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Quote from: Quality Start Machine on July 08, 2016, 08:26:04 AM
He's been atrocious the last 6 weeks...a .311 OBP since June 1 ain't cutting it.
By comparison, the justly-maligned Jason Heyward has been getting on base at a .370 clip in that same time frame.
Quote from: SKO on July 07, 2016, 12:03:11 PMQuote from: PANK! on July 07, 2016, 11:49:21 AM
Well this didn't do much to pick up my spirits.
Fuck
Quote from: Oleg on June 22, 2016, 11:04:58 AMQuote from: thehawk on June 22, 2016, 10:26:05 AMQuote from: Quality Start Machine on June 22, 2016, 08:51:16 AMQuote from: Saul Goodman on June 21, 2016, 04:40:04 PMQuote from: ChuckD on June 21, 2016, 03:15:13 PMQuote from: Saul Goodman on June 21, 2016, 01:48:59 PMQuote from: SKO on June 21, 2016, 08:15:37 AMQuote from: Quality Start Machine on June 21, 2016, 08:05:21 AM
DPD
Big-ass bump for the pop & throw and tag play at the plate in the 9th last night.
The stare down after the throw was great. As was this quote:
After seeing him in a few games, I believe it. He plays with a lot of intensity, like a not-annoying version of John Lackey. Bizarro Lackey.
A potential comp, although I'm not convinced Willson has the same appetite for murder.
Are we sure he's not just Big Z in catcher's gear?
If he ever beats himself up in the locker room, we'll know.
WHOA! Oh, wait. You said, "Up." Never mind.
Quote from: SKO on June 21, 2016, 09:38:57 AMQuote from: Tony on June 21, 2016, 09:36:00 AMQuote from: SKO on June 21, 2016, 09:19:05 AMQuote from: Tony on June 21, 2016, 09:15:59 AMQuote from: SKO on June 21, 2016, 08:36:16 AM
The way I see it here is the most likely lineup for the Cubs from 2017-2020 or whatever:
C Contreras
1B Rizzo
2B Baez, with Zobrist slowly transitioning to more of a utility role as he gets older.
3B Bryant
SS Russell
LF Schwarber
CF Almora
RF Heyward.
Maybe Almora doesn't pan out, I dunno, he's looked way more competent than I expected so I think it'll be okay, but in that worst case scenario where maybe one of their 26 and under crew doesn't work out they can go sign someone with the money they're supposed to have coming or they can make a trade or whatever, but Ian Happ doesn't even come close to rating as a necessity to this organization. I will trade 1,000 Ian Happs and regret nothing about it when he's off having Jed Lowrie's career for the Yankees.
It's crazy that there's not even room for Jorge in this lineup.
I mean I think the Schwarbler Platoon might still be a thing, and I'm guessing given Schwarber's injury and Jorge's injury history as well that the Cubs will want to have a pretty solid fourth outfielder, so I'm sure Jorge will still get his opportunities, but he's definitely running out of time to make himself indispensable.
Yeah the platoon is still a really good option, but it's nuts that someone with that much talent can easily be left off this list. A few weeks ago I was doing the same thing in my head and completely forgot about Schwarber. You could forget a couple of these guys and still potentially have the best lineup in baseball.
It is kinda funny that they are very close to basically fielding the "PROJECTED 2019 LINEUP" or whatever that Baseball America does every year that never pans out. So many times we'd hear "they're not all going to pan out" whenever we'd field fantasy lineups of Schwarber/Bryant/Rizzo/Russell/Baez all together and yet here we are. Even Almora, the one Eli and only Eli wrote off as a bust and a garbage human being, looks like he can actually maybe be a useful big league player, if not a star. Insane.
Quote from: SKO on June 21, 2016, 09:36:23 AMQuote from: Slaky on June 21, 2016, 09:25:04 AMQuote from: Bort on June 21, 2016, 07:29:06 AMQuote from: SKO on June 20, 2016, 01:46:14 PMQuote from: Tony on June 20, 2016, 01:41:26 PMQuote from: SKO on June 20, 2016, 09:30:32 AM
I'm an awful person who likes to laugh at other people's pain so I browsed the game threads/recaps on the Bucs SB Nation site and basically every other response boils down to:
1)Just start beaning every Cub, including Maddon
2)McCutchen is old and washed up and needs to be traded, also should have been benched for not running as hard as possible on that K in the dirt against Arrieta
3)Joe Maddon is a hipster douchebag
4)Cubs fans didn't even care about baseball before 2015.
5)They lack Fire and Passion and Clint Hurdle needs to give himself his inevitable grabber by throwing chairs and screaming at them all in the locker room.
That makes no sense.
That one cracks me up and they use it ALL THE TIME. The Annual Wildcard Shitkickings are the only times they've sold out their stadium in the last 25 years and they want to say Cubs fans didn't care about their team before it was good. It's the White Sox fan argument. SURE ONLY 10 PEOPLE WATCH OUR TEAM BUT THAT'S BETTER THAN THE 20000 ONLY GOING TO WRIGLEY TO LOOK AT THEIR PHONE AND HIT ON CHICKS
It's the consolation prize of bitter idiots. Which is why I use it as much as possible myself.
I think it's important to note that people somehow try to say that because Wrigley has good looking girls and beer that people are stupid for going there.
I mean the stereotype that fans don't pay attention to the game and just go there to have a good time was born during the decades when the team was always completely irrelevant. Of course people went just to have a good time and didn't get heavily invested in the game. Is that really worse than just not going at all? Listen to the crowd during any game this year and tell me they're not paying the fuck attention in a way that would bring a single tear running down Huard's cheek.
Quote from: SKO on June 21, 2016, 09:19:05 AMQuote from: Tony on June 21, 2016, 09:15:59 AMQuote from: SKO on June 21, 2016, 08:36:16 AM
The way I see it here is the most likely lineup for the Cubs from 2017-2020 or whatever:
C Contreras
1B Rizzo
2B Baez, with Zobrist slowly transitioning to more of a utility role as he gets older.
3B Bryant
SS Russell
LF Schwarber
CF Almora
RF Heyward.
Maybe Almora doesn't pan out, I dunno, he's looked way more competent than I expected so I think it'll be okay, but in that worst case scenario where maybe one of their 26 and under crew doesn't work out they can go sign someone with the money they're supposed to have coming or they can make a trade or whatever, but Ian Happ doesn't even come close to rating as a necessity to this organization. I will trade 1,000 Ian Happs and regret nothing about it when he's off having Jed Lowrie's career for the Yankees.
It's crazy that there's not even room for Jorge in this lineup.
I mean I think the Schwarbler Platoon might still be a thing, and I'm guessing given Schwarber's injury and Jorge's injury history as well that the Cubs will want to have a pretty solid fourth outfielder, so I'm sure Jorge will still get his opportunities, but he's definitely running out of time to make himself indispensable.
Quote from: ChuckD on June 21, 2016, 09:23:29 AMQuote from: Tony on June 21, 2016, 09:15:59 AMQuote from: SKO on June 21, 2016, 08:36:16 AM
The way I see it here is the most likely lineup for the Cubs from 2017-2020 or whatever:
C Contreras
1B Rizzo
2B Baez, with Zobrist slowly transitioning to more of a utility role as he gets older.
3B Bryant
SS Russell
LF Schwarber
CF Almora
RF Heyward.
Maybe Almora doesn't pan out, I dunno, he's looked way more competent than I expected so I think it'll be okay, but in that worst case scenario where maybe one of their 26 and under crew doesn't work out they can go sign someone with the money they're supposed to have coming or they can make a trade or whatever, but Ian Happ doesn't even come close to rating as a necessity to this organization. I will trade 1,000 Ian Happs and regret nothing about it when he's off having Jed Lowrie's career for the Yankees.
It's crazy that there's not even room for Jorge in this lineup.
How can he start for the Cubs when he gets traded with Vogelbach (maybe Cangelosi, too, if Theo's feelin' generous) for Mike Trout in 2017?
Quote from: SKO on June 21, 2016, 08:36:16 AM
The way I see it here is the most likely lineup for the Cubs from 2017-2020 or whatever:
C Contreras
1B Rizzo
2B Baez, with Zobrist slowly transitioning to more of a utility role as he gets older.
3B Bryant
SS Russell
LF Schwarber
CF Almora
RF Heyward.
Maybe Almora doesn't pan out, I dunno, he's looked way more competent than I expected so I think it'll be okay, but in that worst case scenario where maybe one of their 26 and under crew doesn't work out they can go sign someone with the money they're supposed to have coming or they can make a trade or whatever, but Ian Happ doesn't even come close to rating as a necessity to this organization. I will trade 1,000 Ian Happs and regret nothing about it when he's off having Jed Lowrie's career for the Yankees.
Quote from: SKO on June 20, 2016, 09:30:32 AM
I'm an awful person who likes to laugh at other people's pain so I browsed the game threads/recaps on the Bucs SB Nation site and basically every other response boils down to:
1)Just start beaning every Cub, including Maddon
2)McCutchen is old and washed up and needs to be traded, also should have been benched for not running as hard as possible on that K in the dirt against Arrieta
3)Joe Maddon is a hipster douchebag
4)Cubs fans didn't even care about baseball before 2015.
5)They lack Fire and Passion and Clint Hurdle needs to give himself his inevitable grabber by throwing chairs and screaming at them all in the locker room.
Quote from: PenFoe on May 23, 2016, 12:39:48 PMQuote from: PenFoe on March 29, 2016, 11:43:39 AM
I bought one of those "Try not to suck" t-shirts.
The money went to charity.
Which turned out to be an INCREDIBLY bad idea, because I won't wear the shirt in front of my kids, so it basically just sits in my drawer.
Not well thought out, PenFoe.
Still went to charity, I guess.
Quote from: SKO on May 23, 2016, 10:28:18 AMQuote from: Quality Start Machine on May 23, 2016, 10:19:21 AM
Anybody else think Rizzo could use a breather? Right now he's late on everything.
Potentially, but he does this from time to time. Red hot for 3-4 weeks, then a 2 week slump where he pops everything up, then red hot again. Had a 1.232 OPS in the first two weeks of May last year, then .227/.346/.455 for the last two weeks of the month, followed by a 1.036 OPS the first few weeks of June, then a .230/.294/.492 stretch to end the month. He's streaky, but given that he usually keeps drawing walks and hits the occasional moonshot even when he's struggling, oh well.
Quote from: Canadouche on May 18, 2016, 11:10:47 AM
Perhaps a fairer point is that she was making a throwaway line that she herself didn't even take all that seriously.
Quote from: InternetApex on May 13, 2016, 01:11:27 PM
Nobody said Kerry smashed the boombox. That was counter to everything ever written on the subject.
Woj, who claims to have been in the room, wrote in his book on the 2004 Cubs that it was "a position player." So you guys are definitely wrong.
Paul Sullivan told me that Kerry and Sammy were friends and that Kerry wouldn't do that. The scuttlebutt he heard was that it was Barrett, which checks out given everything we know about him.
Quote from: SKO on May 05, 2016, 03:08:57 PM
If Joe is going to start Ryan Kalish over him, is it time to send Jorge down to a Iowa to get him some playing time?
*Nevermind, I see Joe Ross has pretty insane L/R splits (.430 OPS vs RHB in his career so far, .791 LHB). So that kinda makes sense I guess, but still worth asking if Jorge might be better off playing every day in Iowa till he can get into a rhythm of some kind.
