4/27: Cubs (Darvish) vs Brewers (Suter) 1:20 CT, NBC Sports Chicago/MLBN

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Keep piling up wins against these frauds.

[UMFan83]

Despite a somewhat mediocre start, the Cubs have now played at a 92 win pace for the season.

[Cubswin11]

“Morrow can’t be a closer because he never closed before.” Is quickly going the way of “Kris Bryant can’t play 3B and is a COF/1B.”

[CaliforniaRaisin]

In 6 games against the Cubs, the Brewers have scored 9 runs.

 

Nice.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Old pal keith stone has some thoughts on the umpiring

 

It would be really nice if the umpires called a fair game. If we lose on a level playing field, fine. But ever since September last year...they've been out to get us man. I remember last year the umpires gave their friends/family all wearing cubs gear tickets to the games at miller park...yet I'm supposed to believe what I saw wasn't due to bias?

[badger]

Man I just got through reading the game thread after i had a meeting for the last 1.5 hours and I was convinced we had given up a bunch of runs with the way you yahoos post.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Man I just got through reading the game thread after i had a meeting for the last 1.5 hours and I was convinced we had given up a bunch of runs with the way you yahoos post.

 

I'm usually pretty positive (I know, shocking news), but that game was as annoying as horsefeathers. It was well worth the derision, despite the win.

[Cubswin11]

It’s almost like having games canceled/starts jerked around and pitching in horsefeathers conditions/Coors affected the rotation and now that they’ve had a stretch of the routine/rotation holding as planned without canceled games and moderate to good conditions they are pitching like they should. Edited April 27, 2018 by Cubswin11

[Cubswin11]

Man I just got through reading the game thread after i had a meeting for the last 1.5 hours and I was convinced we had given up a bunch of runs with the way you yahoos post.

 

I'm usually pretty positive (I know, shocking news), but that game was as annoying as horsefeathers. It was well worth the derision, despite the win.

Yeah that was legit one of the worst games I’ve ever seen out of a HP umpire and it nearly cost us the game.

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[badger]

Javy is the greatest in the world.

[UMFan83]

Javy is the greatest in the world.

 

I never thought I could love an athlete as much as I love Javy. I didn’t care if he was always going to remain that good but flawed player, I still would have loved cheering for him, but if he has really kicked it up a notch the love is on a whole other level.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

It's great to beat them twice despite the bats being poop. What scrub are we going to dong to death tomorrow?

[Cubswin11]

It's great to beat them twice despite the bats being poop. What scrub are we going to dong to death tomorrow?

The 40 year old journeyman who randomly was good in 2016 and I think might be the guy Willy hates

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Oh yeah, we're donging him. Hopefully Willy's bat flip is completely obscene.

[jersey cubs fan]

“Morrow can’t be a closer because he never closed before.” Is quickly going the way of “Kris Bryant can’t play 3B and is a COF/1B.”

Who said morrow can't close?

[Cubswin11]

“Morrow can’t be a closer because he never closed before.” Is quickly going the way of “Kris Bryant can’t play 3B and is a COF/1B.”

Who said morrow can't close?

There were a ton of things I remember seeing in the offseason about the Cubs bullpen/Morrow along the lines of “yeah they might be good but they don’t have a guy with closing experience, Morrow’s never done it.”

[jersey cubs fan]

“Morrow can’t be a closer because he never closed before.” Is quickly going the way of “Kris Bryant can’t play 3B and is a COF/1B.”

Who said morrow can't close?

There were a ton of things I remember seeing in the offseason about the Cubs bullpen/Morrow along the lines of “yeah they might be good but they don’t have a guy with closing experience, Morrow’s never done it.”

is it 2005? I haven't heard many people talk about the "never closed" thing since people have come to appreciate the fireman style of reliever

[Brian]

the strike 3 swing from Braun is amazing his bat is almost straight up

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[David]

“Morrow can’t be a closer because he never closed before.” Is quickly going the way of “Kris Bryant can’t play 3B and is a COF/1B.”

Who said morrow can't close?

 

most of the local beat guys and radio guuys tried to drum up concern over the closer "position" and lots of them were predicting the cubs would need to trade for a closer at the deadline

[Cubswin11]

“Morrow can’t be a closer because he never closed before.” Is quickly going the way of “Kris Bryant can’t play 3B and is a COF/1B.”

Who said morrow can't close?

 

most of the local beat guys and radio guuys tried to drum up concern over the closer "position" and lots of them were predicting the cubs would need to trade for a closer at the deadline

Many also wanted Greg Holland, lol

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Pedro Strop is on pace for 21 wins