17 minutes ago, almagest said:

With WORSE results, you mean. He's basically gotten worse every year, and has totally bottomed out this year.

I have to assume he'll be sent down at some point soon. Dead weight is fine when the entire roster is dead weight, but they actually have some players who can play now with (hopefully) more on the way. There's no place for a 1B/DH hitting below .200 with bad defense.

They're absolutely sending Elko down instead of Vaughn

Well now it's really over.

10 minutes ago, fathom said:

Yep, if Meidroth and Quero are going to be everyday players for a team down the road that is trying to win, it doesn’t leave a lot of other positions to have low minimal slugging from.

True but Quero is 22. He could eventually hit with some power. How much is hard to say.

Naperville Nicky

I missed the early innings.  Did they really have infield in during the 2nd inning?  wtf 

7 minutes ago, fathom said:

I missed the early innings.  Did they really have infield in during the 2nd inning?  wtf 

Yes

7 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

True but Quero is 22. He could eventually hit with some power. How much is hard to say.

I think he’s going to end up being a very good platoon player with Teel.  I don’t mean that as a bad thing, it’s just I don’t think either will slug enough to be full time DH when not catching.

7 minutes ago, almagest said:

Yes

At 2-0 or 2-1?  Either is insane with these conditions.

PCA with 1984 Ryne Sandberg game against Cards

6 rbis.

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I'm overseas and can't watch. Someone explain two catching errors in English

Now Nicky gets a hit..

30 years ago PCA would be walking to first with one in his ribs

8 minutes ago, fathom said:

I missed the early innings.  Did they really have infield in during the 2nd inning?  wtf 

Not once, but twice.

That strike 3 to Lopez acted like a screwball.

PCA is a pretty good hitter.  6 RBI

7 minutes ago, JoshPR said:

30 years ago PCA would be walking to first with one in his ribs

And instead of giving the Cubs a free baserunner, they got him out.  Today is much better.

9 minutes ago, fathom said:

I missed the early innings.  Did they really have infield in during the 2nd inning?  wtf 

Sure did and I doubt Getz called Venable to tell him to do that.

Not impressed by the Castro acquisition 

8 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

PCA with 1984 Ryne Sandberg game against Cards

6 rbis.

Yeah no

7 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

Sure did and I doubt Getz called Venable to tell him to do that.

He seems clueless 

10 minutes ago, fathom said:

At 2-0 or 2-1?  Either is insane with these conditions.

Both. 2nd and 3rd 0 out, 1st and 3rd 1 out. Both times Smith got a weak grounder - first one Vaughn only had a shot with a perfect throw to home (it wasn't perfect). He should've taken the out at 1st. The second one was a double play ball even with the infield in, but the SS went home with it. Perfect throw and the runner would have easily been out, but Thaiss dropped the ball. Then the lineup turned over to PCA, Tucker and Suzuki with Smith laboring after a ton of extra pitches.

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7 minutes ago, fathom said:

Yeah no

Close game   Cards were great then and one was off Sutter right?

7 minutes ago, almagest said:

Both. 2nd and 3rd 0 out, 1st and 3rd 0 outs. Both times Smith got a weak grounder - first one Vaughn only had a shot with a perfect throw to home (it wasn't perfect). He should've taken the out at 1st. The second one was a double play ball even with the infield in, but the SS went home with it. Perfect throw and the runner would have easily been out, but Thaiss dropped the ball. Then the lineup turned over to PCA, Tucker and Suzuki with Smith laboring after a ton of extra pitches.

Yeah that’s absolutely insane given the wind.  What an idiot

There is no easy high fly ball today.

Wow....

Triple shy of the cycle...