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  1. Ryno

    Savermetrics @Savermetrics
    Per TJ Eckert, 6th round #MLBDraft pick RHP Kohl Franklin signed with the @Cubs for $540,000, plus another $150,000 toward his education. Slot for 188th overall is $245,600.
    9:13 AM – Jun 24, 2018

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    berselius

    Duabe Underwood is starting tonight, and I am shocked that he’s only 23. It feels like he’s been in the system for a decade.

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  3. dmick89

    LA is a good place for Underwood to make his debut. He won’t strikeout many and if his control improvement this season is legit, he probably won’t walk too many either. He also probably won’t give up many long balls at LA. It’s a good choice. I wish Underwood struck out more batters, but it is what it is.

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  4. Rizzo the Rat

    berselius,

    Apparently, they’re giving Lester an extra day because he threw 119 pitches last time. Good thing we got that extra inning out of him, I guess.

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  5. Rizzo the Rat

    Also, Bryant is out of the lineup and so is Contreras, so I’m betting the Cubs score 1 run tonight.

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    berselius

    I always remember the Dodger Stadium sound guys as annoying, but it always surprises me just how irritating they are.

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  7. Rizzo the Rat

    Wait, the bases were loaded and he didn’t give up a walk or grand slam? Underwood is my new favorite Cubs pitcher.

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    berselius

    Pat points out that the Dodgers also got swept in a four game series by the Reds this year. In Dodger Stadium no less.

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  9. Myles

    Underwood is very good. He has earned another start. Better stuff than I expected and great nerves. This dude seems like he could help a major league bullpen this year.

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    berselius

    dmick89,

    I do think it’s kind of funny that this happened in Lexington VA, where there is basically a statue of Stonewall Jackson on every corner (it was his hometown)

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  11. dmick89

    berselius,

    Even if we put aside how truly shitty Trump is to just about every living person on Earth, it’s absurd that people are upset about a restaurant owner’s decision to ask someone like SHS to leave. If I owned the restaurant, I’d have asked her to leave. I’ve have done so in a much more public manner than the owner did. I’d rather close the restaurant than serve her or anyone in her family.

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  12. Perkins

    dmick89,

    It also bothers (but doesn’t surprise) me that people are drawing an analogy to that baker’s refusal to make a cake for a gay wedding. Mostly because people can’t choose whether they’re gay, but they can absolutely choose whether or not to be a lying, amoral garbage monster. Which SHS absolutely chose to be.

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  13. dmick89

    Perkins,

    Yeah, that’s not surprising at all and neither is the Democrats response to it. Apparently the Democrats are trying to differentiate themselves from the Republicans by basically being Republicans. Any Democrat worth voting for would be standing up for that owner’s right to refuse service to SHS.

    Perkins: Mostly because people can’t choose whether they’re gay, but they can absolutely choose whether or not to be a lying, amoral garbage monster. Which SHS absolutely chose to be.

    Yeah, this seems plainly obvious to anyone with a functioning brain. I’m not even a fan of Waters, but I agree that people in this administration should expect to be confronted when out in public. When you treat everybody like shit, what else are they going to do? Every single decent person should be defending the restaurant owner, which means every single Democrat who suggested otherwise should be voted out of office when they’re up for election.

    Fuck civility.

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  14. andcounting

    Perkins,

    It’s essentially like equating the #metoo movement with racial/gender/orientation discrimination, that somehow it’s wrong to speak/act out against people for terrorizing humanity for personal gain.

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  15. Perkins

    dmick89,

    That’s basically where my head is at. There should be social consequences for being a monumentally shitty person who habitually breaches the social contract, which describes basically everyone in the administration not named James Mattis.

    The Democrats keep acting as though you can work out a compromise with people like this. You can’t. All you can do is out work and out draw them to beat them at the polls. Part of this is a problem of the left’s own making, though. So many conversations have been Godwin-ed to death that when a group that shows actual similarities to Nazis and fascists is ascending, there’s minimal credibility among the people calling them out.

    There’s not common ground to be found with people who want to treat other groups of people as less than human. All you can do is defeat and discredit their ideas by offering better ones and motivating people to prevent them from gaining more power. And anyone on the right who claims to desire civility but also supported Trump at any point can and should be ignored forever. Those people are intellectually dishonest at best and manipulative sociopaths at worst.

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  16. EnricoPallazzo

    i like this strategy, for folks that might be less inclined towards confrontation:

    And in instances where a high-profile conservative-leaning patron comes in to dine, Roth Gullo says, she’ll take the proceeds of their meal and redirect them to a progressive group.

    “I immediately donate all of the money I get from those individuals to the nonprofit that they’re against,” she said.

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  17. Perkins

    Were it my restaurant, I’d not even have let SHS (or any non-Mattis administration official) sit down to eat in the first place. Probably would have a policy for my staff to refuse service and incorporate some phrasing from the SCOTUS decision and finish by saying, “I’m sure you can appreciate the irony.”

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    berselius

    Perkins,

    FWIW, Lexington is a tiny-ass town three hours from DC, so I don’t think this is something anyone would have had a specific policy about (dying laughing). I’m mostly curious what the heck she was doing down there in the first place.

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  19. Perkins

    andcounting,

    Are there actually people equating those two? As in, they think discriminating against sexual predators is on the same level as discriminating against someone for being black or a woman or anything else? Because if so, to borrow a phrase from Lawrence Oates, I’m going outside and may be some time.

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  20. andcounting

    Perkins,

    No, no. I mean, maybe, but none that I’ve heard of. I’m just drawing a parallel to point out how ridiculous any backlash against discrimination toward fascist assholes.

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  21. dmick89

    I’m just amazed at how badly the Democrats have fucked this up. This was so easy. Every democrat should have come out in support of what the owner did and for each argument against it they should have thrown one of Trump’s quotes back in their faces. This was easy. This was as easy as beating Trump and they fucked that up. It’s as easy as winning control of the house and I think they’ve fucked that up too. The Republicans are awful, but the Democrats are incompetent.

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  22. dmick89

    I saw this quote on Twitter (had to do a google search to find that it was on The Federalist):

    Civility was once a cornerstone to American society. No matter our race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political affiliation, we were able to coexist and conduct a robust yet respectful dialogue. That may be coming to an abrupt end because of individuals like Maxine Waters.

    (dying laughing) When exactly was civility a cornerstone to American society? During slavery? What about the genocide of the Native Americans? How about locking up every black person in America for minor crimes that white people got away with? Was it during the endless wars we’ve fought with our enemies (it’s easier to name our allies than it is to list our enemies)? I could go on and on. It would be nice if civility was actually a cornerstone to American society. It’s a dream that will never come true, but they say it’s good to have dreams.

    You can’t possibly have a rational conversation about politics with someone who actually believes that shit. It’s impossible.

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  23. Perkins

    dmick89,

    It’s especially funny since The Federalist has gone full bore on backing up Trump. Anyone who supports a racist insult comic and then bemoans the lack of civility is simply not worth engaging.

    I think Trevor Noah once likened Trump supporters to the school bully who will say “that’s enough” during a fight and then start hitting someone again and then say “okay that’s enough” as soon as the person starts hitting back again. For a group that likes to use “snowflake” as an insult, these Trump supporters are pretty damn delicate.

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  24. dmick89

    I just got some junk mail that wondered if it was time for Jews to leave Europe. Where are the civility fetishists? Maybe I’m crazy, but even thinking about whether or not Jews should leave Europe seems to be considerably worse than quietly asking someone to leave a restaurant because you think they’re an awful human being (who is probably having a conversation at the table wondering whether it’s time for Jews to leave Europe).

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  25. EnricoPallazzo

    Rizzo the Rat:
    Contreras is back in the lineup,so I’m betting the Cubs score 7 runstonight.

    This is the second night in a row you’ve impacted the outcome of the universe by commenting on OV. Please post a comment that says “EnricoPallazzo will find a $100 bill on his walk to work tomorrow”

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  26. Perkins

    EnricoPallazzo: This is the second night in a row you’ve impacted the outcome of the universe by commenting on OV. Please post a comment that says “EnricoPallazzo will find a $100 bill on his walk to work tomorrow”

    Forget that, he needs to post a comment that says “Donald Trump will have a massive heart attack today.”

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    berselius

    dmick89,

    Followed the next day by a comment about Ryan dropping a P90X dumbbell or a gold-plated collected works of Ayn Rand on his foot and getting MRSA.

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  28. Ryno

    Supplemental 2nd-rder Cole Roederer signs w/@cubs for $1.2 million (pick 77 value = $775,100). California HS OF, hampered by shoulder injury this spring but nice power/speed combination & five-tool potential. UCLA recruit. @MLBDraft

    — Jim Callis (@jimcallisMLB) June 27, 2018

    Maybe the Cubs’ most intriguing pick.

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  29. dmick89

    Rizzo the Rat,

    It wouldn’t surprise me. They’ll look unstoppable on offense for about the next week and then it will look like they have a AA offense for ten days. Their inconsistency is remarkably consistent.

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  30. Rizzo the Rat

    dmick89,

    Contreras tagged him out at home. Ever since the Posey Rule, every play at home leads to an argument over whether the catcher was blocking the plate or the runner slid legally.

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  31. Rizzo the Rat

    This umpire really hates Cubs pitchers. Maples has enough trouble throwing strikes without the ump missing borderline (and not-so-borderline) calls.

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  32. andcounting

    Ryno

    (dying laughing)

    He’s apparently already suffering the side effect of reduced strike-zone size, so he should be on board.

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    berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron vs south paw Clayton Kershaw

    CF Almora
    2B Baez
    C Contreras
    1B Rizzo
    SS Russell
    3B Bote
    RF Happ
    LF Schwarber
    P Quintana

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  34. Ryno

    Darvish bullpen "did not go well," Maddon said. Will be reevaluated before next step determined. "He felt pain on extension, he said," Maddon said.

    — Gordon Wittenmyer (@GDubCub) June 28, 2018

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  35. dmick89

    Ryno,

    That probably means he’ll get another MRI, be shut down for at least a few weeks before starting throwing the ball on flat ground. Unless there’s a miracle coming, earliest I see him returning is September.

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  36. Ryno

    dmick89:
    Ryno,

    That probably means he’ll get another MRI, be shut down for at least a few weeks before being buried ahead of the memorial service. Unless there’s a miracle coming, earliest I see him returning is September.

    Fixed.

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  37. Ryno

    NFL suspensions:

    1 game: Josh Brown repeatedly terrorizes his ex-wife

    3 games: Jameis Winston sexually assaults an Uber driver

    4 games: Tom Brady asks ball boys to underinflate footballs

    16 games: Martavis Bryant uses marijuana

    — Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) June 28, 2018

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  38. Rizzo the Rat

    JD said Kershaw is always able to generate swings-and-misses with his curveball. Apparently he didn’t watch game 6 of the 2016 NLCS.

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  39. Rizzo the Rat

    Cubs pitchers have the best ERA in the league, but the worst walk rate in baseball. It’s bizarre.

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  40. Rizzo the Rat

    Baseball Prospectus’ catcher framing metric has Contreras at -10.6 framing runs. Worst in baseball by nearly 4 runs.

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  41. Rizzo the Rat

    It just drives me crazy when someone can’t throw a strike when he knows that batter has the take sign.

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  42. andcounting

    dmick89:
    We already knew it, but now it’s official: Cubs lose. We’re just waiting for it to be officially official.

    Right, in the bottom of the fifth. Gotta hold off the rain for an officially official loss.

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  43. dmick89

    berselius,

    He’s directly responsible for nearly 70 Dodgers losses in his career. That’s a staggering total when you compare it to someone like Brian Duensing who has appeared in significantly more games.

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  44. Rizzo the Rat

    A season series win against the Dodgers feels good. Shame about that Reds series in the middle of it.

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