9/5 Duffy/Heyward the New Bash Bros

[We Got The Whole 9]

Will Crowe should run to the KBO like that other Will the Pirate did

[Schwarber Fan]

Marquee has to work on getting some better back-ups for Boog. Pat Hughes is always great but Myers and Mowins have been awful, IMO.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Marquee has to work on getting some better back-ups for Boog. Pat Hughes is always great but Myers and Mowins have been awful, IMO.

You didn't think that HR went 400 yards?

[Schwarber Fan]

Zach Davies, lol.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Matt Duffy Grand Dong

[Tim]

lol - the Matt Duffy game.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Will Crowe, lol

[UMFan83]

Too bad we go back to playing real teams this week

[CubinNY]

LOL, Pirates

[UMFan83]

Rex Brothers blows

[Bertz]

I can't possibly imagine someone with the name of Shea Spitzbarth had an easy time growing up

[UMFan83]

Lol I give up on trying to figure out why Schwindel is good. Amazing. Go ahead grand slam

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Frank the not Tank

[mias_tisg]

Nothing like a bunch of 30 year olds completely screwing the future

[Bryants Disco Ball]

My gawd this Frank guy is who Kris Bryant and all the others were supposed to be. Edited September 5, 2021 by Bryant's Disco Ball

[UMFan83]

Nothing like a bunch of 30 year olds completely screwing the future

 

I just can’t get into tanking for baseball. I feel like it makes sense in basketball because stars are so unbelievably important and it makes sense in football if you need a QB because they are also important.

 

Maybe I should care more because of the extra money for draft spending but I don’t. Sure it’s better if they lost, but I’m also finding joy in watching a team play well completely unexpectedly.

[mias_tisg]

Nothing like a bunch of 30 year olds completely screwing the future

 

I just can’t get into tanking for baseball. I feel like it makes sense in basketball because stars are so unbelievably important and it makes sense in football if you need a QB because they are also important.

 

Maybe I should care more because of the extra money for draft spending but I don’t. Sure it’s better if they lost, but I’m also finding joy in watching a team play well completely unexpectedly.

There's a huge difference between drafting 12th where the Cubs are likely headed now (or even higher) and drafting 6th

[d_money]

Any other park, Big Franks GS is an out. He continues to produce.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Nothing like a bunch of 30 year olds completely screwing the future

 

I just can’t get into tanking for baseball. I feel like it makes sense in basketball because stars are so unbelievably important and it makes sense in football if you need a QB because they are also important.

 

Maybe I should care more because of the extra money for draft spending but I don’t. Sure it’s better if they lost, but I’m also finding joy in watching a team play well completely unexpectedly.

There's a huge difference between drafting 12th where the Cubs are likely headed now (or even higher) and drafting 6th

 

The Cubs draft spot is a rounding error in their long term trajectory. Nobodies like Schwindel being big parts of the success aren’t ideal, but no one should be at all upset about the team playing well. It means guys like Happ and Willson are hitting, the bullpen looks good, and those types of things mean more for the upcoming years than picking 7th or 10th.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Just for fun I just looked at the MLB draft from 2013 to 2018 and I can't tell the difference between the fifth pick and the 12th pick. I hardly recognize any of the names in either slot and don't recognize any of them as All-Stars. However, I can't name that many baseball players these days so maybe one of them is an MVP.

[UMFan83]

 

I just can’t get into tanking for baseball. I feel like it makes sense in basketball because stars are so unbelievably important and it makes sense in football if you need a QB because they are also important.

 

Maybe I should care more because of the extra money for draft spending but I don’t. Sure it’s better if they lost, but I’m also finding joy in watching a team play well completely unexpectedly.

There's a huge difference between drafting 12th where the Cubs are likely headed now (or even higher) and drafting 6th

 

The Cubs draft spot is a rounding error in their long term trajectory. Nobodies like Schwindel being big parts of the success aren’t ideal, but no one should be at all upset about the team playing well. It means guys like Happ and Willson are hitting, the bullpen looks good, and those types of things mean more for the upcoming years than picking 7th or 10th.

 

That’s kind of my thought. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good if the Cubs sucked and finished with a top 6 pick, but I don’t feel the same way as I did when the Bulls won all those meaningless games late and missed out on Luka or when the Bears 5-1 start hurt any chance of getting Lawrence or Fields

[mias_tisg]

 

I just can’t get into tanking for baseball. I feel like it makes sense in basketball because stars are so unbelievably important and it makes sense in football if you need a QB because they are also important.

 

Maybe I should care more because of the extra money for draft spending but I don’t. Sure it’s better if they lost, but I’m also finding joy in watching a team play well completely unexpectedly.

There's a huge difference between drafting 12th where the Cubs are likely headed now (or even higher) and drafting 6th

 

The Cubs draft spot is a rounding error in their long term trajectory. Nobodies like Schwindel being big parts of the success aren’t ideal, but no one should be at all upset about the team playing well. It means guys like Happ and Willson are hitting, the bullpen looks good, and those types of things mean more for the upcoming years than picking 7th or 10th.

Contreras has done nothing. He's been hurt for most of this. The guys that are hitting are all 30+ with no future. This is a disaster of epic proportions. Even when the Cubs were really tanking in 2012-2014, they had young guys like Rizzo and Starlin helping them win games. This team has literally nothing of value on the offensive side.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

There's a huge difference between drafting 12th where the Cubs are likely headed now (or even higher) and drafting 6th

 

The Cubs draft spot is a rounding error in their long term trajectory. Nobodies like Schwindel being big parts of the success aren’t ideal, but no one should be at all upset about the team playing well. It means guys like Happ and Willson are hitting, the bullpen looks good, and those types of things mean more for the upcoming years than picking 7th or 10th.

Contreras has done nothing. He's been hurt for most of this. The guys that are hitting are all 30+ with no future. This is a disaster of epic proportions. Even when the Cubs were really tanking in 2012-2014, they had young guys like Rizzo and Starlin helping them win games. This team has literally nothing of value on the offensive side.

 

Sorry, nope, that’s detached from reality on all accounts.

[d_money]

 

The Cubs draft spot is a rounding error in their long term trajectory. Nobodies like Schwindel being big parts of the success aren’t ideal, but no one should be at all upset about the team playing well. It means guys like Happ and Willson are hitting, the bullpen looks good, and those types of things mean more for the upcoming years than picking 7th or 10th.

Contreras has done nothing. He's been hurt for most of this. The guys that are hitting are all 30+ with no future. This is a disaster of epic proportions. Even when the Cubs were really tanking in 2012-2014, they had young guys like Rizzo and Starlin helping them win games. This team has literally nothing of value on the offensive side.

 

Sorry, nope, that’s detached from reality on all accounts.

Yeah, agreed. The “disaster of epic proportions” was a little much.

[mias_tisg]

Contreras has done nothing. He's been hurt for most of this. The guys that are hitting are all 30+ with no future. This is a disaster of epic proportions. Even when the Cubs were really tanking in 2012-2014, they had young guys like Rizzo and Starlin helping them win games. This team has literally nothing of value on the offensive side.

 

Sorry, nope, that’s detached from reality on all accounts.

Yeah, agreed. The “disaster of epic proportions” was a little much.

Doesn't seem like it now but you'll see it when the draft starts and in the years following. Would be fine if the Cubs were winning because of a bunch of young guys that could be part of the future. This team isn't. They're winning because of guys who might be bad as soon as next season.

 

The last time we saw a season similar to this was the year Lou retired in season and handed it off to Quade. The Cubs won a ton of meaningless games and people pretended that it might carry into next season. The truth was, they were meaningless games with no pressure and the Cubs followed that season off with a season that ended up changing the direction of the franchise. I don't need to see them lose every game and somehow move their way into the top 5 (wasn't happening anyways) but picking 12th would be a disaster for what this team is.