So Berselius decided it was a good idea to give me writer privileges on this website.
As some of you may know, my old blog buddy decided to shutter the old WSD site when we just couldn’t justify doing it anymore since neither of us could blog more than once every three months or whatever. Then ChicagoNow went offline so that meant our other blog site was done. Very happy to have a medium here at OV, and hopefully that means some motivation to try to write more assuming the Ricketts actually want to spend money.
When I’m not as busy I’ll give you some more new shit, otherwise check out this podcast episode I did with Harry around the lockout.
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The Cubs Convention returns in January https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1575158976022548482?t=FOUoXDLC-8-2tXEbRMGsIQ&s=19
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Was just reminded of how good Barry Bonds was, also congrats to Aaron Judge
Rice CubeQuote Reply
looking forward to reading your posts!
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
the amount of bold/italics on his bref page is just comical
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
EnricoPallazzo,
HOF but voters are dumb even if Bonds is an assbag
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Well, this has certainly been one of the seasons in Chicago Cubs history.
uncle daveQuote Reply
The Cubs have 71 wins!
Unfortunately October is tomorrow
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Just two more wins and the Cubs dodge a 90 loss season.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Angels just gave Ohtani $30MM for next year so I don’t actually know if that makes it more or less likely he gets traded
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
Isn’t there a restriction on trading players without a contract? I know MLB The Show won’t let me trade arb-eligible guys until they’re actually signed, so maybe this is the Angels making sure their options are open.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
You are probably correct, cost certainly also helps methinks
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Mets are kinda reminding me of the 2018 Cubs. They didn’t even choke, the Braves just got crazy hot and overtook them.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Hey it happened
Rice CubeQuote Reply
I wonder if Willson Contreras hits well enough to be the primary 1B for next year. This is assuming he accepts the inevitable QO and that the Cubs want to go in a different direction at catcher even if he’s decent at defense but poor at the framing and game calling etc that is apparently more important
Rice CubeQuote Reply
uncle dave,
This is a season I recently
enjoyedheard about after the factSKQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
Rice Cube,
I think Mervis and Contreras split time there. My guess is:
Mervis 60%
Contreras 25%
Rivas or someone else 15%
I’d put Contreras’s playing time at 145 games, 50% C, 25% 1B, 25% DH
BVSQuote Reply
BVS,
The 40-man juggling is going to be crazy and I’m guessing every other team has similar issues so they can’t even solve this via trade very well
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Congrats to Aaron Judge for being 12 homers away from breaking the HR record.
berseliusQuote Reply
Fantastic https://twitter.com/BallySportsSO/status/1577478458426507265?t=SAvxSAYLxlfTzYsrl41pXg&s=19
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
(dying laughing) (dying laughing) (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Postseason is set, today is just for final lottery positions I guess. https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-playoff-picture-and-bracket
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Got a cool video of Judge 62 https://youtu.be/j–MhO_Iod8
Pretty sure the guy who got it wasn’t Hample
Also I guess I should talk to the head jabroni regarding how to embed shit on this website, or at least get some appropriate widgets installed as I think that would be cool
Rice CubeQuote Reply
nice vid, thank you
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
A wild pod has been recorded, will see if it’s super effective soon.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Wonder how many ping pong balls they’ll have in the bucket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Major_League_Baseball_draft
Rice CubeQuote Reply
This is the embed code for the episode:
Here’s the podcast page link itself where you can play it in case that embed code didn’t work because this site hates me:
https://worldseriesdreaming.podbean.com/e/dreamcast-52-looking-forward/
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
Holy shit that worked, now berselius just needs to teach me how to do that in an actual post hahaha
Rice CubeQuote Reply
http://www.obstructedview.net/new-pod-with-world-series-dreamin/
berseliusQuote Reply