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No. Standing at the window
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Who sits?
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There is a flight from Chicago expected to arrive at 2:18. I am at that gate. I will let you know if I see Owen.
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I think if they are not within 3 games (and I am pretty sure they won’t be) and have the tiebreaker with the Brewers they may slow down Boyd and Horton’s innings. TBH, I almost hope that is the case. Hate to see then use those guys hard all season and come up short. Then have to hope they ok for playoff pitching. I am not that worried about Boyd. But they do have Horton’s future to think of. The ace of the 2032 staff cannot be overused this season and get hurt.
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This is funny. I just walked thru customs to Toronto on Tuesday and again today to come back to Chicago. I am at the airport now, sitting at my gate. No issues either way.
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People are crazy and want to believe what they want to believe. Facts be damned🤷 That is a statement on society as a whole, tbh.
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About the most I can see Cassie being used is like geo8888 said. Fill in for a guy. They may even go back to Suzuki in center to give PCA a breather. Maybe be gets 3 games a week. As Jason said, he isn’t replacing any of those guys on a regular basis.
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I agree Jason. I absolutely am amazed at the negative Happ comments on this board. He is a high end outfielder and has been for several years, and yet doesn’t get respect here. Even today, he saved the tying run from scoring by fielding the ball and making a perfect relay throw to hold the guy at 3rd. That goes unnoticed here because people want to hate him.
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Is this your guess? Is this what you hope? Or is this the official statement on the injury?
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Actually I only cared because I am playing a team in fantasy baseball who has him pitching this week. So I checked out how he was doing. The guy I am playing this week is also probably a team I will play in the playoffs. So I am interested in Woodruff. As for any Cubs benefit, I agree that it doesn’t matter. Plus. I have Horton, who right now is scheduled to pitch against Woodruff in Monday.
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Seems strange to pull a starter after 4 innings. Guess we will see. I would think he would want to go 5 and get a win.
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Woodruff pulled after 4 innings and only 65 pitches. Anyone know why?
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Agree. This kind of confirms the saying “fish gets rotten from the head down”. Ownership being the head this is a perfect example of that saying.
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I agree with you, but have to also add, to date the. Brewers have not dominated the Cubs this season. They are 4-4. So Cubs could win the season series and still probably lose the division. A playoff series against them would be fun.
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I think they built the team with 90 wins in mind. But I don’t disagree with you that they should have done more. I think they backed themselves into a corner by not getting another quality starter at the start of the season. Pivetta, as an example, would look good on this team. I would feel ok resting Horton a bit had they had Pivetta. A top 3 in a series of Imanaga, Boyd and Pivetta would have looked good. I know people love to rip Jed for what we currently have, but IMO his off season was a result of what TR wanted, period. He spent what he could. I don’t blame him for not trading what he had to trade to make up for the mistake of not spending enough in the off season. How happy would people be with Gore if we had to lose Horton and Shaw? I imagine Ryan came with a crazy price too. And would it even matter? Brewers would still be where they are. Most other years we would be happy to have the record we have. And we would probably be in first by 3 to 5 games. Jed can’t do anything about the Brewers, except beat them when they play them. And, tbh, if we get them in the playoffs I think we have a good chance.
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so they can get hot. But the Cubs can’t?
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I agree. Reds have a brutal schedule to finish the season. I doubt they win more than 83 games.
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So great to see Shaw becoming an offensive force. It is especially nice to stop seeing all the Cam Smith love and the criticizing the Cubs for trading him and keeping Shaw. Right about now it appears they made the right choice. Which is why we don’t hear about Smith any longer. 100 less AB with 2 more homers, a higher OPS+ and his BABIP is only .255. If/ when that comes up, like it should, he will be even better. Look forward to him at 3rd for a good while. Happy the Cubs FO realized his talent. Along with his bat coming alive, he has also proved to be a solid 3rd baseman.
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But it kind of is. Reality is the Cubs have a 95% chance to make the playoffs. I think we all would have been happy with that before the season started. We have some suggesting they will be lucky to get in and be stomped out immediately. Others suggesting this is an 83-86 win team. Again, that’s just negative commenting. Once the playoffs start the best team probably has a 15% chance of winning it all. The worst team maybe a 6% chance. Bottom line is, now and has always been, get in and hope to get lucky. Because even the best teams need to get lucky to be playing well when they get in.
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For all the gloom and doom about the Cubs getting caught and missing the playoffs, I have to ask, who is charging after them? Maybe SD can pass them for first wild card team. But who else? The Mets who are 1-9 in their last ten? The charging (5-5 in their last 10) Reds? There is really no other threat unless people honestly think the Cardinals or Giants can catch the Cubs. Cubs are the same 5-5 in their last 10 that the Reds are. News flash…. The Reds aren’t charging. I am not happy with the way the Cubs are playing, but the truth is even continuing this aggravating pace of .500 through the rest of the season will get the Cubs securely in the playoffs. Where I am pretty sure, at some point they will lose so everyone can say “I told you so”. Being negative is just an easy and lazy narrative to take. Considering only 1 team wins the WS, being negative all the time will eventually allow you to say “I told you so”. The only time that doesn’t happen is if they win it all. Which 29/30 teams do not do.
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There is no horsefeathers way the call on the field should have been out. He called him out because he thought the tag got him before touching the base. That obviously didn’t happen. But since they couldn’t be sure Berry’s hand stayed in the base they let the call stand. By that logic, had he made the right call based on Berti beating the throw, and they couldn’t be sure if the hand came off the bag or not (they said the call stood, not confirmed) they wouldn’t have changed the call. Just a terrible call.
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Maybe the Cubs need to play an AL East team. 6-3 against Red Sox, Yankees and Orioles. And 4-4 against the Brewers.
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Cardinals 2 for 2 with men on base against Shoto. That really sucks. He pitched so well.
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No. He was out
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Where was PCA going? He isn’t going to steal 3rd with Happ up. He score on a single. How does he get picked off 2nd? Love the guy, but that was a boneheaded play.
