Off-Day Shota Appreciation Post

I accidentally published this before Luke Little had recorded the final out and felt some trepidation (dying laughing)

berselius:
Sanchez-Nola-Luzardo the next three games, whee

#oldtakesexposed

This was good

Shota got the montage

https://youtu.be/LoDBlhW5ykE?si=dX0iAeJfapVLcn6k

(dying laughing), I put the replay of the game on while I worked on some stuff, and I missed that they still rang the bell when Harper homered in the ninth to cut the lead to 9

On a related note, my days of thinking that I’d be happy to never see Luke Little make another pitch for the Cubs are certainly coming to a middle

I presume the Cubs will make some changes before Friday but almost every RHP currently on the 40-man is either on the IL or already on the active roster

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/824291/video/seth-lugo-in-play-out-s-to-jake-rogers-x9627

andcounting,

Hope he gets into the Cubs HOF one day

Ah Jimmie Foxx, a guy I knew but forgot he was a Cubs

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Cubs #594

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Stupid Phillies and wins

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Bah
Melky

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Dang that was a derp

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Cubs #595
“Both Sides”

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Palencia, fuck all.

Oof Seiya, on two levels

andcounting:
Palencia, fuck all.

Oh for fuck’s sake

Rice Cube:
andcounting,

Hope he gets into the Cubs HOF one day

Gotta get in line behind fellow MVP Shawn Camp

Mo Balls!

Moe!!

Ah fuck, just saw Palencia. With an oblique I’d expect him to miss at least a month.

berselius,

Another valid image response

Nico —-> MVP, stop the count

Goddamn is Nico on a heater.

Fine with me if the Cubs want to continue this trend of scoring at least 7 runs a game

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That was a thrashing I recently enjoyed.

Good game to listen to

So while listening to a fortuitous inning it seemed that North Shore Adult Diapers sponsors errors and that got a snort out of me at work

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Doing some wordpress plugin updates/cleanup, apologies in advance if I break anything

I think everything is fine…? Let me know if you run into any new weird behavior.

To-day’s base ball squadron facing sometime nemesis Freddy Peralta

2B Hoerner
1B Busch
3B Bregman
LF Happ
RF Suzuki
DH Ballesteros
C Amaya
CF PCA
SS Swanson

SP Taillon

Minnie Miñoso landmine

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Some Cubs Legend on Cubs Legend action with Kelly homering off Boo Radley

berselius,

Need a Brett Jackson appearance in the crowd now.

berselius:
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Fun game today, heard the site broke (dying laughing)

Rice Cube,

only for like 30 seconds!

berselius,

….so far

Cy Young row was harsh

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Ha

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Cubs #596

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Rice Cube:
Cy Young row was harsh

I used Sutcliffe-Fergie-Sutter for the CYA row.

Perkins,

Felix-Eckersley-Carlton

Saw the hot dog brigade in the clips

https://www.mlb.com/cubs/news/fans-dressed-in-hot-dog-costumes-at-wrigley-field

Rice Cube,

They’re all looking for the guy who did this

(dying laughing), Cerami writing the piece that I don’t have time/energy to write

https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2026/04/18/breaking-cubs-keep-winning-games-even-though-season-officially-ended-last-week/

To-day’s base ball squadron

2B Hoerner
1B Busch
3B Bregman
LF Happ
RF Suzuki
DH Ballesteros
C Kelly
CF PCA
SS Swanson

SP Assad

Sweep?

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-cubs/2026/04/19/824691/preview

Let’s go Assad (no not that one)

Maybe the Marlins will be useful today

Weird, no Pat today, but Boog is in the tv booth instead of Alex Cohen. I thought he’d be out every sunday due to ESPN Sunday night baseball on the radio with Doug Glanville.

I thought ESPN lost baseball and they’re on NBC now

Rice Cube,

Right but he was doing the national radio broadcast, I think that’s still on. At least, he was out last Sunday so I assumed that was the deal.

Pete!

berselius:
Pete!

uffda, rotten luck followed

Conforto, Cubs Legend

Big fan of this game after all

Whee

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Logic’d it just right

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Cubs #597
“Five Tools”

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New things

https://www.obstructedview.net/cubs-3-mets-0/