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  1. squally1313
    This is said with minimal research, but it gives the Hawks a ton of cap room going into next year after he goes onto LTIR (a la Seabrook). However, we're still stuck with the Kane/Toews/Keith deals in a flat cap era, and we're probably more than 2 top players away from being an actual contender, so there's probably going to be a decision made between loading up on a couple top FAs and hoping Toews comes back healthy and everything breaks right, but then having to make tough decisions when Dach/Kubalik/Strome/Suter/Hagel/etc come due in a couple years, or just committing to the rebuild, using the space to take on bad contracts for picks, and letting the kids develop (at the risk of Kane/Keith/Toews declining significantly).
  2. squally1313
    Nico is very fun to watch, but it’s going to take a lot for me to ever see him as a key piece on a contender. Too many scrappy middle infielders from 2005-2014.
  3. squally1313
    Lot of credit to Jake for keeping it at one, but someone should probably tell him he can relax because losing by one or losing by 5 is still a loss.
  4. squally1313
    Javy is already thinking about his lefty AB
  5. squally1313
    Played a couple weeks ago, first time since December and after tearing/repairing my meniscus in January. Came back much quicker than I thought on the range, but much different story on the course. Lot easier when every shot is a flat lie and you only have 10 seconds between shots. Not to trash your range session, it's a great feeling. But I let that overconfidence carry into the round and then was pissed I played as terrible as I usually do, instead of being happy to more or less match my normal performance after an injury and 4 months off.
  6. squally1313
    Yeah was hoping today and tomorrow got canceled, even if it would likely cost me seeing DeGrom. Maybe we'll get Weird Baseball at least.
  7. squally1313
    Also I would like to super generously offer 2 free bleacher tickets for this beautiful, snowy, late April night. Just shoot me a message if you feel like getting a cold while watching Javy throw his back out at the plate. Edit: Sold on Stubhub for a grand total of $7/each. Tomorrow looks pretty similar, so same offer for those.
  8. squally1313
    Excited to watch DeGrom shut us down with the effort level of a simulated game, but but that's not really a rivalry thing.
  9. squally1313
    Deciding whether to watch this game tonight
  10. 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.
  11. 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?
  12. 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.
  13. squally1313
    He'll let people sit there as long as they agree to hold the tarp up over their head the whole game.
  14. squally1313
    It’s really dumb that SNB is not Padres Dodgers
  15. 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.
  16. squally1313
    Just three straight weeks of Bob uecker that’s it 2 horsefeathering hits dot gif
  17. squally1313
    Guys Kyle Schwarber sucks at defense so this is an upgrade
  18. squally1313
    I'm 99% sure those are two different stats.
  19. 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?
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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