP

 

I suppose as we always say offense will rise with the weather, but I kind of feel like it probably won't hit 240/290. How much can we reasonably expect it to rise?

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