2015: The Back To The Future Season

[Bort]

I just love that it's game 15 and the Cubs have already had 978 instances where an extra bench spot would be REALLY FUCKING USEFUL, and there's still people contending "David Ross can't hurt the Cubs that much!"

FUCK it's silent in here.

People who deserve your anger for David Ross' presence on the active roster in descending order of relevance:

1. Jepstink
2a. Jon Lester
2b. Joe Maddon
3. David Ross

OK, so let's all be mad at Jepstink about this.

I don't get how someone else deciding he should play somehow makes him immune from criticism on the field. He's being treated like the retarded kid that's allowed to get on the field for two minutes at the end of a blowout.

[Eli]

I just love that it's game 15 and the Cubs have already had 978 instances where an extra bench spot would be REALLY FUCKING USEFUL, and there's still people contending "David Ross can't hurt the Cubs that much!"

FUCK it's silent in here.

People who deserve your anger for David Ross' presence on the active roster in descending order of relevance:

1. Jepstink
2a. Jon Lester
2b. Joe Maddon
3. David Ross

OK, so let's all be mad at Jepstink about this.

I don't get how someone else deciding he should play somehow makes him immune from criticism on the field. He's being treated like the retarded kid that's allowed to get on the field for two minutes at the end of a blowout.

People think they can't criticize anything related to the Cubs because the front office has (rightfully, of course) earned such a long leash. That pile_of_derp guy was being all pollyanna on Twitter today about "joyless" Cubs fans who question things and can't just accept everything that happens with the team.

We should all be objective enough to determine if David Ross is a bad signing whether he was signed by Jepstink or Jim Hendry or Branch Rickey or Fork's Stationary Dancing Shoes. That's the whole point of sports -- to watch it and talk about it with your weirdo Internet friends.

[SKO]

The 6th inning is a hellish nightmare from which this team cannot wake

[CT III]

Guys, when the fuck did we start not blaming players for being worthless sacks of shit? It's a disturbing trend, that leads to the acceptance of Gutless Fucking Assholery.

This is the problem with Desipio being a closed shop.  We're all getting older, and milder, and there's no new, young blood to remind us of when we used to be fucking PUNK, man.

The only thing worse than punks are people who used to be punks, man.

[Bort]

The 6th inning is a hellish nightmare from which this team cannot wake

[Bonk]

Good to see Jackson and Schitter resume their campaigns to see who the worst middle reliever in baseball is.

[InternetApex]

The 6th inning is a hellish nightmare from which this team cannot wake

They've given up 11 sixth-inning runs in 15 games. Three times they've given up three in that frame. They've given up 57 runs total.

I don't know if that's bad. It seems bad.

[ChuckD]

The 6th inning is a hellish nightmare from which this team cannot wake

They've given up 11 sixth-inning runs in 15 games. Three times they've given up three in that frame. They've given up 57 runs total.

I don't know if that's bad. It seems bad.

Which means if you ignore those three games, they've only given up 2 sixth-inning runs in 12 games!

[Quality Start Machine]

Those pickoff throws by Castillo weren't the best of ideas either. Particularly the one to first when there was a runner on second.

[Saul Goodman]

Quick note from Joe Sheehan's newsletter, today's topic: the Mets...

The Mets have used 13 pitchers this season. Just seven of those pitchers have walked more than one batter. I mentioned that the league K/UIBB was 2.9; the Mets' K/UIBB is 4.9. That's not likely to continue, but yes, it would be the best ever by a large margin. (The Cubs, at 5.0, are actually posting a higher figure so far.)

[SKO]

Quick note from Joe Sheehan's newsletter, today's topic: the Mets...

The Mets have used 13 pitchers this season. Just seven of those pitchers have walked more than one batter. I mentioned that the league K/UIBB was 2.9; the Mets' K/UIBB is 4.9. That's not likely to continue, but yes, it would be the best ever by a large margin. (The Cubs, at 5.0, are actually posting a higher figure so far.)

Yeah, it seems like the Cubs pitchers, especially the starters, have gotten in trouble mostly from teams stringing together hits and not by walking guys or pitching themselves into trouble. I had no idea that "cluster luck" was even a stat, but apparently they've been unusually unfortunate in that department, and also that their opposing BABIP has been abnormally high, too.

So either they'll start walking more batters and really deserving the runs they give up, or they'll get better luck and give up fewer singles in a row and be fine. Have to see how this plays out.

[Slaky]

I got in the car and heard Franchester call the final pitch of today's game. He Hawk Harrelsoned it as much as possible when one is on the radio.

It was glorious.

[Bonk]

I got in the car and heard Franchester call the final pitch of today's game. He Hawk Harrelsoned it as much as possible when one is on the radio.

It was glorious.

It's burning his bag that the Cubs are going to be better than the Reds for the remainder of his natural life. Even his dumb ass can see it.

[Bonk]

I went to both games and it was about 15 percent Cubs fans on Friday and maybe 20 percent on Sunday.

My wife and I got there for BP on Friday, and for whatever reason they open around the plate early to season ticket holders and don't open the bleachers until after BP is over, which defeats the purpose.

One Cubs fan came up from field level and told me he got kicked out of the section for fist pumping Rondon. GABP is run ass-backwards and has the most militant ushers I've ever seen. Having fun apparently isn't allowed at games.

I did stand for the last out on Sunday in a section that was about 50-50 Cubs and Reds fans, and dumb Reds fans behind me were bitching and telling me to sit down even though hundreds of others in a couple of other sections were doing the same thing.

[SKO]

I got in the car and heard Franchester call the final pitch of today's game. He Hawk Harrelsoned it as much as possible when one is on the radio.

It was glorious.

It's burning his bag that the Cubs are going to be better than the Reds for the remainder of his natural life. Even his dumb ass can see it.

I hate the Cardinals most of all, but the fact that the Great Reds Revival came and went without them doing much of anything pleases me greatly. I look forward to Thom blowing a gasket next year and blaming Joey Votto's .390 OBP for them winning 71 games because he won't SWING THE BAT.