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Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Carp 4 for 4 on the day so far. Yeah, I missed him while he was on leave.

Edit: And then takes home from second base on a wild pitch. Oh, Brewers.

Pancakes fucked around with this message at 21:17 on May 30, 2016

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Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Troy Queef posted:

Matt Holliday just murdered a baseball in cold blood.

466 feet according to the broadcast. Looked like it made it out of the park.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Is the wind blowing in today? Looked like Heyward got some good contact on that.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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9-pitch AB resulting in a lead off double. Is there anything more quintessentially Matt Carpenter?

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Four consecutive hits to start the game. Am I having a flashback to 2013?

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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TMMadman posted:

Man, I don't know how guys play with the cuff of their pants below their shoes like Heyward. That would just drive me nuts.

Bryants pant cuffs are an inch higher and I think even that would bother me. I miss the days of everyone wearing the high socks/stirrups.

Let me tell you the story of a man named Jon Jay.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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I mention Jon Jay and the thread lights up with HBP talk. If it were anyone other than Rizzo I'd think Jon Jay has some supernatural ability when you mention his name. It's Rizzo, though, so him getting beaned just means it's a day ending in "Y".

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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What's that? Another Carpenter hit followed by an Aledmys Diaz infield hit? Well if you insist...

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Matt Holliday's on a pretty serious tear recently. Still one of the best big free-agent contracts in recent memory.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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White Sox... lead?

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Mike Leake determined to not let that lead ever grow.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Time for the White Sox 9th Inning Experience.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Matt Carpenter is a goddamn machine.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Maybe it's this Brewers pitching but I'm really, really liking this Carp/Diaz/Holliday top of the lineup.

In AL news, the losing streak is "ovah", to quote my least favorite announcer.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Tyler Saladino's facial hair is very unfortunate. It looks like he's trying to be an extra on Boardwalk Empire and failing miserably.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Piscotty fouled so many pitches off of his leg than he fell down on a subsequent foul ball. Oh, slapstick.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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I hadn't noticed before but the Final Boss doesn't really have an rear end, does he?

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Jake looking more like a human being and less like a supernatural baseball-throwing bird of prey lately.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Kevlar v2.0 posted:

I can't believe Joe's keeping Arrieta in

All's well that ends well?

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Vin Scully rules so hard.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Kevlar v2.0 posted:

He's got a lot of vibrato :stare:

I noticed it too but couldn't think of the word. Showoff.

R.D. Mangles posted:

vin can actually sing with old-time super vibrato

Same to you. drat music-literate Cubs fans.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Matt Adams: Surprisingly quick on his feet.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Kevlar v2.0 posted:

Someone probably told him there was free pie

Led the team in triples a couple of years ago. Jose Oquendo must have had an incredibly lifelike pie sign.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Jeremy Hazelbaker just murdered a baseball in cold blood. And just earlier this evening I was saying it was time to bring Pham back instead.

Wait, maybe it was foul? I can't tell.

Now it looks foul. Hell with it, I don't know.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Sydin posted:

So? One of the qualifications of a LOOGY is that you actually have to be able to get outs.

Tell that to Randy Choate last year.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Junkiebev posted:

Why not Strop?

Consulted the ouija board, ancestors weren't with him today.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Carpenter's a dinger away from the cycle currently but he's down in the count and it's his last AB of the night, most likely.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Pancakes posted:

Carpenter's a dinger away from the cycle currently but he's down in the count and it's his last AB of the night, most likely.

Son of a bitch, another triple instead.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Mike_V posted:

I still think Carp should be moved a spot or two down. His power is too much to be at the top of the lineup but whatever.

They tried that last year. His average tanked inexplicably.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Kevlar v2.0 posted:



All 10 of those called balls on the right/lower right of the strike zone are with either Arrieta or Warren pitching.

It's a vast right-corner conspiracy.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Retail Slave posted:

Cubs bullpen yesterday: Historically good.

Cubs bullpen today: Liquid drizzling poo poo.

God I feel old. How do you post this and not post hot chocolate, high velocity?

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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I have no particular ill will to the Giants as an organization. That being said gently caress Cueto forever.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Ammat The Ankh posted:

Oh wow the Cardinals got a bullshit two-out run who could've predicted?

Our hatred of Cueto sustains us. Also Piscotty's over .500 career with RISP.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Preemptive: Grichu-K.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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I'm the one audibly laughing when Amaro was announced as the first base coach today.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Trip report from Fenway: gently caress the Monster, gently caress Red Sox hitters in general, Joey Bats is a cool dude.

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Joey Bats preserving the no-no. Which will break it up first: Red Sox remembering they have the best offense in the majors, the pitch count or the weather?

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Joey Bats doing his best to keep up the game of "The Floor is Lava" that Fenway had going on today. No ball had hit the outfield in play at any point.

Pancakes fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Jun 5, 2016

Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Carlos Martinez's happy face getting that bunt down perfectly was adorable. Plus a Carp RBI is always good.

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Pancakes
May 21, 2001

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Bochy is downright LaRussian tonight.

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