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  1. squally1313
    My Dad had season tickets from like 1990 to 2005ish, gave them up and put his name on the list just to see how long it would take. Got the call before 2017 (sweet timing), but didn't want them so I took over. Have two bleacher seats and split them up among like 10 people...some people have 20 games, some people have 5, etc. I keep all playoff tickets and we just do a draft where every game is the same price. Worked out pretty well so far, even if I don't know if it's financially 'worth it'. Just good to have a reason to get to Wrigley a bunch.
  2. squally1313
    Schwarber Fan shows up in game thread #2 to say the bullpen sucks and to start Souza over Heyward. A week later, we need to DFA Almora (which, fair). Radio silence besides that, but now that we lose a few in a row, here he comes! What a life, man.
  3. squally1313
    The Josh Phegly DH experiment inexplicably continues.
  4. squally1313
    Probably a little tougher than normal to pick up an impact guy through a trade. You're going to have 20+ teams in 'contention', all of them having room for an impact reliever, with really only a handful of teams looking to sell.
  5. squally1313
    I too would love to get the best pitcher in baseball this year.
  6. squally1313
    This probably isn't super valuable in the grand scheme of things, but that's one of those things that never shows up in the year end numbers for KB. One of our outfielders goes down, and instead of having to plug in Almora/Souza, we get to insert our best bat/player off the bench.
  7. squally1313
    I voted for 7 inning double headers, but then realized they would be terrible in a normal, in person experience because teams would definitely still try to empty the stadium in between games. But if teams issued tickets for both, 7 inning games sounds a lot better.
  8. squally1313
    Shot a 43 at Billy Caldwell (generic 9 hole Chicago public course) this morning, which is definitely the best 'round' I've put together. Pretty terrible off the tee, but played around the green really well...only one double. Also played with a guy who kept wanting to talk about the "China Virus"....so that was fun.
  9. squally1313
    Piling on here. Figured that out around my 5th round this year when I realized that taking my 6 iron and just trying to punch out of the woods was giving me my best contact. Even 175 right down the middle off the tee is plenty valuable in a scramble, and getting the experience of hitting down the fairway is going to help a lot more than bouncing through the trees until you make it to the green. While I don't disagree with the concept, I have always found this hard to implement. Trying to shorten my swing or not swing as hard just messes up my timing. The advice for me that always seems to work is relax and let the club do the work. It seems like over-swingers throw their hips forward and then miss the ball instead of being smooth. Might just be anecdotal, but I feel like most beginners start in an overswinging mode. Playing with crappy clubs/balls, usually trying to catch up to everyone else, etc. Definitely not relaxed. I think what you're talking about is almost the next step, at least where I'm at. Slowly lengthen back out once you get used to a smooth, easy swing that you can replicate.
  10. squally1313
    Does a bubble playoff scenario allow the regular season to go longer than currently scheduled, if needed? Or are they still set on everything being done by November.
  11. squally1313
    Don’t be afraid to swing like 75% of your full speed. Good contact goes further than bad contact swung hard And in that vein, shorten your swing. Do what you think is 75% of your swing, it's probably actually how long your swing should be. Piling on here. Figured that out around my 5th round this year when I realized that taking my 6 iron and just trying to punch out of the woods was giving me my best contact. Even 175 right down the middle off the tee is plenty valuable in a scramble, and getting the experience of hitting down the fairway is going to help a lot more than bouncing through the trees until you make it to the green.
  12. squally1313
    Confirmed, positive tests = Forfeit, but those losses don't count for your draft position. With 16 teams making the playoffs, you really aren't giving anyone that much of an advantage.
  13. squally1313
    Any update on whether we need to venture over to St. Louis this weekend? Or can we effectively plan on a long weekend off and use the top pen guys accordingly?
  14. squally1313
    So against a lefty (granted, no clue what his splits are), we're going with Schwarber/Hoerner/Heyward. Almora and Souza, early warning that the Bobs are coming in to interview all the employees pretty soon here.
  15. squally1313
    Is 2 years, $25m a reasonable answer? Obviously time to see how much of this performance is real, but the dude had a 2.84 ERA (which was worse than his FIP) in the second half last year. He keeps his ERA under like, 3.8something, I'd probably be fine giving him the same contract we gave him the first time.
  16. squally1313
    Impressive night from Kyle. Not a strong lineup, but pretty much everything he gave up was soft contact. Singer’s windup is going to throw people off for a while, needs to lock in on the control a little bit.
  17. squally1313
    That is one hell of a sexy lineup. Edit: Seems like Almora might have lost his short side of a platoon job already.
  18. squally1313
    Hope everyone enjoyed that lovely little Saturday afternoon game, because game 2 tomorrow starts (Starts!) at 9:30 PM Chicago time.
  19. squally1313
    4-1. This offense fucks.
  20. squally1313
    Can bryant be trusted in right field? He could, but Heyward had like a .840 OPS vs RHP last year and brings the contact aspect Yeah that wasn’t me calling for heyward to the bench. But right and second are about the only realistic places I’d mess with right now if we needed to get Bote more PAs
  21. squally1313
    He deserves more playing time. I think he'll have a great year. At the very least they should give Bryant a little bit of extra time to get right with Bote looking like this and not overly rush him. But I think Ross has done a good job so far picking the right guys on a given day and getting the guys in who should be playing Can bryant be trusted in right field?
  22. squally1313
    Standard 6-5-3 double play
  23. squally1313
    That’s awesome but I’m not sure if I can afford another paid subscription in my life even as much as I love many of these guys. You have to pay extra to be able to comment which is low key genius. Eh, given their history, I get it, but Clay Travis does the same thing for 'VIP Members"....seems to me like it would get pretty echo chamber-y pretty quickly.
  24. squally1313
    It seemed like he was going to the rosin/dirt after every pitch, and it looked real sticky there last night, but not sure how much he normally goes to it.
  25. squally1313
    Is Kimbrel’s stint as Cubs’ closer effectively over? How can the team put him back out there in a high leverage situation? I mean, someone has to pitch the 9th. Give him a few chances at the 6th/7th inning, let him work on disguising the curve ball a little more. Walks are up across baseball, people are still finding their footing.
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