soxfan49 Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 54 minutes ago, fathom said: Lester gave up 14 hard hit balls today (95+ exit velocity) and went 7 shutout innings. That's almost impossible to imagine. The Cubs defense is insane again. And besides today, Lester has been incredible this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 1 minute ago, soxfan49 said: And besides today, Lester has been incredible this year. Babip gods are loving him though, as I read he's allowing hardest contact of his career this season. That defense is great thought outside of the guy their fans think is their best defender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bananarchy Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 Q bad today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 17 hours ago, AustinIllini said: Q bad today Pretty similar numbers (at this point) to his last Sox half-season... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 Swept Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Abreu Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 36 minutes ago, Brian said: Swept That'll fix things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lip Man 1 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Speaking of the Cubs I read an interesting story at the Awful Announcing web site this morning. Story said that with the AT&T / Time Warner merger approved. It is now expected that company is going to be a player for the Cubs broadcasting rights starting in the 2020 season. Story said the AT&T company already owns three RSN's (Pittsburgh, Rocky Mountain and Southwest) doing Pirate, Rockies and Astros games. They would form a new RSN just for the Cubs if they got their rights and would give them partial ownership. If nothing else, the story said, having AT&T as a player could drive up the price to keep the Cubs on NBC Sports Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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caulfield12 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) 9 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said: Speaking of the Cubs I read an interesting story at the Awful Announcing web site this morning. Story said that with the AT&T / Time Warner merger approved. It is now expected that company is going to be a player for the Cubs broadcasting rights starting in the 2020 season. Story said the AT&T company already owns three RSN's (Pittsburgh, Rocky Mountain and Southwest) doing Pirate, Rockies and Astros games. They would form a new RSN just for the Cubs if they got their rights and would give them partial ownership. If nothing else, the story said, having AT&T as a player could drive up the price to keep the Cubs on NBC Sports Chicago. AT&T is also the owner of DirecTV...fwiw, that was a big sticking point in the LA Dodgers broadcast rights fiasco, where most local fans couldn’t even see the games despite the billions spent on that particular deal. http://adage.com/article/media/doj-accuses-t-directv-collusion-l-a-dodgers-rights/306601/ Under an accord valued at $7 billion to $8 billion, Time Warner Cable became the primary distributor of the Dodgers' SportsNet LA channel and set about pressing other pay-TV providers to charge all of their regional subscribers more than $4 a month apiece for games. That's more than the New York Yankees charge for the YES Network, according to researcher SNL Kagan. DirecTV, Charter, Dish, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T's U-verse cable service and Cox all refused. Edited June 26, 2018 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soxfan49 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 The Cubs have scored 14 runs over their last 5 games. They've lost 5 straight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord chas Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Maybe someone can articulate a bit on these Schwarber is improved fielder articles. I saw that he let a ball bounce off him and a runner attempted to score on the misplay last night. Baez took the relay and gunned down the runner at home. He gets credited with an assist and then his WAR goes up .3 just for that? It seems he is being rewarded for taking bad routes and angles. Runners take the extra base because of his miscues and naturally some get caught. Is this accounted for in the fielding metrics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarComing25 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) On 6/20/2018 at 4:31 PM, soxfan49 said: And besides today, Lester has been incredible this year. Incredible? Velocity is down, strikeouts are way down, walks are up, he's no longer getting groundballs, and he's giving up the hardest contact of his career. He's just been bailed out by their amazing defense and getting very lucky on balls in play, he's been completely average this year. Edited June 26, 2018 by OmarComing25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Parkman Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 On 6/20/2018 at 4:34 PM, fathom said: Babip gods are loving him though, as I read he's allowing hardest contact of his career this season. That defense is great thought outside of the guy their fans think is their best defender. https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/jon-lesters-high-wire-act/ Here you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Chappas Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 As is the Heyward one......it doesn't seem to hurt them though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Parkman Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 (edited) WTF happened to Quintana since the calendar hit 2017? Seems like a completely different guy that he was from 2012-16 with the Sox. The Sox are so incredibly lucky to have acquired Eloy and Cease for him. It seems ridiculous in retrospect. Edited June 28, 2018 by Jack Parkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Dodgers using a relief outing in the majors as rehab for Buehler was an incredibly dumb decision Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Chappas Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Really bad move. Glad to see Kershaw seemed to have a nice start. Nats need to go get Girardi and sew up the NL title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Berrios looks all world against the Sox and looked like Felix Diaz vs the Cubs today. Wtf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 26 minutes ago, Tony said: I mean, the Cubs are still the class of the NL, the White Sox are terrible. Why the shock? Seeing him get one swinging strike all game against a non-pitcher is shocking though. And you will love this, but their fans were concerned about his decreased velocity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 On 6/29/2018 at 7:50 PM, fathom said: Seeing him get one swinging strike all game against a non-pitcher is shocking though. And you will love this, but their fans were concerned about his decreased velocity. The teams combined for 60 runs in 3 games. It was the ultimate Wrigley series with the heat, humidity, and.slight wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteSoxfan1986 Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 This year's Cubs team reminds me of some of those 1990's Indians teams. Great offense, and they do a good job beating up on 4th and 5th starters and blow games open when teams bring in their 7th and 8th relievers. But come October you're not able to do that, and this year they don't really have a pitching staff built for October, and their bullpen doesn't exactly put fear in people's eyes either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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flavum Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Quintana has now made 32 regular season starts for the Cubs. 15-9, 3.86 ERA...only 182 innings though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 On 6/7/2018 at 6:45 AM, LittleHurt05 said: And that's the night the Cubs clinched their 4th straight division title. We can only hope the Sox rebuild is close to that successful. That was premature. Today the Cubs clinched the division Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 1 hour ago, LittleHurt05 said: That was premature. Today the Cubs clinched the division They're going to win that division by 10 games. Brewers shouldn't waste prospects for a team that has so many holes. Hopefully Dodgers get some good players at the deadline, as those are easily two best NL teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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