Iowa
Off Day
Nobody did anything.
Szrzrzr drew a walk and stole a pair of bases, his plate discipline has really improved from last year. Torreyes had a pair of hits and non prospect Greg Rohan hit his 5 HR of the year. On the pitching side Tony Zych earned his 2nd save of the year.
The long awaited debut of the 7 million dollar man could not have gone much worse in the 1st inning. Top prospects like Francisco Lindor were just crushing everything Concepcion threw. He gave up 3 hits in a row got a pop out then gave up a HR. When it was all over he had allowed 5 ER in 1 IP and basically it was typical Cubs. To his credit he stayed in the game for 4 more scoreless innings and picked up a pair of strikeouts. Listening to the game it seems like he threw strikes for the most part and featured a fastball and curve. Yao Ling Wang continues to pitch out of the bullpen vs starting like he should and still has not allowed a run this year.
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http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/bob-brenly-stats/
MishQuote Reply
@ Mish:
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pAAztk3Zcc
MishQuote Reply
@ Mish:
Ahh!! Mustard is everywhere!!!
WaLiQuote Reply
TGIFriday’s has transformed!
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tgi-fridays-offers-guests-more-choices-with-new-menu-options-149045095.html
Aisle424Quote Reply
Rule of Threes strikes again. Mike Wallace, Dick Clark, Pro Bowl.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7857508/nfl-moving-suspend-pro-bowl-sources-say
GBTSQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
As someone who is mostly a vegetarian I can safely say that there is little chance I’d eat a vegetarian meal made by TGIFridays. I also like how they have more shareable appetizers. You can only share certain ones. Rules.
mb21Quote Reply
That’s more like one thing made in a slightly different way.
Probably the same tacos, but figured they’d just add Korean to it. No place in this country can even make Mexican tacos. I’ll bet everything I own they can’t make Korean Tacos. Is there even a thing?
(dying laughing)
Everybody likes The Beatles. And strawberries so let’s just make a bunch of shit and reference them.
No thanks.
That salad was revolutionary 100 years ago.
TGIF: Chipotle is taking some of our business so let’s make something up to get it back. Also, we can add some salt to our caramel cake because Chipotle specializes in sodium. If it goes well, we can put that shit in a burrito with any combination of the first 3 items here.
mb21Quote Reply
@ GBTS:
Not that anyone would notice anyway.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
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Rice CubeQuote Reply
Just a couple more months…
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Where’d you get that pic of me, RC?
MishQuote Reply
@ Mish:
Boxofficemojo. You need a tan.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Regarding Tom Hardy, I saw Warrior over the weekend. Excellent flick.
MuckerQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
RC, this is where you’re supposed to change the Batman pic to something obscene.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
Damn. Would’ve been a perfect moment to switch it out for this:
h/t Heckler
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Angels/Rays = free today
That was a funky TOOTBLAN.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Pujols –> TOOTBLAN
Rice CubeQuote Reply
What do you guys who like college football think of this?
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf–college-football-playoff-closer-to-a-reality.html
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
Bring back the QB Challenge/Skills Competition to replace the Pro Bowl. The NHL has a skills comp and it is pretty entertaining. This can be shown the Saturday before the Superbowl, so any non-superbowl contestant would be in it.
Edit: fixed reply-to link.
WaLiQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
That’s a great idea.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
I like that idea but the post you linked to was me asking about a NCAAF playoff system (dying laughing)
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
Oops (dying laughing)
WaLiQuote Reply
Anyone know what happened to Ryno? I haven’t seen him around here since before spring training.
WaLiQuote Reply
Has Heath Bell recorded a save yet this season? He’s like a fatter, more expensive version of Marmol this year.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rays.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
I miss Ryno highlighting Alvin’s psychotic attempts to control everyone on his site:
http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2012/4/25/2975331/cubs-lose-to-cardinals-5-1-all-wet#comments
(h/t Desipio)
Aisle424Quote Reply
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
That Al fellow needs to lighten up.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Mish:
So, he looked up Brenly’s wRC+ and stretched it into a whole article?
ACTQuote Reply
Wow, Marshall blew his first save in epic fashion.
ACTQuote Reply
It’s too bad he has an ugly ERA now, since he’s been mostly excellent this year.
ACTQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
He’s 2-for-5 and has more walks than strikeouts.
ACTQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
The fact that he’s absent during the NFL draft makes me worry for his health.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
GBTSQuote Reply
God I wish that picture was bigger so we could start ‘shopping a miserable, soaked Al in every photo.
GBTSQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
What are you trying to say, asshole? You better not say it!
GBTSQuote Reply
@ ACT:
http://praiseball.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/this-is-what-you-get-when-you-pay-by-the-post/
http://twitter.com/#!/FG_As_Tweets
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
Go ahead and say the thing I don’t want you to say so I can do thing that I pretend not to want to do, but totally want to do so go ahead and say it.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
@ ACT:
As precedent, Ernest Hemingway looked at picture of an ambulance and then wrote The Sun Also Rises.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/26/batman-gay-grant-morrison-superhero-comics_n_1456878.html
GBTSQuote Reply
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
“Lack of Dedication.”
joshQuote Reply
Or, at best, no inference.
joshQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
How does anyone bother to hang out over at BCB these days? It’s the same stuff day after day. I hadn’t been there in at least a year and click that link and it’s the same shit as the last time.
mb21Quote Reply
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
@ mb21:
He baited both of us the same way. I’ve never understood why Al runs that place that way.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Power trip. He’s the king there.
joshQuote Reply
@ mb21:
Given the meme farming we do over here, I don’t think we should be so quick to judge (dying laughing)
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Scrappy.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Fuck you guys. Honestly, fuck off. Way to waste my time with BCB nonsense. (dying laughing)
MishQuote Reply
@ Mish:
What if we were already fucking off?
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
(dying laughing)
MishQuote Reply
@ Mish:
How shall we fuck off, O Lord?
ACTQuote Reply
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
What do you mean by fucking off? You better not tell me.
GBTSQuote Reply
GBTS wrote:
Add one to the list of people who need to adjust their attitude.
That would be you.
Aisle424Quote Reply
I added an NFL Draft topic in the forum if anyone wanted to discuss that as it unfolds:
http://obstructedview.net/forum.html?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=62.0
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
(dying laughing) you beat me to it.
mb21Quote Reply
mb21 wrote:
I assumed you were too busy fucking off.
Aisle424Quote Reply
I’m surprised the Tigers dropped Inge like that after all these years. More surprised, I guess, that he didn’t just retire or something. Then again, he’s only like 2 years older than me.
Come to think of it, I should retire.
joshQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
I’ve been busy fucking off since the season started.
mb21Quote Reply
I’m glad Fangraphs added wOBA splits for pitchers, but why not have overall wOBA?
mb21Quote Reply
http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/article/poll_i_prefer_evaluating_fielding_based_primarily_on/
mb21Quote Reply
@ mb21:
Yeah, I found that odd, as well.
ACTQuote Reply
@ mb21:
Where’s the “internet polls are worthless” option?
ACTQuote Reply
Humber’s follow-up to his perfect game has to rate as one of the most disappointing sequels in history.
ACTQuote Reply
@ mb21:
I voted “I give up.”
joshQuote Reply
As far as defensive metrics go, I’d love to get a look at the proprietary metrics used by teams. That won’t happen unless I get a job for an organization, however.
ACTQuote Reply
@ ACT:
And then you couldn’t tell anyone because you’d either have signed a nondisclosure agreement or they would threaten to cut your balls off.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
Why would I tell anyone? I’d rather have the smug satisfaction of knowing something other people don’t, anyway.
ACTQuote Reply
Humber’s final line: 5 IP, 8H, 9 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, 3 HR
ACTQuote Reply
@ ACT:
The smug satisfaction of knowing something other people don’t is pretty much my raison d’être.
joshQuote Reply
@ ACT:
Hardly perfect.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
Time to laugh at all the people who picked him up for their fantasy teams on the basis of that one game.
ACTQuote Reply
@ ACT:
He’ll bounce back. He’ll be somewhere between atrocious and perfect next game.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
He’s not a bad pitcher by any means. I just like it when people quickly get burned for irrational moves like that. It’s that smug satisfaction thing again.
ACTQuote Reply
Crawford ———–> UCL sprain, probably out until all-star break
/nemesis-watch
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
WaLiQuote Reply
@ ACT:
I had Humber last year before he had the perfect game.
/hipster’d
WaLiQuote Reply
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/reasons-why-we-cant-have-nice-things
MishQuote Reply
I hope the next post is sponsored by Mondo Fruit Squeezers.
jtsunamiQuote Reply
@ Mish:
You’re doing it wrong.
Pick one and make us (dying laughing). THen maybe try another one a few screens down the thread.
Point us to 47 billion and we have to do all the work. It was almost TLDR.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
I’m too busy fucking off to care.
MishQuote Reply
@ ACT:
The prequels sucked too.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
The prequels never existed, GBTS
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
I totally missed out on the BCB discussion and football draft because of your link. I was wondering when Mish was going to have his coming out party.
SkipVBQuote Reply
@ SkipVB:
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
WaLiQuote Reply
every time i see this headline, it makes me think of this article:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/we-must-do-everything-we-can-for-the-children-vs-c,11557/
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
Indeed. It’s always a good time for a party! Except maybe a political party.
SkipVBQuote Reply
Those Point/Counterpoint articles are hilarious. My two favorites are:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace-must-stop-vs-i,11543/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/my-computer-totally-hates-me-vs-god-do-i-hate-that,11538/
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ SkipVB:
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
(dying laughing), the computer one can never be topped
BerseliusQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
Aisle424Quote Reply
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
Add one to the list of those too busy fucking off to care. I’m looking at you.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
One of my favorites:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-am-so-starving-vs-i-am-so-starving,11541/
rattierQuote Reply
http://www.bleachernation.com/2012/04/27/lahair-and-rizzo-in-the-lineup-together-probably-not-and-other-bullets/
(dying laughing)
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ rattier:
let’s not forget this one:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/whoooooo-bears-vs-aaaaaggh-bears,11535/
@ Aisle424:
i’m with berselius, the computer one is an all-time favorite of mine.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
hel-lo, nurse!
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
GBTSQuote Reply
http://sabermetricresearch.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-10-runs-equals-1-win.html
MishQuote Reply
New shit: http://obstructedview.net/chicago-cubs/ask-ov-because-we-had-a-day-off-and-we-havent-done-this-for-a-while.html
Aisle424Quote Reply