The alternative title for The Dark Knight Rises was Josh Vitters Lives! and the forgotten 1st round pick continues to do very well. He is hitting .450 and showing some patience at the plate. Which can only mean that the Cubs need to hire the batting instructor away from the AAA team and get him to Chicago stat. Beef Castle went 3-3 with a HR and Adrian Cardenas picked up a triple and a BB. There are days when I think our Iowa lineup could score more runs than the MLB one.
Trey Dog took the mound and threw 4 IP. He gave up no runs and struck out 5 but also walked three and again, only used 77 pitches in 4 innings. Considering he is the only reason to ever give a shit about what happens in Tennessee lets just end our AA recap there.
The High A Cubs got crushed 7-1 but Cuban prospect Rubi Silva continues to crush the ball. He's old for the level but looked good in ST and is sporting a nice .476 BA. Matt Spellcheck Jr drew 2 walks and thats it.
A good game for the Chiefs as several prospects made some noise. It's well known around my athletic club that I fancy Zeke Devoss a great deal. I find plenty of projection in his supple thighs and powerful hamstrings and think that he could have the best plate discipline in the system. Last night he went 2-5 and didn't commit an error at 2B which is a minor miracle in itself. Perennial bag of tools Reggie Golden continues to struggle. On the pitching side my dark horse for a fast rising SP is Yao-Lin Wang. He had great numbers last year in Boise and I got to watch him pitch a few times and he looked pretty good with a low 90's fastball and a good feel for the strikezone. Wang piggybacked a good start from Michael Jensen and threw 2 scoreless innings and struck out 3. Jensen on the other hand continues to get stretched out as a starter. He struck out 5 in 6 IP.
MUST SEE TV-
Tonight Hayden Simpson will take the mound in his quest to become the right hand Jaime Moyer. I know I can't wait!
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The first time we went, the tickets we had turned out to be stolen.
The second time, the Cubs lost (Matt Holiday hit a walk-off homerun) and on our way out we were verbally threatened by Cardinals fans. Why? Because they are Cardinals fans.
joshQuote Reply
MishQuote Reply
Dylan, my share of the sponsorship $$ you’re pulling in hasn’t arrived yet. Can you resend the check?
BerseliusQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
DJ, I love these updates almost as much as you love Zeke DeVoss
Aisle424Quote Reply
I think we should call Reggie Golden the Utility Belt.
GBTSQuote Reply
josh wrote:
I’m pretty sure I was at that game. I don;t remember much else besides the walk-off and that I was pissed off pretty much the whole game, though I don’t remember why.
Aisle424Quote Reply
all the money goes to me B. I’m going to use to it hire AZ Phil away from TCR so this blog can have some proper information.
dylanjQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
I have a copyright on that.
MishQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
That’s cool. We had awesome seats right behind home plate. I don’t remember much about the game, except thinking the Cubs were going to lose the whole time, then getting a glimmer of hope, then getting that hope erased by Matt Holiday.
joshQuote Reply
@ Mish:
On a related note, I found your future honeymoon suite:
http://www.geekosystem.com/romantic-batman-hotel-suite/
GBTSQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
Agreed. I expect the minors to be more newsworthy than the majors so this is a great added feature.
MishQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
You fagets better not fix “your” to “our”.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ josh:
That sounds about right. Wasn’t the game tied late on a HR by someone shitty? Like Schumaker or something? I get my frustrating Cubs losses mixed up.
I was down behind 1st base about halfway down the line and about 5 rows up. Not bad seats. The angle took getting used to.
Aisle424Quote Reply
i’ve been blown away at how many blogs do this stuff now. A few years ago it was pretty much ACB & BCB kind of sort of. Now everyone has this and I just saw a new blog that is specific to writing about the Cubs minor league system. Now THAT would be a lonely existence.
dylanjQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
That’s great, because I found his future wedding cake.
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
This would have been 2010, btw, I think, although I suddenly can’t find the pictures.
joshQuote Reply
@ josh:
2009. http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=290918124
I was at that game too (dying laughing). It was my first game at Busch Stadium I think. The local bar had a bus that went from Decatur to St. Louis and back. When we bought the tickets it was a 1 PM game. Unfortunately it was moved to a Sunday night game.
WaLiQuote Reply
Bumgarner v. Moyer today is the widest age disparity between two starting pitchers since some dude faced a 59 year old Satchel Paige in 1965.
GBTSQuote Reply
Game thread, with correct home team, up
http://obstructedview.net/games/game-thread-brewers-at-cubs-412.html
BerseliusQuote Reply
An article I recently enjoyed, about Mariano Rivera.
http://deadspin.com/5901123/
MishQuote Reply
Ragging on players like Golden struggling to find his groove is bush. The whole team’s struggling for hits, including Peoria’s Hoilman who was a beast last season. It says more about the coaches and manager. Not only hitting. Look what they did to Bryce Shafer, whose ERA last year was 2.79, leaving him in the other day when he was having a bad outing until he ran his ERA up to 23. What the hell are they thinking? IMO Theo needs to take a hard look at the coaching personnel.
Jack TrudelQuote Reply