The thing that concerns me with Rizzo's attitude is that he seems to want nothing to do with shortening his stroke and spraying it to the other field. He wants dead pull power. When he was first up with the cubs he went the other way for base hits and doubles.

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I'm curious how bad this lineup actually is if/when come later in the year a couple (potentially) decent-at-worst bats are inserted into a lineup whose problem isn't getting on base, but just not around all of them.

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What should concern you is that he will and did shorten his stroke. He did it in game 1, he did it all spring, the concern is that he still could touch Liriano with the short stroke and staying back.

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He just did shorten his stroke and looked like K.Fukudome doing it. Looks totally lost against lefties.

Win or lose, the pitching has looked good first two games. 10 hits and you only score 2 runs. Same ol song and dance.

Can of Corn? That's the hawks stupid line you fuckstick. Man I miss Stoney and Harry.

Pretty good when Baez and Bryant start clearing them.

Wow Rondon had the guy WTF

LAKEMANIA!!!!!!!!!!!

Renteria looks like he's still on greenies ...

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Renteria got da fire and passion

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FYI...60 Minutes Sports on Showtime tonight has a segment on cubs / ricketts. Same old shit really. Anyway...the segment comes on about 20 minutes after show starts. Beth Murphy makes an appearance. Gag.

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Renteria needs to keep the damn bunt call on already.

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Hey, how about them apples ... will you look at the reply? Nah, fuck off ...

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Should have replayed the check swing. JK

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Great at bat Castro. You work a 3-0 then swing wildly at ball 4 and pop out to center. Christ on a chimney.

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Castro = stupid

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Swinging at a 3-0 breaking ball!!! Great work Castro.

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Look on the bright side - he at least hit a ball out of the infield. Progress.

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Seriously...he is baseball dumb!

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Well shit..... Castro got pulled!!!! dammit....it was just the shift.

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Honestly it might be time to cut bait with him. While there's still some value.

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Took metalhead Sveumer game 52 to figure out the pull a player maneuver when they behave like assholes

I'm frustrated also...but the guy had 4 AB in major league spring training. He isn't exactly expected to be in mid-season form at the moment.

That being said...the 3-0 swing on the slider was a bit much.

I also don't want him overthinking like he did last season though.

We'll see.

PANIC!!!!!!!

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Yeah, that's just ..... that's just not ever likely to change ..... baseball-dumb as a jar of pickled dicks .....

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And Starlin was supposed to be better when they let him swing freely, ha.

Should have never broke camp with the team.

Remember this EARNING shit?

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I know it's early, but damn this pen looks good.

Hate to see good pitching wasted. Offense has got to snap out of it. Or maybe they just won't.

Being part of NBC hasn't improved Comcast Sportsnet's broadcasts. Kasper's talking about the Cubs shifting the defense vs Alvarez, "Valbuena's basically playing 2nd base..." etc. Do we get a shot of the shift while Schlitter flips his hair and Alvarez stands in the batter's box? No, the camera stays on an impossibly tight shot of Alvarez the entire time Len's talking about the Cubs defensive alignment.