The Children Are The Future- Cubs Minor League Watch Sponsored by Schmitts Gay

Cool story, bro.

http://www.rgj.com/article/20120418/NEWS13/120418005/Colorado-Dead-frozen-cows-may-blown-up-watch-video-report-

DJ’s report:

(dying laughing)

Nice.

http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/2012/04/more-fun-with-moyer.html

Jamie Moyer —> Kevin Bacon of baseball

and while he did not face Ron Washington, he did face U.L.

Huh?

@ josh:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/washiu_01.shtml

yeah not a single fuck was given about last nights minor league performances.

@ Rice Cube:
Oh okay. I didn’t put together UL with Washington at all.

GBTS22 wrote:

Sorry to hear about your brother, b:

http://www.cityofmadison.com/incidentreports/incidentDetail.cfm?id=12902

(dying laughing), I used to live three blocks from there. I’d walk my dogs past that park all the time. I’m kind of surprised to hear about that guy, it was always a very quiet neighborhood.

dylanj wrote:

yeah not a single fuck was given about last nights major league performances.

Also true.

Parks & Rec ———–> back tonight

@ Berselius:
That is an awesome name.

This is why I love Len Kasper: http://www.wgntv.com/blogs/lenandbob/wgntv-coming-soon-stats-sunday-20120419,0,4863628.story

@ Mish:
I personally can’t wait until the segment about R+RBI.

Spellcheck looks like a Musketeer in his Gameday photo.

@ Mucker:
All for runs, and runs for all!

Two batters in and I’ve already lost interest in this game.

@ Rice Cube:
Somebody called him Optimus Prime so I now I picture him saying “Chicago Cubs……..Roll out!!” in Peter Cullen’s voice.

DJ: NO, Schmitt’s gay? So the character he played in Greek is more true to life than the one he plays in New Girl? Really? I’m so deflated. I might even have to watch Game of Thrones now. On second thought, I’ll just find Freaks and Geeks reruns on Youtube.

@ SkipVB:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/679770/

[spoiler] RIP Chris Farley and Phil Hartman[/spoiler]

Cubs lose

Did Len just say that he expects Sveum to issue a ton of IBBs this year?

Looks like d’Artagnan is getting squeezed on Gameday. Anybody watching to tell if he is?

Some of them are missing pretty bad. There were a couple close calls but I think most of it is probably F7’s fault.

Ricky Nolasco —> 12 pitches

F7 —> 32

Hmm.

Hey, something’s happening here…hope Byrd can put it in play.

How do the Cubs screw this up? K, DP?

byrd looks awful

@ Mucker:
Some form of out after the auto-bunt.

hanram saved lahair from a tootblan

@ GW:
More “aggressiveness” by LaHair.

Barney should just crowd the plate and get hit on the elbow pad if he’s wearing one.

@ Rice Cube:
Shut me right up.

What are they doing there? Why did Barney do that?

Great work by Jeff Samardzija on that triple

@ Berselius:
I must have missed something on the TV…did F7 tell Barney to slide?

@ Rice Cube:
I believe he was attempting what some might call, “humor.”

@ Rice Cube:
Clearly you are married to my wife, who is the TV watcher in our house.

I predict by the end of New Girl season 2, if it makes it that far, the sponsor will have a double meaning here.

@ SkipVB:
@ SkipVB:
And anyway–19 comments and no one gave any validation to DJ’s sponsor.

Travesty.

If only F7 would throw some damned strikes.

@ josh:
The humor whooshed over my head so fast, it’s gone to plaid.

BUNTFEST!!!

nice bunt there

Was it just me or did Gameday show Barney as being a lefty earlier? Did anyone notice that?

@ josh:
The software gets mixed up because of all the grittiness.

That was a great at-bat.

(dying laughing) @ IBB to Byrd

@ Rice Cube:
I mean, I can understand why you’d want to do that, but the dude is in an epic slump. Might as well pitch to him and let the pitcher lead off the next inning.

hanram returns the favor to stewart

jefF7 not looking so great

@ GW:
Walking a bunch of guys. THAT’s the Jeff Samardzija we know and love!

(dying laughing)…the hell with your DH.

Who could have seen this happening to Jeff Samardzija?

@ mb21:

I liked that DeJesus worked a 9-pitch out. Barney’s out was not so glorious.

@ GW:
Just a bad outing. 2 bad outings and a good one, but he’s clearly more like his first start than the others.

@ Rice Cube:
Those people are just a bunch of pessimistic, negative, no-good non-Cubs fans. Nobody could have seen F7 pitching this poorly. He was fully transformed when the season began.

Nice play by Castro. Not sure it was the right call.

Cubs got lucky on that one

@ mb21:
(dying laughing)

I was kind of ambivalent about it, I figured “why the hell not”…but I’m not above saying that I was wrong. I didn’t really think he’d be lights out (though the first outing was pretty cool).

F7 not holding runners on, or does Bonafacio just have Campana speed?

Waving the white flag in the 4th?

F7’s starts are going to approach 0 IP.

Ahem.

Transformed pitching line: 3.2 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 5 BB, 3 K

@ Mercurial Outfielder:
He forgot his

I’m consistently amazed at the inability of this lineup to drive hittable fastballs for XBH.

@ Rice Cube:

I think his spark has died.

I guess we were overdue for a TOOTBLAN.

new shit (I’m acknowledging that F7 is in fact a better pitcher): http://obstructedview.net/facepalm/jeff-samardzija-is-a-better-pitcher.html

I can’t believe nobody has linked this yet

@ mb21:
Hanram probably beat it, but it was very close.