Jake Arrieta 2017 Salary Drive Sploogefest

[Quality Start Machine]

He's good.

[Saul Goodman]

I am enjoying this season, so far.

Meh. It's been ok.

[CBStew]

He's good.

But clearly, he is not perfect.

[PenFoe]

<Insert irrational "Give him all the money" post>

[SKO]

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

[CubFaninHydePark]

<Insert irrational "Give him all the money" post>

I'll get a CDL if it means I can have the honor of backing up the dump truck full of money into his driveway.

[Tonker]

Lowest number of regular season starts to include two no-hitters:

Roy Halladay        24 (2012, second start was post-season, though)
Max Scherzer      20 (2015)
Homer Bailey       19 (2012-13)
Nolan Ryan         15 (1973)
Nolan Ryan          12 (1974-75)
JAY CARRIETA    10 (2015-16)
Warren Spahn       7 (1960-61)

Did I miss anybody?  What Arrieta has done since last summer hasn't quite been historic, but bloody nearly.

EDIT: per Chuck Dickens (for it is he), Johnny Vander Meer threw back-to-back no-nos once, when Stew was a kid.

[Canadouche]

I take back what I said, and reiterate: Jake Arrieta is the greatest Cubs pitcher I've ever seen. Greg Maddux can suck it.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Lowest number of regular season starts to include two no-hitters:

Roy Halladay        24 (2012, second start was post-season, though)
Max Scherzer      20 (2015)
Homer Bailey       19 (2012-13)
Nolan Ryan         15 (1973)
Nolan Ryan          12 (1974-75)
JAY CARRIETA    10 (2015-16)
Warren Spahn       7 (1960-61)

Did I miss anybody?  What Arrieta has done since last summer hasn't quite been historic, but bloody nearly.

EDIT: per Chuck Dickens (for it is he), Johnny Vander Meer threw back-to-back no-nos once, when Stew was a kid.

The second of which happened to be the first-ever night game at Ebbetts Field if I'm not mistaken.

[Grandmaster Wang]

Here's something I've been thinking about recently... at what point does what Jake's been doing go from super fucking rare, to unprecedented, to singular? As in, never done before and likely never to be repeated. Previously thought to be impossible. That kind of thing. I mean, I guess we started to get a little taste of unprecedented during the second half of last year. Now we seem to be staring at some potentially unprecedented-over-a-calendar-year type shit. But I'm wondering at what point does it move into that never-before-and-never-again type territory.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Here's something I've been thinking about recently... at what point does what Jake's been doing go from super fucking rare, to unprecedented, to singular? As in, never done before and likely never to be repeated. Previously thought to be impossible. That kind of thing. I mean, I guess we started to get a little taste of unprecedented during the second half of last year. Now we seem to be staring at some potentially unprecedented-over-a-calendar-year type shit. But I'm wondering at what point does it move into that never-before-and-never-again type territory.

You've articulated what my potato brain has been scratching at, thank you.

[Quality Start Machine]

Jake is THE MOTHERFUCKING BALLS.

[Powdered Toast Man]

Jake Arrieta is Superman.

[Canadouche]

Jake Arrieta pitches as if he's playing a MLB video game on Easy Mode.

[Brownie]

It's been almost 99 years since this shitshow and 50 since this one, so I hope Hippo Vaughn and Larry Jackson are cackling somewhere.

Four teams have thrown no-hitters against the Cubs. Jake has avenged two of those teams (Dodgers -- twice, and Reds -- twice). The Cubs are in San Francisco (ghosts of Christy Mathewson) May 20-22 and host Philadelphia (ghosts of Cole Hamels and Chick Fraser) May 27-29. If Maddon sticks with the five-man rotation with the off-days, Arrieta misses both of them.