Clem Fandango
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Man, they just keep beating up on good teams. -
Holy horsefeathers that was one of the worst strike calls
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I think one of my favorite things about his home runs is that he's not hitting cheapies. These aren't Dansby squeakers scraping past the wall he's blasting some nukes.
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Moreover... why would they show ads for a movie that came out in 2018 in 2025 when the network launched in 2020?
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This team has encouraged me, after several years, to actually subscribe to Marquee, which I did last week. Why the hell do they keep showing Ant-Man and the Wasp DVD ads?
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I think someone fell over the railing on RF.
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Sharma did a write-up on Carson Kelly's new mechanics, which is very fascinating. Nice to see his improvements aren't just dumb luck and can be attributed to strong mechanical adjustments with numbers to back up what he was aiming to do. There are some visual examples in the article that are good to look at, too. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6321031/2025/04/30/chicago-cubs-carson-kelly-breakout-season-potential/
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2024 through 123 games: 1.9 rWAR & 2.7 fWAR 2025 through 30 games: 1.9 rWAR & 2.0 fWAR
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2013 Carlos Gomez?
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I can think of so many players that parts of his game remind me of, but no one player where it all comes together to match perfectly in respects to baserunning, positional defense, and offense. If he could get his BB% into double digits, making comps would be a lot easier, but all the players I can think of that come close to his production levels are all better at BB% than him, or he eclipses them in other aspects like baserunning or defense. There's no easy comp, you really have to three-headed-monster his comparisons
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He is without a doubt filling the void Javy left behind in terms of entertainment value. If Jed can lock him and Tucker up long term I'll barf a fart in excitement.
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I can't speak for Wrigley, but Chicago in general had heavy wind gusts from all over the place all afternoon and evening long, as well as a gale warning in the evening, so I would not be surprised if the wind direction shifted dramatically throughout the game.
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"Jed's Regret" sounds like a saucy romance novel you buy at Walgreens
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Legendary Blues Alternate Uniform next year
Clem Fandango replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Unabashedly love the horsefeathers out of this. Hat especially. Please give me all the maximalism. -
Pretty good at being milquetoast, maybe.
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The Ricketts have done everything in their power to make me care less and less and this team each year, but this move (thanks, Jed) rocketed my enthusiasm back up to levels I've not had in a long time.
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Cubs pursuing Carson Kelly
Clem Fandango replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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I have a generational love for different players. Grade School: Andre Dawson. Middle/High School: Sammy Sosa. College: Aramis Ramirez Adulthood: Anthony Rizzo Currently: High hopes for PCA, as he stole my heart with that clip of him pimping a dong off someone in the minors after having been thrown at. Aramis might be my favorite of all time though. He was just so consistent at a position we were never good at in my lifetime and was sneakily one of the best 3B in the game and his defense got better as he got older which people don't give him enough credit for. He wasn't going to win a GG or anything, but compared to where he was when he first arrived it was night and day. My favorite stat was that during his peak, no other active 3B in MLB had four consecutive seasons of a .900 OPS or higher, only Ramirez did. Not even A-Rod had that, and MLB was STACKED with juiced up 3B at the time. And horsefeathers the racist Chicago media for villainizing him and calling him lazy and saying he only hit home runs when they didn't matter. This is still arguably Top 3 Cubs home run of my lifetime
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Perhaps I'm incorrectly remembering this, It wasn't about what they were doing it was about the Cubs wanting to install video boards to bring Wrigley into the 21st century and the rooftop owners playing hardball about the contracts because their view would be obstructed which, iirc, The Ricketts tried to offer them a buyout or some kind of appeasement and they kept being dicks about it. The Ricketts, to their credit, tried to do things the nice way but the rooftops acted like they couldnt so squat for nearly two years so The Ricketts just built the video boards anyways and I think the rooftops quickly learned they couldn't financially complete with them in court. I think they ultimately settled but I'm sure it was for far less than what was initially offered. The Ricketts suck ass, but really before they won the world series they really were the owners I think we all wanted them to be. Ever since they've been like every other billionaire ass bag owner.
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5/7 Cubs (Shota) vs. Padres (Vasquez) 6:40 PM CT
Clem Fandango replied to Bertz's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
He's just finally fulfilling those #1 prospect projections. -
An open discussion about the state of the forums
Clem Fandango replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I'm not sure if it has just been a shift to people burying rumors and news in other threads, but in the past, the Transactions forum had some of the most activity because people were just posting and sharing rumors all the time from Twitter and other sources. Yeah, there were megathreads, but there was constant F5'ing in there during hot stove season and it was almost guaranteed there'd be fresh discussion on every rumor, that can be fixed with posting rules and moderating, though. I love the Cubs but I love baseball just as much and the Transactions forum kept me afloat on what was happening around the league and made me feel like I had my finger on the pulse of MLB. These days due to a lack of posting there and life getting in the way of watching anything, I feel like I know as much now as I did before I started to fall in love with baseball again 20 years ago. The amount of times I had to hear gripes from my fiance about how I spend too much time "On that stupid Cubs forum" was because I was informing myself on what happened in baseball that day. People just shared everything and it felt like an aggregate of all that occurred in baseball each day and it was awesome. I'm actually kind of shocked the Transaction thread didn't pick up steam during the offseason, made me kind of sad. -
So my brother and I were individually on the wait list once each. He waited a decade and so did I and both times we were unable to commit. I was gutted because my number came up a couple of years ago and I had to put my money towards something else. Well, I go to the website randomly and I see something about season tickets and think "Oh gee, should I add my name to the list again?" and guess what? You can just horsefeathers buy them. Full, half, and quarter-season packages. Just open availability. We waited two decades and now you can just get them whenever. Like... cool that anyone can do that but it also kind of feels like for two decades they horsefeathers gate kept these damn things and now they're giving them away because fans got fed up with their horsefeathers. So if you don't want to commit to a full season, you can just buy a limited package. https://www.mlb.com/cubs/tickets/season-tickets EDIOT: Jusat now seeing it was mentioned earlier in the thread. Sorry. I'm still bitter about it though.
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So uhhhh who's going to sign all these free agents?
Clem Fandango replied to Bertz's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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NSBB? This is Clem Fandango, can you hear me? This makes me more optimistic
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Watching him hit home runs for another team doesn't bring me pain. It brings me joy because I know he had no place on this team moving forward, and it makes me happy to see him thriving and succeeding in other places when he wouldn't be able to do that here. He wouldn't be climbing up the postseason home run leaderboard because he wouldn't be playing in the postseason if he stayed here.
