Time: 7:05 PM CT
TV: ESPN
Radio: 670 the Score
Cubs
C Contreras
LF Schwarber
3B Bryant
1B Rizzo
SS Russell
CF Happ
2B Baez
RF Heyward
SP Lester
Urinals
CF Bader
RF Fowler
1B Martinez
LF Ozuna
3B Gyorko
SS DeJong
2B Wong
C Pena
SP Wacha
Just don't get swept.
Comments
Gleyber Torres might be good at baseball.
North Side PatQuote Reply
Stop swinging at low crap.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
At least they managed to score one run, against all odds.
berseliusQuote Reply
Not a promising start for Lester.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Thanks for the gift, Bader!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
I miss when Lester was an ace.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Bader is pretty annoying.
PerkinsQuote Reply
That was bad baserunning.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Bryant!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
don’t tell me what to do
The cubsQuote Reply
Don’t. Walk. The. Pitcher. With. The. Bases. Loaded.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Phew.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
There are an inordinate number of attendees at tonight’s game that have their ears tucked into their ballcaps and it’s really bothering me
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
That Bryant HR just landed.
berseliusQuote Reply
Lester brought his bat tonight (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Man…poor rizzo can’t buy a fucking hit right now
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
Heyward continues to have a rough year defensively.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Heyward’s defense isn’t looking so good this year.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Cubs blow a lead with walks and sloppy defense. Again.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Stop the weird camera angles, ESPN. I want to have some idea of pitch location.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
I’m using the lateness of this game to cover the fact that I’m too lazy to write a Cubs-Marlins preview.
berseliusQuote Reply
The good news is they still have 131 games to go. The bad news is that they still have 131 games to go.
mobile daveQuote Reply
It would have been nice if Heyward got to be a hero after allowing the tying run to score. It would have been nice if Farrell got the save after losing last night’s game. This game wasn’t nice.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Nerts.
berseliusQuote Reply
I think it’s pretty clear that STL has an overwhelming surplus of Diggity while CHC has hardly any. May be time for a fire sale.
TyroneQuote Reply
At least the Cubs aren’t having the shittiest start to the season, since the Dodgers have Seager out for the year and, given the ‘biceps tendinitis’ injury diagnosis for Kershaw, he might not be alone in TJS.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
The Nats have been pretty lackluster as well. Not a great start to the year for the NL’s super teams.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Doesn’t look like we are taking it to Another Level this year. I agree.
MylesQuote Reply
Perkins,
I blame myself. I shouldn’t have wished for more parity in the league when I had that monkey’s paw.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
is the poscast dead? that would be a shame.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
They did the only reasonable thing: they waited until the beginning of the busiest time of the year for them to take a 2-month hiatus. They say they are coming back, though, with a new format.
MylesQuote Reply
The Tigers’ leader in WAR is a former Cub. The Royals’ leader in WAR is a former Cub. The Padres’ 2nd place in WAR is a former Cub.
MylesQuote Reply
where did you hear this? also, i hope the new format is not where KT is only on for like 3 minutes and then it’s some random guest for the rest of the episode because i am not a big fan of when they do that.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
His personal weblog:
http://joeposnanski.com/some-personal-news/
MylesQuote Reply
I’d stop listening pretty quickly if that’s the new format. I just want the two of them shooting the shit, with a baseball theme but not exclusively baseball. The random drafts are the best parts of the poscast by far.
MylesQuote Reply
Myles,
someone asked me what it’s about and i really struggled with an answer.
“So it’s a baseball podcast?”
“Kind of…not really though.”
“Well what do they talk about for 90 minutes?”
“They…ummm…draft things.”
“Oh so they do like mock drafts of baseball players?”
“No…they draft, like kitchen utensils. And sandwiches. And kind of talk about baseball while they draft things.”
“Ok….”
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
I just saw Happ is striking out in almost 50% of his plate appearances. That’s a lot lower than I thought it was.
dmick89Quote Reply
Last week, I was speaking to two of my Chinese classmates about this very proverb. Neither of them had heard of it. Then I looked it up on Wikipedia. It’s totally apocryphal. The closest Chinese proverb is, “Better to be a dog in peacetime than a man in wartime”, which is quite loosely translated as, “I don’t get how you got interesting out of this—did you just make it up?”
EDIT: It’s actually an old Finnish saying.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Darvish to the DL with the flu virus, otherwise known as the trying to figure shit out virus.
dmick89Quote Reply
I have had that flu for the better part of a decade. Let’s hope he has better luck.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Coomer just predicted a KB tape measure HR right before KB hit a tape measure HR. Then he said he’s heading to the casino.
North Side PatQuote Reply
Zobrist has been a better right fielder than Heyward this year.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Sounds like Zobrist switched back to that original song of his wife’s that he used in 2016. Not great, but better than her cover of “Benny and the Jets.”
PerkinsQuote Reply
Bryant got screwed.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Javy!!!!!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
The Cubs learned they could hit home runs with men on base. This is a good development.
dmick89Quote Reply
Let us celebrate this arrangement with the addition of chocolate to milk.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Happ!!!
They might want to save some runs for tomorrow. It sounds like Tseng is starting.
PerkinsQuote Reply
dmick89,
The Cubs are just fucking with us. Three in one game.
dmick89Quote Reply
Don’t let them back in the game, Kyle.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Nice job by Baez saving that Bryant throw.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Even Happ’s “solo” homerun came with a man on (dying laughing)
(Nice one, Gameday)
ceruleanQuote Reply
Machado would have hit a homerun.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Holy forking shirtballs, a Chris, Kris, Khris sandwich!
ceruleanQuote Reply
This game is going somewhat better.
berseliusQuote Reply
Kris Bryant —> a contact hitter with benefits
ceruleanQuote Reply
Please just a cramp.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Happ again!!!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Four homeruns with men on base.
Regression —> mean
ceruleanQuote Reply
But when mop-up guy’s fastball is an 89 mph meatball, they just can’t help themselves.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Hendricks has come awfully close to a dirty Maddux. 98 pitches through 8.
ceruleanQuote Reply
This is the enough already we’ve all been waiting for…
ceruleanQuote Reply
Inverted Mazzoni
ceruleanQuote Reply
Who is Cory Mazzoni, and when did the Cubs call him up?
PerkinsQuote Reply
Sounds like a groin injury for Baez.
berseliusQuote Reply
cerulean,
Right groin tightness.
dmick89Quote Reply
Cardinals lose.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Cardinals lose.
PerkinsQuote Reply
He’s a friend of the family, the guy you call to “clean things up”.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Happ improved his K% by only striking out twice in 5 PAs.
That said, I welcome a 1.0 K/HR. He now sports a 104 wRC+.
ceruleanQuote Reply
There is this kid from New Jersey on the Angels who has come out of nowhere to be worth 3.0 fWAR/3.1 rWAR already this season.
ceruleanQuote Reply
http://obstructedview.net/cubs-14-marlins-2-5-7-18/
berseliusQuote Reply
Nuthin
TyroneQuote Reply