4/28 Cubs (Wesneski) @ Red Sox (Houck) 6:10 PM CT ESPN

[chibears55]

Cubs need to just get out of Boston 🤦‍♂️

[chibears55]

Kid pitching good, just some shitttt luck for those 2 runs..

Bats need to figure something out already

[JHBulls]

“Is it sustainable?”, so asks the national announcer after discussing Red Sox 2.63 ERA after one month. horsefeathers no it’s not sustainable. 

[JHBulls]

When it rains it pours. 

[chibears55]

You'd think ballplayers would wear steel toe cleats 🤷‍♂️

[profisme]

Can we please be done with Morel batting cleanup?

[Soul]

Apparently the entire team is going to be on the IL.  It’s only a matter of time.

[CubinNY]

Wes is pitching really well so far

[Derwood]

15 straight scoreless innings for this offense

[Soul]

I’m not seeing the value provided by the win probability bar to justify the screen space.

[chibears55]

3 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

Wes is pitching really well so far

Cubs definitely don't have SP problems 

Honestly I don't see how they can bring Hendricks back into the rotation other then respect for him.

I kinda hope he keeps his injury all season but remains in the dugout to stay in these kids ears.

[chibears55]

1 minute ago, Soul said:

I’m not seeing the value provided by the win probability bar to justify the screen space.

Welcome to today's sports where everything is statistical.

 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Nothing but swing and miss or soft contact from Mervis since he has been back.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

 

[ToolDRT]

Mervis looks like he’s swinging under water. 

[ToolDRT]

Good at bats. 😑

[Derwood]

5 minutes ago, Soul said:

I’m not seeing the value provided by the win probability bar to justify the screen space.

 

Well, you see, EVERYTHING on ESPN is about betting now

[Southpaw19]

That was so disrespectful by the announcing team towards Shota and his interpreter.

[Soul]

Hack at everything good plan.

[ToolDRT]

2 minutes ago, Southpaw19 said:

That was so disrespectful by the announcing team towards Shota and his interpreter.

What did I miss? Was googling something 

[Southpaw19]

Just now, ToolDRT said:

What did I miss? Was googling something 

They were interviewing him in the dugout. Because the first question took so long (between going through his interpreter both ways), combined with how quick the inning went... they decided to not ask him a question because they felt it would go to commercial really quickly. Then the color guy says "I want to ask him one real quick... how long did it take him to learn 'Go Cubs Go'?"
Then - because the translator was DOING HIS JOB - the color guy says "just ask him to sing it!" - like Shota's a performance monkey to do ESPN's bidding.

[ToolDRT]

Just now, Southpaw19 said:

They were interviewing him in the dugout. Because the first question took so long (between going through his interpreter both ways), combined with how quick the inning went... they decided to not ask him a question because they felt it would go to commercial really quickly. Then the color guy says "I want to ask him one real quick... how long did it take him to learn 'Go Cubs Go'?"
Then - because the translator was DOING HIS JOB - the color guy says "just ask him to sing it!" - like Shota's a performance monkey to do ESPN's bidding.

Ahhh gotcha. Yeah, these commentators leave a lot to be desired. A lot. 

[Derwood]

16 innings now

[Ding Dong Johnson]

36 minutes ago, Illiterate Scholar said:

Looks like cameramen were part of ESPN budget cuts

You’d really think a network that has been doing nothing but sports for more than 4 decades would be better at it. Everything about their broadcast is subpar.

[Irrelevant Dude]

ESPN is the worst and I look forward to their eventual demise.