Kind of crazy looking at the schedule that the Cubs only have to leave Chicago 1 time for 4 games between July 10th and August 6th. They had the ASB followed by their longest homestand of the year, followed by a road trip to the South side and then St. Louis for 4 games (their only time leaving town), then a 7 game homestand.
Lots of clammoring to trade for him last week. Would be funny if we traded for him after his team crushed what little bit was left of the Cubs playoff hopes.
Really not sure how Merryweather ended up as our 8th inning guy. Watch those 2 straight singles dunked into CF kill us.
Yep we're tied. Wish Tauchman didnt TOOTBLAN now.
Am I wrong or does Tauchman seem to get thrown out or almost thrown out being aggressive on the base paths a lot? Seems like he's the bad kind of aggressive out there.
The 4th person is just a rotating cast of players, coaches, Cubs execs, celebs, random fans they interview the entire inning about something barely related to the baseball game being called.
Welcome!
Kidding, glad to have you here. We've been an active forum for over 20 years, some years more active than others but you'll find quite a few of us who have been conversing with each other for a decade or more. Here's to the next 20 years of NSBB with our new friends!
@Brock Beauchamp or someone should create a Welcome post for PSDers. I just checked out their forum and seems like a lot are coming over. Might be good for them to feel at home before they jump into a thread and read one of our many arguments between people who have been bickering at each other for years like the one above this post.
Every other platoonish player has a great game and they inexplicably sit the next day. Mastrobuoni has his first good hitting game of the year and hes back out there again.
Last 2.1 IP, the Cubs have had:
2 Home Runs
4 BB/HBP
13 Singles
When they go on one of their singles binges, they make hitting a baseball look so easy.
13 games against last place teams. 10-3 is the absolute bare minimum here to keep any shot of contending alive. White Sox are playing better though and the Cardinals always play us tough so it will be tough but thats the only option here.