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Phillies Fire Girardi Them giving up on Gabe Kapler after 2 seasons of squeezing out a .500 record from a pretty bad roster looks increasingly dumb as the days go by.
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6/1 Willson's playground
champaignchris replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
My two take aways from the game: 1. JD quoted the Replacement’s “Hold My Life” when the Brewers catcher got hit in the groin by a foul ball. Warms this Gen X’er’s heart. 2. Now that there’s a DH in the NL, why on earth are the Brewers playing a guy in left field who can’t throw the ball. -
I guess Simmons’ shoulder is Ok.
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Nice 9 pitch inning from Hughes. The Reds look like they just want the game to be over.
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Schwindel on quite the heater. Maybe his early season issues really was the lingering back injury?
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So they beat up on starters and can’t score in relievers. Could it be a scouting and/or game prep thing?
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His Cy Young year in 71, he made 39 starts and pitched 30 CGs!
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A Willson/Heyward to the Mets trade might have made sense 2 years ago. When the Cubs were up against the tax threshold and presumably looking for ways to free up space to sign free agents. They’re $60-70MM below the threshold now and don’t seem to be particularly interested in making a big free agent splash. And I’m not certain who they’d even try to get next off-season. Outside of Trea Turner, pickings are slim. Get the best return you can for Willy (or do something crazy and extend him) and release Heyward the minute you no longer have room for him on the active roster.
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Click over to settings and change the sound to the Cubs radio team. It’s synched up perfectly with the gave video - no delay. It took a couple of minutes of no announcing (just ballpark sounds) but alas, Pat (and Ron). Thank you!!!
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Scherzer is one of the best 3 pitchers of his generation. He’s also probably a psychopath.
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Outfielders whose parents were actors in the 90s is the new market inefficiency?
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Yeah 6’+, 300 lbs is about average for a center. Kramer might be a tad short. Jason Kelce is a 4-time All Pro at 6’3”, 295. Corey Linsley is 6’3”, 301. Ryan Kelly is 6’4”, 307. Etc. Pouncey is 6’4”, 304. If Kramer isn’t an adequate NFL center, it won’t be because of his size.
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Ball 5 on Ian.
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His ERA over his last 18 starts is about double what his career ERA was before entering this stretch. It’s beyond a slump at this point. He’s not putting the ball where he wants it.
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4.29 Hendricks getting knocked around
champaignchris replied to CubinNY's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Leiter out of the pen. Don’t think Miley or Mills are ready yet. Killian coming up? -
There are 358 D1 college basketball schools. Not all of them had a full compliment of scholarship players and many of them had more than 13 scholarship players because of the additional COVID year granted by the NCAA. So let’s just assume that it averages out to about 13 players per team. That’s 4,654 players in 2022. In any given year, about 25% of those players run out of eligibility. It’s probably a bit lower than that, but when you include other forms of attrition (NBA, injuries, disinterest, etc.), let’s keep it at 25%, giving us 3,490 returning players. The last update I saw put the transfer portal at over 1,500 players. More than 40% of returning players are essentially putting themselves on the free agent market. Not that I blame them, but I don’t see how this can be sustained. This will basically make it impossible to build a team from year to year. If it doesn’t calm down, the solution will have to be paying the players and then signing them to contracts for a period of seasons, probably with the players unionizing for collective bargaining purposes.
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A lot of what the Cubs hoped would go right this year have gone right…. Suzuki, Wisdom being good, Schwindel being average, bullpen mostly coming together. But they’ve been hampered by injuries forcing them to pitch their #7 and #8 starters 6 out of 15 games and having to put Villar in the middle infield way more than they’d like. If they can weather this rough patch in the schedule and get healthier, I’ll be curious what they look like during the last half of May into June. Probably mostly bad, but not certainly.
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I read somewhere that while commercial breaks are longer, the actual time between last pitch of prior inning and first pitch of next inning is the same. There just used to be more announcer blabbing between innings, which they’ve since replaced with an extra commercial or two.
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Yeah. No one looks more surprised when Schwindel hits a home run than Schwindel.
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Schwindel looking a lot better today. His two singles were both hit very hard.
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Can’t give a guy a 7 pitch inning after that disaster of a first inning.
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2022 Other Games Thread
champaignchris replied to itisallpartoftheplan's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Apple+ announcers: Why is Jeff McNeil nicknamed “The Squirrel?” All viewers seeing Jeff McNeil on TV: Because he looks just like a squirrel. -
My hope is that someone - Davis, Hermosillo… someone - plays so well that it becomes too obvious for Ross to ignore.
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Just one game and small sample size, blah blah blah, but Schwindel has not looked good at all in his 3 at bats so far.