Kipnis to Cubs Minor League/NRI Contract

[soccer10k]

Honestly, if you give me 10 minutes to go back and watch highlights...give me Game 6 against the Dodgers every day. Outside of the fact that it ended with Chapman on the mound, it's pretty much perfect.

 

My favorite thing (other than the obvious WS stuff) to watch from that run is the comeback in SF.

I LOVE the comeback against SF. Javy, Zo, and Willy were so swaggy.

 

Almost certainly my favorite sporting event I've experienced live. I mean, it was really only a great half an hour but it completely erases the largely crap 3 hours before.

[soccer10k]

 

I think leaving Chapman in was where my loathing of Maddon was cemented for life. Christ, what an insanely lucky maniac; that article is like a slow motion panic attack.

 

Yep, especially coupled with bringing him in for game 6 in the 7th horsefeathering inning with a 7-2 lead because there were two on with two out AND THEN sending him back out for the 8th inning. Just a slow motion train wreck that Schwarber, Zobrist, etc bailed out.

 

That was what really pissed me off. Chapman had just come off like 40+ pitches and almsot 3 innings in game 5 and he's bringing him into a 5 run game?

 

And then leaves him in for the eighth. And then leaves him in for a batter in the ninth because he waited too long to get someone warmed up after Rizzo homered to make it a 7 run lead.

[Cubswin11]

Seems like a good dude

 

[Bear Cub]

Good luck and health to him.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

[Sammy Sofa]

"As opposed to before, when my jersey would horribly smile back."

[SouthSideRyan]

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-inning-the-cubs-stole/

 

My wife shot a video of me pacing around the house in the bottom of the ninth. She showed it to me a couple months back, it sounded like i was speaking in tongues. I could not believe the Cubs got out of it, let alone a 1-2-3 inning. I knew then they were winning the game after that.

 

I had closed out our tab in the top of the 8th expecting a mad rush and wanting to get out on the streets, not before asking if they sold champagne like a jinxing idiot that I am (I was also the 14 year old that started the '5 outs left' chant in my section right before Bartman). Said I would cover the bill and realized they were charging $9/Old Style tall boy, so that was a cool $350 or so. Between the 9th and the rain delay...that was a dark half hour.

 

We found out our bar didn't have champagne, but I knew the bar owner so she said we could bring it in if we bought it and started passing the hat to go buy it. Then we stopped.

[JennieGarthAlgar]

"As opposed to before, when my jersey would horribly smile back."

 

God I love this site so god damned much

[biittner77]

"As opposed to before, when my jersey would horribly smile back."

 

Frowning, I think since it's upside down.

[BigbadB]

 

My wife shot a video of me pacing around the house in the bottom of the ninth. She showed it to me a couple months back, it sounded like i was speaking in tongues. I could not believe the Cubs got out of it, let alone a 1-2-3 inning. I knew then they were winning the game after that.

 

I had closed out our tab in the top of the 8th expecting a mad rush and wanting to get out on the streets, not before asking if they sold champagne like a jinxing idiot that I am (I was also the 14 year old that started the '5 outs left' chant in my section right before Bartman). Said I would cover the bill and realized they were charging $9/Old Style tall boy, so that was a cool $350 or so. Between the 9th and the rain delay...that was a dark half hour.

 

We found out our bar didn't have champagne, but I knew the bar owner so she said we could bring it in if we bought it and started passing the hat to go buy it. Then we stopped.

 

My bar tab was more than $400 that night. I bought everyone in the bar a drink after the final out. Being in California, the bar was not only still open, but quite busy. Didn't leave until after closing time. Waited a bit too long to call an Uber, and had to wait around outside on a rather brisk Southern California October evening. Watched a police officer pull over a car along the road that runs by the bar. Watched that unfold while we continued waiting for our ride, which basically said it was in the vicinity. Turns out, it was the car that was puled over. We proceeded to climb in the back seat after confirmation from the police officer that it was safe to ride with the guy. After he gets going, the driver says the cop was profiling him, and had been following him for several miles before actually pulling him over and didn't have a reason to pull him over. We did survive the ride home, but it felt about as iffy as some stretches of the game that were still fresh in our memory.