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8/5 Cobs (Hendricks) vs A's (Bassitt) 7:05 WGN/ESPN

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It's sort of weird that three hours or so before game time they still don't know who is being DL'd. Any chance Underwood came here in case of a bout of illness from somebody but isn't actually activated yet in case the ill guy is fine?

 

Probably not, just wondering.

 

ETA: Well, horsefeathers.

"They" (the cubs) knew.

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I know I'm about to be the second-most hated person on here behind Cox for saying this, but you guys freak out way too much about the DL thing.

Why? It’s 10 days, horsefeathering use it. There’s a reoccurring theme going back to 2017 and Zobrist wrist thing about them being buffoons with injury management.

 

Because if we DL'd KB every time he needed body maintenance, he'd miss 100 games a year. It's like how everybody was freaking out when Rizzo missed four or five games with the back spasms he has every year. You don't just DL him and throw away five games when the resting five more isn't going to eliminate the issue once or twice a year.

 

Stars have to play when they are hurting a little bit. There is zero way of knowing if KB is slumping because of an injury. Dude slumps at times.

 

When your argument is hinged on, "this guy gets hurt a lot, so they shouldn't put ever put him on the IL unless he's REALLY hurt," it's a bad take.

 

And if a guy, even if that guy is Bryant, who is playing like absolute butt, missing several games is "throwing them away," congratulations: you've constructed a terrible team.

 

Playing every stretch like it's down the wire is going to bite you in the ass when it actually does come down to the wire. If he's banged up bad enough, he needs some extra rest.

 

The Cubs' track record of letting injuries fester and linger, leading to extended bouts of wretched performance, speaks for itself at this point. Rizzo is an outlier.

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Why? It’s 10 days, horsefeathering use it. There’s a reoccurring theme going back to 2017 and Zobrist wrist thing about them being buffoons with injury management.

 

Because if we DL'd KB every time he needed body maintenance, he'd miss 100 games a year. It's like how everybody was freaking out when Rizzo missed four or five games with the back spasms he has every year. You don't just DL him and throw away five games when the resting five more isn't going to eliminate the issue once or twice a year.

 

Stars have to play when they are hurting a little bit. There is zero way of knowing if KB is slumping because of an injury. Dude slumps at times.

 

When your argument is hinged on, "this guy gets hurt a lot, so they shouldn't put ever put him on the IL unless he's REALLY hurt," it's a bad take.

 

And if a guy, even if that guy is Bryant, who is playing like absolute butt, missing several games is "throwing them away," congratulations: you've constructed a terrible team.

 

Playing every stretch like it's down the wire is going to bite you in the ass when it actually does come down to the wire. If he's banged up bad enough, he needs some extra rest.

 

If a guy is banged up bad enough, he absolutely needs to be IL'd. My point is even when these guys aren't banged up bad enough, people want them to be IL'd any way.

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2016 Cubs: horsefeathers the closer was scoring a ton of runs late to make the 9th inning not a save situation

2018-2019 Cubs: horsefeathers the closer is anybody that has been named closer goes straight to IL

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If a guy is banged up bad enough, he absolutely needs to be IL'd. My point is even when these guys are banged up bad enough, people want them to be IL'd any way.

 

Because if they're sucking for a while, and word gets out they've been sick and/or injured, there's a good chance the two are related. And yet the Cubs rarely seem to put position players on IL.

 

The Cubs will use IL for their pitchers when they have to, but it seems like they are bizarrely averse to using for position players unless they flat out can't play. I seriously doubt they're magically luckier than almost every other team out there when it comes to player health.

 

Bryant, Zobrist, Russell and Contreras are all key examples of players in recent seasons who clearly needed to heal up, and they just kept trotting them out there well past the point it was obvious something was wrong, like they were going to get better if they played hard enough.

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Also in A's at Wrigley history

 

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I was at that Todd Walker game. Crazy, for some reason I thought the temperature was like 49 degrees in June

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4 weeks for Willson is shorter than I thought at least. It’s going to be hilarious when Brandon Morrow closes out the World Series.

 

raw

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If a guy is banged up bad enough, he absolutely needs to be IL'd. My point is even when these guys are banged up bad enough, people want them to be IL'd any way.

 

Because if they're sucking for a while, and word gets out they've been sick and/or injured, there's a good chance the two are related. And yet the Cubs rarely seem to put position players on IL.

 

The Cubs will use IL for their pitchers when they have to, but it seems like they are bizarrely averse to using for position players unless they flat out can't play. I seriously doubt they're magically luckier than almost every other team out there when it comes to player health.

 

Bryant, Zobrist, Russell and Contreras are all key examples of players in recent seasons who clearly needed to heal up, and they just kept trotting them out there well past the point it was obvious something was wrong, like they were going to get better if they played hard enough.

They actually did it with Rizzo also, let him play through a back injury that saw him hitting like a pitcher.

 

Plus, you just dont horsefeathers around with knee injuries, IMO.

 

They also had Descalso play for 2 months after spraining his ankle. Even if he didn't play every single day he still had to go to the park, take BP and FP, etc.

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