5/28 - Reds (Ashcraft) vs Cubs (Smyly): 1:20pm, Marquee

[Brock Beauchamp]

I've been watching a lot of losing baseball lately. It's not great. Please beat the very bad Reds who are putting a very bad pitcher on the mound today.

[UMFan83]

My daughter's friend invited her to the game with 1914 Club seats and I'm not sure whether to be jealous of her or pity her.

[Derwood]

Terrible opposing pitchers is this team's Kryptonite

[Squirrel]

2 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I've been watching a lot of losing baseball lately.

Time to become a Rays fan 😉

[Brock Beauchamp]

56 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

Time to become a Rays fan 😉

Become one of dozens of fans

[Transmogrified Tiger]

baseball is fun they said, a great sport they said

 

[UMFan83]

The worst team in the NL is losing

[UMFan83]

Unless they really continue on this 30% winning percentage pace it will be really hard for them to catch up to the A’s and Royals for the worst 2 records in baseball but they’re very close to passing the White Sox for 3rd worst record. 

[muntjack]

Mervis just a bench bat now? 

[champaignchris]

Per BR, Wisdom has a .5 WAR for the season, but Cubs’ third basemen have an aggregate -0.3 WAR. 

I realize Wisdom hasn’t played at 3rd the entire time, but still, that gives a pretty picture how bad the other guys have been at 3rd. 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

11 minutes ago, muntjack said:

Mervis just a bench bat now? 

I think it's just coincidence with a LH SP on Saturday, and today a righty they wanted to load up on RHH for(Rios and Mastro aren't starting today either)

[cl smooth]

I know I’m in the minority but I don’t mind Joe Girardi in the booth. Rather have JD but Joe is fine.

[Derwood]

3 minutes ago, cl smooth said:

I know I’m in the minority but I don’t mind Joe Girardi in the booth. Rather have JD but Joe is fine.

He talks way too much.

And Boog hates him and dunks on him constantly

[Irrelevant Dude]

I can't get over the tastytrade ad on the mound. Just awful, greedy, money-grubbing.

[Derwood]

Cubs pitching is trash

[Andy]

Smyly literally didn't even get an out before giving the lead back.

This team just sucks ass.

[UMFan83]

Why are all of our pitchers progressively getting worse?

[Andy]

Happ strikes out on ball 3, second bad call of the AB

Edited May 28, 2023 by Andy

[Irrelevant Dude]

1st and 2nd with no outs is this team's 7-10 split.

[UMFan83]

5 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

1st and 2nd with no outs is this team's 7-10 split.

I wish I could see what the Cubs have done in those situations this year vs average run expectancy.  According to this, it’s more likely for a team to score 2+ runs in those situations than to score 0  

 

Edited May 28, 2023 by UMFan83

[UMFan83]

@Brock Beauchamp you should have bought the Reds Zone forums

[Tryptamine]

As someone who saw this as a 75-77 win team before the season,  even I'm amazed at how terrible they are. 70 wins might be optimistic. 

[Derwood]

bwa ha ha ha ha ha

[UMFan83]

We might finally get to a negative run differential for the season after this game!

[UMFan83]

Will be great to get the Reds out of town and welcome in a new team *checks schedule* the Rays. horsefeathers me  
 

And then a 9 game road trip to San Diego, Anaheim and San Francisco