Sammy Sofa

Don't go all Joe Morgan on us.

My feed is a good 90 seconds behind this thread, and it's weirdly great.

A Theo deadline acquisition who is both useful and isn't overtly a terrible human being? The hell you say.

[expletive], that was a monster blast. PS - Eat horsefeathers and never come back, Russell.

Because if they're sucking for a while, and word gets out they've been sick and/or injured, there's a good chance the two are related. And yet the Cubs rarely seem to put position players on IL. The Cubs will use IL for their pitchers when they have to, but it seems like they are bizarrely averse to using for position players unless they flat out can't play. I seriously doubt they're magically luckier than almost every other team out there when it comes to player health. Bryant, Zobrist, Russell and Contreras are all key examples of players in recent seasons who clearly needed to heal up, and they just kept trotting them out there well past the point it was obvious something was wrong, like they were going to get better if they played hard enough.

Why? It’s 10 days, horsefeathering use it. There’s a reoccurring theme going back to 2017 and Zobrist wrist thing about them being buffoons with injury management. Because if we DL'd KB every time he needed body maintenance, he'd miss 100 games a year. It's like how everybody was freaking out when Rizzo missed four or five games with the back spasms he has every year. You don't just DL him and throw away five games when the resting five more isn't going to eliminate the issue once or twice a year. Stars have to play when they are hurting a little bit. There is zero way of knowing if KB is slumping because of an injury. Dude slumps at times. When your argument is hinged on, "this guy gets hurt a lot, so they shouldn't put ever put him on the IL unless he's REALLY hurt," it's a bad take. And if a guy, even if that guy is Bryant, who is playing like absolute butt, missing several games is "throwing them away," congratulations: you've constructed a terrible team. Playing every stretch like it's down the wire is going to bite you in the ass when it actually does come down to the wire. If he's banged up bad enough, he needs some extra rest. The Cubs' track record of letting injuries fester and linger, leading to extended bouts of wretched performance, speaks for itself at this point. Rizzo is an outlier.

A lot of bad news/predictions all at once! http://assets.climatecentral.org/images/uploads/news/10_21_15_Alison_ThisIsHeavy.gif

That's 6 games flipped from L to W, so assuming none of those came against those who are chasing them, 7.5 games. "Realistically", probably in the neighborhood of 8.5 games.

I'm being lazy and not checking for myself, so someone tell me how much of a division lead the Cubs would have if they were even just .500 on the road. I have a feeling like the answer might make me have a minor stroke.

Gotta rack up some wins with Road Cobs lurking all like...

Wow. What a perfect time to use that one. I think we’re finally gonna go on like a 15 of 20, 20 of 28 or so run here. Which would include somehow winning and splitting road series.

The long awaited return of Pants Poopin' Bryant confirmed.

Man, Chatwood has come a long way:

Castellanos might have had one too.

He looks like he's just embraced being his horsefeathers bag character from The Rules of Attraction.

Nice job, Holland. Maddon has his LOOGY.

He should have done that and he wouldn't have booted it. Dude, if he has to be lined up like that for him to make what should have been a relatively easy grab, then his everyday defense is now shaping up to be as bad as his baserunning. He just badly botched the play with his glove.

I didn't mind it as much today. Yu did great, but was having to grind it out more and more, and the all-lefty heart of the Brewers' lineup was due up. In theory, that's the ideal time to use Holland...in theory.

What does that have to do with him completely biffing on a ground ball he was in front of? He wasn't in front of it. He tried to reach down to beside his left foot and clanked it He, at most, had to take a single step to be directly lined up with it.

What does that have to do with him completely biffing on a ground ball he was in front of?

This hot dog vendor guy in the Bank of America adds on MLB TV drives me nuts; I can't stand the way he talks.