05/23 CUBS (Lackey) @ St. Louis (Wainwirght) 7:15 CDT, CSN+ TV

[Fred Hornkohl]

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/images/players/head_shot/407793.jpg John Lackey (4-2) ERA = 3.31, WHIP = 0.98

 

 

vs.

 

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/images/players/head_shot/425794.jpg Adam Wainwright (4-3) ERA = 5.92 WHIP = 1.53

 

 

 

 

Go CUBS !!

 

 

 

Win lose or rain, Butterscup will be up to bat on Tuesday.

 

at bat: Butterscup (0-0) - Tue 24 May vs. St. Louis

 

on deck: treebird (0-0)

 

in the hold: SouthSideRyan (0-0)

[Sammys Boombox]

I picked a good couple of days to be too busy to watch. Now start winning again, please.

[Banedon]

Yeah, I won't be able to watch tonight, so I'm sure we'll bust out of this mini-funk.

[Omar]

Cards v. Lackey

Name                PA AB  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP  SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Matt Holliday       18 16  2  0  1  0   0  2  4 .125 .222 .250  .472  0  0   0   0         0
Brandon Moss        12 11  4  1  0  0   2  1  3 .364 .417 .455  .871  0  0   0   0         0
Matt Carpenter      10  9  3  1  0  0   0  1  3 .333 .400 .444  .844  0  0   0   0         0
Yadier Molina       10 10  3  0  0  0   1  0  1 .300 .300 .300  .600  0  0   0   0         0
Matt Adams           7  7  1  0  0  0   0  0  1 .143 .143 .143  .286  0  0   0   0         0
Jedd Gyorko          6  6  1  0  0  0   1  0  1 .167 .167 .167  .333  0  0   0   0         0
Aledmys Diaz         3  3  1  1  0  0   0  0  0 .333 .333 .667 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Eric Fryer           3  3  0  0  0  0   0  0  2 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Jeremy Hazelbaker    3  3  0  0  0  0   0  0  0 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Stephen Piscotty     3  3  0  0  0  0   0  0  2 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Ruben Tejada         3  3  1  0  0  0   0  0  0 .333 .333 .333  .667  0  0   0   0         0
Kolten Wong          3  3  1  0  0  0   0  0  1 .333 .333 .333  .667  0  0   0   0         0
Mike Leake           2  2  0  0  0  0   0  0  1 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Total               83 79 17  3  1  0   4  4 19 .215 .253 .278  .531  0  0   0   0         0
Has not faced: Randal Grichuk & Has not faced pitchers: Matthew Bowman, Jonathan Broxton, Jaime Garcia, Dean Kiekhefer, Tyler Lyons, Carlos Martinez, Seung-hwan Oh, Trevor Rosenthal, Kevin Siegrist, Michael Wacha and Adam Wainwright

 

Cubs v. Wainwright

Name               PA  AB  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP  SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Anthony Rizzo      34  32  9  1  0  1   3  2  5 .281 .324 .406  .730  0  0   0   0         3
Miguel Montero     23  21  5  0  0  1   1  2  6 .238 .304 .381  .685  0  0   0   0         1
David Ross         19  18  6  3  0  1   4  1  6 .333 .368 .667 1.035  0  0   0   0         0
Dexter Fowler      18  18  3  1  0  1   1  0  6 .167 .167 .389  .556  0  0   0   0         0
Jason Heyward      16  16  3  0  0  1   2  0  3 .188 .188 .375  .563  0  0   0   0         0
Travis Wood        10   9  2  0  0  1   1  0  3 .222 .222 .556  .778  1  0   0   0         0
Jorge Soler         7   7  1  0  0  1   2  0  3 .143 .143 .571  .714  0  0   0   0         0
Ben Zobrist         6   6  1  1  0  0   0  0  2 .167 .167 .333  .500  0  0   0   0         0
Javier Baez         5   5  1  0  0  0   0  0  2 .200 .200 .200  .400  0  0   0   0         0
Jon Lester          4   4  0  0  0  0   0  0  2 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Jake Arrieta        2   2  1  0  0  0   0  0  0 .500 .500 .500 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Kyle Hendricks      2   2  0  0  0  0   0  0  1 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Tommy La Stella     2   2  1  0  0  0   0  0  0 .500 .500 .500 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Kris Bryant         1   1  0  0  0  0   0  0  0 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Total             149 143 33  6  0  7  14  5 39 .231 .257 .420  .676  1  0   0   0         4
Has not faced: Tim Federowicz, Addison Russell and Matt Szczur & Has not faced pitchers: Trevor Cahill, Justin Grimm, Jason Hammel, John Lackey, Clayton Richard, Hector Rondon, Pedro Strop and Adam Warren

[Bull]

I will be at this game, and hopefully the other two in the series. Unfortunately, the lack of Jason Heyward will probably limit the number of swastikas I am able to find. I will, however, try to post the most rednecky thing I am able to find. To be fair though, I don't know which fondling couples are brother and sister. Edited May 23, 2016 by Bull

[bcl412]

Beat these idiots and I'll except the couple of weeks of mediocrity

[CubInOK]

Lackey's teeth have teeth.

[David]

our record looks so pedestrian now

[Banedon]

our record looks so pedestrian now

 

Merely 16 games over .500 before June...p'shaw.

[Banedon]

http://i.imgur.com/ZR7O80c.png

[Omar]

I miss that baseball races website, where you would press play and all the teams would race past the .500 line to the playoff line... and then the elimination line would run the Cubs over

[Banedon]

You an animated the chart here...although they don't have any playoff/elimination lines...

 

https://erikberg.com/mlb/charts

[Omar]

I was going to make an enron joke with with one of the teams but maybe we'll see it later on the season.

[WoodRules]

Lackey's teeth have teeth.

 

 

[CyHawk_Cub]

My friends, especially the Cubs fans among them, think I'm nuts for still being so cocky about this team. I'm already starting to hear things like "your cockiness is jinxing us!! They are on a big slide the past week and a half, and obviously it's because of fans like you acting like assholes!!" Cubs fans can be such a bore.

 

I don't give a horsefeathers if Wainwright proclaimed himself to be "dangerous again." Beat his ass into the ground.

[David]

My friends, especially the Cubs fans among them, think I'm nuts for still being so cocky about this team. I'm already starting to hear things like "your cockiness is jinxing us!! They are on a big slide the past week and a half, and obviously it's because of fans like you acting like [expletive]!!" Cubs fans can be such a bore.

 

I don't give a [expletive] if Wainwright proclaimed himself to be "dangerous again." Beat his ass into the ground.

 

i really can't comprehend people who actually believe superstitious stuff like that.

 

of course, reverse jinxes absolutely work.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

My friends, especially the Cubs fans among them, think I'm nuts for still being so cocky about this team. I'm already starting to hear things like "your cockiness is jinxing us!! They are on a big slide the past week and a half, and obviously it's because of fans like you acting like [expletive]!!" Cubs fans can be such a bore.

 

I don't give a [expletive] if Wainwright proclaimed himself to be "dangerous again." Beat his ass into the ground.

 

The best part is there is no jinx. Nothing any of us do or don't do leads to the Cubs winning or losing.

 

It was nice that the hot streak allowed the Cubs to build a nice little cushion and gave the fans a chance to be cocky and complain that just winning no longer was fun and that they needed to win by a lot. I think we all knew it wasn't possible to last forever, so live it up while it's happening.

 

Although the numbers suggest the Cubs have a 99 percent chance to win the division, I do think we have to be aware of a good Pirates team that also has legit additions they can make to their starting pitching whenever they want.

[Sammy Sofa]

Lackey's teeth have teeth.

 

If he made this his walkup music I would actually like him:

 

https://youtu.be/taA5bbLpA0s

[soccer10k]

I don't give a [expletive] if Wainwright proclaimed himself to be "dangerous again." Beat his ass into the ground.

 

Someone needs to tell Adam to have more than 1 start this year where he allows less than 3 runs before he calls himself dangerous.

[ConstableRabbit]

Can we PLEASE squeeze on them a lot?

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Time to break out of the funk. It begins tonight. We will crush this washed-up scrub. And Lackey will make them weep about the remnants of their starting rotation, as he dominates them again.

 

Dong early and often, and for three straight days. The past two weeks have been unacceptable.

[jersey cubs fan]

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[Omar]

St. Louis: ugliest line-up graphic on twitter

 

made by a 3-year-old in mspaint

 

[Tim]

They could really just increase the column size or reduce the font size for the position listing instead of using a negative kerning for some of the listings.

[apete6]

If we sweep, we'd be up 10 games on the Cards. Is that too much to ask?