Michael Busch was kinda scuffling, but my eternal optimism always thinks anyone can be a hero at any time in baseball. And boy did he pick his moment:
There was rain in the area and since Busch is apparently part cat, he decided he didn’t feel like being wet longer than needed and also decided that it was best if he left no doubt:
Too bad the Brewers also won but the Cubs are taking care of their own stuff so we have to be thankful for that.
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https://twitter.com/JayCuda/status/1788008439089676371
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
Eww
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All teams in division not named Cubs or Brewers have lost
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I wish the White Sox no particular ill, but it’d be cool to see them set a futility record like the 1899 Spiders or 1962 Mets.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Shota knows how to play to the crowd
https://twitter.com/TonyAndracki23/status/1788056844331630956?t=UByUVzyFvdVP2-k1Vas9Pw&s=19
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berselius,
That one’s for all the haters.
andcountingQuote Reply
Today’s lineup gives Dansby a day off!
SS Hoerner
RF Tauchman
DH Bellinger
3B Morel
LF Happ
1B Busch
2B Mastrobuoni
C Gomes
CF PCA
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
I feel like I remember some comment on the broadcast earlier in the year that Dansby hates the off-day going into a scheduled off-day (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
Maybe just trying to protect him from Cease and he’ll come back in for defense later, who knows anymore
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Hope JD is back today, Girardi is annoying.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
I swear I thought Girardi was supposed to move back to NY
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Rice Cube,
same
berseliusQuote Reply
Bleah
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Go Cubs, dispatch the Padres and you won’t have to deal with them again until at least October
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GAH stupid Brewers scored already
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Rice Cube,
The Royals have counterscored but the Cubs are currently losing #sad
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We’re one week into May, and I just overheard some Cardinals fans discussing who should get traded at the deadline, and how little they’re likely to get for them, be still my heart.
berseliusQuote Reply
Hearing Pat and Ron talk about driving up Cease’s pitch count with all the strikeouts reminds me of Homer Simpson’s boxing strategy of letting the other fighter tire himself out by punching.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
It’s a bold strategy
berseliusQuote Reply
Wesneski doing the lord’s work today even if they do end up losing
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Perkins,
That was basically the Rocky movies (dying laughing)
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Wesneski tried but couldn’t get the out in the 7th, guess someone else will wear it rest of way
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Brewers lost
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Looked like the 16th consecutive game day.
andcountingQuote Reply
Go Cardinals this weekend only, I suppose
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Paul Skenes —–> pitching against the Cubs this weekend
berseliusQuote Reply
Hard not to pick a Twin not named Kirby Puckett but I did find one
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*Immortan Joe voice* mediocre
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Not awful.
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PerkinsQuote Reply
I see Ippei is expected to plead guilty. Has anyone explained to him the difference between a plea and betting on what you think will happen?
andcountingQuote Reply
andcounting,
He’s still going to get a lot of jail time, but he did bet (and probably won) less than he would’ve gotten otherwise
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andcounting,
(dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
He’s got an in-trial parlay on a plea deal with a reduced sentence.
andcountingQuote Reply
This is cool:
https://twitter.com/kylecorwintakes/status/1788239503561261498
PerkinsQuote Reply
andcounting,
I wonder if the feds offered him a teaser if he could come up with more information
berseliusQuote Reply
Perkins,
Someone smarter than me should talk about how badass Shota has been for this club
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Bleah
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berselius,
It would be somewhat poetic if some dumbass gambling addict brought down a huge gambling ring like that
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Just started building a Lego LAAT gunship with my three year old daughter. By Anakin she will be a Star Wars fan.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
Make sure she starts with Episode IV like a hood padawan
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Hecking loser Cardinals
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I’m likely to break her in on TCW and when she’s a bit older we’ll do the movies in the order R1, ANH, ESB, TPM, AOC, ROTS, ROJ.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
I assume you are going to pretend the sequels didn’t exist (dying laughing)
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Rice Cube,
So after going to the I-IX marathon last weekend and calling it after VI, I’ve arrived at the point of view that the “Skywalker Saga” is really Anakin’s story, and it’s wrapped up in six movies. He was almost completely ignored in the sequels, and I think it’s fairer to treat them as supplementary “Star Wars Stories” like Rogue One and Solo rather than core Episodes in the saga.
Personally, I thought TLJ was the only sequel worth a damn because it was the only one with anything to say. JJ Abrams really messed up badly and Disney seems determined to insist its trilogy is on equal narrative footing as the other two. Had the ST been planned out, and had it addressed Anakin’s legacy properly, it really could have been something.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
Aside from maybe ROJ I never really cared about Anakin Skywalker. I know that’s what Lucas was going for (as much as he had a plan for anything), but in my head canon the OG triliogy is about Luke and the prequels were about Obi-Wan
berseliusQuote Reply
I’ll definitely cop to being influenced by the original EU stuff which also didn’t really care about Anakin
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
I mean from GL’s perspective the first trilogy was about Anakin’s fall and the second about his redemption. Obi-Wan and Luke are obviously the most important supporting characters in that journey, but Anakin is the main character.
Admittedly I’ve grown to appreciate Anakin much more as a character because of TCW, which fleshes him out in a way the PT mostly failed to do. I like him and find him to be much deeper than Luke. Obi-Wan is still my favorite, though.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
I think Hayden did a good job as Anakin but the writing really stunted his impact, most of the actors were fine except the young kid who played small Anakin, he was just kind of there and annoying
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Well that was pathetic
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Rice Cube,
I’d agree with that. What’s sad is that HC is a decent enough actor and Natalie Portman a great one, but the writing and directing gave them so little to work with. Even worse is that they reportedly had insane chemistry on set but Lucas wanted Anakin to be more emotionally stunted and awkward, so none of it came through.
At least Irvin Kershner knew well enough to bottle and sell the sexual tension between Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher (probably helped that those two were actually sleeping together). When trying to depict a love strong enough to help nuke a religious order and the galactic government, using what he had would have been wise.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Dansby –> IL
Seiya –> Cubs
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https://www.mlb.com/gameday/cubs-vs-pirates/2024/05/10/745506/preview
Today’s Cubs lineup
SS Hoerner
RF Tauchman
DH Bellinger
3B Morel
LF Happ
1B Busch
2B Madrigal
C Amaya
CF PCA
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Did the Cubs accidentally run over a magic road runner in Tempe or what?
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Bah, Red Sox
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PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
Somehow I never realized he was in the clone wars series, (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
Did he not train Ahsoka Tano on the sly since they didn’t grant him the rank of master or whatever?
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Rice Cube,
He was officially assigned Ahsoka as his Padawan and he trained her near to knighthood. Then she got framed for a crime and the bulk of the council sold her out in the interest of politics, so when she was cleared she left the order, even though Anakin was always in her corner.
Given that “train a Padawan to knighthood” is generally one of the requirements to become a Jedi Master, that arc goes a long way to explaining why Anakin immediately flips out on the Jedi Council when they deny it to him.
Also it blew my mind when I realized Ahsoka’s voice actor is married to baseball’s original Scrappy Doo, David Eckstein.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
I guess the mitochloridans produce grit
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
(dying laughing)
PerkinsQuote Reply
I assumed it was all original characters
berseliusQuote Reply
stupid rain, come to new mexico instead
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
Oh no while TCW introduces a lot of new characters (all the named Clone Troopers other than Cody, Ahsoka, and many others), it also has Anakin, Obi-Wan, Padme, Yoda, Dooku, Palpatine, and the rest.
It substantially improves the prequel trilogy retroactively since it fleshes out the characters and their relationships much better than the movies did.
I should note this is the TV series – the TCW movie is very bad.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Belli!
berseliusQuote Reply
Cubs defense (derogatory)
berseliusQuote Reply
Perhaps the pitchers should just strike everyone out so they are not dependent on fielders, as it were
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In play, run(s)
andcountingQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
Ben Brown reads this blog
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It is rather unfortunate that the Cards couldn’t stop sucking for the weekend
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Belli >>> Pirates
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Ben Brown looks awesome tonight.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Good job everyone
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Good solid win, though Adbert is clearly still going through it.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
Mop up was the right place to get him right, or try to anyway
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8/9 Cubs because I forgot about Raffy Palmeiro.
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Obscure knowledge not quite obscure enough
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Interesting lineup today with Seiya returning
https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1789357403139408184?t=WniU1gHkW1e3ODlCdAeRGw&s=19
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Almonte –> IL
Cuas –> Cubs
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Skenes good
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
Skenes a bust
berseliusQuote Reply
Man, Morel. So close.
andcountingQuote Reply
I can’t remember the last time both teams had their DH batting leadoff.
andcountingQuote Reply
I was about to say that Skenes-Mastrobuoni was as big a mismatch as my softball team had against an A-league team this morning, but he actually managed to get a hit (dying laughing). We got stomped 28-2 and the margin felt even bigger.
berseliusQuote Reply
Welp, hope Morel isn’t hurt now too
berseliusQuote Reply
You gotta love the at bats where a guy strikes out on four pitches and the only called ball is the only pitch in the zone.
Argh, goddammit.
andcountingQuote Reply
Jesus Christ. Everything is right down the middle all of a sudden.
andcountingQuote Reply
Crazy seeing those clips of Prior’s debut, seeing nothing on the brick walls behind the plate (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Nico!
berseliusQuote Reply
I guess this bullpen guy wanted to pad Skenes’s ERA (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
This game went from annoying to kinda hilarious
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Holy cow
berseliusQuote Reply
Something about control issues
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Crazy
SKQuote Reply
Feels like someone asked ChatGPT to make a Cubs Pirates game with that terrible loss to the Padres as inspiration.
andcountingQuote Reply
holy crap
SKQuote Reply
Pirates pen trying to make the cubs pen feel better
berseliusQuote Reply
(dying laughing) x 6
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Oh now it rains (dying laughing)
Rice CubeQuote Reply
And the Pirates come up one out short of making it an official game. I haven’t looked at the radar, but if the rain doesn’t let up, that kid’s debut never happened.
andcountingQuote Reply
andcounting,
I believe due to the new tight schedule they just suspend the game and resume at the point of delay
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