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New Benny, and Other changes (Bulls offseason)
UMFan83 replied to WrigleyField 22's topic in Other Sports
Honestly, the last few minutes of this game and OT were fun to watch. It means absolutely nothing, but Valentine hit 2 bonkers shots, the first to send it to OT on maybe the best designed last second out of bounds play I've seen since the Bryce Drew shot for Valpo, and the 2nd that is above. Good times! Whats crazy is that he was (I believe) 1-8 shooting besides those 2 shots. Had a bad shooting game overall. I've watched a bit of the games. Team was ok, but outside of Portis, I don't think any of the individual players had amazing performances. Grant couldn't shoot, Valentine couldn't either for the most part but he did a lot of other stuff well, Dinwiddie ran the offense well and got looks but also struggled shooting, Felicio was the biggest disappointment in my book, was often outworked and abused down low. But maybe I'm just expecting too much from a bunch of rookie/2nd year players, the quality of play is poor for all the teams I saw, lots of bad turnovers, iso ball, etc. Obviously the team was good enough to go undefeated so I'm probably off in my evaluation. -
I've always thought the whole "one day contract to retire as a _______" is cheesy but if there was one player I'd be ok with doing that it's Peanut.
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Suck it Mets
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With how quickly wood and Edwards got up I wonder if Strop is losing his grip on the 8th inning
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Come on Strop
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Nothing worse than getting in your car to run an errand and realize you chose the Coomer inning to run the errand
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Knew he was out as soon as he turned for home. Cespedes is too good at that horsefeathers. Ps don't mind the send call or anything
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I miss the Voltron lineup
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And the one time they threw a no no it ended the pitchers career
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Damn wasted a lead off hit Willy cooling off since ASB?
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Hah he might have gone like 87-2 against the Bears in his career but we got the last laugh by ending his career and then beating him on his homecoming number retirement ceremony
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I think Ross should hand the title of 'Grandpa' over to Zobrist.
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Soler has been gone just long enough that most of the early season struggles have been erased from my memory and he's been reset back to 'awesome young prospect ready to breakout' in my mind.
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def weird considering zobrist's splits this year are nearly even Maybe sort of makes sense. Zobs is hitting under .200 since the end of May and given his age, resting him often during the second half to keep him fresh makes sense. That said, I'd rather the resting to occur after Fowler and/or Soler gets back so we don't have Szczur, Almora, Ross and Lester anchoring the bottom of the lineup.
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Javy Reporter: Javy can you confirm the rumor that you slept with Albert Almora's wife during his recent call up? Javy: Who?
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ok whats up with Zobrist, 2 straight days off within 2 days of the ASB ending.
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Their list is Lindor, Carrasco or Kluber
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cashman's peons have no idea who the [expletive] dave kaplan is tho Jimbo throws a donut at you for that. You had me until you suggested that Jimbo would waste a delicious pastry like that.
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Kap on his show just said that he spoke to someone with intimate knowledge of the Yankees FO thinking and says the 3 players that they'd be willing to accept for Miller are Schwarber, Baez or Russell Also, Rosenthal said Miller is the Indians top trade target.
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Maybe but also have to factor in that the Giants and Nats are also looking for LH relief help. My guess is that plus the Yankees trying to leverage the 'we're the yankees and we don't sell' nonsense will result in whoever gets Miller to overpay by quite a bit to get him. Theo is too smart for that, thus my guess is that we're not going to get him.
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[/spoil] It's hilarious. Cubs fans rightly think its ridiculous to trade a guy with several years of cheap control who would be on pace for 44 HR over 162 games as a rookie for a 31 yo reliever with 1.5 years left who can impact a season for 80 innings a year. Yankees fans for some reason think it's ridiculous because...why? Because he tore his ACL? If he doesn't tear his ACL there wouldn't even be a discussion because no one would even think to throw out a Schwarber for Miller trade. Now its still extremely ridiculous but because of the supposed risk of coming back from the injury, it is on the very fringes of a suggestible discussion (while still being insanely ridiculous).
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As a kid, I originally called myself a Sox fan, but that was before I had any real interest in sports. I just knew they were good. I'll admit the same. I watched the 93-95 Sox as much as I watched the Cubs and idolized Frank Thomas, who is still one of my favorite players despite the White Sox uniform. At the end of 1995 though the .500ish Cubs went on a winning streak toward the end of the season and were alive for the WC on the last weekend, I went to 2 of games of that final series vs. Houston and for some reason that pushed me over the edge for the Cubs. By 97, I was at the Cell for the first Cubs/Sox series rooting hard for the Cubs. I would probably not have much of a dislike at all for the Sox if it wasn't for their fans. I have yet to meet a Sox fan who finds out I'm a Cubs fan and doesnt' immediately start spewing hatred for all things Cub. Meanwhile, I give them the 'I really don't have anything against the Sox' line which pisses them off even more.
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Keep reading articles about how much Cashman wants Kyle Schwarber and seems desperate to land him as he believes he would be a 50 HR guy at Yankees Stadium as a lefty. I, like some here, would have a really hard time letting Schwarbs go. But everyone has their price. What would it take for the Yankees to offer for you to be willing to part with him? Would you trade him for Miller AND Chapman? How about Miller, Chapman and Aaron Judge? Or maybe a top pitching prospect instead of Judge?
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I certainly don't the last 8 times
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I know it's better the Pirates lose, but I hate knowing we drop to the 3rd seed in the NL playoffs if Washington wins
