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  1. Andy
    I don't know why it is happening but I've officially had enough of JD being minimized/sidelined as much as he has. Sutcliffe is a damn mess on these games.
  2. Andy
    Sexual assault allegation that came to light in early 2012 and ultimately didn't result in charges. https://www.espn.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/7431695/chicago-cubs-starlin-castro-part-sexual-assault-investigation
  3. Andy
    Rizzo already turned down 5/70 and has played worse than that this year, so if he gets extended it's not going to look a thing like 6/90.
  4. Andy
    Well damn, I feel bad for the guy now. I think the catcher is more to blame than Craig. You re-run that play with every single player that has ever played the game and 99.9999% or more of them either turn into the dugout or stand there and let themselves be tagged. Craig takes a step to tag Javy and Javy backs up - at that point Javy can't go anywhere - Craig takes another step - so does Javy - but again where can he go. It really unravels when the catcher calls for the ball and Craig throws it to him (which he shouldn't have done) - at this point I believe Javy's foot is in the batters box. The catcher (too lazy to look up who it was) could've tagged Javy there but tries to get Contreras and then yadda yadda yadda. I'm not saying Craig executed the play well but I think the catcher, at a minimum, deserves as much scorn as Craig. It really was a team-wide disaster. Craig obviously started it, but as you outline the catcher fucked up too. The second baseman fucked up by not covering first base during the rundown. Everyone else on the infield fucked up by not screaming at Craig to just tag Javy or touch the base. Craig deserves better than to be the only face of that play.
  5. Andy
    Finally Manfred says something I don't completely hate
  6. Andy
    In my outfield, drop Ian Happ, add Chris Taylor.
  7. Andy
    I'm going to Wrigley this weekend and the cumulative cost of the tickets I bought on StubHub has already fallen $50 since I finished buying them like 5 days ago.
  8. Andy
    I'm not going to go diving through the entire thread, but his own agents didn't clarify that it was spelled 'Ohtani' until November 2017, so whatevs.
  9. Andy
    Bench - Drop Kyle Lewis, add Giancarlo Stanton
  10. Andy
    A friend and I have an annual Wrigley trip we've been making almost every year since we graduated high school. This year because he started a new job the only series available to us was St Louis next weekend. We're both excited to be at Wrigley again but man the baseball is probably gonna suck as we cannonball (further?) into 4th place.
  11. Andy
    Time to fire the hitting coach, says Chili Davis Poor Chili. We all really thought he sucked and it turned out he was just a victim of sequencing because it was just the first of several years they were all awful.
  12. Andy
    I was at the Bote slam game, so that's easily tops for me. The ridiculous NLDS clincher in Washington is probably 1B.
  13. Andy
    So Adam Morgan horsefeathering sucks ass
  14. Andy
    I was going to ask how the living hell such insane passages escaped everyone's notice, but apparently the book was published in 1975. I had no idea Jackson was famous enough to have a book deal at that time.
  15. Andy
    In sports you constantly have eras ending without people really realizing it until they look back later with the benefit of hindsight and notice that this, here, is where it ended. This series is the complete opposite of that. This was the end and just about everyone knows it.
  16. Andy
    I have a rule about never trashing anyone who helped the Cubs win the World Series (heinous Addison Russell-type actions excepted) but it's past time to reconsider Jake's spot in the starting rotation.
  17. Andy
    I had literally never heard of this Gushue character before today and now he's playing first base.
  18. Andy
    Looks like a good call. Also Wisdom might be dead now.
  19. Andy
    Well, this is nice. That bunt was probably the coolest thing Sogard has done since getting here, which doesn't say much, but at least that 4th run is in.
  20. Andy
    We've talked about it here before, but until the 15 playoffs and then 16 came around, I never thought it could get much better than the 08 team. That team just came through over and over, and seemed invincible until they face-planted against LA.
  21. Andy
    Either the Cubs Athletic guys or the Marquee broadcast mentioned a while ago that whatever it is isn't progressing well. He's been gone long enough now that throwing him on the 60 day DL doesn't really change much at this point. He's going to need some rehab assignments, and I think he's eligible to come off the 60 like, next week. July 22, I just read today, so it'll be a while yet. But it sounds like he probably would've been out that long anyway.
  22. Andy
    This might not exactly be what you're talking about, but I remember a very hobbled Rizzo and Baez taking ABs in that godforsaken series against the Cardinals in 2019 where Kimbrel gave up like 6 dongs. Granted that was September so there wasn't a roster crunch, but Rizzo led off and could barely walk, and then Javy PH with like, a broken wrist or something? I was so pissed at the team for blowing that year, but at least they showed some sort of effort. Yeah, I was venting but I do remember Javy coming off the bench limping and having a walk-off hit I think last year or the year before. Rizzo miraculously came back and started some games late in 19, don't remember him coming off the bench. It's just incredibly annoying. I actually said to my wife when Boog and JD mentioned that Bryant and Rizzo were supposedly available off the bench that we would probably send up Jose Lobaton instead of them later, and lo and behold.
  23. Andy
    Maybe other Sinclair owned stations aren't sending the crews on the road and they don't want to draw attention to the distinction? Seems the most likely scenario. He mentions in the column that other Bally stations aren't necessarily going on the road yet, or even soon.
  24. Andy
    Jon Greenberg said in his Athletic column today that he's hearing that the Marquee crew will be going to all the road games going forward. Not the radio crew, though, which won't travel (unless they drive) until they can do so with the team.
  25. Andy
    Can also say that about our OF for the most partIt's almost like dumping good players at those positions for no horsefeathering reason at all comes back to bite teams
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