Sammy Sofa
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If Rizzo dongs here, they're gonna win this game. -
I know it was just a sim game, but that Caratini, of all people, apparently annihilated a dong off of Yu is a little sad.
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Uh, why not leave Quintana in? He could have done the same thing, and probably spared the bullpen a couple of innings.
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[expletive]; he's really gonna do this whole, "nightmare for 2 separate innings, fine the rest," thing again, isn't he?
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What is going on with Morrow? Not that that is our big problem at this point but how long is he playing horsefeathering catch? I was kinda figuring that the org was taking their time with Bryant, Morrow and Darvish as long as possible, like, taking this whole extra rest approach as far as they can. They assume they can, at leas, hold on and win the division, so try to get those guys as right as possible for the playoffs.
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#firechili It's horsefeathering weird; it really looks as simple as, "they don't hit for enough power to offset how bad the starting rotation has been." Outside of the slugging, they're pretty much across the board right up there with the Red Sox. And while there's little reason for me to assume the slugging WON'T just kick in at some point, it really hasn't so far this season, and seems to just be getting worse.
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So, yeah, the Cubs have an awesome team BA and OBP. The slugging? Ehhhhhhhhh...11th, according to BR. They blow everyone else out of the water with 910 guys LOB; the only other team that's close are the terrible Reds with 899. Then you have to get down to the Giants at 855 in 3rd, then the Marlins, the Rangers and the Nats. The Red Sox are all the way down at 7th, with 829. Obviously, leaving a bunch of guys on base is going to be a thing that bad teams are going to do, but also teams that are good and good at getting on base, and the Cubs are obviously the latter. The problem seems to be the relative lack of power; they're right up there with the Red Sox in terms of BA and OPB, but it's because they're a team that REALLY loves to walk and slap singles around that then ends up weirdly missing the big XBH you'd expect given their other numbers and their roster.
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Running sample size into the ground and through the horsefeathering planet to the point that it becomes some sort of meaningless baseball crypto-nihilism long stopped meaning dick a long time ago.
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He and Lester might as well be pitching machines at this point. And here I was actually looking forward to seeing Quintana start one of the games I'm seeing in Pittsburgh because I figured he'd have a good outing today.
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Again, if it was another team having to constantly come from behind despite their season totals, that's what we'd be hearing about how they're not really as impressive as they seem. If it was another team that has had their RD just completely dive into the basement like the Cubs' has then that would the reason they're actually vulnerable once they hit the playoffs.
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Run differential for the last 23 or whatever games is -1 per game. They’ve been winning all the close ones and losing all the blowouts. That’s what lucky bad teams do. Oh, I agree. I just figured David would have numbers to prove otherwise. Dude loves shoveling out cumulative rankings and pretending like it's somehow guaranteeing which version of the 2018 Cubs is going to stagger across the finish line.
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Just pointing to both the record and them repeatedly battling back to win way too many games as if the former somehow dismisses or validates latter is cheesy as horsefeathers. If it was another team then the usual suspects here would be pointing it out constantly as the reason they're actually a paper tiger.
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What this [expletive] do his usual, "breeze through the middle 4-5 innings/completely implode in the bookends" garbage.
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Quintana's offspeed stuff might as well be on a tee today.
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PLEASE STOP THROWING YOUR CURVEBALL. IT SUCKS. THANK YOU.
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I'm foreseeing a leadoff double for Schwarber, a flyout by Willson that moves him to 3B, and then back to back k's by Quintana and Rizzo, all because Joe loves dumb, dumb lineups.
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It's horsefeathering hysterical that TOMMY LA STELLA was batting in that situation with Kyle horsefeathering Schwarber and Willson horsefeathering Contreras behind him.
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I've mentioned it before, but it's almost like my brain can't process how it feels like they have the scratch out most of their wins, or come back and win, and that they also have the record they have. It's like there's actually a 120-game winning team lurking under this monstrosity. I never thought I'd be so annoyed by a Cubs team this far over .500, but here we are.
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(Please make me look even more dumb than usual, Seal Boy)
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Man, thank goodness we have Seal Boy up.
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Bad curve balls and hittable fast balls get pummeled I don't mean the specific pitches today, I mean the entire starting staff this entire season. Quintana was great last season with the Cubs in the 2nd half and in the postseason (outside game 5 NLCS) Lester's old, Darvish has an injury history, Hendrick has a skillset that's always teetering on a thin line between productive and meatball delivery, and Chatwood was always a too clever for its own good-reach to begin with. Hell, Quintana's the only one that's having what's arguably a "weird" off year.
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Toss "the Quintana deal was so sneaky and brilliant because he's underrated and signed for so long" onto the pile with, "Addison Russell is only 24!!!!!"
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That was actually the first strike he's gotten today off of that miserable curve.
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Clobbering the horsefeathers out of a mediocre pitcher weakly serving up meatballs seems like a pretty natural outcome.
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