Aaron_Kennelly

Leonys Martin for the save after we take the lead?

Sometimes my eyes are as bad as Tommy Phams watching games I think your point was correct. But I think his problems are more due to the 2 strike part of it. I feel like he fouls off a ton of pitches with 2 strikes and can't put the ball in play. So he just keeps taking hacks until he can no longer foul them off and he strikes out. That could be [expletive], too. But it definitely feels like there is something in him that makes him flip a switch for some reason with regards to his plate discipline.

Sometimes my eyes are as bad as Tommy Phams watching games I think your point was correct. But I think his problems are more due to the 2 strike part of it. I feel like he fouls off a ton of pitches with 2 strikes and can't put the ball in play. So he just keeps taking hacks until he can no longer foul them off and he strikes out.

Schwarber's 30-game rolling O-Swing% is pretty much the lowest it's been in his career right now: https://www.fangraphs.com/graphs.aspx?playerid=16478&legend=1,2&statArr=102&split=base&time=game&ymin=&ymax=&start=2015&end=2017&rtype=mult&gt1=30

Beat these turds.

Coomer is probably crunching beers right now.

They haven't been this happy about a retirement since the hated David Ross departed.

We should trade for him just so he can hang around during the playoffs and get really drunk during the parade again.

They're going to be like the Giants and even years, except every year.

It took the Cubs 3.5 months to recover from their last hangover.

Just start all 9 of our catchers.

What about Eloy, though?

Start Kyle every game.

Well guys, I was way off. I said we'd be resting for a full week. I didn't realize how drunk Joe was going to be throughout August, though.

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Thanks for being just good enough to give us a bunch of great memories from September, Brewers and Cardinals. And thanks for being sucky enough to still be irrelevant like we all knew you were.

I'm trying to decide which NSBB meme I like more between Seal Boy, the Hendricks picture photoshops or the Mad Men gifs.

The Cardinals are 77-63 against the rest of the league and are about to be 5-13 against us.

Zobrist should have the clubhouse attendant take a bottle over to Pham after the game.

Heyward started to perform a little better in late August and I argued before the September 14 game that it was all fluky because of his line drive %. Basically he was still hitting the ball like a weakling like he had the previous month, but he was hitting balls at launch angles conducive to getting base hits. They were nearly all singles and it was just small sample size noise that he was getting singles to fall in and I said he'd go back to not having them fall in and he'd suck. In 77 PA from 8/22 to 9/13, he hit .290/.351/.362 and had an average exit velocity of 83.9 mph. In 100 PA in the month before, from 7/21 to 8/20, he hit .209/.280/.297 with an 84.9 mph average exit velocity. Heyward started off the year relatively strong before his swing got all fucked up again, and he was hitting the ball hard. In 131 PA through May 25, Heyward hit .256/.336/.427 and his average exit velocity was 89.7 mph. So I argued in the September 14 game thread that he was still broken and had no hopes of contributing the rest of the year since he was still hitting the ball as weakly as ever. Since I posted that, Heyward's hit .267/.405/.533 in 39 PA with an average exit velocity of 90.9 mph. What I'm trying to say is that he is still completely broken and hopeless and he won't have any big hits at all in the playoffs. And he should just pack it in for the rest of the year.

Joe managed this game like he drank all of the celebration champagne before the game and is trying to buy himself some time to replace it.

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