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4/18 CUBS (Lackey) @ cards (Leake) 7:09 ESPN
BigSlick replied to sweetpeteman's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
*whispers* I liked Bob better than JD -
Some people react very strongly to losses, some people don't, yelling from either side will never convince the other side because it's a purely visceral response. Also rehashing the debate out for the umpteenth time. Here's a fair warning: I will post very angrily if the Cubs don't play well against the Cardinals coming up because of emotions and this place can be cathartic
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Hit a donger and let's go home
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Hit a homer please and thank you
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Oh good Christ they got another run? This game is dumb. Ugh.
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Christ this is a painful game to follow. Well, top of the order and against the Rockies, so a 9th inning comeback isn't too unlikely.
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http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18w8nevacs25wgif/ku-xlarge.gif This gives me life. Someone hit a donger ok
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Does anyone have the gif of Raul Ibanez spiking a ball into the ground in the outfield it's so amazing
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"His own bat" had a lead off double. It seems silly to pick on that today. Nah I mean going back to last year (clearly) "Hard luck" implies he pitched well and didn't "deserve" the loss. Dunno why you're mad at me.
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1-6 in the order are a collective 0-16 with a walk, I mean, you're gonna lose if you do that
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Jon Lester seems to take way more hard luck losses than any other pitcher on the team. (Of course this game isn't over and also he's paaartly to blame for insisting on Ross and his own bat)
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Rockies pitchers have really made it tough on Cubs hitters except for that late outburst yesterday. I have no idea who any of these guys are but well good on em I guess.
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It would be so delicious if the Cardinals just collapsed as a team (they wont, because they'll just call up some schmo to OPS .850, but still)
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Wait did the Cardinals really lose on a batters interference? Hahaha if that happened to my team I'd be piiiiiiissed
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I'm a little younger than much of this board so I heavily identify Len as the voice of the Cubs (I really started paying attention after the 2003-2004 teams and Len started in 05 I believe) and I still miss Bob quite a bit. Even if he was wrong on a bunch of things they were a great team.
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God I love Jake Arrieta
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Please let this be Soler for the rest of the season
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Yeah I think I'm prepared to say the Trevor Story "thing" is over
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I keep hearing people say this but I really have no idea what the benefits of doing away with errors would be. There is no benefit to having them as currently implemented. The difference between a poorly hit ball that drops for a hit or a poorly hit ball that a fielder trips and doesn't get to or a poorly hit ball that the fielder muffs is no difference at all. Yeah thats my issue with it, whats the difference between a blooper that squeezes in vs. a well struck grounder that a fielder plays off his mitt? The whole idea of the error introduces this strange moral element about whether the hitter "deserves" to be on base or whether the fielder "should" have gotten it. It totally warps how we think about defense too. Its just an archaic relic and we shouldn't have them, but I don't expect we'll ever get rid of them anytime soon.
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Get all your errors out of the way, and then don't commit any more for the rest of the season. Even though I'm philosophically committed to abolishing the error as a baseball stat
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Soler has started getting it going and that's probably more important than just like one game
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Well Rat Boy brings some runs in at least
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3 hits and 3 errors. not good. ah well.
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Not really directed at you, but I get the sense people are really gripping hard this year, almost like these games are extension of the postseason and they are all huge. Or nah? Maybe, but game threads are always stupidly reactionary/emotional. I like when good things happen to the Cubs and not when bad things happen to them
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This game pisses me off