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Everything posted by Aaron Kennelly
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I take back everything I've said about this sport. It's the best sport ever. -
I'm just going to start copy/pasting FlyTheW posts and turn them into articles.
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Hahaha. Holy horsefeathers. This is going to end up being an RD Game in our favor.
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This probably doesn't even do it justice, because a few of them were of the "legitimate" bloop hit variety -- so like a ~50% chance of falling in. But, they are still 65 mph bloop hits that, while they occasionally fall in, are still always [expletive] hits. The average exit velocity on those 10 batted balls was 81.4 mph. Rich Hill has the lowest avg. exit velocity at 83.6 mph, of 119 pitchers that have thrown 1,500 pitches this year.
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Sorry, 6 solo homers and a 2-run homer.
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Cubs hit 8 solo homers and lose 9-8.
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Both sides are equally bad.
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The Cubs haven't lost a Lackey start since June.
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It's also possible that Gerrit Cole isn't the dominant ace the Pirates envisioned. Schwarber killed him.
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It's possible that Jimmy Nelson isn't actually Max Scherzer.
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Sensitive subject?
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David and Duker are superstars, the Bryzzo of this board. But even they aren't always right and would likely tell you so. Duke had us winning 117 games and David requested to be woken up for the playoffs because regular season games weren't going to matter. Still, they are likely first ballot Hall of Famers. Just shows you how hard baseball takes can be sometimes. I still mostly request to be woken up for the playoffs, though I took some Ambien and have probably been sleep walking at times. smdh... not getting into the Hall of Fame after admitting to taking performance-enhancing drugs.
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Holy horsefeathers, he hit 44 homers one year.
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I haven't heard that name forever, but that sounds about right.
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He was sent down to the Arizona Fall League and came back to be a WS hero, so clearly, the farther he's sent down, the better he is when he comes back. That's just science. They better hurry up. The Dominican Summer League ends on the 26th.
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And the 5th highest BABIP at .318. 6th highest Hard-hit%. 4th lowest Soft%. The offense has been good, despite tonight's failings.
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I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. Just stating facts.
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Justin Wilson: Somehow Carnie Wilson
Aaron Kennelly replied to Ding Dong Johnson's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I swore I'd never do this, but it's time to use my powers for good. http://www.northsidebaseball.com/articles/cubs-articles/54-justin-wilson-is-a-bad-pitcher -
It's true. He really sucks.
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Also, that was a pretty fun game of baseball -- as was that back-and-forth loss against the Diamondbacks a couple weeks ago. Those have been the two most frustrating losses for me since the break. But at least they were fun to watch. There was nothing fun about the Broken Cubs. The Broken Cubs were sloppy, sad, and boring. I haven't been bored by this team in a while.
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Agreed. There are specific things about the Broken Cubs that I'm not seeing. Specifically, the starting pitching. That was the biggest problem with the Broken Cubs. Also, the offense was largely shitty, too. But, there were specific things there, too, like making a bunch of soft, shitty contact. They've hit the piss out of the ball in the second-half. The offense simply hasn't been a problem since the break. You'll have some nights where that's not the case, like tonight. If you want to harp on RISP, fine. But they got guys on base and gave themselves chances. This was a case of them just losing a game in which they saw the only good pitchers that some shitty team has to offer. They'll be back to donging the hell out of these crappy teams starting tomorrow.
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I don't think they were the Bad Cubs tonight. They had a lot working against them: Castillo and the back of Reds' pen being good, Justin Wilson being a bad pitcher, baseball being an incredibly stupid sport, their own manager. They had chances and fought those last two innings. They might be chocking dogs. But I don't think they were the Broken Cubs. They scored 1 run against the Reds. Castillo was good but the Cubs should be a good enough offense to put up more than 1 run against the Reds. But they're not a good offense this season. Way more bad games than good. Good call. I'll talk to you again after the next loss, whenever that will be.
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The Cubs are average team, barely good enough to win the terrible NL Central. They're nothing more than that and a quick 3 or 4 game out in the NLDS. Hopefully they're ready to be good again next year. Interesting that you didn't have anything to say when they were winning by 10 last night.
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I don't think they were the Bad Cubs tonight. They had a lot working against them: Castillo and the back of Reds' pen being good, Justin Wilson being a bad pitcher, baseball being an incredibly stupid sport, their own manager. They had chances and fought those last two innings. They might be chocking dogs. But I don't think they were the Broken Cubs.