Dreamcast 87: Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

I’ve been wanting to use that title for a while, and although the team isn’t exactly self-destructing, losing a lot of key guys in a short span is never fun and the fact that they’re still one of the best teams in MLB is kind of miraculous.

Diamondbacks column was rough.

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Resilience!

https://www.marqueesportsnetwork.com/what-the-cubs-are-most-proud-of-three-weeks-into-the-2024-season/

Happy bday, Immanuel Kant

My name is Kant and I’m here to change your narrative
Check out my derivation of the categorical imperative

(shamelessly paraphrased from Chidi’s rap musical about Kierkegaard on The Good Place)

Rice Cube,

Resilience!

Defense rating better /nerd

Ventriloquism is the new market inefficiency

https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2024/04/22/aaron-boone-just-got-ejected-despite-saying-literally-nothing/

From Robothal’s notes piece in the athletic ($)

Cubs center fielder Cody Bellinger said Jordan Montgomery’s decision to leave Scott Boras for the Wasserman Media Group led to him getting numerous calls from other agents trying to recruit him.

Bellinger, who could opt out of his three-year, $80 million deal at the end of the season, said he intends to stay with Boras.

“I’ve definitely gotten blown up. But I’ve confirmed multiple times that I’m definitely not leaving,” Bellinger said. “I’ve told Scott that. I had nothing but positive experiences through the whole process.”

I mean he probably heard through the schmollusion grapevine that he wasn’t getting better than the Cubs offer so whatever, damage control

Dammit Edwin (dying laughing)

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Stress free scoreboard watching this time of year, with all results currently satisfying me

Reds lose
Brewers lose…which unfortunately means Pirates win
Cards losing but let’s see how Arizona decides to play this

Gotta love Centralized futility.

Dishonor on Arizona and their cow

Well crap.

meh

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Feel free to wildly speculate

It’ll be Matt Mervis and Hayden Wesneski headed up. Haven’t heard the corresponding moves yet. https://t.co/3IjZy1XXJL

— Tommy Birch (@TommyBirch) April 23, 2024

Rice Cube,

I thought that Wesneski is locked out for like 15 days or something

Rice Cube,

But for wild speculation: madrigal DFA and Cyle to the IL with David Patton disease

berselius,

Someone is going to the IL but I don’t think it’s Happ

Bah

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Garrett Cooper —–> DFA

Patrick Wisdom survives and advances yet again

berselius:
Garrett Cooper —–> DFA

This is pretty surprising. He’s going to get picked up somewhere.

andcounting,

31%K rate.

If Mervis doesn’t work out, they can send him back and bring David Peralta up.

Latest rumor is possibly 2 P on the DL, which comports to David Patton epidemic.

Maybe Smyly to DL. He was favoring something last weekend…knee, ankle, hammy…

andcounting,

Maybe we can trade him for a flier on a A ball pitcher or something like international FA $$$

Cooper DFA
Kyle & Smyly –> IL
Mervis, Wesneski, Little –> Cubs

I guess this keeps Ben Brown in the rotation for a while longer as well.

To-day’s base ball squadron vs RHP French

2B Nico
LF Happ
CF Belli
1B Busch
3B Morel
SS Swanson
RF Tauchman
DH Mervis
C Amaya

P Wicks

berselius,

I hope the French surrender

Rice Cube,

If they toss some of their cheese my way before then that would also be great

BVS,

Yeah, through 41 PAs. Still a 115 OPS+ and .341 OBP. That K rate is going to be around 27% , definitely nothing that surprised or disappointed thus far. It seems like they are confident enough in Busch to play him and Mervis (DH) against righties and keep easing him into more at bats against lefties to see how he does. I’m sure Wisdom will get some starts at 1B as well, but Cooper must have just been a safety net for if Busch needed to get sent down. He had to be pretty much “meets expectations” in the limited opportunity he got.

berselius:
I guess this keeps Ben Brown in the rotation for a while longer as well.

I’m doubling down on the Cyle Closer project. They can test him out of the bullpen in his “rehab” stint in AAA.

That was a first inning I recently enjoyed

andcounting,

I think that was the goal with both Cooper and Dom Smith.

Where did Smith end up anyway?

For all the changes to encourage base stealing, the cubs are pretty bad at it

berselius,

It is rather perplexing and displeasing

It seems the Brewers have lost again

Why do so many baseball players have terrible mustaches?

Belli hurt? 😢

Ban obliques, he wildly speculated

I don’t love the guy but surprised to hear so many boos for Altuve at Wrigley

Ban brick walls.

Cards down 14-1, you hate to see it

The brick wall is bad
Hope Belli OK

I want my Belli back, Belli back,
I want my Belli back, Belli back,

Belliiiiiii’s, Belli’s bad riiiibs.

andcounting,

*deep voice* barbecue sauce

berselius:
andcounting,

*deep voice* barbecue sauce

(dying laughing)

Tauchmann

Tauch ‘em all!

(dying laughing) @ White Sox

M —–> inverted

Song————> damned

Just got back to catch the end of a decent Cubs victory, yay

andcounting,

They scored five more runs than they usually do, so it’s a moral victory

Post-game comments suggest Belli feels fine, let’s see what happens when he wakes up tomorrow

Rice Cube,

whew

andcounting:
Why do so many baseball players have terrible mustaches?

I don’t know. Why?

BVS,

To catch flies.

andcounting,

I hope none of them swallow a spider

As someone who participated in awareness events for prostate cancer fundraising, I can tell you that there is no such thing as a good mustache unless you’re Ned Flanders

Got to use Mr Cub yay

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Rice Cube,

Once your stache goes gray it *can* look good again. Not that I plan to do that anytime soon once it all filters through (dying laughing).

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berselius,

This seems like a terrible idea (dying laughing)

Fun https://blogs.fangraphs.com/kyle-hendricks-talks-pitching/

Whoops

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/giants-blake-snell-injured-list-adductor-strain.html

Fractured rib, X-rays being negative are lame then! Need a new machine

Pete Crow-Armstrong has been promoted from Triple-A Iowa with Cody Bellinger headed to the injured list, Craig Counsell tells @ParkinsSpiegel.

— 670 The Score (@670TheScore) April 24, 2024

PCA——-> Cody’s rib replacement

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