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Now that the guys have won one game in a row everything seems to be fixed. I for one cannot wait to get this winning streak started!

I'll be happy with whomever the Cubs take. They seem to be drafting well since Jed overhauled the system. If I had to pick one it would be Tibbs. I'm not sure Tibbs will be around that long though.

I've written a lot of stupid horsefeathers on here. The stupidest was writing off Triantos.

Well slap my back and call me flabbergasted. Marquee and the Cubs doing a good thing. Can't wait. Beth Mowens, Elise Menaker, and Taylor McGregor.

Are they going to blow this?

PCA needs to learn some Japanese for it's mine

So, I'm having a good time.

PCA has a nice quick bat. He needs to let the ball come to him a little bit. He's rolling over a lot pitches when he makes contact.

So bad at baserunning.

WTF

and thank G-O-D for built-in excuses.

weeeeeeeeee!

Do minor league catchers call their own game?

The Athletic has a good series on pitching. This is the 4th article. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5594571/2024/06/27/missing-bats-part-4-arm-injury-epidemic/

I'm sure glad you are here to point that out at every opportunity.

That should be the # for the Cubs.

I frankly don't give a horsefeathers what FanGraphs thinks of his "stuff". He was let go by the 4th worst team in the league.

horsefeathers yea! USA. USA, USA!!!!

There is a piece in Moneyball where Lewis is recalling a story Bean tells him about the difference between Billy and Lenny Dykstra. "Physically, Lenny didn't belong in the same league with him. He was half Billy's size and had a fraction of Billy's promise - which is why the Mets hadn't drafted him until the 13th round. Mentally, Lenny was superior, which was odd, considering Lenny wasn't what you'd call a student of the game. Billy remembers sitting with Lenny in a Mets dugout watching the opposing pitcher warm up. 'Lenny says, "So who's that big dumb ass out there on the hill?" And I say, "Lenny, you're kidding me, right? That's Steve Carlton. He's maybe the greatest left-hander in the history of the game." Lenny says, "Oh, yeah! I knew that!" He sits there for a minute and says, "So, what's he got?" And I say, "Lenny, come on. Steve Carlton. He's got heat and also maybe the nastiest slider ever." And Lenny sits there for a while longer as if he's taking that in. Finally he just says, "horsefeathers, I'll stick him." I'm sitting there thinking, that's a magazine cover out there on the hill and all Lenny can think is that he'll stick him.'" The point about Lenny, at least to Billy, was clear: Lenny didn't let his mind screw him up. The physical gifts required to play pro ball were, in some ways, less extraordinary than the mental ones. Only a psychological freak could approach a 100-mph fastball aimed not all that far from his head with total confidence. "Lenny was so perfectly designed, emotionally, to play the game of baseball," said Billy. "He was able to instantly forget any failure and draw strength from every success. He had no concept of failure. And he had no idea where he was. And I was the opposite."

I don't know what that means. He's smart? Well, he went to Stanford. What does that have to do with his skills as a baseball player?

Hey, I will be able to watch this one! Go me.

Maybe Jed will quit. I would be embarrassed and raving at my staff. I'd probably pull a Bean and reflexively trade someone who was horsefeathers around in the clubhouse after a loss.

TBH, I don't know what they think of him as a catcher in AA. Like. was he getting it done well enough? I know I saw him throw a guy out in the limited time I watched him.

Tom = Jed until people stop coming to games.