8/17 Cubs (Hamels) at Pirates (Williams) 6:05 p.m. CSN Chicago

[stitchface]

Congrats mojo....going for a run tomorrow has to be back on the menu, right?

 

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hopefully that is a way of saying "resting for the playoffs" and not "possibly torn labrum"

[halplm]

They going to play tonight?

[gobigred]

yes...the rain will be moving through in an hour

[OleMissCub]

7:50 start time

[Schwarber Fan]

Harrison is a clown.

[Brian707]

Dong

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Thuggish Ruggish

[Tim]

Schwarbs

[Sammys Boombox]

Ok. Let’s have one of those games where we blow the other team out and get 6-7 innings from our SP.

[Sammy Sofa]

Man, the MLB TV feed is brutally bad tonight.

[Schwarber Fan]

Man, the MLB TV feed is brutally bad tonight.

 

No problems here Chromecasting from iPad.

[Sammy Sofa]

Man, the MLB TV feed is brutally bad tonight.

 

No problems here Chromecasting from iPad.

 

Weird. It's not a connection problem or anything on my end; it flat out keeps saying that there is an error with the video feed and that it is unavailable.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Schwarber homing in that direction in that park is a fun callback.

[TMan92]

Cole seems to have been Hickeyed

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Zobrist’s anger is coming out a lot lately. Haha

[Sammy Sofa]

It's gonna be pretty funny when this Pirates dildo pitches a 1-0 CG that he loses.

[Sammy Sofa]

Good call not having Bote in the lineup, Joe.

[raw]

I hate lineups with all the hitters stacked from one side of the plate. I could be making this all up, but I feel like a pitcher can get in a groove hitting the same part of the plate over and over (typically outside corner) with all LH or RH batters if pitching with the opposite hand.

[NotSoSober]

Happ is an awful CFer

[Sammy Sofa]

I hate lineups with all the hitters stacked from one side of the plate. I could be making this all up, but I feel like a pitcher can get in a groove hitting the same part of the plate over and over (typically outside corner) with all LH or RH batters if pitching with the opposite hand.

 

Yeah, my total meatball take is that it's still better to go alternating sides as much possible while allowing to make lineup adjustments in regards to crazy splits. Joe seems to love the idea of stacking to one side whenever he can like it's going to lead to an offensive onslaught, and any anecdotal evidence I can think of makes it seem like it almost never works out.

[NotSoSober]

Caratini sucks

[Sammy Sofa]

I thought Caratini was supposed to be at least serviceable with the bat. Or at least not a complete black hole.

[soccer10k]

I hate lineups with all the hitters stacked from one side of the plate. I could be making this all up, but I feel like a pitcher can get in a groove hitting the same part of the plate over and over (typically outside corner) with all LH or RH batters if pitching with the opposite hand.

 

Yeah, my total meatball take is that it's still better to go alternating sides as much possible while allowing to make lineup adjustments in regards to crazy splits. Joe seems to love the idea of stacking to one side whenever he can like it's going to lead to an offensive onslaught, and any anecdotal evidence I can think of makes it seem like it almost never works out.

 

I think he likes to mix it up a lot and alternates righties and lefties. That’s how we’d end up with Almora batting ahead of Schwarber against a righty sometimes. Last night he went R L R L S R R P R. Day before he went R L R L R L R P R (Almora 5th and Schwarber 6th against a righty).

 

I’m sure he’s got plenty of lineups where righties are stacked. Even tonight it looks like it’s stacked with lefties at the top but he’s alternating with switch hitters so there’s no run of righties or lefties when the Pirates go to the pen.

[Brian]

ok, i'm tired of 1-0 games

[Brian]

find a damn gap