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Quote from: SKO on August 30, 2016, 03:02:01 PMQuote from: Eli on August 30, 2016, 02:49:20 PMQuote from: morpheus on August 30, 2016, 02:19:02 PM
DOOM.
Doom aside, that's some high-quality analysis.
Indeed. It gives me some hope they can fix this before October if they can successfully diagnose the problem.
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on August 26, 2016, 01:37:44 PMQuote from: Bort on August 26, 2016, 12:57:57 PM
...I honestly don't care if any Cubs win any awards this year if they take the series.
This times infinity.
Quote from: SKO on August 26, 2016, 11:55:49 AMQuote from: PenFoe on August 26, 2016, 11:20:41 AM
If I had a Cy Young vote in the NL, I don't think I'd have any Cubs pitchers in the top 3.
If Kershaw does come back this month and finishes strong I'd still give it to him, otherwise my vote would be for Fernandez, but it's hard to see the Cy going to a guy who may not crack the top 5 in ERA, dumb as that is.
I reserve the right to revoke this opinion if Jake has a final month as good as what he had last year.
Quote from: WTB...A RING FFS!! on August 23, 2016, 10:24:46 PM
He's in the groove.
Quote from: SKO on August 24, 2016, 08:18:24 AMQuote from: Cannonball Titcomb on August 24, 2016, 08:10:40 AMQuote from: SKO on August 24, 2016, 07:28:46 AMQuote from: Oleg on August 23, 2016, 09:51:08 PMQuote from: ChuckD on August 23, 2016, 06:01:32 PMQuote from: CBStew on August 23, 2016, 05:34:09 PMQuote from: Yeti on August 23, 2016, 12:52:08 PMBut if the Cubs are winning it doesn't matter what the Pirates do, they will at least remain the same distance apart.
Another fun thing:
The Cubs magic number over the Cardinals is 27. They play each other the from September 12th through the 14th in St Louis.
IF, and this is a big if, the Cubs continue their "Last 30" pace of a .733 WP%, and the Cardinals perform slightly below their season WP% of .54, then the Cubs could potentially clinch the division by the last game of that series. That also assumes the Pirates don't surge and pass the Cardinals.
The Cubs are 34 games above .500 now. It's looking like 98 wins will clinch home field advantage through the NLCS unless Washington does something insane.
Right now, assuming the Fighting Jepstinks win 50% of their remaining games: 98 - 64
After the next two games at San Diego, they play three @Dodgers before home series against Pittsburgh and SF (4 games).
It'd be nice if they could go 7-5 or thereabout over those games. That'd give them basically a full month where .500 ball gets them a 99-100 win season.
Would allow them to get healthy, rested, and set the rotation and evaluate/showcase some September call up guys.
A month of .500 ball would give some around here an ulcer.
I'd be fine with it. September should be pretty much completely stress free regardless and I'd love to see guys like Candelario get an extended chance to boost their trade value.
You know he wasn't referring to you there, right? As astonishing as that might be?
I wanted to believe he wasn't, but I'd also know I'd have no right to get offended if he was.
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on August 24, 2016, 12:35:54 PMQuote from: SKO on August 24, 2016, 11:58:22 AMQuote from: Quality Start Machine on August 24, 2016, 11:46:32 AMQuote from: SKO on August 24, 2016, 11:09:30 AMQuote from: R-V on August 24, 2016, 11:04:43 AMQuote from: WTB...A RING FFS!! on August 24, 2016, 10:45:13 AMQuote from: R-V on August 24, 2016, 09:48:29 AMQuote from: WTB...A RING FFS!! on August 23, 2016, 10:25:52 PMWow, this kid's LOCKED IN! He's almost at league-avg for hitting.
Delete your account.
Eat a dick RV. I was saying that he's locked in, and that he's finally about to hit league avg. Considering he hovered around .230 for the 1st half of the season, that's real improvement. Maybe Heyward should be paying attention.
While I'm eating this delicious plate of spotted dick, I will mention that focusing on a 22 year-old defensive stud of a shortstop's ability to achieve a league-average batting average might be missing the point.
Especially since he's above-average by both wRC+ and OPS+, and national league shortstops as a whole are batting .257/.317/.403/.720, so he's well above average for his position.
He's also currently 7th among major league shortstops with a 3.4 WAR, in his first full big-league season. That seems pretty good.
He is lucky that he only has to compete directly with Seager for awards at his position, because it's some real shit luck that he is one of the ten best young shortstop prospects of the last 10-15 years and the 5 or so that might be better than him just happen to be the exact same age he is
Seager has apparently been slightly better defensively as far as fangraphs is concerned but based on their reputation (people questioned whether Seager would even stick at short, long term while Russell has never had that issue) I'd give Addison a real good shot at a gold glove. In the AL I don't think anyone questions that Lindor's going to get that.
Russell will get more World Series rings than Seager. I'm sure he'll be cool with that.
Quote from: Eli on August 23, 2016, 11:05:32 AM
Up to third in the MLB in WAR. It'll be a tight race to see if he can top the 8.2 WAR Troy Glaus posted in his second full MLB season.
Quote from: InternetApex on August 18, 2016, 09:00:34 PMQuote from: Slaky on July 13, 2016, 07:12:50 AMQuote from: InternetApex on July 10, 2016, 11:32:29 AMQuote from: Slaky on July 07, 2016, 06:28:14 AMQuote from: Saul Goodman on July 07, 2016, 05:02:29 AM
Dwyane Wade. Yay?
Gotta get back into that 4-6 seed for next year's traditional second round exit.
Wildly optimistic.
Saw something even better that suggested with the out clauses for Wade and Rondo's contract being up in 2 years or whatever it is that the Bulls are primed to have Wade recruit big names and they'll have the space to sign a couple of them.
In a world that made sense the place where MJ did his thing/one of the biggest cities in the country would be a prime destination for FAs. Instead you've got GarPax and Hoiberg picking dingleberries.
It's too bad.
I think the weather has a lot to do with it. What cold weather city has been a prime free agent destination since about 2000? If all the money is the same under the cap and it only takes two or three big time players to make a run, what matters? Nobody cares about history. Players don't sign with the Lakers because of Magic Johnson, they sign there because of Los Angeles. New York could draw some players too, though the Knicks and Nets have been wandering around in the wilderness forever.
Players go to LA, Dallas, Golden State, Houston, Miami.
We could also talk about how Chicago isn't a fantastic place for black people to live but I'd be talking out the entire side of my ass. I'll let somebody else make that point.
But history and legacy don't have shit on geography.
Quote from: flannj on August 18, 2016, 04:55:15 PMQuote from: PenFoe on August 18, 2016, 03:54:56 PMQuote from: Bort on August 18, 2016, 02:23:39 PMQuote from: SKO on August 18, 2016, 02:14:28 PMQuote from: Cannonball Titcomb on August 18, 2016, 02:12:45 PMQuote from: SKO on August 18, 2016, 02:07:10 PMQuote from: Bort on August 18, 2016, 01:57:33 PMQuote from: Tony on August 18, 2016, 09:37:03 AMYep.Quote from: Bort on August 17, 2016, 12:52:30 PMQuote from: Tonker on August 17, 2016, 12:49:04 PM
I enjoyed the shit out of this. Crowe and Gosling in a buddycopP.I. farce/buddy/whodunnit movie set in seventies' LA. The script fairly hums along, there's some fantastic slapstick and loads and loads of little comic payoffs if you're paying attention. Fucking magic.
I have heard nothing but good about this. I look forward to finally seeing it in 2024.
Mrs. Butthead really wanted to see this. It's on our list right after the second Avengers movie, the latest Captain America movie, and basically every non-Star Wars movie that has come out in the last couple years. My point is we never go to movies since the kid showed up.
The upside of my highly memeable life living on a college campus is that there is never a shortage of babysitters willing to watch Augie for a couple of hours so we can go to the movies whenever there is something we really want to see. Most of them offer to do it for free so they can hang out with a baby and also enjoy free cable/Netflix on our Adult Sized TV. Usually we just pay them with food.
Yeah I'd be a little wary of such folk.
Well they are college aged girls. I'm not inviting Yeti over.
Unfortunately the perfect storm of 1. autistic child and 2. INCREDIBLY NERVOUS MOTHER means that we can only have certain people that she has vetted like crazy (such as, say, grandparents) watch him.
You're not alone. We didn't let anyone watch the kids for a long, long time, including (especially??) the grandparents.
To this day, my kids are 7 and 5 and my wife has never spent a night apart from them (except for one weekend when she went away with the 7-year old and left me with the 5-year old.)
What?
Quote from: Cannonball Titcomb on August 18, 2016, 04:43:24 PMQuote from: SKO on August 18, 2016, 03:58:45 PMQuote from: PenFoe on August 18, 2016, 03:54:56 PMQuote from: Bort on August 18, 2016, 02:23:39 PMQuote from: SKO on August 18, 2016, 02:14:28 PMQuote from: Cannonball Titcomb on August 18, 2016, 02:12:45 PMQuote from: SKO on August 18, 2016, 02:07:10 PMQuote from: Bort on August 18, 2016, 01:57:33 PMQuote from: Tony on August 18, 2016, 09:37:03 AMYep.Quote from: Bort on August 17, 2016, 12:52:30 PMQuote from: Tonker on August 17, 2016, 12:49:04 PM
I enjoyed the shit out of this. Crowe and Gosling in a buddycopP.I. farce/buddy/whodunnit movie set in seventies' LA. The script fairly hums along, there's some fantastic slapstick and loads and loads of little comic payoffs if you're paying attention. Fucking magic.
I have heard nothing but good about this. I look forward to finally seeing it in 2024.
Mrs. Butthead really wanted to see this. It's on our list right after the second Avengers movie, the latest Captain America movie, and basically every non-Star Wars movie that has come out in the last couple years. My point is we never go to movies since the kid showed up.
The upside of my highly memeable life living on a college campus is that there is never a shortage of babysitters willing to watch Augie for a couple of hours so we can go to the movies whenever there is something we really want to see. Most of them offer to do it for free so they can hang out with a baby and also enjoy free cable/Netflix on our Adult Sized TV. Usually we just pay them with food.
Yeah I'd be a little wary of such folk.
Well they are college aged girls. I'm not inviting Yeti over.
Unfortunately the perfect storm of 1. autistic child and 2. INCREDIBLY NERVOUS MOTHER means that we can only have certain people that she has vetted like crazy (such as, say, grandparents) watch him.
You're not alone. We didn't let anyone watch the kids for a long, long time, including (especially??) the grandparents.
To this day, my kids are 7 and 5 and my wife has never spent a night apart from them (except for one weekend when she went away with the 7-year old and left me with the 5-year old.)
On thanksgiving weekend last year we went to a movie. The movie theater is like 4 minutes from where we live, my mother in law and her parents were at our house, so the three of them watched him while he went directly to the movie and came back. We were gone for about 2 1/2 hours, I think my wife checked her phone probably 15 times during the movie.
She didn't let him stay home with an actual babysitter that wasn't a grandparent until he was about 10-11 months old, and even then the longest stretch has been maybe 4 hours.
The other factor is that family will babysit for free but if you want a good, responsible non-familial babysitter, you'll need to be prepared to cough up some dough--especially if you want them to do it again. That's something that people don't tell you before you have a kid. It basically comes to a third meal and drinks. I have been counting down the days until my oldest is old enough to stay at home with the younger one.
Quote from: Bort on August 18, 2016, 02:23:39 PMQuote from: SKO on August 18, 2016, 02:14:28 PMQuote from: Cannonball Titcomb on August 18, 2016, 02:12:45 PMQuote from: SKO on August 18, 2016, 02:07:10 PMQuote from: Bort on August 18, 2016, 01:57:33 PMQuote from: Tony on August 18, 2016, 09:37:03 AMYep.Quote from: Bort on August 17, 2016, 12:52:30 PMQuote from: Tonker on August 17, 2016, 12:49:04 PM
I enjoyed the shit out of this. Crowe and Gosling in a buddycopP.I. farce/buddy/whodunnit movie set in seventies' LA. The script fairly hums along, there's some fantastic slapstick and loads and loads of little comic payoffs if you're paying attention. Fucking magic.
I have heard nothing but good about this. I look forward to finally seeing it in 2024.
Mrs. Butthead really wanted to see this. It's on our list right after the second Avengers movie, the latest Captain America movie, and basically every non-Star Wars movie that has come out in the last couple years. My point is we never go to movies since the kid showed up.
The upside of my highly memeable life living on a college campus is that there is never a shortage of babysitters willing to watch Augie for a couple of hours so we can go to the movies whenever there is something we really want to see. Most of them offer to do it for free so they can hang out with a baby and also enjoy free cable/Netflix on our Adult Sized TV. Usually we just pay them with food.
Yeah I'd be a little wary of such folk.
Well they are college aged girls. I'm not inviting Yeti over.
Unfortunately the perfect storm of 1. autistic child and 2. INCREDIBLY NERVOUS MOTHER means that we can only have certain people that she has vetted like crazy (such as, say, grandparents) watch him.
Quote from: Powdered Toast Man on August 17, 2016, 12:42:43 PM
...I don't watch the news much at all, so are you guys up to speed with what's happening where I live in Baton Rouge, LA?
We had a 1,000 year rain event here over the weekend. A lot of creeks, bayous and rivers overflowed their banks. There are thousands without homes to return to. There is a town to the north and east of Baton Rouge called Denham Springs where it's estimated that 90% of the homes there are complete losses. I think the number reported by local media was that 13% of the people in the parish have flood insurance. Most of the homes affected aren't even in flood zones (you are required to have flood insurance if you're in a flood zone if you obtain a mortgage...loosely stated). FEMA will qualify those people for assistance because of the magnitude of this event.
The Amite River was so swollen, it backflowed (the river was so high that it's tributaries took on reverse flow and thus overflowed their banks). Now, Baton Rouge is not New Orleans. New Orleans, in cross section, looks like a bowl and is bounded by Lake Pontchartrain and sea level in the lake is above ground level in the city.
Baton Rouge just has low lying areas here and there. But in such an extreme event (like I said, this was a 1,000 year event it's being estimated) even areas not in flood zones were inundated. Here's the Range Avenue interchange with Interstate 12 in Denham Springs (before and after):
A few more areas:
A neighborhood in Denham Springs:
Juban Road in Denham Springs:
A portion of LSU's campus (LSU is located in Baton Rouge, in the western portion of East Baton Rouge Parish...Denham Springs is about 25 minutes east of campus):
I don't need anything and my own family and neighborhood are, thankfully, high and dry. I'm not asking for money, I'm not asking for donations, I'm just asking that you guys think about the good people coming together in this area in the wake of what happened in Baton Rouge, LA recently with the shooting death of Alton Sterling and the ambush on Baton Rouge police shortly afterward.
People have immediately started gofundme pages, started collecting and donating goods, and have pooled their own resources like boats, tools, etc. to help their neighbors.
This is one of the times I'm most proud of the people around me. I just thought I'd share with you all. There are lots of Cubs fans in south Louisiana, also.
Go Cubs, go.
Quote from: ChuckD on August 16, 2016, 03:03:37 PMQuote from: PenFoe on August 16, 2016, 02:38:46 PMQuote from: Wheezer on August 16, 2016, 02:34:51 PMQuote from: LaStella's Beef on August 16, 2016, 09:38:52 AM
I get burnt ends shipped from Jack Stack on a regular basis and they are in my opinion hands down the highest form of barbecue.
"Seal in the natural juices"? "Kobe beef burnt ends"?
I'm reminded of the entertainment I had back when WGN handed out $100 LobsterGram prizes.
My step-brother-in-law (he's married to my step-sister-in-law, so I don't know what that makes him. Basically, he's married to my wife's step-sister) used to work for LobsterGram. I was continually amused by that.
Your step-brother-in-law is married to your step-sister-in-law?
Quote from: PenFoe on July 21, 2016, 11:16:58 AMQuote from: SKO on July 21, 2016, 10:49:20 AMQuote from: Quality Start Machine on July 21, 2016, 10:43:44 AMQuote from: SKO on July 21, 2016, 08:53:38 AM
Theo may also wait and see if Edwards can keep this up before he decides more pen help is needed. Right now Edwards/Montgomery/Strop/Rondon with Wood available as your long man or loogy depending on the situation is a promising group, with Matusz potentially joining them in the near future. Grimm's also been less of a dumpster fire of late and if he's your 5th or 6th option you're probably not in a place where overpaying for Miller is your best bet.
We'll also find out fairly soon if Joe Nathan can serve any purpose for a couple months.
Spoiler: No
Armando Rivero still just hanging around in Iowa, striking everyone out that he doesn't walk.
