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Again, after the fact it is easy to see Rea could have done better. And, as I said, I didn’t like the decision to start Boyd when it was done. But he could have just as easily pitched fine. Even had Nico made the play in the first inning, Boyd might have given them a few more without giving up runs. We don’t know. It was a decision without any real good options. And unfortunately this one didn’t work well.

I still don’t see the actual yearly salary.

What did Francona get from the Reds? I believe the report is he got $45M. Not sure the years.

Wouldn’t that have been the case for game 2, as well? Wouldn’t they have analyzed him and just hit him on Monday? I didn’t agree with starting Boyd. But I do acknowledge that there really wasn’t a good option. Yes, apparently this was a bad decision. But we see that now after the results. Has he done 4 innings giving up just the 2 he gave up before the Nico error we wouldn’t be talking like this. And had Nico made the play that may have happened. Easy to call the manager out after his decision doesn’t wkrk(not saying you are doing that, btw), but really starting Boyd in shirt rest when he only threw 58 pitches on Tuesday is not that crazy a decision. He just didn’t get it done. One comment I heard from the announced in the very first inning was one of them said, now that the Brewers scored runs in the first inning people will suggest the rest was good. Had they went 3 up and 3 down they would have been flat from not playing. So true that most people comment after the fact.

And you are who determines what someone is worth?

What does this mean? I am confused. Brown pitched 2 innings.

Dansby doubles with 2 outs in the 9th trailing by 6. Maybe he should try hitting when it counts…….. Is that good???!

Sure. He was great in a 6 run game. Wouldn’t trust him in a one run game. And I didn’t even say he suckled. I think he has a lot of potential but too unreliable right now. When he is good, he is very good. But when he unravels he can’t get it back.

Similar to what I always used to say to my daughters. If you have issues with multiple different people about different things you might want to look in the mirror and see who the problem is.

It is baseball today. He did a muted version of what the. In’s so when they hit a homer. Really nbd. So many other things to complain about it is strange this is what you picked. I seem to remember Dodger playoff game either last year or the year before wheee they were down something like 10-0 and Mookie doubled. He did a dance on second base.

He might be. But even if not, he did a great job today eating innings. May come back to be a big deal at some point in the series.

And there it is. Someone said Happ hitting a homer would somehow have his haters comment against him. Right on que, Caesar responds.

It sure about that. If Civali goes 5 shut out innings today and his stuff rates out good, why not start him. I believe one of the more stat savvy posters pointed out Civali’s underlying numbers were really good and what he was doing wasn’t smoke and mirrors, like Flexen.

Wonder if there is a game 4 do the Cubs consider Civali?

Not a fan of adding Brown. But willing to acknowledge the coaching staff knows better than we do. So if they feel he is the guy I trust them.

The only thing I can see as a reason for Boyd today is he can then pitch again in game 4, at Wrigley, on normal rest. If the Cubs can steal one I. Milwaukee I think they can close it out in Chicago with Tailon, who has been our best the last ) starts, and Boyd at home. But if they go to game 5 all hands on deck. Might not even be Imanaga. Anything goes.

Again, why is this talked about 41 years later? Why is this his worst decision. The original poster that said this, acknowledged the next day Sutcliffe was gassed after 6 innings. Game 4, Sanderson was fine. The pen gave up 2 2 run homers. That is why they lost. Game 5 they lost because he left Sutcliffe in to pitch the 7th after he game up 2 runs in the 6th. Maybe that was his worst decision. Maybe letting a tired pitcher go out to pitch the 7th inning was his biggest mistake. Maybe not pitching him in game 4 was because he knew he was in fumes so Frey wanted to give him another day. And had they won he would have had 3 more days to rest. Point is, kind of silly to hold onto this idea of knowing what was best 41 years ago. As my wife always tell me LET IT GO!!!! BTW, side note here. That series is when I discovered what jagoffs Sox fans were. The year before, when they lost in the playoffs I didn’t care. Wasn’t rooting for them or against them. Might as well been the orioles bearing the tigers. I knew a lot of Sox fans so to them I said sorry your team lost. But when the Cubs lost in ‘84 most of my Sox fans celebrated the loss. From that point on I came to hate that team. I treated that team the same way most Sox fans treat the Cubs. Probably why I didn’t hate the Cardinals as much as some here. I used most of my hate for the Sox.

Pitching match ups set up poorly for the Cubs, but I guess I do understand Boyd for game 1. Means he can go game 4 on normal rest. Boyd is very good at Wrigley. So maybe if the Cubs can win a game or, better yet, 2 before then they would have Boyd going at home. Peralta is very good, but Cubs do ok against him. Not many hits, but they do take walks and drive his pitch count up. Going to be a tough series, but they can do it.

Don’t like the idea of Boyd on short rest., at all. Especially so because he hasn’t been good against the Brewers.. IMO a bad decision.

In the one occasion where an umpire threw a guy out, I agree he overreacted. But be careful the snowflake term. I have found that the people who love to throw that word around talking about a certain group of people tend to me people who are the first to get offended by someone acting not exactly like they think they should act or not speaking how they think they should speak. In the case of an umpire I do understand why they would have a problem with a player doing that, this year. It is showing them up. Problem is the one time a guy got tossed for it, I do agree the umpire overreacted. But no more than the umpire that threw Nico out for telling him he was having a bad day. I wouldn’t call either situation the umpire being a snowflake. I would just say he overreacted.

So if Sutcliffe was gassed in the 6th inning of game 5, what do you think he would have done had he pitched game 4, on less rest? This conversation started because you said you never understood why the Cubs started Sanderson in game 4. So if not him, and if Sutcliffe couldn’t even go 6 on normal rest, who should have started? Honestly, kind of silly to even be talking about something that happened 41 years ago.

Trout started game 2. I think you are thinking of Sutcliffe. Again, had Sanderson pitched well and the Cubs won no one would have questioned the move. Sutcliffe on 3 days rest or Sanderson rested were the options. We don’t know if Sutcliffe would have done any better.

I actually forgot about him when discussing what this team has overcome. All things considered they had a great season. No Steele or Assad for most of the year. Shota and Jamo missing starts, Amaya out most of the year. Tucker missed 30+games and now Horton. And they still won 92 games and a playoff series. Great season.

I get playing Shaw for his defense and hoping he can add something with the bat. Castro isn’t exactly an offensive force anyway. However, I think there is some exaggeration in your comment that no one could have made that play at 3rd. It was only close because Shaw bobbled the ball or hesitated a brief moment. I think Castro makes that play. Again, I do agree Shaw is a better glove and CC will lean defense. So Shaw might be the guy. But I don’t think that play in the 9th was anything special. It was made close because he misplayed it a little.

Agreed. If Mo was going to even be considered to catch it would have been against SD. Not happening against the Brewers. Besides, Kelly is playing well anyway.