Dreamcast 65: Jet Lag

Domingo German–> perfect game

Rice Cube,

http://www.joesheehan.com/

That is not the only suspension on German’s record. He was banned for 81 games in 2020 under the domestic violence policy, following an investigation into an incident involving his girlfriend at a team event in September 2019. He served his suspension and by all accounts has behaved well since then. That’s hardly a factor in his pitching last night — and it’s my policy here to focus on the field — but German’s history adds to my ennui at this moment. It’s a lot of suspensions for one guy, you know?

Tonight’s lineup, guess Seiya is borked again

Here is tonight's #Cubs starting lineup for NASCAR Night!

Tune in: https://t.co/Gs2hZXyTjH pic.twitter.com/A1KUEXkfe6

— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) June 29, 2023

Just letting you all know my dad passed away on Sunday. If I’ve been weird and saying positive things about Madrigal or some shit, that’s probably why.

andcounting,

Sorry to hear, AC. Thoughts to you and yours.

andcounting,

Condolences 🙁

Hey now, here’s some All-Stars

AL All-Star starters:

C: Jonah Heim, Texas
1B: Yandy Díaz, Tampa Bay
2B: Marcus Semien, Texas
SS: Corey Seager, Texas
3B: Josh Jung, Texas
OF: Mike Trout, Los Angeles
OF: Randy Arozarena, Tampa Bay
OF: Aaron Judge, New York
DH: Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) June 29, 2023

NL All-Star starters:

C: Sean Murphy, Atlanta
1B: Freddie Freeman, Los Angeles
2B: Luis Arraez, Miami
SS: Orlando Arcia, Atlanta
3B: Nolan Arenado, St. Louis
OF: Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta
OF: Corbin Carroll, Arizona
OF: Mookie Betts, Los Angeles
DH: J.D. Martinez, Los Angeles

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) June 29, 2023

Would be best to call for the types of pitches that don’t result in extra base hits

I think we can be mad at Madrigal for whatever the hell that was

andcounting,

Sorry to hear it, AC.

Between the stupid bunts and the stupid luck this game is already extra stupid

Madrigal and Ross, you stupid bunting sacks of shit.

I just realized German had 99 pitches, ain’t a problem with one.

If you got baserunners, I feel bad for you, son…

andcounting:
I just realized German had 99 pitches, ain’t a problem with one.

It was a perfect Maddux.

I recently started playing this game and am loving it. Today’s even has Cubs!

https://www.immaculategrid.com/

The Cubs probably should have at least tied this game but lack of clutch continues to loom its ugly head

Brewers did not lose but at least the Cardinals got football scored

Pretty quick sweep, only 2:11

For what it’s worth, the Madrigal bunt was probably his hardest hit ball of the game.

So how much of this is coaching and how much is player brain dart, despite what Ross says here?

https://twitter.com/MLBastian/status/1674608832566231041?t=ge8WYNBA856nP-H7-XnA5g&s=19

Rice Cube,

What’s the difference, really? Isn’t establishing player mindset one of the key functions of a coach?

andcounting,

I just realized that it autocorrected fart to dart, but also I guess it would be good to communicate exactly how many outs there are and that bunting is generally a terrible idea

Rice Cube,

I mean, if someone had a dart thrown into their brain I’m not sure how coaching would help.

Let’s see what happens

Here is today's #Cubs starting lineup.

Tune in: https://t.co/Gs2hZXzr9f pic.twitter.com/vLWvkBy15e

— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) June 30, 2023

The gameday app says first pitch is 3:20 ET. Is that wrong?

It’s always 1:20 PM Central so they’re probably wrong?

Perkins,

I got destroyed on this today.

Rice Cube,

I know it used to be 2:20 on Fridays BUT gameday doesn’t typically show the game as live/warmup status over an hour before first pitch. That has me confused.

andcounting,

There was that one year they tried 3 PM starts but then they abandoned it on Fridays, not sure what happened, but the default has always been 1:20 (or 2:20 since I guess you’re in the bulk of Indiana on Eastern time)

Morel should have bunted. (dying laughing)

Rice Cube,

No, I’m central time. It was definitely 2:20 for quite a long time on Fridays. I’ll have to look it up.

andcounting,

RC, you led me to BCB, and I shall never forgive you. But yeah, it was pretty much 2:20 on Fridays throughout the’90s and into 2004 (aka in my day).

andcounting,

Ah, this was before I paid attention

Run-scoring hits are a thing I recently enjoyed

Ok, Nico.

Lots of pop ups. Quantrill’s sinker isn’t sinking as much as the Cubs think it will.

That left fielder reminds me that Futurama is coming back soon

Rice Cube:
andcounting,

There was that one year they tried 3 PM starts but then they abandoned it on Fridays, not sure what happened, but the default has always been 1:20 (or 2:20 since I guess you’re in the bulk of Indiana on Eastern time)

It was some sort of weird special agreement with the city, they’re restricted from doing night games on fridays and saturdays

Rice Cube,

MULTIBALL!!!

Young seems to enjoy running to third.

Of all the times not to tune in but alas I have stuff to do (dying laughing)

Man, Morel crushinated that ball. At least he gets an RBI out of it.

Nick Madrigal with a fuckin’ laser beam into the LF bleachers, just like you’d draw it up.

Morel!

The Cubs are up 9-0, I assume I missed nothing of note up to this point.

Wait what the fuck
I missed a Madrigal homer?

Oh my god

First home run in Cubbie blue for Nick Madrigal! pic.twitter.com/IrwYMSW2IZ

— Marquee Sports Network (@WatchMarquee) June 30, 2023

Amazingly Madrigal had 2 homers one season with the Sox

That was the Cubs radio home run inning, so some fan won $1600 in gift cards. I’m sure they heard their name called and saw Madrigal’s name in the “due up” list and thought, well, at least I got to hear my name read on the air.
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)

All the bunters are homering!

— Sahadev Sharma (@sahadevsharma) June 30, 2023

You would think a 9-0 lead in the 7th would be a safe time to let Young face a lefty.

andcounting,

If Trey Mancini can’t deliver in that situation, he never will, but thankfully he sacrificed for the team

Noting that the lead is so big that David Ross was confident enough to forfeit the DH

Cubs win in 2:36, easier to come under time if you don’t have to play a bottom of the 9th

Rice Cube,

TMI.

Let’s go Padres, ya useless mooks

*half the season passes*

MLB marketing: come check out mlb.tv at a deeply discounted rate! at half off we’re practically giving it away!

berselius,

#math

Aroldis Chapman –> Rangers 🤷🏻‍♂️

Rice Cube,

San Diego –> absolutely useless

Rice Cube,

Temporarily unuseless

Rice Cube,

Nope definitely useless

Cubs stay just behind Pittsburgh, which of course means Milwaukee lost, so 🤷🏻‍♂️

Twitter is down so I guess we will wait to see if they fix it or else I’ll just see if I can grab the lineup off of an At-Bat app or whatever

Rice Cube,

I just saw a QT of E-lawn saying everybody was being limited: 6,000 daily post views for bluechecked morans and 600 for everyone else.

andcounting,

It was far from constant scrolling, but I reached my reading limit in less than 30 real-time minutes and probably about 15 minutes of actual scrolling.

andcounting,

Oh dang, guess I’m screwed then, hope MLBTR and BN paid up (dying laughing)

Rice Cube,

Oh, you can post to your heart’s content, you just can’t read anything. (dying laughing)

andcounting,

So it’s like the opposite of BCB

Rice Cube,

(dying laughing)

Rice Cube,

Lo(dying laughing)

Found the lineup, glad everyone is relatively unbroken

The mighty Reds have lost

Milwaukee is up to something

There sure seems to be a lot of lopsided games, but my favorite is Philly leading the Nats 19-4 and Washington challenging a call. Maybe just let it go, Davey.

Rice Cube,

Now it’s a lesser thing

Being that Twitter is borked I assume at some point the rain delay will be over but I know not when

Brewers win so Cubs have a chance to retake third place

9 PM Central start time, yay

Well isn’t this some happy bullshit

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/07/cubs-not-inclined-to-extend-marcus-stroman-prior-to-trade-deadline.html

MLB.tv synching Pat Hughes to the broadcast is the Lord’s work

Guess Stroman was a spectacular play away from getting a clean inning and more evidence for an extension 😬

Power went out and it’s like a billion degrees outside so this may suck soon

Rain has shifted today’s rubber match to 4:05 Central, meanwhile I still have no power 😔

Yay

Shame the Cubs lost yesterday since they have basically zero chance of winning on a Sunday.

Today’s lineup for the Rookie of the Year anniversary celebration because we are all #old now

https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1675566680443957248?t=Yaq_ddfmy3yd5fHfOKkoEQ&s=19

Marcus Stroman –> All-Star

Source: Marcus Stroman

Perkins,

Because Taillllllon is pitching? (I’m going to keep adding L’s as they accumulate throughout the season).

andcounting,

I honestly hope he figures it out and also makes me wonder about this front office and coaching staff sometimes that they have so much trouble on boarding generally good pitchers

Everyone who plays NL Central rivals is useless these days

Rice Cube,

Justin Steele –> All-Star
Source: Adbert Alzolay

Rice Cube,

And now Dansby Swanson too
Source: Stro

Wrote some ramblings while waiting out this rain delay –> http://www.obstructedview.net/tales-of-triumph-and-regret/