Break up the Rockies, who started the season with a sweep of the Brewers, beating them with a combined score of 20-6. As frustrating as the Cubs opening day game was at times, at least they didn’t lose 10-0 to a team that had Kyle Kendrick as its opening day starter. I’ll be at the last two games of this …
Cubs 2, Cardinals 0 (4/8/15)
OSS: Arrieta settled down, the Cubs finally drove in a runner in scoring position. Three up 1. Jake Arrieta walked two batters in the first inning, then rolled the rest of the way, striking out seven and only walking one additional batter in seven innings, all while sporting a magnificent beard. His final pitch hung clown shoes on opposing pitcher …
Series Preview: St. Louis Cardinals (0-0) vs Chicago Cubs (0-0)
Baseball is back! I’m so glad that the Cubs opener is on a Sunday so I don’t have to burn a vacation day for my favorite holiday of the year. Today’s lineups: Cardinals 3B Carpenter RF Heyward LF Holliday SS Peralta 1B Adams C Molina 2B Wong CF Jay P Wainwright Cubs CF Fowler RF Soler 1B Rizzo SS Castro …
Daily Facepalm 4.2.15 – Roofing, boarding, framing, we do everything
Rooftops fighting a losing battle Rulings have started happening on the roofies’ lawsuit against the Cubs, and it’s looking good for the team. Brett dusted off his lawyer hat (wig?) to take a look at the ruling. Here’s my precis of his precis of the ruling: the rooftops are fucked. There’s still plenty more rodeo to go on here but …
Daily Facepalm 4.1.15 – Roster taking shape
This week’s cuts Lake, Schlitter, and Rosscup were sent to AAA today. This follows the much more ballyhooed cuts earlier this week of Bryant and Russell (both expected) and Baez (a little unexpected). I was on team Baez-to-AAA but was definitely in the minority in that among the Cubs Twittersphere. He’s 22, it’s not like this is ending his …
Daily Facepalm 3.26.15
Kris Bryant ——> LF (today) Bryant heads to LF for the first time this spring. I think the Cubs would have liked to have this happen earlier, but he had some shoulder fatigue, probably from hitting so many HRs. Bryant played some OF in college and it’s not like LF is that tough a position to learn, I’m guessing it …
OV Daily Facepalm/Game Thread 3.12.15
Tweets of the day Didn’t think I could care about anything less than hearing about fantasy baseball teams, but then Will Ferrell started playing in ST games. — Cee Angi (@CeeAngi) March 12, 2015 @STAnteater @SeanMcAuliff @GilGunderson1 pic.twitter.com/LfJwkacBDg — Mercurial Outfielder (@MOutfielder) March 12, 2015 Kris Bryant is a tall dude Eno Sarris with an interesting article at fangraphs …
Daily Facepalm/Game Thread 3.11.15
Back to Back to Back Your browser does not support iframes. Brett cooked up some odds on this happening Even if we generously say each of the three would normally homer in 1 out of 15 plate appearances (that’s a 40-homer pace in 600 plate appearances), the odds that the three would go back-to-back-to-back is 1 in 3,375. There was a …
Spring training pics
Fun in the sun from the last 2.5 days Cool stuff outside the park. The park in general was quite nice, and I can confirm that the toilets flushed extremely properly. Baseball is coming. Arrieta and Bosio, warming up before the game. Arrieta warming up with long toss. The Cubs take the field. Solid ballpark music in both games, including …
Daily Facepalm/Game Thread 3.6.15
Schwarber’s grand slam from yesterday “@BleacherNation: KYLE SCHWARBER! Grand slam in his first at bat. Dude. pic.twitter.com/ui0Y0687Dg” @AlexBauwens_XL — Shadows Of Wrigley (@ShadowofWrigley) March 5, 2015 No hard feelings @CblackCHC It happens my friend. Thanks for the concern, it’s a part of the game we love. No slowing down! — Hunter Pence (@hunterpence) March 6, 2015 Joe Maddon talks up …