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  1. CubUgly
    But came back in when the right handed reliever came in both games. I'm saying sit two games complete, not part of two games. He ain't hitting left handed lately either.
  2. CubUgly
    I love Happ but his body language tells me as soon as he gets to the plate he ain't hitting anything. I feel so bad for him. I think JD said it best, he's rolling out of bed down 0-2 in the count. Maybe a good two game rest can re-set him, cause it's really bad right now.
  3. CubUgly
    exactly, let's forget his propensity this season to be great one game and terrible the next and this was the terrible one in that rotation, I thought he'd have had his gym shoes on last night given he'd pitched the previous two. I said it as soon as I saw him in the pen so no hindsight here, and I'm still scratching my head. Made the win much harder than it needed to be.
  4. CubUgly
    I think that's the third time this year he's pitched in extras where the Manfred man didn't score this year?
  5. CubUgly
    Yeah, he's like one of those reporters at the Super Bowl that asked the questions that have everyone rolling their eyes.....difference being Bruce has been doing this for decades and those Super Bowl Reporters that ask those type of questions actually likely don't cover the sport on regular basis. Horse and Hound Magazine 🙂
  6. CubUgly
    Who on that list goes when Gausman and Holmes are activated? Also, some of the Cub media or podcast folks still are not pronouncing Gausman's name correctly. It's Gauze-man - like a Gauze bandage, not Gouse-man where Gouse rhymes with house.
  7. CubUgly
    To some extent, but it's in there for him - some - in fact I would say more than not for someone of his peripherals- they never find that extra whatever it is in regardless of the situation, He can.
  8. CubUgly
    Again, that's the unmeasurable, the competitiveness. Stats can't explain it. They just can't
  9. CubUgly
    We put a heavy focus on numbers and measurables here, and I love it - that's great it's fun to read and discuss. Assad competes, and that not something that's measurable so it is sometimes dismissed as a non-factor. It should not be.
  10. CubUgly
    I did feel like I qualified that with a "seemed" your points are well taken. Lots of little things added up for me and my opinion though, not just that. But as much as we want to think we really know these guys and who they are - we really don't.
  11. CubUgly
    Also, it's hard to know how bad the injuries he had really were so I'm saying now I may be unfair here, but my thoughts on that were if Andre Dawson who basically played his whole Cub tenure on bad knees, had the same injuries Tuck had he would not have missed near the time in critical times that Tuck did. And I think teammates notice things like that, right or wrong. Nico IMHO played through what seemed (emphasize seemed) a worse hand injury that the pinky thing for Tuck.
  12. CubUgly
    I definitely got that feeling. And I'm absolutely just speculating but I got the sense that his teammates kind of felt that way too. That he did not seem particularly interested in joining the team when they clinched the playoffs a bit off putting. You would literally have had to chain me up to keep me from celebrating with my teammates when I was active in team sports. A few other things that many would likely also shrug off bothered me a bit - a lot of little things in total. I would not have booed him were I there, but I was not at all disappointed that he did not return here. I don't think he'll age well.
  13. CubUgly
    They think they can do like they did the last two, use starters coming of the IL in the bullpen for the playoffs. But Yeah their pen is mediocre at best and there is some aging and natural decline with their core players - albeit slow and minimal - it is occurring.
  14. CubUgly
    Hopefully the re-set does Cabrera some good. He really struggled to find anything before the injury, and I see he gave up 3 runs in 43 pitches in his first rehab stint despite hitting 99 mph. I'm baffled that he was not better, he should be better than he was. May take an offseason to find it? Maybe a bullpen option till then?
  15. CubUgly
    That can't be emphasized enough, the sheer volume of significant pitching injuries but also not hitting as a team for basically a 5-week chunk of the season and still being where we are. Outstanding job by the coaching staff to navigate that.
  16. CubUgly
    Maybe some redundancy with Pedro and they like Pedro better?
  17. CubUgly
    They'll do what they have done the last 2 years, use starters out of the pen in the playoffs. They went out and got the two best relievers on the market 2 years back in Scott and Yates, they both sucked badly, so badly that they were unpitchable in the playoffs and just pitched Yamamoto for 9 and used their high priced starter talent out of the pen. If Bubic doesn't work out they will do the same this year.
  18. CubUgly
    Yeah, and I know - easy for me to say - I'm watching the game and there is a box to help me - but if we had two challenges, and I think we still did at that time - man that was a tailor made - have to challenge moment - it should have tied the game and then who knows what the next batter does, the bases are still loaded.
  19. CubUgly
    I would chalk it up more to several squandered opportunities to push runs across. A total team effort.
  20. CubUgly
    There is some feeling among some folks who follow podcasts for a living that prospects for the Dodgers get "the Dodger bump" as far a rating prospects go. That if they are in the Dodgers system they must be better. Not sure how much if any of that is true but one would assume the Tigers have their own process and they think these guys are good enough to trade Skubal for? Just seems like they could have done better.
  21. CubUgly
    One wonders if they gave Skubal some say in this and he said he wanted to go to the Dodgers? Because yes, at first glance it seems the Cubs and several other teams could have matched that offer? Bottom line the other owners care about baseball they need to quit dealing with the Dodgers on deals like this!!
  22. CubUgly
    Assad COMPETES in the truest and best sense of the word. And that's not something that's measurable so folks in the analytics and sabermatric world cannot make sense of it.
  23. CubUgly
    So good, as good as anyone has ever been in center and according to many in the know - that's not hyperbole. Also, I thought his at bat in the 9th - even though he lined out to center, was very impressive. Took some close pitches, worked the count to 3-2 and got a pitch he could hit and hit it hard.
  24. CubUgly
    Yeah, y'all have been telling me here all year the underlying data says Thornton's run was going to end badly, but he kept producing so I was not as upset as some he came in when he did. In fact he's been very effective in the very same situation multiple times this year and not even let the Manfred man in. And yes there was some bad luck, that 5-hop infield hit was not hit hard just to the perfect spot. But then he walks the guy - no one to blame but him there - so that all it takes was one hard hit ball, and game over. Tough loss.
  25. CubUgly
    That downtown has fallen by the wayside a bit.
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