5/19/18 CLORBS (Hendricks) @ The Old Shitty Spaghetti Factory (Castillo) 12:10 CST WGN

[UMFan83]

What an unbelievably bad baseball player

[Cubswin11]

horsefeathers this guy. Matusz his ass

[Sammy Sofa]

Short notice, but these are next 3 users up to start tonight's game thread:

 

PackLandVA (2-1)

philosophizer75 (0-1)

Ding Dong Johnson (1-1)

[Aaron_Kennelly]

horsefeathers off, Wilson.

[ScrubMD]

lol at Hamilton for swinging at one of those.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Yikes.

[Andy]

Wilson you stupid horsefeathers

[KrisBryantisaBeast]

Justin Wilson back to being absolutely useless again.

[Forgotmyoldlogin]

Why does this sport exist? Who in the world came up with this horsefeathers?

[abuck1220]

maddon sucks at managing a pen with like 5 good relievers, imagine how much he would suck at managing a mediocre pen.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Close pitches that maybe could have been called strikes but were balls are still balls, even if it would have been nice to get a call.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

We're sure this is the Justin Wilson that we traded for? They didn't send us some random guy instead?

[Sammy Sofa]

Justin Wilson back to being absolutely useless again.

 

He didn't actually stop sucking; just got lucky for a little while stranding guys on base. Stuff like his FIP and walk rate are terrible.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Couldn’t watch today. Why did Maddon pull Hendricks on 71 pitches? The starters have to go longer or this team is going to need a completely new bullpen by the second half. Which feels like a trend with Maddon.

[Andy]

Playing armchair psychologist and saying pro athletes lack mental toughness is insane, and yet Wilson's completely useless performance for almost a year straight now makes me want to do it anyway

[Schwarber Fan]

Gotta give the Reds garbage relievers credit for throwing strikes. Now we have no pen for game 2 with a starter who can't get through 5 innings.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Close pitches that maybe could have been called strikes but were balls are still balls, even if it would have been nice to get a call.

 

He threw 4 legitimate strikes and 2 legitimate balls to the first hitter and was rewarded with a walk. The other 2 walks were legit bad control.

[Andy]

Couldn’t watch today. Why did Maddon pull Hendricks on 71 pitches? The starters have to go longer or this team is going to need a completely new bullpen by the second half.

He gave up a few hits in a row but there was no good reason.

[UMFan83]

horsefeathers off, Wilson.

 

You should write a “Wilson sucks ass” article. Worst case it’s cathartic, best case you fix him.

[Gilby]

I could be done with Wilson.

[abuck1220]

maddon horsefeathering sucks at bullpening

 

what in the world

 

you liked taking cishek out after two (2) pitches with his spot due up first in the 12th in favor of wilson? I did not.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Couldn’t watch today. Why did Maddon pull Hendricks on 71 pitches? The starters have to go longer or this team is going to need a completely new bullpen by the second half. Which feels like a trend with Maddon.

 

3rd time through the order, and he had given up hard hit error, BB, 1B, 2B. I wouldn't have been angry if they had left him in, but with that situation and nothing but lefties for the next 5ish hitters had he been left in, going to Rosario makes sense too.

[dfnowak]

Playing armchair psychologist and saying pro athletes lack mental toughness is insane, and yet Wilson's completely useless performance for almost a year straight now makes me want to do it anyway

I’ll say it... Justin Wilson is a mental midget. Glad we gave up Paredes and Candelario for him

[Cubswin11]

I’m gonna go Rmack here because I’ve been on the Justin Wilson sucks train going back to 2015. This guy literally is such a sucky fraud of a bum of a pitcher that has no business being on the team and he’s sucked and he’ll always suck and the only thing that’s ever kept him around is that he’s a lefty who throws hard. But he’s a bum of the highest order and I hate him and always hated him and he should get the hell off the team and Theo absolute fucked up that trade.

[ScrubMD]

Couldn’t watch today. Why did Maddon pull Hendricks on 71 pitches? The starters have to go longer or this team is going to need a completely new bullpen by the second half. Which feels like a trend with Maddon.

 

Trying to walk that tightrope of putting us in a bind for game 2 while also not really going for it in game 1.