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  1. This is not at all the same as suggesting Busch play 3B. Across all levels, Busch has twice as much time at 2B as at 1B, and half as much time at 3B as 1B. It is a perfectly reasonable suggestion. I don't agree with it, but it's not at all absurd like you make it out to be.
  2. I turn 50 next year. Graduated undergrad in the 1900's (1999). Gross.
  3. Richie Hebner?
  4. As a lifelong Cubs fan I know we can’t have nice things. I wonder what happens when the league adjusts and how he will be able to react. I hope this a new normal (with obvious significant regression) but I’ve known too many Frank Schwindell’s.
  5. Willie McGee with more pop?
  6. I like this Al Sharpton version of you.
  7. What an inning. That's what winning teams do. They didn't fold after some frustrating developments. Busch just went way up in my estimation.
  8. See, I feel like this is an opportunity to get a look and get them some rest. Instead of going every 5 days in Iowa, bring one up the one time you need a fifth starter (lots of off days) and the other up once when you don't need a fifth starter to get Imanaga an extra day of rest once in there. With all the off days you could *almost* go six day rotation with the off day as the sixth man. Get each of them some extra rest when you send them back down. This gets you well through May (at least one off day every week in May) and now you're looking at teams that aren't competing being a little more ready to deal.
  9. Two games up on Milwaukee feels … necessary… heading into this series.
  10. I feel like I should feel worse about this than I do. I really like this team's depth and ability to spend at the deadline. I feel like they were ready for this (not saying they were expecting it, but could be). Shota can deal, Boyd looks legit, Taillon still has plenty in the tank. If two of Brown, Assad, Wicks, Horton and Rea can do something this offense has the upside to really be something. Or go trade for a Mariner.
  11. Ever had tendinitis?
  12. If this team looks approaching the trade deadline anywhere close to as good as this team looks now, it has to be in the budget to add a closer (which would still keep us well below the first threshold), Right? .... Right? *sigh*
  13. We have yet to see the nincompoop emerge on the bases. Perhaps he's evolving. All joking aside, if he can all but eliminate TOOTBLAN from his game, he really doesn't have to hit much to be extremely valuable, as you demonstrated.
  14. I heard in the broadcast that Braiser is "not making much progress". I haven't heard on Miller and Assad. If you can bump Brown to the bullpen to make room for Assad, add Miller and Little, I feel like that's a great bullpen. One that I feel good about top to bottom. Miller, Braiser (eventually) and Rea are the kind of relievers who *could* come in a game you are losing and hold the deficit of 2 or 3 until this juggernaut offense can come back in. The last few years it felt like if you put in the low men on the totem pole, you were conceding the game.
  15. Still on the radar. Cubs have scouts at the retirement homes these days.
  16. My bold prediction *last season* was that Little would be closer by the end of last year. All aboard!
  17. Maybe, but not based on today. He was get squeezed. Padres we’re not chasing.
  18. Just bumping this thread to see if anyone has found a workaround to see the games in Japan. The free T-Mobile mlbtv isn’t available until the 25th this year.
  19. Can we add a “?” or puzzled emoji reaction? Until then I’m going use the laughing emoji as a lol wut.
  20. Definitely de Jesus. It was the shape of the nose blob that gave it away for me.
  21. But I'm sure you see that the two are inextricably tied. No one hopes that their favorite player strikes out, but that's a strawman; now on is saying that. The point is that the same behavior that leads to harder contact also leads to more strikeouts. So the strikeout RESULT is not as bad because it is part of a PROCESS that leads to greater results more often. Though I'd suggest that Anthony Rizzo's going for contact with 2 strikes is an interesting balanced approach.
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