Outshined_One

You sure he was safe, ump?

Pulled up too early on the ball bouncing towards him in the OF, causing the ball to go past him.

Yikes.

Ow. That looked like it hurt.

Zambrano sang Take Me Out to the Ball Game? :lol:

The Coors commercial followed by the Howie Long Chevy commercial made me wish Chapter 7 on both companies.

I would have preferred Zambrano going Sunday rather than today with Samardzija or Hart going today. Depending on how the STL series went, you could have had Zambrano go on four days' rest the day before the ASB or given Z some extended time off with the break. Even if he went on four days rest against STL, the Cubs could have used the extra leeway to give Z an extra day or two off since they'd have flexibility with the rotation. However, that's neither here nor there. maybe i'm not reading this right (haven't had my coffee yet), but the only way Z could pitch on four days rest against STL is if he pitched last night. If we waited until today, four days rest would line him up for Monday. Argh, I forgot the four game series ended with a double header. #-o

He was on the top step of the dugout arguing with the umps.

Hawk Harrelson would have gone full blown psycho on that call.

What the hell was the umpire looking at?

I'm not getting a great feeling about this one. Kevin Hart always made me leery.

That umpire has a fantastic mustache.

Dear Lord, is this woman going to the brothel after this game is over? What the hell is she wearing under her jacket?

It would have been worth it to see the comeback.

Tarp is off!

Which one? The Rockies debacle.

They're replaying the game that nearly caused me to die of a heart attack roughly 500,000 times. Yikes.

Regarding his time in Peoria, I was talking about last season, not this season. My bottom line point was that he was good enough last season to play in Peoria for an extended period of time, but because injuries set back his development, he did not. Instead, he had to get back on track in EXST and Boise. Also, it's incredibly cynical to blame this promotion on people who are worried they'll lose their jobs, so they want to impress new ownership by promoting Vitters. Honestly, what would that accomplish? If Vitters falls on his face in Daytona and they knew he wasn't ready for it, wouldn't that make them even more likely to lose their jobs? Plus, considering this sale has been ongoing for what seems like the past decade, why start now with this sort of behavior? Why not rush Jay Jackson to the majors? Why didn't Andrew Cashner start in AAA? That argument doesn't fly for me. People like to paint a picture of Vitters that he only had one good month, but let's go to the splits. April: .302/.348/.413, .353 BABIP, 43.4/15.1/41.5 GB/LD/FB%, 11/2 K/BB May: .386/.417/.754, .381 BABIP, 39.6/10.4/50 GB/LD/FB %, 18/3 K/BB June: .239/.274/.352, .257 BABIP, 42.3/15.4/42.3 GB/LD/FB %, 12/3 K/BB Given those numbers, he had more than one month of success. He had some bad luck on balls put into play in June; nothing suggests he was flailing away at bad pitches during that time considering his June peripherals were comparable to his April peripherals (save for much better power numbers). I'm guessing the only thing that changed in June was that he started hitting balls directly at people, meaning he ran into bad luck, not that he was regressing or struggling. Bad luck is something he can work on in Daytona. The timing made sense. He clearly was ready for a promotion and he was promoted immediately after the MWL All Star Game.

It indeed was 45 minutes. What an asinine move.

I would have preferred Zambrano going Sunday rather than today with Samardzija or Hart going today. Depending on how the STL series went, you could have had Zambrano go on four days' rest the day before the ASB or given Z some extended time off with the break. Even if he went on four days rest against STL, the Cubs could have used the extra leeway to give Z an extra day or two off since they'd have flexibility with the rotation. However, that's neither here nor there.

Per the Chiefs website: IF Josh Harrison Promoted to Daytona IF Jovan Rosa Demoted to Peoria Link

I think there are a couple of things worth noting about him... 1) Had he been fully healthy last season, he would have been in Peoria for much longer than he was. If you look at other HS draftees like Matt Dominguez, Mike Moustakas, and Jason Heyward, they all started the season in Low A and are now in High A. Vitters would have been at the same level as them had he been healthy, but instead he had to prove he was fully healed. 2) Vitters spent spring training with Daytona's squad. If you check back to some threads around the end of spring training, there was some amount of surprise that Vitters didn't skip Peoria. It's honestly not much of a surprise that the Cubs wouldn't keep him down in Peoria for very long. 3) He finished his time in Peoria with a .316/.351/.535 line. That's pretty snazzy. Considering that slumps and hot streaks happen pretty frequently, especially in the minors where you don't see as much consistency out of hitters, you have to look at guys in terms of the whole picture, rather than over scattered bits of time. It's also hard to get a handle on how lucky/unlucky guys are during slumps since we don't know if he's peppering the field with line drives directly at fielders or if he was flailing away weakly. This leads into my last point... 4) Most importantly, unfortunately for us, we do not have a window into the Cubs' front office. We've seen glimpses of it. From what I've learned, you can never totally trust the numbers you see out of prospects because the Cubs do things like tell hitters not to swing at certain kinds of pitchers, tell pitchers not to throw certain pitches, etc. It's part of the development process for prospects and, unfortunately, it impacts their numbers. Whatever it is the Cubs wanted out of Vitters in Peoria, he clearly gave them that. If you want a guess, given the timing of his promotion, I'm guessing the Cubs decided awhile ago to promote him to Daytona, but decided to hold off on it so that he could enjoy the fruits of his labors at the MWL All Star Game. Now he'll face more advanced pitchers and have to adjust. If he can get back on his feet at Daytona and produce comparable numbers to what he was doing in Peoria...yikes.

Box Scores Iowa with an off day Tennessee lost 6-3 Box Score SS N. Samson 1/5, K, SB (2), PO (2B) RF T. Colvin 0/4, 2 K 3B M. Smith 1/3, BB, R, 2 RBI, HR (7) 1B D. Deeds 2/4 LF T. Wright 1/2, HBP CF J. Adduci 1/4, R, 2B (15) 2B T. Thomas 0/3, K, HBP C W. Castillo 0/3, R, K, PB (5), HBP SP M. Mateo 5 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 6/3 K/BB, 3-6 GO-FO RP J. Papelbon 3 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 3/0 K/BB, Balk, 2-4 GO-FO RP M. Carrillo .1 IP, 2 H, 3 ER, 0/2 K/BB, HR, HBP, 0-1 GO-FO Daytona PPD: Rain Peoria lost 12-3 Box Score CF D. Macias 1/4, BB, R 2B R. Flaherty 1/4, R, K 1B R. Ridling 2/4, R, RBI, 2 2B (21), K RF K. Burke 0/1, BB PH/RF D. Rundle 0/2, 2 K 3B J. Rosa 2/4, 2 RBI, E (1, throw) LF N. Perez 0/3, K SS J. Lake 1/4, 3 K, E (23, fielding) DH D. Fitzgerald 2/4, K SP J. Beliveau 4 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 5/2 K/BB, 2 WP, 3-4 GO-FO RP R. Buchter .2 IP, 1 H, 5 R, 1 ER, 0/3 K/BB, 0-2 GO-FO RP C. Huseby 1.1 perfect, 2/0 K/BB, 2-0 GO-FO Boise won 6-3 Box Score SS HJ Lee 1/4, 2 R, RBI DH G. Matheus 0/5, RBI, 2 K CF B. Jackson 2/3, BB, RBI, K, SB (1) 1B G. Rohan 0/4 RF JH Ha 2/4, RBI, 2B (4) 3B J. Petraitis 1/3, BB, R, K 2B L. Watkins 1/4, R LF J. Valdez 2/3, BB, 2 R, 2 RBI, SB (6), Assist (2B) SP R. Whitenack 3.1 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 0/1 K/BB, 5-4 GO-FO RP D. Nunez 2 scoreless, 2 H, 3/2 K/BB, 2-1 GO-FO AZL Cubs lost 7-2 Box Score CF B. Davis 0/2, 2 BB, 2 K SS R. Bautista 0/2, BB, E (7, missed catch) DH J. Bour 0/4, RBI, 3 K 1B R. Jones 0/3, BB, R, 2 K 3B C. Thomas 2/3, 3B (2) 3B C. Weimer 0/1 2B B. Springfield 0/3, 2 K LF F. Guzman 0/2, BB, R, K SP D. Encarnacion 3 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 2/2 K/BB, 4-3 GO-FO DSL Cubs 1 lost 2-1 Box Score DSL Cubs 2 lost 6-3 Box Score OVERALL: 1-5 --- MLBAAP: Roos won 7-1 Box Score RF S. Williams 0/2, BB, HBP, CS (2) - overall: 7/21, 3 2B, 1 3B, 4 BB, 6 K, 1/3 SB - .333/.481/.571*/1.052 DH PC Chen 2/3, 2 RBI, BB - overall: 8/20, 1 2B, 1 3B, 6 BB, 3 K, 5/6 SB - .400*/.538*/.550/1.088* * Leads MLBAAP in that category.

Nuts.

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