Little Slide Rooter
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Here's to hoping that good Justin Grimm has slain his doppelgänger, bad Justin Grimm.
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Gotta love the games that you didn't even know were happening and you happen upon a 9-4 lead. ETA: make that 9-5 because Clayton Richard may be a useful emergency starter, but he's basically Phil Coke as a reliever.
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3 Games 3 early deficits 3 comebacks 3 losses Let's stop doing the 4th one. The 2nd too, I guess, unless it's followed up with the 3rd. But not the 4th, but that goes without saying.
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Or at least hold off the Giants.
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Sure glad that our most consistent reliever chose the home stretch to become bad.
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Surely, a 2 man rotation isn't out of the question.
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Dumb, dumb comment. Richard kept the Cubs in this game and Edwards is a freakin rookie. The pen had nothing to do with today's loss and little to do with yesterday's outside of a fluke Rondon meatball. In all seriousness, how many games would you suppose are won or lost as a result of one unfortunate pitch or lucky swing.
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I'm going to say that our bats have at least another 3-5 runs left In them. The question is can our pen keep the Newark Bears offense at bay?
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[expletive], when did Haren become a knuckle-baller?
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It's Dan Haren vs. Aaron Harang. So probably somehwhere between 2004-2009.
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Tonight, we feast upon bean burritos. Tomorrow, we use their souls as toilet paper.
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Our magic number is 13 with 22 games left to go. Basically, we need to go .500 the rest of the way and the Giants and Nationals need to lose 2 games each.
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I sincerely believe that Coomer was chosen because A. The name Ron and B. Coomer really does come off sounding a lot like Ron Santo ;without the charm) in the later years, when Pat would passively troll him, and he'd always take the bait. This being said, Santo was in very poor health wheras Coomer is a perfectly healthy 50 year old. And while a lot of people around here seem to dislike Pat, he and Santo were hugely popular as a routine, so to speak.
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Addison Russell is awesome and deserves a thread
Little Slide Rooter replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Overheard some guy at Starbucks saying to some other guy at Starbucks that Addison Russell is 'nothing but Darwin Barney who can hit a little.' True as that may be (though hopefully he ultimately becomes Darwin Barney who can hit a lot,) the fact that it was meant as a disparaging remark was absolutely baffling. -
Sounds like a tragically poor man's Bryant& Rizzo& Javy& Soler
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It wasn't long ago that the Phillies were had the Fecal League championship in the bag. But thanks to an improbable 5-24 anti-surge, The Braves are suddenly 1.5 games back, and the traditional Mad Dog 20/20 celebratory toast is no longer a sure thing. If anybody's in need of being swept, it's Cole Hamels Shane Victorino Chase Utley Jonathan Papelbon Ryan Howard Ryan Howard's carcass Ryan Howard's rotting carcass The Picked Over remains of Ryan Howard's rotting carcass and the Not So Fighin' Phils.
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Step 4: Get MLB to retroactively deem all Cubs-Cardinals games this year to be final after 7 innings. Step 5: Awaken in a cold sweat to unfamiliar yet strangely calming surroundings.
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Yes, he was incompetent and Theo and Jed are both competent. But the argument at the time was that Theo and Co. should be able to field a competive team then and build toward now. While the delusions of putting together an immediate 90+ game winner thankfully died, the idea of going all in for the likes of Cespedes, Darvish (does he still exist) and Tanaka while still building a top farm system wasn't that far fetched. But also, while nobody can question Hendry's win now methods compromising the then future, was the baron farm system that Theo inherited and quickly spun into gold really the fault of Hendry, so much as Tim Wilken, who was very well respected. I know some of us joke about Hendry's willingness to sacrifice too prospects for junk, but other than Donaldson and Archer, both o whom were apart of trades that virtually everybody applauded at the time, and neither of whom could have been expected to become 2 of the game's elite as quickly as they did. But in terms of post-2003, did Hendry really give up that many top prospects so much as he didn't have many to begin with? And those he broke and/or flopped. And wouldn't that be more the fault of Wilken?
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September Other Games Thread
Little Slide Rooter replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Fun Fact: The AL WC2 leading Rangers have 8 teams closer to them than our closest "threat." -
As of now, Theo has accomplished all that he set out to do, how he set out to do it, and in the time from that he alloted himself to do it. Personally, I've been on board with it since day one, which is why I've inexplicably suggested scooping up every stray former top prospect not nailed down. But that's beside the point. To answer the question: short answer: at this moment, yes. Long answer: ask me again in 3-5 years if/when we've become baseball's answer to the Blackhawks.
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I ain't even mad. We aside from 2 innings, we owned the set. Time to move on and defile the carcass of the Philadelphia Phillies
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The Cardinals and their fans owe a big thank you to the same putzes who let them back into the game last night.
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Not very fair to us for LaStella to play any innings.
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Coming into the series, I was prepared to go 1-2, with this game being the 1. The thought of a sweep never crossed my mind. But now it has.
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The article states that Contreras is going to be Rule 5 eligible, when in reality, he's Rule 55. And I'm not quite sure what that . So basically, if he weighs the same as a duck...