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  1. Are they gonna have to pull Brown at 75 pitches because he’s had such a long break between pitching the last 2 innings?
  2. My first cousin is named Anakin. I’ve never met anyone else with that name wow.
  3. Alright, 5-6 more runs and we might be bullpen proof!
  4. It will probably be mostly green grass with a dirt area in the infield that forms a diamond shape, with four white bases at each corner. A slightly raised circular area will likely sit in the center of the infield dirt for the pitcher's mound. There, now you can go to bed.
  5. So bizarre to me that 2 MLB teams will be playing at minor league stadiums for at least the next 2 years for completely different reasons. Go Cubs! Beat the Las Vegas Athletics of Oakland via Sacramento!
  6. Didnt realize Eberflus was managing the Cubs now.
  7. Yeah this happens basically every year because Jed fills up the bullpen with a bunch of question mark filled veterans and young guys with upside and it take him 2+ months to figure out which ones are good. In 2023 we struggled to start the season, only managed to identify 3 arms that were reliable and wore them out in the summer, thus we blew a bunch of games in September and missed the playoffs by 1 game. last year the pen (and offense) dug us such a hole that by the time we figured it out even a solid second half couldn’t get us back into the race. happened in 2022 as well though they weren’t good enough for us to care. 2021 was the last time we came into the season with a solid back end of the pen with Tepera, Chafin and Kimbrel and we traded all 3 away because the rest of the team wasn’t good enough.
  8. You’d think after missing the playoffs by 1 game in 2023 after the pen blew like 10 games in September and then having a pen so bad that they dug a hole the Cubs couldn’t get out last year of we’d do everything possible to ensure at least an average pen. I know they threw a bunch of money at a couple guys but they didn’t take it but horsefeathers
  9. Cubs pen has pitched in 23 innings this year: 3 innings with 0 hitters reaching 20 innings with at least 1 hitter reaching 14 innings with 2+ hitters reaching
  10. All that hitting and Marte of all people managed to make 2 outs that inning
  11. Tucker is probably thinking “wtf usually when I hit a 3 run HR in an 8th inning to increase our lead the game is over”
  12. I know I was being sarcastic. Sorry if that didn’t translate
  13. Walk Walk Fly out Double Home run Single Double Walk Single Single
  14. Our pen can’t even get a horsefeathers pitcher out 3 years after the DH was implemented
  15. It’s too bad we spent all the way up to the luxury tax and couldn’t improve the pen more. But then again how could we know the pen was gonna be an issue right? Not like every single season has this issue
  16. That’s a little much, it’s the 6th game. These guys suck right now but we always seem to figure it out somewhat. The problem is that it takes 2+ months to get there and we dig ourselves into a hole that we can’t get out of
  17. Boyd - 5 IP, 0 ER Pen - 2.1 IP, 6 ER Bravo once again Jed
  18. I remember last year when I was tracking how many times the pen came in and immediately gave up a run in their first inning of work. Don’t really want to track that again.
  19. Can’t believe after this game the Cubs will be flying to Sacramento. So weird
  20. Not catching that ball single handedly kept us out of the playoffs and allowed Arizona to win a pennant. (yeah yeah butterfly effect and all that). Dansby has done a lot of awesome things but that one still eats away at me.
  21. Part of me gets that there was no one covering 3rd and he was hoping Dansby would make a throw somewhere but if you do that as the tying run with 2 outs in the 9th you’d better make sure you don’t get thrown out
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