4/30: Cubs (Lester) vs Rockies (Freeland), 6:05 CT NBC Sports Chicago/ESPN

[Cubswin11]

Well, well, well, looks like #WeAreGood. These bums sure put those fraud Brewers in their place, hopefully we continue our dominance over Wild Card 2 contenders/teams that are going to end up around .500. We should have ourselves some nice Dongin' weather for the series, hopefully the bats come alive and the pitching continues to be excellent and Kris gets his revenge against his attempted murderers.

 

 

Also let's just not do the red ass thing and hit any of the Rockies guys and get one of our own guys hurt or suspended and just do the right thing by giving them death by DONGS. Win you jerk faced idiots.

[Banedon]

[Schwarber Fan]

I'm surprised this is on ESPN... wonder if the Rockies have been on national TV at all (besides last year's WC game) since like 2008.

[jersey cubs fan]

I'm surprised this is on ESPN... wonder if the Rockies have been on national TV at all (besides last year's WC game) since like 2008.

You are surprised a matchup of two 2017 playoff teams is on national tv?

[Brian707]

[tweet]

[/tweet]

[CyHawk_Cub]

Wouldn't hate to see Schwarber get more starts vs. lefties. Not sure how else he's going to get better against them unless he gets AB's.

[UK]

Wouldn't hate to see Schwarber get more starts vs. lefties. Not sure how else he's going to get better against them unless he gets AB's.

 

A bigger concern is not having Zobrist leadoff when he is out there.

 

My ideal lineup today...

 

Zobrist

Baez

Bryant

Rizzo

Contreras

Russell

Happ

SP

Almora

[Tim]

Wouldn't hate to see Schwarber get more starts vs. lefties. Not sure how else he's going to get better against them unless he gets AB's.

 

A bigger concern is not having Zobrist leadoff when he is out there.

 

My ideal lineup today...

 

Zobrist

Baez

Bryant

Rizzo

Contreras

Russell

Happ

SP

Almora

Almora is just fine leading off against a lefty.

[UK]

Wouldn't hate to see Schwarber get more starts vs. lefties. Not sure how else he's going to get better against them unless he gets AB's.

 

A bigger concern is not having Zobrist leadoff when he is out there.

 

My ideal lineup today...

 

Zobrist

Baez

Bryant

Rizzo

Contreras

Russell

Happ

SP

Almora

Almora is just fine leading off against a lefty.

 

He's fine for it I agree but I still think he's their 2nd best option. Almora has been cold this past week, his approach is not nearly been as good as Zobrist and his .387 against lhp is propped by a .350 babip.

[Cubswin11]

Almora and Happ are Dongin’ tonight

 

[tweet]

[/tweet]

[Banedon]

Almora and Happ are Dongin’ tonight

 

[tweet]

[/tweet]

 

Beaten by about 90 min, fyi.

[Agony and Ivy]

Oh man the Rockies lineup is bruuuutal

[Schwarber Fan]

I'm surprised this is on ESPN... wonder if the Rockies have been on national TV at all (besides last year's WC game) since like 2008.

You are surprised a matchup of two 2017 playoff teams is on national tv?

 

I mean ESPN definitely has it's favorites... Yankees/Red Sox/Cubs/Cardinals/Astros/Dodgers get significant airtime over the rest of the league. Other than opening day where multiple games are aired, teams like Colorado/Arizona/Milwaukee/Toronto/Minnesota, who have been pretty good in recent years are rarely featured. Just an observation.

[UK]

I'm surprised this is on ESPN... wonder if the Rockies have been on national TV at all (besides last year's WC game) since like 2008.

You are surprised a matchup of two 2017 playoff teams is on national tv?

 

I mean ESPN definitely has it's favorites... Yankees/Red Sox/Cubs/Cardinals/Astros/Dodgers get significant airtime over the rest of the league. Other than opening day where multiple games are aired, teams like Colorado/Arizona/Milwaukee/Toronto/Minnesota, who have been pretty good in recent years are rarely featured. Just an observation.

 

Then why are you surprised the Cubs/Rockies are on national TV tonight?

[Omar]

because the matchup is not between the favorites

[Banedon]

The Rockies have 9 national broadcasts remaining this year. 3 of those are against the Cubs, and are this week. These include MLBN games.

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/broadcasts/national.jsp

[UMFan83]

I'm surprised this is on ESPN... wonder if the Rockies have been on national TV at all (besides last year's WC game) since like 2008.

You are surprised a matchup of two 2017 playoff teams is on national tv?

 

I mean ESPN definitely has it's favorites... Yankees/Red Sox/Cubs/Cardinals/Astros/Dodgers get significant airtime over the rest of the league. Other than opening day where multiple games are aired, teams like Colorado/Arizona/Milwaukee/Toronto/Minnesota, who have been pretty good in recent years are rarely featured. Just an observation.

 

You realize ESPN has baseball on like 3 nights a week right? There is probably some added prominence to playing on Sunday Night Baseball, but the weekday games definitely get a wider variety of teams.

[Jaxbro]

Win turds

 

But alas this team refuses to have the pitching and bats be dialed in on the same day.

 

The wind howling to right center will be from the swings and misses according to Jesse, so it shall be done.

[Cubswin11]

That’s a bad challenge

[Andy]

Good lord Rizzo.

[KrisBryantisaBeast]

Probably about time we move Rizzo down in the order.

[17 Seconds]

Probably about time we move Rizzo down in the order.

 

he's played like 15 games

[Cubswin11]

Probably about time we move Rizzo down in the order.

Move him all the way down to AAA, IMO

[UMFan83]

Probably about time we move Rizzo down in the order.

Move him all the way down to AAA, IMO

 

Finally time to install Schwarber as the full time 1B

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Probably about time we move Rizzo down in the order.

Move him all the way down to AAA, IMO

I say we release him and see if he can get a job working for the American Automobile Association.