Rice and Berselius hang out to basically kill half an hour talking about the Cubs, Trey Mancini’s shitty defense, some stuff about wildfires and the CBA, and wish everyone a fun Fourth of July as we prepare for the All-Star break and the trade deadline.
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Domingo German–> perfect game
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Rice Cube,
http://www.joesheehan.com/
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Tonight’s lineup, guess Seiya is borked again
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Just letting you all know my dad passed away on Sunday. If I’ve been weird and saying positive things about Madrigal or some shit, that’s probably why.
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andcounting,
Sorry to hear, AC. Thoughts to you and yours.
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andcounting,
Condolences 🙁
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Hey now, here’s some All-Stars
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Would be best to call for the types of pitches that don’t result in extra base hits
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I think we can be mad at Madrigal for whatever the hell that was
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andcounting,
Sorry to hear it, AC.
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Between the stupid bunts and the stupid luck this game is already extra stupid
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Madrigal and Ross, you stupid bunting sacks of shit.
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I just realized German had 99 pitches, ain’t a problem with one.
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If you got baserunners, I feel bad for you, son…
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It was a perfect Maddux.
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I recently started playing this game and am loving it. Today’s even has Cubs!
https://www.immaculategrid.com/
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The Cubs probably should have at least tied this game but lack of clutch continues to loom its ugly head
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Brewers did not lose but at least the Cardinals got football scored
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Pretty quick sweep, only 2:11
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For what it’s worth, the Madrigal bunt was probably his hardest hit ball of the game.
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So how much of this is coaching and how much is player brain dart, despite what Ross says here?
https://twitter.com/MLBastian/status/1674608832566231041?t=ge8WYNBA856nP-H7-XnA5g&s=19
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What’s the difference, really? Isn’t establishing player mindset one of the key functions of a coach?
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I just realized that it autocorrected fart to dart, but also I guess it would be good to communicate exactly how many outs there are and that bunting is generally a terrible idea
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I mean, if someone had a dart thrown into their brain I’m not sure how coaching would help.
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Let’s see what happens
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The gameday app says first pitch is 3:20 ET. Is that wrong?
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It’s always 1:20 PM Central so they’re probably wrong?
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Perkins,
I got destroyed on this today.
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Rice Cube,
I know it used to be 2:20 on Fridays BUT gameday doesn’t typically show the game as live/warmup status over an hour before first pitch. That has me confused.
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andcounting,
There was that one year they tried 3 PM starts but then they abandoned it on Fridays, not sure what happened, but the default has always been 1:20 (or 2:20 since I guess you’re in the bulk of Indiana on Eastern time)
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Morel should have bunted. (dying laughing)
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Rice Cube,
No, I’m central time. It was definitely 2:20 for quite a long time on Fridays. I’ll have to look it up.
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andcounting,
RC, you led me to BCB, and I shall never forgive you. But yeah, it was pretty much 2:20 on Fridays throughout the’90s and into 2004 (aka in my day).
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andcounting,
Ah, this was before I paid attention
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Run-scoring hits are a thing I recently enjoyed
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Ok, Nico.
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Lots of pop ups. Quantrill’s sinker isn’t sinking as much as the Cubs think it will.
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That left fielder reminds me that Futurama is coming back soon
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It was some sort of weird special agreement with the city, they’re restricted from doing night games on fridays and saturdays
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Rice Cube,
MULTIBALL!!!
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Young seems to enjoy running to third.
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Of all the times not to tune in but alas I have stuff to do (dying laughing)
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Man, Morel crushinated that ball. At least he gets an RBI out of it.
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Nick Madrigal with a fuckin’ laser beam into the LF bleachers, just like you’d draw it up.
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Morel!
The Cubs are up 9-0, I assume I missed nothing of note up to this point.
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Wait what the fuck
I missed a Madrigal homer?
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Oh my god
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Amazingly Madrigal had 2 homers one season with the Sox
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That was the Cubs radio home run inning, so some fan won $1600 in gift cards. I’m sure they heard their name called and saw Madrigal’s name in the “due up” list and thought, well, at least I got to hear my name read on the air.
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
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You would think a 9-0 lead in the 7th would be a safe time to let Young face a lefty.
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If Trey Mancini can’t deliver in that situation, he never will, but thankfully he sacrificed for the team
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Noting that the lead is so big that David Ross was confident enough to forfeit the DH
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Cubs win in 2:36, easier to come under time if you don’t have to play a bottom of the 9th
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Rice Cube,
TMI.
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Let’s go Padres, ya useless mooks
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*half the season passes*
MLB marketing: come check out mlb.tv at a deeply discounted rate! at half off we’re practically giving it away!
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berselius,
#math
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Aroldis Chapman –> Rangers 🤷🏻♂️
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San Diego –> absolutely useless
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Rice Cube,
Temporarily unuseless
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Nope definitely useless
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Cubs stay just behind Pittsburgh, which of course means Milwaukee lost, so 🤷🏻♂️
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Twitter is down so I guess we will wait to see if they fix it or else I’ll just see if I can grab the lineup off of an At-Bat app or whatever
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I just saw a QT of E-lawn saying everybody was being limited: 6,000 daily post views for bluechecked morans and 600 for everyone else.
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andcounting,
It was far from constant scrolling, but I reached my reading limit in less than 30 real-time minutes and probably about 15 minutes of actual scrolling.
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Oh dang, guess I’m screwed then, hope MLBTR and BN paid up (dying laughing)
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Oh, you can post to your heart’s content, you just can’t read anything. (dying laughing)
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So it’s like the opposite of BCB
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(dying laughing)
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Lo(dying laughing)
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Found the lineup, glad everyone is relatively unbroken
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The mighty Reds have lost
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Milwaukee is up to something
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There sure seems to be a lot of lopsided games, but my favorite is Philly leading the Nats 19-4 and Washington challenging a call. Maybe just let it go, Davey.
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Now it’s a lesser thing
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Being that Twitter is borked I assume at some point the rain delay will be over but I know not when
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Brewers win so Cubs have a chance to retake third place
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9 PM Central start time, yay
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Well isn’t this some happy bullshit
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/07/cubs-not-inclined-to-extend-marcus-stroman-prior-to-trade-deadline.html
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MLB.tv synching Pat Hughes to the broadcast is the Lord’s work
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Guess Stroman was a spectacular play away from getting a clean inning and more evidence for an extension 😬
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Power went out and it’s like a billion degrees outside so this may suck soon
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Rain has shifted today’s rubber match to 4:05 Central, meanwhile I still have no power 😔
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Yay
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Shame the Cubs lost yesterday since they have basically zero chance of winning on a Sunday.
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Today’s lineup for the Rookie of the Year anniversary celebration because we are all #old now
https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1675566680443957248?t=Yaq_ddfmy3yd5fHfOKkoEQ&s=19
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Marcus Stroman –> All-Star
Source: Marcus Stroman
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Perkins,
Because Taillllllon is pitching? (I’m going to keep adding L’s as they accumulate throughout the season).
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I honestly hope he figures it out and also makes me wonder about this front office and coaching staff sometimes that they have so much trouble on boarding generally good pitchers
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Everyone who plays NL Central rivals is useless these days
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Justin Steele –> All-Star
Source: Adbert Alzolay
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And now Dansby Swanson too
Source: Stro
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Wrote some ramblings while waiting out this rain delay –> http://www.obstructedview.net/tales-of-triumph-and-regret/
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