This. Fucking. Bullpen.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

The HBP stunk but that was a hell of a job by Cishek to avoid the total meltdown there.

The Cubs' or yours?

[Yeti]

The HBP stunk but that was a hell of a job by Cishek to avoid the total meltdown there.

The Cubs' or yours?

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[SKO]

The HBP stunk but that was a hell of a job by Cishek to avoid the total meltdown there.

The Cubs' or yours?

this was good. I laughed. .

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

The HBP stunk but that was a hell of a job by Cishek to avoid the total meltdown there.

The Cubs' or yours?

this was good. I laughed. .

In all seriousness Sea Shack has looked pretty damn good in the early going.

[SKO]

The HBP stunk but that was a hell of a job by Cishek to avoid the total meltdown there.

The Cubs' or yours?

this was good. I laughed. .

In all seriousness Sea Shack has looked pretty damn good in the early going.

He's been good everywhere he's ever gone, I honestly don't know how the Cubs got him so cheap

[SKO]

DPD but Morrow has some serious shit. It's a shame he's had such trouble with injuries in his career because he's very clearly got the stuff to be an elite closer.

[Saul Goodman]

The HBP stunk but that was a hell of a job by Cishek to avoid the total meltdown there.

The Cubs' or yours?

this was good. I laughed. .

In all seriousness Sea Shack has looked pretty damn good in the early going.

He's been good everywhere he's ever gone, I honestly don't know how the Cubs got him so cheap

He throws weird, which frightens and confuses GMs. Or something.

[CubFaninHydePark]

"Let's pick this kid up off waivers from the Reds..."

Said no competent front office ever.

[CBStew]

DPD but Morrow has some serious shit. It's a shame he's had such trouble with injuries in his career because he's very clearly got the stuff to be an elite closer.

For some reason I originally read this as "elite loser".

[Yeti]

"Let's pick this kid up off waivers from the Reds..."

Said no competent front office ever.

no good player was ever on waivers. science

[CBStew]

So you wanna know why they call it a "bullpen"?  Back in the day, it was the fashion for those folks to keep barnyard animals at the ball park, so many of the boys was straight off the farm and still had chores amongst which was the caring for the bovine critters and you know that they had to keep the boy cows separate from the girl cows being as the boy cows had things on their minds other than givin milk which they were not so good at.  So anyway they put rings in the noses of the boy cows because that was the style of the day an' if you didn't want to walk around behind the boy cow which made good sense then you could tell which were which by just lookin it in the face and anyhow if you had a pen then you could keep the boy cow from adding to the mound cause the mound weren't supposed to be much higher than it was it them days.

[SKO]

"Let's pick this kid up off waivers from the Reds..."

Said no competent front office ever.

no good player was ever on waivers. science

I'm wondering which bullpen out there has some kind of great player in the 8th spot in the pen. He'd already used Cishek, Wilson, Morrow, Edwards, and Montgomery, and he'd used Strop for 2 innings (which is already rare to begin with) the day before. They were down to the last man standing, and that guy is already an injury fill in for Eddie Butler, who was doing pretty well before he got hurt.

I'm pretty fucking pissed obviously but this is the dumbest possible complaint. The bullpen is not and has not been a problem this year.

The problem with wanting to rant and blame a single person for this team is that it's bullshit. Theo Epstein assembled as good of a roster as anyone in baseball. Maddon has mostly managed this team fine, he's used his bullpen fine. There's a bunch of talented players playing like shit, and then there's Jason Heyward. Just like last year the only solution is hope they get their heads out of their asses before it's too late. My concern here is I think that Cardinals team looks like an 88-91 win squad and not last year's 83 win version or whatever, so the Cubs are gonna need to start playing up to their capabilities quickly or the division's not going to be waiting for them.

[SKO]

oh and before I get accused of chicken little bullshit over the Cardinals that's not my panicky notion, both fangraphs and baseball prospectus have the cardinals favored to win the division now. The cubs dicked away their cushion.

[Quality Start Machine]

"Let's pick this kid up off waivers from the Reds..."

Said no competent front office ever.

I'm not sure the Reds' talent evaluation is the hill you want to die on here, Hoss.

[Oleg]

oh and before I get accused of chicken little bullshit over the Cardinals that's not my panicky notion, both fangraphs and baseball prospectus have the cardinals favored to win the division now. The cubs dicked away their cushion.

Just in case anyone is wondering, none of these things is true.