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Yep. Save a garbage plate umpire in game 1, they could have taken 2 of 3. Quintana looked decent. This is a good sign down the stretch.
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Question gents....I was bowling tonight and while the game is on monitors all over the place, you can't hear what's being said. What was the Rizzo play at home being reviewed for? Guys were saying safe/out, I thought they were looking for the catcher illegally blocking home plate....which never gets fucking called.
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If the catcher has the ball then he can block the plate. If he doesnt then he needs to give the runner a path to the plate
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Magic number is down to 20 with 23 to play for the cubs, 21 for MIL and 22 for STL
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No, the magic number is 19. http://www.cubsmagicnumber.com/2018/
The Cubs have a 5 game advantage in the loss column with 3.5 weeks to play. The rule of thumb is that teams can make up a game a week. I hope everyone is off the ledge now.
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It still looked like their stiff catcher had the ball in his glove at his waist and tagged higher on the leg when rizzos foot was on the plate.
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Site i was using apparently hadn't updated the days games when i looked.
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were there any injury reports on Schwarber? Looked like he threw out his back on that home run swing, took a real long time getting around the bases and did not look very comfortable?
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Day to day. Not expected to be in the lineup tonight.
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Thanks for that, beck. I could always derive it myself, I know... but I'm still on seriously strong painkillers, and I make it a point never to take painkillers, or drink, and derive...
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Yep -- second and third, one out in the fourth, and Q just melted down like crazy. Loaded the bases in the process. No way he's gonna get past the fourth, the way this is going...
Oh, yeah. He only allowed one run out of that jam, and pitched into the seventh, IIRC. Quality start out of that "inevitable" Quintana meltdown.
Just goes to show you, it makes no sense to immediately assume you're going to end up in a butt-pounding federal penitentiary the moment you see a cop car with its lights a-going in your rear view mirror. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, he's not after you; you're just in his way. Same thing with baseball -- just because your pitcher gets in a jam doesn't mean you're immediately doomed to endure the worst possible outcome, people.
I'd agree with y'all that the games are played on the field and not on paper, if y'all would just stop assuming that the numbers are only wrong when they indicate that the play on the field will average around a certain point. Why rail against a scientific method that says our players will have good days and bad days, unless you're trying to support your phobic insistence that, the moment one thing goes against us, we can just assume the worst? You're really making a different case not to play out the game -- in that argument, you just want to assume the worst outcome and declare the Cubs as having failed, big-time.
So, next time, when one of our pitchers gets into a jam, or one of our hitters gets to an 0-2 count, maybe let the inning, or at least the at-bat, play out before declaring that we're doomed, we're doomed, oh, the pain...
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Yep -- second and third, one out in the fourth, and Q just melted down like crazy. Loaded the bases in the process. No way he's gonna get past the fourth, the way this is going...
Oh, yeah. He only allowed one run out of that jam, and pitched into the seventh, IIRC. Quality start out of that "inevitable" Quintana meltdown.
Just goes to show you, it makes no sense to immediately assume you're going to end up in a butt-pounding federal penitentiary the moment you see a cop car with its lights a-going in your rear view mirror. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, he's not after you; you're just in his way. Same thing with baseball -- just because your pitcher gets in a jam doesn't mean you're immediately doomed to endure the worst possible outcome, people.
I'd agree with y'all that the games are played on the field and not on paper, if y'all would just stop assuming that the numbers are only wrong when they indicate that the play on the field will average around a certain point. Why rail against a scientific method that says our players will have good days and bad days, unless you're trying to support your phobic insistence that, the moment one thing goes against us, we can just assume the worst? You're really making a different case not to play out the game -- in that argument, you just want to assume the worst outcome and declare the Cubs as having failed, big-time.
So, next time, when one of our pitchers gets into a jam, or one of our hitters gets to an 0-2 count, maybe let the inning, or at least the at-bat, play out before declaring that we're doomed, we're doomed, oh, the pain...
LOL....what in the world is that analogy? So, I'm speeding and getting pulled over and thinking that I might be going to prison to get butt fucked? Can't say that's ever happened to me but who knows, maybe I'm in the minority on this one.
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The concept is quoted from the movie "Office Space", in which the main characters were hyper-paranoid that this fate awaited them.
Now, if I could just find my stapler...
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Think it takes more than speeding. Popping norco and polishing a 5th then running over grandma. Well if you live rape is not your fear. Shanking is.
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Have heard of it but never saw it.
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PC Load Letter.....?
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I knew Taylor Davis was going to drive in a run tonight.
Called it!
Who is Taylor Davis??
Called it!
Who is Taylor Davis??
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