Just gotta ride with the ups and downs of the season and realize that more often than not it will be a solid offense. Hopefully the overall good approaches will make those inevitable valleys less than the normal team
and close to 4000 of that capacity is grass lawn space in the outfield, only about 10-11k of actual seating. Also read that based on the way it was built, it would be difficult to expand it at all to add new seating.
Going to be really weird, they should have just stayed in Oakland but whatever.
I know calling out negativity in game threads is your thing* but I really don't understand what you want to see from a game thread in that situation. Game threads have never and will never be what you seem to think they should be.
*ok unfair to call it your sole thing since I generally appreciate your contributions elsewhere, but definitely remember these discussions with you last year.
He was worth 0.5 wins last year in 149 PA and give the Cubs adequate defense at 6 different positions. I mean I don't love Mastro but for a 26th man he's perfectly cromulent.
Clearly they just wanted to give Adbert some high leverage work.
But seriously we won so yay but stop giving me September 2023 vibes! Bullpens are going to have rough games over the course of a season but I'm still scarred from the end of last season.
I vote we never take a big lead against the Rockies in a night game at Wrigley Field again. Crazy horsefeathers frequently happens when we play this team.
So Jed saw the Cubs lose 5 games that they had a lead in the 8th last September causing them to miss the playoffs by 1 game and decided to fix it with Almonte and Neris? Poor Tom still suffering those biblical losses.
In isolation its 1 game and whatever horsefeathers happens sometimes, but if they lose this it will be the 2nd time in 6 games that they blew an 8th inning lead and lost after tying a MLB record last September for games blown with a lead in the 8th or later.
Making this unnecessarily stressful….
this feels like the Cubs Rockies game in 2015 where the Cubs blew a game that was a laugher only for KB to walk it off
The cubs get thrown out on the bases on run scoring hits way too often it feels like. I mean it’s fine we scored 4 runs, and it’s possible the adventurous baserunning is partially to make sure the runner scores (I think?) but it’s always slightly annoying.
This.
Imanaga is going to give up some long balls this year but I absolutely attribute much of that hard contact on Monday to pitching to the conditions. Both pitchers gave up a lot of fly balls I believe.