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Nice!

No way Price is crazy enough to walk Almora just to set up the DP, right?

Nice job, bullpen.

RIZZO!

You also haven't had a chance to say "horsefeathers John Lackey" this series.

He's now eligible at 2B in my fantasy league, which is hilarious.

what was so laughably bad about bunting there? seems marginal at best Down 2, extreme strikeout pitcher on the mound. I know Javy is a good hunter, but I'd rather see him try to just hit one out there. Extreme strikeout pitcher on the mound and extreme strikeout hitter. You know how that ends and you'd be bitching about the strikeout also.

And it was a slider that was breaking towards him and ended up over the middle of the plate. Did he think it was going to break 4 feet? It's not a lefty pitching where you think the ball is coming at you and breaks over the plate.

Come on, Cubs. No fake rallies, please.

Javy would have let that bunt drop.

So in the ninth... Almora (strikeout) Heyward (weak ground out or fly out) Baez (strikeout on ball in the dirt)

horsefeathers a walkoff. Do this now.

horsefeathers yeah, Carl.

Stanton donged again today. He's got 44 on the year now. That's 6 straight games with a homer. He's got 11 in his last 12 and 23 in his last 35.

Drop Harper Add Trout

I would guess it's a bit of both getting older and the wrist.

Not that it's any better but Russell was accused of domestic violence, not rape.

Guessing ACL on that one. Hopefully not but when a knee bends like that it's often the ACL.

One game overreaction: new year, same Liverpool.

Uniforms are such a big deal now it's cracking me up imagining them unveiling these bad boys. "The pants are grey and that's it. All grey. They symbolize uhhhh well the all grey will remind you of rainouts during the 1990s." The jerseys are, well, again, they're all grey. They symbolize clouds I guess. The blue chicago font i guess could be like the water in lake michigan? And Chicago is well you know its the city where the team ... there's a bear logo on the pants too forgot to mention that because theyre the cubs." "the numbers on the uniforms is red which is different than blue. like the hats which are blue except for the red part just like the uinforms. synergy bitches." Should have kept the alternate road uniforms they had a couple years ago. It wasn't a lot but the extra blue on the jersey made a big difference.

Nah, he's in good hands here... Just ignore that I started the Schwarber thread, too. So Mojo is banned from starting any more player threads.

Contreras hurt. Son of a bitch.

Probably an ice cream sandwich.

And he's 12th among active players in career WAR. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/WAR_active.shtml [tweet] [/tweet] [tweet] [/tweet]

I don't think using Chapman in Game 6 was bad, it was not having anyone ready to go when the Cubs put the game out of reach in the 9th that was the problem. Overall, I haven't had many problems with Joe and his bullpen management. When pitchers don't do their jobs, it's always going to reflect poorly on the manager. The Cubs are going to win about 390 games in his first 3 seasons as Cubs manager, not sure I'd trade him for anyone in baseball. Game 7 opened the door for Cubs fans to kill Joe for everything that goes wrong now though. Yeah, it was the fact that it took him a few minutes to get somebody warming when Rizzo homered, and really, even before that. Two on and Lindor up in a five-run game? I get it. You don't want to give Cleveland hope. Since he's already in, you don't want to burn him for 1 batter and 4-5-6 is coming up? Fine by me. He got through 1 1/3 in only 15 pitches. But someone should have been warming for the ninth regardless. It's a five-run game (at least), 7-8-9 is coming up, the pen is rested (off day the day before) and you've only used Monty. Send out whoever and if the Indians get a runner or two on, you can play matchups with the heart of the order. Even if you don't feel 100% comfortable with a five-run lead, you have to think with Dex-Schwarber-KB coming up, that there's a decent chance you add to that lead. And maybe Chapman is just gassed in Game 7 regardless. We'll never know. It was only five pitches (plus the few warmups). But those few could have been the difference between a sharper Chapman and what we got. Thankfully it worked out for us and we didn't have to see Chapman on the mound for the last out.