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Greetings from beautiful Inverness, Scotland! Go CUBS !!
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This is terrible news. I think we all feared something like this when Fred disappeared a couple months ago but we all hoped he'd recover and be back. Like some others, I met Fred a few times at some crappy truck stop in Sacramento before he was nice enough to let myself and CT stay at his place during the 2007 NLDS, and picked both of us up from the airport. He was always very nice and friendly, as well as optimistic about the Cubs. The Game Threads haven't been and won't be the same without him.
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I thought it was dumb to shut him down completely like they did, as opposed to moving him to the bullpen a month before the shutdown to limit his innings (and then having him in the bullpen for the playoffs) or limiting his innings earlier in the season so that he would be available in October. Or simply skipping some starts in June/July/August. Limiting his workload was the right call, just seems they could have planned it better. Completely shutting down your best pitcher going into the playoffs in hopes that he might be available if you happen to make the playoffs again in the future seems like a move that's very rarely ever going to pan out in your favor. This. See what Toronto is doing to manage Aaron Sanchez this year as a good example of what I'd have done with Strasburg that year. Yep. The idea of limiting his innings was fine. It was how they went about doing it that was poor.
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9/10 gam thread - is tree dead?
soccer10k replied to Sammy Sofa's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I sent SSR a PM telling him that if tree hasn't started the next thread by Sunday morning, that he should go ahead and do it. Hopefully one of them shows up and starts it. -
Hasn't been on since yesterday morning. At this point, I'd say whoever wants to start it can go ahead and do it.
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So I'm going to assume that Guatemala and St Vincent played without goalies today?
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So the Mets are probably going to get a WC spot, or at least they should. They're 1.5 behind SF and 1 behind St. Louis but here's their remaining schedule: 1 @ Cincy 3 @ Atlanta 3 @ Washington 3 vs. Minnesota 3 vs. Atlanta 4 vs. Philly 3 @ Miami 3 @ Philly St. Louis and SF have more games against each other than the Mets do against teams over .500. Giants also get 6 against LA while the Cards play the Cubs 6 times.
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There are only three other parks where the Cubs could possibly have lost more games at than Miller in that time frame so it shouldn't be too surprising. None of the other three teams in the division has had any sort of extended success in that time.
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They'd still be favored to win the division. Neither the Cardinals or Pirates look like they are getting to the 89 wins the Cubs already have. Would factoring in the 6 wins they'd get from beating the Cubs change that at all or did you already take that into account?
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Rougned Odor currently has 30 HRs and only 14 walks. He's currently the only player in MLB history with at least a 2-1 HR:BB with at least 10 BBs. If it's dropped to 5 BBs, he's still one of only 3.
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It got brought up in yesterday's thread but the fact that the Cubs could lose 25 straight games and still have a good chance of at least grabbing a wild card is amazing.
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Javy tag!
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Now show how many were up by 16.5 games on Labor Day, Carrie. Or just up by 10 games.
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Other Games Week of 8/22
soccer10k replied to Liam Neeson's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
The Red Sox outscored the A's 27-5 this weekend and only won 2 of 3. -
Just clinch it with a win this year.
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I started watching when it was 31-21 and I'm wondering how the Texas offense managed 31 points in 2 1/2 quarters.
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Of course he does. That would mean the Giants not only got in but won a round.
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HEYWARD!!!
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TIME TO BE THE HERO, HEYWARD.
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Baseball really needs to limit the number of players a manager can use in a September game to 25. You pick a 25 man before each game and that's what you go with. This is ridiculous.
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Add another walkoff dong to the highlight reel, Rizzo.
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Cueto went two more innings than Lackey and yet Bochy has used two more relievers than the Cubs have through the 12th.
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Be the hero, KB.
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Montero (I assume with a righty warming), Fowler, KB in the bottom half.