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  1. CubUgly
    Maybe that's his only good game. Maybe he gives us what Flexen gave us last year. I have no idea, but he pitched great yesterday when we absolutely had to have it.
  2. CubUgly
    Yes, that was a Milwaukee Brewers type win.....and I'm loving it!!
  3. CubUgly
    I was thinking the same thing - We've had some nice wins this year but this one was different. There was no flukishness to it, their starting pitcher was one of the hottest in baseball and we drove his pitch count up and got him out of the game and when we got them on the ground stepped on their throat and kept adding on. Before the game I was feeling a serious send of inferiority given how thoroughly and completely the Brewers had embarrassed us this year. But we came with a sense of purpose tonight and punctured that narrative.
  4. CubUgly
    My thoughts exactly - Shaw was practically drawn and quartered for an almost identical situation earlier in the year and the runner in that case was safe!! Seiya seemed to have no clued the ball was going to be there in time. Now if Nico was signaling and Seiya just missed or ignored it my apologies. But I do think JD or someone wondered aloud if Nico had done it in real time on the broadcast.
  5. CubUgly
    As i said - I know it likely won't help. I certainly don't think it would hurt.
  6. CubUgly
    I'd play that video of him hopping around like a wounded giraffe after that strikeout last year in the playoffs on and endless loop in the clubhouse all day. I don't think anyone cared for that. I know it likely won't help but it would sure motivate me if I was a player to put some extra effort in.
  7. CubUgly
    I love his passion. He wants those tough situations. He may fail but he ain't pitching scared!!
  8. CubUgly
    Yep, considering how the pitching is lining up for Milwaukee, we need to win tonight.
  9. CubUgly
    Ha...yeah the K's have started to tick up lately, it was inevitable. But I'm comfortable Pete has proven who he is. there will be hills and valleys but he's a star.
  10. CubUgly
    Conforto starting and batting second very bold as well.
  11. CubUgly
    I of course don't agree now, but I had no big issue then and if most are being honest they did not either at the time, Schwarbs was awful in the Covid year and many were very frustrated with the extreme 3-outcome guy he had become. There were some like you who even at that time came out strong against it, but that number grows by the day, it wasn't really that high in real time.
  12. CubUgly
    I agree there is a lot of hindsight on the Schwarber thing, what he is now - he just wasn't then. He even said on the Lovable Podcast he flat out stunk at that time and he absolutely does not harbor hard feelings. I'm not sure what they could have gotten for him in a trade at that time but considering he had to sign a 1-year - 8 million dollar show me contract with the Nats at that time showed there was not a great deal of interest out there for a guy that basically hit .200, struck out a lot and did not really have a position on defense.
  13. CubUgly
    I don't have much confidence in Cabrera at all right now. I think both he and the Cubs are searching and have not found!
  14. CubUgly
    He pretty much won 3 games for us earlier in the year with clutch hits. I remember thinking if that's all we get that's more than I expected. And it looks like that may be all we get.
  15. CubUgly
    He's been consistently good his whole career, not sure if we even tried to get him but we should have.
  16. CubUgly
    My thoughts exactly, Boog is better as a national guy. For me as said earlier his tendency to want prove he's the smartest guy in the booth bothers me and it seems to me anyway, Boog does this constantly. I think Len was a great fit as a Cub broadcaster - a local broadcaster.....not a homer mind you, but a guy who you knew was a Cubs guy and not trying to pander to a national audience. One thing Boog does really well, and you see it at Cubs Con, he is a great interviewer. He's so good at that I wish they'd let him do all Cubs Con interviews.
  17. CubUgly
    He's hitting better than Dansby and Nico the last 5 weeks and he's a lefty. But he wasn't going to be playing a lot with Shaw back and hitting well against righties lately and Seiya DH-ing. Better to get the AB's I guess.
  18. CubUgly
    I know man, I agree with Stratos above, I feel for Cohen, he seems like a nice dude but man does he come across awkwardly no matter who he's with. I'm not sure that's fixable. As someone else said I wonder if he was solo in the booth in Iowa and working with a partner just doesn't work.
  19. CubUgly
    And visa-versa.....they could not stand each other and it was so obvious to everyone watching. I could never believe they kept pairing them together.
  20. CubUgly
    I would agree with this. Boog it seems to me is always trying to prove he's the smartest man in the booth, but JD seems to have no ego so when Boog does that to him he'll say he doesn't know or make a self depricating joke or some other thing that diffuses Boog so Boog's attempts fall harmlessly away....I would agree JD tolerates Boog. I think he's trying this year to engage Cohen more but it's still rough
  21. CubUgly
    Well, we lost the game before that they did together so maybe not. I will say Cliff does make a more concerted effort than JD to conversate with Alex. But even with Cliff it just seems to me Alex seems like the new kid at school trying too hard to get everyone to like him. I find myself cringing several times a game when he's on the broadcast.
  22. CubUgly
    Scoring one run in each of the two outings vs. Lorenzon is not acceptable. But we did make amends off their bullpen....well kinda. Pete getting picked off in the 7th and Happ and Nico whiffing with the bases loaded was really bad baseball.
  23. CubUgly
    Man, I really feel for Dansby - I do. It's brutal to watch his at bats. Everyone can see he's pulling off everything but he seems incapable of making adjustments and when he does try to go oppo on the rare occasion he pops it up. But you are starting to see the handwriting on the wall. It's the second time in recent times he was pinch hit for late in a game, may have been other times I've missed. There comes a point where you can't worry about feelings anymore cause it's costing you games. Hell, if Nico wasn't slumping so bad right now too - moving him to short and giving Pedro a run at second might not be a bad idea. But Nico has been scuffling just as badly as Dansby the last month or so.
  24. CubUgly
    That's 100% how we need to look at this - and if either or both of Steele or Wiggins get in before the season is out - it's gravy.
  25. CubUgly
    Wow - I don't recall that - must have blocked it out. But this most recent losing skit was just so hard to watch. Over the last 10 years, every year we go through these prolonged slumps where everyone stops hitting at once. I guess maybe every team has these but it seems ours last longer. I was cutting games off in the 4th inning knowing we'd not score enough runs to win.
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