Jason Hammel Return Postage Paid, Spiral-Sliced Splooge Thread

[Saul Goodman]

That was beautiful.

[flannj]

That was beautiful.

Tejada spitting toward the mound while he walks back to the dugout is such class.

[SKO]

I appreciated both Jason's stellar effort tonight and Joe's decision not to push it with a seventh inning even though his pitch count would have warranted it. Hammel was leaving the ball up a lot those last couple of innings.  Nice to have a manager who is proactive rather than waiting for the shit to hit the fan.

[Quality Start Machine]

I appreciated both Jason's stellar effort tonight and Joe's decision not to push it with a seventh inning even though his pitch count would have warranted it. Hammel was leaving the ball up a lot those last couple of innings.  Nice to have a manager who is proactive rather than waiting for the shit to hit the fan.

Also nice to have enough reliable arms in the bullpen so the Cubs never need to have to coax an extra inning out of Hammel or the Quality Start Machine_tm.

[SKO]

I appreciated both Jason's stellar effort tonight and Joe's decision not to push it with a seventh inning even though his pitch count would have warranted it. Hammel was leaving the ball up a lot those last couple of innings.  Nice to have a manager who is proactive rather than waiting for the shit to hit the fan.

Also nice to have enough reliable arms in the bullpen so the Cubs never need to have to coax an extra inning out of Hammel or the Quality Start Machine_tm.

Yeah, I hope Kyle's on a short leash today, the sweep (and putting the Cardinals a pretty solid 5 games back already) would be very nice, I'd play this one a little tighter than your usual April getaway game. Then you can afford to dick around a bit more against Cincinnati and the Brewers.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I appreciated both Jason's stellar effort tonight and Joe's decision not to push it with a seventh inning even though his pitch count would have warranted Warrented it. Hammel was leaving the ball up a lot those last couple of innings.  Nice to have a manager who is proactive rather than waiting for the shit to hit the fan.

*ducks from rasberries*

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I appreciated both Jason's stellar effort tonight and Joe's decision not to push it with a seventh inning even though his pitch count would have warranted it. Hammel was leaving the ball up a lot those last couple of innings.  Nice to have a manager who is proactive rather than waiting for the shit to hit the fan.

Also nice to have enough reliable arms in the bullpen so the Cubs never need to have to coax an extra inning out of Hammel or the Quality Start Machine_tm.

You should update your handle to Quality Start Machine (with the trademark).  Just a suggestion.

[Quality Start Machine]

I appreciated both Jason's stellar effort tonight and Joe's decision not to push it with a seventh inning even though his pitch count would have warranted it. Hammel was leaving the ball up a lot those last couple of innings.  Nice to have a manager who is proactive rather than waiting for the shit to hit the fan.

Also nice to have enough reliable arms in the bullpen so the Cubs never need to have to coax an extra inning out of Hammel or the Quality Start Machine_tm.

Yeah, I hope Kyle's on a short leash today, the sweep (and putting the Cardinals a pretty solid 5 games back already) would be very nice, I'd play this one a little tighter than your usual April getaway game. Then you can afford to dick around a bit more against Cincinnati and the Brewers.

Not to mention, you can pretty much chisel 7 or 8 innings from Jake in stone for tomorrow.

[PenFoe]

Twice against the Cardinals now (last night and in the NLDS) he's come up with a big hit as well. 

[Bort]

I appreciated both Jason's stellar effort tonight and Joe's decision not to push it with a seventh inning even though his pitch count would have warranted Warrented it. Hammel was leaving the ball up a lot those last couple of innings.  Nice to have a manager who is proactive rather than waiting for the shit to hit the fan.

*ducks from rasberries*

Is this a terrible Adam Warren joke? I'm legitimately unsure.

[Slaky]

Goddamn it.

[SKO]

Goddamn it.

They only started one of the three major league hitters in the entire org and this still happened.

[WTB...A RING FFS!!]

Nice to see this wasn't a repeat of last year after another leg injury. I'll take those #'s any day.

[Quality Start Machine]

Jason Hammel has a higher offensive WAR than Miguel Montero.

[WTB...A RING FFS!!]

But that framing and handling ability...this sounds just like last yr with Ross. Never thought I'd rather see Grandpa start over Montero after last yr, but I don't think anyone on this site would disagree with me at this time.