White Sox (Smith) vs Cubs (Horton): 5/16/25, 1:20pm

[UMFan83]

Just now, Outshined_One said:

I will inject every motherfucker here in the forehead with heroin if he's traded.

Think he’s talking about the all star game, but either way don’t waste perfectly good heroin on this bunch

[NorthsideAvenger]

16 hours ago, Outshined_One said:

I will inject every motherfucker here in the forehead with heroin if he's traded.

🤣. That is not what I was implying. 

I apologize for not being a bit more specific. I did mean the ASG.

 

Edited May 17, 2025 by NorthsideAvenger

[JHBulls]

34 minutes ago, Outshined_One said:

I will inject every motherfucker here in the forehead with heroin if he's traded.

A bit dark.

[Rcal10]

After 2 starts I would say Horton is doing pretty well. I know he has given up 6 runs in 9 innings, but he hasn’t walked anyone. Today he pitched in a game with the wind blowing out pretty hard, and did fine. Best part of this is in two games the Cubs games the Cubs had to fill in for Imanaga they won both of them. I am actually encouraged by Horton’s two starts. 

[javy knows my name]

3 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

After 2 starts I would say Horton is doing pretty well. I know he has given up 6 runs in 9 innings, but he hasn’t walked anyone. Today he pitched in a game with the wind blowing out pretty hard, and did fine. Best part of this is in two games the Cubs games the Cubs had to fill in for Imanaga they won both of them. I am actually encouraged by Horton’s two starts. 

Same. I was thinking today that if the only thing he needs to "correct" for a while is command in the zone, it's a pretty good problem to have.

[BKHoo]

How are the Cardinals this good?! 

[DrCub]

5 hours ago, WhyCantWeWin said:

Perfect game to get Pressley some work in the 7th inning 

Careful his mom might be on this site. 

[UMFan83]

21 minutes ago, BKHoo said:

How are the Cardinals this good?! 

They’re hot and it’s annoying but they’ll cool off. 

[JHBulls]

53 minutes ago, BKHoo said:

How are the Cardinals this good?! 

Because baseball makes a lot of sense.

Cardinals crappy when Cubs are crappy.

Cubs = suddenly good. 
Cardinals = good, for reasons.

Name a better historical duo? 

[Stratos]

Horton had some good fastball command today.  And no walks again.  Was bouncing the slider in the dirt a lot, hopefully he gets more chase by locating it better out of the zone.  Not going to get those swings like in the minors.

Still just the 2nd MLB game and still early in the year for a guy who hasn't thrown much in the minors.  Lots of opportunity for improvement and tweaking.

[BigbadB]

15 hours ago, Rcal10 said:

I know on occasion the scorekeeper can award a win to a guy who isn’t technically the pitcher of record. But that is usually done when the guy who is the pitcher of record sucked ad got lucky to be in the game when his team turned the game around. The scorekeeper can award someone else who may have been effective, with the win. But Horton was the pitcher of record after 5 and the Cubs never trailed. I thought that was the requirement to get a win using standard rules. 

The pitcher needs to pitch 5 innings. Horton came in in the 2nd and left after 5. Because he didn't go 5 and the lead never changed, it became discretionary. Boog and JD were talking about it in the booth and JD said that it was more than likely they would likely give the W to Horton in this instance.

There was a game earlier this year where Pressly got the win in a game he technically got a save. That one was discretionary as well.

[BigbadB]

I'm so over the Berti/Lopez experiment. They need to bring up Shaw now. 

[CubUgly]

14 hours ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

Will PCA be in ATL in July?

 

Yeah,  he could bat below average from this point on and still make it on his vibe and popularity alone. 

[Stratos]

5 hours ago, BigbadB said:

I'm so over the Berti/Lopez experiment. They need to bring up Shaw now. 

Enter:  Brujan

[JHBulls]

Now that… is a horsefeathers lineup. Woof! 

[JHBulls]

Oh look, it’s 1-0.

[BigbadB]

7 minutes ago, Stratos said:

Enter:  Brujan

I’m so over the Berti/Lopez/Brujan/Turner experiment at 3b. 

[BigbadB]

Dude had the 6th lowest K rate in MLB, but Ks 3 in the first inning. 

[gflore34]

First hit this series from 3B would sure be sweet.

[gflore34]

Dare I ask for another?

[gflore34]

Wow, not even close, guess that makes up for an miss on strike three earlier.

[gflore34]

Wrong thread boy, am I sharp.