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KB Dong
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Dong time
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Holy hell. Montgomery.
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Good job, Montgomery. Keep having innings where you don't allow runs.
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Wasn't it probably just a double switch to put Montgomery in that spot?
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Was that two face tags in one innings?
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I don't understand why Joe wouldn't be willing to use Chapman when the heart of the order is coming up in the eighth.
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Less for me, and less for the Cubs, and more for Heyward, I wanted that gone.
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Miraculous comeback please.
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Keep Rizzo in the game and move Contreras to catcher.
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None of this matters anyways, because Rizzo is going to save the Cubs with a dinger here.
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maybe jake shouldn't have walked a .208 hitter and a .232 hitter This. It's so easy to forget with all the [expletive] that happened but Jake just did the wrong thing at a bad time to crappy hitters. And knowing this year's Jake, that is why you should have pulled him and let Rondon start the 8th.
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At least there are no runners on now.
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When you have Rondon and Chapman, with a 1-0 lead going into the 8th, you use them! horsefeathers!
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Chapman sucks.
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Really should have used Rondon to start the 8th.
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Joe must not want Chapman to go more than 1.1 innings, otherwise he'd have surely used him for Aoki for the platoon advantage, right?
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For real. Pretty disappointed at Maddon not using Chapman more creatively. I assume Rondon was the one warmed up already. They should have both been warmed up.
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For real. Pretty disappointed at Maddon not using Chapman more creatively.
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I mean it's not happening, so it's not really worth discussing, but I think if you can get a long term starting pitching asset with TOR potential without hurting this year's team, you have to do it.
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Sounds like Nats won't move him, but I'd be interested in the Cubs inserting themselves into that deal and sending Schwarber to the Yanks for Giolito.
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:banghead: Really don't understand the ability of some to so easily want to give a guy a chance to redeem himself just because he can throw a baseball really fast. I really don't get what your point is; we fans have no effect on his ability to redeem himself. All of the people that do have an effect on that ability (teams, legal system, family, girlfriend, children, etc) are apparently giving him that chance, whether we like it or not. Rightly or wrongly, and largely because of his athletic talent, he IS getting the chance at redemption that you bemoan us peons of not giving him. Part of why some people are so angry is because he doesn't actually have to be remorseful and he doesn't have to learn to respect women and he doesn't really have to face any consequences and yet he still gets a chance at redemption. In fact, he doesn't just get a chance at redemption, he is pretty much automatically given redemption. Because he is good at playing baseball. That disgusts me, and it disgusts me that the team I care a lot about is choosing to be part of the problem and not part of the solution, and it disgusts me that I am probably just going to get over it in a couple weeks.
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Cubs add Chapman for Torres, et al. imb wishes we paid more
CoolHandLuke replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
This trade, and therefor this thread, is really good for finding out who has abhorrent views regarding domestic violence. Maybe that was Theo's plan? I can totally understand the cognitive dissonance that we will mostly all fall into that will allow us to still generally enjoy the season, while feeling pretty bad about Chapman has a human. What I cannot understand is that it seems like a many people don't even struggle a bit with how to feel about the move. Oh wait, I can totally understand it because we see it all the time. But it sure perplexes me that so many people think that way. I just wish that Theo didn't make this move. And more than that, I wish our society had an answer for how to deal with people who treat their "loved ones" terribly. And mostly, I wish people just didn't do it in the first place. Freyr, did you struggle at all with how to feel about Chapman as a human and the fact that he is now an important player on a team that you root for? -
Cubs add Chapman for Torres, et al. imb wishes we paid more
CoolHandLuke replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Cubs trade Vogelbach/Blackburn for Mike Montgomery/Jordan Pries
CoolHandLuke replied to davell's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I just finished Sharma's article on the trade that had some pretty extensive Theo quotes, and there wasn't a mention of him being a starter, not even in future seasons. I think it's safe to say that he's viewed almost exclusively as a reliever for this season. Theo, quoted in the Sharma article: “We kind of separated them into different buckets,” Epstein said of how he and his staff approached the relief market. “The guys who are established impact guys right now and obviously have a higher price tag. And we’ll still be in on those guys, we’re still interested in improving the ‘pen if we can. And then the younger, controllable pieces, including guys who we think have a chance to start down the line and Mike certainly fits into that category.” So they aren't necessarily out on the Miller/Chapman/etc types and it sounds like they do think Montgomery could start, even if they don't currently plan to use him that way.