UMFan83
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And he's still walking fewer batters than he did in the minors (it was over 6/9 IP -- nice -- in his last three MiLB stints/levels). Some regression was inevitable, but yeah it's been a bit extreme now. I'd wondered for a while why teams weren't being more patient with him. Even when he wasn't walking guys, his command was still pretty bad and he was getting bailed out by swings. Obviously his crazy movement is part of that. But perhaps teams indeed are being more patient on him now and forcing him to throw strikes, because few people actually hit him anyway. Wow. You just described Carlos Marmol. Man I feel confident when Carl comes in but not even close to as confident during peak Marmol. It was an 8 inning game with him in 2007 -
I cannot by law post today's game thread but just wanted to point out that KB is back in the lineup today
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Yep and that is when I started to turn. I didn't think Irving wanted out that badly though. Figured it was just a possibility if/when LeBron leaves
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Leave it to GarPax to finally give in and rebuild right when their retooling plan became a legit possibility
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Yeesh, 5 walks and 3 XBH this inning and still 0 outs. This is certainly something
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I feel most bad for the Cubs party room. It hasn't been used enough at all this year.
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Kyrie asks for a trade and the theres this: Hmm why would Kyrie want to play in Minnesota specifically?
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Muskat is saying he might miss whole series
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This game thread is brought to you by the number 6. These are the Milwaukee Brewers. They are currently 6 games over .500. They used to be 11 games over .500 but now they are not because they are not really that good. This is Buck. Buck will turn 6 years old this year. Buck has never been alive to see his favorite team win the World Series. Buck thinks he got Kyle Schwarber's autograph. Buck is not very smart. http://cubbiescrib.com/wp-content/uploads/usat-images/2016/04/9993884-mlb-chicago-cubs-at-st.-louis-cardinals.jpeg These are the Chicago Cubs. They were supposed to be good, but they were not. Then they started laughing because they were just pretending to be bad for laughs. The Cubs have won 6 games in a row. The Cubs will continue their hot streak against the deadbirds. And if they win.....how many wins in a row does that make it? http://i.imgur.com/MHgw5YA.gif
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You are right. Hopefully it's not too late to save the mojo Edit: horsefeathers I just read about the injury I've been in meetings all day and just saw the score and Bryant news. Did I turn the mojo around enough?
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You are right. Hopefully it's not too late to save the mojo Edit: horsefeathers I just read about the injury
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We're going streaking! No frills game thread because the game starts in like 11 hours.
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We are officially streaking despite our shitty perfect closer again not blowing the game. Today the Cubs look to make it 5 in a row as someone takes the hill for the Cubs against Sean Newcomb who I know nothing about. Who is someone? Oh come on we were having fun, don't let me ruin that. Ok fine you asked for it, it's horsefeathering Lackey. Sorry to anyone who saw the thread title and figured McHorseteeth was let go or otherwise bumped from the start just so I could land my joke. Go Cubs!
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i think you guys misunderstood truffle. He knows that Wade won't pitch tomorrow because Lackey is starting so thank goodness we got the win tonight.
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This is like the 4th time Davis has turned a relatively stress free close to the game into an insane nail biter. The first 3 times he survived...
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horsefeathering [expletive] A strike and he swung at it
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Lester is averaging 5.5 runs per start over his last 2 starts
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Are you horsefeathering kidding me? 2nd inning in a row?
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111 mph exit velo
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THIS IS NOTHING LIKE THE FIRST HALF Lester pitched a scoreless first
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Requesting that the Braves wear orange and black jerseys the rest of this series
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Random In-season Musings and Rumors
UMFan83 replied to Post Count Padder's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Coin flip? We're only 3 games behind Milwaukee in the loss column. Even BP has us at 60% for making the playoffs and they are the most pessimistic of the projection systems. Britton and Jones are both under control for next year too. I'm not a big fan of Jones though, His numbers have really dropped off the last couple of years. -
Random In-season Musings and Rumors
UMFan83 replied to Post Count Padder's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
and Britton is under control for next year so good replacement for Davis if we don't extend him -
If you want some fun, you can go read Szymborski's interactions with Braves fans yesterday when he said it was a mirage. Basically, Braves fans chalk up the differential to Bartolo and Dickey being terrible, but can't come to grips with the fact that Freeman/Adams/Flowers have all played above their heads. I enjoyed reading it. lmao, the Braves are +7 in games Dickey has pitched and besides that, he has been one of the reasons the Braves have gotten to .500 (4 ER in his last 5 starts covering 33 IP). Bartolo is a little different (-24 RD when he pitched) but either way thats a very rudimentary argument anyways.
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And 2nd in MLB amongst catchers in fWAR although a lot of that is defensive value.
