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Looking at Ballesteros, McGuire, and Castro on the bench and trying to figure out a way to get them in there and not really coming up with any solutions. Castro was markedly worse against RHPs this year (though for his career he's pretty split neutral), and he's a step down defensively from Shaw. Do you start McGuire knowing you're going to pull him three innings in, and if so does that take away any chance of Ballesteros PHing down the stretch?
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Same lineup as yesterday
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Is the game tomorrow locked in for 2:08? In the unlikely event that we lose?
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The only True Cub is Moises ballesteros. Because he hasn’t struggled for a week plus yet. If that happens, he will be tossed to the trash heap like the rest of this garbage team.
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The below is since July 3rd.
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People went from railing for Ballesteros to replace Suzuki to railing for Ballesteros to replace Tucker and evidently learned nothing in the process.
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The Cubs had 57 more home runs than the Brewers did this year, all the advanced statistics say the Cubs had a better offense, the Brewers had 13 more runs than the Cubs over the course of the year, some would say that was because they did an extra sacrifice bunt every 10 games (they had 26 sacrifice hits to the Cubs 10), I would say it's more driven by them out BABIPing us by 23 points. So if Ian Happ lays down 2 bunts next year you'd stop criticizing his character? It's completely baseless that this is specifically an Ian Happ decision and not a team philosophy. Your first contribution to the game thread was calling them the most uninspiring 90 win team ever when they went down 1-0 in the second inning of the first game of the series. It's horsefeathers tiring and, for me, it costs you the benefit of the doubt that you're doing anything besides just bitching for the sake of bitching.
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I'm saying it's telling that the one example you chose to bring up wasn't even a successful bunt. Because it's not some like, combination of buttons you press to move the runners 90 feet and add an out to the board. There are legitimate reasons to not like even successful bunts. Outs are precious, Happ is very good hitter over his career who has been excellent in the last month. There's a reason why, since 1960, the ten years with the least amount of sacrifice hits league wide are all in the last 10 years. But beyond that, they don't even work all the time! You could pop it up, you could one hop it to the catcher or the pitcher for an easy DP, they can get the lead runner, Happ could take a fastball off the face like the Guardians dude did last week. Miller was ready to come in and you had a chance with a good hitter against a less elite pitcher. It was a fine baseball decision before criticizing Happ's character or arrogance or whatever else you were doing in all your negative posts during the Cubs first playoff win in 8 years.
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Do you think there's any takeaways from the fact that your one example from 9 years ago actually didn't work
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Can you let us know the time stamp of when you power rank game thread posters?
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Very uninspiring 93rd win of the year
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Stop icing Keller
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Unrelated to any other conversation, Happ probably makes that throw
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Professional baseball player
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Walk Busch here?
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Unquestionably bad at bat from Tucker. Happ hit the ball 100 mph.
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damn
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Happ first. But Tucker v Miller is going to be fun.
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He doesn't really have splits, so I wouldn't. Call it BABIP luck, call it defensive positioning, call it them just not being as good as defense as we are. I'll take it.
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I'm fine with Thielbar/Kittredge/Pomeranz if everyone does their job. Don't let the lefties beat you.
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Man, top of the order, with a presumably short leash on Cease tomorrow, if the Cubs add a couple here the Padres will have some decisions to make on their top end guys. Or, conversely, if our bullpen holds, they may have used them all for nothing. Let's get it done.
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I trust the people who are saying Pivetta has gotten some pitches, but from my couch I think we've gotten the favorable side of the umpires calls all around today.
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I'd like him too, to get through Machado, Merrill, Boegarts. Then you can go lefty for the bottom. But I think it's always tricky making a reliever sit on the bench for an extended period.
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Shaw is not seeing Pivetta well at all
