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Everything posted by Aaron Kennelly
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Joe, addressing the team before the game:
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they aren't in st louis WELL SON OF A BITCH. http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/sallydraperboys527.gif
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Here's Betty getting Lackey ready to go for his big start.
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Gonna be a whole lot of this in the bullpen today
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Afternoon game today. Looks like I'm spending the whole morning going through Mad Men gifs.
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If the Cubs score over 30 runs in two games and Happ finishes with two 0-fers:
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lol... the guys I talked horsefeathers about before the game have dominated and the ones I defended were absolutely dreadful.
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Some Tom Petty, huh?
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They're gonna have to shoot a new season so we can have some more gifs if this keeps working.
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Theo: http://33.media.tumblr.com/f8faafce85e33690c83d2bdc7a5264cd/tumblr_noj3w9wuHc1rm0qhbo1_250.gif
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Still going to RD them.
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Still got the no-no going!
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I'll take the same result as the Matusz incident.
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It's interesting. I think I like that idea the most. KB has been really good when he's played in the outfield. And Zobrist is horrible out there. Yet, Zobrist has played second very well. Before all the injuries and sucking, I was all for that. And I think I still am. You lose the Javy/Russell DP dynamic. But it's probably the best way to deploy the skills of all of those guys. I don't see them going that way, though.
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I do think it's worth it. Heyward's bat is gone. We tried to let him play through it in the post-season last year and he OPS'd .307. No amount of defense is making up for that. Heyward's actually done alright lately. But it's all singles. I was just looking at things, and over his last 20 or so games he's done alright. He's been more patient and is walking more. And he's got his BA up, but it's all because of BABIP. He's hit a lot more line drives. And line drive rate is fluky and unstable. His average exit velocity in that time is 83 mph. It was 84 mph for that month before that when he hit like .200/.260/.290. He just has no power. He started off the year as a different guy than last year. He was actually hitting the ball hard. I don't know if it was the injury or what. But he fell back into his old habits. And now he's the exact same guy he was last year. He might be able to BABIP his way to respectability for a few weeks. But when those singles quit falling in, he is worthless. When Zobrist was still struggling, I would have been fine with going with the glove. But Zobrist looks like he's all the way back to normal at this point. And we're too deep and talented to be playing Heyward -- defense be damned.
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Not to mention Heyward is playing tonight too. Yeah. He needs to go to the bench with Jay when Russell comes back. He's just bad. He has no power and there's no hope in him finding it this year. Zobrist becomes your RF. Heyward comes in and plays defense late. I haven't been too critical of who's playing, because we've scored a ton of runs since the break. And we've had guys out, which has affected our depth. But with guys getting healthy, and Zobrist coming to life, no more. horsefeathering park them on the bench if they can't hit. I don't think this is a dire situation or anything like that. We have 6 guys that are gonna hit well over 20 homers. Plus Russell, who has that in him if he's healthy. And we have some great platoon-type guys like La Stella and Almora. It's just that it's time to buckle down and quit horsefeathering around.
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Yeah, he can still help us out. He's not a bad player. It' just that we have better players and they need to start. And he's the type of guy that can help out in different ways.