6/25 Corbs (Underhill) at Dodgers (Maeda) 9:10 CDT ESPN

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

So, lately Joe's bullpen management has been FAR from efficient. He really needs some inspiration. We all know about his love of Spanish reds by now, so I don't think its too much of a stretch to suggest putting him in an ACTUAL bull's pen.

Couldn't hurt the team's ability to make good pitching replacement decisions no matter how it plays out.

 

Anyhow, this is going to be the MLB debut of one Duane Underwood Jr. I've heard of him for a long while now, but I always kinda assumed the name was a pseudonym.

Hopefully he has a little more deception in his pitches than Frodo up there did with his travel habits.

 

My kids are refusing to stay in bed so I'm not going to be able to spend a lot of time to dream up a topical or appropriate gif theme apart from just saying:

http://i.imgur.com/r54wtyV.gif

(A League of Their Own stuff, Hanks gifs, movies that have Madonna or long urination scenes in them, whatever)

[NOLA]

[Agony and Ivy]

Will this sweep be even more of a dick kick than the last one?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

[jersey cubs fan]

I cannot imagine any downside to this game

 

[Banedon]

I've found an upside to late games...they're easy to ignore if one is so inclined.

[Brian707]

How I feel about the Dodgers

 

[Derwood]

10pm local start times are lame and inconvenient

[imb]

lets marvel at how bad our starting pitching is

 

Our best starter, Lester, has lucked (or veteran presenced) himself to a whole 0.9 WAR, good for 57th among qualifiers, behind studs like *squints* Clayton Richard (42nd,) Tyson Ross (34th,) and Jose Urena (31st.)

 

After that you've got Jose Quintana (0.6 WAR, 67th,) Kyle Hendricks (0.5 WAR, 71st,) and ... that's it. Only 88 pitchers qualify.

 

Our rotation is so bad that Chatwood has been allowed to throw 70 innings despite literally walking a batter an inning and our second-most valuable pitcher is a 115-pound reliever who hasn't pitched in a month and may be dead. Or I guess it might be 5.9 K/9 Mike Montgomery.

[Sammy Sofa]

Meanwhile those dumbass Astros went out got Verlander and Cole like a bunch of suckers. I'll bet those guys are REALLY stinking it up right now.

[Derwood]

Meanwhile those dumbass Astros went out got Verlander and Cole like a bunch of suckers. I'll bet those guys are REALLY stinking it up right now.

 

Just wait until they break out of their World Series hangover

[Aaron_Kennelly]

We should try to win this one.

[The_Achiever]

lets marvel at how bad our starting pitching is

 

Our best starter, Lester, has lucked (or veteran presenced) himself to a whole 0.9 WAR, good for 57th among qualifiers, behind studs like *squints* Clayton Richard (42nd,) Tyson Ross (34th,) and Jose Urena (31st.)

 

After that you've got Jose Quintana (0.6 WAR, 67th,) Kyle Hendricks (0.5 WAR, 71st,) and ... that's it. Only 88 pitchers qualify.

 

Our rotation is so bad that Chatwood has been allowed to throw 70 innings despite literally walking a batter an inning and our second-most valuable pitcher is a 115-pound reliever who hasn't pitched in a month and may be dead. Or I guess it might be 5.9 K/9 Mike Montgomery.

 

Ugh. Who would we really feel comfortable with making a playoff start?

[Andy]

Meanwhile those dumbass Astros went out got Verlander and Cole like a bunch of suckers. I'll bet those guys are REALLY stinking it up right now.

It makes me really frustrated that those clowns completely whiffed on consecutive #1 draft picks and didn't do any of the smart sign-and-flip moving that we did to build their roster and now they're the ones blowtorching the league.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

I really don't care what any AL team is doing. And I'll wait awhile to be envious of a team that in the last four years has 11 fewer wins, the same amount of World Series titles, the same amount of 100-win seasons, 2 fewer 90-win seasons, 1 fewer division titles, 2 fewer LCS appearances, and 1 fewer playoff appearances.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

lets marvel at how bad our starting pitching is

 

Our best starter, Lester, has lucked (or veteran presenced) himself to a whole 0.9 WAR, good for 57th among qualifiers, behind studs like *squints* Clayton Richard (42nd,) Tyson Ross (34th,) and Jose Urena (31st.)

 

After that you've got Jose Quintana (0.6 WAR, 67th,) Kyle Hendricks (0.5 WAR, 71st,) and ... that's it. Only 88 pitchers qualify.

 

Our rotation is so bad that Chatwood has been allowed to throw 70 innings despite literally walking a batter an inning and our second-most valuable pitcher is a 115-pound reliever who hasn't pitched in a month and may be dead. Or I guess it might be 5.9 K/9 Mike Montgomery.

 

Ugh. Who would we really feel comfortable with making a playoff start?

 

All of them except Chatwood.

[Sammy Sofa]

I really don't care what any AL team is doing. And I'll wait awhile to be envious of a team that in the last four years has 11 fewer wins, the same amount of World Series titles, the same amount of 100-win seasons, 2 fewer 90-win seasons, 1 fewer division titles, 2 fewer LCS appearances, and 1 fewer playoff appearances.

 

This is basically like saying an older sibling is automatically the better one just because they showed up first.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

I really don't care what any AL team is doing. And I'll wait awhile to be envious of a team that in the last four years has 11 fewer wins, the same amount of World Series titles, the same amount of 100-win seasons, 2 fewer 90-win seasons, 1 fewer division titles, 2 fewer LCS appearances, and 1 fewer playoff appearances.

 

This is basically like saying an older sibling is automatically the better one just because they showed up first.

 

The Astros were a wild card team in 2015, just like us.

[Sammy Sofa]

I really don't care what any AL team is doing. And I'll wait awhile to be envious of a team that in the last four years has 11 fewer wins, the same amount of World Series titles, the same amount of 100-win seasons, 2 fewer 90-win seasons, 1 fewer division titles, 2 fewer LCS appearances, and 1 fewer playoff appearances.

 

This is basically like saying an older sibling is automatically the better one just because they showed up first.

 

The Astros were a wild card team in 2015, just like us.

 

So what? All you dumped out there was an arbitrary list of past team accomplishments that the Cubs technically hit first that the Astros are trending like it'll be pretty easy for them to match or surpass.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

 

This is basically like saying an older sibling is automatically the better one just because they showed up first.

 

The Astros were a wild card team in 2015, just like us.

 

So what? All you dumped out there was an arbitrary list of past team accomplishments that the Cubs technically hit first that the Astros are trending like it'll be pretty easy for them to match or surpass.

 

Ok. When they surpass, then I'll start being envious of them. They haven't yet.

[Sammy Sofa]

Careful; wouldn't want to get spoiled.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Mainly I don't care because what they do doesn't really matter to us. One team is coming out of the AL. We only have to face one. If we do, it will be in the World Series. Which means we made it all the way to the World Series. It's going to be a good team, no matter who it is. But it will also be a team we can beat.

 

So I don't care what they do unless they beat us in the World Series.

[Sammy Sofa]

Nobody's talking about the Astros like they inexplicably have some kind of impact on the Cubs right now; it's very obviously wishing that the Cubs, both this year and last (with a young and largely returning team), played and saw more results like the Astros have been in the season after their WS win.

 

There's not a person here who doesn't actually think the Cubs could and should be better.

[Derwood]

As I said: full reverse Kyle-ing

[Aaron_Kennelly]

They won their division and made the NLCS last year. And this year isn't even half over. The complaining is incredibly silly.