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  1. squally1313
    Deciding whether to watch this game tonight
  2. squally1313
    Good news is that the Hawks have now scored 2 or less goals in 20 of the last 22 games played against Nashville, and you have two more games this week to take your free money on Hawks under 2.5.
  3. squally1313
    If these teams didn't lock themselves into a spot every year, would you guys support this super league idea as the ultimate promotion goal of the big European leagues? Top 3 teams from each league join at the beginning, worst team of those three gets sent back to the domestic league and the champion gets pushed up?
  4. squally1313
    If the team gets worse, he might not have people to put in the seats. nah $10-15 baseball tickets, beer, and hot dogs. Chicagooans will flock to that no matter what. As a bleacher season ticket holder, ticket prices + 12% amusement tax averages out to $50/ticket/game. Some of these early games have been the lowest tier ($20), but they ramp up significantly in the summer. And that's before all the other fees you're paying to buy online. Toss on either the highest, or near the highest beer prices....it's not quite as cheap as you'd like it to be.
  5. squally1313
    He'll let people sit there as long as they agree to hold the tarp up over their head the whole game.
  6. squally1313
    It’s really dumb that SNB is not Padres Dodgers
  7. squally1313
    In the 12th inning of the Padres/Dodgers game, pinch hitter David Price hit a sacrifice fly off of Jake Croenenworth, who started at second base but also throws 90 MPH sinkers, which was caught by Joe Musgrove, honored before the game for his no-hitter last week, in left field. Also the benches cleared the inning before. Baseball rocks and it sucks the Cubs are so bad at it.
  8. squally1313
    Just three straight weeks of Bob uecker that’s it 2 horsefeathering hits dot gif
  9. squally1313
    Guys Kyle Schwarber sucks at defense so this is an upgrade
  10. squally1313
    I'm 99% sure those are two different stats.
  11. squally1313
    If you guys aren't impressed by our .561 team OPS, can I interest you in our .322 OPS with runners in scoring position?
  12. squally1313
    The Cubs are playing. The Braves scratched their starter, so right around 2:15 is when you can expect Boog and JD to talk about how the Braves were worried they would have to use a bunch of arms, but this guy has given them more than anyone could have expected. Eric Sogard is starting again. He is a terrible person and also somehow our best middle infielder right now. It is still a Friday afternoon game at Wrigley, which remains incredible assuming you don't critically think at all about what you are supporting. Go stadium. At least it will be fun to watch Acuna.
  13. squally1313
    how pissed would you be if you were a vaccinated player and some knucklehead staff member was preventing you from getting to do all the stuff the 85% threshold allows you to do? I think he's saying the majority of the people who are vaccinated are staff people, not the players.
  14. squally1313
    I feel like, in the good old days, you'd have games like this once every weeks at most, and you'd be able to write it off as no big deal. Now it's happening twice a week. We've had 4 losses where we were never even competitive (2 against the horsefeathering pirates), and I'm being generous not including Monday night due to the 2012-2014 throwback fake rally.
  15. squally1313
    I think you might be getting lost on the terminology a little bit. And Bertz is probably making the point you're trying to make. Whether Rizzo grounds out to short right or gets a single, he still isn't getting one of the Three True Outcomes (BB/K/Home Run). It's still just a number in the denominator of 'other plays' (the things theoretically all of us want). As Bertz mentioned, there's definitely an argument it leads to a different approach at the plate that leads to more TTO results. But once the ball is in play and not out of the park, there's no way for it to result in a TTO. I thought that was the point I was making, banning/limiting shifts likely leads to more balls in play that find holes and go for hits giving us the ideal outcome of a non TTO result (a hit vs a GB/LD out in to shifts). They want ways to get more action and base runners, doing this with the shift would lead to that imo. The lowest BABIP league wide, between 2000 and 2019 was 2002 at .293, and the highest was 2007 at .303. Now, 2020 was .292 and 2021 so far is .287, but at most we're talking about one in a hundred balls in play going for an out vs a hit in an era where a third of your outs are coming via strikeout.
  16. squally1313
    ...how? The alternative to a hit thought a normal shift is an out into a heavy shift. In both cases, the HR-BB-K totals remain the same. No they wouldn’t. If you couldn’t put the 3B in short RF with the 2B and SS also on the right side of 2B a guy like Rizzo is surely going to end up with more hits since his approach is pull heavy (at least when he hits GB/LD) there’s fewer defenders over there to field the GB/LD. I think you might be getting lost on the terminology a little bit. And Bertz is probably making the point you're trying to make. Whether Rizzo grounds out to short right or gets a single, he still isn't getting one of the Three True Outcomes (BB/K/Home Run). It's still just a number in the denominator of 'other plays' (the things theoretically all of us want). As Bertz mentioned, there's definitely an argument it leads to a different approach at the plate that leads to more TTO results. But once the ball is in play and not out of the park, there's no way for it to result in a TTO.
  17. squally1313
    As our only good hitter, probably just don't want him in same infield as Sogard. Infield pop up and 6 feet away goes right out the window.
  18. squally1313
    Corbin Burnes was pretty incredible last year and has 20 Ks to zero walks and 2 hits so far this year (in 12 IP). So that + an already terrible Cubs line up without KB and Contreras....let's just hope no one gets hurt.
  19. squally1313
    Kaycee Sogard deleted her Twitter, it seems, after people found her liked tweets and it turns out she likes being racist as much as she likes being anti-science. So that’s fun.
  20. squally1313
    Would they be better currently? Yes. Would they have played better? Also probably yes.
  21. squally1313
    Jake fitting seamlessly into the 2019 Jon Lester slot of the rotation.
  22. squally1313
    [tweet] [/tweet] Sofa is annoying in his anti-Cubs shtick, but then I see garbage like this and I'm right there with him
  23. squally1313
    Someone start the new game thread so I can complain about Happ sitting again while Baez gets moved UP to the clean up spot.
  24. squally1313
    I think this is the thing I'm most curious about. Jed has talked a big game about selling even if the team is mediocre at the deadline. But we're at 2.5 years of big talk with the only change being the Schwarber/Joc swap. Theo clearly wasn't willing to break up the band, but does Jed actually have the stones to sell if they're .500 and like three games out in late July? Uh yeah, the guy sold Darvish off a CY runner up season after he suddenly became the only good Cubs player (after being the worstest). That said, he’d be an idiot to sell in that scenario. Is that where you’re drawing the line? .500 and 3 whole games in July? Does anyone sell in that scenario? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Flag_Trade Worth noting that 24 years later, this is the top result for 'White Flag Trade', which tells you something about how it went over with the fan base.
  25. squally1313
    #talent With a home run swing down 3 with one guy on. Must have hit the top of his bat with that spin.
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