2018 Spring Training Games

[Derwood]

remember when our prospects went all dong dong dong off bauer in spring training a few years ago

nope

[Ding Dong Johnson]

remember when our prospects went all dong dong dong off bauer in spring training a few years ago

nope

[David]

remember when our prospects went all dong dong dong off bauer in spring training a few years ago

nope

 

derwood made a funny

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfb9Xng2BqU

[Ding Dong Johnson]

holy horsefeathers, Albert

[Derwood]

remember when our prospects went all dong dong dong off bauer in spring training a few years ago

nope

 

derwood made a funny

 

If by "a funny" you mean "Derwood doesn't remember meaningless spring training games from 2 years ago" then....yes?

[David]

holy crap almora

[David]

nope

 

derwood made a funny

 

If by "a funny" you mean "Derwood doesn't remember meaningless spring training games from 2 years ago" then....yes?

acting like you needed to include the meaningless spring training game qualifier

 

it was one of the last fun moments before we no longer needed to find joy in things like that

[Brian]

I remember getting the push notification from the MLB AtBat app about the Soler-Baez-Bryant back to back to back dong fest.

[Derwood]

 

derwood made a funny

 

If by "a funny" you mean "Derwood doesn't remember meaningless spring training games from 2 years ago" then....yes?

acting like you needed to include the meaningless spring training game qualifier

 

it was one of the last fun moments before we no longer needed to find joy in things like that

 

There is never joy in Spring Training games. Only boredom. If Spring Training was a three-day weekend it would be too long

[David]

 

If by "a funny" you mean "Derwood doesn't remember meaningless spring training games from 2 years ago" then....yes?

acting like you needed to include the meaningless spring training game qualifier

 

it was one of the last fun moments before we no longer needed to find joy in things like that

 

There is never joy in Spring Training games. Only boredom. If Spring Training was a three-day weekend it would be too long

 

when almost all of our talented players were in AAA and AA, televised spring training games were 90% of the joy i got all year out of hte cubs

[Ding Dong Johnson]

 

If by "a funny" you mean "Derwood doesn't remember meaningless spring training games from 2 years ago" then....yes?

acting like you needed to include the meaningless spring training game qualifier

 

it was one of the last fun moments before we no longer needed to find joy in things like that

 

There is never joy in Spring Training games. Only boredom. If Spring Training was a three-day weekend it would be too long

[David]

jd with the midseason call of a schwarbomb

[CyHawk_Cub]

Damn, Maples brought the filth tonight.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Damn, Maples brought the filth tonight.

That swinging K on 0-2 was the furthest from making contact I've seen this Spring by a LOT.

[David]

Damn, Maples brought the filth tonight.

 

looked great. would be awesome if hickey could help him figure something out maybe.

[Splendid Splinter]

Damn, Maples brought the filth tonight.

 

looked great. would be awesome if hickey could help him figure something out maybe.

 

I'm hoping he'll be Marmol 2.0. I'll be cool with that if he can't figure it out.

[ScrubMD]

Baldonado with the most dominant performance I've ever seen from a pitcher I've never heard of. Dude blew those nobodies away.

[jehr]

Damn, Maples brought the filth tonight.

I didn't get to see it... if the mlb app game log is right... he had a 9 pitch inning, all 9 swings and misses with no contact? That is impressive.... Whatever Hickey had him do, he needs to keep doing it.

[bukie]

I know nothing means anything, but it's still fun to watch the Cubs beat the Dodgers and Indians on back to back days with effective outings from Darvish and Quintana .

[PackLandVA]

Was there any update on Simmons? Injured or ineffective? Anything serious?

[ScrubMD]

Was there any update on Simmons? Injured or ineffective? Anything serious?

 

I saw shoulder tightness mentioned somewhere.

 

 

So he's dead.

[philosophizer75]

Saw it was already mentioned, but felt compelled to post the gameday screenshot anyways. Thats a good inning.

 

[Omar]

 

If by "a funny" you mean "Derwood doesn't remember meaningless spring training games from 2 years ago" then....yes?

acting like you needed to include the meaningless spring training game qualifier

 

it was one of the last fun moments before we no longer needed to find joy in things like that

 

There is never joy in Spring Training games. Only boredom. If Spring Training was a three-day weekend it would be too long

 

as a temporary Arizonan, it was pretty joyful to pay $10 for tickets and go have some beers with friends while pretending to watch baseball

[Cubswin11]

He did strike out the side but I think at least 2 of the counts he threw 1-2 balls. I watched his inning this morning since I missed the game and had it DVR'd. Either way though he looked great.

[Regular Show]

So we've pretty much decided that Ian Happ is the Cubs leadoff hitter now? That was the guy I wanted for the role, and he's raking so far in ST.

 

Heyward at leadoff was a dumb idea. KB is too good to leadoff, but I wouldn't mind if he did it occasionally. Zobrist is a good candidate too if he bounces back and the wrist issues are behind him.