Andy

Imagine how good this team would be if they could pitch

I have no idea if this is a harbinger of anything, but apparently three Division II teams beat FCS teams last night in the first night of games. No such wins occurred all of last season.

I went pretty crazy with that game today. You can do just about anything, from declaring allegiance to the Nazi Party in your opening press conference to pushing for flamingos to play 3rd base and for herds of buffalo to be released randomly during games, and you'll see remarkably realistic looking feedback. The lunacy is a favorite part.

LMAO this game is fun. I just made PCA commissioner and had him publicly reject a salary cap and the responses you see in-game are hilarious.

That was pretty predictable

I have no idea what is going on here, looks like the Cubs are arguing for a 'catcher balk' that I've never heard of. JD says if the catcher comes across home plate without the ball, it's a balk. PCA is really mad which leads me to believe that he's right, but I don't know the rule on this one.

Nice play by Taylor with an assist to Arenado for incredibly stupid baserunning

It was funny, I was trying to explain to my mom, who's an extremely casual Cubs fan, about why PCA is so much better now, and I had to emphasize several times that this kind of stuff flat-out does not happen. Guys don't just double their walk rate overnight. But he did.

If Milwaukee gets the 1 seed then we would be playing them in the NLDS should we get there, not LA

Barring 6-1 or better in those games I think we're buried anyway

As soon as I saw that PCA got stupidly doubled off second I knew that was going to end up costing them the game. Stuff like that always seems to

Nice horsefeathers job, guys.

Plug in literally any reliever the Cubs have spent significant resources on, really. They've all sucked. Jed should probably just stick to dumpster diving because I'm tired of the Neris/Pressly/Zeferjahn/Maton revolving door of guys we use actual resources to acquire and immediately drop deuces everywhere

Scientists should study this thing where every time the Cubs have a good baseball team they suck at hitting with RISP. IIRC, they've occasionally been good or at least OK at it, but those years always seem to come when the team is otherwise so bad it doesn't matter.

Interesting move to more or less imply she cheated on her husband with her pastor for years, in her 30s, because she was brainwashed.

Gee whiz that was a great play by Meidroth. Damn it

By all means please keep bringing in lefties to face PCA, I'm sure this time it will work Eta - never mind I just assumed

Jesus he is unbelievable First Cub to ever go back to back 30/30 I believe?

Pete will be batting but I doubt he'll get anything to hit

Extremely plausible at this point to lose with a +9 hit differential. Let's not

Let's just never expend real resources on a reliever ever again, it never works

Not a great day to take my now 10-year-old to the park for his first game ever. I knew we were in trouble from the moment I saw they were shoving Cabrera back out there. Right now it feels like he was a waste of Owen Caissie's trade value.

Catch-all thread for the last couple weeks of the preseason as well if you're into that. "Week Zero" (Aug. 29) San Jose State at (14) USC (3 pm, NBC) North Carolina vs TCU - in Dublin (12 pm, ESPN) NC State at Virginia (3:30 pm, ESPN) Jacksonville State at North Dakota State (5:30 pm, CBSSN) Sacramento State at Eastern Michigan (6:30 pm, ESPN+) New Mexico State at Florida State (7 pm, CW) Memphis at UNLV (10 pm, FOX) Top 25 games Ball State at (1) Ohio State (12:30 pm, BTN) Boise State at (2) Oregon (3:30 pm, CBS) Tennessee State at (3) Georgia (3 pm, ESPN+) Wisconsin vs (4) Notre Dame - in Green Bay (7:30 pm Sunday, NBC) Texas State at (5) Texas (3:30 pm, ESPN) North Texas at (6) Indiana (12 pm, FOX) (7) Miami at Stanford (9 pm Friday, ESPN) Missouri State at (8) Texas A&M (7 pm, ESPN) (24) Louisville vs (9) Ole Miss - in Nashville (7:30 pm Sunday, ABC) UTEP at (10) Oklahoma (8 pm Friday, ESPN+) Clemson at (11) LSU (7:30 pm, ABC) Abilene Christian at (12) Texas Tech (7 pm, FS1) East Carolina at (13) Alabama (12 pm, ABC) Fresno State at (14) USC (9 pm Friday, FOX) Utah Tech at (14) BYU (8 pm, ESPN+) Western Michigan at (16) Michigan (7:30 pm, NBC) Washington State at (17) Washington (4 pm Sunday, NBC) Marshall at (18) Penn State (3:30 pm, FS1) (19) SMU at Florida State (7:30 pm Monday, ESPN) Furman at (20) Tennessee (3:30 pm, ESPN+) Idaho at (21) Utah (9 pm Thursday, ESPNU) Northern Illinois at (22) Iowa (4:15 pm, BTN) Oregon State at (23) Houston (12 pm, ESPN) Arkansas-Pine Bluff at (25) Missouri (8 pm Thursday, SEC Network) Other nationally available games Thursday UMass at Rutgers (6 pm, BTN) Akron at Wake Forest (7 pm, ACC Network) Bethune-Cookman at UCF (7 pm, ESPN+) Merrimack at Delaware (7 pm, ESPN+) West Georgia at Kennesaw State (7 pm, ESPN+) Albany at Buffalo (7 pm, ESPN+) Colorado at Georgia Tech (8 pm, ESPN) Eastern Illinois at Minnesota (8 pm, Peacock) UAB at Illinois (9 pm, BTN) Friday San Jose State at Eastern Michigan (6:30 pm, ESPN+) Indiana State at Purdue (7 pm, BTN) North Carolina A&T at Georgia State (7 pm, ESPN+) Toledo at Michigan State (8 pm, FS1) Long Island at Kansas (8 pm, ESPNU) Saturday TV Ohio at Nebraska (12 pm, FS1) Coastal Carolina at West Virginia (12 pm, TNT) Liberty at James Madison (12 pm, ESPNU) New Hampshire at Syracuse (12 pm, ACC Network) Bryant at Army (12 pm, CBSSN) Miami (OH) at Pittsburgh (12:30 pm, CW) Kent State at South Carolina (12:45 pm, SEC Network) Baylor vs Auburn - in Atlanta (3:30 pm, ABC) Boston College at Cincinnati (3:30 pm, FOX) Tulane at Duke (3:30 pm, ACC Network) Towson at Navy (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Oklahoma State at Tulsa (3:45 pm, ESPNU) Wyoming at Colorado State (6 pm, USA) Idaho State at Utah State (7 pm, CBSSN) UL Monroe at Mississippi State (7:30 pm, ESPNU) VMI at Virginia Tech (7:30 pm, ACC Network) Florida Atlantic at Florida (7:45 pm, SEC Network) Hampton at Maryland (8 pm, BTN) South Dakota State at Northwestern (8 pm, BTN) UNLV at Hawaii (9 pm, CW) Portland State at San Diego State (9:30 pm, USA) Central Michigan at New Mexico (10 pm, FS1) UCLA at California (10:30 pm, ESPN) Western Kentucky at Nevada (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Saturday Streaming (all ESPN+) Tarleton State at Bowling Green (12 pm) SE Missouri State at Iowa State (1 pm) Youngstown State at Kentucky (1 pm) Rhode Island at Temple (2 pm) Maine at Appalachian State (3:30 pm) The Citadel at Charlotte (3:30 pm) UT Rio Grande Valley at UTSA (3:30 pm) North Alabama at Arkansas (4:15 pm) Alcorn State at Southern Miss (5 pm) Norfolk State at Old Dominion (6 pm) Austin Peay at Vanderbilt (7 pm) Nicholls at Kansas State (7 pm) Arkansas State at Memphis (7 pm) Charleston Southern at Georgia Southern (7 pm) Houston Christian at Rice (7 pm) FIU at South Florida (7 pm) Eastern Kentucky at Jacksonville State (7 pm) Murray State at Middle Tennessee (7 pm) Sam Houston at Troy (7 pm) SE Louisiana at South Alabama (7 pm) Northwestern State at Louisiana Tech (7:30 pm) Lamar at UL Lafayette (8 pm) Mercyhurst at New Mexico State (9 pm) Northern Arizona at Arizona (9:30 pm) Morgan State at Arizona State (10 pm) Mississippi Valley State at Sacramento State (10 pm)

It's not hard to take his logic to the conclusion of anyone who ever wore a number is having their NIL rights infringed if it's given to another player. It has no chance of holding up.