I thought the baseball-retarded would be very marginalized, but it seems like it's actually increased.

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Heyward loses his shit after every popup now. He is definitely feeling the pressure.

His wallet must be in his back pocket.

Just noticed the Guaranteed Rate ads behind home.

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Heyward's average might be up but yeesh, seems to have had a lot of those types of hits this year.

The most disappointing at bat that inning was Zobrist. 2 on, none out and dude can't locate his fastball so you can sit on his breaking stuff. He's hanging crap right over the plate and Zobrist can only foul them off and then swings at ball 4 twice.

Looks like a good at bat on paper because it went like 10 pitches but it was really a bad one.

Let's start moving away from Zobrist for awhile and go with Almora and Baez everyday for a bit.

Two horrible at bats with the game on the line.

He struggled second half of last year until late in year too. He was saying he was looking forward king forward to more rest this year as he aged I dunno but he's looked rough this year.

Not sure why Almora is not starting. Time to dial back Zobrist.

But Joe is the smartest guy in the room.....like he said "There are no bad moves, just moves that don't work".

Montero doesn't need to play once every 3 games either. He's a backup, use him for what he is.

Cole pitched a really good game today but in Montero's first at bat he gave him 3 pitches to do damage with and Montero did absolute nothing.

Let the kids play more.

Montero is fucking garbage. Somehow his pinch hitting has gone ok but he is just done as a 9 inning guy.

Now let's talk about Happ. Dude is obliterating some balls in AAA. Get him up.

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Agree. Zobrist is showing every sign of total decline and Montero well that goes without saying. Z did have a great at bat in the 8 though. Play the youth everyday.

I disagree about Zobrist's 8th inning at bat. He did nothing with 3 hanging change ups and swung at ball 4 twice. He battled, sure, but half of those pitches were juicy.

He fouled em off though. Three years ago would have hit it hard. Play the youth.

Just grabbed tickets to game. Anyone else going? Sec 434.

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That's good news. How is his hitting progressing?

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Bryant off the video board!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Place is jumping.

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Bryant crushed that, what a way to start a game.

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Atta boy Jason, continues to get it done at the plate.

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Cubs hit for cycle in first.

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Hey Jake, throw a fuckin curve ball once in a while..smh

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5 2/3 , 100 pitches and out of the game .

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Not to offend the "win/loss truthers", but Arrieta gets more run support than any pitcher I've ever seen. I have no idea why, but his record is generally better than his actual pitching performances.

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Agreed.

Fucking piece of shit Strop.

I am so glad I didn't turn this back on. I hope Joe just keeps trotting him out there. Sooner he sees he's worthless, the better.

i got my mlb tv subscription and it's been great. I noticed my iphone is almost live compared to my tv app which is like a minute behind live.

Anyone know why?

Man what's w/ this game. It's like the old cubs blowing a big lead.

6 runs in the 1st 3 innings and then zero. With the wind blowing out at 30. And Strop is brought in just to add the cherry to the shit sundae.

Pirates got a lot of wind homers and the one Bryant hit would have gone with the wind blowing in. Hit fly balls better.