Bear Down Wildcats

New thread for a new season..............................

I wonder if my interest in baseball will ever return. It's been dormant or dead for at least 6 or 7 seasons.

Cubs Dynasty- Year 2

Alieberman wrote:Cubs Dynasty- Year 2

It's been 109 years since they've repeated.

If the Cubbie's season is lost by June do they fire Madden?

Ha

i am so excited for baseball season -- Mike Trout in his prime in my back yard.

doesnt get any better than that

97cats wrote:i am so excited for baseball season -- Mike Trout in his prime in my back yard.

doesnt get any better than that

I am jealous '97. If only Arte (or his minion) could put a team around him. Go Halo's

Yadier Molina just broke the laws of physics:

taking my kids to our first game of the season tonight -- fireworks show after and all.

god bless baseball!!!

Mitch Haniger is going to be a star

Cubs and Yankees have set an MLB record for strikeouts in a game - 44

4 - 4 top of the 17th

The Baby Bombers are really good a whole lot faster than I thought they'd be. I don't expect them to keep up a .690 winning percentage all year, but it gives me hope they won't be mediocre for long.

Was at Wrigley this weekend (second best part of this weekend. #1 was hanging with Chi and his bride and a few friends) and the yankee's are good. Way ahead of schedule. They can really hit and Girardi plays good fundamental baseball.

As for the cubs, they seemed to me to be going through the motions and just still basking in the glow of last year. They seem like a team that wants to turn it on in the playoffs and make their rum then.

Oh, it was cold in Chicago this weekend. Froze our Baggett off at the yard

Cody Bellinger has played fairly well so far

If you would have told me before the season started that by mid-June the three best teams in the NL would be in the West, I would have slapped you silly.

threenumberones wrote:If you would have told me before the season started that by mid-June the three best teams in the NL would be in the West, I would have slapped you silly.

Same here. Laughed and laughed and laughed.

I still see Miguel Montero is an asshat

MrBug708 wrote:I still see Miguel Montero is an asshat

For sure. You don't pull that shit with the press, legit beef or not. Sad to watch a guy desperately hang onto a career slipping into the twilight.

Love the all-star game. Best of all the leagues. This home run derby has been incredible. Judge.....what an animal

azcat49 wrote:Love the all-star game. Best of all the leagues. This home run derby has been incredible. Judge.....what an animal

He's ours. You can't have him.

azcat49 wrote:Love the all-star game. Best of all the leagues. This home run derby has been incredible. Judge.....what an animal

It out drew the NBA all star game and the pro bowl

Verlander to the Astros.

Massholes

This is may favorite time of the year after March Madness. My Cubbies appear to be ready and getting it together. Quintana is pitching the best he has pitched in a long time. Montgomery just threw a one hitter. Let's see how Arrieta and Lester do. Arrieta was really getting it together before the minor Hamstring injury. Wade Davis is 31 for 31 in save opportunities.

Addison Russell is back. I can't think of a better infield than Rizzo, Baez, Russell and Bryant. Contreras is back. I love his emotion and risk taking. 7 in a row now. 4 games on the road against the Brewers followed by 4 games on the road against the Cardinals. This time of year is a lot of fun when your team is peaking.

Cubs from April to October. Wildcats basketball from October to April. You can't get better than that.

So, not a pitchers dual tonight.

This season has been so fun as a Yankee fan. I have no expectations they'll beat the Indians but I really don't want the ride to end.

Chicat wrote:This season has been so fun as a Yankee fan. I have no expectations they'll beat the Indians but I really don't want the ride to end.

I've hated the Yankees most of my life, and I can't remember the last time I have liked more than only one or two guys on any of their teams. Judge and Sanchez being two of them, man they are fun to watch. I had to stop myself from rooting for them last night.

Hypothetical: Thru 5 innings, Greinki sitting on 75 or so pitches, and the Dbacks have a 2 run (or more) lead. What do you do?

azgreg wrote:Hypothetical: Thru 5 innings, Greinki sitting on 75 or so pitches, and the Dbacks have a 2 run (or more) lead. What do you do?

I continue to watch the game on my couch while drinking a beer.

Is this a trick question?

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azgreg wrote:Hypothetical: Thru 5 innings, Greinki sitting on 75 or so pitches, and the Dbacks have a 2 run (or more) lead. What do you do?

You don't play for tomorrow in an elimination game.

Goldy!!!

The DBacks are looking good and threatening to blow this open in the first inning.

What an amazing game

I think these playoffs are going to be amazing this year

The Indians seem like the clear cut favorite but there are going to be some great series in the next few weeks

NYCat wrote:

Oops

Jose "Babe Ruth" Altuve

MrBug708 wrote:

NYCat wrote:

Oops

Bauer is throwing a no-no after 5 for Cleveland. And he isn't even Cleveland's best pitcher. If he is even close to Kluber I don't see anyone beating the Indians.

Catintheheat wrote:Bauer is throwing a no-no after 5 for Cleveland. And he isn't even Cleveland's best pitcher. If he is even close to Kluber I don't see anyone beating the Indians.

Broken up. Ump is giving Bauer every corner, and a few I didn't know existed.

Huge win for the Cubbies!

Way to start the playoffs!

Alieberman wrote:Huge win for the Cubbies!

Way to start the playoffs!

Kyle Hendricks didn't surprise me. I think he is a way underrated pitcher. Yet I do like the way Carl Edwards Jr is pitching. He has really nasty stuff, and if he can keep his control, like tonight, he is going to be a very valuable pitcher.

He really did fuck up that game.

Cubs bullpen lit themselves on fire, made it a 3 game series