Rice, berselius, & BVS ponder the direction of these Cubs as they decide whether or not this year is a punt year or a go year. We probably talked about some of the stuff you were thinking, including:
- Unfortunate injury to Jacob deGrom
- Recruiting Shohei Ohtani
- Why trading Marcus Stroman would be bad
- Getting the kids like Matt Mervis more playing time
- Oh god that bullpen
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A few years ago a huge chunk of California was on fire and the skies looked like Mordor, air was ick too so that’s the big risk, probably worse for folks who already have breathing issues.
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Apologies for the delay in getting this episode done, but at least I got it done before first pitch
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Rice Cube,
It looks like the games in New York and Philly were justifiably postponed
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Tonight’s lineup
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Heh, Jo Adell mention
https://twitter.com/RhettBollinger/status/1666555065551790082?t=eS5n2hqf0213NtdCmtV-IA&s=19
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Rucker –> up
Rios –> IL
RC –> what did he get a splinter sitting on the bench?
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Rice Cube,
The air here definitely has a faint “campfire” scent that’s fairly unpleasant.
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Perkins,
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Sounds like Taillon is doing the pitch calling via PitchCom and Hendricks will try it soon as well
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Even Ohtani outs are loud
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Keep it going cubs, just make sure you don’t load the bases.
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Amaya!
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Just mentioning having the bases clogged was enough to get the cubs to line into a DP (dying laughing)
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Now to actually keep the lead
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Bro WTF
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Joyce looks like a stock villain from any late 90s Disney channel movie.
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Good job avoiding the base juicing, Seiya
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berselius,
Would’ve preferred he just kill the rally
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berselius,
Tauchman does not read the site
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Not having a good bullpen probably limits his options but Ross probably should have just started his relievers with a clean inning
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Sigh
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Dead-ass team.
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Leiter really wanted to make his case for pitching to Ohtani. (dying laughing)
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Come on Mike Trout, let him have one (dying laughing)
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Twitter may yet win the Mastrobuoni bet
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Cubs lose in 2:31, time for bed
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Need to get Zambrano back in the dugout
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https://blogs.fangraphs.com/seiya-suzuki-is-showing-signs-of-progress/
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berselius,
Sure hope so, the haters need to be shut right up
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This is great
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/john-fisher-is-redefining-sports-owner-malpractice-as-he-spitefully-tries-to-move-his-oakland-as-to-las-vegas/
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Enjoying the pod, guys. I’d like to add about the bullpen futility that losing 📦 🍔 has been disastrous. When you lose a guy from the bullpen, especially the one who is arguably your best reliever, you aren’t replacing him with the next best reliever, you’re replacing him with the 8th next best reliever. Whatever roles Ross had figured out and whatever comfort level guys had found, it all went to hell with his IL stint and Kenan Thompson’s demotion. In the micro, I’ve been disappointed with a lot of individual decisions, but the big picture is: a team without a closer isn’t going to have great depth. The bullpen struggling in general is to be expected.
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Thanks for listening! (dying laughing)
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Rice Cube,
(dying laughing), do you know how many times autocorrect changed that dude’s name? I can’t BELIEVE it still was wrong.
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Rice Cube,
goddamit, now What Up With That is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day
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berselius,
OOOOOOOOOOOOO WEEEEEE
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I may be wrong when all is said and done but they really should just let Mervis play even if it’s against a lefty
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BN says tonight’s Angels starter has reverse splits so I guess David Ross really is married to full platoon, but maybe he shouldn’t go full platoon /Tropic Thunder’d
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Welp, it’s tied again
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And it’s about to not be tied
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Runs plz
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Rice Cube,
The OV Management would like to apologize to Lindsey Buckingham.
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FARTSLAM, which is an acronym I just learned (dying laughing)
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It’s barely June, I hope they’re not throwing in the towel yet although this is pretty bad
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berselius,
I think the Cubs have had a few NOBLETIGERs as well
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I wonder if they’re just truly shitty or just playing shitty because this is sad offense right now…at least Merryweather got out of his self-made jam
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All told, Smyly gutted out a game where his stuff was soso. Would it kill the offense to get a hit with RISP?
Going to bed.
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This shit is brutal.
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Cubs lose in 2:37
Gonna be an interesting series in SF, one that I’m probably blacked out of which might not be terrible save for the game I actually go to
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New morning dump –> http://www.obstructedview.net/the-plan-revisited/
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