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Again, this doesn’t necessarily mean anything. My understanding is that in Tennessee you can’t have a “no fault” divorce if any matter within the divorce is contested. In Illinois, you can say the grounds for divorce are “irreconcilable differences” or “we just don’t get along any more” and then duke it out over the kids, the house, the dog and everything else. In Tennessee, you can only use the “we don’t get along” grounds if everything else is settled. Basically, even if you’re only going to fight over the family silverware you still have to allege infidelity, abuse, insanity or something else like that. The way Zobrist’s filing is worded, not actually coming out and saying “she fucked someone else,” it could just mean they’re fighting over money, property or kids and had to come up with some grounds to get the process going. Being forced to air dirty laundry in public - sometimes fabricated - is one of the reasons Illinois and other states moved away from the law requiring grounds other than “irreconcilable differences.”
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That’s precisely the question... good glove/bad bat middle infielders who can backup the starting shortstop are a dime a dozen... so why does it have to be Addison Russell? Why take the publicity hit when there are literally a dozen players who’d happily adequately fill that roll for $2.5MM less per year? The only thing that makes sense to me is that the Cubs: a. Think Russell is doing things right off the field in order to be a better person going forward; AND b. Think Russell can get back to being a starting- to All-Star-quality player. The Cubs are obviously in better position to know these things than I am, but the early returns in both respects don’t look great.
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Of course he hits home runs in consecutive games immediately after my post. Because baseball will always prove you wrong.
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The way that there's been absolutely zilch about this in the Chicago press - not really even speculation - makes me think that this is something that connected people know about but aren't talking about, out of deference to Zobrist. I really hope it's not something horrible, but I'm kind of afraid it is.
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Since the original post in this thread (25 games), Vogelbach has slashed 184/333/342
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Bullpen shakeup, Carl's Jr optioned to Iowa
champaignchris replied to Post Count Padder's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Marlins are scoring 2.76 runs a game. If there's a team to help Carl get his feet back under him, it's the Marlins. -
All the nerds were rewatching last weeks GOT episode because apparently you couldn't see a thing to catch up for tonights episode Speaking of that, how much do the GOT people hate the Cubs having B2B Sunday night games during some of the last episodes of GOT? This is why God created DVRs.
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i need to introduce you to cody bellinger (or yelich for that matter - at least until he plays more road games) I think if a shortstop hits 56 and 136, it will make almost no difference what any other player does when it comes to MVP balloting.
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Verlander will probably get 3k next year. Scherzer and maybe Greinke could get to 3k in 2021.
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Amazingly, Hill's career really took off after that. Whereas I, and I'm sure many others here, would have been completely destroyed.
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At some point they’re going to stop trying to get curve balls past Javy.
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And Javy makes it all better...
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2nd night in a row Maddon left his starter in too long. Bit him in the butt tonight.
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Dare I say a Rich Hardin-esque performance from Hamels tonight?
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On top of everything else, is there actually a good baseball reason to take at bats away from Bote and Descalso to give to Russell?
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It would be fun if Chatwood were really good this year. But I’m not going to hold my breath.
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That Cain contract is going to age incredibly poorly for the Brewers. He’s 33 and he’s got three more years and $51M left after this year. Even if the Cubs got 2018 Adam Jones OPSing .732 and playing a bad right field, he’d be pretty easily worth the $3M the D-Backs are paying him just to get Almora’s bat out of the lineup.
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Surely Ian Happ could be OPSing more than .480.
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NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others
champaignchris replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in General Baseball Talk
Outside of Hader, their pitching staff is horrible. That's where the pixie dust comes in. They went pretty far with that bad pitching staff last year. Cedeno, Gonzalez, Knebel, Miley and Soria were all on that pitching staff last year when they made their big run to win the division at the end. They and maybe Peralta too are either hurt or gone now. -
NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others
champaignchris replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in General Baseball Talk
Brewers are 12-7 with a -2 run differential. That seems sustainable They have pixie dust/devil magic going on. I expect it to continue as long as Yelich & Cain are in Brewers uniforms. Outside of Hader, their pitching staff is horrible. -
NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others
champaignchris replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in General Baseball Talk
Joey Votto popped up to the first baseman for the first time in his Major League career tonight. 13 years and 7,000-ish at bats. That’s bizarre. -
Hamels, Zobrist, Strop, Cishek, and Kintzler are free agents. Rizzo, Quintana, Brach and Morrow all have club options. Rizzo for two more seasons. Brach, Quintana and Morrow for one more season.
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On what date does Maddon get fired? winner gets an up vote
champaignchris replied to NotSoSober's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
If the team keeps looking as mentally out of it as it did tonight, you can scroll up your predictions by a few weeks. -
Also at the root of this is the failure to develops ANY MLB caliber pitchers. It’s not a complete wash. Godley became the starting catcher on the WS team and Blackburn became Montgomery. But still, develop a 4/5 starter and two serviceable relievers at some point in the last 7 years and then you don’t have to spend the money to fill out the pitching staff. Prioritizing collegiate bats early really worked out for the team, but you’d figure eventually a 4th or 5th round draft pick could come up and be a contributor.
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Also Gerrit Cole. I forgot about him.