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  1. champaignchris
    I don’t know how others feel about the position player pitching, but my feeling is that with your opponent trying to save their bullpen for the next 2 games in the series, you should keep taking good at bats and tee off on him.
  2. champaignchris
    I wouldn't mind seeing what Bummer could do with an actual infield defense behind him. Assuming the Sox would give him away for practically free.
  3. champaignchris
    Why Mancini at 1st? Wisdom can’t possibly be that much worse at 1B that it’s worth playing Mancini?
  4. champaignchris
    I felt a twinge in my elbow just reading this. would it be possible for Ohtani’s arm to literally fall off as he’s signing the Mets contract?
  5. champaignchris
    Contreras is playing? All that drama from yesterday and Contreras doesn’t even miss a game?
  6. champaignchris
    Smyly is already at 103 innings. He hasn’t thrown more than 126 since 2016. So just giving him some rest might not be the worst idea.
  7. champaignchris
    During the post game last night, Ross said “a right-hander” would start tonight.
  8. champaignchris
    I don’t envy Hoyer. I know I’m nowhere near dispassionate enough to be making the decision. I want good baseball NOW! Damn the torpedoes. Sell all the prospects. when that doesn’t work, sign all the free agents in the off-season.
  9. champaignchris
    I think Hoyer’s job security is less an issue than the fact that the Cubs roster seems to be set up to compete through 2026 based on the contracts they’ve given out. I think Hoyer will be trying to get assets that will contribute in that time frame, and I’m not sure Stroman or Bellinger will give you that.
  10. champaignchris
    Well, I guess if Adbert only needs 10 pitches to pick up the save, maybe I shouldn’t worry about it.
  11. champaignchris
    Alzolay has pitched a couple games in a row. As strong as Leiter looked there, I’d bring him back for the 9th.
  12. champaignchris
    At this point you at least keep him through the end of the season and give yourself a chance to bring him back at 1 year/$16 million, which would be a great deal if he keeps going anywhere close to what he’s been doing over the first 12 starts.
  13. champaignchris
    I think it’s pretty clear he’s getting suspended for lying to the investigators. The underlying offenses are so piddly that I can’t imagine he’d have gotten more than a slap on the wrist if he’d come clean from the start.
  14. champaignchris
    In “maybe only interesting to me” news, Illinois hired former Wisconsin DC and interim HC Jim Leonhard as a defensive analyst, a job for which he is immensely over-qualified. Apparently he had hip surgery in the off-season and took himself out of the running for the Eagles’ DC job. He’ll be a nice mentor and second pair of eyes for Illinois’ first time DC who just got promoted from DB coach. I suspect Leonhard will be on his way to bigger and better things next season.
  15. champaignchris
    Carlson has to be Taillon’s last batter, right?
  16. champaignchris
    Mancini would have been nailed at 2nd with a good throw. He is so slow.
  17. champaignchris
    Nimmo has his own injury history.
  18. champaignchris
    Insert “pay that man his money” gif here.
  19. champaignchris
    What‘S the record for singles in a game by a team? 17 has to be damn close.
  20. champaignchris
    A guy shouldn’t look like he needs a day off so much only 4 days after the ASB.
  21. champaignchris
    The defense has been real bad. The Nats have at least 2 extra runs from defensive misplays.
  22. champaignchris
    Nick Madrigal has yet to play 60 games in any Major League season and hasn’t surpassed 70 games total in a professional season since 2019. I’d like to see him prove he can stay healthy for more than a month at a time before I count on him to fill a MLB roster spot.
  23. champaignchris
    I assume it’s to give the players a little extra time to get back from break.
  24. champaignchris
    The NCAA didn’t step in when a player died of heat stroke at Maryland in 2018 with accusations of a toxic culture and unsafe practices. It was somewhat similar to NW, where the university did an investigation, suspended Durkin for awhile and then reinstated him, causing an uproar with some players walking out in protest. They then fired him the day after announcing he was reinstated. The NCAA hasn’t had effective rules enforcement for a couple decades, but even when it did, it was monitoring whether schools bought recruits a pizza or a pair of sneakers, and not whether schools were mistreating their players.
  25. champaignchris
    The Reds aren’t going to keep playing +.700 ball like they have for the last 40 games. They’ve gone 22-4 in 1- and 2-run games during that span. They’re going to come back to earth. With that pitching, they’re more than likely a slightly sub-.500 team the rest of the way.
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