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You know what? Seby Zavala did just fine. Bad luck there.

When last seen, Albert Abreu was eating feed corn as Dylan Cease.

You forget Foulke for Koch.

Yes, Jake had his chaw and his balls and you know Kenny had a massive woody for all that. I'm sure Jake played football in high school, too, completing the universal KW chubby.

Yes, needed to be angrier, and maybe toss in a major league breaking pitch.

Awesome at yelling, though. Great yeller.

I mean, Liam basically blew half of his save situations against us in the playoffs last year, so he's performing ahead of that stellar metric.

He's un-pitchable in October. Just can't do it at this point.

I wrote this before Gallo hit his straight, shitty, Billy Koch fastball to the moon.

Love when Hendriks can't get his slider over. Love it. Nails.

The next time Kenny and Hahn look at each other and agree on the one person they'd really want to have . . . Maybe let someone else decide.

Time to work through it . . . but he better work through it.

Why the fastballs to Judge?

Wonder if Leury hurt himself not jumping for the ball. Seriously. No reason for Mendick to hit for him.

Some serious Damaso Marte vibes with Rodriguez.

The more he pitches, the better he'll be. And he hasn't been pitching much.

Gosh, I sure hope we can hear more about the Cubs as the game goes on. Particularly those players who left and the budgets for the future. It's fascinating, and I need to know more about how Jed Hoyer and David Ross see things going forward. Also, I sure do wonder if any of those great Cubbies, who won those 4 World Series titles, will be re-signing. This ESPN crew is nails.

Welcome back to the American League, kid!

Hey now . . .

Have you watched the last week?

What, Vasgersian? Coming out of college, no one -- and I mean, no one -- described Andrew Vaughn as raw and getting by only on his innate ability.

Think Moncada will catch on that all he's getting is off-speed junk? Maybe in August.

Ian Kennedy makes some sense here.

He's earned them. Guy's been good (peripherals reflect it) -- but in his own way, he's been no less of an adventure than Colome was last year. (And no, I'm not saying we should've resigned Colome.)

So strange. Never seen Hendriks give up an opposite field home run in a key situation. (I DO NOT TRUST LIAM HENDRIKS IN A PLAYOFF GAME.)