Jump to content
North Side Baseball

General Cubs Chit-Chat

Sammy Sofa

By Sammy Sofa,
in Chicago Cubs Talk

 Share
  • Replies 8.8k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Top Posters In This Topic

d_money First Round Pick

d_money

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
If Zobrist is due back, it’s gonna have to be soon. He’ll need what - 2 weeks at Iowa to get back in baseball shape? If he’s not on the roster by 9/1 - no playoff roster.
jersey cubs fan GOAT

jersey cubs fan

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
If Zobrist is due back, it’s gonna have to be soon. He’ll need what - 2 weeks at Iowa to get back in baseball shape? If he’s not on the roster by 9/1 - no playoff roster.

so why would it have to be soon? two weeks prior to 9/1 is a month from now

Backtobanks Knoxville Smokies

Backtobanks

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
If Zobrist is due back, it’s gonna have to be soon. He’ll need what - 2 weeks at Iowa to get back in baseball shape? If he’s not on the roster by 9/1 - no playoff roster.

 

 

We all love Zobrist, but I'm not sure how much he can help the team. He's 38 years old, was terrible early this season, and hasn't faced live ML pitching since he left. He might help inspirationally, but I'm not expecting much on the field. Hopefully he will prove me wrong.

d_money First Round Pick

d_money

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
If Zobrist is due back, it’s gonna have to be soon. He’ll need what - 2 weeks at Iowa to get back in baseball shape? If he’s not on the roster by 9/1 - no playoff roster.

so why would it have to be soon? two weeks prior to 9/1 is a month from now

I didn’t mean to sound frantic, but yeah - I guess we’ll know within a month. Clock is ticking.

squally1313 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

squally1313

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
If Zobrist is due back, it’s gonna have to be soon. He’ll need what - 2 weeks at Iowa to get back in baseball shape? If he’s not on the roster by 9/1 - no playoff roster.

 

 

We all love Zobrist, but I'm not sure how much he can help the team. He's 38 years old, was terrible early this season, and hasn't faced live ML pitching since he left. He might help inspirationally, but I'm not expecting much on the field. Hopefully he will prove me wrong.

 

Counterpoint: Unless Robel Garcia is the real deal (which, given the K rate, I don't see it as anything more than a hot month that we should enjoy/take advantage of before the league stops throwing him fastballs), we throw out at least one complete zero in the line up on a daily basis. Zobrist didn't show much earlier this year, but I'll gladly take him over Russell/Descalso at second or Almora in the outfield.

jersey cubs fan GOAT

jersey cubs fan

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
Do we want to talk about Cubs vs Barstool? No? Alright cool.

 

Cubs PR vs Barstool.

 

The barstool guys made clear that they love baseball ops guys and think Ricketts is the coolest owner in all of sports.

squally1313 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

squally1313

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
Do we want to talk about Cubs vs Barstool? No? Alright cool.

 

Some Twitter searching isn't getting me much anywhere, how do I get a little more context without clicking a barstool link?

 

Apparently the new thing for Barstool type people in the bleachers is making long piles of empty beer cups ("Cup Snakes"). Barstool started encouraging it, think they are selling shirts on it now. The bleacher security people have been pretty quick to try and shut it down (looking under seats, etc.), and between that and Barstool pushing it, it seems like it's just getting more prevalent.

 

Anyways, Barstool Chicago published an article today with a (pretty terrible) email from Julian Green, head of marketing or whatever, basically threatening to pull all access/affiliation/etc (and even legal action) unless they stopped promoting it. Really, everyone involved is terrible.

 

Edit: They also apparently fired some bleacher security guy who went on one of the podcasts to give some background on the Cubs position towards it all.

squally1313 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

squally1313

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
What's bad about cup snakes?

 

(I almost want to punch myself in the face for even asking that question.)

 

From what I can tell on the videos, the goal is to get them to five or six feet long. At that point, they're pretty unstable and usually leaking leftover beer all over the place. It's entertaining, and far from the worst thing that's happened in the bleachers, but I get the Cubs not being huge fans.

TMan92 ACL Cubs

TMan92

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
I know he will most likely never pitch for us again but the whole Morrow discussion just went to dead silence. What is going on with him?
Forgotmyoldlogin Draft Eligible

Forgotmyoldlogin

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
What's bad about cup snakes?

 

(I almost want to punch myself in the face for even asking that question.)

 

From what I can tell on the videos, the goal is to get them to five or six feet long. At that point, they're pretty unstable and usually leaking leftover beer all over the place. It's entertaining, and far from the worst thing that's happened in the bleachers, but I get the Cubs not being huge fans.

 

The other problem is fans sitting a few rows away start throwing their cups towards where the snake is forming so they can add on. Don't really like fans throwing things in general.

UMFan83 GOAT

UMFan83

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted

This is random but I was just looking at the postseason OPS of most of the Cubs that have played multiple postseasons with the team during this run and its amazing that we'd had a moderate level of postseason success including a championship and 6 series wins.

 

Schwarber 1.016

Ross .858

Bryant .743

Contreras .716

Rizzo .690

Baez .662

Russell .596

Zobrist .589

Almora .508

Happ .476

Montero .428

Heyward .323

LaStella .071

squally1313 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

squally1313

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
This is random but I was just looking at the postseason OPS of most of the Cubs that have played multiple postseasons with the team during this run and its amazing that we'd had a moderate level of postseason success including a championship and 6 series wins.

 

Schwarber 1.016

Ross .858

Bryant .743

Contreras .716

Rizzo .690

Baez .662

Russell .596

Zobrist .589

Almora .508

Happ .476

Montero .428

Heyward .323

LaStella .071

 

Not sure how to find this and too lazy to do the work, but I'd guess the average runs scored in the playoffs is lower than in the regular season.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing
The North Side Baseball Caretaker Fund
The North Side Baseball Caretaker Fund

You all care about this site. The next step is caring for it. We’re asking you to caretake this site so it can remain the premier Cubs community on the internet. Included with caretaking is ad-free browsing of North Side Baseball.

Become a Caretaker

  • Member Statistics

    6,793
    Total Members
    13,056
    Most Online
    Kevin OBrien
    Newest Member
    Kevin OBrien
    Joined
×
×
  • Create New...