8/14/18 Cubs(Quintana) vs Brewers(Chacin) 1:20PM NBCS Chicago

[Hairyducked Idiot]

 

I think this is wrong. I'm not sure, but David will have numbers to prove it.

 

Run differential for the last 23 or whatever games is -1 per game. They’ve been winning all the close ones and losing all the blowouts. That’s what lucky bad teams do.

 

You're better than using run differential over a 23 game sample. You've lost a tick on your fastball from your doom-boner prime.

 

Lol as if you don’t use arbitrary endpoints any chance you get. How’s Kyle Hendricks?

[bcl412]

I still got this feeling we’re gonna go on a playoffs are a crap shoot run after backing into the playoffs

[profisme]

Jesus this team is in a bad bad funk.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Lol as if you don’t use arbitrary endpoints any chance you get. How’s Kyle Hendricks?

 

Good. I also look at his career numbers when I speak about him. And his overall numbers look good outside of a fluky HR rate.

 

And you always mock when others use arbitrary endpoints, so you should expect it in return.

[Brian]

Counsell is going to pitch Hader 3 innings both days too (not that that will be needed)

[David]

i think the emotional stress and highs/lows of the 2016 playoffs have made me kind of bored with regular season baseball, or maybe more appropriately, numb to it...maybe that's why i'm all "who cares" when regular season struggles happen. idk. i just can't get all that worked up in the regular season unless/until things get really bad as far as the postseason outlook. i started to get there around last year's all star break, but as long as we're a near lock to be in the playoffs (and in a good position to have home field throughout) it's hard for me to feel a lot of angst, even if/when some things are going bad.

 

like, either bryant and darvish will come back (and at least one of the struggling starters will figure horsefeathers out) and everything will be fine and we'll get our spin at the october wheel, or it won't. right now we're just trying to macgyver it.

Edited August 14, 2018 by David

[Sammy Sofa]

Uh, why not leave Quintana in? He could have done the same thing, and probably spared the bullpen a couple of innings.

[minnesotacubsfan]

why is Caratini batting

[soccer10k]

Quintana was at 71 pitches, there was nobody on and one out. Just leave him in.

[Sammy Sofa]

I know it was just a sim game, but that Caratini, of all people, apparently annihilated a dong off of Yu is a little sad.

[The_Achiever]

Jesus this team is in a bad bad funk.

 

Good thing we are refusing to play the one guy who is one fire!

[Sammy Sofa]

If Rizzo dongs here, they're gonna win this game.

[Sammy Sofa]

i think the emotional stress and highs/lows of the 2016 playoffs have made me kind of bored with regular season baseball, or maybe more appropriately, numb to it...maybe that's why i'm all "who cares" when regular season struggles happen. idk. i just can't get all that worked up in the regular season unless/until things get really bad as far as the postseason outlook. i started to get there around last year's all star break, but as long as we're a near lock to be in the playoffs (and in a good position to have home field throughout) it's hard for me to feel a lot of angst, even if/when some things are going bad.

 

like, either bryant and darvish will come back (and at least one of the struggling starters will figure horsefeathers out) and everything will be fine and we'll get our spin at the october wheel, or it won't. right now we're just trying to macgyver it.

 

Yeah, well, some of the rest of us wisely realized the rest of the Chicago sports teams are eternally useless tire fires, so this is all I have, dammit.

[stitchface]

[expletive]; he's really gonna do this whole, "nightmare for 2 separate innings, fine the rest," thing again, isn't he?

 

 

three pitches really. but he has not been sharp.

[profisme]

They will literally go a full week without hitting a ball to the opposite field.

[bcl412]

I’m on the shifts are dumb train Edited August 14, 2018 by bcl412

[Sammy Sofa]

The Cubs only have 2 hits, and they're both doubles.

 

[UMFan83]

i think the emotional stress and highs/lows of the 2016 playoffs have made me kind of bored with regular season baseball, or maybe more appropriately, numb to it...maybe that's why i'm all "who cares" when regular season struggles happen. idk. i just can't get all that worked up in the regular season unless/until things get really bad as far as the postseason outlook. i started to get there around last year's all star break, but as long as we're a near lock to be in the playoffs (and in a good position to have home field throughout) it's hard for me to feel a lot of angst, even if/when some things are going bad.

 

like, either bryant and darvish will come back (and at least one of the struggling starters will figure horsefeathers out) and everything will be fine and we'll get our spin at the october wheel, or it won't. right now we're just trying to macgyver it.

 

For me it’s, we experienced a thoroughly dominant 2016 team that was young and hypothetically was not even in its prime so to see the last 2 years fall short of that domination is frustrating, especially with regards to our starting pitching where we are locked into contracts with 5 pitchers who have all been anywhere from ok to awful this year.

[stitchface]

I know it was just a sim game, but that Caratini, of all people, apparently annihilated a dong off of Yu is a little sad.

I can't imagine anything less relevant

[Sammy Sofa]

To all the people who were griping about not being able to watch day game:

 

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The whole “not even in its prime” thing was always wrong and nobody wanted to believe it.

 

We have big piles of evidence that players have never peaked as late as we thought and basically have no peak in the 2010s. They come up and mash from 22-25 and that has a decent chance of being their best seasons.

[Sammy Sofa]

I know it was just a sim game, but that Caratini, of all people, apparently annihilated a dong off of Yu is a little sad.

I can't imagine anything less relevant

 

Hence "just a sim game" and "a little sad."

[Brian]

I feel like he is personally trolling us ...

 

Darvish threw in front of Epstein, pitching coach Jim Hickey and manager Joe Maddon, using most of his repertoire of pitches.

 

“Maybe the best spin of the year,” Epstein said.

[TMan92]

If anyone outside of Bote had a chance to homer, I would feel better about doing something today.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

I know it was just a sim game, but that Caratini, of all people, apparently annihilated a dong off of Yu is a little sad.

 

Chili thought he was taking it easy on Yu by telling the hitters to do the opposite of what he usually preaches.