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  1. Bull
    Bats RH. Also career 1.000 OPS against Kluber ... (in 3 at bats) Not saying I'm on board, but thats the reason.
  2. Bull
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxoMbEZbXZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyWmL0ENdxI Not sure if you are trying to debunk the claim that Soler can't hit when its under 50 degrees, but Game time temp for Game 2 in St. Louis was 70 degrees and for Game 3 against the Mets it was 72. Just giving Soler some love.
  3. Bull
    L (S) R L L (S) L R L R R Nah... A lot of lefties would have been Fowler CF Bryant 3B Rizzo 1b Zobrist 2B Schwarzer DH Cogs LF Montero C Russell JHey RF
  4. Bull
    Bats RH.
  5. Bull
    Edit = I'm superstitious and had to erase it.
  6. Bull
    I'd be stunned if Heyward isn't playing RF tonight. Given that the Cubs are 4-41 lifetime against Kluber, Maddon is likely to put his best LH hitters in there with correlated splits. Bauer and Tomlin are inverse splits LH/RH so expect Contreras in LF when Montero catches Jake. In fact, I see it this way with what the Indians are doing: Game 1: C, Ross - LF, Zobrist - RF, Heyward Game 2: C, Montero - LF, Contreras - RF, Zobrist Game 3: C, Contreras - LF, Zobrist - RF, Heyward Soler cannot hit when it is under 50 degrees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxoMbEZbXZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyWmL0ENdxI
  7. Bull
    I'd say it's more of a can't lose than a must win Certainly a do-not-tie.
  8. Bull
    If Maddon keeps this simple and goes with the "no regrets" lineup, the lineup least likely to have you kicking yourself over with the WS on the line, that would be my lineup for tonight. I think my lineup would be this, but switching Zo and Schwarber. Maybe Baez at 3rd.
  9. Bull
    Are you kidding me with this horsefeathers? Is he.......... badgering you? :hello:
  10. Bull
    and Bryant in RF? If they haven't deviated from Bryant at 3B and Javy at 2B for Lester's starts yet I don't think they'll start now, but certainly not impossible. I think the "why now" is Cleveland's speed (coupled with Lester's issues.) Some article mentioned a "triangle defense" with Ross, Riz, and Lester. Jay makes it a rhombus. I could just as easily see the lineup stacked with lefties. Miggy in Left? I kid, I kid.
  11. Bull
    and Bryant in RF?
  12. Bull
    I choose to believe that Theo and Jed put that clip together themselves during some downtime after the trade deadline, because they knew this would happen. I'm sure they have something spectacular in the can for his first WS bomb. are you abuck? If not, what happened to abuck? Also, as a corollary, did you kill him?
  13. Bull
    I'm nervous, but a completely different kind of nervous than last round. Last round, losing would have been a tremendous disappointment. Losing this round would suck but not as badly. I'm not exactly satisfied to only get to the World Series, but I do feel like regardless of what happens in the WS we accomplished something this year. I was stuck watching "His and Hers" during lunch, (because the alternative was Colin Cowherd talking about Golden State), and the Michael Smith just couldn't grasp that Cubs fans feel that way. He called it a loser mentality. I'm sorry I am as pleased as pie that the Cubs are in the world series. A win is icing. (Pardon my disgusting mixing of dessert metaphors.)
  14. Bull
    I REALLY like Schwarber on the roster. I really don't like him in the lineup. Stated differently, I like Schwarber over Stella or Coghlan. I don't like him over Soler. I think, given a chance, Soler has more production in his bat than Schwarbs does in his.
  15. Bull
    This. All of this. If he wakes up Wednesday morning and can't walk, I feel good about Soler as DH and the bench options change, and the Cleveland lineup is not all Lefties like the dodgers.
  16. Bull
    I believe Marmol was in that class. IIRC his slider was the most unhittable pitch in baseball. It's just that good sliders break arms. Peak Marmol was close, he had a 2.55 ERA and 2.01 FIP in 2010, and even in that peak year he walked 6 guys per 9. He wasn't close to that performance with any consistency though, if he had done that for 3+ years then sure, but that's not what happened unfortunately. I get that. I see Marmol as a cautionary tale for Arrieta. Wasn't there a fan graphs article on Arrieta and how pitchers who threw as many sliders as him get injured. This is what I feel happened to Marmol.
  17. Bull
    Gleyber Torres: sacrificial lamb?
  18. Bull
    I believe Marmol was in that class. IIRC his slider was the most unhittable pitch in baseball. It's just that good sliders break arms.
  19. Bull
    a single, awful camera angle.
  20. Bull
    The base he hit it to is whatever you want it to be. Crazy defensive shifts.
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  22. Bull
    wingspan!
  23. Bull
    why is no game?
  24. Bull
    game starts in 5 minutes
  25. Bull
    All true, and he doesn't give Soler the attention I think he should. I still want Schwarber on the roster. Contreras (or Soler) to DH in games 1 and 2 (with Ross and Montero catching Lester and Arrieta respectively). Schwarber as primary PH in games 1-5. Schwarber as DH in games 6 and 7* *if necessary.
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