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  1. TruffleShuffle
    I feel like Lackey should've been PH for. He's really got only one inning left and they have 3 days off coming up. A real batter leading off the inning seems more valuable than the difference between Lackey and whoever would replace him in the 6th inning.
  2. TruffleShuffle
    So what, even though they're top 5 in FIP/xFIP and they're a good rotation on paper, the past 3 weeks of terrible pitching is what can be expected for the rest of the season? I'm trying to figure out what the argument is here. The argument is that almost the entire lineup has gone to [expletive] in this stretch and that's not "regression to the mean." That's true, it's a bad stretch of play that is really not predictive of much going forward.
  3. TruffleShuffle
    So what was pitching way, way better than expected for most of the year? I guess you can say "well this is the true Cub rotation" if you're a glass half full of diarrhea type of guy. Kyle is 100% right and it's not even arguable. It takes every ounce of willpower I have not to point it out every time someone wrongly cites "regression to the mean." So what, even though they're top 5 in FIP/xFIP and they're a good rotation on paper, the past 3 weeks of terrible pitching is what can be expected for the rest of the season? I'm trying to figure out what the argument is here.
  4. TruffleShuffle
    So what was pitching way, way better than expected for most of the year? I guess you can say "well this is the true Cub rotation" if you're a glass half full of diarrhea type of guy.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    Probably that they go back to pitching well. Just a hunch. It's pretty funny how high people got when we had like 5 of the best 20 starters in baseball, but then when the inevitable regression happens - albeit rather annoyingly in a terrible 3 week stretch - people lose their minds. Did you really expect Lester to maintain a sub 2.00 ERA or Hammel to not turn into a post-June pumpkin?
  6. TruffleShuffle
    I don't know what people are hoping will happen with the starting pitching. Arrieta won the Cy Young award last year and was excellent for the first couple of months this season. Lester is on a big contract and made the all star team. Lackey was very good last year and was very good for much of May and June. Hendricks has been good. Really the only thing that can be done is to replace second half Hammel, unless you want to panic trade Arrieta or demote Lester or Lackey to the pen after 3 bad starts.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    Kyle has cast his line and now is hoping to get some nibbles.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    To do what with the five or six who are already on the roster?
  9. TruffleShuffle
    Who is Adam Frazier? Follow up question, who is Eric Fryer and why is he hitting almost .400?
  10. TruffleShuffle
    horsefeathers Sean Rodriguez
  11. TruffleShuffle
    As if Roofie Man wouldn't have drawn a walk or something if they'd loaded the bases.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    Great job butt nuts.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    Save us Kyle Hendricks, you're our only hope.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    Good: 79 pitches seen in 3 innings. Bad: already 6 LOB
  15. TruffleShuffle
    good work walking one of the worst hitting pitchers in baseball.
  16. TruffleShuffle
    Was ball three to Fryer as bad a call as gameday/CubsUmp made it look?
  17. TruffleShuffle
    Would be nice if our aces could hold a lead for a horsefeathering half inning
  18. TruffleShuffle
    someone please spend the ASB teaching heyward how to hit again.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    great hitting, d-bags
  20. TruffleShuffle
    He's not pitching again until after the break. yeah, i mean why isn't he starting this weekend?
  21. TruffleShuffle
    why are we burning our ace in relief tonight?
  22. TruffleShuffle
    When's our stopper going next? (Hendricks)
  23. TruffleShuffle
    It's less annoying when a guy who is barely missing the strike zone gets calls like that. Lorenzen was all over the place and the ump gifted him three bad called strikes, including the last one against Bryant which was just an awful call. Just embarrassing.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    lol is this real life?
  25. TruffleShuffle
    Well, I guess that would have been a rocket off the bat for a GIDP if the ump had done his job properly in the first at bat
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