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QChawks

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Trash Angry Man GIF
 
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Torbee

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I am starting to hate this team.

I have tickets in the yeti yard for St. Louis on July 4 and now I’m kinda meh about it 😡
 

QChawks

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I am starting to hate this team.

I have tickets in the yeti yard for St. Louis on July 4 and now I’m kinda meh about it 😡
My wife asked me if we were gonna go on our annual Chicago visit over my birthday in August

I said I’d rather visit Rock Island
 
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TimmyD97

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I canceled my trip to see this shid show of a team at Coors. Great decision. Jed and Craig are trash
 
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52317Hawk

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Again, pitching staff is trashed plus throw in the fact that the Cubs can't hit especially with 2 outs or RISP.

**** it, fire Counsell.
 

St. Louis Hawk

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1 run and 4 hits in Colorado off a starter with an ERA of over 7.

All starters at .247 or lower other than PCA.

We’ve had this discussion in years before where they go on these ridiculous cold streaks; something is fundamentally wrong with the Cubs hitting approach.
 
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Hawkfan0319

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Went the last 2 nights here in Denver. This team looks broken. Can not get a hit with people on base to string anything together. Shota pitched great last night, got zero help. Suzuki and Swanson with those contracts are looking worse every day, especially Swanson. Quietest crowds I have heard at Cubs/Rockies games in a long time. Zero energy from the team and crowd.
 

lucas80

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1-2 against a bad Rockies team..
sad disney GIF


If you're interested Marquee is playing South Bend vs Peoria tonight. Josiah Hartshorn has been lighting it up since being promoted from Myrtle Beach. Kane Kepley and Ty Southisene have been doing well. Hartshorn and Kepley were just added to a top 100 prospect list.
 

lucas80

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Josiah Hartshorn the Midwest League player of the week
Owen Ayers the Southern League player of the week.
If you haven't taken the time to watch Hartshorn, do so. He could be a really special hitter.
 
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lucas80

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As far as tonight, Counsell is running out the 5 horsemen of the Dascenzo Line
Shaw - .245
Hoerner - .240
Ballesteros - .235
Happ - .224
Swanson - .179

Conforto was originally in the line up with his .227 average, but Suzuki was substituted with his gimpy knee as the DH.

@dgordo how much WAR do you get out of a .179 regular at SS? You're a big WAR guy, right?
 

lucas80

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The wind is blowing out with a trash pitcher on the mound for the Rockies, so, of course it's 1-0 Cubs in the 6th. PCA with a homer, triple, and double in his first 3 ABs. If he hits a single in his next AB, I wonder if a sequential cycle like that has ever been hit? Baseball is full of oddities, so, I assume it has happened.
 

dgordo

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As far as tonight, Counsell is running out the 5 horsemen of the Dascenzo Line
Shaw - .245
Hoerner - .240
Ballesteros - .235
Happ - .224
Swanson - .179

Conforto was originally in the line up with his .227 average, but Suzuki was substituted with his gimpy knee as the DH.

@dgordo how much WAR do you get out of a .179 regular at SS? You're a big WAR guy, right?

Dansby has 1 oWar, clearly war is meaningful.
 

hawkeyebred

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Counsell = Lickliter.

Also poor PCA so mentally reigned in by Counse that he could find zero enjoyment in the cycle or relief at the win after getting picked off.
 

QChawks

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If he wasn’t such a great defensive player, I don’t know how you could keep him on the roster

 

lucas80

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Happ was on the Score this morning for his weekly chat, and he was confident that the collective suck fest avg with RISP would experience a return to career norms.
When?
 

lucas80

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I’ve seen this Counsell play before. So see him again in 2027?


Palencia had some soreness, so they didn't pitch him for four days, then after his last appearance they visit him on the mound, let him finish the game, then put him on the IL. Something is wrong with how they handle pitchers.
 
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St. Louis Hawk

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Palencia had some soreness, so they didn't pitch him for four days, then after his last appearance they visit him on the mound, let him finish the game, then put him on the IL. Something is wrong with how they handle pitchers.

And position players with the usual “lat” injuries.
 

lucas80

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Suzuki just about cleared the bases, there.
I don't care if Rea hasn't given up a hit. Get the pen loosened up.
 

Hawkfan0319

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Thielbar is going to be the next one on the injured list. Something is not right with him this year.