RammyFanny

Exactly what happened to me. They lost 7-4. Went to the bullpen in the 3rd. I was devastated. 2-1 here and the last thing I remember was @thekapman saying on the postgame show how we all predicted 2-1, but just the wrong team winning ( he actually did predict Cubs 2-1). [expletive] nightmares. And @thekapman.

Had a dream we lost and when I realized it was just a dream after about 30 seconds it was the best feeling ever.

At Wrigley, SRO is at the very back of the 200 level. Terrible place to watch a game as pretty much everything besides the actual field is blocked from the overhang. So you might see all the fielders (or might not depending on pole placement where you stand) but you won't see the OF wall or the stands or scoreboards etc. I can understand wanting to just get in the park and for an NLCS or World Series game I would totally do it...would never do it for a regular season game. Is there still SRO in the bleachers? I did that for the 2007 game against the Dbacks. I don't know if they'll allow it in the playoffs but it was definitely still going on for one of the packed weekend games I went to. But it's not like there's a ton of spots so you really have to probably get dibs like the second they open.

Maddux weirdly resembles Javy Baez in that intro.

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Is that website legit? Guaranteed seats or are they going to throw you some standing room only stuff?

Did this get disabled? Still worked as of yesterday evening.

But dongs. In seriousness, sort of depends on the lineup. LaStella/Castro/Rizzo/Coghlan could offset it some. What's the food of choice? I might be eating at a Mexican restaurant/bar for it but I will not hesitate to smuggle in Chinese.

Gabriel sounds like he hates Goff. Some of the reasoning sounds dumb though. http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/breaking-down-cals-jared-goff/#st_refDomain=t.co&st_refQuery=/3OUSj4ZfRU

The friendly announcer.

DeRosa looks he can't tell if a girl just complimented him or made fun of him in front of a group of people and Wood looks like he's thinking "i fucked up. where do I hide the body?"

He's flashed it recently but I kind of thought Lester might just start pickin' fools off left and right once the playoffs start.

You [expletive] will have to live with Jay Jackson's Furman pic forever.

He searches for hot takes but they are generally well thought out and keep me entertained enough to appreciate them as a pleasant break from the usual stuff that blends in with everything else. I'm talking more about the BP Wrigleyville stuff as opposed to the Twitter takes though.

This is going to make davell's head explode, but I actually really like Matthew Trueblood's stuff. Totally get why you'd want to punch him in the face though and he can definitely come off as douchy/condescending.

If you follow enough people on Twitter you pretty much won't miss a thing.

We've got ourselves a rebel. I'm guessing you were referencing bleachernation and not BR though.

Anthony Rizzo climbed the tarp and YOU WON'T BELIEVE what happened next! At the end of the day, there clearly is a market for it and he loves doing it, so it's all good. And I feel like he presents fairly advanced things in a simple way to meatballs, so he's fighting the good fight.

He wasn't supposed to be nearly this good defensively, was he? I wouldn't go that far. He was supposed to be very good, albeit with some flaws (his arm is apparently one of them). But a lot of prospects have that said about them and don't end up being that good (Kyle likes to bring this up a lot). You might be remembering him being questioned on that account. But for the most part I'd say the expectations of him/reports defensively were overall very positive. I wouldn't call his arm a flaw, but I definitely wouldn't say it's a strength. Which makes his elite awesomeness even that much more absurd.

Meh, it's not THAT hard to make a case for Arrieta. ERA doesn't suck, there just better evaluation measures. Arrieta beats Greinke in IP, Wins, hits/9, FIP, xFIP, K/9, fWAR, total strikeouts, Games Started, Complete Games, Complete Game Shutouts, HR rate. Their WHIPs are just about exactly he same. I mean, what else does Greinke really have over him than a microscopic amount of ERA and a few less walks? I guess I can see he consistency thing, but it's not like Arrieta's first half ERA of 2.6 was particularly bad, obviously. Greinke had a half over 2 as well, although still better than Arrieta's worse half. I think you can make he case for Kershaw fairly easily, but for whatever reason I don't get the impression he will be that close in voting.

I feel like that umps thought process probably went like this: *Pitch hits mitt* *in awe, ump excitedly points at ball in mitt with his right hand* "THAT pitch..." (while still pointing at ball) "Now THAT [expletive] pitch is a ... strike 3"(*simulataneously makes cocky strike 3 call wih left hand*)

Who's going to be the first person to go back and covertly "heart" like 500 of their own previous posts from like 5 years ago? And I'm waiting for the first post that goes heart-crazy (50+ hearts). I'm predicting it's either an IMB short story or a Tree MS Paint story for the playoffs.

Sure. But if everything else stays more or less the same and the .412 BABIP normalizes, he's going a lot further south than .290. Everything else more or less is not going to stay the same (the circumstances around his AB's) and the the .412 BABIP will obviously normalize. Just because you write off the small sample size of his peripherals as an endless cycle of the same argument doesn't make it any less silly when you then keep using and lock in said peripherals into hypothetical projections. FFS, the next 5 AB's could raise his AVG/OBP/BABIP by 45 points or lower them by 20. 3 games worth of plate appearances could raise/lower his K-rate by like 5 percent. 3 walks can affect his BB% by 5%. But in the world of hypotheticals, if he can keep his K's around 27-30% and get his BB% to 7-8%, which is what his BB% was in the upper minors and close to last year in the majors, then he can still OBP .310-.345 with a more normal BABIP. And even if he doesn't, he can still be a useful player and not a "dumpster fire." I don't know which way he is going to go, but inferring that his BABIP, LD%, and other peripherals after 70 AB's are worth anything more than a cursory glance this early is silly. He's cut down on the leg kick, drastically altered where he stands in the box, altered his 2-strike approach, and closed his stance a ton in an attempt to reduce strikeouts. There were 300 AAA AB's he has with the new approach that is probably still being modified, and it has resulted in his lowest K-rate ever outside of A-ball. If there's any player that shouldn't have SSS's over analyzed, it's probably him.

[expletive] I don't want to know anything anymore. This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, "time is a flat circle." Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again. And that Javy and his unsustainable line drive rate, they're gonna be in that room again and again and again forever.

Eye test is horrible for guys who are getting unsustainable line drive rates. Maddon is playing him sporadically and in favorable matchups against lefties and against righties without nasty off speed stuff. Him having a crazy line drive rate in a ridiculously small sample size against those type of pitchers is not hard to fathom nor surprising. When he's not starting, he is entering as a late inning defensive replacement and getting a random late AB against a generally good reliever. He is annihilating lefties like he always does and has a crazy good line/BABIP against them in a tiny sample size. Pointing out his line drive rate being unsustainable seems pretty obvious, and we don't really have enough there to make any generalizations about how he would be playing if he were playing every day. And even if he were playing every day, the data would be about as relevant as picking a random ass 70 AB sample size from Addison Russell and telling people he's going to have to improve a large amount from those peripherals in order to be relevant and not a total dumpster fire.