Dreamcast 86: Knock On Wood

Forgot I posted a new thread (dying laughing)

Rice Cube:
Kinda stopped caring after a couple choices blew up my grid, but I did get to use noted pitcher-puncher Kyle Farnsworth

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This was pretty solid from the social media crew

Play ball (again)! pic.twitter.com/lDt36JQlHI

— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) April 7, 2024

I watched this about 15 times and now you can too

Nico Hoerner is putting together quite the highlight reel! pic.twitter.com/HuL4IhWTmx

— Marquee Sports Network (@WatchMarquee) April 7, 2024

I guess the gist would be that any use at this point is “overuse” because the arm might not be able to take it

The wild part about that tweet? Overuse isn't part of the equation at all. When I started doing this 30 years ago, teams would routinely break pitchers through overuse. That quite literally never happens any more. Completely eliminated.

— Joe Sheehan (@joe_sheehan) April 8, 2024

No time for love/series preview, Dr. Jones, so just the pitching matchups

Monday: Javier Assad vs Yu Darvish, 8:40 CT
Tuesday: Ben Brown(?) vs Joe Musgrove, 9:05 PM CT
Wed: Cyle Hendricks vs Dylan Cease, 5:40 PM CT

Selfishly enjoying the later start times

Didi Gregorius and David Cone

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MLBPA wrote up their spiel on the pitch clock injury thing

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/mlb-mlbpa-in-dispute-over-pitch-clocks-impact-on-injuries.html

This is cool, good luck

https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2024/04/08/cubs-scouting-roki-sasaki/

Clouds too dense to see much of anything here, partial eclipse-wise

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39901181/on-hank-aaron-715-home-run-anniversary-hof-announces-statue

I can get behind more Henry Aaron statues

Thoughts?

Rice Cube,

Cubs ahead of the cardinals so I’ll take it

Well this is no fun

It’s still unclear what — if anything — is wrong with Framber Valdez. An Astros spokesman said Joe Espada will provide an update at 4:45 and general manager Dana Brown will also be available.

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) April 8, 2024

Rice Cube,

Manta Ray: 2500 pounds.
A ray of sunshine: A photon: 10^(-47)mg * how many every photons in a ray of sunshine. A question for Berselius to answer.

BVS,

I only work with the photons that you don’t want to touch you, unfortunately. At least, not for very long (dying laughing)

berselius,

More seriously, IIRC photons having mass would mess up a bunch of things since it would mean that the speed of light is an upper bound instead of an actual speed, so you’d have things like red light moving more slowly than blue light. or similar effects for xrays and gamma rays. But when you get to that level of particle physics all units are in eV and it hurts my brain (dying laughing)

I was always under the impression that photons being light meant they had no mass, which is why they could travel at the speed of light

Assad vs Yu

Reds destroying Brewers, too bad they can’t just nuke each other but someone has to win

Chicago Cubs baseball is ON the air!

Seiya still with the hot bat

Assad still bringing it.

Close game in the basketball

Rice Cube,

UConn threatening to pull away tho

Gotta find that Cubs meat grinder

Runs!

Found it, good old Randall

Assad’s nickname should be The Prestige, because there is simply no explanation for how he escapes like that.

Hey guys this is fun

That’ll do.

man step away for an hour and there’s a gushing stream of runs

Bullpen may need to eat up to 4 innings assuming no catastrophe

andcounting,

He has a secret twin brother, ez

Rice Cube,

RC on a neverending mission to jinx everything. (dying laughing)

Hmm
Not ideal

andcounting,

I’d say no dinner but I already ate

Jeebus

Rice Cube,

I’m watching you.

Cubs lead still, miraculously

Rice Cube,

Dude.

andcounting,

LSA rec’d +1

I suppose this is our fault for speaking well of the Cubs

I’ll go ahead and do some jinxing of my own:

At least I haven’t had a stroke yet.

Fred Sanford dot gif

Crackers

balls

I’d be intrigued to see how they bounce back from this one

I went to bed with the Cubs leading 4-0 and now I’m glad I didn’t stay up for that.

Two of the 3B were most of this.

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Gerrit Cole as the reasonable voice in the room

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39902843/yankees-gerrit-cole-disheartened-pitching-injury-discourse

I gotta think they send Cuas down at this point. If you can’t trust a guy with an enormous lead, he’s taking up a valuable roster spot.

Perkins,

Agree. And they need a spot, maybe two, to refuel the pen. Could bring Keegan Thompson up. Or 60-day Merryweather and bring up Carl Jr or other. I don’t really see Wesneski coming up, except that he probably will because I think he won’t.

Rice Cube:
I was always under the impression that photons being light meant they had no mass, which is why they could travel at the speed of light

I used to be light. But I still had mass. I’d like to be a little lighter now, but I can’t find the spark to lose weight.

BVS,

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I still like Cuas, sometimes guys have a bad outing.

*Randy Wells/Jose Quintana sized grain of salt

Apparently Cubs twitter is taking this loss in stride (dying laughing)

berselius,

At least, I like Cuas just as much as Edwards/Thompson/Wesneski. They need a fresh arm though so I guess it might as well be wesneski since he can go more innings.

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BVS,

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I’ve faxed acknowledgement to 1.618-033-9887 but you should know this has caused me to spiral.

BVS,

Send another fax to

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and you should rise back out, though don’t stay on the line for too long

I think I’d send both Cuas and Almonte (if he has options, else Little) down and bring up two guys.

berselius:
BVS,

Send another fax to

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and you should rise back out, though don’t stay on the line for too long

The must be a limit to how long we can keep this going. But at least we’re on brand for the natural ugh of OV.

Pitchers dropping like flies

https://twitter.com/alexspeier/status/1777729287887393265

Rice Cube,

Flexors and obliques seem to be the fad injury these days.

I think you can’t absolve the pitch clock of all sins but it isn’t hard to track the probable culprit here

https://twitter.com/castrovince/status/1777735604924829901?t=0-khpdxloyEuGvHA79SWLw&s=19

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Jason Kendall, Koyie Hill, and Arismendy Alcantara were my Cubs

Rice Cube,

Doug Davis, Ian Stewart, and Luis Valbuena for me.

Rice Cube,

Even if one thinks it’s a delayed effect we’d also be seeing issues where we have more data in the minors

berselius,

Are MiLB pitcher usages way different than in the majors though? And I guess the other consideration is not every MiLBer can throw 95+ so that would skew the health status numbers some.

Just decided I needed to inject a bit of joy into my day

Pirates are trying to make the Cubs feel less alone by also blowing leads

https://www.espn.com/mlb/game/_/gameId/401568631/tigers-pirates

Julio Urias –> officially charged as a trash bag

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/julio-urias-charged-with-five-misdemeanors-in-relation-to-2023-arrest.html

So we know Mervis is pretty good against AAA, but let’s see if the next time he is given a shot, he can translate that to MLB

Along with Patrick Wisdom, Matt Mervis and Luis Vazquez each have two hits and a homer so far today for the @IowaCubs.

Mervis now hitting .310 with a .938 OPS so far this year and Luis Vazquez bumps his average up to .290.

— Alex Cohen (@voiceofcohen2) April 9, 2024

Hopefully a not-disappointing night tonight

LF Happ
RF Suzuki
CF Bellinger
3B Morel
SS Swanson
1B Busch
2B Hoerner
DH Cooper
C Gomes

Sheesh

From @JCowleyHoops in the SunTimes.

Nothing like keeping a manager knowing you’re going to fire him because he’s bad when player development is the #1 priority right now. Won’t spend his money for a new manager but wants to spend your money for a new ballpark. pic.twitter.com/CbahRym9ZI

— Silvy (@WaddleandSilvy) April 9, 2024

Rice Cube,

This is like the marlins pre-emptively lame ducking Skip Schumacher

White Sox will have gone four seasons without a legitimate manager. It’s amazing. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be a fan of much less a player on that team.

Jackson Holliday –> seasoned enough

A) Don’t run on Cody.
B) Love that tag by Morel.
C) Or do, or don’t, I can’t tell you what to do.

Belli big play–> https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1777886296830021934?t=Z36BDjz3jHJKrPlnnmCGsQ&s=19

Big fan of Seiya Suzuki

nico glove good

Ben Brown doing well against a decent lineup with a little help from his friends, Cubs should score IMO

GOMEZZZZ

Gas money!

bases clogged

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Chris.

Mmmm
Morel

berselius:
bases clogged

False

431 feet (dying laughing)

Let’s get three more and breathe a HUGE sigh of unmitigated relief.

Rice Cube:
Ben Brown doing well against a decent lineup with a little help from his friends, Cubs should score IMO

Happy now?

Wait! The Cubs didn’t make a bullpen move today? Could they not find a flight from Iowa to San Diego?

BVS,

Someone made the point that certain pitchers optioned to the minors need to spend a certain amount of time down before they could be recalled at the beginning of the season so that might be it

BVS,

banking on having smyly/leiter/almonte available again today I guess

https://www.nbcsportschicago.com/mlb/chicago-cubs/cubs-news/christopher-morel-shota-imanaga-share-hilarious-moment-in-dugout-after-morels-1st-grand-slam/553382/

Leiter has some incredible hat hair

berselius,

A lot of people blaming last night on the first guy out of the pen, but I feel like we need to remember that correlation does not prove Cuasation.

Nice pick, Busch.

berselius,

Correct

andcounting,

Clearly one of the 4 people listening to this podcast

andcounting,

still my favorite xkcd

With a 4-run lead I guess it’s just lightly dry hump the closer

Cubs got punched and punched right back

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