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  1. CubUgly
    No doubt Statos - no way some of our guys keep this up. It's just a matter of who and how well CC can manage the inevitable regression.
  2. CubUgly
    I was interested to see that if being paired with Cliff, Boog would tone down his I'm smarter than you routine. He did tone it down some but not completely.
  3. CubUgly
    Getting more swing and miss now than earlier in the year, which pleases me. Dude is learning how to use that high octane stuff of his.
  4. CubUgly
    And three right handers pitching against us for Cleveland....correct?
  5. CubUgly
    I can't disagree, but I will say Shaw was finally starting to hit the ball hard, the last two games of the Cardinal series and two games against the Stros.....then he sat for two guys who have hit less than he has at his worst.
  6. CubUgly
    Ha, yeah Tal's Hill was dangerous. But the Crawford boxes have always yielded very cheap home runs. I question the line distance even being 315. First time I went Lance Berkman hit what I thought was an opposite field pop up and it landed in the seats.
  7. CubUgly
    I was there Friday and Saturday and there were AT LEAST 3 homers that would not have been in most parks those two games. That's why Parades was a great pick up for them. I imagine he might hit 10 this year that would not be homers in Wrigley. The one he hit Friday would have been caught 40 feet in front of the wall in Wrigley.
  8. CubUgly
    I had much more of a problem with him leaving Taillon in once the score got to 5-5 versus the Cardinals. My main concern now is we can't hit lefties anymore. At what point does great in the clubhouse (Turner) justify being our platoon option at first and not moving on to look for something better? Even our righties can't hit lefties outside of Seiya!!
  9. CubUgly
    Yep, we left alot of chicken on the bone - too.....should have really had double digit runs.....but I ain't complainin!!
  10. CubUgly
    Exactly - Mets, Phillies, Yanks have all recently had brutal stretches, worse than ours to this point actually. It's just when you're in it - it's brutal to watch.
  11. CubUgly
    The warm weather seems to have had an adverse affect on our starters.
  12. CubUgly
    For the Schwarber thing - yes, it's easy in hindsight....but at the time, there was not all that much angst about it in my memory. At the time his market was about as bad as it was ever in his career, he was really bad that Covid 60 games. I have no clue, but I'm willing to bet they would have taken any decent offers had they gotten any, I'm wondering if they did. He ended up signing an one year show me deal with the Nats for $8 million so it wasn't like teams were knocking down the door for him in free agency.
  13. CubUgly
    Geez this stretch has been horrible. Yes the Phillies lost 9 of 10 this year as have the Mets and the Yanks had a pretty bad stretch too.....and yest the 2016 Cubs had a 5-15 stretch right around this time of year. But none of that makes me feel better. Tonight was especially frustrating. I said at 5-5 please pull Taillon...I get playing the long game to save the pen but you just did that with Brown the night before.....play to win this one. And the brain farts by PCA, the not knowing how many outs, then bunting. Should CC have challenged the runner leaving base early on PCA's brain fart? JD seemed to think so, though he's too nice to push it. So much frustration to unpack in losing a 1 run game we really should have one.
  14. CubUgly
    Well, I hope he gets 3 hits and 4 RBI today, but geez - it's been bad.
  15. CubUgly
    Yeah, I got up to go to the fridge thinking that was an out then came back and saw a guy of first and said WTF?? Then the next hit was on a ball well out of the strike zone that was not very well struck. I can't give the pitcher much blame at all in that sequence - a good argument can be made the run should have been unearned.
  16. CubUgly
    And they are 5-1 in their last 6 with Skeenes going Saturday.
  17. CubUgly
    yep, and again - in 2016 right around this time the team went on a very ugly 5-15 stretch.
  18. CubUgly
    Luzardo spent time on the injured list last season with both elbow inflammation and a lumbar stress reaction in his back; the latter injury kept him from pitching after late June. Specifics on the return that the Cubs would have sent to Miami remain unreported.
  19. CubUgly
    Would you say revenge game for Luzardo to? Cubs backed out on the trade for him for medical reasons.
  20. CubUgly
    I went to a series in Pittsburg in the middle of that stretch, they took 2 of 3 from us and they absolutely clobbered Arrieta. Bell was a rookie and hit one in the River. That Pirate team ended up the season with a losing record, but they whipped us pretty good as did obviously every team we played in that stretch, we had to have lost almost all of the series in that stretch.
  21. CubUgly
    I'm not saying this team is the 2016 Cubs, they are not, but even that team - right around this time of the year or soon after went on a 5-15 stretch. I was in full blown panic.
  22. CubUgly
    Yep, we've gone from really good at situational hitting early in the season to really bad at it the past few weeks. Like contact and getting runners over is not part of the equation anymore.
  23. CubUgly
    Yep, the last 3 losses have not been on the pitching.
  24. CubUgly
    Ha! Yeah, they really gave Flaherty a generous strike zone and he took full advantage. I think the one inning he got in trouble he tried the old Tom Glavine trick and go even a few inches extra off the plate, but didn't get it. I thought Horton got a couple of calls but he didn't test the outer edges as often as Flaherty did. Maybe when he'd more the wily veteran he'll learn to, but by that time they'll at least have the challenge thing in place.
  25. CubUgly
    Touche - I was watching with the volume off - and didn't get the full scope of what happened. I'll change it from PCA's baserunning gaffe to the third base coaches gaffe. Either way it cost us at least a run.
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