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The irony of this post is way to funny wheels.
The irony of this post is way to funny wheels.
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I see the football fans have come to the Cubs board.
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I never venture over there. Is that what this is?
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Making sweeping generalizations about small sample sizes is fun!
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Are you still drinking from the grief that brought you????
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This team can't hit fastballs either. They keep watching them go by. It's fine to take a ton of pitches and work counts. It can certainly win a lot of games in the regular season. Getting behind in counts against better post season pitching gives you what you have. Rock bottom offense. These guys are taking FB right down main street because it isn't deep enough in the count. And how you attack a CB pitcher like Hill is looking fastball, getting the foot down early and adjusting to the breaking ball. The way the team attacked each AB against Hill, and I use the word "attack" in jest regarding last night, was a disaster. Also, Russell should can his big leg kick right now and Baez should go no-stride every pitch and every AB right now.
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This is the end...
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Well, the Cubs had problems all year against strike throwers. That is what happened the past two night. Pitchers who pounded the zone did better against us. The Cubs take a lot of pitches and that is great but when a pitcher is pounding the zone. It gets you in holes. Hill was just pumping easy ones down the middle and getting them behind in the count immediately. Then, when he got two strikes they were guessing curveball on every pitch. Its why the Cubs have a lot of OBP guys and not a lot of high average guys.
Urias is a pitcher they should fare better. He doesnt have his command. The Cubs are going to push some walks out of him. In the end, the doom and gloom is pretty hillarious. The Cubs havent lost three games straight in the second half. This is the first game they face adversity all season. Lets see what they do instead of all being playground hero coaches who think they have the magic touch.
Urias is a pitcher they should fare better. He doesnt have his command. The Cubs are going to push some walks out of him. In the end, the doom and gloom is pretty hillarious. The Cubs havent lost three games straight in the second half. This is the first game they face adversity all season. Lets see what they do instead of all being playground hero coaches who think they have the magic touch.
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In general, its why fans are so emotional. The Bears boards has a ton of meatballs, but it isnt just Bears fans. Its football fans. Football is a sprint and baseball is a marathon. People dont get that so they live or die by every game.
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Oh I get that, it's part of the reason I gave up on the NFL over a year ago after nearly 50 years of fandom. Even as baseball goes though the contrast between the attitudes of Cubs fans and Blue Jays fans right now is stark.
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Eh, read the Bears board from time to time. It will make you feel better about this board.
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Maybe you should STFU. You are not knowledgeable enough of a poster to be so condescending. I can literally feel the energy of your bitterness through the internet. I can only imagine how you conduct yourself in real life. People must stay far, far away from you IRL. To type something on a keyboard, post it on the internet, and have people all around the world actually feel the bitterness vibrating through you -- wow.
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They are a mistake hitting team. Like a slider over the middle. They for the most part are good at waiting out for their pitch but of the Ump is giving strikes away then there is not much you can do about it.
The thing with a hammer is it is a big movement pitch. You almost have to tomahawk at it do drive it. Swinging on a plane is hard to get the right launch angle and add to it the pitch is slower so the exit speed will also be lessened. It is a pitch type that you see many pop ups out of because of the downward action going through the zone.
Now I don't know much about Urias's stuff and if he has a hammer or not. The point is the Cubs can't do anything with it.
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Accually with Bryant's natural upper cut it made sense it got a few hits off of it. His bat is almost polar to the hammer so the contact point lined up better.
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What "proven winners" did the Hawks have in 2010 for example that doesn't compare to the Cubs having guys like Lackey, Lester, Zobrist?
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Yes. Drama queens. Live and die with each pitch. Hey, TC. Did you know Soler cost us the season out in RF last night.
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I submit that I'm knowledgeable enough to know that trading Anthony Rizzo is one of the most laughably stupid bad baseball thoughts anyone has ever had, and that anyone who agrees with it deserves every bit of mockery, scorn, and ridicule that is rightly heaped upon them. Should we count you in that camp of irredeemables?
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So, much for allowing other to have an opinion.
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You're the same guy who told me I was wrong and Soler cost us the season out in RF. You're the last person who should be telling anyone, including fat beard, they aren't knowledgeable enough.