BigSlick

John Lackey is an ass

I'll always love Zambrano, he was my dude when I became a serious fan in 2005-2006

La Stella...contemplated retiring?? He hasn't even gotten a free agent contract yet ... He's gonna skip out millions of dollars and the guarantee of a life of leisure? It's not football or something where retiring early might save your life. So strange.

If you ever liked seal boy for any period of time that's on you bro RIP, April-May Seal Boy 2016....you were beautiful once

I'm mad at La Stella for making me like him for like a 2 month period. I hated him for irrational reasons, and now i'm disappointed in him for totally rational reasons.

Yeah I feel like if the season ended tomorrow Daniel Murphy would win it, his numbers are just more appealing to the jugheads that decide this thing. And he plays at a more demanding defensive position (nevermind that he plays it poorly). And Rizzo will probably steal some 1st place votes from Bryant. Bryant could go on a tear and really set himself apart offensively, I think if he reaches 40 home runs as an arbitrary milestone, that would mean a lot to voters.

Yeah I don't want to see the Cardinals again. Beating them last year was immensely gratifying, but now the tables have flipped and instead of us playing them with house money (I was happy enough to be in the playoffs, win the Wild Card game and play a team that many considered better than us), they'd be the underdog and it would be perceived to be an immense disappointment if we lost. I just want all that messiness gone away with. We should all root for the Rockies to make the playoffs.

wow just wow. contract the reds

you have to DFA multiple players and fire multiple coaches after this game

ahahahahah oh my god the Cardinals tied it HOW

The Reds bullpen is just magnificent to watch

Ahhh Cingrani is totally melting down

Lol the Cardinals are own 4-0 against the Reds in the 9th inning. They had a beautiful set up of 9 games in a row of Reds-Braves-Reds and are about to lose like 4 games in the standings to the Cubs. It's possible the Cubs could win fewer games than the 2015 Cubs and win the division by 10+ games. Such is life.

I don't get mad at him, and mostly just feel bad for Heyward. You can tell he's putting his very best out there, and it shows because the rest of his game hasn't suffered at all. It's just a shame. His season is pretty much the only disappointing performance on the entire roster, we've gotten what we've expected, or better, out of every other position player or starting pitcher. It's like all the bad luck inhabited his pristine body.

I want dongs from Willson again, he's got no power since that first week or so

Without knowing the answer or ever seeing if anyone has studied such a thing, I wonder if Pythag might have a tough time measuring teams that are truly elite -- teams that are at or nearing +300 or so RD. When it measures teams that are all fairly close to .500, it should work fine. But, when you get to the extremes -- a team that scores way more runs or allows way less runs -- then there is more room for variance. If all you have to do is lose 50 games to be below your Pythag, then just a few slip-ups here or there can throw you way off. So variance becomes a bigger factor. Yes this is my suspicion as well - there was a similar problem last year with the Blue Jays who had an elite run differential (they had a +220 run differential, but underplayed the pythagorean by 9 games). I think luck has a factor to play, but there is something to outliers not following the same pattern. There's also something to that buzzword everyone is itchy about, cluster luck, in that the Cubs maybe "should" have scored even more runs than they have. Looking at their 2nd and 3rd order winning percentage at baseball prospectus they're underplaying it be 9 and 7 games respectively. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/standings/index.php?dispgroup=div&standings_sort=pct1 This soothes the inner meatball inside of me that feels like we don't score enough when we have runners in scoring position and no outs. And I wont look those numbers up because its total emotional meatballery and I don't care how real or unreal it is.

It wouldn't be a news day about a Japanese born MLB player if there wasn't casual racism thrown around by sports writers

The problem is I need to stop listening to Chicago sports radio. This is really the problem. But oh my god I am so tired of people saying we need to move Kris Bryant off 3b for Baez, putting him at LF permanently. Why? Why do people insist on this? Bryant grades out well at 3b, we're going to have a crowded outfield even if we lose Dex next year, and if anyone has looked shaky defensively this year it's been Zobrist more than anyone else. Also I'm totally fine with Baez: Super Sub for the immediate future anyway.

Nice

Throwing young lefties trying to figure it out against this team is just a bad idea

Cards back to 10.5 back. To quote one Donald Trump: "How about...how about that whole deal" It is enjoyable to me to see them vanquished once more

I'm unilaterally declaring Jake fixed.

Understated Super Jake is good

Maybe it was premature to launch Joe Nathan, but that is vastly preferable to the game of "Give Jason Motte and Rafael Soriano a million chances" from last year. We have an abundance of decent right handed relievers, especially with Carl Edwards coming into his own. Shoot the refuse into space.

but to be serious for a second, it would suck to have completely alienated La Stella forever because our Pet Chris Coghlan came back, who sucks in every way much more than La Stella