Gameday: Cubs at Cardinals

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Time: 7:05 PM CT
TV: ESPN
Radio: 670 the Score

Cubs

C Contreras
LF Schwarber
3B Bryant
1B Rizzo
SS Russell
CF Happ
2B Baez
RF Heyward
SP Lester

Urinals

CF Bader
RF Fowler
1B Martinez
LF Ozuna
3B Gyorko
SS DeJong
2B Wong
C Pena
SP Wacha

 

Just don't get swept.

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    berselius

    I’m using the lateness of this game to cover the fact that I’m too lazy to write a Cubs-Marlins preview.

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  2. Rizzo the Rat

    It would have been nice if Heyward got to be a hero after allowing the tying run to score. It would have been nice if Farrell got the save after losing last night’s game. This game wasn’t nice.

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  3. Tyrone

    I think it’s pretty clear that STL has an overwhelming surplus of Diggity while CHC has hardly any. May be time for a fire sale.

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    berselius

    At least the Cubs aren’t having the shittiest start to the season, since the Dodgers have Seager out for the year and, given the ‘biceps tendinitis’ injury diagnosis for Kershaw, he might not be alone in TJS.

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  5. Myles

    Tyrone:
    I think it’s pretty clear that STL has an overwhelming surplus of Diggity while CHC has hardly any. May be time for a fire sale.

    Doesn’t look like we are taking it to Another Level this year. I agree.

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  6. Myles

    EnricoPallazzo:
    is the poscast dead? that would be a shame.

    They did the only reasonable thing: they waited until the beginning of the busiest time of the year for them to take a 2-month hiatus. They say they are coming back, though, with a new format.

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  7. Myles

    The Tigers’ leader in WAR is a former Cub. The Royals’ leader in WAR is a former Cub. The Padres’ 2nd place in WAR is a former Cub.

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  8. EnricoPallazzo

    Myles: They say they are coming back, though, with a new format.

    where did you hear this? also, i hope the new format is not where KT is only on for like 3 minutes and then it’s some random guest for the rest of the episode because i am not a big fan of when they do that.

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  9. Myles

    EnricoPallazzo: where did you hear this? also, i hope the new format is not where KT is only on for like 3 minutes and then it’s some random guest for the rest of the episode because i am not a big fan of when they do that.

    I’d stop listening pretty quickly if that’s the new format. I just want the two of them shooting the shit, with a baseball theme but not exclusively baseball. The random drafts are the best parts of the poscast by far.

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  10. EnricoPallazzo

    Myles,

    someone asked me what it’s about and i really struggled with an answer.

    “So it’s a baseball podcast?”
    “Kind of…not really though.”
    “Well what do they talk about for 90 minutes?”
    “They…ummm…draft things.”
    “Oh so they do like mock drafts of baseball players?”
    “No…they draft, like kitchen utensils. And sandwiches. And kind of talk about baseball while they draft things.”
    “Ok….”

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  11. cerulean

    There are other things happening, and I’ll share with you as we go. There’s a famous Chinese curse that is loosely translated as, “May you live in interesting times.” Well, I don’t know if it’s a curse. But these are interesting times.
    —Pos

    Last week, I was speaking to two of my Chinese classmates about this very proverb. Neither of them had heard of it. Then I looked it up on Wikipedia. It’s totally apocryphal. The closest Chinese proverb is, “Better to be a dog in peacetime than a man in wartime”, which is quite loosely translated as, “I don’t get how you got interesting out of this—did you just make it up?”

    EDIT: It’s actually an old Finnish saying.

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  12. cerulean

    dmick89:
    Darvish to the DL with the flu virus, otherwise known as the trying to figure shit out virus.

    I have had that flu for the better part of a decade. Let’s hope he has better luck.

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  13. North Side Pat

    Coomer just predicted a KB tape measure HR right before KB hit a tape measure HR. Then he said he’s heading to the casino.

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  14. Perkins

    Sounds like Zobrist switched back to that original song of his wife’s that he used in 2016. Not great, but better than her cover of “Benny and the Jets.”

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  15. Perkins

    dmick89:
    The Cubs learned they could hit home runs with men on base. This is a good development.

    Let us celebrate this arrangement with the addition of chocolate to milk.

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  16. cerulean

    dmick89:
    The Cubs learned they could hit home runs with men on base. This is a good development.

    Even Happ’s “solo” homerun came with a man on (dying laughing)

    (Nice one, Gameday)

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  17. cerulean

    This season, Bryant ranks 20th in the sport in zone contact rate (92.0%), just ahead of Buster Posey, one of the better contact hitters in the game. In his rookie year, by contrast, Bryant ranked 207th out of 211 hitters (with 400 or more plate appearance) by that same measure, at 77.5%, sandwiched between Chris Davis and Khris Davis
    Sawchik

    Holy forking shirtballs, a Chris, Kris, Khris sandwich!

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  18. cerulean

    Perkins:
    Happ!!!

    They might want to save some runs for tomorrow. It sounds like Tseng is starting.

    But when mop-up guy’s fastball is an 89 mph meatball, they just can’t help themselves.

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  19. cerulean

    Perkins:
    Who is Cory Mazzoni, and when did the Cubs call him up?

    He’s a friend of the family, the guy you call to “clean things up”.

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  20. cerulean

    Happ improved his K% by only striking out twice in 5 PAs.

    That said, I welcome a 1.0 K/HR. He now sports a 104 wRC+.

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  21. cerulean

    There is this kid from New Jersey on the Angels who has come out of nowhere to be worth 3.0 fWAR/3.1 rWAR already this season.

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