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  1. I'm getting really freaking worried about the rumors that Gregg is ultimately going to be the guy again. You don't turn down a job with Club America unless you are confident you are getting the job imo.
  2. Confirmed, its Mervis going down sucks, I thought he was starting to put together some good ABs. Sucks that this is likely to keep Tauchman playing every day. I get his value, good defense and he's hitting in most situations, but he's not the future. Mervis might be...I'm sure he'll be up again though
  3. Anyone else having any issues with slow loading times from desktop browsers? No issues on mobile, but if I try to go to NSBB it just sits there "thinking" for about 10-12 seconds before loading. Once it loads, there are no issues loading subsequent pages. Been happening for ~2 weeks but only now getting annoyed enough to bring it up.
  4. Bellinger is at Wrigley Field and expected to be in the lineup tonight
  5. If true, this seems sub-optimal:
  6. So excited to see Balogun tonight against Mexico. Gonna have to figure out a way to do yet another free trial of Paramount+ 🙂
  7. Also since I'm on the statcast page, Seiya today: 105 mph single 98 mph fly out 104 mph ground out Walk 104 mph double
  8. To be fair, the sac fly was hit 99 mph and traveled 375 feet but yeah I didn't think he was terrible tonight.
  9. Feels like Mervis needs to come off the bag there
  10. lol the Cubs could be 4.5 gb after tonight with a chance to go 3.5 back tomorrow. unfortunately we still have to survive the pen to win tonight
  11. Why did we bunt there? and then Mastro gets hit by a grounder costing the Cubs a run. Unreal
  12. Umm well congrats Vegas I guess
  13. 1…2…3…4….5 lefties in the lineup, we can safely tune out
  14. Since I'm a dork, I went and looked this up. Games with 5 L/S starting: 4/1 - 1 run 4/3 - 1 run 4/7 - 2 runs 4/9 - 2 runs 4/12 - 2 runs 4/19 - 12 runs 5/2 - 1 run 5/13 - 1 run 5/16 - 3 runs 5/21 - 1 run 5/24 - 4 runs 5/26 - 0 runs 5/31 - 3 runs Games with 6 L/S starting: 5/29 - 1 run 6/3 - 0 runs So 15 times they've started at least 5 lefties or switch hitters (mostly Happ) in the lineup. They have scored 2 runs or less in 11 of those 15 games and scored more than 4 runs 1 time. Even with the crazy outlier 12 run game, they are averaging 2.3 runs per game when they trot out a lineup with 5+ lefties. Remove the 12 run outlier and its 1.6 runs per game. Oh and they are 4-11 in those games.
  15. Howso for the Diamondbacks? Not sure what they've done to be competitive but their payroll is only at $83m so I'm curious what they are doing that the Cubs should emulate.
  16. Looks like the corresponding move is NOT Seiya to the DL, its Brandon Hughes
  17. There's really not a ton of truly bad teams this year it seems like compared to other years. And of the actual bad teams record-wise we have a lot of games left against them CWS - 4/4 remaining Detroit - 3/3 remaining KC - 3/3 remaining Oakland - 0/3 remaining Washington - 3/7 remaining St Louis - 10/13 remaining Colorado - 6/6 remaining That's every team more than 4 games under .500 right now, and of the 41 games against those teams on the schedule, we've only played 10 of them so far. Only 2 more of those games will be played between now and July 16th which is roughly the deadline for the Cubs picking a lane in terms of buying or selling. 29 of "easier games" will be played after that date (13 straight games against those teams begin on July 17). Like you pointed out, it doesn't mean the Cubs are magically good because their schedule has been tougher, but if 29 of their 41 easiest games came before any trade deadline decisions needed to be made instead of after, there's a chance we'd be in a better position to buy. *Also just a caveat that its still possible the Pirates are actually not that good and by the end of the season they may be grouped into the bad teams.
  18. Really love this new era of more organic championship teams and overall parity. After getting Warriors/Cavs for literally 4 years straight we’ve gotten 8 different teams over the last 5 Finals, only repeats have been the Warriors and Heat x2
  19. Season ERAs of the Cubs pitchers today: Wesneski - 5.33 Fulmer - 5.93 Hughes - 7.24 Rucker - 5.04 Estrada - 6.75 Assad - 6.00 Guess I shouldn't be surprised that we've given up 13 runs
  20. Happy the Cubs scored 2 to tie it but would have been nice if they were on solid hits rather than an error and a fielders choice. Otherwise they are 0-7 with RISP so far
  21. Yeah it seemed like Happ gave up on it a bit too soon but whatever. The no hitter would have been over much earlier without that great Tauchman catch.
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