Omar

Yeah, I was a senior in high school when he became a Cub. I'll be 30 next month. There's really no reason for such a mediocre pitcher to have lasted as long as he has. I was at my first cubs game at 15 and he threw me a ball during batting practice. Made my day.

I really want to see Jerome Williams this series. I cant believe he's still playing.

https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/763834319437754368

Theres no reason we shouldn't sweep these fucks.

Cubs v. Martinez Name PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG Anthony Rizzo 21 17 4 1 0 2 6 3 1 .235 .333 .647 .980 0 1 1 0 0 Dexter Fowler 20 17 6 1 0 0 3 3 6 .353 .450 .412 .862 0 0 0 0 0 Kris Bryant 15 12 2 0 0 0 0 2 4 .167 .333 .167 .500 0 0 0 1 0 Miguel Montero 15 12 2 1 0 0 3 3 5 .167 .333 .250 .583 0 0 0 0 2 Chris Coghlan 14 11 2 1 0 0 0 3 6 .182 .357 .273 .630 0 0 0 0 0 Addison Russell 11 11 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 .364 .364 .364 .727 0 0 0 0 0 Jason Heyward 8 8 3 1 0 0 2 0 1 .375 .375 .500 .875 0 0 0 0 0 David Ross 7 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 .143 .143 .286 0 0 0 0 0 Javier Baez 6 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .333 .333 .333 .667 0 0 0 0 0 Ben Zobrist 6 5 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 .400 .500 .400 .900 0 0 0 0 0 Jon Lester 5 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .400 .400 .400 .800 0 0 0 0 0 Jake Arrieta 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Jason Hammel 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Kyle Hendricks 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Travis Wood 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 .500 .500 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 Jorge Soler 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.000 3.000 0 0 0 0 0 Matt Szczur 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Total 138 121 32 6 0 2 18 15 31 .264 .348 .364 .711 0 1 1 1 2 Has not faced: Willson Contreras & Has not faced pitchers: Aroldis Chapman, Carl Edwards, John Lackey, Mike Montgomery, Hector Rondon, Joe Smith and Pedro Strop Cards v. Lester Name PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG Jhonny Peralta 56 51 14 3 0 3 8 5 15 .275 .339 .510 .849 0 0 0 0 2 Matt Carpenter 27 24 5 1 1 0 1 3 6 .208 .296 .333 .630 0 0 0 0 0 Yadier Molina 25 22 4 1 0 0 3 2 4 .182 .240 .227 .467 0 1 0 0 0 Matt Holliday 22 21 8 1 0 1 5 1 5 .381 .409 .571 .981 0 0 0 0 0 Kolten Wong 11 10 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 .200 .273 .300 .573 0 0 0 0 0 Brandon Moss 9 9 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 .222 .222 .222 .444 0 0 0 0 0 Stephen Piscotty 9 7 2 1 0 1 2 2 2 .286 .444 .857 1.302 0 0 0 0 0 Tommy Pham 8 7 2 0 0 2 2 1 2 .286 .375 1.143 1.518 0 0 0 0 0 Matt Adams 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Mike Leake 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Adam Wainwright 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Carlos Martinez 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Jedd Gyorko 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000 0 0 0 0 0 Jerome Williams 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Total 189 173 41 8 1 7 22 15 49 .237 .296 .416 .712 0 1 0 0 2 Has not faced: Greg Garcia, Jeremy Hazelbaker and Alberto Rosario & Has not faced pitchers: Matthew Bowman, Jonathan Broxton, Zach Duke, Jaime Garcia, Seth Maness, Seung-hwan Oh, Alexander Reyes and Kevin Siegrist

if i go crazy then will you still call me supermaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

He would not care one bit what we think. everybody cares about what other people think to some degree, even small, deep down. we can portray a thick skin on the outside and say we don't, but the fact of the matter is that we do. truth.

A shout out to Wayne Messmer, who delivered a very smooth 7th inning stretch. I want to see him do the stretch more often.

What will NSBB do? (Lack of game thread = cloudy day)

I can only imagine the noise of grinding teeth Lackey would make if he read this thread.

Fred is having some health issues but is still kicking, according to the GTS thread.

Maddon tends to play the odds when it comes to career stats vs. a pitcher, i've noticed (as do most managers) ... So its a good line-up predictor

do you mean just the stat page for the respective team? http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/LAA/2016.shtml

I will have to resort to the old method: Screencapping ESPN.com http://i.imgur.com/3LwRmJa.png http://i.imgur.com/tkIRJcp.png Oh god its so painful, they sort by name instead of plate appearances, which isn't even a column.

Rockies are not making the playoffs. My facebook feed disagrees. Maybe they'll pull a 2007

Bat v. Pitch is down on BR I have no purpose in life

carbs on carbs on carbs on carbs

Toothy McBucktooth was on the cover of the Sun Times today http://i.imgur.com/MtxdY7P.png Not sure if they mean "Lackey's bite" in a literal sense...

you dont even know what my expletive was

There's no reason we shouldn't sweep these fucks.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.186167.1314055861!/img/httpImage/alg-omar-minaya-lupica-jpg.jpg

damn thats a quality ceiling

http://cimg.tvgcdn.net/i/r/2015/07/10/0b226371-6578-44b7-8983-00f763201239/resize/350x509/665e66a34939b9a30dee7551702af65a/omarsharif-news.jpg

Theres no reason we shouldn't sweep these fucks.

You can still buy tickets for today's game on Cubs.com