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Everything posted by squally1313
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It's fine get another one here. Seriously, look who is coming in for the Dodgers after this.
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Pull him.
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This Ariana Grande commercial makes me feel so gross, between her looking about 13 years old and the subject matter of the song the two (teenage girls) are singing along to.
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BAN SOMEONE EVERY INNING
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Who got banned? What did I miss That one guy with like 300 posts who took it upon himself to keep a running count of scoreless innings in a row and then decided on the word 'gutless' to describe Rizzo. At least, that's what I think happened.
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The Cubs have scored in every inning since that asshat got banned from here.
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Nice job John.
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Kinda just feel bad for Rizzo at this point.
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Please leave.
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Carbon copy of how last night started. Great take from Addy.
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That was like 5 terrible fastballs from Urias.
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Hey Russell remember when you were incredibly clutch for like 4 months? Also, if Heyward two hops to second here and they try to turn two, Javy is going to try and score.
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Speaking of questionable slides into second....good thing that played out like it did.
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Baez having the most consistently good at bats is...well, it's something.
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Javy taught Addy how to tag. Also, thank god we decided to go with defensive option in Montero last night...
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Slide looked questionable, and calm the horsefeathers down Lackey.
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Pretty sure it can bounce and still be a HPB. At least that's what googling 'hit by pitch on a bounce' says.
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Please continue giving Lack that corner.
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Urias averages 92.6 on his fastball...second pitch to Fowler was 95. Two ways of looking at this, obviously, but I'm good with him being a bit amped up. Let's go Rizz
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Don't let the kid build up any confidence. He's going to be wild, and he's on a tight pitch count. We're the most patient team in the league...wait him out, put him in tough spots, chase him early. Outside of Jensen, there isn't much back there. Let's go.
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I'd like to see a breakdown if this is really true.. Sure they are/have struggled against truly elite curveballs (Kershaw/Hill/Bumgarner) but almost everyone does, do they suck against all curveballs as a blanket statement or if you remove the truly elite ones are they still performing well? the information is on fan graphs. I tried to look it up but I'm not smart and didn't know how to draw conclusions from the data. I don't have any idea how they calculate this, but I think this shows where we are relative to everyone else in baseball. http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=7&season=2016&month=0&season1=2016&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=5,d For those too lazy to click: 18th in baseball, one spot behind the Dodgers. We kill fastballs (4th), sliders (1st), and struggle against changeups.
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They just look so lost at the plate it's hard to see them righting it mid-series. Especially after seeing no hope the last two games. Yea I'm fully pessimistic right now. I agree that last night was pretty damn tough to sit through. Right around the 7th or 8th inning it occurred to me that whatever I was feeling was very similar to how I felt around 7th inning of Game 4 last series, which helped a little. We didn't go down in that series, but being down 2-1 in a best of 7 doesn't feel much worse than having to go into game 5 against Cueto would have felt. Basically, it can turn around, very quickly. And we're obviously better than how we've been hitting. It might not happen, but it should. Edit: This is probably more sad than hopeful, but between Arrieta's home run in game through until the 9th inning of game 4, but my calculations the offense was in a 9-68 stretch. All it takes is a couple innings to turn this around.
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For me, this game feels like it has the weird combination of being a must win and also one that would put the advantage squarely back in our favor. You win tonight, we have a fully rested Lester ready to go tomorrow, and the Dodgers have to pick between having a huge pitching mismatch, or throwing Kershaw on short rest in what would essentially become a must win for them (being down 3-2 heading back to Wrigley after having just burned your best pitcher is not an ideal spot). Not super confident in Lackey, but hopefully Maddon will know the right way to approach this game, which brings me to my next point... Why the hell was Montgomery pitching the 9th inning there? I thought it has been pretty well established he's our best non-Chapman lefty, and he's more than capable of going multiple innings, which we might need tonight. Rob Z was warm, and it was about as low leverage as you can get. If Lackey gets into trouble tonight and Joe goes to Rob Z instead of Monty well...I'll still assume he's smarter than I am, but I will be very confused.
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Weird time to make that comment considering it was montero that just hit.
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Steak sandwich and whatever is the best Chicago-area brewery on tap. Solemn Oath, Half Acre, and Three Floyds have served me well so far.