8/29 Cubs (Mills) vs Mets (Vargas): 1:20 PM(?) on NBC Sports Chicago

[Banedon]

 

[BigSlick]

Make it 8 baby

[Cubswin11]

We get a 26th man for this one. Available bullpen arms are Norwood, Underwood, De La Rosa, Wilson, Randy, maybe Chavez and Steve. Carl and Strop are both unavailable, would guess Steve is too.

[David]

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[Southpaw19]

That lineup is ... something. Should be interesting.

[Thed Hoyerstein]

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this isn't as drastic as I thought it was going to be

[Tim]

Bote at SS, huh?

[UMFan83]

We get a 26th man for this one. Available bullpen arms are Norwood, Underwood, De La Rosa, Wilson, Randy, maybe Chavez and Steve. Carl and Strop are both unavailable, would guess Steve is too.

 

Seriously what ever happened to Bass?

 

Norwood is the 26th man. Underwood isnt on the active roster I don't think. Kintzler should be available to give up a couple of runs.

[Banedon]

No Murphy, Heyward or Baez.

[Banedon]

Seriously what ever happened to Bass?

 

DL'd to make room for Chavez.

[BigSlick]

Bote at SS, huh?

The defense on the left side is gonna be.....interesting

[squally1313]

The actual players chosen are...whatever. Curious as to the thought process that led to Almora and Schwarber, probably the two most opposite hitters on the team, getting the most ABs. But hey, he said it was going to be wacky, so he had to live up to that.

[David]

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[Cubswin11]

Bote at SS, huh?

He was starting there in Iowa like once a week this year and played there other years in the minors. He seems athletic enough to not be totally awful there (the athleticism is why I hold out hope he could play OF and hopefully CF in a platoon role next year to make Almora go away). Don't think he's going to be good enough to play there a ton but think you can get away with it here and there and in emergency situations.

[Cubswin11]

Kinda wish Happ was at 3B, Tommy at 2B and Zobrist in RF. Tommy is atrocious at 3B.

[Cubswin11]

We get a 26th man for this one. Available bullpen arms are Norwood, Underwood, De La Rosa, Wilson, Randy, maybe Chavez and Steve. Carl and Strop are both unavailable, would guess Steve is too.

 

Seriously what ever happened to Bass?

 

Norwood is the 26th man. Underwood isnt on the active roster I don't think. Kintzler should be available to give up a couple of runs.

Forgot about Kintzler. He should be available too....

 

Bass got hand foot and mouth disease after his decent ~6 innings, then came back and was awful in his 1 or 2 appearances and got hurt again (groin maybe?) and has been awful in the minors since. He's not even on the 40-man anymore, they exposed him to waivers or whatever and he went unclaimed.

[Schwarber Fan]

Mills getting shelled would be pretty predictable. I’ll be kinda impressed if we win this one too.

[Brian]

Seriously what ever happened to Bass?

 

DL'd to make room for Chavez.

 

He was taken off the DL and taken off the 40 man for Kintzler ( I think it was for him)

[Bryants Disco Ball]

That sucks.

[UMFan83]

Oh well the Cubs already got a win today right

[Schwarber Fan]

Lots of Norwood today

[UMFan83]

don't blame the Cubs for trying to stretch their luck in getting another decent start from Mills against a bad offense, but yeah he has looked pretty bad so far.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

I can appreciate during this stretch to give Mills a second chance after his first start and give guys some rest. It just didn't work out.

[ConstableRabbit]

We're still going to win.

[BigSlick]

I uh, guess the whole Alec Mills thing is over

 

By the way it feels like we've given up an absurdly inordinate number of grand slams this year