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[javy knows my name]

That hat is dope tho

[javy knows my name]

KB's eyes are gonna fuckin POP in that thing

[treebird]

That hat is dope tho

 

yeah i'm getting that immediately.

[wekse]

kinda want a Baez "El Mago" shirt

 

also dig the hat.

[Cubswin11]

Seal boy going with "LaStella" really kinda ruins Lester just going with Lester.

[bukie]

Kyle Seager wins the jersey name game.

 

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[Andy]

Kyle Seager wins the jersey name game.

 

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That one made me laugh too.

 

Most of the actual jerseys look terrible, although I find myself strangely liking the White Sox one.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

I can't wait for the sizzling Rick Morrissey take that is coming tomorrow.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

The Cubs (and Cardinals but who cares about them? Will have a shorter ASB than the other 28 teams next year:

 

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[jersey cubs fan]

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[We Got The Whole 9]

Per Cubs Insider, Wilson's fastball has the highest whiff rate among LHRP in MLB. We haven't see it yet in a Cubs uni but the sample is extremely small and that should change.

[Cubswin11]

Per Cubs Insider, Wilson's fastball has the highest whiff rate among LHRP in MLB. We haven't see it yet in a Cubs uni but the sample is extremely small and that should change.

I don't get that, other than he throws fast. He has no command/control of the FB and it doesn't seem to have a lot of movement and none of his secondary stuff seems great that he can get guys off the FB. I'm very disappointed in him with the eye test so far, the results speak for themselves, but just watching him pitch his stuff just doesn't inspire much confidence.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'm very disappointed in him with the eye test so far, the results speak for themselves, but just watching...doesn't inspire much confidence.

 

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Per Cubs Insider, Wilson's fastball has the highest whiff rate among LHRP in MLB. We haven't see it yet in a Cubs uni but the sample is extremely small and that should change.

I don't get that, other than he throws fast. He has no command/control of the FB and it doesn't seem to have a lot of movement and none of his secondary stuff seems great that he can get guys off the FB. I'm very disappointed in him with the eye test so far, the results speak for themselves, but just watching him pitch his stuff just doesn't inspire much confidence.

I mean he's pitched 4 innings. Sure they were not good at all but they are 4 innings.

 

He had a 12 K9 with Detroit.

[David]

Per Cubs Insider, Wilson's fastball has the highest whiff rate among LHRP in MLB. We haven't see it yet in a Cubs uni but the sample is extremely small and that should change.

I don't get that, other than he throws fast. He has no command/control of the FB and it doesn't seem to have a lot of movement and none of his secondary stuff seems great that he can get guys off the FB. I'm very disappointed in him with the eye test so far, the results speak for themselves, but just watching him pitch his stuff just doesn't inspire much confidence.

I mean he's pitched 4 innings. Sure they were not good at all but they are 4 innings.

 

He had a 12 K9 with Detroit.

 

before clicking into this thread i saw that mojo was the last poster and i was so confused when i saw this post as the most recent

[Sammy Sofa]

You're still a Bears fan, so I figure that's a pretty common feeling.

[David]

You're still a Bears fan, so I figure that's a pretty common feeling.

 

wait have you actually officially renounced your bears fandom or something?

[Cubswin11]

Per Cubs Insider, Wilson's fastball has the highest whiff rate among LHRP in MLB. We haven't see it yet in a Cubs uni but the sample is extremely small and that should change.

I don't get that, other than he throws fast. He has no command/control of the FB and it doesn't seem to have a lot of movement and none of his secondary stuff seems great that he can get guys off the FB. I'm very disappointed in him with the eye test so far, the results speak for themselves, but just watching him pitch his stuff just doesn't inspire much confidence.

I mean he's pitched 4 innings. Sure they were not good at all but they are 4 innings.

 

He had a 12 K9 with Detroit.

And that was only in 40 innings, which is kinda a small sample size with the fungibility of relief pitchers and his historical performance. The previous 4 years he's been in the 9s for K/9 in 3 of those years and 7s for one of those years (though he is/was upward trending) spanning ~250 innings and he's in the 9s overall for his career.

[Sammy Sofa]

You're still a Bears fan, so I figure that's a pretty common feeling.

 

wait have you actually officially renounced your bears fandom or something?

 

I must have brought that up a bajillion times here; outside of casually enjoying the schadenfreude of pro football's slooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww slog into death, I gave up actually following for it, like, two seasons ago. Watching football, especially Bears football, just bums me out.

[Banedon]

You're still a Bears fan, so I figure that's a pretty common feeling.

 

wait have you actually officially renounced your bears fandom or something?

 

I must have brought that up a bajillion times here; outside of casually enjoying the schadenfreude of pro football's slooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww slog into death, I gave up actually following for it, like, two seasons ago. Watching football, especially Bears football, just bums me out.

 

Same. If asked I'd probably still say I'm a Bears fan, but I didn't watch any football last season and I didn't miss it in the slightest.

[David]

You're still a Bears fan, so I figure that's a pretty common feeling.

 

wait have you actually officially renounced your bears fandom or something?

 

I must have brought that up a bajillion times here; outside of casually enjoying the schadenfreude of pro football's slooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww slog into death, I gave up actually following for it, like, two seasons ago. Watching football, especially Bears football, just bums me out.

 

i remember people saying stuff like this about baseball on this forum around 2011-12. i wonder if you'll feel the same when the bears are good again.

 

obviously, football is different with the whole moral component to watching people smash one another's brains into pulp, though.

 

i'm always going to love watching football (and i love gambling on it), even with all the terrible-ness. it is really the only sport where i will go out of my way to watch other regular season games outside of my own team. i guess i am a terrible person and compartmentalize any guilt i have over that part of it.

[David]

 

wait have you actually officially renounced your bears fandom or something?

 

I must have brought that up a bajillion times here; outside of casually enjoying the schadenfreude of pro football's slooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww slog into death, I gave up actually following for it, like, two seasons ago. Watching football, especially Bears football, just bums me out.

 

Same. If asked I'd probably still say I'm a Bears fan, but I didn't watch any football last season and I didn't miss it in the slightest.

 

you were actually the one i specifically remembered saying they didn't like baseball anymore in 2011.

 

but, again, ya the morals of it. i get it.

[Cubswin11]

I enjoy watching the NFL a little less than I use to, I'm not a fan really of any team, but fantasy and gambling keeps me watching. Also, what else am I going to do when it's 20 degrees or less outside?

[Sammy Sofa]

i remember people saying stuff like this about baseball on this forum around 2011-12. i wonder if you'll feel the same when the bears are good again.

 

obviously, football is different with the whole moral component to watching people smash one another's brains into pulp, though.

 

Bingo. It's about 95% "this has become really grotesque to watch" (also due to the NFL's fucked up morality in general, even in the context of pro sports) as opposed to, "Oh, I'm sick of the dumb Bears." Like, the Bears being hapless and doomed to forever suck is the cherry on top, but I really just lost the taste for football in general.

 

Plus going to a football game has become one of the absolute worst things a human being could choose to waste their time on. It's everything that's horrible about sports fandom ramped up by a billion.