In our continuing Iowa series of "That guys still playing?" we introduce Horacio Ramirez (yes that one) who went 7 IP allowing 1 ER and striking out 1. Not to blow Horacio's Horn or anything but he's probably our best pitching prospect now.
Matt Szczur hit a triple. Nobody else did anything.
Christian Villanueva went 1-3 and PJ Francescon struck out 4 in 3 IP while allowing 2 ER.
Ronald Torreyes went 3-3 and has just flat out raked over the last few months. Javier Baez is having a tough time in High A and is now batting .159 in 44 AB's.
Jorge Soler went 2-6 and stole his 2nd base since being promoted to Peoria. Soler is now batting .341. Tim Saunders continues to crush the ball going 4-6 and after batting over .400 in rookie ball is almost doing same in the MWL. Saunders is either on a helluva hot streak or we just drafted a gem in the late rounds.
Wilson Contreas went 3-5 while getting some playing time in RF. Vogelbach was 1-4 but walked twice again and has an OBP almost 100 points higher than his BA. Just love that kid's offensive game. James Pugliese struck out 6 in 3 IP but also walked 2 and gave up 2 ER.
Shawon Dunston went 2-3 to continue his monster tear as he is now hitting .342 in the month of August. Ryan McNeil went 4 IP and struck out 2 while shutting out the other team.
Ben Fucking Wells! After TCR reported that Wells had TJ back in June I went into a period of mourning my favorite Cub pitcher but it seems he opted for rest vs surgery and last night returned to the mound. Wells struck out the side on 19 pitches. Time will tell if he is just delaying the inevitable and I would tend to think so. If the ligament so damaged to the point where TJ was an option I doubt rest is going to heal it. Maybe I should ask "injury expert" Will Carroll what he thinks……..oh wait I don't have 2 thousand dollars so fuck it. For now lets just keep our fingers crossed.
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
I am disappointed that you are coming out against curing cancer dj. For shame.
I see someone has been tweeting on our OVBlog account. I thought we agreed we wouldn’t do that until we raised $35,000. Have we already done that and I just didn’t a cut?
The differences between Will Carrol and a prostitute just get smaller every day.
@ Edwin:
When he gets older and starts losing his teeth he’ll more closely resemble a crack whore.
Health report on Ben Wells:
With Ben being a pitcher, I give him a rating of 2.”Stuck On a Wire Out On a Fence”. I think that since pitchers rely on throwing baseballs, that any injury that hurts his ability to throw baseballs would hurt his career, so I see a good deal of risk. Also, he plans on pitching in the future, which increases his injury probability substantially. Luckily, he should get injured before he pitches enough innings to get injured.
Tango’s Fans Scouting Report started today: http://www.obstructedview.net/aside/tangos-fansscouting-report-2012.html
@ Edwin:
Will Carroll would just slap a yellow on him and call it good.
@ Edwin:
Did that post make you any money? You should probably refrain from posting if it’s not making you money.
@ mb21:
I just sent mine in. Had to give some props to the great Koyie Hill.
Joe Girardi is cool.
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/23/joe-girardi-shuts-up-jerk-fan-during-postgame-interviews/
What’s the story with the voting for the 2013 slogan, when does that occur?
This makes me wonder what ever happened to Jeff Baker. They traded him right?
@ Mucker:
It should go live today
@ josh:
Detroit.
@ Mucker:
You didn’t get the email? Oh Shit, was Mucker the one we were “absolutely forbidden from telling”? Shit!
@ Rice Cube:
Sounds vaguely familiar. With Reedz?
Dylan, When is the Daytona Triple Header? They better squeeze it in before Tropical Storm Isaac and Tropical Storm Joyce get there.
@ josh
Why me? Were my slogans that bad?
Guys, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that Rosenbloom gets off to his own columns. What an inflated sense of self-importance: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/rosenblog/chi-cubs-are-worse-than-you-thought-20120823,0,6563946.column
new shit:
http://www.obstructedview.net/commentary-and-analysis/seeking-rock-bottom-pitcher-ks.html
@ Mucker:
We saw the Super PAC ad. You were never in Vietnam!