BigSlick

Honestly I think most Cubs fans have gotten comfortable with it and I think the best evidence in favor of that was how we responded after Schwarber went down. Almost no one was panicking, no one was doomsaying, and everyone knew we still had a phenomenal team. It was a very mature response from a fan base, one that's prone to panic and resignation.

Honestly Glaus is maybe an underestimation for him average wise, with his strike out numbers down he could put up even more monstrous numbers in an even worse run environment

Ho hum, another day, another 18 baserunners

I don't know why anyone would give Jonathon Papelbon money to close he tried to choke the best player on your team last year and you keep him around? I don't get it

the Nats/Royals series is tied 1-1 Oh weird, I didn't see the Royals scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th to win, that shouldn't have happened

Jon Lester owns

The Nationals series is gonna be exciting because it looks like we'll both be coming off of sweeps of good teams (they're up 6-0 in the 1st)

David Freese has long been one of my least favorite players so when we embarrass him it owns

just get out of the inning, these guys are annoying and this inning should be fuckin done

The David Ross inning was pretty great last year We know Jordy Mercer will be safe because its literally impossible for us to get him out

There's no reason to ever be bored with a good baseball team because a good baseball team trouncing another one is always 10000000x more exciting than a bad team, even if that bad team is in more "exciting" games. I root and expect curbstompings every night out. As much as I want walks or dongs every at bat, I kinda hate watching people run the bases. I'm the most ultra-conservative baserunner watcher, even if that isn't optimal and isn't what this team is good at (they're very good at running the bases), just at an emotional level, I haaaaaaaate seeing someone thrown out on the bases.

I feel like, as nice as that ended for the Cubs given the ball, Baez will commit an ungodly number of TOOTBLANs over his career

Baez..........

Coomer's call when something "good" happens to the Cubs is very underwhelming. On both Rizzo's and Baez's doubles I thought they flew out.

hahahaha we chase their pitcher out after 4.1 IP . I looooove this team

This is the Week of Baez

hahaha Rizzo is a doubles maaaaachine at PNC

This team is incredibly good at pitching with the bases loaded

Which is kinda too bad...cuz Cutch seems like a really good guy. Completely not hateable. Guess what teams gonna need a centerfield soon *raises eyebrows*

Nothing makes a workday go faster than listening to the game Does make the day kinda grumpy though if they lose This Pirates team is destined to lose in the Wild Card round every year until McCutcheon retires or a curse is lifted.

Yeah I misspoke really, what I meant is I'd rather have Baez's defense at 2b, Bryant is more than capable at 3b, and Zobrist is fine in the outfield. I think the Baez > Zobrist at 2b is more valuable than Baez > Bryant at 3b, but we're still trying to gauge Bryant as a major league third basemen really. The missing part there is Bryant vs Zobrist in the outfield. With Bryant's speed I think he be a big plus in the outfield. I'd guess Zobrist has lost some steps. I'd think that the Javy would provide a bigger lift at third because of all the crazy plays his arm allow him to make. At second a big benefit is his ability to turn quick double plays, but that's the sort of skill you'd think would age well with Zobrist. He won't turn quite as many as Baez would, but the plays Baez is able to make at third just wouldn't get made by anyone else. Also, Baez creates more double play opportunities at third, which I'd think would come close to wash with the extra turns you'd get with Baez over Zobrist at second. But really it boils down to Baez having the armto make long throws from up the line or the throws on the run coming in. How many of those would have been hits with Bryant playing? Also if you move Zobrist full time now he's going lose his second base skills quicker over the course of the contract. 38 year old pure outfielder Zobrist doesn't sound great. Primary concern is this year of course, but it is something. Biggest thing in all of it might be your MVP candidate KB might not want to play OF all the time and putting him in LF permanently might hurt the chances of resigning him down the road. Lol just kidding I don't think that's a concern. This team is amazing and I'm guessing he enjoys watching Javy make these plays too. If it was every day that would be one thing, but if Javy's main position is third I'd guess he'll still play SS and 2nd like 30-40% of the time. This is a really smart, good way to think about it. I appreciate this post.

that doesn't matter if the same guys are playing... Yeah I misspoke really, what I meant is I'd rather have Baez's defense at 2b, Bryant is more than capable at 3b, and Zobrist is fine in the outfield. I think the Baez > Zobrist at 2b is more valuable than Baez > Bryant at 3b, but we're still trying to gauge Bryant as a major league third basemen really.

I'd rather optimize offense at 3b, play Baez at 2b and put Zobrist in the outfield tbh

Smart of Rizzo to lay off the dongs for a little bit in exchange of half dongs to get his BABIP up. Dude knows what's up.

How's it going my dudes This baseball club for which I root for is quite good I'd say