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Cubs Post-Game Recap by Sesame Street (Counting to 12 Old School)
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(dying laughing)
Nice.
I think we should set ladybug’s picnic to auto play every time someone loads the site from now on.
mb21 wrote:
Sure. It’s already stuck in my head.
Damn Twins.
The Rangers can has runs.
Thank god espn is showing the Nats/Braves tonight. I might see something resembling a baseball game today, after all.
I enjoy witnessing team records. I’ll write about this ignominious streak in future decades. I might save it for my 10,000th FanPost.
Jaime Moyer is doing much to ensure that his home runs allowed record stands for a long time.
Sveum’s vaunted RH lineup sucks the sweat from a dead man’s taint.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
What are Baker’s numbers off leftie’s this year? Doesn’t seem like he’s doing too well.
I listened to about 4 minutes total of today’s game. That was 4 minutes too much. Garza’s had a couple of bad starts. Probably sick of playing for a shitty team.
@ josh:
http://www.fangraphs.com/statsplits.aspx?playerid=2073&position=2B&season=2012#advanced
Not good, but single-season splits are pretty worthless, anyway.
@ josh:
I was encouraged by the fact that Garza was striking out batters for a change. Then again, this is the Pirates we’re talking about…
I watched this game on DVR, and after the first inning HR I said I’d shut it off when the Pirates went up by six. The Cubs were very obliging (dying laughing)
Would have been an even wiser decision to tell yourself you’d shut it off after they went down 1-0.
Bryce Harper has pretty good plate discipline it seems.
Michael Bourn is fast.
@ ACT:
The first inning non-pitcher bunt with no outs always pisses me off.
Oh so we lost 12 in a row? I wonder who is on the trade block now…or which players we should bring up.
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@ Rice Cube:
It’s not necessarily a bad idea, since the defense is more likely to play back early on.
@ ACT:
It’s a good idea if it’s a surprise bunt, I agree. I just hate giving away outs though, but not as much as MO
Woah…the ump got hit in the goolies.
How can anyone not like Bryce Harper?
Rizzo was just pinch-hit for in a 3-1 game in just the 6th inning. Do with that information as you wish.
@ ACT:
x2
That was a bunt I actually enjoyed.
Iowa Cubs @IowaCubs
Radio report: Rizzo leaves Iowa Cubs dugout, heads to clubhouse.
David Kaplan @thekapman
Excellent source in Des Moines tells me that Rizzo is not getting called up to the Cubs. Repeat: NOT GETTING CALLED UP.
Guess we’ll wait for Muskat or Paul Sullivan to update.
Why were the White Sox dressed like the Phillies today? Was that supposed to be some kind of Memorial Day thing?
What I have gathered in the last hour…
Last play involving Rizzo was in the bottom of the fifth when he took a throw from Vitters on a groundout to end that inning. Pinch-hit for in top of the sixth, not an injury, went to clubhouse per I-Cubs themselves. Kaplan says not a call-up, everyone else on Twitter telling Kaplan he’s full of shit.
@ Rice Cube:
What does Alvin have to say about it?
Rizzo hurt his wrist. I need to go lie down.
GBTS wrote:
He’s actually re-tweeted me a couple of times, which makes me feel like I’m all turned around on the subject. Here’s what he re-tweeted of mine:
@ Aisle424:
I basically agree with what you said, though. The season is gone. Doneso. But that doesn’t mean that Theo doesn’t need to put asses in the seat. There are potential costs both ways.
It really has nothing to do with asses in the seats. If they had managed to make a corresponding move that made sense and the timing was RIGHT NOW, you don’t worry about 5 years from now.
Let’s say Soriano’s recent ability to hit HRs has allowed the Cubs to save $10 million off his contract over the next 3 years and we get some prospect that has upside but injury issues or something. Wouldn’t that be worth the move? People were acting like any call-up of Rizzo is a bad move and that simply isn’t true.
Aisle424 wrote:
This is your fault for even thinking of adding him to your fantasy team, 424 #Aisle424FantasyCurse
@ Aisle424:
I don’t really have a problem with a Rizzo call-up. It’s their money, not mine.
@ Aisle424:
True. I guess that idea seemed less likely, but yeah, just because they called him up doesn’t mean it’s for stupid reasons.
@ josh:
It’s not so much stupid as it is potentially expensive. But I’m excited to see Rizzo anyway so I guess I’m ambivalent.
I was reading somewhere that most players don’t actually file for retirement until several years have passed. But I would guess if a player stopped playing for a team midseason, the team would argue that he had retired, whether he filed or not.
\dreaming Soriano retires
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/blog_article/all-franchises-most-recent-12-game-losing-streaks/
@ josh:
I don’t think Barry Bonds has retired yet. Wiki still refers to him as a MLB outfielder in the present tense.
Bryce Harper just got his revenge on Livan Hernandez.
@ ACT:
I believe I the context I learned that in was an article about how Sosa just filed for retirement in the last year or so. Or someone like that.
Rizzo up, Rizzo down … the Cubs still suck. Wake me in 2016 when they might be good.
@ ACT:
I take that last part back; wiki says “former.” I must have missed that. It’s just that the word order is so unusual: “American former Major League Baseball outfielder.”
@ mb21:
The excitement that some people (not me, note) had was not, “Rizzo’s up, the Cubs might be good!”, but “Rizzo’s up, I’d like to see him!”
@ mb21:
Miami and Houston have never had a losing streak of 12 or more. Gotta go back to 1916 for the Cardinals and 1908 for the Yanks.
Personally, when I heard Rizzo was pulled, all I thought was, “I hope he’s all right.”
@ mb21:
Hardly surprising that the Yanks have the longest streak. I love how, for the Yankees, you have to go back to the same year the Cubs won their last championship. Not ironic, really, but amusing. The Yankees are the anti-Cubs in every way.
@ ACT:
I know. But the Cubs are still going to suck and they’re still going to be a team that isn’t all that much fun to watch.
@ ACT:
That’s what I was thinking too. Just don’t see the cubs calling him up until they can avoid super two status in a few years.
Cubs have lost 28 times since the last Spurs loss.
Also, (dying laughing) at all the Sox fans on my Facebook/Twitter ripping on the Cubs for the 12 game streak. That’s the sports equivalent of ripping on an autistic kid for reading slow.
@ GBTS:
(dying laughing) as in it’s stupid doing it, not (dying laughing) at children with autism.
@ GBTS:
Although sometimes children with autism can do genuinely funny things, in which case I suppose it would be okay to (dying laughing) at them. But only then.
@ GBTS:
@ GBTS:
Now you have incentive to root for the Twins next time they play the White Sox. Plus the part where the Cubs and Twins are tied for suckiest MLB team.
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=21814985&topic_id=11493214
Throw the barrel at the ball. Literally.
12 down, 12 to go. Who-oh, half-way-there! Who-oh, Living on a prayer. Take Dale Svuem, we will make it I swear. First Pick, getting a new player!
Cubs will lose them all!
@ GBTS:
Actually, many people who have Auspergers or HFA have terrific reading comprehension and genius-level IQs.
@ Pezcore:
Ooh! Burn……
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