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OSS: Cade Horton makes a solid debut

Three up

  1. Cade Horton made his well earned debut, and looked like he belonged. Aside from a belt-high hung slider to Brett Baty he had a solid night, and got a strikeout looking on his first batter. I’m looking forward to seeing more of him, and less demented fake smiles from Robothal.
  2. Dansby Swanson is red-fucking-hot, showing off his future Dad Strength with yet another homer today. Going into this game, he had posted a 1.176 OPS over his last ten games, including three (now four) home runs. You love to see it.
  3. Brad Keller looked sharp as the opener in this one, touching 99 on the gun and easily dispatching the extremely talented top of the Mets order to start the game. It would be tougher logistically but I’m wondering if he could be stretched out the next guy up if needed in the rotation. He’s been the best pitcher in the bullpen this year by a significant margin.

Three down

  1. It felt like Miguel Amaya was having an uncharacteristically rough one behind the plate, simply catching the ball seemed rough. Maybe Horton’s stuff is just that good though. His insurance runs in the eighth atone for those whiffs behind the plate though.
  2. Bullpen gonna bullpen, and Merryweather made things spicy by giving up Baty’s second homer of the game.
  3. Justin Turner is apparently an awesome clubhouse guy, but the Cubs will need to pull the plug soon, or at least dramatically scale back his playing time. .161/.269/.161 is not gonna cut it.

Next up: Matt Boyd takes on asbestos collar robber baron Griffin Canning at 11:05 AM CT. It’s a Roku game, so enjoy Pat Zach and Ron I guess. Or don’t. I can’t tell you what to do. (though I still maintain that Zaidman is better than Alex Cohen. Or maybe I just have Stockholm Syndrome at this point).

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    berselius

    Daily Walkoff ⚾️
    Cubs #254

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  40. andcounting

    I really think an AI announcer would have a better sense of what emotions to portray during the action of a game than Zaidman has.

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  43. Rice Cube

    Perkins:
    The Cubs offense has not looked as strong for the past week or so.

    If anything this week showed that Mets pitching is legitimately good instead of just beating up on cupcakes good

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  49. Rice Cube

    berselius,

    Would say that most of the scuffling lately has been against teams that are allegedly “good” (and they probably are), so let’s see what happens when they play teams that are potentially “bad”

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    berselius

    Rice Cube,

    I’m thinking more along the lines of the usual ebb and flow of offense etc, playing the Marlins and White Sox will help mitigate that some but no such thing as an auto win, even if the Rockies are involved.

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  52. Rice Cube

    berselius,

    Yeah I’m not counting on sweeps or even guaranteeing series wins, though obviously those would be nice. 14-7 sounds like a reasonable floor to shoot for before they face good teams again.

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    berselius

    Rice Cube,

    I was even thinking yesterday that it sucks that the rest of the bench bats probably wouldn’t be that great of a choice either, but I completely forgot about the catchers (dying laughing)

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  70. Rice Cube

    I heard the Swanson bomb on the radio as I parked but missed everything after until now, glad the Cubs are doing well since the Phillies were useless today

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  77. Rice Cube

    Hello!

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    berselius

    I must have been unconsciously inspired by the Cubs fifth inning, went 4-7 with 3 RsBI and a circus catch as we swept our softball games last night.

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    berselius

    Looks like Bob Minocqua had a setback, and will be back to the Brewers later than sooner, such a shame

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  87. Rice Cube

    I know something you do not know etc

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    berselius

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  95. andcounting

    Rice Cube,

    Totally different issues. Bonds and Clemens weren’t banned from anything. They were on the ballot. Rose and Jackson never were allowed to be voted on.

    In that vein, neither of these guys are guaranteed to enter the Hall. No idea how the HOF will handle their eligibility.

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    berselius

    berselius,

    And that’s the most words I want to put down about HOF discourse for the year, (dying laughing), we’ll see if I have any more to add in 2026.

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  98. Rice Cube

    Yeah that’s an interesting conundrum, they wouldn’t be on any regular ballot but they may set up a “Dead Guy” ballot group with the Veterans Committee later

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  99. Rice Cube

    Looks like they just threw Miller on the 60-day IL to make room for Mo Baller

    Happ to 10-day (got 7 days left after backdate)

    Buys the bench mob a week or so

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    berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    CF PCA
    RF Tucker
    LF Suzuki
    1B Busch
    C Kelly
    SS Swanson
    DH Moeballs
    2B Hoerner
    3B Lopez

    SP Brown

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