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Best overall defense in Cubs history on the field right now?

Rookie of the year!

So many Ks. And Strasburg still to come.

Sunday when his career is over, Clayton Richard will be able to tell his kids he once got out Bryce Harper. Edit: Someday? Ah F it. I was right the first time.

Kris Bryant AAA- .298/.412/.625/1.037 Schwarber AAA- .333/.403/.633/1.036 Contreras AAA- .353/.444/.595/1.039

What has he done every single other year of his life then? If this year is frustrating him the way the Cubs are playing in the last month or so (ya know, the 15-10 stretch, .600 win percentage, 97-win pace which is the same # of games they won last year) then how frustrated is he when the Cubs are actually terrible, the way they've been most of his life? I know, expectations come into play, but there's no way you should legitimately be frustrated that a team is winning 60% of their games the last month when they were flirting with 80% the 43 games before that.

Seems to dismiss the fact that Cahill has been very good this season.

Why is Clayton Richard still in Chicago?

Ender, Chase, Jace, Adonis and Mallex. The Cubs are being beaten by guys with these first names. This is a low point.

Oh boy!

My brother used to be a restaurant GM for the Shoney's in Berrien Springs. Ali and his wife dined there on several occasions. My mother has the picture somewhere, but I sorta met Muhammad Ali when I was about 9. I remember being in the same place as him, but apparently I was afraid to shake his hand and hid behind my mom because I was so in awe. There's a picture somewhere of him holding my nephew with me cowering in the background. LOL. It seems like I'm saying this a lot this year, but Ali was another one of my favorites. I don't have this emotional story about how he played such a big role in my life, and I feel like he's probably one of everyone's favorite athletes. It's funny though, I'm a huge fan of the civil rights era and on the rare occasion I read something, it's either from the 1920s or 1960s and it's about being African American in the US during those very hard times for blacks. But as far as the activist athletes of those 2 eras, I seem to gravitate more toward Jackie Robinson, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, etc than Ali. I don't think Ali's story is any less great, hell it's probably the greatest, I just feel it was very well publicized so it's not much new knowledge out there. Anyway, he's no doubt the greatest athlete any of us has ever seen and maybe the greatest that has ever lived. He was kinda not in the spotlight and had his problems with Parkinson's etc. so this loss isn't a huge surprise. But the world has lost another huge person in 2016.

My thoughts as well.

The Cubs have a shot to tie the ML record with 4 20-game winners, if everyone stays healthy. Right now, Arrieta, Lester, Lackey and Hammel are all on pace to win 20. If Hendricks gets a little luckier, they have an even better shot at 5 guys with 16 wins, which is also a record....last done by the 1998 Braves.

Well, I was pretty excited about our interior Oline after the draft. Ramirez was basically the second swing backup then. Now Grasu is an injury away from starting again. Let's hope he had a great offseason. Graus was the starter anyway. He'll be improved this year. He's also apparently up to 310lbs. But yeah, that Slauson cut really sucks at this point.

LaStella is a decent hitter. He does suck at 3B defensively, but who cares? I'd rather not have Bryant in LF though, because LF is apparently where players go to die on this team.

The Cubs are excellent and Howard is maybe the worst player in the league.

The Phillies had gone 56 games without scoring 4 runs in an inning before yesterday.

Aw man! C'mon damnit.

Why is this happening? Run differential people!

Ugh.

OKC did win 3 of 4 against them. So maybe it could be done. But yeah, it has to be less than a 2% chance of the Cavs winning this series.

Hopefully in preparation for a call up.

Ah horsefeathers this game. Umps hate the Cubs being so good.

Would have rather seen Javy than LaStella. But whatever.

Wow Kris.