General Cubs Chit-Chat

[imb]

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2018/5/4/17309236/kerry-wood-20-strikeout-game-cubs-astros-1998

 

No big deal, just a pitcher making Craig Biggio look like he took a report card that read “30 career hits” and added two zeros to fool his parents.

 

If I had to choose between a second WS win and Grant Brisbee writing about the Cubs full-time, I'm pretty sure I'd prefer the second one.

 

Agreed. If anything since the WS, fandom has been really hard. Meanwhile grant would quickly make it better

[Bertz]

Does anyone know when Patrick Mooney changed from being a pretty good (if slightly boring) beat writer to being Captain Doom Boner? It feels like it happened very suddenly, and he's gotten really bad.

 

He got like this at the end of his time at CSN, so I don't know that we can blame the Athletic.

[eee123]

What happened this year as far as working counts?

 

"Controlling the strike zone" was a Theo point of emphasis from like early 2015 against most pitchers except maybe occasional games against Kershaw--type guys.

 

This year, it seems like most of the team is totally failing at working counts and getting pitches to hit. New approach, or just a symptom of the team slump they're going through right now?

 

Edit: Looks like they're at 3.87 P/PA this year, same as last year, but 0.1 pitches/PA off the 2016 pace.

[d_money]

Just think how bad it would be if Lester / Yu / Q went down for the year with an injury. We have next to nothing to fill in (Butler and Monty don’t count).

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Just think how bad it would be if Lester / Yu / Q went down for the year with an injury. We have next to nothing to fill in (Butler and Monty don’t count).

 

It would be unequivocally a bad thing, but Montgomery has a sub-4 ERA in nearly 20 starts as a Cub.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Just think how bad it would be if Lester / Yu / Q went down for the year with an injury. We have next to nothing to fill in (Butler and Monty don’t count).

 

Those three pitchers have a combined 0.2 fWAR.

[Andy]

Just think how bad it would be if Lester / Yu / Q went down for the year with an injury. We have next to nothing to fill in (Butler and Monty don’t count).

 

Those three pitchers have a combined 0.2 fWAR.

No kidding. We'd very likely be a worse team without any of those 3, but they're an odd 3 to single out right now (Lester's weird ability to get around constantly falling behind 3-1 notwithstanding).

[Irrelevant Dude]

Just think how bad it would be if Lester / Yu / Q went down for the year with an injury. We have next to nothing to fill in (Butler and Monty don’t count).

Why don't Butler and Montgomery count? Do you think other teams have extra rotation guys stockpiled and ready to replace top or middle-of-rotation starters without missing a beat? Montgomery and Butler are serviceable replacement 5th starters, and that is really all they need to be.

[UMFan83]

Stephen Piscotti's mother died yesterday from ALS and they put up a fundraiser looking for 100k in donations for ALS research.

 

https://www.youcaring.com/alstherapydevelopmentinstitute-1101042

 

Yu Darvish donated $10k

[Sammys Boombox]

Stephen Piscotti's mother died yesterday from ALS and they put up a fundraiser looking for 100k in donations for ALS research.

 

https://www.youcaring.com/alstherapydevelopmentinstitute-1101042

 

Yu Darvish donated $10k

 

Dang. I actually like him. I knew it wasn’t good and saw him very angrily slam his bat down after a K a couple of days ago and was wondering if it was a tough week for him off the field.

[Post Count Padder]

Apparently we gave son of Farrell a trip back to Iowa and promoted someone named Cory Mazzoni.

[Thed Hoyerstein]

Stephen Piscotti's mother died yesterday from ALS and they put up a fundraiser looking for 100k in donations for ALS research.

 

https://www.youcaring.com/alstherapydevelopmentinstitute-1101042

 

Yu Darvish donated $10k

 

Dang. I actually like him. I knew it wasn’t good and saw him very angrily slam his bat down after a K a couple of days ago and was wondering if it was a tough week for him off the field.

 

Lester also donated $10k. Go cubs awesome

[Sammys Boombox]

Ian Happ. $500

[Cubswin11]

Ian Happ. $500

$1 for every strikeout before the ASB?

[UMFan83]

Ian Happ. $500

 

Relative to his salary, Happ gave roughly twice as much of his income as Lester and Yu did.

[Sammys Boombox]

Ian Happ. $500

$1 for every strikeout before the ASB?

 

I would be very happy if he had 500 K before the all-star break.

[soccer10k]

Ian Happ. $500

$1 for every strikeout before the ASB?

 

$1 for every person he's murdered.

[Cubswin11]

Fire the hitting coach, they said. We’re now up to 4th in the league in RD

 

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[Sammy Sofa]

What a nightmare person.

[17 Seconds]

it's funny how his joke was really just him telling everyone he knew what the word consecutive meant

[davell]

[Clem Fandango]

This really is a ridiculous lame ass move by MLB

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bir1712gsW_/

 

Edit: kudos on the ridiculous word filter, mods.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Wasting their time on that when they should be banning his walk-up song