The word of the day was injuries as there are a lot of pitchers hitting the injured list through various ailments, and we talk a bit about that on this Dreamcast, along with our praises and thoughts about the Cubs starting this season off strongly against some tough competition (not the Rockies).
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Forgot I posted a new thread (dying laughing)
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This was pretty solid from the social media crew
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I watched this about 15 times and now you can too
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I guess the gist would be that any use at this point is “overuse” because the arm might not be able to take it
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No time for love/series preview, Dr. Jones, so just the pitching matchups
Monday: Javier Assad vs Yu Darvish, 8:40 CT
Tuesday: Ben Brown(?) vs Joe Musgrove, 9:05 PM CT
Wed: Cyle Hendricks vs Dylan Cease, 5:40 PM CT
Selfishly enjoying the later start times
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Didi Gregorius and David Cone
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MLBPA wrote up their spiel on the pitch clock injury thing
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/mlb-mlbpa-in-dispute-over-pitch-clocks-impact-on-injuries.html
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This is cool, good luck
https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2024/04/08/cubs-scouting-roki-sasaki/
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Clouds too dense to see much of anything here, partial eclipse-wise
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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39901181/on-hank-aaron-715-home-run-anniversary-hof-announces-statue
I can get behind more Henry Aaron statues
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Thoughts?
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Rice Cube,
Cubs ahead of the cardinals so I’ll take it
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Well this is no fun
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Rice Cube,
Manta Ray: 2500 pounds.
A ray of sunshine: A photon: 10^(-47)mg * how many every photons in a ray of sunshine. A question for Berselius to answer.
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BVS,
I only work with the photons that you don’t want to touch you, unfortunately. At least, not for very long (dying laughing)
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berselius,
More seriously, IIRC photons having mass would mess up a bunch of things since it would mean that the speed of light is an upper bound instead of an actual speed, so you’d have things like red light moving more slowly than blue light. or similar effects for xrays and gamma rays. But when you get to that level of particle physics all units are in eV and it hurts my brain (dying laughing)
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I was always under the impression that photons being light meant they had no mass, which is why they could travel at the speed of light
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Assad vs Yu
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Reds destroying Brewers, too bad they can’t just nuke each other but someone has to win
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Chicago Cubs baseball is ON the air!
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Seiya still with the hot bat
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Assad still bringing it.
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Close game in the basketball
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UConn threatening to pull away tho
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Gotta find that Cubs meat grinder
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Runs!
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Found it, good old Randall
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Assadβs nickname should be The Prestige, because there is simply no explanation for how he escapes like that.
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Hey guys this is fun
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Thatβll do.
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man step away for an hour and there’s a gushing stream of runs
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Bullpen may need to eat up to 4 innings assuming no catastrophe
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andcounting,
He has a secret twin brother, ez
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Rice Cube,
RC on a neverending mission to jinx everything. (dying laughing)
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Hmm
Not ideal
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andcounting,
I’d say no dinner but I already ate
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Jeebus
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Rice Cube,
Iβm watching you.
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Cubs lead still, miraculously
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Rice Cube,
Dude.
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andcounting,
LSA rec’d +1
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I suppose this is our fault for speaking well of the Cubs
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Iβll go ahead and do some jinxing of my own:
At least I havenβt had a stroke yet.
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Fred Sanford dot gif
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Crackers
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balls
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I’d be intrigued to see how they bounce back from this one
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I went to bed with the Cubs leading 4-0 and now Iβm glad I didnβt stay up for that.
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Two of the 3B were most of this.
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Gerrit Cole as the reasonable voice in the room
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39902843/yankees-gerrit-cole-disheartened-pitching-injury-discourse
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I gotta think they send Cuas down at this point. If you canβt trust a guy with an enormous lead, heβs taking up a valuable roster spot.
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Perkins,
Agree. And they need a spot, maybe two, to refuel the pen. Could bring Keegan Thompson up. Or 60-day Merryweather and bring up Carl Jr or other. I don’t really see Wesneski coming up, except that he probably will because I think he won’t.
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I used to be light. But I still had mass. I’d like to be a little lighter now, but I can’t find the spark to lose weight.
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I still like Cuas, sometimes guys have a bad outing.
*Randy Wells/Jose Quintana sized grain of salt
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Apparently Cubs twitter is taking this loss in stride (dying laughing)
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berselius,
At least, I like Cuas just as much as Edwards/Thompson/Wesneski. They need a fresh arm though so I guess it might as well be wesneski since he can go more innings.
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I’ve faxed acknowledgement to 1.618-033-9887 but you should know this has caused me to spiral.
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BVS,
Send another fax to
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and you should rise back out, though don’t stay on the line for too long
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I think I’d send both Cuas and Almonte (if he has options, else Little) down and bring up two guys.
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The must be a limit to how long we can keep this going. But at least we’re on brand for the natural ugh of OV.
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Pitchers dropping like flies
https://twitter.com/alexspeier/status/1777729287887393265
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Rice Cube,
Flexors and obliques seem to be the fad injury these days.
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I think you can’t absolve the pitch clock of all sins but it isn’t hard to track the probable culprit here
https://twitter.com/castrovince/status/1777735604924829901?t=0-khpdxloyEuGvHA79SWLw&s=19
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Jason Kendall, Koyie Hill, and Arismendy Alcantara were my Cubs
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Rice Cube,
Doug Davis, Ian Stewart, and Luis Valbuena for me.
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Even if one thinks it’s a delayed effect we’d also be seeing issues where we have more data in the minors
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berselius,
Are MiLB pitcher usages way different than in the majors though? And I guess the other consideration is not every MiLBer can throw 95+ so that would skew the health status numbers some.
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Just decided I needed to inject a bit of joy into my day
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Pirates are trying to make the Cubs feel less alone by also blowing leads
https://www.espn.com/mlb/game/_/gameId/401568631/tigers-pirates
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Julio Urias –> officially charged as a trash bag
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/julio-urias-charged-with-five-misdemeanors-in-relation-to-2023-arrest.html
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So we know Mervis is pretty good against AAA, but let’s see if the next time he is given a shot, he can translate that to MLB
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Hopefully a not-disappointing night tonight
LF Happ
RF Suzuki
CF Bellinger
3B Morel
SS Swanson
1B Busch
2B Hoerner
DH Cooper
C Gomes
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Sheesh
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This is like the marlins pre-emptively lame ducking Skip Schumacher
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White Sox will have gone four seasons without a legitimate manager. Itβs amazing. I canβt imagine what itβs like to be a fan of much less a player on that team.
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Jackson Holliday –> seasoned enough
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A) Donβt run on Cody.
B) Love that tag by Morel.
C) Or do, or donβt, I canβt tell you what to do.
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Belli big play–> https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1777886296830021934?t=Z36BDjz3jHJKrPlnnmCGsQ&s=19
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Big fan of Seiya Suzuki
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nico glove good
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Ben Brown doing well against a decent lineup with a little help from his friends, Cubs should score IMO
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GOMEZZZZ
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Gas money!
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bases clogged
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Chris.
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Mmmm
Morel
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False
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431 feet (dying laughing)
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Letβs get three more and breathe a HUGE sigh of unmitigated relief.
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Happy now?
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Wait! The Cubs didn’t make a bullpen move today? Could they not find a flight from Iowa to San Diego?
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BVS,
Someone made the point that certain pitchers optioned to the minors need to spend a certain amount of time down before they could be recalled at the beginning of the season so that might be it
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BVS,
banking on having smyly/leiter/almonte available again today I guess
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https://www.nbcsportschicago.com/mlb/chicago-cubs/cubs-news/christopher-morel-shota-imanaga-share-hilarious-moment-in-dugout-after-morels-1st-grand-slam/553382/
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Leiter has some incredible hat hair
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berselius,
A lot of people blaming last night on the first guy out of the pen, but I feel like we need to remember that correlation does not prove Cuasation.
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Nice pick, Busch.
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berselius,
Correct
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andcounting,
Clearly one of the 4 people listening to this podcast
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andcounting,
still my favorite xkcd
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With a 4-run lead I guess it’s just lightly dry hump the closer
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Cubs got punched and punched right back
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