Sammy Sofa

For as flat out awful as he's been, its going to take much, much more than 4 games to think he's coming around. I do kind of suspect he'll hit well in the playoffs though. Hopefully, he can fix himself somewhat in the off season, to where he may be able to get back to being a solid hitter consistently. Agreed, but there still might be something to this removal of toe tapping thing. This is the story as I understand it: The Cubs tried to add a toe taping timing mechanism to his swing in order to generate more power, it failed miserably as he couldn't get around on fastballs well enough to get strong contact, pitchers started throwing him a crap ton of fastballs and he sucked. The Cubs stuck with it for several months mostly because the Cubs were winning and also because if he could make the adjustment the upside would make him a much better power hitter. But eventually it was clear that there was no coming around, and even moments of competence at the plate were not filled with power hitting. So the Cubs sat him down that weekend series in Colorado, worked with him on removing the toe tapping and since then he's been getting adjusted to timing without it. The results have been mixed, he initially started getting more hits, but I don't think there was a change in hard contact, then he went through an 0-23 stretch after that walkoff hit against SF, but now he seems to be hitting the ball with more authority. Does 4 games mean a ton? Not really, but if you have any hope of Heyward being a productive hitter this season/playoffs, you are in the "the toe tapping change was the problem, he's getting adjusted to his old swing' camp. Follow up:

If he can have A competent, solid AB in the playoffs I might forget about his nasty regular season.

Damn lazy eggheads.

The Bears sure didn't.

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What kind of lame ass name for a podcast is that.

I'm jealous of cities that had football teams move away.

It's almost like they were a bad team going in to the season.

Field of Dreams: the first draft.

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"And THAT'S why there's no extension!" http://files.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/284190_S/Best-Arrested-Development-Quotes.jpg

Field Hockey is tough to follow since the rules are often counterintuitive to other sports. For example, a player cannot put their body between the ball and an opposing player (like the way you box out in basketball). Every year, they either change or add 5 new rules. It makes it a nightmare to ref since most of the people watching don't have a really good grasp of the rules but still feel like they know enough to bitch about every call. I mean, it's not as weird as handball, so it's got that going for it. I demand wallball be made an Olympic sport.

I mean, the general consensus is that Theo is amazing at his job, but seems like a really gnarly dudebro, right?

Hey, at least he's trying to make them debacle-bad, instead of just dull-bad.

Didn't stop me.

Nothing too remarkable: http://deadspin.com/its-probably-time-to-write-off-the-bears-1786840484

I'm far more worried about him killing someone in the stands with his bats he can't hold onto than any defensive issues.

He's get a real beady-eyed Karl Pilkington-thing going on.

No, I saw that, but Heyward Fan and someone else were talking like this is a thing that has been ongoing and people have been talking about.

Someone check on sulley.

What the hell were people doom bonering about in the game thread tonight.

Delicious.

In the city of Chicago, the Cubs are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the pitchers, who stifle dongs; and the hitters, who dong the holy horsefeathers out of pitches. These are their dongs.

What did I say, fools.

They got this.