Josh Vitters took a walk. Move along sir.
Kevin Rhoderick and Alberto Cabrera both had good outings in relief. These are two guys you could see up in the majors at some point this year as the Cubs continue to develop relief pitchers and 2nd basemen. Its all part of the plan people.
Ronald Torreyes had a 3 hit game and Austin Kirk had another great outing. Kirk has dazzling standard numbers with a 1.54 ERA in 4 starts but he has only struck out 9 batters during that stretch. Anything I have seen on the guy describes his stuff as fringy at best and the FSL is very pitcher friendly so I wouldn't get too excited until he can start missing more bats.
A conversation between DylanJ and God. DylanJ- God is it too much to ask that a single player do something worth noting to help me write these fucking things? God- Yes it is. Go fuck yourself.
So there you have it. Nobody did anything worth wasting my time on. Go to bed.
Will Paul Maholom have an ERA under ten after todays start?
Since I missed the Castro thread last night, holy newsdump Batman. Even though it’s good news for the Cubs I wonder how much the decision to release the news at ~9pm on a Friday was influenced,
@ Berselius:
What do you mean?
@ Berselius:
Really thats not the type of news you would dump.. Its good news IMO
In nottomricketts’s words “baseball is better when your star SS is not a rapist”
@ mb21:
Whenever some organization has some news that they don’t want to be talked about, they release it late on a friday afternoon.
Bubbles just had to give a presentation to a bunch of old women. They were very receptive to bubbs
Deckchair reshuffling of the day
RF DeJesus
2B Barney
SS Castro
1B LaHair
3B Stewart
C Clevenger
LF DeWitt
CF Mather
P Maholm
B might have a good point. It could be happenstance, but even though the news is good, PR-wise it still involves their one marketable player involved in a sexual assault case. You can’t scream from the rooftops, “See? He didn’t rape anybody!” So you put it out where it will get easily buried and quietly move on.
It really is a shame that mlb.tv is showing the Nats game for free at the same time the Cubs are playing. Now I am forced to make the extremely difficult decision whether I want to watch Paul Maholm or Steven Strasburg pitch.
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#Cubs lineup vs. @Reds 4/21: DeJesus RF, Barney 2B, Castro SS, LaHair 1B, Stewart 3B, Clevenger C, DeWitt LF, Mather CF, Maholm P
looks like a loser to me
I worked at an ALCO in Nebraska. That was my first job, actually. I quit. Later, my boss was arrested for embezzlement.
@ bubblesdachimp:
Baseball is better when your star shortstop evades a rape charge, and you hope he learns the lesson not to treat women like his playthings from here on out and this is the end of it.
@ Aisle424:
“See? He didnt rape anyone! but we cant prove he didnt becuase not being charged isnt innocent.”
Fixed your sentence
@ Berselius:
@ josh:
See this is what i am talking about. Who says he treated women like a play thing?
I mean there is zero wrong with a 22 year old trying to go to a bar and get laid. There is 100% nothing wrong. The girl could have been doing the same thing. Just as it is wrong to pass judgment on her for being a cleat chaser it is wrong to pass judgment that Starlin did anything wrong
Why did Esmaillin Caridad pitch 4 innings for Iowa last night? Is he trying to build up to be a starter? Remember when he was supposed to be kinda ok as a reliever? I always really liked his name.
@ Recalcitrant Blogger Nate:
Wasn’t he the setup man coming out of ST in 2010? That didn’t last long.
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RT @johnfayman: BHamilton won the game last night for Bakersfield. Leads off 9th with single, steals 2nd 3rd, scores on sac fly to 2B
unfucking real that kid is going to be special
@ bubblesdachimp:
Castro has said himself that he needs to learn from this incidence. I know you don’t want to admit it, but Castro is not
TebowGod.@ Aisle424:
Good point. I hadn’t thought about that, but it makes sense.
@ mb21:
He said that and i think he now knows he needs to vet the type of girl he brings home a little better…
Any girl we hook up with in our lives is a lesson learned that doesnt mean we did something wrong.
bubblesdachimp wrote:
It’s good news for the Cubs and it’s certainly good news for Castro, but there was still the allegation of rape. The girl may have been raped. This is a sensitive topic. It’s good that Castro wasn’t charged, but if a crime took place it’s unfortunate that justice wasn’t served. If a rape took place it may have been committed by someone other than Castro. I have no idea, but you don’t scream this from the rooftops.
bubblesdachimp wrote:
So the victim is a gold digging slut, huh?
I never thought I’d say this, but I agree with bubbles. I have no interest in speculating on Castro’s possible guilt once the DA says there isn’t enough evidence to do anything. Therefore, he’s innocent.
josh wrote:
I’m as feminist as the next faget but you sound a bit shrill here.
mb21 wrote:
What is this victim of which you speak?
new shit: http://www.obstructedview.net/major-league-baseball/ramblings-strikeout-rate-silliness-pitchers-batting.html
Also, I don’t think “insufficient evidence” ever = “99% sufficient evidence”.
IMHO, insufficient evidence means no evidence.
(I do understand the difference between innocent and not guilty, and I do understand the logic MB and GBTS22 are applying to the situation, but again, once the DA says there’s no point trying to argue this case because it sucks, then ASAIAC the guy didn’t do anything and speculating that maybe he did isn’t fair.)
@ mb21:
Thats fine. But I would want our fans also to know our SS isnt a rapist.
@ mb21:
No one said that… Good Tebow! Just becasue i think he didnt do anything wrong i have been made to be a woman hating rapist defender. (dying laughing)