General Cubs Chit-Chat

[Old Style]

completely anecdotal caveat:

 

I know of a guy who voted trump, followed bannon and glenn beck, touts bitcoin, loves to make incendiary comments "as a joke", shares "to own the libs" memes, who used the pepe as his avatar on a company's slack. Several employees complained, boss called him in for a dressing down, he disavowed any knowledge of the nefarious meaning. He's obviously lying.

 

That's what I think about every time I see somebody who uses this stuff pretend not to know what it is.

That is idiotic.

Which part?

The part where you believe everyone who says they aren't familiar with that is trying to hide something.

[Sammy Sofa]

That is idiotic.

Which part?

The part where you believe everyone who says they aren't familiar with that is trying to hide something.

 

That's not what he said.

[jersey cubs fan]

That is idiotic.

Which part?

The part where you believe everyone who says they aren't familiar with that is trying to hide something.

I said everyone who uses this stuff, not everyone who says they aren't familiar.

[Old Style]

Which part?

The part where you believe everyone who says they aren't familiar with that is trying to hide something.

I said everyone who uses this stuff, not everyone who says they aren't familiar.

Forgive me then. I misunderstood.

[Cubswin11]

So Strop has an awful outing, and now he has an injury. I wonder if he was trying to play through something.

 

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[Cubswin11]

Well, see you in mid to late June Pedro

 

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[Old Style]

So is this Zobrist leave of absence unpaid? A friend is speculating that it is and thus frees up money to go pay someone like Kimbrel. Hopefully everything is OK in Zo's persona life. Could it be his struggles are causing him to contemplate retirement?

[jersey cubs fan]

his wife is back on her bs

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwf-zgrBLkQ/

[Banedon]

So Strop has an awful outing, and now he has an injury. I wonder if he was trying to play through something.

 

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[Sammy Sofa]

his wife is back on her bs

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwf-zgrBLkQ/

 

That woman on the right = me reading that gobbledygook.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

The horsefeathers is she wearing? I can't even get to the words.

[UMFan83]

Well, see you in mid to late June Pedro

 

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That's not good at all...will probably be a lingering injury at least this year. We really really need bullpen help pronto

[Ding Dong Johnson]

The rumor I've heard (because I totally just made it up) is that Russell had to be called up solely to be traded for bullpen help because of some weird language in his contract.

[Old Style]

The horsefeathers is she wearing? I can't even get to the words.

She definitely has a unique sense of style. We saw her after the game on Opening Day in the concourse and I swear her jeans could've easily fit a 300 pound man. So weird. But that post is from a month or so ago. Not sure why that would be relevant now. Then again, I couldn't bring myself to read all the crap she posted.

[jersey cubs fan]

Which part?

The part where you believe everyone who says they aren't familiar with that is trying to hide something.

I said everyone who uses this stuff, not everyone who says they aren't familiar.

This racist Brit posted a clearly racist tweet got fired then claimed it never occurred the tweet could have racial connotations.

 

It’s the same concept.

[Sammy Sofa]

Oooh, and with a healthy dose of ye olde, "the REAL racists are the people who always see racism!"

[Bertz]

Cubs starters to this point have been worth 3.4 WAR according to Fangraphs. Cubs starters were worth 3.5 WAR at the All Star Break last year.

[SouthSideRyan]

It kinda blows my mind when people say they somehow managed to miss the ongoing discussion/debate about this when it's been going on over every media platform literally for years now...but then again, I have literally never heard of or encountered this "punch somebody because they looked at your balls through the hole" or whatever game in my nearly 40 years of being alive.

 

So everyone has their blind spots, I guess.

This is surprising to me.

 

Perhaps you didn’t see the username

[Sammy Sofa]

Is that a "he doesn't pay attention to baseball" joke or a "he didn't have friends" joke?

 

Asking for a friend.

[Sammy Sofa]

(That I don't have)

[Brian]

I'm 34 and never encountered it growing up, I heard about it at some point before this though.

[Clem Fandango]

I know people who played, but I never did. Also, it was never about your balls, it was just getting someone to look at it below your waist wherever you could catch them looking

[Andy]

I know people who played, but I never did. Also, it was never about your balls, it was just getting someone to look at it below your waist wherever you could catch them looking

Yeah, I was taught this game when I first started waiting tables and that's exactly what it was.

[SouthSideRyan]

Is that a "he doesn't pay attention to baseball" joke or a "he didn't have friends" joke?

 

Asking for a friend.

 

80-20

[Sammy Sofa]

The only thing I remember along these lines in high school was a plague of dead-legging, and that wasn't about tricking someone into doing or saying anything; you just tried to wail on the leg of someone standing up and not paying attention in the hopes they'd go down in a heap.