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So 2 series wins and 0 series ties since the first week of May. It’s July tomorrow… -
And I believe both ultimately scored, tying the game. I get his frustration...while the Cubs have played sloppy in every pitcher's starts, it seems like they are especially blunderful when Steele starts. Really crazy to be 12 starts into his season, have a 3.20 ERA while averaging 6.1 IP per start and be stuck on 0 wins.
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This ump really helping the nibbler
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This is pure hilarity
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Even when things are going ok, they still find a way to make outs on the bases. Gotta love it.
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Nice to see him take a high fastball (I think) out for a HR
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The importance of these games was just short of World Cup importance given the talent on the roster, the general lack of opportunities to play non-CONCACAF opponents in competitive matches and a looming World Cup hosted on US soil in 2 years. They're not going to have a legitimate chance to test themselves again against the world's best until the actual World Cup and Weah completely changed the trajectory of the tournament for the US. I think its fair to say a message needs to be sent and sending Weah home would deliver that message.
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Was just thinking. How good would a bullpen like this be: CL - Merryweather (current IL) SU - Leiter Jr (current IL) SU - Brown (current IL) MR - Almonte (current IL) MR - Tyson Miller LR - Wesneski LR - Smyly With other potential options being Palencia (current IL), Alzolay (current IL), Keegan Thompson (current IL) Neris, Hodge, Hendricks (with healthy Wicks replacing him in rotation). Probably not the best one in the league but much much better than what we have now.
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And yet they are somehow 3rd in the MLB in FanGraphs BsR
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Not worth its own thread but Rosenthal made his All Star predictions. As you'd expect, only 1 Cub was selected - Shota Imanaga, which is funny because he actually has the 4th best ERA amongst the Cubs regular starters, but definitely a defensible selection. Among notable omissions, he lists Assad and Michael Busch. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5598561/2024/06/28/mlb-all-star-game-rosters-rosenthal/
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Announcers all half were talking about how there was going to be so much added time for the entire second half. Nope just 4 minutes. What a joke.
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Easiest group in Copa, had an easy pathway to the knockouts. Making the knocks should have been the bare minimum expectation with those opponents. On our home soil. Now the US has to beat Uruguay and hope Panama doesnt do what we failed to do, blowout Bolivia.
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Well if that was our prep for the World Cup, we're horsefeathered
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Or not
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Well the entire tournament just changed for the US. Hopefully they can get a point out of this but if they don’t they are in gigantic trouble. Just a monumentally bad decision by Weah. What the horsefeathers
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Anyway, if you are not a soccer fan now might be a good time to give it a try to avoid having to watch the end of this horsefeathers show (though why are you watching this crap anyways?). USA-Panama kicks off now on FOX
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When the Cubs get the leadoff man on, I have no belief that they'll score. When the opponents do, its only a matter of time before they are touching home.
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I cant tell if the Bulls are actually going to do a full rebuild, or maybe just a rebuild where they tell everyone its a retool (cant remember where Ive heard that before), or think that by making a few moves they can still compete for the playoffs.
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This exactly. Even though we know this team is dogshit there are enough injuries to use it as an excuse
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I didn't even realize he was back on the roster until he stepped up to the plate. Apparently he's been back up for over a week? And Tauchman is on the IL? No wonder I havent seen much from him recently. Miles Mastrobuoni on 5/11/24 in a game started by Paul Skenes: 3-4 1 BB 1 2B 1 RBI 2 runs scored Miles Mastrobuoni in 2024 outside of the 5/11/24 game: 2-39 4 BB 0 XBH 1 RBI 3 runs scored .051/.140/.051/.191 I know its a small sample size of 43 PA or whatever and you cant just remove a player's best game, but a .191 OPS for him this season outside of that one magical afternoon is incredible in the most negative way possible.
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For me at least they became fun bad maybe 2 weeks ago. Watching them make 3 outs on the bases yesterday, including getting picked off to end the 6th and 8th innings in a 1 run game was hilarious.
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You know that if the Cubs managed to take the lead in the late innings the pen absolutely would have blown it
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Is it bad that I’m upset Swanson wasn’t picked off to end the game?
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Yes Miles Mastorbuoni, that’ll save us
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And Happ is picked off to end the 8th lol. Did they just give up at this point?
